$35 MILLION LOTTERY WINNER

A guy in South Carolina just won a $35 million powerball lottery. He said it was his first time to play the lottery, and God told him the numbers. Wow, I didn't know God was into the lottery.

It reminds me of a couple or so years ago when a member of the Church of God, I think somewhere in Illinois, won the lottery. He was going to tithe to his church. Several pastors were heard to say that it was tainted money, and a church member shouldn't be gambling. Ron Carpenter, of Redemption World Outreach, said, "It 'taint enough".

Channel 7 morning news, where I heard the story, said that after taxes, the man would receive around $17 million. That is over half that goes to Uncle Sam. Now, I know Uncle Sam needs his money to run the government and keep the roads going, but I think he may be spending too much of our hard earned money to protect spotted owls or assist in some pork barrell project. People grumble in church about giving 10%, and yet the government gets 50. At any rate, seventeen million is a lot more than I will see in a lifetime, and I wouldn't mind inheriting or winning that kind of loot. I probably won't ever gamble, other than buying a raffle ticket for a civic or church event. I did win $50 one time back a number of years ago when Pepsi was having that thing with winning numbers on bottle caps. But I was drinking the pepsi with or without the bottle cap number, so I didn't consider it gambling.

I'm not sure if the lottery winner is in church, but if not, and you can send him this blog, I would gladly accept the tenth. I don't care if it is tainted money or not, cause I 'taint got enough. I would prefer him to tithe off the top, but if he wants to tithe off the net, I will accept that. Just send the check to New Harvest, at....

Y'all be blessed!

Pastor Ronnie