Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, what was it, what is it? (Matthew 12:22-32)
Blasphemy against the Spirit, a condemnation to the Pharisees who had suggested that Jesus exorcised demons by the power of the chief of the demonic; namely, Beelzebul, is a divine condemnation that cannot be repeated subsequent this unique scenario, why?
The reason Jesus condemned the Pharisees to Hell without hope of a pardon is due the fact that they had been eyewitnesses to the miracles of Jesus which were performed by the power of the Holy Spirit who indwelt Jesus during His Earthly ministry. For this reason, their blasphemy would never be forgiven in this age (Law) or the age to come (Grace).
Today, subsequent Messiah’s ascension, this particular form of “blasphemy against the Holy Spirit” is not possible though there is one form of blasphemy of the Spirit that remains relevant; that is, a rejection of the Holy Spirit’s call upon one’s life to repent and believe the Gospel. If one dies in an unredeemed state having rejected Jesus as their Messiah, there remains only Judgment, there is no hope of eternal life, forgiveness of sin, for that individual (Hebrews 9:27).
Atheist asked: “What governs your mind and how it functions?”
1) If you’re a natural man (1 Corinthians 2:14) living by the Adamic sin-nature (Romans 5:12), your conscience is the arbiter of the eternal, spiritual, law written upon your heart at conception (Romans 2:14-15). This is the path to deception and self-destruction via unmitigated diminishing returns (Jeremiah 17:9; Romans 1:18-32).
2) If you’re a spiritual man living by the anointing and instruction of the indwelling Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16), the Spirit is the Arbiter of your conscience and He is your Law and Authority in daily Christian sanctification (Ephesians 1:13-14). When one walks by the Spirit and not the flesh, they are methodically taught to produce divine fruit (Galatians 5:16-23) that fulfills all moral law and honors God the Father while proving one to be a faithful disciple of Jesus (John 15:8).
You build and nurture a “good relationship” with Elohim first by trusting in Jesus as your Messiah and receiving the indwelling Holy Spirit who is the divine conduit between mankind and the Father through Jesus (John 3; Ephesians 1:13-14; John 14:16).
Once a divine relationship with the Father is established through faith in Jesus (John 6:29; 14:16), you walk daily in obedience to the Holy Spirit’s leadership via daily Christian sanctification (Galatians 5:16) or “setting apart” yourself from the World’s desires to those desires of the Father for your life; that is, as a Christian, the objective is to produce divine fruit (Galatians 5:16-23) that glorifies the Father and demonstrates to the World that you are a faithful disciple of Jesus (John 15:8); this is the foundation of a healthy, eternal, relationship with Elohim (Genesis 1:1).
Prayer, thankfulness, intimacy, learning of Elohim’s divine will through a study of His written word, trusting, alone time, with Elohim is KEY to a divine relationship.
So, you don’t believe the Gospel? Here is the Truth…
Christianity, the New Covenant established in the sinless blood of Jesus (Matthew 26:28; 1 Peter 1:18-19), was ordained via the Gospel of Jesus our Messiah “before time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10) which is the battle strategy used by Messiah Jesus “to destroy the works of the Devil” (Genesis 3:21; 1 John 3:8b) in a World whose creation is predicated upon a WAR between good v. evil. The defeat of Satan at Golgotha is the primary reason Jesus entered the Realm of Time (1 John 3:8b).
Satan and those who reject the Gospel,
Those who reject the Gospel are under the influence-deception of the demonic (2 Corinthians 4:4) and demonic influence is foundational to your rejection of the Holy Spirit’s anointing; the Holy Spirit’s anointing is the only WAY to life and Truth and divine knowledge through faith in Jesus and divine instruction during Christian sanctification (a setting apart) via the indwelling Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14; 1 John 2:27).
The Gospel and the Holy Spirit’s anointing,
The divine anointing (preparation for service in the New Jerusalem) of the Holy Spirit is only available to those who have trusted in Jesus as Messiah as the Spirit is the Guarantor of New Covenant relationship with the Father (Ephesians 1:13-14); therefore, if you are absent the Spirit, you are dead spiritually and will perish in Hell in your sin (1 Corinthians 2:14; John 8:24).
Your unrepentant sin, your Adamic sin nature (Romans 5:12) void the blood atonement only provided by Jesus, will NOT be permitted to enter the Kingdom of Elohim (Revelation 21:27) and the “second death” in Hell is the only appropriate resultant for having rejected the Truth of the Gospel of Jesus our Messiah (Revelation 20:11-15).
Therefore,
I sincerely suggest that you consider the absolute hopelessness of foolishly rejecting the Gospel of Jesus our Messiah and repent of your sin, trust-believe the Gospel (John 3:16). Jesus as your Messiah is your ONLY HOPE (John 14:6)!
Concerning the Anti-Trinity Religionist’ who professes to be a Christian but unfortunately exists in deadly deception…know this…
First of all, Jesus has clearly articulated that Elohim (Genesis 1:1) is One-Deity expressed in Three-distinct Persons identified as Father, Son, Spirit (Matthew 28:19; John 14:6; John 10:28-30) and these Three are coequal concerning all Deific attributes.
Father – Administrator
Son – Creator, Warrior, Messiah, Judge
Holy Spirit – Logistics
Second of all, The Holy Spirit has clearly told you that Jesus is our Creator – Elohim (Genesis 1; John 1; Hebrews 1; Colossians 1).
Third, Jesus has clearly told you that unless you believe He is “I AM” (Exodus 3:14) “you will die in your sin” (John 8:24). The Holy Spirit teaches us that the one who is truly redeemed by faith in Jesus, the one who is truly “born again” by faith in Jesus as their Messiah (John 3) will know and testify that Jesus is Elohim (Genesis 1:1) (God). The one who is truly redeemed by faith will KNOW that Jesus is our Creator and will openly, publicly, testify to same without reservation.
Sincere warning,
Though it is not absolutely essential that one seeking redemption from sin and death in Hell through repentance and faith in Jesus as Messiah also confess that Jesus is Deity, it is a divine truism that the one who HAS BEEN redeemed by faith in Jesus as Messiah has, by New Covenant promise, also received the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor of New Covenant relationship with the Father (Ephesians 1:13-14) and the redeemed in Jesus, by the anointing of the indwelling Holy Spirit, will know and confess that Jesus is our Creator, Elohim.
Therefore, if one professes to know Jesus as Messiah; if one truly believes they are redeemed by faith but they don’t see the necessity for Messiah’s Deity or they openly deny Messiah’s Deity, they are an apostate; they are self-deceived; they are Satan’s representative in the Realm of Time; they do NOT possess the indwelling Holy Spirit nor are they a child of the Father entitled to New Covenant promise of forgiveness through redemption via Messiah’s blood atonement (Hebrews 8:12).
In closing,
The signs that one is truly born again by faith is a changed life seeking righteousness and holiness (2 Corinthians 5:17), the production of divine fruit motivated by the indwelling Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16-23) and the knowledge and testimony that Jesus is Elohim, our Creator – divine Deity (John 8:24; John 14:8-11; John 10:30).
Atheists-Secular Humanists mock the account of a “talking serpent” in Eden immediately subsequent the Creation Narrative, what is the Truth?
If you studied and sought Elohim with a pure heart, you would understand the deeper Truths of Scripture and how the Holy Spirit weaves these beautiful threads together throughout His words via precept upon precept and line upon line. It is the one who searches and seeks and desires spiritual knowledge with a heart willing to believe that receives the deeper Truths of Scripture often likened to the peeling away of an onion skin…the more steadfast the search, the more spiritual truth the Holy Spirit reveals.
First of all…there was no “talking snake” in Eden but the Holy Spirit used the attributes of a serpent as analogous to the attributes of Satan. If one studies and listens to the Spirit, they will find that the Holy Spirit discreetly describes what Eve observed and communed with in Eden and why she was so enamored by what she observed.
You, in your atheism, are physics bound – you do not possess the cognitive and spiritual acuity, due your atheism, to understand that the World constrained by the Realm of Time is a minuscule, almost irrelevant and temporary, fragment of reality and that there exists a Spiritual Realm surrounding us, permeating us, that is infinitely superior and more detailed and complex than this temporary creation that is decaying daily; in fact, 99% of all that is manifesting before our eyes is rooted in the unseen Spiritual World…Jesus plainly tells you that He is NOT from this Realm of Time…His Kingdom is in the Spiritual World (John 18:36). We too are spirits constrained by a decaying body of flesh and our true selves will not be free until we rid our self of this body of sin subject to physics and death.
If you desire to know what Eve observed in Eden, I’ll share the Holy Spirit’s account as He interrupts the prophet Ezekiel’s warning to the King of Tyre to insert a tidbit of knowledge to those who seek it…the MEME below articulates these relevant verses.
It has been said that there exists some 1050 New Testament Commandments – what is the Christian to do concerning obedience that pleases Elohim?
Discussion,
Christians do NOT chase after letters whether those letters are etched in stone, scratched upon parchment or codified in the Old Covenant or the New Covenant…Christians don’t chase letters because the letter kills but the Spirit gives life; that is, Christians walk daily by the indwelling Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:16; John 14:26) and it is He, alone, who enlivens the “spiritual law” written upon the human heart and mates that enlivened spiritual law with the redeemed conscience, the “new creation” (2 Corinthians 5:17), and this mating of spiritual law – the redeemed conscience forms a divine catalyst whereby the Spirit produces divine “fruit” (Galatians 5:16-23) through the redeemed in Jesus and this divine fruit fulfills every moral law whether they be codified or spiritual (Galatians 5:23); in fact, you cannot remember all that Jesus taught sufficiently to apply same when confronted with the myriad of moral decisions encounter daily; this work of the Holy Spirit through the redeemed is the ONLY way a man or woman pleases the Father through daily sanctification via obedience to the Holy Spirit, an anointing, divine work, of the Spirit, the Spirit’s work through you that prepares the Father’s children for service in the New Jerusalem. If you were capable of keeping letters sufficiently to please the Father, Jesus died needlessly (Galatians 2:21). It is the Spirit who is glorified through our obedience to His guidance and leadership.
Concerning those in bondage to Sinai and Moses…there is freedom and life in Christianity; this, through faith in Jesus and daily sanctification via the indwelling Holy Spirit (Romans 6:14; 7:6)…
Confession,
As a Christian, I know Sinai was given solely to Israel’s children for sanctification and eschatological purposes and I know that Sinai is but a mere fragment of my Lord’s comprehensive Spiritual Law that has been extant as an arbiter of free will subsequent the creation of the angels; therefore, I find that in the New Covenant, I’m not under or obligated to Sinai or Moses’ letters but I’m under grace (Romans 6:14) and I don’t live my life pursuing letters etched in stone or scratched upon parchment but I walk daily in sanctification via the indwelling Holy Spirit who enlivens the spiritual law written upon my heart (Romans 2:15-16; 8:2) and mates that law with a redeemed conscience (2 Corinthians 5:17) given through my faith in Jesus and the Spirit produces divine “fruit” (Galatians 5:16-23) through me that fulfills all law, eternally; therefore, I do NOT live daily thinking about, enslaved to or seeking obedience to Sinai or Moses but I live by the Spirit’s guidance and He walks me daily in a manner that glorifies the Father; in this, there is intimacy and divine peace (Romans 5:1).
Perhaps, one day, if you find, accept, receive, Jesus as your Messiah and receive the Holy Spirit as Guarantor of that New Covenant relationship (John 3; Ephesians 1:13-14), you will understand these words and live by the Spirit and not in bondage to letters that only condemn and curse you void atonement (Romans 3:20; Galatians 3:10; 2:16).
Someone said that “True love is keeping the Commandments.” Is this true?
Discussion,
The Commandments don’t espouse “love” but condemnation (Romans 3:20). Faith in the One who embodies the Commandments, the Logos of Elohim (John 1), espouses true love as that faith honors the Father (John 6:29) and engenders New Covenant relationship with Him (John 3) and subsequently engenders obedience through the indwelling Spirit (Galatians 5:16); therefore, the letter kills as it defines man’s culpability void atonement (Romans 3:20); the Spirit gives life through the Son via faith (2 Corinthians 3:6).
Divinely inspired obedience results from true love for the Son, the Father, the Holy Spirit, this, by faith and this engenders obedience inspired by the indwelling Holy Spirit via the production of divine fruit that fulfills all law, divine fruit of the Spirit that methodically fulfills every divine Commandment as there is no law against the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:16-23).
Yes, Jesus did say “If you love me you will obey my Commandments” (John 14:15) but “love” comes first and true obedience naturally flows through the Holy Spirit given as Guarantor of New Covenant relationship with the Father (Ephesians 1:13-14) as true obedience is NOT possible void the Spirit (Galatians 5:16).
Faith in Jesus that honors the Father (John 6:29).
Receive the indwelling Holy Spirit and walk in obedience to the Spirit’s tutelage in daily sanctification producing fruit that honors the Father’s will (Ephesians 1:13-14; Galatians 5:16).
Live in peace with Elohim, eternally (Romans 5:1).
Someone said that the Holy Spirit is a Comforter but does not convict the World of sin. Is this true? What is the purpose of the Holy Spirit?
Discussion,
The Holy Spirit is the Arbiter of free will concerning the human conscience relevant to behavioral discernment; this, pertaining to both the lost and the redeemed as the Spirit is a “restrainer” of evil (2 Thessalonians 2:7); therefore, the Holy Spirit urges humanity toward behaviors that are sustainable and His intercession and work in the life of the Christian is magnified by the Spirit’s indwelling presence given as Guarantor of Covenant through faith in Jesus as Messiah (Ephesians 1:13-14; John 14:16; Galatians 5:16).
It is the seared, corrupted, human conscience, the stubborn and defiled conscience that has repeatedly eschewed the intercession of the Spirit that is given-over to a life of nihilism and defilement; therefore, how can one say that the Holy Spirit plays no role in convicting the individual and the World of sin (Romans 1:18-32)?
The Holy Spirit and Christian sanctification,
Concerning the redeemed in Jesus, it is the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit during daily Christian sanctification as Counselor, Teacher and Tutor (John 14:16; 1 John 2:27) that prepares the Christian for service in the New Jerusalem; therefore, I disagree with you that the Holy Spirit plays no role in convicting the conscience of ungodly conduct as this conviction is the initiation phase of repentance, repentance being essential for salvation concerning the lost and essential for restored intimacy concerning the redeemed in Jesus who inevitably relent to the Adamic sin-nature from time-to-time; hence, the need for John 3 concerning the lost and the need for 1 John 1:9 concerning the redeemed in Jesus.
Void the presence of the Holy Spirit in the World as a Restrainer of evil, human kind would implode in unrestrained narcissism and nihilism; this, as the Holy Spirit is the Logistical overseer of the Creation narrative (Genesis 1:2) and the Divine Restrainer of the Evil One (Galatians 5:16; 2 Thessalonians 2:7); this, for Elohim’s eschatological purposes going forward.
Jesus said,
The Work of the Holy Spirit
“I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. 5 But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ 6 But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. 7 Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. 8 And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: 9 concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; 10 concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; 11 concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged. The Gospel of John, Chapter 16
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