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Greed
Fifth mes­sage in the series The Seven Deadly Sins
Length: 26:30
Size: 7 MB
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Speaker: Glen Davis — 2/23/2005

Here’s this week’s hand­out:

Greed: A Sin-opsis
The Sin Clus­ter: Avarice, Mate­ri­al­ism, Stingi­ness, Idol­a­try, Self­ish­ness
The Virtues They Dis­tort: Aspi­ra­tion, Enjoy­ment
Bib­li­cal Sto­ries About:

• Ana­nias and Saphira: greed led to their deaths (Acts 4)
• The Rich Fool: gained the world and lost his soul (Luke 12:15–21)
• Bal­aam: sold spir­i­tual ser­vices (Num­bers 22–24; 2 Peter 2:15, Jude 1:11)
• Gehazi: his greed cost him his min­istry and his health (2 Kings 5)
• Rich Young Ruler: his love of money kept him from sal­va­tion (Matthew 19:16–21)
• Demas: loved the things of this world too much (Col 4:14, Phile­mon 1:24; 2 Tim 4:9–10)

Accord­ing to the Bible, greed:

• is unable to bring hap­pi­ness (Ecc 5:10)
• causes con­flict (Prov 28:25)
• is often a moti­va­tion for reli­gious char­la­tans (2 Peter 2:3,14)
• is a root of all kinds of evil (1 Tim 6:9–10)
• is idol wor­ship (Col 3:5, Eph 5:5, Luke 16:13)
• makes God angry (Isa 57:17)
• is some­thing there should not even be a whiff of within the church (Eph 5:3)
• is grounds for dis­missal from the church (1 Cor 5:11)
• under­mines sal­va­tion (1 Cor 6:10)