Understanding Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit

Jesus says that every sin will be forgiven,

or can be forgiven,

except one

Mm-hmm

Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.

That is the sin which will never be forgiven.

This is enough to send a shiver down your spine.

Jesus saying, "If you do this thing, you will not be forgiven." I've heard

stories

of Christians who sort of, they're up at night in cold sweat

thinking, "Have I

blasphemed the Holy Spirit? When I made that joke at Christmas about

bringing in

the Holy Spirits, was that... Oh, my God." W- w- you know.

Mm-hmm.

What is blaspheming the Holy Spirit and why is it unforgivable?

Blaspheming the Holy Spirit, I would relate to Romans chapter

1 when Paul talks about how eventually God gave them over to their own

desires.

So blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is not I'm

driving down the Merit and all of a sudden I get into this

incredible road rage

and I curse at somebody or I curse at God and that, those are

the last words on my lips and I die in this road rage.

So it's a sin I'm committing at the end of my life, so it's obviously that's gonna

send me to hell. No, has nothing to do with that.

Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is deciding on my

own, my own volition, it's like Pharaoh, to be honest, that's another example, of

hardening my own heart

and then eventually God hardens my heart.

So it's, I'm gonna live any old way I want to,

Romans chapter 1, and then

God gives me over to my own desires.

Can I just ask for forgiveness at the end of my life and God, you'll just grant me

my wish to go into heaven? Keira Knightley,

live any old way you want.

That's so easy for Christians because then at the end of their lives they can just

say, "God, forgive me." No, Keira.

I love Pirates of the Caribbean, but no, Keira. That's completely wrong.

Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is, "God, I'm playing a dirty trick with you.

I think you'll forgive me no matter what, so I'm gonna live any old kind of way

that I want." And then eventually God gives you over to those

desires.

I mean, suppose I've been thinking to myself like,

"Well, I'm not sure if I should

really be living this way, but I'm sure that one day I'll have a

religious

experience and I, you know, I'm sure God will forgive me

and it'll be okay."

I'm starting to live like that, right? And I'm starting to do that.

And then one day I...

What was I thinking? This is, this is, this is terrible.

I, I, I should never have done that.

I'm really sorry about it. Well, tough luck. You can't be forgiven.

You don't have to worry about that.

Blaspheming against the Holy Spirit means I have played so many games with God

that I've reached the point where my heart is so hard I

never hear the voice of God. I am not sorry for the wrong

that I've done.

Therefore, the only people who've blasphemed the Holy

Spirit are those who could

give a rip. They're totally unconcerned because

they're totally

dead towards God in their spirit.

Pharaoh six times hardens his heart,

then we read the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart.

Well, you take the first six times out and you're thinking, "What?

The Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart?

What does that mean?" No, Pharaoh hardened his heart, and I can

do that.