Gambling

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Gambling

• A Christian Perspective

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Gambling

• Definition
• Natural Analysis
• Biblical Analysis
• Overcoming

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Gambling

• Definition

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Gambling

• Definition
• "some luck, a little larceny and a lot of losers"
  
• Larceny - the unlawful taking of personal
  property with intent to deprive the rightful
  owner of it permanently

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Gambling

• Definition
• to Stake Money or Other Thing of Value upon an
  Uncertain Event, to Hazard wager
• Websters NI Dictionary
• Don't Confuse Gambling with Risky Activities Such
  as Farming, Selling, Driving, Sports, Investing,
  etc.

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Gambling

• Definition
• Three Elements of Gambling
• 1) A payoff, prize or merchandise,
• 2) An arbitrary event, based on which the prize
  will be awarded, and
• 3) Agreement of all players to pay if they lose.

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Gambling
1970s
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Gambling
2001
NC Lottery?
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Gambling

• Definition

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Gambling

• Definition
• Natural Analysis

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Gambling

• Natural Analysis
• History of Gambling
• Mythology - Zeus, Hades, Poseidon
• Greek Roman Baths
• Middle Ages -1626, Venice Legalized Casini or
  Little Houses
• Spa, Belgium - Casinos Legalized in 1600s

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Gambling

• Natural Analysis
• History of Gambling
• 1806 - Napoleon Legalized Gambling
• Fashionable Hobby
• 1837 - Gambling Outlawed in France
• 1860 - Monaco Legalized Gambling
• Monte Carlo
• 1899 - Private Rooms, Unlimited Bets

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Gambling

• Natural Analysis
• History of Gambling
• 1890 - Unsuccessful Attempt to Legalize Gambling
  on River Boats in USA
• 1931 - Gambling Legalized in Nevada
• 1932 - Illegal Gambling Joints Common in Other
  States
• 1950s - Las Vegas Developed by Bugsy Siegel

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Gambling

• Natural Analysis
• Why Do People Gamble?
• Lust of the Eyes
• Attractive Places,
• Attractive Machines

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Gambling

• Natural Analysis
• Why Do People Gamble?
• Lust of the Flesh

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Gambling

• Natural Analysis
• Why Do People Gamble?
• Lust of the Flesh

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Gambling

• Natural Analysis
• Why Do People Gamble?
• Ignorance Dont Know the Probabilities
• Example Roulette Wheel Numbered 1-37, Colored
  Black or Red, with Two House Numbers 0, 00
• Hitting One Number Pays 37 Times the Bet
• Expectation .94 for each 1 Bet
• You Give me a Dollar, I Give You 94
• When Do You Win?

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Gambling
Correctly Choose Six Numbers Out of Fifty Three,
Order Does Not Matter.

• Why Do People Gamble?
• Ignorance
• Florida Lotto

Lottery A Tax for People Who Are Bad in Math
The House Always Wins!
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Gambling

• Natural Analysis
• Actual Winners
• Every Casino Is a Monument to the Laws of
  Probability

The House Always Wins!
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Gambling

• Natural Analysis
• Why Do People Gamble?
• Pride of Life
• Its My Money, I Can Do What I Want
• Its Recreation, Like Going to a Movie
• I Can Beat the System Because.
• Im a Good Gambler
• I Cheat
• I Can Walk Away

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Gambling

• Natural Analysis
• The Worst Outcome
• Mary Warwick, Compulsive Gambler

• Annual Cost Per Compulsive Gambler
• 9,500 (Thompson, et.al.)
• 10 to 30,000 (APC)

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Gambling

• Natural Analysis
• The Worst Outcome
• Ellen Cantor, Compulsive Gambler
• Won Over 1,000,000 in Las Vegas
• Lost Even More
• Money (401K, Stole from Workplace)
• Job (Controller Earning 90K Annually)
• Fiancée

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Gambling

• Definition
• Natural Analysis

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Gambling

• Definition
• Natural Analysis
• Biblical Analysis

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Gambling

• Biblical Analysis
• NO Prohibition
• Dont Have a Thou shalt not gamble.
• Stumbling Block for Some
• NO Command
• Dont Have a Thou shalt gamble.
• Dont Have a Thou mayest gamble.

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Gambling

• Biblical Analysis
• Gambling is Done with
• Time
• Money
• What Does the Bible Say We Are to Do with Them?

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Gambling

• Biblical Analysis
• See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as
  fools, but as wise, 16 Redeeming the time,
  because the days are evil. (Ephesians 515-16)
• Gambling Is Trading Something for Nothing
  Wasting Time Money

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Gambling

• Biblical Analysis
• Let him that stole steal no more but rather let
  him labour, working with his hands the thing
  which is good, that he may have to give to him
  that needeth (Ephesians 428)
• Idea that We Can Get Something for Nothing Is
  Dangerous

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Gambling

• Biblical Analysis
• Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men
  should do to you, do ye even so to them for this
  is the law and the prophets" (Matthew 712)
• Would the Lord Gamble
• Would You Gamble with The Lord Watching?

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Gambling

• Biblical Analysis
• And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of
  covetousness for a man's life consisteth not in
  the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
  (Luke 1215)

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Gambling

• Biblical Analysis
• Parable of the Talents (Matthew 2514-30)
• Vs. 15 And unto one he gave five talents, to
  another two, and to another one to every man
  according to his several ability and straightway
  took his journey.
• I Lost It In the Casino, Lord.

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Gambling

• Biblical Analysis
• Abstain from all appearance of evil. (1
  Thessalonians 522)
• Good Rule for Testing Acceptability of a Practice
• Does It Even Remotely Appear Evil?

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Gambling

• Biblical Analysis
• Conclusion
• Although We Have No Direct Prohibition,
• Gods Principles for Use of Our Time Money
  Dont Allow Freedom to Gamble

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Gambling

• Definition
• Natural Analysis
• Biblical Analysis

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Gambling

• Definition
• Natural Analysis
• Biblical Analysis
• Overcoming

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Gambling

• Overcoming
• Repentance
• Forgiveness Through the Lord
• B-R-C-B or R-C
• Outside Help

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Gambling

• Overcoming
• Repentance
• Forgiveness Through the Lord
• B-R-C-B or R-C
• Outside Help
• Available for the Asking

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Gambling

• A Christian Perspective