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An Unforgivable Sin

Written on May 22nd, 2009
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What does it mean to Blaspheme the Holy Spirit? This unpardonable sin in Matthew 12 was committed by Religious Jews of Jesus day who accused the Holy Spirit of God in Jesus of being Satan.

 Angel

It was a historic thing.  It was committed at a very specific period in time by some specific people who attributed the works of Christ to Satan.  And when they evaluated everything that Jesus was and did, they said He was from the devil.  That was the opposite to the truth and Jesus simply said, “If, when all the revelation is in, you conclude that I am satanic, you’re done.  Because you couldn’t get any more than all the revelation, could you?  You’re hopeless.  You could never be forgiven!  If you spoke a word against the Son of Man, the humanness, the life of Jesus Christ—you may misunderstand that, but you could never misunderstand the work of the Holy Spirit to this extent, that when He is pointing to me as God, you conclude that I’m Satan.  You’re hopeless.”

 

Now, can people commit that sin today?  No, I don’t think so; I think that has to be committed when Christ is here on earth.

 

Notice at the end of verse 32: “It shall not be forgiven him neither in this age”—and what age was this? Think about it. “Pre-cross”…what age was it? Well, it was really the last part of the Old Testament era, wasn’t it? It was the gospel period before Christ died and rose; it wasn’t the church age, was it? No. “Neither in this age, neither in the age to come, to every Jew”—what was the “age to come”? The kingdom. I believe this sin will again be committed in the kingdom when people will see Jesus Christ and they will see the work of Jesus Christ. He’ll be visibly present on the earth. They’ll see everything that He does, they’ll hear everything that He says, and they’ll conclude the same kind of blasphemous conclusion, and they’ll be just as unpardonable as these were at that time.

 

I don’t think it has any reference to what a man does today. The closest thing to it would be Hebrews 6 where somebody has tasted the heavenly gift, been enlightened, had all the information possible, and fallen away: it’s impossible for him to be renewed to repentance. Why? Because when he had all revelation, he didn’t believe; how’s he ever going to believe at any point less than that?

 

So that is the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit: attributing the works of Christ while He’s here on earth, manifesting his deity, to Satan. The opposite conclusion leaves a person hopeless. 


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A Living Faith

Written on May 21st, 2009
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I listened to a song on the radio called “It Wasn’t Raining When Noah Built the Ark.” That song made me think about the nature and quality of our faith in God. By faith Noah built the Ark because God told him to do it. His neighbors made fun of him, and even most of his family did not believe him. It took a lot of faith to build an Ark when no one else thought there would be a flood.

 

A living faith is one like Noah’s, a step in total darkness holding on to a hand you cannot see. It’s led by a voice of one you have never met. By faith we know that God delivers us from the terror of the darkness to His kingdom of light and love. It is by our faith in God that each of us is able to walk through this life, endure the hardships, give thanks for the joys, and seek eternal life. Everything we do is an act of faith, and the strength of our faith becomes evident in the way we do things.

 

Christians as members of the Church (the Body of Christ), each of us is responsible to God for the growing strength of our faith through practice day by day. God has given us everything we need: the Church, the Scriptures, and His Holy Spirit to guide us. If we are actually to grow in faith, we must be an active participant in the faith community. We must start building our arks before it starts to rain. Every day is a test of our faith; to avoid the test weakens the faith, overcoming the test strengthens the faith.

Live out your faith day by day hand in hand with God.Angel


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