Remember, God is pro-work. Do you share His convictions?
Do you believe and practice His conviction against: indolence, sloth, unbiblical entitlements, oppression of the poor by the rich, and every form of false hope produced by gambling and lotteries?
True teachers of God’s Word have always sought to share God’s revealed convictions. Saint Augustine once said, "The devil invented gambling." John Calvin outlawed gambling in the entire city of Geneva. Martin Luther said, "Money won by gambling is not won without self-seeking and sin."
But never has the availability to gamble been more pervasive than it is today.
America has become a nation selling hope for money. Tragically, that money in exchange for hope is taken from people who can not afford to buy it. The hope offered by gambling and lotteries is unreal, impossible, and destructive. “
“Lotteries, like drug addiction and drunkenness, offer what only God can give freely!” (John Piper)
From GEM-12c – The Biblical Convictions of Grace-Energized Men (080127AM)
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