Tom Leonard - January 14, 2018
God's Good Gifts
God’s Good Gifts Luke 11:9-13 Main Point: Jesus teaches us that if we will ask, seek & knock, our Heavenly Father will give us good gifts, and most of all His ___________________! The Principle: 1. We are to in asking for our needs, because God will answer us… and He will give us good gifts! verses 9-10 *Father God knows what we really need! We can have wrong motives in asking… James 4:2-3 ‘…You do not have because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.’ The Illustration: 2. Though we are evil we give good gifts - Father God is Good and gives us , most of all His Holy Spirit! vs.11-12 Matthew 7:11 ‘If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!’ *Jesus teaches that Father God’s good gift of His Holy Spirit is what we need the ! (verse 12) John 7:37-39 It is the Spirit that fulfills our deepest need!
Scripture References: Luke 11:9-13, James 4:2-3, Matthew 7:11, John 7:37-39
