3—BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT, MARK 3: 29
By Editor
Please explain the meaning of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. G. A. D. God has but two agencies for saving men. These agencies are the blood of Christ for the washing away of our sins, and the eternal Spirit by which we are sanctified and made strong to serve Him. If man utterly rejects these, the Lord has no other means of reaching him. He has chosen his own doom. In other words, he has "counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace." Heb. 10: 29. Read the context in Mark 3. Jesus had been among the Jews, and wrought such miracles as they had never known before, or ever seen before. All these miracles were in harmony with their own Scriptures; yet right in the face of the blessed and divine working, these Jews, who should have been a light to the world, declared that He cast out demons by Beelzebub, the prince of demons. In other words, they attributed to the devil the work of the Spirit of God. The Lord did not arbitrarily cut them off because of that. He does not arbitrarily cut any one off; but when man comes to that place where he will declare that the manifest working of God's Spirit is the devil, he by that act cuts himself off from the very means which God has of reaching him. That is what sin against the Holy Spirit is. It is setting aside the work of the Spirit of God as though it were wrought by the evil one. Doubtless there have been many who have done this in ignorance, and God has accepted them, just as He did the apostle Paul (1 Tim. 1: 13); but he who does that and persists in it, shuts himself off from eternal life, and commits an eternal sin.