Seems a bit strange quite frankly, as these sort of pastors are renown for milking a lot more money out of their congregation. I wonder how long he was preaching about being righteous and fearful, all the while he was gambling as a side hobby. He might have won $140,000 (or one million in local currency), but at what expense did it take to achieve I wonder and who's money was he spending to get there? I wonder if this really is such a ground breaking sum, maybe he is old enough and can use it for his retirement plan, he better be quite economical with it - while it sounds a lot it might easily run out after 10-20 years and because he's a gambler he might fall back into the trap and lose it all.
Agreed, I also have the same hunch that how much money he bet on gambling and whether it relates to funds from the congregation, based on the winnings of $ 140k then surely he bet high on gambling so he made high profits, so it is related to funds from the congregation or not but he had corrupted the priest's trust because before he always gave sermons on good conduct and renounced anything related to gambling, but in reality he gambled in gambling and shunned himself from goodness by leaving the pastor's activities.