1. Why should we be aware of the love of money?
2. The dangers of the love of money, to us and the ones we think we can trust.
3. How can we remain vigilant?
4. We are in danger, how?
Why should we be aware of the love of money?
Why should we be aware of the love of money? It is because no one is immune to it; we all can be affected by it in some way. Either we are consumed by it ourselves, or are direct victims of those who are consumed by it. But those who are determined to be rich fall into temptation and a snare+ and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge men into destruction and ruin.+ 10 For the love of money is a root of all sorts of injurious things,+ and by reaching out for this love some have been led astray from the faith and have stabbed themselves all over with many pains.+(1 Tim 6:9,10)
The dangers of the love of money, to us and the ones we think we can trust.
We should not underestimate its effects on ourselves and the ones we think we can trust. Meaning that, although we all know that it is bad, if push comes to shove, if one does not guard one's heart, even though we all know it is bad, Satan will get us to give in to it, because it is a great deal of money.
Again, I turned my attention to all the acts of oppression that go on under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and there was no one to comfort them.+ And their oppressors had the power, and there was no one to comfort them. 2 And I congratulated the dead who had already died rather than the living who were still alive.+ 3 And better off than both of them is the one who has not yet been born,+ who has not seen the distressing deeds that are done under the sun.+(Ecc. 4: 1-3)
