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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 19, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 32.

4155 — Blasphemy

Matt. 12:31 reads, "Therefore I say unto you, Every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven." Are not a great many blasphemers and do not know it? Is it in the rejecting of God's Spirit, the saving power? or is it in words or deeds?

Doubtless there are many who blaspheme and do not recognize that they are blaspheming. Paul even blasphemed the Holy Spirit; that is, he attributed the work of the Spirit of God in Stephen to the work of the enemy. But he tells us in 1 Tim. 1:13: "I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief." But those who did as did the Jews, in the light of the mightiest evidences of the working of God's Spirit, in the healing of the sick, in the restoration of all sorts of afflicted persons, and even the raising of the dead,—to reject such things as these deliberately and attribute them to Satan, was blasphemy which could not be forgiven, because there is no repentance. The man who would reject such evidence as that, will reject all evidence. That is, nothing can be brought to bear upon him that will bring him to see the enormity of his sin, or that will lead him to true repentance. The unforgivable sin is the unrepentable sin. We may do this in deeds and in words, but we must, above all things else, do it in heart. God has two means of reaching and cleansing the soul,—the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ and the power of the Spirit through His word. If we reject these, He has no other means of reaching us.