Dr. Pothana's Teaching

1. Detailed Study on The Book Of Acts
COACH Institute of Intercultural Studies
Hyderabad

2. Book of Acts
Chapter 5
The Scariest Chapter

3. Acts 5
It’s not nice to lie to the
Spirit of God!

4. Acts 5:1-11
Death of Ananias
What’s wrong with this
picture?
Acts 5:6…and carried him
out…
Acts 5:9 The feet of the
men who buried your
husband are at the door,
and they will carry you out
also.

5. Acts 5:3, Satan Can Fill The Heart
• Acts 5:3…how is it that Satan
has so filled your heart …
• Satan can fill the heart of a
believer
• Not indwelling or possession
but the desire of his heart
• 1 Peter 5:8 Be self-controlled
and alert. Your enemy the
devil prowls around like a
roaring lion looking for
someone to devour.

6. Acts 5:3, Lied To The Holy Spirit
Acts 5:4… “You have not lied to men but to God.”

7. Acts 5:3, Lying Is Sin
• Ex 20:16 Thou shalt
not bear false witness
against thy neighbour.
• Col 3:9 Do not lie to each
other, since you have taken
off your old self with its
practices
• Rev 21:8 But the cowardly,
the unbelieving, the vile, the
murderers, the sexually
immoral, those who practice
magic arts, the idolaters and all
liars— their place will be in the
fiery lake of burning sulfur. This
is the second death."

8. Acts 5:4, Not Socialism
Acts 5:4 "While it remained unsold, did it not
remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not
under your control? Why is it that you have
conceived this deed in your heart? You have not
lied to men but to God.”
The land was theirs as well as the proceeds.
The early church thrived on Holy Spirit enabled
generosity, not legalistic , or forced confiscation, as
in Socialism.
Also, no mention of tithes, or firstfruits offerings

9. Acts 5:12-42
The Apostles Miracles

10. Acts 5:12 The Apostles Miracles
Acts 5:12 The
apostles performed
many miraculous
signs and wonders
among the people…

11. Acts 5:11-13, great fear
Acts 5:11 And great fear came
over the whole church, and over
all who heard of these things. 12
At the hands of the apostles
many signs and wonders were
taking place among the people;
and they were all with one
accord in Solomon's portico. 13
But none of the rest dared to
associate with them; however,
the people held them in high
esteem.
This is not your modern “seeker
friendly” church!
Acts 2:47 praising God and
having favor with all the
people. And the Lord was
adding to their number day by
day those who were being
saved.

12. Acts 5:12, Solomon's Colonnade

13. ACTS 5:20,
Go Stand And Speak In The Temple
• Acts 5:20 "Go
[imperative present middle],
stand [aorist passive] and
speak [imperative present
active] to the people in
the temple the whole
message of this Life.“
• We’re commanded to
go, and speak. God
enables to stand

14. Acts 5:21,
• Acts 5:21 Upon hearing this, they entered
into the temple about daybreak and began to
teach. Now when the high priest and his
associates came, they called the Council
together, even all the Senate of the sons of
Israel, and sent orders to the prison house for
them to be brought.

15. Acts 5:28, Not To Teach In This Name
• Acts 5:28 "We gave you strict orders
not to teach in this name," he said.
"Yet you have filled Jerusalem with
your teaching and are determined
to make us guilty of this man's
blood."
Remember Dan 3:16,
Civil
Disobedience;

16. Dan 3:16 This is what Civil Disobedience
looks like

17. Acts 5:34, Gamaliel
• Acts 5:34 But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a
teacher of the law, who was honored by all the
people, stood up in the Sanhedrin and ordered
that the men be put outside for a little while.
• Acts 22:2-3…Then Paul said: 3 "I am a Jew, born
in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city.
Under Gamaliel I was thoroughly trained in the
law of our fathers and was just as zealous for God
as any of you are today.

18. Acts 5:34, Gamaliel
• Adam Clarke's Commentary says, “[A Pharisee, named
Gamaliel, a doctor of the law] "This," says Dr. Lightfoot, "was
Rabban Gamaliel the first; commonly, by way of distinction,
called Rabban Gamaliel the elder. He was president of the
council after the death of his own father, Rabban Simeon, who
was the son of Hillel. He was Paul's master, and the 35 th
receiver of the traditions, and on this account might not be
improperly termed nomodidaskalos, a doctor of the law,
because he was one that kept and handed down the Cabala
received from Mount Sinai. He died eighteen years before the
destruction of Jerusalem, his son Simeon succeeding him in the
chair, who perished in the ruins of the city." Though probably
no favourer of Christianity, yet, for a Pharisee, he seems to
have possessed a more liberal mind than most of his brethren;
the following advice was at once humane, sensible, candid,
and enlightened.

19. Acts 5:38, God Is Sovereign
• Acts 5:38 "So in the present case, I say to you,
stay away from these men and let them
alone, for if this plan or action is of men, it will
be overthrown; 39 but if it is of God, you will
not be able to overthrow them; or else you
may even be found fighting against God.“
• God is sovereign regardless of men’s plans and
actions.
• God is sovereign over every “if/then”.

20. • Acts 5:41…rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the
Name. Woe! Do we “rejoice” when we suffer?
Rejoicing, Worthy Of Suffering