Sermon On The Mount: Part 37

Keep on asking and it will be given you; keep on seeking and you will find; keep on knocking [reverently] and [the door] will be opened to you. For everyone who keeps on asking receives; and he who keeps on seeking finds; and to him who keeps on knocking, [the door] will be opened. Or what man is there of you, if his son asks him for a loaf of bread, will hand him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will hand him a serpent? If you then, evil as you are, know how to give good and advantageous gifts to your children, how much more will your Father Who is in heaven [perfect as He is] give good and advantageous things to those who keep on asking Him! Matthew 7:7-11

Jesus tells us that for us to part of the Kingdom of Heaven we have to be like little children. These verses sound to me like Jesus is telling us to be like little children when we ask our Father for something: can we have, can we have, can we have, can we have? 

I tell you, although he will not get up and supply him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his shameless persistence and insistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs. So I say to you, Ask and keep on asking and it shall be given you; seek and keep on seeking and you shall find; knock and keep on knocking and the door shall be opened to you. For everyone who asks and keeps on asking receives; and he who seeks and keeps on seeking finds; and to him who knocks and keeps on knocking, the door shall be opened. Luke 11:8-10

Shamelessly keeps on asking! I think that is an awesome thing for Jesus to say to us, shamelessly. This is just how my little kids acted when they wanted something. They had no shame at all when coming to Beth and I. 

ALSO [Jesus] told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not to turn coward (faint, lose heart, and give up). He said, In a certain city there was a judge who neither reverenced and feared God nor respected or considered man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, Protect and defend and give me justice against my adversary. And for a time he would not; but later he said to himself, Though I have neither reverence or fear for God nor respect or consideration for man, Yet because this widow continues to bother me, I will defend and protect and avenge her, lest she give me intolerable annoyance and wear me out by her continual coming or at the last she come and rail on me or assault me or strangle me. Then the Lord said, Listen to what the unjust judge says! And will not [our just] God defend and protect and avenge His elect (His chosen ones), who cry to Him day and night? Will He defer them and delay help on their behalf? Luke 18:1-7

Jesus gives us a parable here about the Truth that we are to shamelessly keep asking God for what we want and in His parable  He uses the example of a widow who bothered the Judge that she needed something from. So as little children we are to shamelessly and persistently ask to the point of bothering our Father until we get what we want. 

Now some may fear this thinking, believing that we will ask for a bunch of worldly things. But remember the Truth, we are new creatures in Christ, old things have passed away for us. We now have the Mind of Christ. We are now crucified with Christ and nevertheless we live, yet it is not us who lives, it is Christ in us Who lives. Jesus is now greater in us then anything in this world. So if these are True, why would anyone fear what we are shamelessly and persistently asking, to the point of bothering, our Father for? Jesus will not fail us in desiring and wanting and asking for the things that will lay treasure up for us in Heaven.