Our Ground Rules:I believe the Bible, both the OT & NT are verbally inspired by God & are the revelation of God to man, the

infallible, authoritative rule of faith, life & conduct. It is MY moral

compass.

Our Ground Rules:

If the Bible speaks clearly… I will take a FIRM STAND and not waver.

Our Ground Rules:

If the Bible doesn’t speak clearly… I will look for applicable Biblical principles.

Our Ground Rules:If the Bible doesn’t say anything or I can’t find the answers… I’ll tell you that. I will give you my opinion & will let you know that is the case.

Question #1: Gambling3 Questions to Ask Yourself

Question #1: GamblingWHEN… WHERE… WHY?

Question #1: GamblingFor the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.

1 Timothy 6:10

Question #1: GamblingSome people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith & pierced themselves with many griefs.

1 Timothy 6:10

Question #2: Eternal JudgementIf God forgives our sins, why is

He going to judge our sins after we die?

Question #2: Eternal JudgmentGreat White Throne Judgment

vs.Judgment Seat of Christ

Question #2: Eternal JudgmentFor we must all appear before the

judgment seat of Christ,

2 Corinthians 5:10

Question #2: Eternal Judgmentso that each of us may receive

what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.

2 Corinthians 5:10

Question #3: Birth ControlWhat should Christians believe

about birth control?

Question #3: Birth ControlGod blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.

Genesis 1:28

Question #3: Birth ControlSons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him.

Psalm 127:3

Question #3: Birth ControlCommon reasons for not having

more kids?

Question #3: Birth ControlDon’t have enough time.

Question #3: Birth ControlDon’t have enough money.

Question #3: Birth ControlSons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him.

John 1:12

Question #4: Abortion

Question #4: AbortionPro-Life vs. Pro-Choice

Question #4: AbortionBrephos | Huios | Yeled | Geber

Question #4: Abortion – BrephosHe dealt treacherously with our

people & oppressed our forefathers by forcing them to throw out their newborn babies so that they would die.

Acts 7:19

Question #4: Abortion – HuiosEven Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month.

Luke 1:36

Question #4: Abortion – YeledThe babies jostled each other within her, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord.

Genesis 25:22

Question #4: Abortion – Geber“May the day of my birth perish, and the night that said, ‘A boy is conceived!’

Job 3:3

Question #4: AbortionDoes God recognize the pre-

born child in a personal manner?

Question #4: AbortionFor you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Psalm 139:13

Question #4: AbortionYour eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

Psalm 139:16

Question #4: AbortionDid not he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us both within our mothers?

Job 31:15

Question #4: AbortionYour hands shaped me and made me.Will you now turn and destroy me?

Job 10:8

Question #4: AbortionRemember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again?

Job 10:9

Question #4: AbortionDid you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese,

Job 10:10

Question #4: Abortionclothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews?

Job 10:11

Question #4: AbortionHe decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach their children,

Psalm 78:5

Question #4: Abortionso the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children.

Psalm 78:6

Question #4: AbortionBefore I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.

Jeremiah 1:5

Question #4: AbortionBut when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace, was pleased

Galatians 1:15

Question #4: Abortionto reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, my immediate response was not to consult any human being.

Galatians 1:16

Question #4: AbortionDid not one God create us?

Malachi 2:10

Question #4: AbortionDid not one God create us?

Malachi 2:10

Question #4: AbortionThe earth is the Lord's, & everything in it.

Psalm 24:1

Question #4: AbortionThe Lord . . . forms the spirit of man within him . . .

Zechariah 12:1

Question #4: AbortionBehold, all souls are mine, the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine."

Ezekiel 18:4a

Question #5: SuicideDoes someone who commits

suicide go to hell?

Question #5: SuicideAnyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

1 John 3:15

Question #5: SuicideTherefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Romans 5:1

Question #5: Suicidethrough whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God.

Romans 5:2

Question #5: SuicideSuicide = Selfishness

Question #5: SuicideNot an option… There is always

Hope!