You are to view life as a gift, not as a right.

Dr Tony Evans says even though the world owes us nothing,

the Lord offers us everything.

To live a thankful life for the benefits that God gives you is to have a God perspective under the sun.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship

in Dallas, Texas and president of the Urban Alternative.

Healthy ambition can drive us to improve and succeed. But Dr. Evans says when that

morphs into greed a lot of what we get isn't what we want. Today he'll talk about how to live a more meaningful life

punctuated with God's provision and presence. Let's join him as he takes us to

the book of Ecclesiasties. We got to the middle part of chapter 5 last time and let me pick it up at verse

13 there is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun riches being

hoarded by their owner to his hurt. So he's seeing greed

and how destructive it can be under the sun how men at the expense of themselves and others are so

greedy you know we all went through the effects of the housing collapse and debacle.

Where there was greed on both sides.

There was greedy people trying to make money. There was greedy people trying to buy houses they couldn't afford.

So you had greed meeting greed, and it led to a massive collapse that affected everybody.

The whole nation was in turmoil because I've watched the greed at work

because that's a reality and just because you were saved didn't mean your house didn't go underwater.

Because the whole culture was effective.

I've seen, I've seen how hurtful hoarding or greed is.

When those riches were lost through bad investments

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