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- Welcome to The Rapid Pull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. Many times people wonder what it is
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- I just have to ask for before God, because they look at Matthew 7, 7, and it says, Ask, and it will be given to you.
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- Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you. And people look at that verse and say, So all
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- I have to do is ask, seek, and knock, and I'll get what I want. Well, that's not really what we're looking at, because of the context that gives us more information.
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- If we keep reading, it says, For everyone who asks, receives. Great, that's what I want. Keep reading.
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- And the one who seeks, finds. Great, I want to find what I seek. Keep reading. And to the one who knocks, it'll be opened.
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- Great, I want those doors opened for me. Keep reading. Verse 9. Or which one of you, if he has a son, asks him for bread, it will give him a stone?
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- Or which one will ask for a fish, will give him a serpent? If then you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your
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- Father who is in heaven give you things to those who ask of Him? And that's what we see is the context.
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- It is about asking of the Father, and that He is not going to give you something that is evil.
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- In other words, a father doesn't always give you everything you want. But a father, when you ask for bread, isn't going to give you a stone.
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- Or when you ask for a fish, he's going to give you a serpent. No, he's going to give good things.
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- But a father doesn't always give what we think is good. The father gives what he knows is best.
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- And sometimes we ask awry, but if we ask in God's will, then we get what he wants.
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- This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content, or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org
