- Well, it's time for some email,

Pat are you ready?- All right, let's do it,

all right let's see what we got.

- This first one comesfrom Nicole who says,

"Hey Pat, is it a sin for Christians

to buy scratch-off cards?

Isn't it like depending onanother source for money?"

- Look, there's nothing wrong

with depending on another source,

I mean, you can have several sources.

The question is gambling is tempting God

and what's you're sayingis I'll scratch on this

and I'm gonna get rich

and I'm gonna pray thatGod will give me a break

and I'll hit the lottery.

I pray that I'll pull an inside straight,

I pray that I'll get a heartto get a complete flush.

I pray that I'll get anotherace to get a full house

or whatever, that's tempting God

but you buy one of those things

and scratch it off or you think it's fun.

I mean, say to you itdoesn't mean anything,

well, if it's whatever'snot of faith is sin,

if you feel it's wrong don't do it

but if it's kind of fun thenI'm gonna waste five dollars

anyhow so I'm gonna get-

- If you have fivedollars to waste. (laughs)

- If you have fivedollars to waste, I mean,

then it's okay but I don't think you

wanna waste God's money but that's,

it's the attitude ofyour heart, all right.

- This is Diane who says, "I'vebeen in a terrible marriage

for 16 years and I'm wondering

when do you actually say enough is enough.

My husband has cheated on me several times

and has a bad temper.

He's not physically abusivebut verbally abusive.

We have three children andI worry about the example

he sets for them.

I'm scared to leavebecause of all the unknowns

and worried if I did, would it get better

and would anyone ever love me?

With three kids, how do you ever move on

when you're going to be

in each other's lives forever anyway?

Please help."

- Look, first of all, youhave scriptural grounds

for divorce.

He's cheated on you sohe's committed adultery

so that's the ground, okay.

Now what he's doing isdestroying you mentally

and you don't have to continue that.

Now there are courtsset up to help battered

and abused women and alsomentally abused women

and you can call the groundintolerable cruelty or whatever.

And your husband will beforced to pay alimony,

that's the way it works.

And so I think that you don't wanna

get some rapaciousshyster to represent you

but if you can find a Christian lawyer

who understand you're not angry,

you're not trying to hurt somebody

but you just, it's anintolerable situation

and you need some help andI think you can get it.

In addition, trust whateverGod's put into your hands,

you may have moreabilities than you realize

and use those abilities andlet the Lord take care of you

but get out of that deal youshouldn't have to endure that

what you're going through, all right.

- This is Patty whosays, "Where in the Bible

does it state or prove oncewe die we cannot return?"

- Well, the Bible clearlytalks about the rich man

and Lazarus and Lazarussaid let me go from here

and he's in Abraham's bosom,

he wants to go warn his brothers

and Abraham says I'm sorry,

there's a great gulf fixed between us

and you can't go from there to here

and we can't go from here to you.

I tell once you die it's fixed.

It's the point that manwants to die and after that

the judgment, there's no coming back,

there's no second chance, no way.

I'm sorry that's just not whatthe Bible said, all right.

- This is Linda whosays, "I hear often God

has a plan for your life,who is this meant for,

does this include most peoplewho's lived or are living?

Millions have suffered anddied because of famines,

droughts, earthquakes, floods, diseases.

What about the millionsthat are having to live

under cruel rulers or dictators?

Is that the plan for their lives?"

- Look, God speaks toJeremiah and he says,

I know the thought that I had for you,

I have a plan to do you good and not harm.

He's talking to a prophet and the message

is for the prophet andI know a lot of people

take that as for them butI think he has a prayer.

When Jesus was praying he said,I don't pray for the world,

I pray for those fatherthat you've given me

out of the world.

And I think the world,if I can use that term

lies in wickedest and isthere a plan for all of them,

specifically, I don't thinkthe Bible teaches that.

Jeremiah was a prophet,God had a plan for his life

and I think God has a prayerfor if we'll look for the plan,

God will show us the plan

but all these multitudes you talked about,

they don't know God,they don't know any plan

and God doesn't, the Bibledoesn't say he has a plan

for everybody.

I mean, you misquote scriptureon that one, all right.