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Speaker 1
So Bashan is asking, how do I know I committed the unpardonable sin? Because I was going because I was going through Google to see if God forgives all sins, which he does, except blasphemy blasphemy of the Holy Ghost. And I look back baptized at eight on my life. And my dad once had me put my hand on the Bible about fifth grade. As you may guess, you lied and felt really bad. Fast forward maybe five years. And I was agnostic theist at the time. But one morning I said I was effed up because I woke up early just to go to church and declared I was and it’s cut off. But I think the main question is.
Speaker 2
We got it here.
Speaker 1
Okay, where was I?
Speaker 3
So he was fed up because he woke up okay, sorry.
Speaker 2
Yeah, because I woke up woke up.
Speaker 1
Too early just to go to church and declared I was agnostic atheist. But when a girl, my sister’s friend, came in, I claimed to be Christian immediately afterward, though an agnostic at heart. A couple of times while home that year, I talked as if God was talking to me. And maybe once I think I said some ungodly things during that time, like of my own desires. And I took communion several times as an agnostic Christian. A few times I yelled and cursed at God most of the time when say God, you mean the Father? And now, as a true Christian and with research, I feel a little relieved, but still freaked out. One time, angrily last school year, I said to my ex team BC a girl rejected me. My actions reflect a Satanist or atheist. I might have added, I’m not ashamed to admit that quote I apologize, saying God told me to apologize the day afterward, but I was still mad at the girl. One time I said to my girlfriend spiritual wife, now on video chat, I wish my parents weren’t religious so I can talk to you longer. And I’m kind of scared.
Speaker 1
And errant thoughts come in my head about is God that good? And coming up with doubts and stuff. I’m just stressing me about this sin.
Speaker 2
Kind of interesting, that last part about these thoughts coming into bishwan’s hope I pronounced that right. Coming to his mind. That’s exactly the voice of Satan trying to make us not only does he feed us falsities, but he also tries to discourage us. He does speak lies to us in first person, make them think we’re our thoughts, to discourage us, to make us not have hope, to make us doubt our connection in salvation with Christ. And let’s talk about that. So a lot of people are worried all the time about have they committed the unpardonable sin? So let’s talk about that. Let’s look at Matthew twelve, starting at verse 31. Matthew twelve, verse 31. And Jesus says, therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of man, it will be forgiven him. But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or the age to come. And there’s similar language in Mark three, starting at verse 28, it says as surely I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men and whatever blasphemies they may utter.
Speaker 2
But he who blasphemies against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation. So what is blaspheming? The Holy Spirit. What is this about? There’s a couple of different things, but one of the things Jesus is getting at here is are you going against God in a sense where God’s trying to do a good thing, but you are especially intentionally trying to attribute that to Satan or evil or are you taking something as evil? And are you intentionally trying to say that’s good and misappropriating or misattributing? What is evil for good and good for evil? In a sense that could be one aspect of it. But what’s even more importantly going on is the Holy Spirit is within each of every one of us. And that’s a fascinating Bible study about how it’s working on us. God is trying to call us to Him. Jesus says, I will be lifted up, that all men may be drawn unto me. So God’s trying to pull us to Him and the Holy Spirit’s working on our heart. It’s sort of that conscience, one of those voices we have in our head. We got Satan speaking to us and we have the Holy Spirit in sense there to also be impressing us, trying to convict us, telling us, no, that’s wrong, don’t do that.
Speaker 2
And if we’re constantly rejecting the Holy Spirit, it’s going to keep pulling back, going to keep pulling back and it gets harder to hear its voice, it gets harder to feel those impressions, it gets harder to follow what the Holy Spirit is trying to cause us to do. And if you keep resisting for too long, too much, you might in a sense eventually get numb to the Holy Spirit and you might cut yourself off from God. And now you’re in a very dangerous place because let’s turn to one John one nine. One John one nine. It reads, if we confess our sins, he God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. What do we have to do? We must confess our sins. If we’re doing that, if we confess, we should have confidence that we are forgiven. That’s what this verse is telling us. But if we are not confessing, if we are continuing to resist the Holy Spirit, to resist God, we are now in the position where our sins are not forgiven. And ultimately the refusal, I would say, to confess to submit ourselves to God.
Speaker 2
That refusal to listen to the Holy Spirit is what will, in a sense, be that unpardonable sin. God can’t pardon it until we confess it. That’s what’s unpardonable. So going back to this story by Vishwan Vishwan, it sounds like you’re struggling, you’re trying to listen, you’re trying what do is right and the flesh within you, as Romans seven would say, is warring against the law of the Spirit. And so your flesh is trying to take you one way, your fears, your concerns, your pride, whatever is taking you one way and the Holy Spirit is trying to take you another. And afterwards you’re processing these things, you’re feeling bad, what you’re doing, and hopefully you’re confessing and wanting to repent and turn from that. And that’s good. That’s the walk of a Christian. A righteous man is one who falls seven times and gets up again. There’s a proverb on that that’s the righteous man, we’re going to keep falling, we’re going to make mistakes. But the idea is that we’re confessing, we’re grateful for God, God’s mercy. We know God’s working with us and whether we sin, God’s grace is sufficient for us.
Speaker 1
That’s a beautiful answer. Well delivered.
Speaker 2
Praise God. Thank you, Tina. Any thoughts?
Speaker 3
Amen. Yeah. No, for sure. There was a time where I, as a young teenager, thought that I committed the impartable sin because I was angry with God. And I was like, I said something in my heart that maybe wasn’t nice to God. And later I heard about this verse and I thought, did I commit this? And I’m lost forever. There’s no hope for me. But I read God kept bringing to my mind the verse one John one nine that says if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. So really the Holy Spirit blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. Isn’t that you’re angry with God or you say something bad about God. I mean, those are not good things. You need to confess those sins. But the blasting of the Holy Spirit is where you don’t listen to the Holy Spirit and you don’t come to God anymore. You don’t ask for forgiveness. The only sin that God cannot forgive is the one you don’t confess and you don’t admit to. So if you’re going to like you’re saying calling evil good and good evil and just staying pridefully in your sin and pushing God away, god has to respect your choice and you’re choosing to be lost, basically.
Speaker 3
But God is in no way ever unwilling to forgive you Him. It’s just are you willing to hear God’s voice?
Speaker 2
He wants to forgive you if he will just let him do it by confessing. Yeah.
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