Lottery Money

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Lottery Money

• Can a Christian accept scholarship money from the
  Lottery?
• Searchers Class - 2005

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Issues Involved

• What about money from other questionable
  sources?
• What about money from unknown sources?

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Issues Involved

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

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Questions for Discussion

• Does accepting the money condone the activity?
• Should you ask where it came from?
• Is ignorance an excuse?

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Questions for Discussion

• Is the money itself immoral?
• Is it the money or the activity that produced it?
• Is money moral, immoral, or amoral?

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Questions for Discussion

• Is the money itself immoral?
• Is it still immoral when we dont know the source
  of the money?
• Is it moral when we dont know the source?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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Questions for Discussion

• What about government funds?
• Does some government money come from doubtful
  sources?

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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?

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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.

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What the Bible says

• Proverbs 1322 A good man leaves an inheritance
  to his childrens children. But the wealth of the
  sinner is stored up for the righteous.

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What the Bible says

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

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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

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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.

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What the Bible says

• Exodus 1235 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.

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What the Bible says

• Exodus 1236 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.

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What the Bible says

• Ecclesiastes 226 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.

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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

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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.

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What the Bible says

• Proverbs 288 One who increases his possessions
  by usury and extortion Gathers it for him who
  will pity the poor.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Conclusions

1. Money itself is not immoral.
2. Money is to be gathered and spent.
3. If it was gathered in a evil way, the cleansing
   is to put it in the hands of the righteous

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Conclusions

1. Money can be gathered in evil ways
2. Money can be spent for evil activities
3. Christians CAN use money from evil sources to
   do good