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difference in Luke’s version. In Luke 11:13, Jesus says, “13 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?” Notice the change. “Give what is good” has been changed to “give the Holy Spirit.” They mean the same thing. God knows we are hungry. He knows we will only be satisfied when we are in relationship with Him. He knows that once we are in relationship with Him and have the Holy Spirit in us, we will be free to love others because all the things we are fighting and quarreling over will find their proper place.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
1. How does this section about asking God for things connect to the previous section?
2. What does it mean that God gives generously? As a father? What is good?
3. Have you ever been mistaken about what you need or what will fulfill you? Have you ever been glad God didn’t answer your request? How can we learn to trust God when He doesn’t do what we ask?
4. What does the Golden Rule mean? How does it fulfill the “Law and Prophets”? How do we sometimes misunderstand it? What do we need to live it out?
5. What is the difference between God giving “what is good” and God giving “the Holy Spirit”? Why is the Holy Spirit the ultimate good?
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