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IL TIME WASTED. “Only, otte life—’'twill soon be past; Only what’s done for Christ will last.” t • , Think of the thousands of previous hours -Wasted every day by those who engage in gambling and other means of pleasing the desires of the flesh! God’s Word exhorts us to use our time as His faithful servants (1 Cor. 15:34; Eph. 5:16; Col. 4:5; -1 Thess. .5:6) and not Tor the sowing to the flesh (Gal. 6:7-9), r. ..; III. TREASURES ROBBED. ■. Only our God knows the amount of money swindled arid robbed from thousands of people each day through the various forms of gambling. Even the mere slot machine vice is stealing thousands of dollars daily from the youth of America, In 1 Corinthians 4:1,. 2 the Lord' teaches US to use His money in a faithful way. Think of the work that could be carried on for our wonderful Lord, if this treasure were only placed in the right channel. CONCLUSION. Today-there is a-cry for young peo ple to stand “out and out” for the Lord' Jesus Christ and to denounce all that has the appearance of evil, whether it be the form of gambling in the public schoolroom or in the pool hall. Will, you take your stand against such evil? For the Leader Use a blackboard and plaCe the letter “T” on it, then list the three Words of the lesson. Different- speak ers can present the sub-topics if de sired. JULY 26, 1942 THE TIME TO SAY “NO!” P roverbs 4:14-19; A cts 4:17-20 : B y Neil B . Nellis Introduction It has been, said that if every person but knew when to say “no,’! we would have a perfect society, If such 'were true, this would be a sinless world after every person is taught the Ten Commandments and the standards of Christ, But we know that/ this system of human reasoning does not work; this “social gospel” may teach' a man or Woman when to say . “no,” but it fails 'to- give him the desire to" say “no” :pr the power to say “no” if he so desires. The desire to please God is depend ent upon the individual’s relationship to! God. As “children of disobedience” (Eph, 2:2), lovers of darkness" (John; 3:19), and persons j having - blinded minds (2 Cor, 4:4) and deceitful hearts (Jer, 17:9), unsaved men and women have little or no desire to live up to the light they have. Each individual needs to be made anew in attitude,
'other includes all who have accepted the ■Lord Jesus Ohrist as their ‘ Sin- Bearer, arid- are now living; in the world as His witnesses, but are not of the world system'. To which ol these classes does gambling belong? Webster’s dictionary defines the vice of gambling as ‘‘the act of play-, ing for money in games of chance.” Another has said: “Gambling IS'the mutual attempt of two or more per- x sons to deprive one another either of their goods or their money without any just equivalent.” Surely even the definitions of men classify this men ace in such-a way that it. must belong to the devil and his crowd. For Those Who Have Topics I. TESTIMONY AGAINST GAMBLING. 1. God’s Word. The final authority for all contro versy is the Word of God. The Word teaches' that, through the powdr of the Holy Spirit, we as Christians ape 'to show? forth the praises of Him who has called us “out of darkness into his marvelous light.” The following verses s h o u l d be studied carefully to find the Chris- • tian’s relation, not only to gambling, but also to all so-called questionable acts and amusements: Rom. 14:13; 15:1-3; 1 Cor. 8:9, 13; 6:19, 20; 10:31;- Gal. 1:4; Eph. 2:1-5; Phil, 2:15; Col. 3:1-3, 17, 23; 1 Thess. 5:22; Titus 2:12; 1 Pet. 1:14; 1 John 2:15-17; Prov, 16:8; 26:18, 19. 2. Government. Many states denounce gambling as a'criminal act and those taken in such act can be tried as criminals. 3. Men in general. ** a. The unredeemed world always looks down upon a Christian who in dulges in gambling or other forms of vice and' usually classes him among the hypocrites of the church. b. Comments by Christian writers follow: . - ’ Charles F. Weigle in his booklet;. “A. Deck o f Cards,” says: “Gambling chloroforms the soul.-It freezes the very milk of human kindness. It kills all feeling for. the spiritual. It lowers' men to the level o f ' the Roman soldiers who gambled for the vesture of Jesus beneath the cross.” ■ In his book entitled Questionable Amusements, Frederick P, Wood says: “All gambling pampers and fosters that fatal.passion of greed which is one of the strongest passions of our fallen nature arid which needs to be curbed instead of indulged. Gambling is no questionable thing!” ■. c. In Public Opinion, Vol. 17, p. 574, we read the following record: “A considerable proportion of failures -in- business, and 90 per.cent of the: defal cations and thefts and ruin-of youth, among' people who are: employed, in places of trust, are due >directly to gambling.”
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