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Hey, thanks for hanging with us today on the Daily Drive where we just pursue God together every day

and wherever you are and whenever you might be listening. Hopefully these next few minutes might spur you on to pursue God together every day and wherever you are and whenever you might be listening,

hopefully these next few minutes might spur you on to pursue God all day long.

Hey, my name is Bro, and we are currently diving into the Book of Acts, and we have seen how

united and together the early church is as they live this, what they called the shared life.

But today, they hit a bump in the road.

Yesterday, we met a really special guy named Barnabas, nicknamed the son of encouragement.

We read how he, along with lots of other people that sold property to fund the benevolence

ministry of the church, and like we said yesterday, he was such a humble guy that being singled out for his

generosity probably really embarrassed him. He definitely wasn't in it for the spotlight or the

praise. But that can't be said of everybody. Today in chapter five, we meet a couple named

Ananias and Safira who craved the applause and attention. They wanted to be singled out and recognized for

their generosity, like Barnabas was, thinking, we'll pretend to be really super generous, too,

so that they will like us, so they will accept us, so they will lift us up as an example,

maybe even give us a nickname, too. Let's just jump into chapter five. It's a story that I do not like to

read. It's a story about approval seeking and lying to get it. It's a story about how God wanted

authenticity to rule in his infant church, and he still values that today. Let's jump in. But there

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