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Many people wonder is gambling a sin? Although there might not be a clear cut verse from what we learn in Scripture I strongly believe it is a sin and all Christians should stay away from it. It is terrible to see that some churches are bringing gambling in the house of God. The Lord is not pleased.
Many people are going to say, well the Bible doesn't specifically say you can't do it. The Bible doesn't specifically say you can't do a lot of things that we know as sin.
Many people find any excuse they can give for what is wrong, but just like Satan deceived Eve he will deceive many by saying, did God really say you can't do that?
Quotes
- 'Gambling is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.' – George Washington
- 'Gambling is a sickness, a disease, an addiction, an insanity, and is always a loser in the long run.'
- 'Gambling can be just as addictive as drugs and alcohol. Teens and their parents need to know that they're not just gambling with money, they're gambling with their lives.'
- 'Gambling is the sure way of getting nothing for something.'
Gambling is of the world, it is very addicting, and it will cause you harm.
Gambling is loving something that is part of the cruel world, not only is it dangerous especially back in the days where many were being plotted on and murdered for their money. Gambling is very addictive, you can go into a casino one day thinking I'm going to spend this much, then leave without your car. For some people it's that bad and it can become even worse.
I've heard many stories about people losing their lives for owing money and people losing their lives by committing suicide because of the money they lost. Many people have lost their houses, spouses, and kids over their gambling addiction. You might say that I don't gamble that much, but it doesn't matter. Even if it is small fun gambling it is sin and it should not be done. Always remember that sin grows overtime. Your heart becomes harder, your desires become greedier, and it will turn into something that you never saw coming.
1. 1 Corinthians 6:12 'I have the right to do anything,' you say–but not everything is beneficial. 'I have the right to do anything'–but I will not be mastered by anything.
2. 2 Peter 2:19 They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity–for 'people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.'
3. 1 Timothy 6:9-10 Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
4. Romans 12:2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is his good, pleasing and perfect will.
5. Proverbs 15:27 The greedy bring ruin to their households, but the one who hates bribes will live.
Gambling leads to more sin.
Not only does gambling lead to deeper and deeper covetousness, but it leads to different types of sin. When you go to the movie theater and buy popcorn they make it extra buttery so you will buy their expensive drinks. When you go to casinos they promote alcohol. When you are not sober you will be trying to kick back and spend more money. Many people who are addicted to gambling are also living in drunkenness. Prostitutes are always near casinos. They entice men who seem like high rollers and they entice men who are down on their luck. It is not a surprise that most casinos promote sensuality and women.
6. James 1:14-15 but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
Scripture teaches that we are to be on guard against covetousness.
7. Exodus 20:17 Do not covet your neighbor's house. Do not covet your neighbor's wife, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
8. Ephesians 5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints.
9. Luke 12:15 Then he said to them, 'Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.'
As Christians we are to fix our attitudes on money.
10. Ecclesiastes 5:10 Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless.
11. Luke 16:13 'No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.'
What is your eye gazing upon?
Your chance of winning the lottery on a single ticket is one in 175 million. That means that someone has to really be greedy and have dreams of riches to still try and play the lottery. You have to pay for more and more tickets because of your greed and what you are really doing is emptying your pockets because of your covetousness.
Most gamblers throw money away. Most people who go to casinos lose money that could have been used for paying bills or on the less fortunate, but instead people would rather throw it away. It is wasting God's money on evil, which is similar to stealing.
12. Luke 11:34-35 Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are healthy, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are unhealthy, your body also is full of darkness. See to it, then, that the light within you is not darkness.
13. Proverbs 28:22 Greedy people try to get rich quick but don't realize they're headed for poverty.
14. Proverbs 21:5 The plans of the diligent lead surely to advantage, But everyone who is hasty comes surely to poverty.
15. Proverbs 28:20 The trustworthy person will get a rich reward, but a person who wants quick riches will get into trouble.
We are to be hard workers.
The Bible teaches us to work hard and worry about others. Gambling teaches us to do the opposite. In fact, many of the people who play the lottery are poor. Gambling destroys something that God intended for good. You have to understand that the devil is using it to destroy the foundation of work.
16. Ephesians 4:28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.
17. Acts 20:35 In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.
18. Proverbs 10:4 Lazy people are soon poor; hard workers get rich.
19. Proverbs 28:19 Those who work their land will have abundant food, but those who chase fantasies will have their fill of poverty.
Gambling and betting is giving the appearance of evil.
What would you think if you went inside a casino and you saw your pastor holding money in one hand and rolling dice in another? That picture just wouldn't look right would it? Now picture yourself doing the same thing. Society does not look at gambling as being honest. The betting industry is a dark world filled with crime. Google treats gambling websites like pornography websites. Gambling websites contain a lot of viruses.
20. 1 Thessalonians 5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
Many churches want to turn God's house into a place to play bingo and other gambling activities, which is wrong. God's house is not a place to make profit. It is a place to worship the Lord.
21. John 2:14-16 In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. To those who sold doves he said, 'Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father's house into a market!'
Gambling is not trusting in the Lord.
One of the greatest problems of gambling is it takes away from trusting in the Lord. God says I will provide for your needs. Satan says roll the dice there might be a chance that you win and become filthy rich. You see the problem. When you trust in God nothing is by chance. God provides for our needs and God gets all the glory. Gambling is showing that you don't really trust in the Lord.
22. Isaiah 65:11 But because the rest of you have forsaken the LORD and have forgotten his Temple, and because you have prepared feasts to honor the god of Fate and have offered mixed wine to the god of Destiny.
23. Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
Reminders
24. Proverbs 3:7 Don't be impressed with your own wisdom. Instead, fear the LORD and turn away from evil.
25. Proverbs 23:4 Do not wear yourself out to get rich; do not trust your own cleverness.
In conclusion.
You have a higher chance of being struck by lighting than winning the lottery. Most gambling is not made for you to win. It's made for you to dream about what if I did win. Gambling fails in its attempt to give people hope because most people spend thousands of dollars for nothing. Just take a thousand dollars and throw it in the garbage that is exactly what gamblers do over the course of time. When you have greed you will always lose more than you gain. Gambling is bad for your health and it violates many Scriptures as seen above. Seek hard work and trust in the Lord with your income.
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In 1931, Ernest Hemingway was caught in its kitchen having sex with gangster Legs Diamond's girlfriend. Holly Golightly dined there in Breakfast at Tiffany's, as did the book's author, Truman Capote. Grace Kelly had its food delivered to an incapacitated Jimmy Stewart in the movie Rear Window.
Frank Sinatra, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Elizabeth Taylor ate there, as did Groucho Marx, Jackie Gleason, Luciano Pavarotti, Audrey Hepburn, Helen Hayes, and Dorothy Parker, nearly a dozen American presidents and all kinds of business moguls. Its walk-in humidor—cigars were a major feature of the restaurant before the New York smoking ban—was home to the good smokes of Yul Brynner, Jack Lemmon and John F. Kennedy (when he was a senator) as well as Henry Ford II and the Duke of Windsor, among many others.
It's the ‘21' Club, and for several star-filled decades in the mid-20th century it was the Manhattan meeting place for celebrities from all over the world. Sheldon J. Tannen, who is a member of the founding family that owned ‘21'—and was part of the management team that conceived its cigar company as well as a hotel and restaurant management company—knew them all. In his youth, Tannen was responsible for a major cigar coup, and because of him, nearly one million Havana cigars made their way to the restaurant's hands after Fidel Castro took over in Cuba but before the United States declared an embargo.
Tannen, who is writing a book on his ‘21' days, started in 1947 as an apprentice, left to work for his father, Henry, and Bill Hardy at Bill's Gay Nineties and returned for good the next year as assistant to the chief steward. When he left in 1988, he was chairman and president. As he turns 91 this year, he still maintains a small office in the lobby of the apartment building where he lives just off Fifth Avenue on Manhattan's Upper East Side. He's thin and fit, and looks younger than his age.
What attracted the stars, captains of industry and the power elite to the tables at ‘21'? 'There was a feeling of welcome to those people who had come across our front door,' Tannen explains. 'My Uncle Jack was a great host,' he says, referring to Jack Kriendler, his mother's brother, who cofounded ‘21' in 1930 with Charlie Berns, a cousin. For many years, the midtown Manhattan eatery and bar was known as Jack and Charlie's 21, and many of the cigars from the restaurant's heyday bear that logo.
Uncle Jack, says Tannen, 'believed in treating every customer who came in to ‘21' as a very special person. Everyone was known by their full name, and they were treated as if they were the chairmen of the board of their domain—as they were.'
Tannen tells the tale of how ‘21' became a celebrity hangout, a story that began far from New York. His uncle Jack, 'a devotee of the Wild West,' traveled to Palm Springs, California in the 1920s and 1930s, at the beginning of the formation of the Racquet Club, which was founded by actors Ralph Bellamy and Charles Farrell, who were Kriendler's friends. 'It became an oasis for the celebrity crowd of Palm Springs,' Tannen says. 'They attracted every movie star and every big shot imaginable.'
'Jack was a kid from Stuyvesant High School [an elite Manhattan public high school] and very bright, and had been a shoe salesman,' Tannen explains. 'His father had died of the flu in the epidemic [of 1918]. His mother had eight children, and the family were left to fend for themselves. My grandmother was the midwife of the Lower East Side. She delivered over 3,000 children, and she supported the family. But Jack, who was the oldest child, wanted to do something more creative. Wanted to express himself.
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'An uncle, Samuel Brenner, who was a restaurateur and saloonkeeper from Europe, was Jack's inspiration. He was a leader among men. He was always very well dressed, and taught Jack the finer things of life, and Jack wanted to emulate him.'
That emulation led to the saloon business, and before it was a restaurant, ‘21' was a speakeasy. Its origins go back to 1922, when Kriendler and Berns opened an on-the-sly drinking spot in Greenwich Village known as The Red Head. 'Jack was 22 years old at the time,' says Tannen, 'and he and Charlie Berns decided, ‘This is where we can make some money.' They started in Greenwich Village, catering to college kids, but always right from the beginning serving the real McCoy. If you came into their place, after your first visit you knew this is where you were going to get Scotch that was Scotch, gin that was not bathtub gin, and you were going to be looked after well and want to come back.'
A year later they moved to another location in the Village under the name Club Fronton. In those early years its patrons included Mayor James J. Walker and poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. Kriendler and Berns moved in 1926 to 42 West 49th Street and opened The Puncheon, and then, when that building was going to be torn down to make way for Rockefeller Center, they found a home at 21 West 52nd Street. On New Year's Eve, 1929, the restaurant opened its doors, and ‘21' was officially born.
The club was often raided, but Feds hunting for illicit hooch found nothing, even after one search that lasted five hours. The owners of ‘21' not only had revolving bars, hidden chutes and other means of deception, but their pièce de résistance was a secret hideaway for their stash designed by architect Frank Buchanon.
Behind a 2.5 ton hidden door built into one of the kitchen's many archways—accessible only with an 18-inch-long metal skewer, which also served as a key when inserted just so into a crack in what looked like a solid wall—was the ‘21' Club's wine cellar, which housed the illegal wine and spirits. The room was actually not on the property at all, but the basement of the neighboring building. The room, which held 2,000 cases of wine, is still in use today, but its illicit days are over, and it now serves as a private dining room seating 22.
Wine at ‘21' was always a big deal. Among the 2,000 cases of wine it sheltered, the restaurant says, were the selections of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, Mae West, Eva Gabor and Aristotle Onassis. The wine list at ‘21' remains top-notch today, as the restaurant holds a Grand Award from our sister publication Wine Spectator, the magazine's highest accolade.
In addition to fine service, ‘21' has long had a unique look. Yesterday and today, the restaurant stands out for its special décor. Outside are small statues of jockeys, more than 30 of them, which trace their lineage to one donated in the early 1930s by regular patron Jay van Urk, according to the restaurant's website. That sparked donations of similar statues from wealthy racing patrons—from such families as Vanderbilt, Mellon and Ogden Mills Phipps—each one painted with its family's racing colors. 'If their horse won the Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Belmont Stakes or Breeders' Cup,' says Tannen, 'their jockey was put in the place of honor atop the stairs.'
Inside, hanging from the ceiling in the Bar Room, are toys and souvenirs donated by well-known diners. The first, a model of the British Airways 'flying boat,' dates from 1931. There's also a baseball bat from Willie Mays, a tennis racquet from John McEnroe, a golf club from Jack Nicklaus, a model of Air Force One from President Bill Clinton and a PT-109 boat from President John F. Kennedy. (The two were hardly alone in their presidential dining; the restaurant says every president since Franklin D. Roosevelt, except for George W. Bush, has been a patron.)
While wine was important to '21,' and remains so to this day, cigars were an equal part of the draw, and patrons puffed away heartily before, during and after meals. 'They came for the whole experience, which included their cigars,' says Tannen. 'Our cigars were the best that could be purchased.'
The cigars were stored in an attentive way, and in a very special spot. A year or so after Jack Kriendler died in 1947, his small office was turned into a walk-in humidor, with 'shelving on a six-foot-tall by three-foot-wide revolving bookcase,' Tannen wrote in his book, which 'exposed all cigar boxes to air and humidity with the movement of a wrist. It was there we kept supplies for counter cigar sales, and began storing customers' private reserves for their after-dining availability. We showed our smoking customers this new humidor, and didn't have to ‘sell' them on keeping cigars there. They requested it. As a result of that small expansion, a cigar smoker could stop by the cigar counter on arrival, smoke the cigar after dinner, and if he liked it, stop by the counter and ask to take a box home, send a box to his office, and/or keep a box in our humidor.'
By 1958, the restaurant's Cuban cigar sales were booming. Tannen says they had reached a heady $1.25 million, worth more than $10 million in 2015 dollars. But in 1959, Fidel Castro overthrew the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. Tannen became worried about the future of ‘21's cigar supply.
'While everyone was saying [Castro] was a lot of talk and no action, I said, one of these days there's going to be action, because this guy's talking out of both sides of his mouth,' Tannen says. 'He's talking democracy and he's also talking socialism. ‘Everyone will be equal in our country and we will make industry recognize that.' All of his rhetoric was socialistic and anti-American. But he was our friend, he was our ally, he had lived in the United States. We thought he was still our ally.'
In 1959, the biggest importer of Cuban cigars in the United States was Faber, Coe & Gregg. It was the source of all of the ‘21' Club's Cuban cigars. 'I had spoken to [president] Donald Gregg, and told him, ‘What are we doing about it? We're going to need cigars.' Tannen was worried about a decline in quality, and the possibility of a Castro nationalization. 'I said to him, ‘We're not going to have enough cigars to take care of our patrons.' '
According to Tannen, Gregg didn't think there would be a problem, but Tannen did. So he went to his uncles at ‘21.'
'I had a terrible argument with my uncles about it,' he says. 'They said, ‘Can it. Forget it.' ' But one uncle—Maxwell A. Kriendler, or Mac, as he was known, agreed, and persuaded the others. Soon, Tannen and his Uncle Mac were off to Cuba to buy cigars.
On the Monday before Memorial Day they flew on a 9:30 a.m. PanAm flight from New York to Miami, where they caught a connecting flight to Havana. The following day, they were driven from Cuba's capital city to the western province of Pinar del Río. They had lunch at the Por Larrañaga plantation, and placed an order. 'I picked out the sizes and shapes, which they had on record,' Tannen wrote, 'and the particular leaf of tobacco for the wrappers.' Tannen and Mac went to each major cigar factory in Havana to complete their shopping.
The cigars they bought—close to one million cigars, thousands upon thousands of boxes—were shipped from Havana in the fall of 1959. Many of the cigars cost 30 cents apiece, while others were 35 cents. The charge to ‘21' was a little more than $250,000, and when adding importation fees, duties and taxes, the total price, says Tannen, was around $275,000. The cigars arrived on schedule, and went into the cellar of the warehouse at ‘21.'
In September 1960, Castro nationalized Cuba's cigar industry, seizing cigar factories and the country's greatest brands. In 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed an embargo on Cuba, closing the door on Cuban cigars in the United States with a ban that continues to this day. But ‘21' had cigars for its patrons, and an advantage over other top restaurants. (The embargo was declared by President Kennedy, a Cuban cigar lover himself, who just before the announcement had his press secretary, Pierre Salinger, go out and buy 1,200 Havanas.)
The ‘21' Club not only had enough Cubans for its diners, but for other restaurants and customers as well. 'As soon as the nationalization started, within two weeks I got a call from Hernando Courtright,' a part owner and manager of the Beverly Hills Hotel, 'the place to go if you were in Los Angeles, and he said, ‘Sheldon, I can't get any decent cigars out here. What are you guys doing to protect yourselves?' And I said we had taken steps to protect our future.' Courtright told Tannen he could use 'a couple of thousand of assorted cigars.' Tannen said he would call him right back.
'I went upstairs and met with my uncles after lunch and said I had a call from Hernando. We still had the shipment sitting in our warehouse in reserve. And they were aging under good conditions—cellar conditions, which are where you want your wine and tobacco to be stored. Damp and cool....and I said let's think about going into the wholesale cigar business. I said now that there is nationalization, our government must put an embargo. Things have changed.' And ‘21' began making private-label cigars, with 100 percent pre-embargo Cuban tobacco.
'When our new company, ‘21' Club Selected Items Limited,' was formed,' Tannen wrote, 'I became an equal partner and president.'
The business was a good one, but ‘21' remained focused on its core. 'We never gave a discount to anybody. Our cigars were by the cigar, times 25—that's the box. We were not a retailer. We were just a convenient place to have a good cigar. We wanted people to have an experience.'
On December 31, 1984, the Kriendler, Berns and Tannen families sold ‘21' to investors Marshall Cogan and Stephen Swid. The sum was in the neighborhood of $21 million, according to Tannen. He became chairman and president of ‘21' Club Inc. until he departed in 1988.
Today, the cigars are gone at ‘21,' removed after New York restaurants went smoke free. Some of the cigars live on in the humidors of collectors. More than 30 years after the sale, Tannen continues to learn new things about ‘21.'
Take, for instance, Humphrey Bogart. In Casablanca, when Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) and his wife, Ilsa (played by Ingrid Bergman), come into Rick's café, they ask for a table close to Sam, as in 'Play it, Sam,' but far from Major Strasser, the German officer who is in Casablanca to hinder them. Bogart's character Rick Blaine says to put them at table 30—a reference to the great actor's preferred table at ‘21.' Tannen himself didn't even notice at first. 'I spotted it on the fifth or sixth—maybe the 20th time—I watched the movie.'
'If he was in New York, he was in ‘21,' ' Tannen says of Bogart. 'Before we opened—he came at a quarter to 12 every day. He had his table—table 30.' That's something about Bogart, Tannen says, that nobody else knows. 'Nobody in the world but me.'
Mervyn Rothstein is a frequent contributor to Cigar Aficionado.
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