The Truth About The Unpardonable Sin;
Blasphemy Against The Holy Spirit Of God
“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. And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David? But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. 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: And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand? And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges. But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you. 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. 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 12:22-32 KJV)
When The Word became human (John 1), Jesus put aside His Godly powers and relied solely on the Holy Spirit to perform the miracles, as He was fully human and fully God.
Jesus was speaking directly to the Pharisees in Matthew 12 , who were attributing His casting out of devils by the power of the Holy Spirit, to satan. This was the sin that Jesus said would not be pardoned. It was utter and complete UNBELIEF and Jesus knew they would never believe in Him as Messiah. The Pharisees knew the prophesies the foretold Messiah would perform. They were without excuse. Even the other Jews seeing such amazing miracles as the passage knew!
“And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?”
So by attributing the miracles as being by power of satan, their UNBELIEF was very clear indeed!
Because Jesus is seated at the right hand of God and not on earth, it is not possible for anyone to commit this sin now. However, outright unbelief and rejection of Christ for salvation is the only sin that dooms a person to remain condemned.
There is no scriptural basis to support any sin committed today to be unforgivable. Their is also no Scripture read in proper context to support that a born again believer can lose salvation either.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM should not perish, but have EVERLASTING life.” (John 3:16 KJV)
“He that BELIEVETH ON THE SON HATH EVERLASTING LIFE: and he that BELIEVETH NOT the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” (John 3:36 KJV)
The ‘whosoever’ is anyone; regardless of what they have done. On this side of the cross event, believers have the Holy Spirit SEALED within us until our bodily resurrection (Eph. 1:13-14, 4:30), so it is not possible for us to commit this sin, nor lose our salvation.
For us living in the dispensation of grace, the Church Age, the unforgivable sin is TO REJECT the FREE GIFT of salvation, the pardon for the sins of the whole world (1 John 2:2) that Jesus purchased for us with His very life. The same thing the Pharisees had; out right unbelief that Jesus is the foretold Christ.
“For the wages of sin is death; but the GIFT of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23)
Rejecting Jesus as Messiah, as the foretold Christ, means a person has no other way to be forgiven their sins. The wages of sin is eternal death, and belief on Christ for forgiveness is the only way provided by God for our sin problem.
“He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned ALREADY, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” (John 3:18 KJV)
“Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.” (Hebrews 10:18 KJV)
A believers salvation can never be lost. Salvation is ETERNAL. Anything we do wrong after our moment of salvation is sin. And all a believer’s sins were paid in full by Jesus Christ on that cross. Such sin was already judged regarding condemnation.
We can lose rewards for sin. We will have consequences in our Earthly life for sin. BUT NEVER condemnation in hell. We are COMPLETE IN CHRIST by belief in Jesus’ blood atonement and that happened and was sealed 2000 years ago by Christ (Colossians 2, Hebrews 10).
