When God Gives Up

Matthew 12:22–32

Intro:

God has drawn a line in the sand in front of everyone who is unsaved and if you cross that line, you will be eternally lost. This is what the Bible calls an unpardonable sin.

I. What it Isn’t:

a. A person who has committed the unpardonable sin wouldn’t care. The unpardonable sin is not murder, lying, theft, or adultery. It’s not atheism or agnosticism. It’s not where you swear some oath and curse the Holy Spirit. All of these can be forgiven, and “the blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, cleanses us from all sin” (1 John 1:7).

II. What it Is:

a. Blaspheming is to hear God’s call and feel His conviction gripping your heart and for you to say “No” deliberately, willfully, callously to the Holy Spirit. To Blaspheme means, “to speak insulting against someone; to defame his character or reputation.” What is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit that Jesus is talking about? In Matthew 12:22-33, Jesus had just healed a man. And the religious leaders said, “Yeah, He did a miracle. We can’t deny it. But He did it in the power of the devil.” They criticized Jesus knowing what they were saying was untrue, but they said it anyway. They said the Lord Jesus Christ was in league with the devil.

III. Why it’s Unpardonable:

a. First, they are sinning against all hope of salvation. When you deliberately turn your back on Jesus, you are sinning against your only means of being saved. They did not WANT to believe on Him, or accept Him; so, they also sinned against their own knowledge of God. That means they sinned against the light. They saw God working and fought against it. That’s why you can blaspheme against God the Father and say He doesn’t exist or say Jesus wasn’t His Son and be forgiven. But, when you sin against the Holy Spirit, you sin against light.

b. To refuse the light is to refuse the Holy Spirit Who brings light. And when you blaspheme Him, then there’s no more light and no more light means you can’t be saved. Men are not going to be judged primarily by the sin they’ve committed, but by the light that they have rejected (John 3:19; Matthew 11:20-24).

IV. The Ramifications:

a. First, the unpardonable sin, will delude you (2 Thessalonians 2:11-12). Second, the unpardonable sin hardens the heart (Hebrews 3:7-8; John 12:37-39; Hebrews 6:4-6). When you willfully, deliberately, continually say, “No) to Jesus Christ, you can reach a point of no return. Genesis 6:3, “My spirit shall not always strive with man.” The Holy Spirit says, “That’s it! I’m not going to speak or draw them anymore.”

b. If you’re afraid that you have committed the unpardonable sin, you haven’t! “Whosoever will may come” (Revelation 22:17). Anybody, anywhere, any place, who says, “I want to be saved,” the Bible says, “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Romans 10:13; Hebrews 4:7).