Is it okay for a Christian to gamble? Can you give me one reason not to gamble? Listen to Adrian Rogers.

In gambling, money simply changes hands. Gambling is a win-lose situation. When you invest in the stock market or in some business,

the money goes to build factories, to pay wages,

to create goods and services, which in turn create new wealth, and that rewards the investor.

In gambling, nothing is produced.

Welcome to Love Worth Finding, featuring profound truth simply stated by a beloved pastor and Bible teacher Adrian Rogers.

This month we've been considering the critical issues of our time, and today we come to the controversial topic of gambling.

It may seem like an innocent pastime, fun hobby to make some easy cash.

But looks can be deceiving. And in today's message,

Pastor Rogers addresses four principles laid out in scripture that confirm why it's wrong

for Christians to gamble and why it's unwise to even endorse it. So if you can, look in Acts

Chapter 19 as Adrian Rogers answers this heated question.

What's wrong with gambling?

What we have here is the story of the Apostle Paul who got in trouble with the city fathers

because he opposed something that was going on and preached Christ.

Acts chapter 19 and verse 21.

And after these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit

when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia to go to Jerusalem,

saying, after I have been there, I must also see Rome. So he sent into Macedonia two of them

that ministered under him, Timothyus and Erastus, but he himself stayed in Asia for season. And the same time,

there rose no small stir. Now, here's what it was all about. Look, if you will, in verse 24.

For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana,

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