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Ezekiel chapter 7 verse 19.

Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord.

They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it.

For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity. Whoa, did you hear that?

This pronouncement from God talking about the stumbling block of his people's iniquity that has led

to judgment and wrath. What was the stumbling buck? Their silver and their gold, they sought for satisfaction and

security. And God is saying their silver and their gold, their money, their riches, the possessions of

this world are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of God and cannot satisfy their hunger

or fill their stomachs. Are we hearing this? And this is straight 1 Timothy 6th 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, and we can find ourselves wanting more and more and more. God,

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