We should not transfer wealth to our children unless we’ve successfully transferred wisdom to them. Without wisdom, wealth will not only be wasted, it will damage our children - 100 percent of the time. I’ll make a statement that may seem incredible, but I firmly believe it. If I were the devil and I wanted to ruin a group of Christians, I’d try to get their parents to leave them large amounts of money. That’s how much I’m convinced of the dangers and temptations of unearned

wealth. Everything I’ve learned over the years has convinced me that, in most cases, children who inherit wealth would have been far better off if the money had been put in a burn pile and torched.

Randy Alcorn

1: THE WARNING

1: THE WARNING:Greed defined.

1: THE WARNING:Greed defined.

It’s an inordinate desire for money and material things.

1: THE WARNING:Greed defined. :Guard against greed.

1: THE WARNING:Greed defined. :Guard against greed.:Reasons for the warning.

1: Greed is no respecter of persons.

REASONS FOR THE WARNING

1: Greed is no respecter of persons. 2. Greed has great blinding power.

REASONS FOR THE WARNING

The hardest part of dealing with our materialism is that it has become so much a part of us. Like people who have lived in darkness for years, we have been removed from the light so long that we don’t know how dark it really is. Many of us have never known what it is not to be materialistic. This is why we need so desperately to read the Scriptures…If we were to gain God’s perspective, even for a moment, and were to look at the way we go through life accumulating and hoarding

and displaying our things, we would have the same feelings of horror and pity that any sane person has when he views people in an asylum endlessly beating their heads against the wall.

Randy Alcorn

1: Greed is no respecter of persons. 2. Greed has great blinding power. 3: Greed can destroy our spiritual life.

REASONS FOR THE WARNING

1 TIMOTHY 6:9-10, But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

2. Greed has great blinding power. 3: Greed can destroy our spiritual life. 4: Greed makes us forget the eternal.

REASONS FOR THE WARNING

2. Greed has great blinding power. 3: Greed can destroy our spiritual life. 4: Greed makes us forget the eternal. 5: Greed turns us inward.

REASONS FOR THE WARNING

3: Greed can destroy our spiritual life. 4: Greed makes us forget the eternal. 5: Greed turns us inward. 6: Greed distracts us from our primary purpose.

REASONS FOR THE WARNING

LUKE 8:14, And as for what fell among the thorns, they are those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by the cares and riches and pleasures of life, and their fruit does not mature.

3: Greed can destroy our spiritual life. 4: Greed makes us forget the eternal. 5: Greed turns us inward. 6: Greed distracts us from our primary purpose. 7: Greed is enslaving.

REASONS FOR THE WARNING

4: Greed makes us forget the eternal. 5: Greed turns us inward. 6: Greed distracts us from our primary purpose. 7: Greed is enslaving. 8: Greed fosters immorality.

REASONS FOR THE WARNING

4: Greed makes us forget the eternal. 5: Greed turns us inward. 6: Greed distracts us from our primary purpose. 7: Greed is enslaving. 8: Greed fosters immorality. 9: Greed is idolatry and therefore offensive to God.

REASONS FOR THE WARNING

1: THE WARNING2: THE WISDOM