What are some of your veiws on playing the lottery and/or other gambling?
My veiw is that we shouild not do it. When I first gave my life to the Lord and joined a local Church in their covenant was a by-law not to gamble of any type, I didnt have any problem with that but I often like to understand why or why not . I dont like to follow man blindly. and had searched many scriptures trying to get a definite answer. I asked alot of questions about it to my church leaders but the answers did not satisfy my curiosity. A few years later after I had accepeted the call in to the ministry the Lord satisfied my questions with this passage of scripture.....
Mattew ch 19:21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
23 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
With this I began to study, being led to it by the Lord for this purpose.
And he showed me that it wasnt impossible for a rich man to go to Heaven but was defintly harder becuase of the desire of our flesh for worldy gains.
Many people play lotto and even pray to win. and no doubt a giant win fall wouldnt hurt my bank account as well but WHAT IF WE WON???? The answer most given is well I'd give alot of it away to charities and help promote the church and the gospel. These are noble thoughts. But the Bible teaches us that our rightousness is as filthy rags, we must try to be Christ like. So I ask again, what if we won? We would actually have done something to make it harder on ourselves to make it I think the bible teaches us that we should get rid of anything that will keep us out of Heaven and shun the things that will put temtation on us.
Mattew 5:30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Mattew 16:23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
Something to think about...
My veiw is that we shouild not do it. When I first gave my life to the Lord and joined a local Church in their covenant was a by-law not to gamble of any type, I didnt have any problem with that but I often like to understand why or why not . I dont like to follow man blindly. and had searched many scriptures trying to get a definite answer. I asked alot of questions about it to my church leaders but the answers did not satisfy my curiosity. A few years later after I had accepeted the call in to the ministry the Lord satisfied my questions with this passage of scripture.....
Mattew ch 19:21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
23 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.
24 And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
With this I began to study, being led to it by the Lord for this purpose.
And he showed me that it wasnt impossible for a rich man to go to Heaven but was defintly harder becuase of the desire of our flesh for worldy gains.
Many people play lotto and even pray to win. and no doubt a giant win fall wouldnt hurt my bank account as well but WHAT IF WE WON???? The answer most given is well I'd give alot of it away to charities and help promote the church and the gospel. These are noble thoughts. But the Bible teaches us that our rightousness is as filthy rags, we must try to be Christ like. So I ask again, what if we won? We would actually have done something to make it harder on ourselves to make it I think the bible teaches us that we should get rid of anything that will keep us out of Heaven and shun the things that will put temtation on us.
Mattew 5:30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Mattew 16:23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
Something to think about...