THE UNPARDONABLE SIN
Definition
- God’s word is the
Standard of Righteousness -Sin in Hebrew
means “missing the mark”.
- Morally
Responsible: Animals are not morally responsible creatures; so
therefore they cannot sin. - Angles
and Man are morally responsible creations and can sin.
- Sin is
rebellion
against God; – It’s the violation of the laws of God in thought, word or
deed; to reject God’s love and His ways. – Sin is a contradiction to the Holiness
of God – It is Moral corruption. - Breaking God’s law at any point
involves transgressions at every point.
- By
definition,
the Unpardonable Sin is that of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit -
but what does that mean?
- Webster: Blasphemy - The strongest term
used for the mocking of God.-Slander, defame, revile. - Profane or contemptuous speech,
writing, or action concerning God or anything held as divine – any remark
or action held to be irreverent or disrespectful. – The utterance
of profane oaths, cursing or swearing.
- The Term “unpardonable sin” is NOT
found in the Bible, but is deemed to be the final rejection of the
Holy Spirit’s testimony concerning the work and person of Jesus Christ.
Ps 119:160 – God’s word is
the standard
160 All your words are true; all your righteous
laws are eternal. NIV
James 2:10 – Stumble at any point of the law – guilty of all
10 For whoever keeps the whole law and yet
stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. NIV
Luke 12:10 – Blasphemes the Holy Spirit
10 And everyone who speaks a word against the Son
of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit
will not be forgiven. NIV
Matt 12:31 -32 – Un-forgiven in this age and the next
31 And so I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will
be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
NIV
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. NIV
Mark 3:28-29 – Eternally
guilty
28 I tell you the truth, all the sins and
blasphemies of men will be forgiven them.
29 But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit
will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin. NIV
Jude 6 – Angels are
morally responsible creations
6 And the angels who did not keep their
positions of authority but abandoned their own home-these he has
kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day.
NIV
Prayer
- We are instructed NOT
to pray for those who mock the work of the Holy Spirit.
1 John 5:16 -17 – Don’t pray for those that blaspheme
16 If anyone sees his brother commit a sin that
does not lead to death, he should pray and God will give him life. I refer to
those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death.
I am not saying that he should pray about that.
17 All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that
does not lead to death.
NIV
Old Testament Example
- We often think of the
unpardonable sin as something that might happen in the future and we still
have time to get our act together, but the Old Testament shows instances
when God’s people sinned and God condemned them forever
right then and there.
- The Priest Eli had
two sons, Hophni and Phinehas who were also priest, were having sex
with the women working in the temple. – Blasphemy in deed and action.
- Men grumbled against God and
spread a bad report – Blasphemy in word and deed.
- King Belshazzar drank
out of the
1 Sam 2:12 – No regard for the Lord
12 Eli's sons were wicked men; they had no regard
for the LORD.
NIV
1 Sam 2:22 – They slept with the workers.
22 Now Eli, who was very old, heard about
everything his sons were doing to all Israel
1 Sam 3:13-14 – The sons
of the Priest Eli – Unpardonable Sin
13 For I told him that I would judge his family
forever because of the sin he knew about; his sons made themselves
contemptible, and he failed to restrain them.
14 Therefore, I swore to the house of Eli, `The
guilt of Eli's house will never be atoned for by sacrifice or
offering.'" NIV
Num 14:26-45 – Men grumbled
against God
26 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron:
27 "How long will this wicked community grumble
against me? I have heard the complaints of these grumbling
Israelites.
28 So tell them, `As surely as I live, declares
the LORD, I will do to you the very things I heard you say:
29 In this desert your bodies will fall--every
one of you twenty years old or more who was counted in the census and who has
grumbled against me.
30 Not one of you will enter the land I
swore with uplifted hand to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and
Joshua son of Nun.
31 As for your children that you said would be
taken as plunder, I will bring them in to enjoy the land you have rejected.
32 But you--your bodies will fall in this
desert.
35 I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will surely do
these things to this whole wicked community, which has banded together
against me. They will meet their end in this desert; here they will die."
36 So the men Moses had sent to explore the land,
who returned and made the whole community grumble against him by
spreading a bad report about it
37 these men responsible for spreading the bad
report about the land were struck down and died of a plague before the LORD.
38 Of the men who went to explore the land, only
Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh survived.
42 Do not go up, because the LORD is not with you.
You will be defeated by your enemies,
43 for the Amalekites and Canaanites will face you
there. Because you have turned away from the LORD, he will not be with you
and you will fall by the sword." NIV
Dan 5:23-30 – Drank out of
the Temple
23 You had the goblets from his temple brought to
you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines drank wine from
them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and
stone, which cannot see or hear or understand.
30 That very night Belshazzar, king of the
Babylonians, was slain,
New Testament Example
- Jesus was healing the sick,
yet He was accused of being possessed by Beelzebub, the prince of demons thereby
attributing His powers of healing to the Devil and not to the Holy Spirit.
- Ananias
& Sapphira
sold some property and gave it as an offering, but lied about how much
they sold it for. – It was theirs to do as they wished and it was ok to
keep some of the money, but they lied to the Holy Spirit and died
on the spot.
Mark 3:22 – They said the spirit in Jesus was from Satan.
22 And the teachers of the law who came down from Jerusalem
Acts 5:3-10 – Ananias and
Sapphira lied to the Holy Spirit
3 Then Peter said, "Ananias, how is it that
Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and
have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land?
4 Didn't it belong to you before it was sold? And
after it was sold, wasn't the money at your disposal? What made you think of
doing such a thing? You have not lied to men but to God."
5 When Ananias heard this, he fell down and
died. And great fear seized all who heard what had happened.
6 Then the young men came forward, wrapped up his
body, and carried him out and buried him.
7 About three hours later his wife came in, not
knowing what had happened.
8 Peter asked her, "Tell me, is this the
price you and Ananias got for the land?" "Yes," she said, "that is
the price."
9 Peter said to her, "How could you agree to test
the Spirit of the Lord? Look! The feet of the men who buried your husband
are at the door, and they will carry you out also."
10 At that moment she fell down at his feet and
died. NIV
Today’s Example
- Communion
seems
like a simple thing, but we are warned to examine ourselves before we
partake at the table of the Lord – We are to confess our sins and ask
forgiveness – failure to do this brings sickness and death to our
body – If you have done this through ignorance, confess your sins
now - before God “closes your door” for it will never be opened again.
- Homosexuality is a sin against the
Holy Spirit that is in the temple of your body – opening up
possible “Physical death” through AIDS. “Spiritually”, Once God gives
you up – It’s all over.
- The mark
of the beast
is an indication of servitude and worship of the beast; a blasphemy of the
Holy Spirit. This is a counterfeit
mark, mocking the marking of the 144,000 witnesses of God. - Once
you receive this mark, there is no changing your mind. – You are a dead
man walking.
1 Cor 11:28-31 – Taking
the Lord’s Supper unworthily
28 A man ought to examine himself before he
eats of the bread and drinks of the cup.
29 For anyone who eats and drinks without
recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment on himself.
30 That is why many among you are weak and sick,
and a number of you have fallen asleep. (Died)
31 But if we judged ourselves, we would not come
under judgment. NIV
Rom 1:24-27 –
Homosexuality – God gave them up
24 Therefore God gave them over in the
sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their
bodies with one another
26 Because of this, God gave them over to
shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural
ones.
27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural
relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed
indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for
their perversion. NIV
Lev 20:13 Homosexuality is
an abomination to God
13 If a man lies with a male as he lies with a
woman, both of them have committed an abomination… put to death
NKJV
Rev 14:9-11 – The mark of
the beast
9 A third angel followed them and said in a loud
voice: "If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his
mark on the forehead or on the hand,
10 he, too, will drink of the wine of God's
fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. He
will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of
the Lamb.
11 And the smoke of their torment rises for
ever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the
beast and his image, or for anyone who receives the mark of his name."
NIV
“Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin”
“We have been weighed in
the balances and found wanting”. Daniel 5:25
God will shut the door
- Noah took on the ark
all that would come – When the time came, GOD shut the door and nothing else entered. – The time is
coming when the “open door” will close and no man can open it again.- The
day of salvation; the day of grace will be over.
Rev 3:8 – God places
before us an open door
8 I know your deeds. See, I have placed before
you an open door that no one can shut. NIV
Gen 7:16 – They went in and GOD shut the door.
16 And they that went in, went in male and female of
all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in. KJV
Isa 22:22 – When God shuts
the door, it cannot be opened
22 I will place on his shoulder the key to the
house of David; what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can
open. NIV
Redemption
- Adam and Eve died
spiritually “that day” in the Garden of Eden, when they sinned.
- God made a way to
redeem mankind through the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit;
Gen 2:17 – That very day they died spiritually
17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely
die." NKJV
Gal 4:4-5 – God sent His
son to redeem us.
4 But when the time had fully come, God sent
his Son, born of a woman, born under law,
5 to redeem those under law, that we might
receive the full rights of sons. NIV
Titus 2:13-14 – Christ is
the blessed hope of our redemption.
13 While we wait for the blessed hope-the glorious
appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,
14 who gave himself for us to redeem us
from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own.
NIV
Redemption Rabbit Trail
The first born belonged to the Lord,
they were considered His possession – It was necessary to buy back or redeem
the child for the price of 5 shekels of silver when the child was one month
old.
The Priest would say “do you want to
redeem the child or leave him with me” – The father would answer, “I
will redeem the child” and then pay the price – The priests would declare
“Your son is redeemed”.
Jesus
paid the price for us at the cross and redeemed us back to
Himself. SELAH
Unpardonable Sin Summary
The Term “unpardonable sin” is NOT found
in the Bible, but is deemed to be the final rejection of the Holy Spirit’s
testimony concerning the work and person of Jesus Christ.
It is the violation of the
laws of God in thought, word or deed; rejecting God’s love and His ways.
In the multitude of counselors,
there is wisdom.
Prov 11:14
I
am grateful for those that went before me providing concepts, ideas, historical
information, and scripture verses.
Because of them I can stand on their shoulders and see further than I
otherwise ever could have.
An Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words – W.E. Vine
Biblical Ethics
– Robertson McQuilkin
Bible Almanac:
The – Packer Tenny White
Bible Dictionary – Harper
Expositor’s Bible Commentary; The – Frank E. Gaebelein
Great Doctrines of the Bible: Soteriology – W.A. Criswell
Historical Atlas of the Bible; The – DR. Ian Barnes
Illustrated Bible Dictionary – Nelson
Illustrated Bible Dictionary; The – Tyndale
International Dictionary of the Bible: The- Zondervan
International Dictionary of the Bible:- Douglas - Tenny
King James Version of the Bible – KJV
Nave’s topical Bible - Zondervan
New International Version Bible - NIV
Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible; The– Zondervan Tenny
Today’s Dictionary of the Bible - Guideposts
Unraveling the Big
Questions about God –
Kenneth Boa
Victor Journey through the Bible: The – V. Gilbert Beers
Webster’s New World College Dictionary – Webster
Where to find it in the Bible – Ken Anderson
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