"Word to the Wealthy"

Friday, May 22, 2015

Promoting everything from beer to soap, advertisers entice you to buy their product by creating discontentment -- "if you just buy the fancy car, the elaborate entertainment center, and the designer outfit," you'll be satisfied. Say goodbye to boredom, say farewell to loneliness, say hello to happiness. In any case, they don't want you to be content with what you have. Not surprisingly, most people aren't. America's incredible affluence highlights a major problem with unredeemed man: he can't handle what he produces because he's ultimately and totally selfish. When man's sinful heart is tempted into a selfish attachment to stuff, greed takes over and self-destruction is the ultimate end. Mankind is not happy without it and he's unsatisfied once he gets it -- it's the enigma of materialism.

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