Unforgivable
Sin II
[An Advanced Study]
[All verses
are from the King James version with explanations in
black]
The unforgivable sin is called in the Bible the sin against the Holy Ghost. It’s also called blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. In II Corinthians chapter 1.
I want to show you from God’s Word first of all again that there are two gods. The vast majority of so-called Christian believers do not even believe that there are two gods. They believe there is only one God. Of course, they believe in the Trinity but that’s not what I’m talking about. They don’t believe that there is a Satan who is a god and that there is a God who is the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. They do not believe this and naturally if you do not understand this, you could never understand the unforgivable sin.
When it comes to the commentaries, the Bible scholars so-called, the biblical schools, you might as well forget about reading all the junk that’s been written through the years. It’s a waste of the Lord’s time. You just gotta come back and work the Word because they don’t know the answer. At least none of them that I have ever read and I suppose I read about as many as any of you through the years. But they go to subjects like, if you reject the Lord Jesus Christ long enough, in other words, we have, you know, a salvation sermon every Sunday. Some of you used to belong to these outfits. Every Sunday, no matter if everybody in the auditorium was saved, we still had a salvation sermon. Got so tired of getting saved all the time, every Sunday because no more Word just salvation. Well, they say, if you’re given an opportunity to accept the Lord Jesus Christ and you continue to reject him, God’s going to run out of something or other and finally you are going to commit the unforgivable sin and you’re just not going to get saved.
And every time I hear that and perhaps I’ve heard that 1000 times, I always think of this poor fellow that was hanging on the cross, next to Jesus. I think his name was Mr. Malefactor, if I remember correctly. He was really in the soup, wasn’t he? It was a last-minute deal. Right up hanging on the cross. Almost completely, life was completely gone. He said to Jesus, Father remember me when you get in your kingdom Jesus, remember? Lord, remember me when you get in the kingdom. And Jesus said to him, verily I say unto thee today, you are going to be with me.
And he [one of the malefactors] said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee today, thou shalt be with me in paradise. – Luke 23: 42, 43
That fellow just made it by the
skin of his teeth, right? He had a whole
lifetime before this to get to it. He
certainly must have committed the unforgivable sin. No.
Else Jesus could not have said to him that he would be with him sometime
in the future in
Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; -- II Corinthians 1: 3
That’s a wonderful God, isn’t it? That’s the God that you and I know as our personal God, as our Savior. He is God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. If Jesus Christ was God, God must have Fathered himself according to this verse, right? He says he’s the God and father, he is the Father of our Lord what? That’s what it says, right? That’s what it means. Now if Jesus Christ was God, then God Fathered himself. I never thought of that before, but that’s good. Well, this is how the Word gels in the life of a man as he’s worked it so many times. Sometimes you don’t see these things and you work it.
What did I get so blessed about in
He therefore that [who] ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? -- Galatians 3: 5
I had forgotten that I knew the truth of that thing years ago, but you know what that says? He who ministereth the Spirit and worketh miracles among you. The ministering of the spirit is the working of a miracle, that verse says and that just blessed my soul that night. It just came back to my cognizance of my mind, you know. Like they believed in Acts 8, in Phillip’s preaching because they heard and saw the miracles which he did. It has to be there. Well, this is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. He’s the father of mercies and he’s the God of all comfort. Isn’t that wonderful? If I was after this tonight, I’d take these words apart like the father of mercies and take the Word God and make these things live. There’s a lot more in that verse that I’m just reading to you. But I would like to read the next verse with you – also verse 4.
Who [God] comforteth us in all our tribulation [that’s a great God, isn’t it? He comforts us in all our tribulation] that we may be able [what for? That we, you and I, who have been comforted and know God’s Word and God’s Will, that we may be able to comfort others who are what? Isn’t that a wonderful ministry? Last Sunday night, I taught on our emergency God. That’s good too. Even then, even then, look at it. He makes it possible for us to comfort them which are in any trouble, [how?] by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. -- II Corinthians 1: 4
[literal translation according to usage].
Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. – II Corinthians 1: 4 KJV
Isn’t that glorious? You can’t give anything if you haven’t got it. But if you have been comforted by God, you know the greatness of this. That he the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ has done this, then you can comfort someone else in the same comfort wherewith God comforted you. In chapter 4 and in verse 4. Verse 3 it says:
But if our gospel [if our gospel, and this is the gospel of the ministry, the body] be hid, it is hid to them that are lost; -- II Corinthians 4: 3
That’s right. For those who are going to be saved whenever that Word of God is given, that man is going to believe. That’s right. If the man hears it and does not believe, he’s never going to get saved anyway. Because salvation depends upon believing. And believing is an individual deal. And if the gospel of the ministry of the body of Christ be hid, it’s hid to those who just desire to be lost. Why?
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. -- II Corinthians 4: 4
Verse 4 explained in detail:
The god of this world - here is an entirely different god than the one we just read about in the first chapter, right? This is the god of the world and this god is called Satan in the Bible. He’s called the prince of devils.
Remember Ephesians says we wrestle not against flesh and blood, right? But against principalities, spiritual powers from on high.** This is the second god. There are two Gods. One is the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ. The other god is Satan.
** For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness from on high. -- Ephesians 6: 12
Now, in Matthew chapter 12 please. I want to give you all of these references. Matthew chapter 12, verse 31.
Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy against the [pneuma – Spirit] Holy Ghost, shall not be forgiven unto men. -- Matthew 12: 31
And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of Man, [Jesus Christ] it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost [pneuma hagion] , it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come. -- Matthew 12: 32
Here it is called blasphemy against the Spirit in verse 31.
In the gospel of Mark. Mark chapter 3 and in verse 29.
But he that shall blaspheme
against the Holy Ghost [pneuma hagion] hath never forgiveness,
but is in danger of eternal damnation: Because they said, He hath an unclean
spirit. -- Mark
They were born of some seed which we will see later on. This here is called blasphemy against the Holy Spirit in verse 29.
In Luke chapter 12. And in context you will see if you read the whole record, they’re basically all the same. Luke chapter 12 but with a little variation like the four crucified. Like the day Jesus Christ died. You have to put them all together, understand? You add them up and keep them straight. Luke chapter 12 and in verse 10.
And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost [pneuma hagion] it shall not be forgiven. -- Luke 12: 10
Here again it’s called blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. In the book of Genesis in chapter 3, you will recall that there are 2 seeds mentioned. Again, we want to read it tonight. Immediately after the fall of man in Genesis chapter 3, we have this tremendous record in verse 15 where God said I would put enmity, separation, between thee, the serpent, and the woman - between the two of them. Between thy seed, the seed of the serpent, the seed of the devil, the seed of Satan and her seed, the seed of the woman. Now we all know that a woman does not have seed. But the reason this is spoken is tremendous because Jesus Christ, we heard a little while ago, that God is the father of Jesus Christ, understand? And this mentioning it as the seed of the woman tells you immediately that this creation of this life which is going to be, Jesus Christ, has to be a divine move on the part of God. And that’s why it’s not of many seeds, but of one and that seed according to the church epistle is Christ and God wrought Jesus Christ in the way in which we have taught it and understand the Word teaches it in and which we handle, of course, almost every Christmas season among our people.
So here you have two seeds. That’s the first thing I want you to see. When you plant potatoes, you get potatoes. When you plant onions, you get onions. Plant corn, you get corn. When you have a seed, you get the results of that seed. You cannot change the result of seed. You cannot plant potatoes and then stay up all night and pray for a wheat crop. You cannot plant the seed of the serpent and then stay up all night and pray well Lord, I want to be a good boy, I want to work for you. I want you to save everybody in the world. That’s right. Two seeds. Can you remember that as we go to John? 2 gods, 2 seeds. John chapter 8. That’s not the chapter I’m looking for. I’m looking for that one where he says, you are of your father the devil. Which verse? In John 8 – how come I couldn’t spot it in here? Okay, okay, okay, wonderful. You see this is the chapter where they said Jesus was born of fornication. That’s what they told him in verse 41. Then said they, these were the leaders, the heads of the temple, the top spiritual echelon. Then said they to him, we be not born of fornication, we have one father, God.
Ye do the deeds of your father. They said to him, We be not born of fornication [adultery]; we have one Father, even God. -- John 8: 41
Jesus said unto them, if God were your Father (Talking about an entirely different God and an entirely different Father), ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
Jesus said unto them, if God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. -- John 8: 42
Why do ye not understand my speech? [Why?] Even because ye cannot [ye cannot] hear my word. -- John 8: 43
If a man has arrived at the place that he just cannot,
something has happened to him that has made it impossible for him to receive
something. Verse 44 tells us exactly
what that is.
Ye are of your father, the devil, [ye are of, ye are of, of, if you are of someone, you have seed in you. I am the son of my mother and father. You are the son of so and so. You are the daughter of so-and-so. Once your born of seed, you can’t get un- born of that seed. I am John Doe because of the seed that’s in me. You can’t take this seed out of me because I am born of seed. Jesus said to these religious leaders at that time who were really putting the screws to him, trying to. He said, you say God is your father. They just forgot to say which God was their father. He said, you are of the devil. Your father is the devil. Now the children are the result of that which has been fathered. The father fathers the children. Now if a child is of the seed of the father and his father is the devil, then that child belongs to who? Satan. Right? Because he is born of what? Seed. Now the natural man of body and soul has no spiritual seed in him. He’s just a natural man – just is a good ‘Joe’ many times. He has no seed in him. He’s a man of body and soul. Now if you understand from the Word of God the new birth, as a Christian you have no difficulty in understanding those who are born of the seed of the serpent. And it is to be born of the seed of the serpent that’s the unforgivable sin which is the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. -- John 8: 44
In I John, the epistle. I John chapter 3. You see when I was born physically into this world, I am of the seed of my father. When I am born again of God’s spirit, I’m of the seed of my Father, spiritually. Now people could understand the new birth, eternal life, real easily if they just sat down and thought about the first birth a little bit. If they just logically would sit and think about the first birth, you wouldn’t have all the trouble in the so-called Christian church today regarding eternal life and all the other stuff that they talk about. Because I am John Doe by seed and I will be John Doe as long as I live. If I don’t like it, what can I do about it? Jesus said to Nicodemus, you can’t, or Nicodemus said to Jesus. Do I have to enter into my mother’s womb a second time? Well, it’s impossible to do this, got enough trouble coming the first time.
You see, if we only understood some of these things, but you know what happens? Satan has blinded our eyes. He doesn’t want us to understand. Because he wants people only to say that there is only one God and that this God is responsible for all the trouble on earth. That is one of his finest little lies. It is fabulous how beautifully he can lie and get lots of people to believe it. The true God, the God and father of Jesus Christ. That that God is responsible for all the sickness, all the meanness, all the devilishness, all the death, everything else that’s upon earth. The Bible says that the author of death is Satan. Hebrews 2: 14, remember?
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; -- Hebrews 2: 14
He is the author of it, but Satan doesn’t want people to know that. He wants people to think that it’s the true God that does it. And he doesn’t get blamed, he can around chopping people off all of the time. The true God gets the blame. If the true God’s people finally wake up and if the true God does that, might as well quit. So they quit. He’s really got them really hooked. It says in verse 9 of chapter 3, back to I John.
Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God [in the spirit]. – I John 3: 9
Whosoever, whosoever means what? Whosoever, simple - is born of God. If you’re born of God, whose child are you? God’s. You’re a child of the seed of which you are born. Doth not commit sin. That’s right. Because the first time I’m born, I’m born of the seed of my earthly father. And the seed of that earthly father – my daddy did a little sinning. Did yours? Mommy too. You see as earthly parents, we have sin. And if your born again of that seed, what are you going to do? Sin. But when I’m born of God, I get a new seed in me. It’s not a physical seed because God is what? Spirit. Therefore, he can only give what He is, then I must be born of spirit. When I’m born of God, I have spirit in me and that spirit within me doth not what? Because it’s his seed.
The first seed I can sin in but the second seed, when I’m born again, that I cannot, in the spirit, sin. That’s right. Why? Look at it. For his seed remaineth in him. To be born of God is to have seed, the seed remaineth in him and that seed Galatians as it says is Christ is the seed. Romans, isn’t it? Christ is that seed. Well, it agrees with the record in the epistles where it’s Christ in you, the hope of glory, the new birth, all of that. His seed remaineth in him and he, the one who is born of God cannot sin. Where? In that seed of which he is born the second time. But what about the seed he’s born the first time? Does he still have that when he is born of the seed the second time? Sure. Because the first seed is physical seed, the second seed is spiritual. First line tells us born of God. Last line says we’re born of God. Just to reiterate it. And when something is given twice in the Word, it is what? Established. And boy, you are to wash the cobwebs out of your mind, and all the paraphernalia out of your ears and say well that’s what the Word says, that’s what it means and that’s just what it says, that’s just what it means. To be born of God, and He said it twice in one verse, so that people would really believe it and understand it. Now in I John 3: 10
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the [who?] devil; [two children, two children] whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. – I John 3: 10
For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. – I John 3: 11
Not as Cain, who was of, of, of, of that wicked one.
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his
brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were
evil, and his brother’s righteous. -- I John 3: 12
Who was Cain born of? The seed of what? How long has the seed of Satan been available? Since the fall of man in Genesis chapter 3. How long has the seed of Christ been available? Pentecost, that’s right. So God must be a piker, the true God. Because Satan’s seed was available for thousands of years before the seed of Christ was available. That used to bother me, I didn’t know if it ever bothered you. Maybe it hasn’t, because you haven’t had to put the whole Bible together and get it meaningful in every segment of it. I couldn’t understand why Satan could have children for thousands of years and God couldn’t have any. That, in my human mind, said well then, Satan’s got more power than God has. But when I understood the spiritual principles of Satan how he operates, and the spiritual principles of how the true God operates, I had the answer. Satan, as a father, always possesses. The true God never possesses. The true God simply makes it available. He sets it out and makes it available and He says whosoever will, may come. But when people open the trap door and Satan wants to, he jumps in and he possesses them. Now God could not have seed available until Jesus Christ came and Jesus Christ could not come until some woman believed. And that took thousands of years after the fall. Until a woman rose up who was big enough spiritually to say “be it unto me according to thou Word” without doubt for the moment you doubt, Mark 11. All through the years, women have talked about bringing the Messiah, but no woman ever brought it because no one ever believed, until Mary came. That’s why Satan had all those kids through the years. God couldn’t have a child because no woman rose up to believe until Mary came along. And Mary said ‘be it unto me according to thy Word.’
Then came the day of Pentecost when people were able to be born again for the first time of the right seed. And since that time, whenever a person confesses with his mouth the Lord Jesus, believe God raised him from the dead, he is doing the works of righteousness. It is doing right work while the right work you have to do is to confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, believe God raised him from the dead, and you’re born again. But old Cain, bless his old heart or something. Cain was born of who? The wicked one, Satan.
Now how do you get born again? As a Christian believer, you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, you believe God did what? Then you confess the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ as your God. How do people get born of the seed of the serpent? The same way except they confess the other god as their Lord and as their Savior and the one they want to believe in. That’s how they get born. Only way you can get born. They confess as a natural man of body and soul, confesses with his mouth, Satan as his god, as his Lord. And believe that that power, that power is the true God. That’s how they get born of the seed of the serpent. Same way people get born of the right seed, people get born of the wrong seed because they act. Now, there’s a tremendous difference between possession and birth. A man could be possessed in certain segments of his mind by devil spirits, but that is not birth. To be born, you have to have seed and you cannot eradicate the seed. Therefore, when a person is born of the seed of the serpent, he has committed what sin? The unforgivable one. That’s why it cannot be forgiven because it’s blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. It’s blasphemy against God because that person chose Satan as his god. To worship Satan, to walk for Satan rather than to choose the true God who is the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ. And when they’re born of the seed of the serpent, don’t do any good to pray for them, because you can’t get what out of them? The seed. You just can’t get it out of them because they’re born of the wrong seed.
Now Cain was not rejected by God Almighty because God didn’t like his fruit offering fruit of the field offering, that’s right. He didn’t like his wheat or his corn. That’s a tremendous thing for a farmer, isn’t it? Somebody come along and say well God couldn’t accept Cain’s offering because it was a farm offering. Wheat, corn, grain, fruit, well, vegetarian or whatever it was, I don’t know. Why, anybody that looked at that would know that that couldn’t be the answer because you know a lot of people who are fruit farmers and other farmers and so forth. Wonderful God filled spiritual people. They take and bring up their material things and make an offering. What difference does it make if you brought a bushel of wheat or if you’re paid the amount of money. If you’re a farmer, it had to come out of the wheat, or out of the corn, or out of the hogs or someplace along the line. But this verse answers all the questions. The reason God couldn’t acccept his offering was not because of the produce he bought, but because he was born of the wrong what? But he went through the channels. He did everything according to ritual. He folded his hands at the right time, at the right place. He knelt at the altar at the right time, at the right place. He went through all of that wonderful paraphernalia and the Word says, it didn’t mean anything because he was born of the seed of the serpent. That’s why God couldn’t except his offer. Now, verse 13.
Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. -- I John 3: 13
We know [not question, not doubt] that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brethren abided in death. -- I John 3: 14
Whosoever hateth his brother is a [what?] murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding [where] in him. -- I John 3: 15
In I John
If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto [what?] death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. -- I John 5: 16
That sin unto death. He said don’t pray for it. No need of praying for it because that sin unto death is called the unforgivable sin. While the other, born of the other spirit or the other seed means to have eternal life. I teach it in the foundational class on the film, you’ve seen it.
That these two seeds, when people are born again of the seed of Christ, they have the love of God within them. Because God is love, God is also Spirit, God is also holy. To be born of the seed when Christ comes, you have love born on the inside. It’s a spiritual deal. And that Christ in you plus all that he brings is eternal life. On the other hand, if a man of body and soul confesses Satan as his god, he is born of the seed of Satan. And where he has the hate, he has hate, while on the other side, a man born of the seed of Christ has love.
You cannot hate - a man cannot hate except he is born of the seed of the serpent. You can become violently angry, you can become teed off, but you cannot biblically hate. Hate is of the spirit. Love, on the other hand, is of the spirit too. Because what man calls love is never love except a man is born again of God’s spirit because you cannot give what you haven’t got. And until a man is born again of God’s spirit, he does not have the love of God, right? Therefore he can’t give love, he can only give fileo which they call brotherly love and that is only me that I’m good to you because you are good to me. And when you are no longer good to me, I am no longer going to be good to you. It means that you scratch my back , I scratch yours. You’re in business, I buy from you because I’m in business, you buy from me. That’s love. No, that’s not love. Biblically, biblically, love is a spiritual deal. Biblically, hate is a spiritual deal and you can’t be born of 2 seeds. You are either one or the other when you are born again. If you’re born again of the God and father our Lord Jesus Christ, you have love in the Spirit. If a person is born again of the seed of the serpent, he has hate within him. Only a man born of the seed of the serpent can hate, biblically speaking. I don’t care what the world uses in terms, it doesn’t bother me one bit. That’s what the Word means, that’s what the Word uses and that’s why it’s used.
Because no man can hate except he’s born of the wrong seed. And no man can love except he is born of the seed of Christ, God in Christ. Because love is a spiritual deal. And no man could have that love until he had God in Christ in him because God so loved that he gave and Christ so loved that he lived within. This is why you are in I John. This is set so beautifully and it is so simple, so simple, some people will say well is there anybody who would confess Satan as his father? Well, let me ask you. Is there anybody in the auditorium here tonight who has confessed Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior? Then by the same token, why don’t you give other people the privilege that they can confess Satan by the same logic? Which is true. And then hundreds of people, thousands of them across the world who have confessed with their mouth Satan as their god who believe in it.
We’ve even got a church in
This is why on the other side of the coin, spiritually speaking, when you’re born again of God’s spirit, could you ever commit a sin that God could not forgive? No. And it is not sin that keeps people out of heaven. It’s the rejection of the Savior from sin, the Lord Jesus Christ that keeps men and women out. Well praise God or none of us would make it. That’s right. It is not sin that keeps men and women out. It’s the rejection of the Savior from sin.
Because the man of body and soul who is born again of the true God has spirit in him and in that spirit he cannot sin, but in the body and soul man of that seed, he can still what? Sin. But not in the spirit, and it’s the spirit that goes back to where it came from. It is the spirit that’s eternal and that’s life. This, being born of the seed of the serpent is the unforgivable sin. Now can a man be born of two seeds? Physically. Can you be born of two seeds spiritually then? No. A man could be born of one seed physically and never get born of any seed spiritually. Then he just goes through life a natural man of body and soul. And the natural man of body and soul legally belongs to who? So I let Satan dispose of him according to his own plan. But a man on the other hand may be confronted with the reality of confessing with his mouth the Lord Jesus Christ, believe God raised him from the dead and if the man does that, he is born body, soul, and spirit and that spirit is eternal life. On the other hand, if a natural man of body and soul is confronted with the facts of Satan, and Satan’s life, and what Satan does and he confesses with his mouth Satan as his Lord. He is born of the seed of the serpent and has eternal death written within him and that is the unforgivable sin. This born of the seed of Christ is such a tremendous reality that we should just be grateful and thankful to God for having made available to us the Lord Jesus Christ. So that we can confess with our mouth the Lord Jesus, that we do believe God raised him from the dead. That we are born of that seed and thank God you can’t get un-born and get the other seed born within you. That’s what I mean when I say to my classes. We’re heaven bound and all hell can’t stop us from going. Every time I use that phrase, this unforgivable sin teaching puts up in my mind. Because it’s such a tremendous reality. That when you’re born of seed, you can’t change the seed. And when Christ is in us, the hope of glory, we’re going to go to heaven and nothing is going to stop us en route. We’re heaven bound, on the glory road, no matter how much misery the rest of the people want to be to us, they can’t stop us from going. Because He is in us and that’s the greatest reality in the world today.
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