Sermon
The Church and Hypocrisy | Acts 5:1-11
Treeline Church
Speaker: Andrew Hager
November 24, 2025 · 38 min
Summary
Acts 5 recounts Ananias and Sapphira's deception in the early church, illustrating how God roots out performance, hypocrisy, and lies to protect his bride—the church—and reorient believers to his holiness. The sermon warns that Satan's primary attack on the church today is internal compromise and false piety rather than external persecution.
Highlights
Do not turn my church into another arena for your performance. Do not use this community as another arena for you to showcase how strong you are, how generous you are, how big you are.
Hypocrisy always shows up with her twin sister lying because if a lie wasn't there it wouldn't be hypocrisy, it would just be sin.
The worst thing about being a hypocrite is you might accidentally fool everyone in this church and get exactly what you want, but you will not fool God.