-What is the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit?
How do you know if you blasphemed the Holy Spirit?
If you did, is there any hope for you?
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Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.
When I was younger,
when I was very young,
I honestly struggled with intrusive thoughts
for some time.
Partially is because I was ignorant of this topic
not to say anything against the Holy Spirit.
And I really felt like when I was younger,
the enemy took advantage of my ignorance
to fill my mind with these overwhelming thoughts to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.
Now please understand we can be tempted as Christians
to say and do very weird crazy stuff, okay?
Being tempted doesn't mean that you have committed sin.
Being tempted with thoughts of lust,
thoughts even to blaspheme the Spirit of God,
it does not mean that you committed that sin.
Because the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is different
than you falling under the weight of these overwhelming thoughts
to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.
Jesus was tempted,
and I always tell people that He was tempted with something really horrible.
Think about it.
Satan didn't tempt Him to look at pornography,
he didn't tempt Him to smoking joint,
he didn't tempt Him to go and get wasted,
he tempted Him to worship Satan.
Imagine that.
I mean I've been tempted with some pretty crazy thoughts,
bad thoughts,
dirty thoughts,
horrible thoughts.
But in my Christian walk I've never been tempted to go and worship Satan.
Okay?
So Jesus was tempted to worship Satan yet He was still holy and pure.
That tells me that being tempted does not mean that you committed sin.
Okay?
But when you yield to that temptation, that's a different story.
And Satan will use lack of your knowledge concerning the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit
to try to manipulate you and lie to you.
But today I believe that this will help you to overcome this temptation
if you are battling with it.
And if you have maybe yielded to that temptation
and said something under impulsion of these overwhelming thoughts,
you'll honestly be free from that.
Because blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is not what you think it is.
Let's read Matthew 12:31-32.
"Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men,
but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men.
Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him;
but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him,
neither in this age or in the age to come."
Now, Jesus talks about--
it's important that anytime you read the Bible,
you don't take the Scripture out of context and you bring your meaning into it
but you read verses before,
sometimes chapters before and chapters after.
In this situation it's extremely important that you read the verses before.
And in the verses before you will see that Jesus
heals the mute and the blind, by casting out a demon out of him.
And Pharisees quickly jump to their conclusions
and say that Jesus casts out demons by the spirit of the devil.
By demons.
And they couldn't discredit the miracles,
so they wanted to discredit the source that caused this miracle.
And they said that Jesus pretty much casts out demons by the power of Satan.
Now if you read the second reference to blasphemy of Holy Spirit,
it's Mark 3:30, it's even more clear.
Look how it starts,
"Because they said,"
So Jesus is talking about the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit
and He explains why He's talking about this topic in the first place.
He said, "Because they said,
'He has an unclean spirit.'"
Meaning they looked at Jesus and they said,
"You have an unclean spirit that's why You cast out demons."
And in response to that,
Jesus goes on talking about the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.
And now the third reference of the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit
it's in Luke chapter 11 and Luke chapter 12.
Notice that Pharisees did not say anything against the Holy Spirit.
They actually credited deliverance and healing to the devil
when it was clearly done by the power of the Holy Spirit.
And Jesus in response to that talked about the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.
So what is the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit?
According these three chapters, or according to these three references,
blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is giving credit to the devil
for miracles, especially deliverance.
That's a little bit different than what a lot of people are
defining as blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.
Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is giving credit to Satan for deliverance.
Or saying it was done by the power of Satan.
Now I know quite few people who are committing this sin now.
Who are looking at deliverance and they say, "This is done by Satan."
Of course most Christians will not go that far.
They'll just simply say, "This is fake,
this is not real,"
and everything.
But there are those who will go as far as to say, "This is done by witchcraft,
they are operating with Kundalini spirit,
this is demonic."
Demons casting out of demons it's a very long, old controversial debate.
And Pharisees started it and Jesus debunked it by saying,
"Demons can't cast out demons."
But let's dive in.
Let's just say that you are one of those people that's struggling with this,
what do you do?
If you struggled or maybe perhaps you feel like you blasphemed the Holy Spirit
because you had these very compulsive thoughts
that tried to bombard you and you gave in,
the moment of your weakness and you said something
and what do you do then?
So let's talk about it.
The first thing I want to mention is this.
Focus on building your relationship with the Holy Spirit
than living in fear of sinning against the Holy Spirit.
You must understand that as believers we can sin against the Holy Spirit.
By limiting Him,
by grieving Him,
by quenching Him,
and even resisting Him.
But I believe that believers cannot commit willfully and consciously,
the sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit,
because they are sealed by the Spirit.
Jesus is revealed to them by the Spirit.
And the Spirit witnesses to them they are children of God.
The Spirit of God, the anointing upon you teaches you all things.
The Spirit of God guides us.
And so, instead of living in that fear
live with hunger to know the Holy Spirit more.
Switch your fear from, I don't want to sin against the Holy Spirit
to I want to be close to the Holy Spirit.
Jesus never told His disciples to be afraid of blaspheming the Holy Spirit.
He told them to wait for the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
I like to say it like this;
instead of being afraid that you are going to blaspheme the Spirit,
live with desire to live with the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
So that's the first tip that I would give you.
The second one is resist the thoughts of blasphemy of the Holy Spirit
with the word of God.
As I've mentioned already, temptation doesn't mean you committed sin.
But when these thoughts come in, they are not yours.
The enemy is planting them, resist them with the Word of God.
And say to the devil, "It is written."
You know, "I will send you another comforter and He will be with you,
and He will be in you, I will not leave you as orphans."
And just tell the devil, "Go in Jesus' name.
I resist you.
I love the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth.
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus.
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the Father.
The Holy Spirit gives me power to live a Christian life.
And I'm not going to say anything against Him because I love Him.
So devil get behind me in Jesus' name."
So honestly just speak to those thoughts and confront them
and let them go.
Now it's important that you confront these thoughts with your words,
not with your thoughts.
Sometimes if we try to fight thoughts with thoughts,
we get into this crossfire.
The best way to do it is with our words.
Open your mouth and verbally quote the Scripture.
Open your mouth and verbally confront these thoughts.
And you will silence them once and for all.
You don't have to do it very loud,
you don't have to do it in a public setting people are around you,
but you can do it loud enough that you can hear it
and the devil can hear it.
And it does something with those thoughts of temptations that Satan sends
it cripples their ability to continue to function.
Number three,
if you are struggling with blaspheming the Holy Spirit.
Avoid speaking against miracles,
especially deliverance done by Christian ministers whom you do not like.
Okay?
We all have people we like on media, on YouTube,
and we listen to and we recommend to our friends,
we're like, this is the best preacher and everything,
and that's fine.
But it's different when you begin to not like somebody
and your preference,
in your preference you begin to call them false prophets, false teachers,
or they are demonic because they are casting out demons.
You can be borderline blaspheming, if not blaspheming.
Now it's true, for everything real there is a counterfeit.
It's true the devil is a copycat.
It's true that miracles could be fake.
Magicians that fake miracles.
They could be false prophecies,
they could be fake miracles,
they could be fake teachers,
they could be fake Christians,
there is fake clothing,
there is fake news.
For everything that is real there is something fake.
But I want you to notice
when Satan misused the Scripture against Jesus,
Jesus did not drop the Scriptures and say, "I can't use the Scriptures."
Why?
"Because Satan abused it."
Jesus still quoted the Scripture back to the devil.
Just because magicians tried to produce a miracle,
Moses didn't say, "That's it. I won't do miracles."
Why?
"Because Egyptians are doing miracles now."
No!
We still have to do what God called us to do.
You know, the treasury of United States doesn't stop printing dollars because
there is fake dollars on the streets.
In fact, one of the best ways to spot fake dollars is to study the real ones,
not to study the fake ones.
And so, I tell people you have to have a hunger for supernatural,
the real supernatural.
It has to be greater than your fear of the counterfeit.
And so avoid criticizing what you don't understand.
Now if somebody doesn't preach the gospel,
doesn't believe in Jesus and God's Word,
and the Holy trinity,
salvation by faith,
and they cast out demons,
yeah, they're fake.
Yeah, they are not real.
But if somebody believes in the gospel,
believes in the cross in the name of Jesus,
but they just do it differently than you are used to,
and there is fruit from them walking with the Lord,
of holiness and fruit of the Spirit,
and then there is the fruit of changed lives,
yeah, don't say anything,
that's none of your business.
Why?
Because accrediting deliverance to demons is blasphemy.
So don't do that.
Just don't do that.
Number four,
if you blasphemed the Holy Spirit in ignorance
or under compulsion of intrusive thoughts,
there is mercy for you.
I want you to read this verse with me.
1 Timothy 1:13
It says, "although I was formerly a blasphemer,
a persecutor, and an insolent man;
but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief."
You know who this person was?
Apostle Paul.
Now it doesn't say here that he was a blasphemer of the Holy Spirit,
but the word blasphemer is enough.
And it could qualify for those of you who maybe in ignorance,
or through weakness because of intrusive thoughts
you yielded and you said some things.
I know some people who came to Christ and they're like--
who came back to the Lord and they said, "In my weakness, in my doubts,
I went on a mountain and I screamed profanities against God.
That's it. I lost my salvation.
I can't come back to God."
And I said, "Did God tell you that?
Is the Word of God tell you that?"
"Yeah, because I blasphemed,
I said blasphemous things against the Holy Spirit."
And I asked him about the situation of those moments.
And they would describe extremely, extremely devastating circumstances,
and these intrusive thoughts, they were not their own.
And they just gave in to those thoughts.
I believe for people like that,
there is mercy because they do it in ignorance.
And they do it because they got hit with intrusive thoughts.
And the fact that if there would be no mercy,
they wouldn't be able even to repent.
It's one of the reasons why blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is so dangerous
is because the person is so cold-hearted.
They don't see that what they are doing is wrong.
So if the person said something against the Holy Spirit in ignorance
or because of these intrusive thoughts, and they fell for it
and then they came back and repented, or they feel sorry,
the very fact that there is a brokenness over that,
indicates they didn't commit that sin.
And God understands,
and God will welcome and extend His mercy.
So that's what I believe.
I believe this story about apostle Paul that's what it relates to.
And so I just really want to encourage you that if you have had that,
just come to the cross,
don't feel like, oh what I've done God could never forgive.
Don't be Judas who wants to take his own life,
not realizing that not very far from you,
Jesus is paying with His life for your redemption.
There's no sin too great,
there's no fall too deep,
there is temptation too great,
out of which the Lord who has mercy and grace cannot deliver us from.
And so those of you who maybe criticized miracles in ignorance,
ask God to forgive you.
Ask God to wash you with His blood.
Repent for what you did in ignorance.
And go forward, not criticizing what you don't understand,
but be used by God in Jesus' name.
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and I hope it brings some freedom and clarity
on what the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is,
and how to go about overcoming the fear of blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.
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