The thought of an unforgivable sin has haunted sensitive people in every Christian century, and maybe it has haunted you.

You must accept the witness of the Holy Spirit and act upon the conviction He brings. You must believe in Jesus as the Son of God. So if you refuse to accept the ministry of the Holy Spirit or you ascribe His ministry to Satan, you are denying Christ’s deity. It’s the Holy Spirit who witnesses to the deity of Christ in our world today. Only God Himself could do what He had done. Yet by His miracles He was showing Himself to be nothing and no one less than God. It’s Denying the Deity of Christīy ascribing the miracles of Jesus to Satan, the religious leaders were denying the deity of Jesus Christ. The scribes had come to the place where they were so familiar with religious things that when the Son of God showed up, they didn’t know who He was, and they accused Him of being from Satan. It is possible to become hardened to spiritual truth by living in the middle of it. Yet their hearts had become so hardened they couldn’t receive His grace when it arrived in the person of Jesus. They knew Micah 5 and the prophecy of our Lord’s birth. They had copied Psalm 22, about the death of the Messiah. They had copied Isaiah 53, about the Suffering Servant. Every day they copied an ancient Scripture scroll by hand. These men had copied and recopied the Old Testament. Note the relationship between the words scribe and scribble. It’s tragic, for these scribes had devoted their lives to copying the Word of God. These scribes had become Jesus-resistant because of the time-lapsed attitudes of their own evil hearts. And although the grace of God is still available to us, we push away from it. Our minds shake off the conviction of the Spirit. After continued resistance we become so hard-hearted and sin-hardened that we grow calloused of soul. When God convicts us of sin and presents us with the Gospel, it’s dangerous to neglect it, especially if our procrastination becomes chronic. In time, they grew indifferent but then their indifference metastasized into a malicious attitude that became so hateful and vengeful that it ultimately nailed Jesus Christ to the cross. They were initially curious about Jesus and His ministry. If you, follow the references to these scribes throughout the book of Mark, you’ll see there is a progression to their unbelief. The scribes who came from Jerusalem didn’t just do this on a whim.

Let me take a moment and say the unpardonable sin isn’t something that someone commits randomly. What was it? It’s Not a Thoughtless Mistake You should be very careful, because you’re about to do something for which there is no forgiveness.” Our Lord was telling them, in essence, “There is a sin that you are on the verge of committing. He gave this teaching because His foes were accusing Him of having an unclean spirit (verse 22). To arrive at the correct interpretation, we have to begin with the last phrase, which explains why Jesus made this statement. This paragraph has often been misunderstood by Christians. ‘Assuredly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they may utter but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation,’ because they said, ‘He has an unclean spirit.’

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