A financial counselor told him to sell his stock in a company because all this money was tied to the one company's stock. This man lost everything. Money has a way of disappearing. Covetousness, or the love of money, is the root of all evil. Covetousness can bring a person to the condition called apostasy.
Covetousness can bring about one's destruction.
He says such a man is like a wild animal that leaps at bait hung over a pit. The animal falls in, impales itself on a sharp stake below, and is totally destroyed. In light of these reasons, I hope that we will pay heed to this biblical counsel to avoid covetousness. In our earlier study we said that the Greek word for contentment is autarkeia. Auto means self and arkeia means sufficiency, so autarkeia means self-sufficiency.