Scripture

“I tell you the truth, all sin and blasphemy can be forgiven, but anyone who blasphemes the Holy Spirit can never be forgiven. This is a sin with eternal consequences.”

Observation

Some of the teachers of the law who had come up from Jerusalem, say that Jesus is able to cast out demons because he himself is possessed by Satan.

Jesus calls them over to him and says, “satan cannot cast satan out. This is a divided kingdom in which factions fight against each other. Such a kingdom is already doomed.”

Jesus then goes on to say that all sins and blasphemy can be forgiven except blasphemy against the Holy Spirit .

Application

Many christians are afraid that they have committed the unpardonable or unforgivable sin. Often, they don’t know what this sin is, and those who do know, don’t know what blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is.

The definition or description is right there in the passage. The religious leaders were so opposed to Jesus, and so convinced of their own righteousness that they accused Jesus of being possessed, by satan.

Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, then, is that kind of hardness of heart that calls good, evil and evil, good. It is a world-view that is so perverted and so convinced of its own correctness that not even the Holy Spirit can get in and overturn this evil self-righteousness.

In modern day experience, we see this in the extreme Islamic preachers who call for jihad and death to Jews. They cannot see the evil of their words, nor their need for repentance.

This is the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.

Listen

Lord, what do you want to say to me about this Bible passage?

Keith, it saddens my heart and grieves my spirit, when people descend to this level of self-deception and malice.

You point out the Islamic hate preachers, but you have seen this in churches as well. The people who have not Just succumbed to the LGBTQ agenda but actually think that I approve of it, they encourage others in a sinful life and ignore my word.

There are those who claim that I lived in adultery that I faked miracles and so on. This is not just unbelief, but wilful opposition to me and to my holy ways,

My word is a light to the path of all people. But first, they have to pick up the lamp, light it and hold it over their path.

Many people, even those who claim to follow me, refuse to allow my Spirit to speak to them and so they walk in blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.