Unless Jesus returns before July 29, 2007
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9th Sunday After Pentecost; 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time; Tone 7

Praying as the Children of God
"And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”    - Luke 11:9

 

Quotes & Notes on:     Luke 11:9    John Wesley,  Notes On the New Testament (1755): No comment on this verse. Reginald Fuller's Preaching the Lectionary (1984):  To be posted.   William Baird, Interpreter's Commentary, 1971:  To be posted.   J. McNicol, The New Bible Commentary, 1954:  To be posted.   I.H. Marshall, The New Bible Commentary, 1970:  To be posted.   David Guzik, Study Guide: To be posted.   Chuck Smith, Study Guide: To be posted.   Catechism of the Catholic Church: To be posted.   J. Norval Geldenhuys, Bible Expositor, 1960: To be posted.   Abingdon Bible Commentary (1929): To be posted.   D.D. Whedon, Commentary on Luke, 1866: To be posted.   Joseph Parker, People's Bible, 1901: To be posted.   Anchor Bible: To be posted.   The Fourfold Gospel:  No comment on this verse. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: * I say. Lu 13:24; Mt 6:29; 21:31; Mr 13:37; Re 2:24 * Ask. Ps 50:15; 118:5; Jer 33:3; Mt 7:7; 21:22; Mr 11:24; Joh 4:10; 14:13 Joh 15:7; 16:23,24; 2Co 12:8,9; Heb 4:16; Jas 1:5; 5:15; 1Jo 3:22 1Jo 5:14,15 * seek. Lu 13:24; Ps 27:4; 34:4; 105:3,4; Song 3:1-4; 5:6; Isa 45:19; 55:6,7 Jer 29:12; Da 9:3; Amo 5:4-6; Joh 1:45-49; Ac 10:4-6; Ro 2:7 Heb 11:6 * knock. Lu 13:25; 2Co 6:2   Robertson's Word Pictures: Shall be opened (anoigêsetai). Second future passive third singular of anoignumi and the later anoigô.   William Burkitt's Notes: Our Saviour here goes on to urge us to importunity and constancy in prayer; he bids us ask, seek, and knock, and assures us we shall be accepted, heard, and answered. Here note, 1. That man is a poor indigent creature, full of wants, but unable to supply them. 2. As man is an indigent and insufficient creature, so God is an all-sufficient good, able to supply the wants, and to relieve the necessities, of his creatures. 3. That Almighty God stands ready to supply all our wants, not temporal only, but spiritual also, affording his grace, and the assistance of his Holy Spirit, to them that ask it. 4. If therefore we want the grace of God, and the asistance of his Holy Spirit, it is our own fault, and not God's; it is either for want of seeking, or for want of earnestness in asking; for our Saviour expressly assures us, that God denies it to none; but every one that asketh receiveth.   Family Bible Notes: Ask, and it shall be given; now comes the application of the parable. Be importunate in asking, seeking, and knocking at God's door, and you will be heard and answered. God often delays answering prayer, that he may try the faith and earnestness of the suppliant. 9-13. Asking of God in prayer.   1599 Geneva Bible Notes: No comment on this verse.   People's New Testament Commentary:  Ask, and it shall be given. See notes on Mt 7:7-11. These verses are a part of the Sermon on the Mount. It is probable that Luke, who does not give a chronological history, incorporates them here, though not the time when they were spoken. The same may be said of various utterances given by Luke. Luke says instead of good things (Mt 7:11), Luke says that the Father will give the Holy Spirit [Lu 11:13], the best possible gift.   Albert Barnes' Commentary: No comment on this verse.   Jamieson-Faussett Brown: No comment on this verse.   Spurgeon Devotional Commentary: Prayer is not a vain exercise; it is heard and answered. Where it fails there is a reason for that failure. "Ye have not because ye ask not, or because ye ask amiss."   Adam Clarke's Commentary:  Be importunate with God, not so much to prevail on him to save you, as to get yourselves brought into a proper disposition to receive that mercy which he is ever disposed to give. He who is not importunate for the salvation of his soul does not feel the need of being saved; and were God to communicate his mercy to such they could not be expected to be grateful for it, as favours are only prized and esteemed in proportion to the sense men have of their necessity and importance. See this subject explained Mt 7:7,8.   Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary: No comment on this verse.   Quotes on Luke 11:1-13 The Lord's Prayer "is truly the summary of the whole gospel." - Tertullian, as quoted in Catechism of the Catholic Church,  ¶2761 The Holy Spirit -- The best of gifts, and that which includes every good gift. - John Wesley, Notes Upon the New Testament, Vol. 1, on Luke 11:13 The parable teaches its lesson by contrasting the reluctance of the selfish friend who has to be roused by importunate asking with the willingness of the bountiful God. - J. McNicol, New Bible Commentary (1954): Luke, p. 853 We must not only ask, but we must seek, in the use of means, must second our prayers with our endeavours;  and, in asking and seeking, we must continue pressing, still knocking at the same door, and we shall at length prevail, not only by our prayers in concert, but by our particular prayers:  Every one that asketh receiveth, even the meanest saint that asks in faith. - Matthew Henry, Commentary, Vol. 5, p. 694 [Luke] suggests that God's gifts are of a higher category. - William Baird, Interpreter's One-Volume Commentary: Luke, p. 689 This man did ask, seek, and knock.  It was opened, granted, and obtained by him according to the promise. - D.D. Whedon, Commentary on the Gospels, Vol. Luke-John, p. 118 The meaning of each of Jesus' petitions is formed by his proclamation of the kingdom of God, not as a purely future hope, but as a reality already proleptically present in his own person. - Reginald H. Fuller, Preaching the Lectionary, p. 491 The Jewish masters used to give their followers some short form of prayer, as a peculiar badge of their relation to them.  This it is probable John the Baptist had done.  And in this sense it seems to be, that the disciples now asked Jesus to teach them to pray. - John Wesley, Notes Upon the New Testament, Vol. 1, on Luke 11:1 Calling God "Abba" [illustrates] the unique filial consciousness of Jesus, which is the foundation of his own life of obedience and of the Church's later Christological interpretation of his person. - Reginald H. Fuller, Preaching the Lectionary, p. 490 Some modern devotional writers are squeamish about petitionary prayer, but in Jesus' teaching petition is prayer par excellence. - Reginald H. Fuller, Preaching the Lectionary, p. 491 Christian prayer goes back to the example and precept of Jesus Himself.  His own prayer was the occasion for the disciples to ask Him how to pray.  He replied with the Lord's Prayer... - I.H. Marshall, New Bible Commentary, Revised (1970):  Luke, p. 906 This evangelist [Luke] has taken particular notice of Christ's praying often, more than any other of the evangelists. - Matthew Henry, Commentary, Vol. 5, p. 692 Lord, teach us to pray, is itself a good prayer, and a very needful one, for it is a hard thing to pray well;  and it is Jesus Christ only that can teach us, by his word and Spirit, how to pray. - Matthew Henry, Commentary, Vol. 5, p. 694 In all of his life Jesus presents himself as our model. - Ratzinger, Joseph, Imp., Catechism of the Catholic Church,  ¶520 By contemplating and hearing the Son, the master of prayer, the children learn to pray to the Father. - Ratzinger, Joseph, Imp., Catechism of the Catholic Church,  ¶2601 Run through all the words of the holy prayers [in Scripture], and I do not think that you will find anything in them that is not contained and included in the Lord's Prayer. - St. Augustine, as quoted in Catechism of the Catholic Church,  ¶2762 The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect of prayers... In it we ask, not only for all the things we can rightly desire, but also in the sequence that they should be desired.  This prayer not only teaches us to ask for things, but also in what order we should desire them. - St. Thomas Aquinas, as quoted in Catechism of the Catholic Church,  ¶2763 One may sit at the Lord's feet through prayer. - William Baird, Interpreter's One-Volume Commentary: Luke, p. 689 Teach us the body of blessings we may hope to receive, and therefore what object is right, and not presumptuous to ask;  teach us, even by an outline pattern if thou wilt, a skeleton prayer, of which all other prayers are but the amplification. - D.D. Whedon, Commentary on the Gospels, Vol. Luke-John, p. 117 Each new dispensation may not only have its new unfolding of truths;  but its new revelations may open new modes of access, and new topics of prayer, and motives and tempers of worship.  A different prayer was offered in the Mosaic ritual from the patriarchal form.  John opened up a new scope of prayer;  and this new dispensation requires of Jesus to set the range of prayer in accordance with the new range of truth, and the new position of men with God. - D.D. Whedon, Commentary on the Gospels, Vol. Luke-John, p. 117

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