TO THE CHRISTIAN PERSON who just asked about the sin of blaspheming against the Holy Spirit. Do you know of a worse sin than to blaspheme the Holy Spirit? Take for example what it says in the Gospel of Mark 3:28-29 which you believe to be scripture breathed forth by God the Spirit. Listen. “All sins will be forgiven to the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they may utter; but he that blasphemes against the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit, never has forgiveness.” Or, take the Gospel of Matthew 12:32, “Whoever speaks against the Holy Ghost, it will not be forgiven him, either in this world, or in the world to come.” It must be so and cannot be otherwise.

What can the despiser of the Holy Spirit anticipate or hope to receive from the very God they utterly despise and traduce? What can the adamant adversary of the Holy Spirit expect? There remains nothing for him who despises the Spirit of grace, but a “certain fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation, which will devour the adversaries,” Hebrews 10:27, 29. This is that “sin unto death” whose remission is not to be prayed for, 1 John 5:16.

There is only one Saviour, whose blood and sacrifice is able to reconcile us who are sinners to God, who is infinitely holy and a consuming fire. God does not have another Son to offer or another sacrifice for sin apart from His beloved Son who offered Himself by the eternal Spirit. So, one who despises His sacrifice can have no other sacrifice remaining for him, nor is there another Spirit to make that sacrifice effectual to him, if the Holy Ghost is despised and rejected in His work and deemed unholy.

This therefore is a serious matter and should spur or rouse or awaken the evangelists and preachers of the Gospel, whether they claim to be Catholic or Protestant, Arminian or Calvinist, or whatever, for having taken it upon Himself to make effectual to us the great and only remedy provided in the blood of Christ for the pardon of our sins, if He the glorious Holy Ghost is despised in the furtherance and prosecution of that redemptive work — if He is blasphemed and spitefully used and evil spoken of — then there is neither relief nor pardon for that sin. For from where, in that case, would relief and pardon arise or spring? The situation in such a case is hopeless and the lake of fire is the solution as far as God is concerned. They shall have their portion with the devil and must drink of the cup of the wrath and indignation of God who is holy, holy, holy.

“And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. Amen.” Woe to the wanton blasphemers of the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit. “And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.” Revelation 20:10, 14. Child of God, do you know of a worse sin than to blaspheme the Holy Spirit? Is it wise or safe for anyone to say that Lord Jesus Christ casts out demons by the power of Beelzebub, the prince of the devils? God forbid. Pray. 🙏