Among other things the devil uses affluence to weaken us. If God blesses you with plenty then pray to him to know how to cope with it, so that it doesn’t rule you. Learn how to steward from what God gives you. Satan brings all these things like a tidal wave to carry the church away. Today we are subjected to nonstop electronically piped content, fed into every home round the clock – so many devices to distract and to look at. What is it ultimately, but means employed by the devil to distract the most important institution in the world, the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, to carry Christian people away? Surely there are very many Christian people who withstand a lot of this, but in the United States you see a tidal wave of affluence for a great section of the community. You see how it sweeps away the churches, and so many becomes covetous and worldly in their bearing. Almost everything that comes out on the Internet, is shot with worldliness. Affluence is something that needs such determined handling.