The kind of heart that loves money is the kind of heart that gives rise to all evils.

The kind of heart that is more in love with the things of the world than the things of God

is the kind of heart that is responsible for all the things of the world than the things of God is the kind of heart that is responsible

for all the evil in the world. It doesn't mean that there has to be a conscious connection

between money and every evil. But the heart that is in love with possessions and what money can buy is the kind of heart that's going to produce

manifold evil. I don't think many of us walk around thinking I love money, but that doesn't

mean our hearts don't get tangled up in it from time to time. I'm Dan Kruver.

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper shows us why wanting more is a spiritual

snare.

And he also looks at what God offers us instead.

This series is part of a larger course that John Piper taught on money at Bethlehem Baptist Church on Wednesday nights in 1991.

In tonight with a glance at two texts in First Thessalonians to set our minds in a certain direction in First Thessalonians 3 at the end and then two verses from 1st Thessalonians 4 seems to me that

one of the

paradoxes, mysteries,

strange things

about the Christian life that we need to get

straight is how

we can be living under the commendation of God and the smile of God,

and yet have God desire that we press on to have more and more.

I want to see whether or not what I see here helps you in living with that paradox that we're accepted,

and yet there's so much more to know of God.

Verse 11, chapter 3, now may our God and Father Himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you,

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