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And ask ourselves if we're living honest to God.

This is the day when the lost are found.

In the movie industry, they talk about the suspension of disbelief.

It's all make believe, right? But they try to make the costumes and special effects and the acting so convincing that it suspends our disbelief.

They hope we forget its fate or fiction if you prefer.

Today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Lory points out some people sort of act their way through life.

They try to suspend our disbelief about how they're really living.

We'll see that's a fruitless pursuit.

I feel the day the day when life begins.

So we're in the book of Acts in this series that we're calling the upside down life.

And now we're going to see some of the challenges that they face.

Though we've seen the Holy Spirit poured out and thousands of people believing on the de-penic

and a gospel we've seen a man raised up who was unable to walk from his youth.

We've seen a lot of preaching, a lot of powerful things.

Now we're going to see some sinful things because this is real world life that we're looking at here.

This story shows that the early church was not all about romance and redemption.

They also had flaws in sinful people and we see how Jesus dealt with these people.

Now Barnabas is seeing giving a gift to the church for the use of ministry.

So Ananias and Sapphira see this and they think, wow, look at how the people appreciate this.

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