| Is There Sin Unto Death?
"And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we
ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. If any man
see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he
shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto
death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. All unrighteousness is sin:
and there is a sin not unto death." (1 John 5:15-17)
"He that is not with me is against me; and
he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad. Wherefore I say unto you,
All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the
blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And
whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven
him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be
forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come."
(Matthew 12:30-32)
Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is the continual and deliberate
rejection of The Holy Spirit's witness to Christ, His Word, and to His
convicting work against sin
He who rejects and opposes the voice of the Spirit removes himself from
the only force that can lead him to forgiveness
"Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is
expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will
not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he
is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of
judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on me; Of righteousness,
because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; Of judgment, because the
prince of this world is judged." (John 16:7-11)
The process leading to blasphemy against The Holy Spirit is:
 | Grieving the Spirit, if continued, leads to resisiting the
Spirit. |
"And grieve not the holy Spirit of God,
whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption."
(Ephesians 4:30)
| Resisting the Spirit leads to quenching the Spirit. |
"Heaven is my throne, and earth is my
footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the
place of my rest? Hath not my hand made all these things? Ye stiffnecked
and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost:
as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not your
fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the
coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and
murderers:" (Acts 7:49-52)
| Quenching the Spirit leads to hardening of the heart. |
"Pray without ceasing. In every thing
give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
Quench not the Spirit." (1 Thessolonians 5:17-19)
| Hardening of the heart leads to a depraved mind and labeling good
as evil and evil as good. |
"And Moses verily was faithful in all his
house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be
spoken after; But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are
we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm
unto the end. Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear
his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of
temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me,
and saw my works forty years." (Hebrews 3:5-9)
"Therefore my people are gone into
captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are
famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. Therefore hell hath
enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory,
and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall
descend into it." (Isaiah 5:13-14)
"Woe unto them that call evil good, and
good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put
bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" (Isaiah 5:20)
"Wherefore God also gave them up to
uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their
own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie,
and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is
blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile
affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that
which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural
use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men
working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that
recompence of their error which was meet." (Romans
1:24-27)
| When this hardening of the heart reaches a certain fullness of
development, known only to God, the Spirit will no longer strive to lead
that person to repentance. |
"And it came to pass, when men began to
multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and
they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My
spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet
his days shall be an hundred and twenty years." (Genesis
6:1-3)
"And I have led you forty years in the
wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not
waxen old upon thy foot. Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk
wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the
king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them: And
we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites,
and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh. Keep therefore
the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that
ye do. Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your
captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the
men of Israel, Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in
thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water: That
thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his
oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day: That he may
establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto
thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy
fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. Neither with you only do I
make this covenant and this oath; But with him that standeth here with
us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here
with us this day: (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt;
and how we came through the nations which ye passed by; And ye have seen
their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold,
which were among them:) Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or
family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our
God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be
among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; And it come to pass,
when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his
heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of
mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: The LORD will not spare him,
but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that
man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon
him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven. And the
LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel,
according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this
book of the law:" (Deuteronomy 29:5-21)
"And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she
conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel
grew before the LORD. Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons
did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And he said unto them,
Why do ye such things? for I hear of your evil dealings by all this
people. Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the
LORD'S people to transgress. If one man sin against another, the judge
shall judge him: but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat
for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their
father, because the LORD would slay them." (1 Samuel
2:21-25)
"He, that being often reproved hardeneth
his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy."
(Proverbs 29:1)
For those that are worried about having committed the
unpardonable sin, the very act of wanting to be forgiven and the
willingness to repent of sin is the very evidence that one has not
committed the unpardonable sin. |
