In many ways, hypocrisy, which we looked at in the last message, and greed belong to two different realms of life, two different areas of our life.

And yet, they're both very essential. Those realms are very essential for our existence.

Hypocrisy belongs to the spiritual realm, while greed belongs to the

material realm. These two sins are closely related. False religion is the love of biblical error.

Greed is the love of having more and more and more and more and more.

People can be deceived by false teaching, just as they can be deceived by false materialism.

Today, of course, we're actually seeing this with our own eyes,

and we're seeing the connection between the false teaching and the so-called prosperity gospel.

And the Pharisees at the time of Jesus were up to their eyeballs in both sins.

I want to make something very, very clear, very clear.

Money is not evil.

Money is neutral.

It is what you do with money that can be evil or can be for good.

The Bible makes it very clear that what is evil is the love of money.

What is evil is the greed for wanting more and more and more and never satisfied and never being rich toward God.

Now, there is a biblical way, but theirs is unbiblical.

The biblical way is found in 1st Timothy chapter 6, verses 17, 18, and 19.

Appeal, that is an important word.

The Apostle Paul is writing to the pastor of the church in Ephesus,

Timothy, and he says to him, appeal to the rich of this world, not to be arrogant and place

or hope on uncertain riches, but to be rich toward God. This is the biblical way. The Apostle Paul is teaching

us what he really read and learned about what Jesus said in Luke 12. Himirat, please.

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