The Danger of Greed

The story of the Goose and the golden eggs ended with the farmer deciding to kill the goose in order to get all the golden eggs at once. Once the goose is killed - no more eggs and no more goose. The farmer driven by greed, lost everything! The god of greed and materialism is prevalent in every afflebt society today. There is an exaltation of the earthly over the heavenly and the material over the spiritual. Jesus called this god Mammon.

The encounter between Naaman, commander of the army of King of Aram, and Gehazim, the servant of Elisha in 2 Kings 5 illustrate the nature of greed.

There are 6 character of Greed from 2 King 5

1. Greed is hidden

2. Greed rationalises

Greed always gives us a reason for wanting to possess or accumulated more. It can be hard to draw the line between need, greed and providence.

3. Greed is compulsive

The more you get, the more you want. This infact is tantamount ot idolatory (Eph 5:5, Col 3:5-6). Greed affects not just the rich; the poor can be too. It is the condition of the heard and altitude towards money and possession.The issue for believers is this: why do we who have tasted the life of the kingdom want to go back to the death of greed and materialism? Let us ask God to set us free from discontentment and greed, and to enjoy whatever He has blessed us with instead of striving for more.

4. Greed is Deceptive

5. Greed Distorts (our values system)

6. Greed Destroys


Choose Christ

The biblical alternative to a lifestyle of greed is to dethrone the god of Mammon and pull down the stronghold of greed in our lives. 1 John 3:17 "If anyone has material possissions and see his brother in need but has no pity in him, how can the love of God be in him?"


Using the golden eggs for different stages of our lives:

More golden eggs: Some of us have reached the stage if being able to share some golden eggs with others. Perhaps God is challenging you to increase the number of golden eggs with others.

Some golden eggs: Confront and dethrone greed by being generous.

The golden goose: God may be challenging yet others to taken an even greater step of faith, He may be asking us to surrender the golden eggs and the goose - do not fear because we may be surrendering our resource to the One who them to us in the first place.