Pray the word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net.

The word with David Platt as a resource from Radical.net.

Their stomachs are we hearing this?

And this is straight, first Timothy 6, kind of language.

The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.

It is through craving for desiring money that many have wandered away from the faith,

have pierced themselves with many pangs.

Those who desire riches fall into temptation into a snare, into senseless and harmful desires.

That plunge people into ruin and destruction.

We need to believe this.

That the desire for riches, for gold, for silver, for money, for possessions in this world.

That desire is extremely dangerous.

That that love plunges us into all kinds of evils.

And the language here in Ezekiel chapter 7 is it is the stumbling block of

iniquity.

Oh, God help us to believe this, especially in a culture where I live and where many,

if not most people who listen to this prayer podcast, we live in one of the wealthiest places

to ever exist on planet earth.

Not that we always see ourselves as wealthy, but we know that wealth in many ways is relative

and relative to the rest of the world and relative to people throughout the history of the world.

We are incredibly wealthy with abundant clean water and food and medical care and education,

access to transportation and so many other things that we can so easily take for granted.

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