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Ask for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit | Episode #402 | Encore Episode #073 · Reflections On The Word With Richard Kay

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to today's edition of Reflection on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard K. I'm Chuck Christie, and today we are asking
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  Speaker 1: you to spend a few moments of your time with
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  Speaker 1: us each day as Richard shares from God's work with notes, quotes,
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  Speaker 1: and story along with some of his own personal experiences,
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  Speaker 1: to confirm for you God's great love for us, that
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  Speaker 1: his compassion for us never fails, and that He has
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  Speaker 1: a great faithfulness toward us in every regard. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you miss a portion of today's broadcast or would like
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  Speaker 1: to recommend it to a friend, you can hear this
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  Speaker 1: program anytime online at Talknetwork Radio dot com. Well, now
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  Speaker 1: here's Richard with today's reflection.
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  Speaker 2: When I came to you brothers, announcing the testimony of
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  Speaker 2: God to you, I did not come with brilliance of
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  Speaker 2: speech or wisdom, for I determined to know nothing among
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  Speaker 2: you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was
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  Speaker 2: with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
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  Speaker 2: My speech and my proclamation were not with persuasive words
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  Speaker 2: of wisdom, but with the demonstration of the spirit and power,
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  Speaker 2: so that your faith might not be based on men's wisdom.
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  Speaker 2: On God's power First Corinthians, Chapter two and verses one
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  Speaker 2: through five. I want to begin this portion of the
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  Speaker 2: explanation of the demonstration of the power of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: We have discussed the manifestations of the Holy Spirit, and
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  Speaker 2: we have seen many examples throughout the scripture in the
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  Speaker 2: Book of Acts, where we see the manifestations as they
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  Speaker 2: take place, and the result being not only the salvation
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  Speaker 2: of many of those who have heard the Gospel message,
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  Speaker 2: but many were delivered and many were healed. The power
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  Speaker 2: of God was manifested and demonstrated that changed their life. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I want you to understand two things. Preaching is necessary.
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  Speaker 2: We must hear the word of God to be able
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  Speaker 2: to comprehend our need for salvation for savior. We must
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  Speaker 2: understand that we're sinners, and we must understand that because
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  Speaker 2: of this sin, God cannot allow us to enjoy an
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  Speaker 2: eternal relationship with Him, and so we can't work our
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  Speaker 2: way into a goodness with God. God provides his own
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  Speaker 2: son in order that we have a payment for our
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  Speaker 2: own sins, and not for just our sins, but for
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  Speaker 2: the sins of all mankind. You see, men, women, children
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  Speaker 2: are born into this world as sinners. It's hard to admit,
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  Speaker 2: but it is a fact. And so, since we are
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  Speaker 2: all sinners, we must have a means of becoming righteous,
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  Speaker 2: and we can't become righteous in our own good works.
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  Speaker 2: We become righteous because of the righteousness of God in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, imparted to us through his payment for the
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  Speaker 2: sin of mankind. If we believe that in our heart
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  Speaker 2: and confess it with our mouth, the scripture says, we
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  Speaker 2: will be saved. The immediate result of this event in
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  Speaker 2: our life is that our desires begin to change, our
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  Speaker 2: focus change. We become more and more like Jesus and
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  Speaker 2: less and less like the old person we were before
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  Speaker 2: we accepted him as savior and hopefully as Lord. And
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  Speaker 2: so we come to this passage that we read moments
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  Speaker 2: ago from the first chapter or second chapter of First
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  Speaker 2: Corinthians Paul's letter to the church at Karnth, where he
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  Speaker 2: explains that when he came to them, he announced only
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  Speaker 2: the testimony of God to them. He proclaimed the work
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ and what his crucifixion meant. That's when
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  Speaker 2: he said, I came to you knowing nothing among you
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  Speaker 2: except the message of the gospel that Jesus Christ was
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  Speaker 2: a messiah, and that because of his sacrifice, him being crucified,
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  Speaker 2: your payment for sin has been made, and by doing
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  Speaker 2: that they could receive the Gospel. But it is important
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  Speaker 2: to understand that Paul makes a very strong illustration where
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  Speaker 2: he says in the fourth verse, my speech and proclamation
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  Speaker 2: were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but with a
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  Speaker 2: demonstration of the spirit and power, so that your faith
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  Speaker 2: might not be based on men's wisdom but on God's power.
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  Speaker 2: You see, today there is much preaching, and there is
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  Speaker 2: much teaching about the Bible, much teaching about the Gospel,
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  Speaker 2: and much teaching about the life that we should live
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  Speaker 2: as Christians. And yet we hear in the Gospel accounts
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  Speaker 2: a crying message of changing us. How does it happen? Well?
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  Speaker 2: In the first example, we have all heard, and it
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  Speaker 2: has been actually described as the Lord's prayer. In effect,
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  Speaker 2: it is the model prayer, if you will. It's the
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  Speaker 2: outline of the way that we should pray. Because his
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  Speaker 2: disciples came to him, they had watched him. They saw
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  Speaker 2: the miracles that he performed, They saw the wondrous ways
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  Speaker 2: that he approached sinners and how he received them. They
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  Speaker 2: saw him show compassion to those who are not even
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  Speaker 2: of the Jewish persuasion. We are all witnesses of this.
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  Speaker 2: And yet what they asked him, as we find in
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  Speaker 2: Luke the eleventh chapter, beginning with the very first verse,
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  Speaker 2: he said that he, this is Jesus, was praying in
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  Speaker 2: a certain place, and when he finished, one of his
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  Speaker 2: disciples said to him, Lord, teach us to pray just
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  Speaker 2: as John also taught his disciples. And he said to them,
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  Speaker 2: whenever you pray, say, And then he used the model
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  Speaker 2: or the outline of the prayer. He prayed, Father, your
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  Speaker 2: name be honored as holy your kingdom. Come give us
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  Speaker 2: each day are daily bread, and forgive us of our sins,
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  Speaker 2: for we ourselves also forgive everyone in debt to us,
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  Speaker 2: and do not bring us into temptation. Now Jesus stopped
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  Speaker 2: at this portion, which actually showed this was a model
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  Speaker 2: rather than the way that he was praying. You see,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't ask him to teach them great words of prayer.
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  Speaker 2: They asked him to teach them how to pray in
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  Speaker 2: the Father's will. That was what he was demonstrating. And
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  Speaker 2: so as the scripture continues in the book of Luke
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  Speaker 2: the eleventh chapter, beginning in the fifth verse, he says
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  Speaker 2: to them. He also said to them, suppose one of
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  Speaker 2: you has a friend and goes to him at midnight
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  Speaker 2: and says to him, friend, lend me three loaves of bread.
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  Speaker 2: Because a friend of mine on a journey has come
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  Speaker 2: to me and I don't have anything to offer him.
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  Speaker 2: Then he will answer from inside and say, don't bother me.
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  Speaker 2: The door is already locked, and my children and I
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  Speaker 2: have gone to bed. I can't get up to give
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  Speaker 2: you anything. I tell you, even though he won't get
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  Speaker 2: up and give him anything because he is his friend.
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  Speaker 2: Yet because of his friend's persistence, he will get up
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  Speaker 2: and give him as much as he needs. So I
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  Speaker 2: say to you, keep asking and it will be given
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  Speaker 2: to you. Keep searching and you will find. Keep knocking,
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  Speaker 2: and the door will be open to you. For everyone
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  Speaker 2: who asks receives, and the one who searches finds, and
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  Speaker 2: to the one who knocks, the door will be open.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to this illustration. What father among you, if his
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  Speaker 2: son asks for a fish, will give him a snake
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  Speaker 2: instead of a fish, Or if he asks for an egg,
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  Speaker 2: will give him a scorpion. If you, then, who are evil,
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  Speaker 2: know how to give good gifts to your children. How
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  Speaker 2: much more will the Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 2: to those who ask him?
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  Speaker 1: Richard will be right back in a moment wrap up.
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  Speaker 1: But if you've just joined us, you've been listening to
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  Speaker 1: Express scriptures are read from the Holman Christian Standard Bible,
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  Speaker 1: to wrap up today's message.
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  Speaker 2: Asking for the Holy Spirit is part of the model
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus teaching the disciples how to persist in prayer. See,
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  Speaker 2: we may try in many ways to do great things
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  Speaker 2: because of our teaching, but without the power of the
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  Speaker 2: Holy Spirit, two things will result. One, we will not
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  Speaker 2: be successful in most cases in being able to bring
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  Speaker 2: someone to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus. And two,
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  Speaker 2: there will be many of those who remain possessed of
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  Speaker 2: the devil and afflicted or sick because we tried to
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  Speaker 2: teach them, rather than allow the Holy Spirit to demonstrate
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  Speaker 2: and manifest his power through us. Jesus said, keep asking,
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  Speaker 2: keep searching, keep knocking. In other words, he is saying,
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  Speaker 2: be persistent in your seeking of the fullness of God
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  Speaker 2: in your life. Don't just give up because you've asked
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  Speaker 2: and you think, well, I took care of that. Now
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  Speaker 2: I can go on and live my life. No believer,
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  Speaker 2: you must be empowered by the Holy Spirit. If a
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  Speaker 2: father among you will ask his son, or ask his
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  Speaker 2: son will actually ask for a fish, who will give
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  Speaker 2: him the fish? Or will he give him a snake
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  Speaker 2: instead of the fish? Of course not. And if the
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  Speaker 2: son were to ask for an egg, But yet the
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  Speaker 2: father does dikui's the egg as a scorpion that would
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  Speaker 2: harm him? How much would that father love his son?
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  Speaker 2: So then it says, if you then, who are evil,
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  Speaker 2: Now Jesus is saying this in answer to their request,
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  Speaker 2: teach us how to pray. If you who are evil
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  Speaker 2: can understand that you would give good gifts to your children.
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  Speaker 2: Now you notice what he said, good gifts to your children.
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  Speaker 2: How much more will the Heavenly Father give the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Spirit to those who ask him? You see, we must ask.
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  Speaker 2: But as we ask and believe, the Holy Spirit will
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  Speaker 2: be given. Are you asking? Are you waiting? Are you're receiving?
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  Speaker 2: And that is today's reflection on the Word.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Richard. Join us again tomorrow when we continue
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  Speaker 1: with the next edition of Reflections on the Word with
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  Speaker 1: Richard k or Richard Hire Team. This is Chuck Christie
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  Speaker 1: saying thanks for listening to this edition of Reflections on
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  Speaker 1: the Word.