The love of money.

When we think of the love of money, we tend to imagine the lavish life of a billionaire

Sultan in the Middle East, or we think of super yachts, or we think of a big tech CEO

who catapults himself into outer space just for the fun of it.

Only the love of money we ascribe to the irreligious, to the opulent, to the secularist

living out a lavish lifestyle with no care at all for God.

But the Bible speaks of the love of money in very different terms altogether, focusing

on a love of money inside the heart of the preacher and of the religious zealot, an

idol that infects even the staunchest religious person, even those who claim to follow the

law in detail and with great zealot, the Pharisee.

And even by those who claim great religious power, like the faith healer, Pastor John

made this important and sobering point about the love of money in the soul of the religious.

In a 2019 devotional message, here he is now to explain.

First Timothy 610, the love of money is the root of all evils.

Yes, he says all kinds of evils that tookay to say all evils.

And some by desiring this have wandered away from the faith.

So Paul says that underneath all evils are all kinds of evils, like Phariseism, is the love of money.

Reason, love of money is synonymous with no faith.

Without faith you cannot please God.

Everything that is not from faith is sin.

All evils come from this.

Hearts that are more content, more happy, more hopeful, more satisfied, more secure in

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