Our Scripture reading today is Luke 16:14-15.
Verse 14, "And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him."
Part of the crowd that had been listening to the Lord Jesus teaching about not allowing mammon (money) to be their master, was the Pharisees. Their response speaks pretty loudly that they were lovers of money. The conviction was more than they could handle so they left with their spiritual and quite possibly physical noses up in the air.
The sin of covetous is probably more prevalent in the church than we realize. It is a desire to want wealth and even other people's possessions. We literally crave having more and more. This sin will usually lead someone to not tithe or give offerings because they need all the money they to purchase what they want. As we know this compounds things as this individual is also robbing God while being covetous. The cure for this Pharisaical spirit is to confess (agree with God) the sin and meditate on God's Word where we clearly see that everything we have is from the Lord. It is not wrong to have things, but when things have us, we are on the road to a covetous way of living.