Confronting Darkness

Katrina Evacuee Wins $1.6 Million

I don't think so! Contrary to what Jacquelyn Sherman says about her supposed good fortune, God is not in the gambling business. I don't know all the details about what took place here, but given the facts revealed in this story and knowing what the Scriptures reveal about God, His holiness, and hatred for sin, you can surely conclude that He is not the source of this so-called blessing. God does not and will not confirm anyone in their sin by blessing them as a direct result of their disobedience to Him.

This kind of blasphemous thinking is a product of the false teaching that has infiltrated the apostate church which says that God exists to bless us. I recently heard it preached from a pulpit that "God is our genie-in-a-bottle; our sugar-daddy, so we can have whatever we want from Him." We treat Him like an errand-boy to call upon whenever we wish to satisfy our lust, greed and covetousness. This is idolatry of the most wicked kind in that we have made a god in our own image, according to our own sinful likeness and we worship it as the one true God. And why would God give as a blessing, something that His very Word warns us to beware of - i.e. the riches of this world? (See 1 Timothy 6:9-10, Mark 4:18-19,Luke 12:15, Luke 14:33, James 5:1-3, Mark 10:23-25)

No - the God of the Bible, as He really is in all his power, glory, majesty, and holiness cannot and does not sin. Nor does He frequent dens of iniquity, manipulating slot machines to tempt sinners with the very thing that has the potential to damn them to an eternal separation from Himself in Hell.