My main reference for yesterday’s sermon was John Wesley’s sermon, “The Use of Money.” Below is quote I want to share with you where Wesley makes the point that it is the love of money and not money itself that is the root of all evil.

“The love of money,” we know, “is the root of all evil;” but not the thing itself. The fault does not lie in the money, but in them that use it. It may be used ill: and what may not? But it may likewise be used well: It is full as applicable to the best, as to the worst uses. 
… it is an excellent gift of God, answering the noblest ends. In the hands of his children, it is food for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, raiment for the naked: It gives to the traveller and the stranger where to lay his head. By it we may supply the place of an husband to the widow, and of a father to the fatherless. We maybe a defence for the oppressed, a means of health to the sick, of ease to them that are in pain; it may be as eyes to the blind, as feet to the lame; yea, a lifter up from the gates of death!” — John Wesley [1]

John Wesley, “The Use of Money,” General Board of Global Ministries, accessed November 19, 2018, https://bit.ly/2NjHEbk.