Once the acquiring has happened, then comes the need to protect what has been acquired. This is selfishness and it is sin. Once the greed-driven have acquired and protected, they begin to covet. This coveting begets more greed, the greed begets more selfishness, and the selfishness begets more coveting and so on to madness. By this point, there is no room left in for God.
Money is now the master of the house.
All of us have some propensity to greed. We may not be greedy for money, but each of us has something that we want to acquire more than we want the Kingdom of God. To mature as Christians, we need to ask God to reveal these things to us and ask His help in taking the axe to the roots of the problem. Once we gain victory over that area of our lives, we deepen our relationship with God. We ve made more room in our spiritual orchard for trees that bear Godly fruits.