There’s a second question and that is, “Is gambling a sin, or is it only a habit that potentially could be bad? Or is it actually a sin? There is no eleventh commandment that says, “Thou shall not gamble,” and so people have said that maybe it isn’t that bad. The first question is, “Why should we be concerned about it anyway?” I mean, after all, can’t people do with their own money whatever they want? If they want to gamble it away, it’s their money. This message is intended to answer four questions. Gambling, of course, is taking that which is of value, usually money, and through chance, hoping that it will produce greater value-more money.Īs you know, this is a series of messages titled Seven Snares of the Enemy, and as a result of that we are looking today at gambling which, of course, is a snare that millions and millions of people in our society have fallen into.

Secondly, it seems that in gambling, someone else always wins.

First of all, that gambling is something that is a temptation to everyone, that could be a temptation to pastors as well as to parishioners. Now, you know, we smile at this story, but it does bring to mind two important concepts. Now he knew for sure, so he got his board together and he convinced them to liquidate all of their assets so that they could finally win some money, and they put it all on Trio. And he thought to himself, “You know, maybe God is in this somehow,” and as he read he noticed that the third horse mentioned was Trio. He opened it to the third page, the third column, and noticed that the topic was horse racing. And he began to think, “God, You’re trying to say something to me, but I don’t know what it is.” He went to the door and found the newspaper and noticed that it was the three-star edition. As a matter of fact, as he sat down at the table he somehow noticed that even the dishes were organized like triangles-like a trinity. And he began to dream everything in triplicate. Perhaps you heard about the pastor whose church was in debt, and he was praying about how it might be met.

Is gambling a sin against god