That is, looking at the textual context (which of course is a great thing to do!) Jesus had just performed the very important miracle of casting a demon out of a blind and mute person. This indeed does fit the precise thing that was going on here.
Less stringently, most define it as, “One must declare that a true miracle of the Spirit was actually done by demonic powers of Satan.” That means the sin still can be committed in modern times. For example, if you define it such that people could only have committed it if they had a physical audience with Jesus, then clearly we couldn’t commit the sin now since Jesus isn’t physically around. If you define it narrowly enough, you can’t even commit it at all at the present time. The strategy I’ve seen employed is to define this sin narrowly so that it’s difficult to commit. So what’s the deal with this? It really seems like most preachers and teachers aren’t equipped to talk about this. (And by the way, that may be part of the answer as to why don’t we hear more about this from the pulpit.) Only on a few occasions have I heard this mentioned from the pulpit, and it’s usually followed by a time of insecurity in the church as parishioners wonder it they may have committed this sin either before or after they became a Christian. Preachers and teachers hardly even mention it. That is, churches would give their members guidelines so that individuals would never even come close to committing this.īut that’s not the case-at least in my experience. Reminiscent of the Pharisees, who put a hedge around the Law with their rules such that individuals wouldn’t even come within the bounds of breaking a Law, you’d think we would do the same.
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With so much on the line, you’d think preachers and teachers would preach and teach very frequently about what this sin is and how to keep from committing it. Yikes, that’s scary! Anyone who commits this sin can never be saved! And it doesn’t distinguish about whether one was already a Christian or not, so if one were already a Christian, they would lose their salvation never to get it back. 32 Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come. Known as “the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit”, Jesus describes it in Mat 12:31-32: 31 And so I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
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