How many sins can you list that God won’t forgive? I used to worry about this because was not a good person in the past. Some of the things I’ve done are probably on that list.
The only sin that can not be forgiven on God’s list is rejecting Him and refusing His offer of forgiveness and new life in Christ Jesus. When we do this it is saying that the Holy Spirit’s witness about Jesus is a lie (Like 12:20).
It is serious to reject Jesus because of who He was, He wasn’t just another bible teacher; He was God in human flesh -but when we deny this, we limit Him and assume He is unable to save us.
Jesus is God’s appointed means of salvation. Our greatest need is to have our sins forgiven, if we don’t have any reason to expect God to welcome us into heaven. But by Jesus’s death and resurrection, He provided a way for us to be forgiven and cleansed of all our sins.
Blasphemy is a thoughtless mistake. Think about the Pharisees and Sadducees didn’t jump to a conclusion about Jesus, if you follow the Book of Mark, you’ll see there is a progression to their unbelief. They were initially curious about Jesus and His ministry. They had questions. And in time grew indifferent, but their indifference metastasized into a malicious attitude that became so hateful and vengeful that it nailed Jesus to the cross.
“The unforgivable sin is marked by a hardened attitude and an embittered and unrepentant heart” -David Jeremiah
Blasphemy is a progressive rejection. When God convicts us of sin and presents us with the good news of the gospel, it’s dangerous to neglect it, especially if our proclamation becomes chronic. After continued resistance, we can become so hard-hearted and sin-hardened that our souls become calloused. Our ears can’t receive the truth. Our minds shake off the conviction of the Spirit. Our conscience becomes cynical and while God’s grace is still available to us, we push away from it.
The Pharisees had become Jesus-resistant because of their time-lapsed attitudes in their evil hearts. Tragically, the Pharisees devoted their lives to copying the Word of God and yet couldn’t see Him when we walked up to them.
They had copied Isaiah 53 about the Suffering Servant. They copied Psalm 22 about the death of Jesus. They knew Micah 5 and the prophecy of our Lord’s birth. Yet, their hearts had become so hardened they couldn’t receive His grace when it arrived in Jesus.
It is possible to become harderen to spiritual truth by living in the middle of it.
It’s denying the deity of Jesus. By attributing the miracles of Jesus to Satan they were saying He could not be God. Yet by His miracles, He was showing Himself to be nothing and no one less than God. Only God Himself could do what Jesus had done.
It’s the Holy Spirit who witnesses to the deity of Jesus in our world today. So if you refuse to accept the ministry of the Holy Spirit or you attribute the ministry of the Holy Spirit or attribute His ministry to Satan, you deny Jesus’s deity.
This unforgivable sin has haunted people for centuries. If you are bothered in your spirit that you may have committed a sin God will not forgive, the very fact that you have anxiety over that is evidence you have not committed the sin. If He is still working in your heart, it’s not possible to have committed the unforgivable sin.
The unforgivable sin is hardening your heart against God by repeatedly refusing to respond to His appeal to your soul. By continuing to resist and reject the Lord you build callouses on your soul until the conviction of the Spirit of God no longer registers in your heart. Over time you become hardened. You hear and the Word of God, and it makes no impact on you. If you die in that condition, there is no further forgiveness available. For those who reject Jesus, there is no forgiveness anywhere else, anytime, either in this world or the next. He died for you, and if you reject that, there’s no other sacrifice for sin.
Don’t worry that you’ve committed the unforgivable sin. But if you know Jesus as your personal Savior, be concerned. If you’ve resisted Jesus and refused Him as your Savior, and if something happens and you do, you will have committed the unforgivable sin. You don’t get a second chance after death.
Whatever we do concerning Jesus in this life we shouldn’t gamble that we have time to respond later.
“Seek the Lord while He may be found, call on Him while He is near“ – Isaiah 55:6
When the Lord becomes your unforgettable Savior, you’ll never have to worry about the unforgivable sin.
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