Luke 11: 5 - 13; Matthew 7: 7 - 11
Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, "Friend, lend me three loaves; for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him"; and he will answer from within and say, "Do not trouble me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I can not rise and give to you"? I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs. So I say to you, ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!
This was spoken by Jesus as part of His Sermon on the Mount and it comes right after the Lord's Prayer. You need to keep all this in mind as you are trying to unlock this passage. This comes about 1.1/2 years into Jesus earthly ministry. After the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray, Jesus speaks the "Lord's prayer", then right after Jesus finishes, he starts in with our text
for this blog post. Look at everything Jesus tells you in this text, the time, the inconvenience of the request, the response of the person being asked, the persistence of the man making the request, the action of the person being asked; and finally Jesus last remark at the end of this text. I see I have run out of space again. Continued next blog.
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