You Lied, Didn’t You?

[377 words] Ananias and his wife, Sapphira, two Christians in the first century, got caught telling a lie (Acts 5:1-11). They lied to men and to God. You can often hide your lies from men but never from God. “Be sure your sin will find you out” (Deut. 32:23). The apostle Peter confronted the couple separately, three hours apart, and in effect said, “You lied, didn’t you?” They couldn’t deny lying. They had blatantly fabricated a bold-faced lie. They died on the spot. What was the last lie you told? When was that falsehood uttered – today, yesterday, a week ago? If swift and fatal punishment would have followed the most recent lie you told, as it did the day Ananias and Sapphira lied, what day would you have dropped dead? Peter asked Ananias, “Why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit…Why is it that you…