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Lottery Money

Lottery Money. Can a Christian accept scholarship money from the Lottery? Searcher’s Class - 2005. Issues Involved. What about money from other “questionable” sources? What about money from unknown sources?. Issues Involved. Is the MONEY immoral or tainted?

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Lottery Money

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  1. Lottery Money Can a Christian accept scholarship money from the Lottery? Searcher’s Class - 2005

  2. Issues Involved • What about money from other “questionable” sources? • What about money from unknown sources?

  3. Issues Involved • Is the MONEY immoral or tainted? • Can the church accept a gift from someone who won a jackpot?

  4. Questions for Discussion • Does accepting the money condone the activity? • Should you ask where it came from? • Is ignorance an excuse?

  5. Questions for Discussion • Is the money itself immoral? • Is it the money or the activity that produced it? • Is money – moral, immoral, or amoral?

  6. Questions for Discussion • Is the money itself immoral? • Is it still immoral when we don’t know the source of the money? • Is it moral when we don’t know the source?

  7. Questions for Discussion • Must every bill be traced? • Is it possible that some money in your wallet was used for drugs, alcohol, prostitution, or other immoral activities?

  8. Questions for Discussion • Must every bill be traced? • Must a bank or business ask the source of the money before accepting it? • At what point is it clean again?

  9. Questions for Discussion • Must every bill be traced? • How many transactions must it go through to be OK? • Is there a spiritual cleansing process for dirty money?

  10. Questions for Discussion • What about government funds? • Does some government money come from doubtful sources?

  11. Questions for Discussion • Can we drive on roads paved with alcohol tax funds? • Can we call fire or police paid with taxes from a massage parlor? • Can a teacher accept a pay raise from “sin taxes”?

  12. Questions for Discussion • Is there any Bible teaching on this subject? • You have expressed your opinions and views – • Now it is time to see what God says.

  13. What the Bible says • Proverbs 13:22 – A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children. But the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.

  14. What the Bible says • Albert Barnes – The heaped up treasures of the wicked find their way at last into the hands of better men.

  15. What the Bible says • John Gill – The riches which wicked men get are laid up in the purposes of God for good men; and in his providence they are translated from one to another:

  16. What the Bible says • John Gill – so the riches of the Egyptians were designed for the Israelites, and by the providence of God were put into their hands.

  17. What the Bible says • Exodus 12:35 – Now the children of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, and they had asked from the Egyptians articles of silver, articles of gold, and clothing.

  18. What the Bible says • Exodus 12:36 – And the LORD had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they granted them what they requested. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.

  19. What the Bible says • Ecclesiastes 2:26 – For God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

  20. What the Bible says • Adam Clarke – He has a life of labor, disappointment, and distress; for because he is an enemy to God, he travails in pain all his days;

  21. What the Bible says • Adam Clarke – and, as the wise man says elsewhere, the wealth of the wicked is laid up for the just. So he loseth earthly good, because he would not take a heavenly portion with it.

  22. What the Bible says • Proverbs 28:8 – One who increases his possessions by usury and extortion Gathers it for him who will pity the poor.

  23. What the Bible says • Albert Barnes – Ill-gotten gains do not prosper, after a time they pass into the hands of those who know how to use them better.

  24. What the Bible says • John Gill – The meaning is, that things should be overruled by the providence of God, that what such an avaricious man gets in his dishonest way should not be enjoyed by him or his;

  25. What the Bible says • John Gill – but should be taken out of his hands, and put into the hands of another, that will do good with it, by showing mercy to the poor.

  26. Conclusions: • Money itself is not immoral. • Money is to be gathered and spent. • If it was gathered in a evil way, the “cleansing” is to put it in the hands of the righteous

  27. Conclusions: • Money can be gathered in evil ways • Money can be spent for evil activities • Christians CAN use money from evil sources – to do good

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