July 26. What it means to love money. A love of money is the root of all kinds of evils,

1 Timothy 6, verse 10. What did Paul mean when he wrote this? He couldn't have meant that

money is always on your mind when you sin. A lot of sin happens when we're not thinking about money.

My suggestion is this. He meant that all the evils in the world come from a kind of heart,

namely the kind of heart that loves money. So what does it mean to love money? It doesn't mean to admire

the green paper or the copper coins or the silver shackles. To know what it means to love money

you have to ask what is money. I would answer that question like this.

Money is simply a symbol that stands for human resources. Money stands for what you can get

from man other human beings instead of God. God deals in the currency of grace not money.

Come, everyone who thirsts come to the waters. He who has no money come by and eat as they

have 55 won. Money is the currency of human resources. So the heart that loves money is a heart that

pins its hopes and pursues its pleasures and puts its trust in what human resources can offer.

So the love of money is virtually the same as faith in money, belief, trust, confidence,

assurance that money will meet your needs and make you happy. Love of money is the alternative

to faith in God's future grace. It is faith in future human resources, the kind of thing you can

obtain or secure with money. Therefore the love of money or trust in money is the underside of

unbelief in the promises of God. Jesus said in Matthew 624, no one can serve two masters.

You cannot serve God and money. You can't trust in God and in money at the same time.

Belief in the one is unbelief in the other, the heart that loves money, that banks on

money for happiness is not banking on all that God is for us in Jesus as the satisfaction of our souls.