Acts 5:1-11 - "Taking Sin Seriously"

For many Americans, the biblical concept of sin as a grave offense against an infinitely holy and just God is passe. This is exactly why today’s passage is, for many modern readers, one of the most difficult passages in the Book of Acts. Here we see God judging what some of us might consider a small sin, and He does so directly and immediately with grave consequences. The main point of today’s passage is that sin is always serious, and so we must take it seriously. The way we do this in the church is by confronting sin and correcting sinners. And that’s exactly what we see in the first and second halves of our passage.