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Thank you for joining us today, August 15th, 2021! Please take a moment to fill out your connection card. Once that is completed, we encourage you to join us in worship and be ready to engage with our sermon. You can find the worship songs below as well as upcoming events and the sermon note outline. And if you are an Orchard regular, there is a "Give Now" button for you to give your weekly offering below.
Worship with Orchard
One of the things our community loves to do every time we gather is worship the Lord through song. While we understand this may not be your jam, we would ask that you would open yourself to the idea of musical worship and allow this time to prepare you to hear from our speaker and the Bible.
Sermon Notes for August 15th
Series: Church On the Move
Title: Truth | Acts 5: 1-11
Speaker: Pastor, Dr. Assad Saif
Acts 5:1-2 (NIV)
5 Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of
property. 2 With his wife’s full knowledge he kept back part of the money for himself, but
brought the rest and put it at the apostles’ feet.
Problem: Withholding from God is sin. (vv. 3-4)
Acts 5:3-4 (NIV)
3 Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to
the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the
land? 4 Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at
your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human
beings but to God.”
Point: God knows your heart. (vv. 3-4)
Acts 5:5-6 (NIV)
5 When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. And great fear seized all who heard what
had happened. 6 Then some young men came forward, wrapped up his body, and carried
him out and buried him.
Point: God’s judgement is real. (vv. 5-6)
Acts 5:7-8 (NIV)
7 About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. 8 Peter asked
her, “Tell me, is this the price you and Ananias got for the land?”
“Yes,” she said, “that is the price.”
Point: You have a choice. (vv. 7-8)
Acts 5:9-10 (NIV)
9 Peter said to her, “How could you conspire to test the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The feet of
the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.”
10 At that moment she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in and,
finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband. 11 Great fear seized the
whole church and all who heard about these events.