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The Spirit Explodes Part 6 of 22 - And now for the not-so-good news (Acts 4:32 – 5:42) by Roger Kirby The infant church begins to struggle with both internal problems and external ones. It is rather amazing that Luke tells us about some of the more difficult events. He clearly had a purpose in doing so. We will think about that in a few minutes. We have already commented on the problems of this sort of living. Barnabas, who is going to figure prominently in the expansion of the church, is mentioned with clear approval of what he did. There were huge differences of wealth between the landowners and the working people in those days and this is clearly a comment about how those differences should be overcome within the fellowship of the church. It also highlights the problem that we read about  in Acts 5:1–11. In this podcast we ask the following questions. To learn more, download the mp3 and listen! Question 1: What exactly did Ananias and Sapphira do wrong? Why was the punishment so harsh? Christians proba