The ongoing attacks on heart and Body
As a follow-up to last week’s call to generosity and sharing, we come to a shocking example of what happens when greed still wins out. But the story of Ananias and Sapphira is not just a warning against human greed and hypocrisy. It’s a warning about the pervasive and destructive threat of sin, in both the heart and the Body (the church), even in the shadow of the Cross and the age of the Spirit. The forgiveness of Jesus does not make us immune to sin, but it is an ongoing cure until sin is completely eradicated.
