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What are you “filled” with?What are you focused on?Focused and filled describe where our mind and our heart are.Check your focus.Act Act Root of man’s problem… SELF!What is the sin here? What Godly desire have they twisted?Greed and pride - affirmation from others —Act Sin originates at the heart level – the action is really fruit of the heart motivation.Mat 34 “…out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.”Mat 28 …has already committed adultery with her in his heart.I found this concept of being spiritually filled 14 times in the Bible. Of those, 10 of them were in Luke and Acts – the books that Luke wrote. Paul uses the phrase in Ephesians:Eph 18 …but be filled with the Spirit,Filled is is to not have room for anything else. I think of times when I have had this type of focus…When I am playing goal keeper in a football match and someone is dribbling the ball toward me to score, I am not thinking about anything else - my mind is “filled“ with that moment and those things.We have all probably experienced this at some point… An immediate desire or emotion seems SO critical and overwhelming that we MUST yield to it! …we must have it!All other things are eclipsed by that.Reality is those things can be like holding your finger in front of you so that you can’t see a whole building or forest…Yet in hindsight I have found that all I needed to do was say “no”. James tells us this and his admonition:Jas Good things can be this way just as well as sin.I can be totally focused, “filled“ with speaking the truth about God or I can be totally focused or “filled“ on fulfilling my selfish desires.Clear reference to the Holy Spirit as being equivalent to, yet distinct from God.—Act As we discussed yesterday, this was not communal living but selfless living. Ananias and Saphira owned the property with no obligation. When they sold the property there was no obligation – it was completely theirs to do with as they wished.They have a desire for affirmation from both man and God. Peter points out that the root issue is their intent to deceive God. All sin is against God because all sin contradicts His character of truth and grace.Psa 4 Against you, you only, have I sinned…Act —Act Typical Jewish custom was burial on the day of death, especially for those that were great sinners.—Act Act Act Act Act ekklēsiaek-klay-see'-ah