The Unpardonable Sin

Weeping and crying this person is sitting in my office obviously very upset. They were concerned that they had committed the unpardonable sin and was filled with overwhelming sorrow. After hearing about their sin I insured them that the sin they had committed was not unpardonable or unforgiveable but it was a sin that needed to be confessed and repented of.

This brings us to the question, “What is the Unpardonable Sin?” If you read in  Matthew 12, Mark 3 and Luke 12 they all deal with this very important question. What sin is so great that Jesus Christ said it could not be forgiven? When Jesus makes this bold statement He is responding to how the Scribes and Pharisees have rejected the work of the Holy Spirit that was being done through His ministry.  What we have here is the Pharisees, the religious leaders, the ones who studied and knew the Word of God better than anyone.  They were the ones who knew the works of God, the miracles of God, the way God could work on behalf of men and yet attributed all that the Holy Spirit was doing through Jesus Christ, not to God but to the Devil.

This was not a sin of impulse or ignorance but of willfully rejecting the truth  concerning the life and ministry of Jesus that according to Acts 10:38 was done by the anointing of the Holy Spirit. They had heard His teaching, saw His life, seen His miracles, knew how He had fulfilled the Messianic prophecies and yet they refused to  accept the spiritual truth and knowledge that was right there before them.

When a person has heard, has seen, has been given the truth but not only refuses the truth but says it is all a work of the Devil there is no forgiveness available for him. He has rejected the truth and the author of truth and has even gone another step to proclaiming that the Holy Spirit, the active presence of God and all this is good is from the Devil.  When a person who truly knows the truth concerning the presence and ministry of the Holy Spirit and yet proclaims it to be of Satan that person is not able to receive forgiveness. They have rejected the truth and accepted proclaimed the lie.

Psalms 52:3 “You love evil more than good, Lying rather than speaking righteousness.”

Isaiah 5:20-21 “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;  Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;  Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!  21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,  And prudent in their own sight!”

Malachi 2:17 “You have wearied the LORD with your words; Yet you say, “ In what way have we wearied Him?” In that you say, “ Everyone who does evil Is good in the sight of the LORD, And He delights in them,”
 


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