What the Bible says about Gambling with Our Lives
(From Forerunner Commentary)

Luke 5:36-39 The new wine represents the truth of God, while the old wine represents the traditions of the culture that we have been born into. These traditions have produced the prejudices that we do not want to get rid of whenever the new wine comes. We are the vessel, and if we do not have the willingness to change, then we will be "burst"—the old wineskin by the new wine. A process of destruction begins to take place unless we too become new. Jesus understood the principle that was working against Him in His own life. He was coming with the good news that was really new to these people, and what did they do? They hated it so much that they rejected not only the message, but they also rejected and put the Messenger to death. This lesson is in the Book so that we will understand how powerful the impulse to reject the truth of God is within us. This impulse makes us feel comfortable with the old and unwilling to face up to the new. We rationalize, "Oh, it doesn't matter. It won't affect me," which is, in a sense, gambling with the laws of God. As Paul shows in Romans 1-3, we cannot gamble against the laws of God and win. We will lose every time. So, why not face up to it? That is Jesus' point. Why not pay the price? Why not accept the truth of God? Why not repent and live? John W. Ritenbaugh Truth (Part 2) Related Topics: Gambling | Gambling with Our Lives | New Wine in Old Wineskins | Parable of the Old and New Wineskins | Prejudice | Rejecting the Truth of God | Repentance | Wine as Metaphor

Romans 1:22-23 These verses show that pride motivates us to do things that make no sense in the light of God's truth. It motivates us to exalt ourselves above others, to compete against others, and to reject truth to continue the exaltation and promotion of the self. We will take this to such an extent that we will gamble—even with our own and other's lives—to bring that result about. John W. Ritenbaugh Pride, Contention, and Unity Related Topics: Competition | Gambling | Gambling with Our Lives | Pride | Recklessness | Rejecting God's Truth | Reprobate Mind | Self Centeredness | Self Exaltation | Self Worship | Worshipping Self

 

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