A real life (or death?!?) illustration of Romans 6:23
September 17th, 2007 by JW
Romans 6:23 tells us that ‘the wages of sin is death’. A story from China today, I believe serves to illustrate this point well:
BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese man dropped dead after playing Internet games for three consecutive days, state media said on Monday as China seeks to wean Internet addicts offline.The man from the southern boomtown of Guangzhou, aged about 30, died on Saturday after being rushed to the hospital from the Internet cafe, local authorities were quoted by the Beijing News as saying.“Police have ruled out the possibility of suicide,” the newspaper said, adding that exhaustion was the most likely cause of death. It did not say what game he was playing. (Full story)
Three days of pouring money into one of this life’s great distractions and this man finally hits the jackpot! Oh, that’s not what the story said? …You mean this is yet another story of how gambling ruins lives? Destroys families? Corrupts communities? But it does bring in a lot of tax money for our children right? Yes. That’s right. Even the children of the man who dropped dead contributing to this noble cause. Sarcasm heavy enough yet?
Praying for good stewards everywhere,
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September 18th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Interesting that you would post something about gambling. You know that Kanawha County passed that new gaming center in Cross Lanes, right?
Recently our congregation held a meeting with Brother Ronny F. Wade. We lodged him and his wife at the Comfort Inn at Cross Lanes near the dog-race track. The first morning that they went down for breakfast, he overheard a woman say that she needed to check out early because she had a streak of bad luck at the track and couldn’t stick around any longer.
Ronny is quoted as saying, “Placing a bet is the same thing as giving another man permission to rob you.”