Let us reflect on the way we should conduct our lives from this day forward and consider what sort of people we ought to be - in all holy conduct and godliness.51. Let us examine ourselves to see if we are walking in spirit and truth, growing in grace, and living a life that honours our Heavenly Father.
And while we can never lose our salvation, we can quench the Spirit, which dishonours God and is detrimental in our lives. It is a very serious thing to challenge God and speak carelessly about the truth of the gospel and the things of God, and in the light of this warning we should all be careful of the thoughts we think, the words we say, and the motives that manipulate our speech and actions. Such people will bring on themselves swift destruction, for God knows the thoughts of the heart and the motives behind our words and actions. Oh, there are some good 'actors' that can manifest a form of godliness through strict discipline, human programming, or legalistic behaviours, while denying the Lord Who bought them. But no-one who believes that Jesus died for their sin, was buried, and rose again the third day can ever commit this unpardonable sin against the Holy Spirit. and generally it is a sin that is personal to themselves. They worry that they have said or done something that God will not forgive. Some people today worry that they have committed the unforgivable sin. "For by your words you will be justified and acquitted," He warned, "and by your words, you will be judged and condemned." Jesus told them that on the day of judgment, people will have to account for every careless word they speak. While a good man produces good things from his storeroom of good, an evil man produces evil things from his storeroom of evil. for the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart. Their accusation proved that the thoughts of their hearts were only evil continuously. No surprise that Christ referred to these Jewish leaders as 'a brood of vipers'. And so, Christ gave a blistering response to these blind leaders of the blind, "Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man, shall be forgiven him but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come." They accused Jesus of working through the power of Beelzebub and not through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit. They dismissed the prophesied signs and wonders He performed that authenticated His Messianic claims they accused the Lord of the Sabbath of breaking their Sabbath laws when He healed the sick on the Sabbath Day they even accused Him of blasphemy, because He called God His Father.ĭespite the truth Christ taught and the warnings He gave, the Scribes and Pharisees finally went too far by committing the unforgivable sin - they blasphemed the Holy Spirit, by calling Christ the son of the Devil. They knew that Christ came from God, yet refused to come to Him and acknowledge His message, His mission, and His ministry. They murdered John the Baptist who was God's voice in the wilderness, preparing the way of the Lord.
Israel, as God's firstborn, adopted son, had to turn back to the God of their forefathers and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ - God's only begotten Son and anointed King Who would become the 'firstborn' from the dead and Saviour of the world.īoth priests and people had strayed far from God, and the depravity in their hearts was manifested in the fruit they produced. He came to set up His kingdom and, like the prophets of old, He called on the people and the priests to "repent of your sin." The people had fallen into apostasy and sin, and the entire nation had to repent, collectively. Jesus came to the lost sheep of the house of Israel as their long-awaited Messiah.
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