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The two parables on prayer are recorded only by Luke. Most parables illustrate
by comparison. These illustrate by contrast. The insistent friend and the sleepy
neighbor who would not answer his door at midnight certainly do not illustrate
the reluctance of God to answer prayer. God is willing to answer, and He is
not asleep; it is we who are not insistent and persistent in prayer. In the
second parable, a human father never gives his son a stone as a substitute for
bread, and surely God is as good as a human father. He is much better! These
parables illustrate by contrast.
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