![]() ![]() 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 in the age to come. Matthew 12:31-32 "Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men. Please turn with me to Matthew 12, where we find a warning about crossing a line which cannot be uncrossed. And yet, Jesus had an earlier interaction with the Pharisees which caused the Son of God to utter some of the most serious words in the entire Book. Perhaps no other group of people epitomizes this contrariness as the Pharisees of Christ’s day, upon whom Jesus pronounces “woe” 8 times in one chapter. No matter the topic, mankind has developed a contrary viewpoint, and also developed the confidence that he is right. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” The Bible provides a consistent record of this fact, and from the beginning of the book to the end, we see mankind at odds with his Creator. In Isaiah 55:8-9, God says, “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways. God's thoughts are higher than our thoughts and His plans are way beyond our scrutiny. ![]() Injuriously speaking (judging the state of other peoples' conversion) is a fast track to committing the unpardonable sin. We dare not presumptuously and pompously try to speak for God in determining who is a tare and who is not. In God's scattering of the Church, we are unable to know where and how God is working with individuals throughout the greater church of God. There is a point of no return in which rejection of God is so complete that repentance is impossible. Some individuals have sorely grieved God's Holy Spirit through neglect, weakness of the flesh, or some other circuitous detour without quenching God's Spirit. If he willfully commits sin, sustaining opposition to God's Law, committing his heart against God in bitterness or resentment, he is courting mortal peril. The Pharisees in Matthew 12 were sternly warned that attributing God's power to something profane, when one was aware he was doing it, is unpardonable. God's thoughts are infinitely higher than our thoughts.
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