Acts 5:4 Whiles it remained, was it not your own? and after it was sold, was it not in your own power?… I. THE SIN. Men lie unto God — 1. When they use their profession as members of the Church for an instrument of self interest. 2. By making false pretences in their routine of worship. 3. By breaking their covenant of consecration. 4. By the offering of insincere prayers. 5. By self seeking in acts of Christian zeal. II. THE RETRIBUTION — 1. Was the visitation of God. 2. Often comes in the form of a de-moralisation of soul, which renders recovery impossible at the last. (C. S. Robinson, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. |
    |