YT YouTube2Text

YouTube2Text → Transcripts → Acts 5 | The Upward Way | Bible Study with A. Z. Adams

Acts 5 | The Upward Way | Bible Study with A. Z. Adams — Transcript

by Heritage Press · 2,404 words · 443 segments · language en · Watch on YouTube

Open in transcriber Summarize with AI Download SRT/VTT

Full transcript

0:00Acts chapter 5. So, in the previous
0:02chapter, [music] we talked about how the
0:05believers were not treating what
0:07belonged to them as if it was only
0:09theirs, but they were sharing it with
0:11the community. And we were even talking
0:13about [music] how some who had lands
0:16were selling those lands and bringing
0:18the proceeds and laying it at the
0:20apostles' [music] feet so that something
0:23bigger could be done, a larger vision
0:26could be realized.
0:29So, chapter 5 begins
0:31in the middle of that story and it says,
0:34"But a man named Ananias,
0:38with his wife Sapphira, [music]
0:40sold a piece of property
0:42and kept back some of the price for
0:46himself
0:47with his wife's full knowledge.
0:50And bringing a portion of it, he laid it
0:53[music] at the apostles' feet.
0:55But Peter said,
0:58'Ananias,
1:00why has Satan filled your heart to lie
1:03to the Holy Spirit
1:05and to keep back some of [music] the
1:07price of the land?
1:09When it remained unsold,
1:12did it not remain your own?
1:16And after it was sold,
1:18was it not under your control?
1:21Why is it
1:23that you have conceived this deed in
1:26your heart?
1:27You have not lied
1:29to man,
1:31but to God.'
1:35Now, let's be clear.
1:37The sin here
1:39is not
1:41that he held back some of the proceeds
1:45because Peter said,
1:48'The land was yours. You could have kept
1:50it.
1:51And when you sold it, you could have
1:53given some of those proceeds and
1:56kept others.
1:58But the sin
1:59is lying.
2:01The sin is publicly declaring
2:05>> [music]
2:05>> a full commitment and devotion
2:09while privately agreeing to deceive the
2:12church.
2:14That's the sin and it's a very serious
2:17sin.
2:18Right here at the beginning of the
2:20church,
2:21right on its foundational level, God is
2:23wanting to signal not that people should
2:26give a certain percentage of their
2:28money, but that people should give
2:31a full percentage of honesty
2:34and not start to deceive one another.
2:38Right before this, we're told that they
2:40had one heart and one soul.
2:44They were of one mind, we're told. But
2:46here we have the first division.
2:50We have the first little secret
2:52deception.
2:54We're going to have someone who's
2:56pretending to be all in,
2:59but secretly he's not.
3:01And he's he's sowing the first discord
3:05in the church.
3:09So, Peter says, "You have not lied to
3:12man, but to God."
3:14He's saying,
3:16"This is not just a group of people
3:18here.
3:20We're all fallen, imperfect people,
3:22that's for sure.
3:24But we're part of Jesus now
3:27and his church is bigger and more than
3:29any one of us individually.
3:32And Peter has to honor that and Ananias
3:35has to honor that.
3:37And he says, "When you lied in this way,
3:39you didn't just lie to man, you lied to
3:41God."
3:43And as he heard these words,
3:46Ananias fell down
3:49and breathed his last.
3:52And great fear came over all who heard
3:54of it.
3:56The young men got up and covered him
4:00and after carrying him out,
4:02they buried him.
4:05Now, there elapsed an interval of about
4:083 hours
4:09and his wife came in not knowing what
4:12had happened.
4:14And Peter responded to her,
4:17"Tell me
4:18whether you sold the land for such and
4:21such a price."
4:23And she said, "Yes, that was the price."
4:28Then Peter said to her,
4:30"Why is it that you have agreed together
4:34to put the Spirit of the Lord to the
4:37test?
4:38Behold, the feet of those who have
4:40buried your husband are at the door and
4:44they will carry you out as well."
4:47And immediately she fell at his feet and
4:49breathed her last. And the young men
4:53came in and found her dead and they
4:56carried her out and buried her beside
4:59her husband.
5:01And [clears throat] great fear came over
5:03the whole church and over all who heard
5:06of these things.
5:09At the hands of the apostles, many signs
5:11and wonders were taking place among the
5:13people and they were all with one accord
5:16in Solomon's porch.
5:20But none of the rest dared to associate
5:23with them. However, the people held them
5:26in high esteem.
5:28And all the more believers in the Lord,
5:32multitudes of men and women were
5:34constantly added to their number.
5:37To such an extent that they even carried
5:40the sick out into the streets and laid
5:43them on cots and pallets so that when
5:46Peter came by, at least his shadow might
5:49fall on one of them.
5:51Also, the people from the cities in the
5:53vicinity of Jerusalem were coming
5:55together bringing people who were sick
5:58or afflicted with unclean spirits and
6:00they were all being healed.
6:04So, there's a couple things that are
6:06notable here.
6:08Number one,
6:09Sapphira, the wife of Ananias, dies just
6:12like he did because
6:15she has a conspiracy to deceive.
6:19And God in this horrible, notable
6:22miracle
6:23is signaling
6:25that conspiracies to deceive the church
6:29are not okay.
6:31They're not acceptable. They're going to
6:33destroy the unity. If we have an issue,
6:36be open about it. If you want to give
6:39differently, do that. It's under your
6:41power to give whatever percentage or not
6:44to give at all. That's your free choice.
6:46Just don't be a liar.
6:48Because the money's not going to destroy
6:50the church or the lack of money's not
6:52going to destroy the church, but
6:54dishonesty,
6:55that'll destroy the church.
6:58And then it says a couple things that
7:00might sound confusing in the way the
7:02translation renders it.
7:05First, it says great fear came over the
7:07whole church.
7:09And then the very next thing, it says,
7:11"At the hands of the apostles, many
7:13signs and wonders were taking place
7:15among the people
7:16and they were all with one accord."
7:19So, the fear of God did not stop the
7:21miracles, it released the miracles. And
7:24it helped everyone come back to what
7:26Ananias and Sapphira were starting to
7:28destroy, one accord. The people were all
7:31in one accord. And then it said,
7:34"But none of the rest dared associate
7:37with them.
7:39However, the people held them in high
7:41regard." So, what that means is that the
7:43larger crowd of the Jewish community
7:47stopped treating them as if they were
7:50the same thing. They stopped associating
7:53with them. So, that means that they
7:55weren't worshipping in the Jewish
7:56synagogues. They were worshipping
7:58separately. They weren't included in the
8:01bigger crowd of the faith community, but
8:04they were respected. The people held
8:06them in high regard and multitudes of
8:09men and women were constantly added to
8:12their number. So, it's not that the
8:14church stopped growing, it's that when
8:17they're excommunicated from the society
8:19of the Jewish
8:21religious group, they actually start
8:23growing a whole lot more.
8:25People start leaving the Jewish
8:27community and start joining the
8:29Christian community.
8:33But the high priest rose up along with
8:36all his associates, that is, the sect of
8:39the Sadducees, and they were filled with
8:43jealousy.
8:46Now, you know why multitudes are leaving
8:48their church and joining the outfit
8:52of Peter and John.
8:54They laid hands on the apostles and put
8:57them in a public jail,
9:00some kind of cage or stocks or something
9:04where everybody could see them.
9:06>> [clears throat]
9:06>> But during the night, an angel of the
9:08Lord opened the gates of the prison and
9:11taking them out, he said, "Go, stand and
9:15speak to the people in the temple, the
9:17whole message of this life."
9:23So, the jealousy throws them in prison
9:25and immediately
9:28the
9:29the prison of jealousy gets opened
9:32and
9:33the angel tells them, "Go and stand in
9:36the open square, right where you were
9:38before, and listen to this, tell the
9:41people the whole message of this life."
9:47It's not a doctrine only.
9:50It's not an announcement only. It's a
9:53life.
9:54It's a way to live. It's a way to love.
9:57It's a way to trust.
9:59It's a way to work. It's a way to view
10:02your possessions. It's a way to treat
10:05people. It's a life.
10:07Tell the people the whole message of
10:10this
10:11life.
10:12Upon hearing this, they, the formerly
10:15imprisoned apostles,
10:17entered into the temple about daybreak
10:19and began to teach.
10:22Now, when the high priest and his
10:23associates came,
10:25they called the council together, even
10:28all the Senate of the sons of Israel,
10:31and sent orders to the prison house for
10:33them to be brought.
10:35But the officers who came
10:37did not find them in the prison,
10:40and they returned and reported back,
10:42saying, "We found the prison house
10:45locked quite securely and the guards
10:48standing at the doors,
10:50but when we had opened up,
10:52we found no one inside."
10:56Now, when the captain of the temple
10:58guard and the chief priest heard these
11:00words, they were greatly perplexed about
11:02them as to what would have come of this.
11:06But someone came and reported to them,
11:08"The men whom you put in prison are
11:11standing in the temple and teaching the
11:13people."
11:15Then the captain went along with the
11:17officers and proceeded to bring them
11:19back without violence,
11:22for they were afraid of the people
11:25that they might be stoned.
11:27Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
11:30When they had brought them, they stood
11:32them before the council.
11:34The high priest questioned them,
11:36saying,
11:38"We gave you strict orders not to
11:42continue teaching in this name.
11:45And yet, you have filled Jerusalem with
11:49your teaching and intend to bring this
11:53man's blood upon us."
12:00But Peter, with the apostles, answered,
12:04"We must obey God rather than men.
12:08The God of our fathers
12:11raised up Jesus, whom you had put to
12:14death by hanging him on a cross.
12:18He is the one whom God exalted to his
12:22right hand
12:23as a prince and a savior to grant
12:27repentance to Israel and forgiveness of
12:31sins.
12:32And we are witnesses of these things,
12:36and so is the Holy Spirit,
12:39whom God has given to those who obey
12:43him."
12:50But when they heard this, they were cut
12:53to the quick
12:55and intended to kill them.
12:59Now, this is exactly the same phrase
13:03that
13:04is used
13:06three chapters earlier
13:08when Peter is preaching and some are
13:11pierced or cut to the heart. They said,
13:15"What should we do?" And Peter said,
13:18"Repent, be baptized, be filled."
13:21But here, they're cut to the quick and
13:23they don't say, "What should we do?"
13:26They intend to kill them.
13:28So, the same message of conviction can
13:30produce in us
13:33a cut
13:35that causes us to ask, "What should we
13:37do?" and come to repentance, or it
13:39causes us
13:41to be filled with jealousy and hatred
13:43and and a desire to kill.
13:48They were cut to the quick and intended
13:50to kill them.
13:52But a Pharisee named Gamaliel,
13:56a teacher of the law,
13:58respected by all the people, stood up in
14:02the council
14:03and gave orders to put the men outside
14:07for a short time.
14:08Gamaliel is one of the most famous
14:12teachers
14:13of this entire century.
14:17He is the master and head
14:19of one of the major schools, like the
14:22university
14:24of that time.
14:26And so, when he is going to speak,
14:28everybody's going to listen. This is
14:31like the head of an entire university.
14:34He's about to address the people.
14:36And he's a Pharisee.
14:38The others are Sadducees. The high
14:40priestly house was held by
14:42the Sadducees, who did not believe in
14:44the resurrection. They are a more
14:46liberal, less biblically observant
14:50crowd.
14:51And so,
14:52ironically, they're the ones who are
14:56most aggressive, especially here at the
14:58beginning,
14:59against the apostles.
15:02But he is
15:03a Pharisee.
15:06And what we know is that one of his
15:08students
15:09is a man named Paul.
15:12So, his openness, what he's about to ex-
15:14what he's about to express,
15:16is going to show that there was at least
15:19a sliver of doubt, a possibility in his
15:23mind that this could be of God.
15:27And one of his students is going to
15:28originally start out very much on the
15:30wrong side,
15:32but that sliver of doubt is going to
15:33grow in his mind, too, until
15:36his student Paul makes a turn in the
15:38future.
15:39But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, teacher
15:42of the law, respected by all the people,
15:45stood up in the council and gave orders.
15:49So, he's got some voice in this Senate
15:51meeting to put the men, Peter and John,
15:54outside for a short time.
15:58And he said to them,
16:01"Men of Israel,
16:02take care what you propose to do with
16:05these men.
16:08For some time ago, Theudas rose up,
16:12claiming to be somebody,
16:14and a group of about 400 men joined up
16:17with him.
16:19But he was killed,
16:21and all who followed him
16:23were dispersed and came to nothing.
16:26After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up
16:29in the days of the census and drew away
16:32some people after him.
16:35He, too, perished, and all those who
16:38followed him were scattered.
16:42So, in the present case,
16:44I say to you,
16:46"Stay away from these men
16:48and let them alone,
16:51for if this plan or action
16:54is of men,
16:55it will be overthrown.
16:58But if it is of God,
17:00you will not be able to overthrow them,
17:04or else
17:05you may even be found fighting against
17:08God."
17:12Now, listen to what he's saying.
17:14He's saying
17:15>> [music]
17:15>> revolutionaries have come before.
17:19And he names off the fact that they have
17:22seen something start multiple times, but
17:24he says it always ended with the death
17:27of the leader.
17:29That should be the end of it, but he's
17:31saying, "People don't act like this
17:35whose leader is dead.
17:37There's something going on here.
17:40People don't march in here willing to
17:42die
17:44for someone who's dead.
17:46They might know something.
17:48Their leader might not be dead is the
17:51implication."
17:53And then he says this,
17:54"If it's of man, it it's
17:59it's going to be overthrown. It's going
18:00to come to you might find yourself
18:03fighting God."
18:07They took his advice,
18:10and after calling the apostles in,
18:12they flogged them
18:15and ordered [music] them not to speak in
18:17the name of Jesus,
18:20and then
18:21released them.
18:23So, they went on their way from the
18:24presence of the council, [music]
18:26rejoicing
18:28that they had been considered worthy to
18:30suffer shame for his name.
18:34And every day in the temple and from
18:37house to house, they kept right on
18:40teaching and preaching Jesus as the
18:43Christ.
18:47>> [music]
18:57[music]

About this transcript

This page contains the full transcript of Acts 5 | The Upward Way | Bible Study with A. Z. Adams by Heritage Press, generated from the public captions YouTube serves with the video. The transcript has 2,404 words across 443 segments, with the original timestamps preserved so you can click any line to jump to that moment in the embedded player.

What you can do with it

Use the transcript to take notes, quote the speaker, build a study guide, generate a summary with ChatGPT or Claude via the YouTube Summary tool, or export it as a timed subtitle file with YouTube to SRT. You can also re-open it in the transcriber to translate the transcript into 100+ languages.

Free YouTube transcript tool

YouTube2Text is a free YouTube transcript generator — no signup, no daily limit. Paste any YouTube link and get the full transcript instantly, with timestamps, click-to-jump, translation to 100+ languages, AI prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, and exports to TXT, SRT, VTT, or Markdown.