Matthew 7:7-8
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
First, lets step into the time frame. Keys were not commonplace. Doors were attended. When you knocked, someone would let you in.
Now, what are we looking for? The verse is sandwiched between two other passages:
“Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.
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Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
So what one is requesting, seeking, or entering into is "holy". But please notice that being holy is not a requirement placed on those who ask or receive. We are, in fact, called "evil".
Instead, the requirement is action.
"I am not getting much out of our church/the sermon/my Bible" is said by someone who is passive.
James famously said "Faith without works is dead". He heard it here first.
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