9/15/2023 0 Comments Verse ask and you shall receiveSome see this verse addressed to all believers. Option 1: Some Think Believers Need to Ask for the Holy Spirit If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him ( Luke 11:13 ESV).ĭoes this mean that believers have to ask for the Holy Spirit? In what sense does God “give the Spirit” to those who ask? There are a number of views as to what this statement means. In His reply, Jesus said the following to them. John the Baptist was a man of prayer who taught his own disciples how to pray. Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples” ( Luke 11:1 ESV). The Bible says that the disciples of Jesus came and asked Him how to pray. For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.Do People Need to Ask, or Pray, for the Holy Spirit? ( Luke 11:13) And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were astonished at his doctrine: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house and it fell: and great was the fall of it. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? For every one that asketh receiveth and he that seeketh findeth and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Ask, and it shall be given you seek, and ye shall find knock, and it shall be opened unto you: Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. Bible, King James Version Bible, King James Version
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