It's Thursday, April 27, 2023.

I'm Albert Molar, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

One of the things Christians always need to keep in mind is that the bigger the system,

the more likelihood that there is some kind of sinful confusion in that system.

That's just a matter of the pervasiveness of sin.

And Christians of all people can't be surprised by sin showing up where human beings are.

As a matter of fact, if you look at our entire system of law, you look at policies, you

look at even the rules of little league baseball, they are basically designed to try to limit

the damage of sin.

You don't want to reward cheating.

You want to reward what is right and true.

You want to reward keeping the rules, not breaking the rules.

But then there are some entire endeavors in human experience that seem to be contradictory

to that.

For example, just take gambling.

When you look at gambling, it is actually a disincentive towards doing that which is moral,

which would be, for instance, being a good steward of that with which you have been entrusted.

The Bible is very clear about this, demonstrating two different lines of argument.

One is that gambling is something like acting as a fool in which you would carry your money

in a bag with holes.

In other words, a really bad idea.

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