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NASB | Luke 11:13 "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?" |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 11:13 "If you, then, being evil [that is, sinful by nature], know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask and continue to ask Him!" |
Subject: Pattern of words? |
Bible Note: It is my understanding that the Holy Spirit is the active agent in our lives. He is not a thing, but a person, one of the three that are known to us as God. He lives within us. He fills us, by himself, with himself, with what we need for our spiritual life, and for each spiritual task. Our job is to allow him to fill us and to use us. As he moves us, we are to let him have his way. So, we are to let the peace of God rule in our hearts (Colossians 3:15) and let the word of Christ dwell in us richly (Colossians 3:16) and let the brother of low degree rejoice (James 1:9). So “Be filled with the Spirit” means “Let the Spirit (Let God the Holy Spirit) fill you”. He wants to fill us repeatedly and often so that the thing he fills us with becomes a spirit and a characteristic in our lives, be it power, love, or what not. We need these things first to be the people of God and then to be known and to function as such. Meanwhile, it is God who is working in us both to will and to do these things (Philippians 2:13). |