I ask that as we go through these lessons,
that you get a Bible, read it, pray, study, and ask the Holy Spirit of the
Living God, to help guide you into truth.
We believe comparing scripture with scripture, and comparing
spiritual things with spiritual things, is the only correct way for Christians
to discern truth from error.
If you fail to understand, or fail to
learn how to rightly divide the word of truth, you can never come to the
knowledge of the truth and sound doctrine.
This lesson is for one of my brothers in
the Lord who recommended this for a lesson topic.
Occasionally I run into people who
for one reason or another believe they have committed the unpardonable sin, or
are so bad that they cannot be forgiven.
We will look at where the
unpardonable sin, as it has come to be known, appears in the Bible and then we
will look at whether a person can be so bad they cannot be forgiven.
Matt.12
[22] Then was brought unto him one possessed
with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the
blind and dumb both spake and saw. [23]
And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David? [24]
But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast
out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. [25] And Jesus knew their thoughts,
and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to
desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
[26] And if Satan cast out
Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?
[27] And if I by Beelzebub cast
out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be
your judges. [28] But if I
cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is
come unto you. [29] Or else how
can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first
bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house. [30] He that is not with me is against me; and he that
gathereth not with me scattereth abroad. [31] 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. [32]
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.
Alright now when we look at these
verses we see that the Lord Jesus healed a blind and dumb (not able to speak)
man and he was then able to speak and see. The people who witnessed this
immediately said “Is not this the son of David?” and in posing that question were implying that Jesus was the Christ foretold of in
the Old Testament.
By this time any student of the Bible
is aware that the Pharisees (the religious leaders of Israel) were so
spiritually bankrupt that they could not see the handwriting on the wall that
Jesus Christ was indeed Israel’s promised messiah.
As you may have read in previous
lessons, one of the proof texts that Jesus was the God of the Old Testament in
a human body, is the fact that he was able to open the eyes of the blind.
Psalms [8] The LORD
openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed
down: the LORD loveth the righteous:”
In verse 25 the scripture gives us
another proof text that Jesus is more than just some common man, it reveals
that he knew and could read the very thoughts of people “And Jesus knew their thoughts”, we
are not talking about some circus side show psychic trickery. Jesus could read every
thought of the Pharisees, and didn’t ask “is this what your thinking” but
immediately gave them an answer to what they were thinking, he said “if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself;
how shall then his kingdom stand?”
Jesus simply appealed to their common
sense, if his healing people meant he was working for Satan, and undoing
Satan’s work, that would mean Satan was divided against himself and Satan’s
kingdom would not be able to stand.
Jesus then makes the statement “But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.” he
now brings the Pharisees back to the fact of his ministry to the Nation Israel
and the fact that he is the “King of Israel the Son of David” and that they are
accountable. He then makes the statement “He that is
not with me is against me”.
In verse 31 Jesus says “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. [32]
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. ”
We now see Jesus make the statement
and define what has become known as the unpardonable sin, and it was the
blasphemy against the Holy Ghost.
Now I am going to tell you that it is
currently impossible to commit this unpardonable sin in the same fashion that
Jesus was accusing the Pharisees of doing. The Pharisees attributed to Satan, the healing of the blind man by the very
God of Heaven (Jesus Christ), who by the Holy Ghost gave sight to the blind! (Psalms [8] The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind:)
In order to repeat this sin you would
have to be standing in the very presence of Jesus who just healed a person and
tell him that he performed the miracle by the power of Satan. Jesus is currently
back in heaven preparing for his return back to planet Earth so it is
physically impossible to currently repeat this act in like manner as the
Pharisees did.
Now lets look and see if it is
possible for a person to be so bad that they cannot be forgiven today.
To answer this question we must leave
the Old Testament teachings of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and the first eight
chapters of Acts and look to the teachings that the Lord Jesus gave to the Apostle
Paul for the Body of Christ, in the dispensation of grace, the time period that
we are currently living in.
Romans [23] For all have sinned, and come
short of the glory of God; [24] Being
justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: [25]
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to
declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the
forbearance of God; [26] To declare, I say, at this time
his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which
believeth in Jesus.
Paul speaking the words the Lord
Jesus gave him, and him only for the body of Christ in Romans establishes the
following facts in verse “[23] For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” simply
put every person living today is a sinner.
Then in verse we read “[24] Being
justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:” Paul
shares that it is by grace that anyone can obtain redemption in Christ.
In verse 25 we are informed “[25] Whom God
hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his
righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the
forbearance of God;” we see that God
set forth these things for the remission of sins.
In verse 26 “[26] To declare, I say, at this time
his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which
believeth in Jesus” we see that God declared his righteousness so he
could be just and the justifier of sinners that believe in Jesus.
In case you didn’t notice verses
24-26 are all one sentence and covers the entire plan and purpose of the Lord
Jesus Christ’s Death, Burial, and Resurrection from the dead, which was to save
sinners.
1Cor.6 [9] Know ye
not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived:
neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers
of themselves with mankind, [10]
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall
inherit the kingdom of God. [11] And such were some of you: but ye
are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord
Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
I believe that in the above verses
Paul pretty much covers every kind of sin a man can commit and in verse 11 he
declares that the believers he was talking to were washed, sanctified, and
justified, “in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the
Spirit of our God”.
Romans 10 [8] But what saith it? The word is nigh
thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we
preach; [9] That if thou shalt
confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that
God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. [10] For with the heart man believeth
unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
In Romans 10 verses 8-10 Paul tells
in simple words how a sinner can be saved, and I find no where in the all the
words given to Paul to preach to the Gentile’s where anyone was such a bad
person that they could not be saved.
So I encourage anyone reading this to
understand that we are all sinners and God said that no one can be saved by
being good or doing good things, it is only through faith in what Jesus Christ
did for us can one be saved.
The only sin that I can find a person
can commit today, and not be forgiven of is to reject the the Holy Ghost's prompting to accept the free gift of
salvation offered to all people by the Lord Jesus. If you refuse to be saved
then there is no hope for you.
The Bible is an easy book to
understand when you just read, and believe it, not try and make it say things
it doesn’t say.
As far as spiritual discernment, when you
know where to get your doctrine from, you will no longer be a confused
Christian, or an easy target by the sleight of men to deceive you.
Romans 10 [8] But what saith it? The word is nigh
thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we
preach; [9] That if thou shalt confess
with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God
hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. [10] For with the heart man
believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto
salvation.
The words of our Apostle Paul, the Apostle
to the Gentiles!
2Tim.2 [15] Study to shew thyself
approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing
the word of truth.
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Remember most unsound Bible Doctrine, is
sound Bible Doctrine misapplied to the wrong time period, or
wrong group of people.
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