Shepherd's Chapel - "Is it wrong to gamble?" - video Dailymotion

Sometimes I can't help it either but he's helping me by showing me there are other ways to go to England and Kyoto and save up for it. :)

Transcript

00:00...mine myself to purchase lottery tickets.

00:04Is this a trick of the devil uses to deceive people?

00:10You know, this is up to an individual.

00:15We have gamblers that are habitual gamblers.

00:19They will gamble away their children's grocery money.

00:24Going to get lucky, going to make a hit.

00:27That is a bad sin.

00:30There are gamblers that will gamble away their house payment, lose their home.

00:37That is a bad sin.

00:40But if you have a certain amount of recreation money that gives you pleasure,

00:46then buying a ticket is not gambling.

00:50It's taking a chance, that's for sure,

00:52but usually it's for helping a good cause anyway,

00:55such as a school system or something else.

00:57But as long as it does not take anything away from your family

01:03and you're not a habitual,

01:06that means you've got a bad habit you can't resist,

01:09then certainly your recreation money is yours to do with as you please,

01:16as long as you don't sin with it.

01:20And that's not a sin.