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Title: Addictive Behaviors


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Addictive Behaviors
  • Gambling

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Labor, not Lottery
  • God planted a garden with ample provisions that
    man was to tend keep (Gen. 28, 15-18)
  • Entrance of sin Ground cursed
  • Man would eat by sweat of brow (Gen. 317-19)

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Gift of God Labor the Ability to Enjoy its
Fruit
  • Eccl. 518-20 18 Here is what I have seen
    It is good and fitting for one to eat and drink,
    and to enjoy the good of all his labor in which
    he toils under the sun all the days of his life
    which God gives him for it is his heritage.

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Gift of God Labor the Ability to Enjoy its
Fruit
  • Eccl. 518-20 19 As for every man to whom God
    has given riches and wealth, and given him power
    to eat of it, to receive his heritage and rejoice
    in his laborthis is the gift of God. 20 For he
    will not dwell unduly on the days of his life,
    because God keeps him busy with the joy of his
    heart.

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Our Concern Today
  • How one chooses to obtain, use and enjoy the
    good of all his labor
  • The priority placed on material possessions
    (Matt. 624, 33)

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Do not Trust in Wealth(Matthew 621)
  • Psa. 6210 Do not trust in oppression, nor
    vainly hope in robbery If riches increase, do
    not set your heart on them.
  • 1 Tim. 617 Command those who are rich in this
    present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in
    uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives
    us richly all things to enjoy.

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Do not Trust in Wealth(Matthew 621)
  • Rather than be content, many are minded to be
    rich, and
  • fall into temptation and a snare, and into many
    foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in
    destruction and perdition. (1 Tim. 69)

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The Wisdom Welfare of Labor
  • Prov. 1211-12 He who tills his land will be
    satisfied with bread, but he who follows
    frivolity is devoid of understanding. The wicked
    covet the catch of evil men, but the root of the
    righteous yields fruit.

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The Vanity of Gambling
  • Eccl. 510 He who loves silver will not be
    satisfied with silver Nor he who loves
    abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.

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Gambling Invites Impatience, not Contentment (1
Tim. 66-8)
  • Gamblings constant appeal is raw greed It is
    material, fleshly, worldly, profane passing
    (Heb. 1125)
  • Gamblings hope is false futile
  • Gambling deceives millions plunges many into
    sinful, addictive behavior

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Popularity of Gambling
  • Costly and Convenient
  • 482 billion wagered in 1994
  • 2002 Super Bowl 4 billion wagered
  • Legal wagering on NCAA mens basketball tourney
    surpasses Super Bowl
  • Internet 6 billion revenue in 2003
    estimated to be 17 billion by 2009

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Culture of Gambling(Prov. 115-16)
  • In 1910, virtually all forms prohibited
  • Americas pastime (14 never gambled)
  • 2003 3 times more Americans visited casinos
    than baseball games
  • 2003 Spent more on casinos than amusement parks
    movies combined
  • 50 played lottery in 1998
  • Harmless diversion

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What is Gambling?
  • Not merely risk, Eccl. 911
  • to play at any game of chance for stakes to
    stake or risk money, or anything of value, on the
    outcome of something involving chancebet wager
    (Random House College Dictionary, p. 542)
  • Two elements Chance Wager on the outcome of
    that chance

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What is Gambling?
  • Normal risk of business is not gambling as we are
    discussing it
  • Farming has risks (weather, pests, disease,
    weeds, etc.)
  • Farmer minimizes risk by intelligent planning,
    careful calculations, hard work prayer!
  • His profit is not at the expense of others,
    risk is not contrived

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What is Gambling?
  • A wager is made whereby one stands to gain at the
    loss of others
  • Risk is engineered into the game
  • Object is to win while others lose
  • Winnings once belonged to the losers
  • It is not a victimless activity in which
    nobody gets hurt

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Legal Forms of Gambling in the State of
Washington
  • horse racing
  • punchboards and pulltabs
  • fund raising events such as casino nights, bingo,
    raffles, amusement games
  • contests of chance operated by charitable and
    non-profit organizations
  • card rooms
  • the lottery
  • casinos bingo halls
  • (Washington State Council on Problem Gambling,
    http//www.wscpg.org/index.html)

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What is Gambling?
  • Problem of identity
  • Gambling industry prefers gaming
  • Fund raising, revenue enhancement, recreation,
    entertainment, disease

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What is Gambling?
  • Problem of identity
  • Types of gamblers Casual Social Gambler,
    Serious Social Gambler, Relief Escape Gambler,
    Problem Gambler, Pathological or Compulsive
    Gambler, Antisocial Gambler, Professional
    Gambler
  • (Types of Gambling Behavior,
    WSCPG,
    http//www.wscpg.org/h/types.htm)

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What is Gambling?
  • Problem of immorality
  • Work of the flesh (Gal. 521)
  • Fulfillment of lust (1 Jno. 215-17)
  • Not holy living (1 Pet. 115-16)

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Sinful Traits of Gambling
  • Covetousness, Lk. 1215 (Rom. 139)
  • Covet (epithumeo) to fix the desire upon to
    long for, lust after, covet (Vine, 136)
  • Covetousness (pleonexia) lit., a desire to
    have more (Ibid.) Eager for more
  • Greediness, Eph. 419
  • Not to be named among saints, Eph. 53

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Sinful Traits of Gambling
  • Covetousness, Lk. 1215 (Rom. 139)
  • Idolatry Desire fixed on riches not on God,
    Eph. 55
  • Gambling worships the false god of money
  • Put it to death! Col. 35-6

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Sinful Traits of Gambling
  • Selfish endeavor that is void of loving neighbor
    as self, (Matt. 2239)
  • Love does not harm its neighbor, but gambling
    does, Rom. 1310
  • Gambling is selfish ambition that esteems self
    above others, Phil. 23 (2 Tim. 32)

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Sinful Traits of Gambling
  • Waste of material blessings, Luke
    1610-12
  • Rejects responsibility of stewardship in pursuit
    of the elusive pot of gold
  • Serving riches shows hate for God, Lk. 1613

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Sinful Traits of Gambling
  • Evil companions, Jas. 311-12
  • Greed, covetousness, dishonesty
  • Domestic violence, child abuse broken homes,
    adultery
  • Theft, extortion, fraud, organized crime
    prostitution
  • Alcohol, drugs, murder suicide

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Sinful Traits of Gambling
  • Evil companions, 1 Cor. 1533
  • Destroys credibility, honesty, reliability
    family stability, regret, sorrow, pain
  • What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas!
  • Better is a little with the fear of the Lord,
    than great treasure with trouble (Prov.
    1516)

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Sinful Traits of Gambling
  • Burden on society, Prov. 1434
  • Gambling is generally viewed as profitable to
    society Regulated taxed by government
  • Offered as revenue enhancement for education,
    etc.

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Sinful Traits of Gambling
  • Honolulu Police Department
  • We are convinced that gambling exploits those
    who can least afford it, and undermines community
    values. For example
  • 1. 15.4 million Americans are problem or
    pathological gamblers, with more than 50 percent
    between 12 to 18 years of age.

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Sinful Traits of Gambling
  • 2. Social and economic costs include
    unemployment benefits, welfare benefits, physical
    and mental health problems, theft, embezzlement,
    bankruptcy, suicide, child abuse and neglect,
    domestic abuse, divorce, incarceration, work
    absences, and homelessness.
  • (Honolulu Police Department Website
    http//www.honolulupd.org/nv/gamblingposition.htm)

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Sinful Traits of Gambling
  • Burden on society, Prov. 1434
  • Real cost 3 of taxpayers money for every 1
    raised through gambling!
  • Christians must be salt light, Matt.
    513-16

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Sinful Traits of Gambling
  • Does not promote godliness
  • Not the image of Christ, Romans 829
  • Hinders sober, righteous and godly living, Titus
    211-12

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Sinful Traits of Gambling
  • Deceptive, Jas. 116
  • Its harmless entertainment
  • Its a legal business enterprise
  • Its for a good cause (Rom. 38)
  • Its only wrong if you cant afford it (Prov.
    1412)
  • It wont cost me my soul (1 Cor. 69-10)

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Sinful Traits of Gambling
  • Deceptive, Jas. 116 (Heb. 1125)
  • Selfish exploits lack of self-control
  • While they promise them liberty, they themselves
    are slaves of corruption for by whom a person is
    overcome, by him also he is brought into
    bondage. (2 Pet. 219)

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Sinful Traits of Gambling
  • Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an
    evil heart of unbelief in departing from the
    living God but exhort one another daily, while
    it is called Today, lest any of you be hardened
    through the deceitfulness of sin. (Heb. 312-13)

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Seduction of Gambling(1 Cor. 1533-34 Eph.
55-7)
  • Present in the electronic media
  • World Poker Tour (Travel Channel)
  • World Series of Poker (ESPN)
  • Celebrity Poker Showdown (Bravo)
  • The Casino (Fox)
  • Online Gambling and Casino Reviews
    http//gamblinglinks.com/nw_tv.html

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Seduction of Gambling(1 Cor. 1533-34 Eph.
55-7)
  • Present in the electronic media
  • Internet gambling is exploding
  • 73 million (up 20 million in 5 years) will visit
    online casinos an average of 6 times annually,
    losing billions of dollars

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Seduction of Gambling(1 Cor. 1533-34 Eph.
55-7)
  • Present on high school campuses
  • Teenagers gamble sooner than they smoke drink
    (University of Minnesota, 1998)
  • 87 gambled for money (96 Conn. study)
  • 40 involved in some form of state-sanctioned
    gambling

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Seduction of Gambling(1 Cor. 1533-34 Eph.
55-7)
  • Present on college campuses
  • One Indiana U. junior lost 55,000 (mostly online
    poker) (Sports Illustrated, May 30,05)
  • 85 involved in some form of gambling (23
    on weekly basis) (1991 study)
  • 72 college football basketball players while
    in college (Univ. of Michigan, 1998)
  • 672,000 students addicted in 1997

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Seduction of Gambling(1 Cor. 1533-34 Eph.
55-7)
  • Present in many homes
  • As close at the Internet TV!
  • Wastes money, time energy
  • Destroys trust security
  • Often leads to despair, divorce, etc.

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Seduction of Gambling(1 Cor. 1533-34 Eph.
55-7)
  • Present at the workplace
  • Office pool on the big game
  • Establishes a pattern of acceptance
  • Lessens resistance to other forms
  • If a little gambling is okay, then whats wrong
    with more?
  • Social gambling is defended by an appeal to
    consistency as harmless fun

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Seduction of Gambling(1 Cor. 1533-34 Eph.
55-7)
  • Present in the church
  • Christians approving of participating in
    lotteries, charity raffles bingo, casinos
  • Increasingly comfortable with gambling
  • Increasingly intolerant of reproof rebuke
  • Covetous behavior should not even be named among
    you, as is fitting for saints (Eph. 53)

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The Sin of Gambling
  • Encourages laziness lust
  • The desire of the lazy man kills him, for his
    hands refuse to labor. He covets greedily all
    day long, but the righteous gives and does not
    spare. (Prov. 2125-26)

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The Sin of Gambling
  • Discourages labor encourages get rich quick
    thinking
  • In all labor there is profit, but idle
    chatter leads only to poverty. (Prov.
    1423)

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The Sin of Gambling
  • Discourages labor encourages get rich quick
    thinking
  • He who tills his land will have plenty of bread,
    but he who follows frivolity will have poverty
    enough! A faithful man will abound with
    blessings, but he who hastens to be rich will not
    go unpunished. (Prov. 2819-20)

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The Sin of Gambling
  • Discourages labor encourages get rich quick
    thinking
  • The plans of the diligent lead surely to
    plenty, but those of everyone who is hasty,
    surely to poverty. (Prov. 215)

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The Sin of Gambling
  • Encourages greed discontentment
  • Gambling thrives on constant desire for more, 1
    Tim. 69-10
  • Be content, not covetous (Heb. 135)
  • Coupled with godliness (1 Tim. 66-8)
  • Faith in Christs provisions (Phil. 411-13
    Matt. 633)

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The Sin of Gambling
  • Encourages a nobody gets hurt mind set
  • Selfish heart does hurt others oneself!
  • Lovers of themselves lovers of money are
    unloving (2 Tim. 32-3)
  • Lovers of pleasure, not God (2 Tim. 34)

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The Sin of Gambling
  • Encourages reckless stewardship
  • Show ourselves unworthy of the true riches (Lk.
    169-12)
  • Trust in money will leave you bankrupt on the Day
    of Judgment (Lk. 1613)

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Beware of Gambling!
  • A man with an evil eye hastens after riches, and
    does not consider that poverty will come upon
    him. (Prov. 2822)
  • With self-denial, we must follow Jesus
  • as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from
    fleshly lusts which war against the soul (1
    Pet. 211)

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