Christ’s Command to Ask, Seek, and Knock

Under this title we consider the text of Matthew 7:7-8 and the propositional truth that Christ’s promises are spiritual and sure, not materialistic and conditional. Very fittingly, on a mountain, which symbolizes a kingdom, Jesus gave His disciples the constitution of the Kingdom in the Sermon on the Mount. There we read Matthew 7:7-8, “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For everyone that asketh, recieveth; and he that seeketh,...