by Dr. Rick Flanders

"If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?" (Luke 11:11-13) The promise that Jesus made in Luke 11:13 about the Father giving the Holy Spirit to them that ask him is problematic for a lot of good Christians. Yet apparently it is an important promise, reverently called "the promise of the Father" in several other scriptures (Luke 24:49, Acts 1:4, Acts 2:33), and referenced whenever the book of Acts speaks of receiving the Spirit as a gift (Acts 2:38, 8:15, 19:2).

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