The easy answer is to say, “get saved,” and, while that is true (it’s the only way one cannot), there is much more to the story than that. How Can We Avoid Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit?
It’s the Spirit who convicts of sin and if you are so hardened to it that you can say it’s of the devil and not of God, there’s no hope of coming to a saving knowledge of the truth of who God is. If your heart is so resistant to the point of attributing His works to the devil, it will remain impermeable. When a person commits his life to the Lord Jesus (realizes he is a sinner, confesses his sins, asks forgiveness, repents of his sins, and makes Jesus Lord of his life), he is immediately indwelt with the Holy Spirit, who has sealed us in Him and has been given as a guarantee ( 2 Corinthians 1:19-22).īlasphemy of the Holy Spirit can only be committed by an unsaved person because no one who knows and loves Jesus would attribute His works to the devil or his demons. It is an act of one’s will, and those who know and believe His claims are true and still choose to attribute what He does to the devil will not be forgiven. Uttering blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is unforgivable because only an unsaved person who is aware of who God is can do it ( Romans 1:18-32). Therefore, the Pharisees committed blasphemy against the Holy Spirit because they knew the work was that of the Spirit, yet willfully rejected it. 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” (cf. The stinger comes in vers es 31-32, when 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. The Pharisees, however, took exception and sought the counsel of Caiaphas, the high priest that year, who said, “…one man should die for the people…” John 11:53 says, “Then from that day on, they plotted to put Him to death.” Because of that, many of the Jews believed in Him ( John 11:45). In John 11, we read the account of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. The Jews then took up stones to stone Him and when Jesus asked them why, they replied, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God” ( John 10:33). He also tells them “I and My Father are one” ( John 10:25-30).
Jesus tells the Pharisees they do not believe (in Him) because they are not of His sheep. That they wished to destroy Him is evident also in John 10:33, which takes place later in Jesus’ ministry. “Then the Pharisees went out and plotted against Him, how they might destroy Him” ( Matthew 12:14, Mark 3:6, Luke 6:11). Jesus once more demonstrated His authority and healed a man who had a withered hand. The Pharisees (which means, “separate ones”) were strict adherents to the law and had great influence over its role in the lives of the Jewish people at that time.Īfter the confrontation in the grain field, Jesus went into the synagogue and was again accosted by the Pharisees, who asked if a man could be healed on the Sabbath. The Pharisees were supposed to be masters of Old Testament law, and Jesus called them out regarding their misunderstanding of the Sabbath. For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.” What Is Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit?īlasphemy against the Holy Spirit is attributing to the devil what has clearly been done by the Spirit.
But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. Jesus confronts them, stating (emphasis added), “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God and ate the showbread which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless? Yet I say to you that in this place there is One greater than the temple. In Matthew 12, Jesus and His disciples had just entered Jerusalem after an encounter with the Pharisees, who condemned them for plucking and eating grain on the Sabbath. First, let's look at what Jesus said about blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. The subject of blasphemy bears a thorough look at the context in which it was declared by Jesus.
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