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OBJECTIVES IN STUDYING THIS CHAPTER
To examine the sin of Ananias and Sapphira in lying to the Holy Spirit.
To note the amazing signs and wonders that were done by the apostles, in which all were healed.
To consider the apostles' response when government seeks to stifle the preaching of the gospel.
OBJECTIVES IN STUDYING THIS CHAPTER
To examine the sin of Ananias and Sapphira in lying to the Holy Spirit.
To note the amazing signs and wonders that were done by the apostles, in which all were healed.
To consider the apostles' response when government seeks to stifle the preaching of the gospel.


![Irenaeus Was Not A Heretic @KingdomInContext
Irenaeus did not teach that Christians are under the Law of Moses given on Mt. Sinai.
On What The Apostles Preaches:
Wherefore also we need not the Law as a tutor. Behold, with the Father we speak, and in His presence we stand, being children in malice, and grown strong in all righteousness and soberness. *For no longer shall the Law say, Do not commit adultery, to him who has no desire at all for anothers wife; and Thou shalt not kill, to him who has put away from himself all anger and enmity; (and) Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour s field or ox or ass, to those who have no care at all for earthly things, but store up the heavenly fruits: nor An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth, to him who counts no man his enemy, but all men his neighbours, and therefore cannot stretch out his hand at all for vengeance. It will not require tithes of him who consecrates all his possessions to God, leaving father and mother and all his kindred, and following the Word of God. And there will be no command to remain idle for one day of rest, to him who perpetually keeps sabbath,* that is to say, who in the temple of God, which is mans body, does service to God, and in every hour works righteousness. For I desire mercy, He saith, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. But the wicked that sacrificeth to me a calf is as if he should kill a dog; *and that offereth fine flour, as though (he offered] swines blood.* But whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Against Heresies
BOOK 4 Ch 13
For the law, since it was laid down for those in bondage, used to instruct the soul by means of those corporeal objects which were of an external nature, drawing it, as by a bond, to obey its commandments, that man might learn to serve God. *But the Word set free the soul, and taught that through it the body should be willingly purified. Which having been accomplished, it followed as of course, that the bonds of slavery should be removed, to which man had now become accustomed, and that he should follow God without fetters:* moreover, that the laws of liberty should be extended, and subjection to the king increased, so that no one who is converted should appear unworthy to Him who set him free, but that the piety and obedience due to the Master of the household should be equally rendered both by servants and children; while the children possess greater confidence [than the servants], inasmuch as the working of liberty is greater and more glorious than that obedience which is rendered in [a state of] slavery.
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