![]() ![]() God reminds us of two truths when it comes to earning money: that it comes solely because of the grace of God, and that the most natural way that God allows us to earn money is to work for it, not win it. Although the Bible does not give us a picture of how we are not to earn money, it is filled with stories of how we are supposed to earn money. The Bible says nothing directly against gambling, betting and the lottery, but that's not to say that the Bible is incomplete or that gambling just took a slide. The question went something like this: "If I were to make a living from professional lottery betting and give a very significant portion to the poor and to the church, would gambling still then be a sin?" It needed a lot of thinking and the leading of the Holy Spirit to answer, and by God's grace I was able to shed some light that day. I was once asked by a member of our church a very trivial question.
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