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33 lines
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title = "Luke 11:1–13"
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date = "2022-12-09"
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### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Lk11.1-13)
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I keep noticing how I am apparently more familiar with the accounts from
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Matthew and Mark than the one from Luke. This version of the Lord's prayer is
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abridged, compared to the one usually set to music and quoted all the time. The
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simpler language and structure emphasizes God's greatness and our basic need
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for Him to give us what we need to live, temporally and eternally.
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After Jesus gives this model prayer, He gives a couple of illustrations to
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explain why the disciples should pray like that. The first explains that your
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friend won't give you bread in the middle of the night for your guest because
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you're his friend. but he will because you asked him to. (Though being your
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friend does make it more likely than if you woke up a stranger to ask for
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bread.) The second illustration is an argument from the lesser to the greater.
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Fathers give food to their children, especially when they ask for it. So then,
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our heavenly Father who is perfectly good will give His children the good
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things they ask for, even more than we sinful, earthly fathers.
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Note that there is no mention of children getting whatever they ask for. A good
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father doesn't accede to every request from his children. ("I want a pony!"
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"Ice cream for breakfast!") This is the truth that makes the Prospesrity
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"Gospel" a lie. If you are sinning in your desire for an objectively good
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thing, then it is not good for you and it is better for you not to have it.
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Christ is sufficient for _all_ our needs, even if it doesn't feel like it.
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* * *
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Help us to pray as we ought and to rely solely on You.
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