That was written in his little tract called An Answer to a Great Number of Blasphemous Cavalations, written

Blaspheming God is a grave sin. Yet for those who have responded to the gospel in faith, this offense, like all others, is forgivable because of the shed blood of Jesus on the cross that washes away sin 1 John 1, verse 7.

And that's how the whole thing ends. Well, now there is a website called the Blasphemy Challenge. Do you have a soul you're not using? From the Rational Response Squad with a universal negation symbol over God.

Blasphemy is speech that makes part God part of our lies. Part of the commitments we make that we might not really keep but he's if it sounds good to stick his name in there. Make ourselves sound really serious but we might not keep it if it becomes too much trouble as The Lord Jesus tells us in Matthew chapter 5 verse 37.

All manner of blasphemy can be forgiven except that final blasphemy that says with full revelation, I reject Christ. And you're left with the fact of explaining His supernatural power as satanic. And you stand then with the crucifiers, crucifying Him again and putting Him to open shame.

Bam! You're now forever damned and can never repent. Well, while they're certainly playing with fire, blaspheming the Holy Spirit is not like taking the Lord's name in vain. That time you said, Holy Cow, or Holy whatever word followed it, you didn't commit the one unforgivable sin.

Beloved, Matthew is focusing on the spoken word. That is the key to understanding Matthew's point here, because, by the way, blasphemy is a spoken sin. Blasphemy is something we say. Blasphemy is a sin we use our mouths to commit.

Blasphemy isn't any old kind of thing you say. Blasphemy isn't any kind of old approach of the heart. Blaspheming the Holy Spirit is fairly specific and we have a good example of it in the text. So We need to be careful that we don't begin to assign Every apostasy To that you see what I mean?

And the answer, as we just read, is that there is one. The unforgivable sin, as these two verses declare, is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. Okay, so what is this? We have to remember what we saw in the previous nine verses to get the answer to that.

The follow up question that I would ask to that is, are you really by yourself? Doesn't the Lord God hear the words that come out of your mouth, whether you're talking about a swear word or saying something that would be blasphemy, taking his name in vain?

But that is not the right understanding of this particular passage. Although, the fact that it was such a popular thing for a little while has led to many people coming to me. I've fielded this question many times of those coming to me and have said, have I committed blasphemy against the Holy Spirit?

Oftentimes we think of blasphemy as taking the Lord's name in vain. So how is it blasphemy to pronounce a blasphemous judgment or to blaspheme about matters of which they are ignorant? How is it that we are to understand the word blasphemy in this particular context?

You may say but Don sometimes I have the most blasphemous thoughts. I know. So do I? But do you cherish them? Do you nourish them? Are you glad that you have them or do you say God forgive me? How could that have ever entered my head?

I'm blaspheming the Holy Spirit. You can find them. Just go look up blasphemy challenge on YouTube hundreds of young people were influenced to say that and Here's my here's my response. They weren't blaspheming the Spirit because they were ignorant and stupid.

Question 113, what are the sins forbidden in the third commandment? Answer, the sins forbidden in the third commandment are the not using of God's name as is required and the abuse of it in an ignorant, vain, irreverent, profane, superstitious, or wicked mentioning or otherwise using his titles, attributes, ordinances, or works by blasphemy, perjury, all sinful cursings, oaths, vows, and lots, violating our oaths and vows if lawful and fulfilling them if of things unlawful, murmuring and quarreling at, curious prying into, the misapplying of God's decrees and providences, misinterpreting, misimplying, or any way perverting the word or any part of it to profane jests, curious or unprofitable questions, vain janglings, or the maintaining of false doctrines, abusing it, the creatures or anything contained under the name of God to charms or sinful lusts and practices, the maligning, scorning, reviling, or any wise opposing of God's truth, grace, and ways, making profession of religion in hypocrisy or for sinister ends, being ashamed of it or ashamed to it by unconformable, unwise, unfruitful, and offensive walking or backsliding from it.

Do Christians have the power to rebuke Stan? Even Stan Lee can be rebuked. Is it a sin to perm your heir? How long after the birth of Jesus did shepherds arrive to see Jim? What sort of things should I have in my marriage vowels?

It's not repeatable. So does that mean that we breathe a sigh of relief? Well, look at verse 31. "'Therefore, I say to you,' Jesus says, "'every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven, men.'". Do you see that statement?

An imprecation is a curse. An example is found in Psalm 139. O that you would slay the wicked, O God! Depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed! For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your name in vain.

To blaspheme God's holy name, folks. And he says that's a prayer. That's something that's good. That's something that God does. That is from the pit of hell, folks. Paul says here, we are to put off filthy language out of our mouth.

What is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit? We're going to answer that question. So let's set the scene for the concept of blaspheming against the Holy Spirit. Jesus has just performed a miracle. A demon -possessed man was brought to Jesus and the Lord cast the demon out, healing the man of blindness and muteness.