“It’s Not Nice to Fool the Holy Spirit”

Acts 5: 3, 9: “But Peter said, ‘Ananias, why has satan filled your heart to ie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back some of the price of the land?’ ... Then Peter said to her,’ Why is it that you have agreed together to put the Spirit of the Lord to the test?’” The big mistake of Ananias and Sapphira was the same as that of Eli in yesterday’s memo: after being confronted by God with their sin, their only response was to drop dead. St. Peter gave them a chance to ‘fess up’ and tell the truth, but they refused. Again the lesson: when God confronts, it is only with the intention to invoke a response.