E3 Parents

Is it fair?

February 15, 2010 at 3:56 pm 1 comment

So yesterday in Sunday School our focus was that God demands purity in His church. This was the 7th week of a 16 week study on the beginning of the Christian church. The scripture was from Acts 5:1-11…the story of Ananias and Sapphira.

I lead a small group of middle school guys and after we read the story I asked them the question, “Is it fair what happened to Ananias and Sapphira?” Go back and read the passage for yourself and answer the question. The immediate response in my small group was a resounding “No! It’s not fair.”

I have left this particular passage many times thinking it was absolutely not fair. But one area that God has been working on me personally is in this area about what is fair when it comes to my relationship as a sinner with the one true and holy God. Here’s what I’ve discovered and the challenge I gave to my small group yesterday and to you today: When I realize that what is fair and just and right is for me to die and spend an eternity in hell because I am a sinner, and when you realize that what is fair and just and right is for you to die and spend an eternity in hell because you are a sinner…we will become infinitely more passionate about the overwhelming grace and love and forgiveness of God.

Each time I sin I deserve to die, but rather than striking me dead Jesus took that blow for me on the cross. That’s grace. That’s reason to celebrate. That’s what a dying world around us needs to know and experience firsthand.

So is it fair what happened to Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5? Absolutely it was fair. Does God demand purity in the church…the Bride of Christ? Absolutely He does…no questions asked. Is it fair that I take my next breath? or the one after that? No…it’s grace.

Entry filed under: Bible lessons, Devotional Thought. Tags: Bible Lesson, Devotion, Grace.