One website offers to connect poker players with home games. In our city, someone is trying to organize games once or twice a week. If they're kept secluded, they can become a habit. But the key word is if - because if real money is being used in cash games, we'd think police would raid them for being every bit as illegal as what the poker rooms did.
Secret law-breaking is still law-breaking. That's true with the laws of God, as well as the laws of man....
His eyes are on the ways of men; he sees their every step. There is no dark place, no deep shadow, where evildoers can hide..... He [God] punishes them for their wickedness where everyone can see them. - Job 34:21-22, 26
You can try to run from God. But ultimately, it won't work. You might get away with illegal card games now, but God promises a day of judgment:
For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil. - Ecclesiastes 12:14
You may think your private home game is a good time. But if it's against the law in your city or county, we think God will consider it evil - and subject to judgment someday.
Are we being killjoys? Some might say so. But we're trying to say the joys of life should be legal ones - with the laws of man and God. Keep it clean, and you should have no reason to hide.
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