If there was one story in scripture that scared me more than any other this is the one. I mean sure, God punished and struck people dead in the Old Testament, but this was the New Testament! It’s a shocking story that may seem out of place to us who may have been tempted to believe that God somehow changes in his character and disposition between the Old Testament and the New. Through the story of Ananias and Sapphira we are reminded that God is still a holy God, that takes sin and truth seriously, and that he deserves our awe, our fear and our whole-hearted worship.