There are three categories of sin. 1 John 2 :16 "For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world."

1.  Lust of the flesh.  All those sexual temptations that pull us away from God's plan for us.  He told Adam to be fruitful and multiply.  He made a man and a woman and blessed them.  Genesis 1:28 "And God blessed them, and said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply..."  A man.  A woman.  A partnership to "replenish the earth..."

2.  The lust of the eyes.  All the stuff that gets us into financial trouble.  We see it, we want it, we buy it and then struggle to pay for it.  You want it when you are twenty.  You charge it when you are thirty.  You pay it out when you are forty.  You are sick of it and wonder what in the world you were thinking of when you are fifty.  And finally, you get rid of it when you are sixty.  Stuff.  Keeping up with the Joneses.  If you don't go shopping, you won't buy things you don't need.

3.  The pride of life.  This one almost ruined me.  Ken was asked to go in with nine other friends of his to form a Federal Bank.  After thinking about it for weeks, he finally decided not to do it.   But I was enamored by the idea.  It sounded "ritzy" to me.  So I asked him, "Are you sure?  It sounds like a great opportunity to me."  So he did it.  Much like Eve taking the apple to Adam.  The bank went belly up five years later, and I ended up putting everything I made for the next five years toward paying off the loan.  Pride.  That's all it was.

Stupid.  We didn't need it.  It was purely pride.  I never made a mistake like that again.  God taught me a very, very, very painful lesson.  Who cares how much money you have.  Who cares how new your car is.  The thing that people are attracted to is your stories about how you failed and God took care of you.  People want hope.  Hope that there is life after mistakes.