We're honored to be joined again by author and speaker Paul Tripp, the author of the book

Sex and Money.

And we could do a whole week on money issues, but we have one day.

So here it is.

What are some symptoms of a life that is ruled by a love of money?

What are some prompts that should alert us to this sin in our own hearts?

Well, that's a huge, huge question.

The love of money is deeper than, I like to hold it my hands, I like to smell it, I like

to have a fat wallet.

It's really about love of money, it's about contentment, love of money, it's about humility,

love of money, it's about identity, love of money is about worship, it really roots

at deep issues, maybe the most subtle of the indication of love of money is an ongoing

chronic discontentment in me that no matter what I have, I'm still not content.

And maybe the biggest sign in the church of our discontent is that it is shocking

the amount of debt that the individual Christian is in.

If you could view the average debt load of the average Christian, you would be amazed.

And if that debt load could be removed, how much more flexibility would we have to participate

in and to give to the larger agenda of God's kingdom?

We now have a system called credit cards where we can actually spend money we don't have.

It is an act of disobedience to put something on a credit card that you could not afford

with cash or that you do not have a plan to pay by cash, a reasonable plan because you

are now taking sovereignty and ownership over your money well-being.

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