Greed - a selfish and excessive desire for more.

1. Greed is a heart issue.

“Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.” Thomas Aquinas

Proverbs 23:4-5 Do not wear yourself out to get rich;

    do not trust your own cleverness.

5 Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone,

    for they will surely sprout wings

    and fly off to the sky like an eagle.

2. How Greed controls you.

Luke 12:15 Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.”

3. Freedom from Greed.

AW Tozer in the Pursuit of God, “There is within the human heart a tough fibrous root of fallen life whose nature is to possess, always to possess. It covets `things' with a deep and fierce passion. The pronouns `my' and `mine' look innocent enough in print, but their constant and universal use is significant. They express the real nature of the old Adamic man better than a thousand volumes of theology could do. They are verbal symptoms of our deep disease. The roots of our hearts have grown down into things, and we dare not pull up one rootlet lest we die. Things have become necessary to us, a development never originally intended. God's gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution.”