John D. Rockefeller said,

I have made many millions,

but they have brought me nothing of happiness.

Railroad magnet William Henry Vanderbilt.

He was the richest man in the world at the time of his death.

Before he died, he said,

the cares of $200 million is enough to kill anyone.

There's no pleasure in it.

John Jacob Astor was the first multimillionaire in America.

He said, I am the most miserable man on earth. Pioneer carmaker,

Henry Ford. He said, I was happiest when I was doing a mechanic's job. James, chapter 5,

verses 1 to 6, is a commentary, blunt one, but it's a commentary nonetheless on what those statements

I've just made about those folks and what they said. When he said, listen, you greedy, rich,

weep and wail because of the misery that is coming upon you,

he makes a statement not to the pagan non-believers like those people I just read to you about,

but he's talking about believers.

The whole epistle is to believers.

The whole epistle, I'm calling it, the 12 evidence of faith.

Probably there is no more explosive subject than the subject of money.

It is explosive in politics. It's explosive in society at large. It is explosive in church. It is explosive in the home.

And that is why more marriages end up in divorce over the issue of money than anything else.

It's an explosive subject. And so today, I am going to be an expert in diffusing the explosive bomb called money.

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