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What is the Unforgivable Sin?
This issue hangs over the heads of millions of Christians like a heavy fog that just simply will not clear away.
Mostly this question is asked by those who do not yet have a full revelation of the Father’s true nature. Jesus
accurately portrayed the Father’s nature (having had firsthand experience in heaven) when He told the
parable of the prodigal son. Even though believers agree that we are saved through faith, there still remains
with some people a slight “caution” of God, a fear of rejection or punishment for not continually performing at
our best, or perhaps failing to confess some hidden or forgotten sin.
The following verse is commonly quoted:
…but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal
condemnation. (Mark 3:29 NKJV)
Blaspheming against the Holy Spirit indirectly implies that such a person has not yet been saved. Here’s why:
The moment someone is born again they are filled and sealed with the Holy Spirit:
In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also,
having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. (Eph 1:13 NKJV)
The Holy Spirit cannot blaspheme against Himself, because since He is God this would mean He is
blaspheming against God. No, the Holy Spirit glorifies the Father and testifies to the fact that Jesus had come
in the flesh:
By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh
is of God. (1 John 4:2 NKJV)
So this means that no person that has been given the Holy Spirit, can speaking by the spirit blaspheme
against God. If a person blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it means the Spirit they have is not the Holy
Spirit, which means they have not yet been saved and therefore cannot be forgiven for their sin (because
they don’t believe in Jesus). However once such a person repents and puts their faith in Christ, all their sins
are forgiven.
When we sin, we fall into grace. The bigger our sin, the bigger the grace that covers the sin, according to
Romans 5:20 (and remember we’re not encouraging people to go out and sin). If we ever think that there’s a
sin that cannot be covered by God’s grace, we are actually saying that the punishment that was bestowed on
Jesus was not harsh enough and that our sin is more powerful than the power of His forgiveness! Those who
do this are trampling the grace of God under foot.
Only One Unforgivable Sin
There is one sin however, that can’t be forgiven. And this is also a very misunderstood scripture…
Jesus had just told His disciples He would be going away, but that He would send the Helper to them; the
promised Holy Spirit:
And when He [the Holy Spirit] has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of
judgment: (John 16:8 NKJV, annotations added)
Most people stop here and think this verse means the Holy Spirit’s job is to convict them of sin; that He is
always supposed to make them feel guilty about “unholy areas” in their life. However most people miss the
fact that there is a semi colon at the end of verse 8. This means that Jesus was about to explain what He had
just said! So let’s read the next verses as well:
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