Subject 13 : The Gospel According to MATTHEW
[Chapter 12-3] The Unforgivable Sin and The Responsibility of The Born-Again (Matthew 12:31-32)
(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, either in
this age or in the age to come.”
What
I have explained to you in my writing so far may have its limitations,
but all that I have tried to explain in my books is the gospel of the
water and Spirit. And I am sure that whoever believes in this gospel
Truth will most certainly receive the remission of his sins. Our Lord
said in Romans 10:10, “For with the heart one believes unto
righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation,”
and He also said in Romans 10:17, “So then faith comes by hearing, and
hearing by the word of God.”
Whoever
believes in the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit will be saved
from all his sins and become righteous, without any exception. If you
still have doubts about this faith in the gospel of the water and the
Spirit, then I admonish you to open your hearts once again and believe
in it. All who really want to be cleansed of all their sins should first
set aside their own thoughts and believe in the gospel Truth of the
water and the Spirit. All the sins of the world have actually been
eliminated, because Jesus Christ took them all away by being baptized by
John the Baptist.
Today,
I will explain the sin of blaspheming the Holy Spirit. My fellow
believers, it is precisely those who do not believe in the gospel of the
water and the Spirit but blaspheme it, that are of those who commit
this sin of blaspheming the Holy Spirit. This sin is so mortal that the
Lord said that it would never be forgiven in this world, nor in the next
world to come. So we must all have the proper understanding of this
blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.
1
John 3:9 states, “Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His
seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of
God.” This passage means that those who believe in the gospel of the
water and the Spirit, the gospel of power and of the remission of sin,
do not commit the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.
In
contrast, however, it is written in Hebrews 6:4-8, “For it is
impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the
heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have
tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they
fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again
for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame. For the
earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs
useful for those by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God;
but if it bears thorns and briers, it is rejected and near to being
cursed, whose end is to be burned.”
It
is also written in Hebrews 10:26-29, “For if we sin willfully after we
have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a
sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and
fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. Anyone who has
rejected Moses' law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three
witnesses. Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be
thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the
blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and
insulted the Spirit of grace?”
All
these passages warn us that if anyone, even as he knows about the
baptism that Jesus Christ received from John and His bloodshed on the
Cross, denies and rejects this gospel, he is voluntarily turning himself
into someone who blasphemes the Holy Spirit. When the Bible speaks
about the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, it is the sin of refusing
and rejecting to believe that Jesus Christ has saved every one of us
through His baptism and bloodshed. Therefore, anyone who commits this
blasphemy can no longer be remitted from his sins in any other way. Such
people do not believe that the laying of hands on the heads of the
sacrificial offerings and their bloodshed in the Old Testament were the
same as the baptism that Jesus Christ received from John the Baptist and
His bloodshed on the Cross. That is why they cannot receive the
remission of their sins.
It
is written in 1 John 5:16, “If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin
which does not lead to death, he will ask, and He will give him life for
those who commit sin not leading to death. There is sin leading to
death. I do not say that he should pray about that.”
The
sin leading to death here is none other than the sin of unbelief that
one commits by not believing in the baptism that Jesus Christ received
from John the Baptist and His bloodshed on the Cross as his own
remission of sin. In other words, this sin of disbelieving the gospel of
the water and the Spirit is what constitutes the very blasphemy against
the Holy Spirit.
Those
who truly fear God all believe that Jesus Christ took and solved away
all the sins of this world with the baptism that He received from John
the Baptist and His bloodshed on the Cross. The Bible is warning that if
you forsake this faith that is placed in the baptism and bloodshed of
Jesus Christ as the Truth of the remission sin, you will suffer
unimaginable pain and sorrow.
Even
now, Satan is misleading countless people not to believe in the baptism
and bloodshed of Jesus Christ, but you must not give up your faith in
this Truth. The Devil is deceiving people with all kinds of trick so
that they would not believe in the baptism of Jesus Christ. This is why
the Bible says in 2 Peter 3:17-18, “You therefore, beloved, since you
know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own
steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked; but grow in
the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be
the glory both now and forever.”
This
passage is admonishing us to hold onto our knowledge of the gospel of
Truth, that Jesus Christ took upon all our sins by being baptized by
John the Baptist and bore our condemnation of sin by being crucified and
shedding His blood on the Cross, and to thereby receive eternal life.
Therefore, we must be very wary of all other faiths that reject the
gospel Truth of the water and the Spirit as the Truth of salvation.
What, then, must we do, once we receive the remission of our sins, to overcome Satan’s deception and keep our true faith?
It
is written in 2 Corinthians 6:14-16. “Do not be unequally yoked
together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with
lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord
has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?
And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the
temple of the living God. As God has said: ‘I will dwell in them And
walk among them. I will be their God, And they shall be My people.’”
Congruent to what we see in this passage, it is also written in 1
Corinthians 6:19 that the bodies of the righteous who have received the
remission of their sins are the holy Temple of God.
In
short, the righteous who have received the remission of their sins must
not engage in the work of God together with the sinners who have not
been remitted from their sins, nor can do they this. The reason for this
is because the Spirit of God is not pleased by it. The righteous who
have been remitted from their sins should gather together separately
only with the righteous, and it is in this fellowship of the righteous
that they should lead their lives of faith, preach the gospel, and
defend their faith.
We
should not allow ourselves to mingle with sinners. For example, if
people wearing white garments were to work in a coal mine, wouldn’t they
all turn black in no time? Like this, if the righteous try to serve the
Lord’s gospel with sinners, they will end up corrupting the real Truth
of the remission of sin. If this happens to us, we will lose the gospel
of the water and the blood, and deceived by Satan, we will fall into
confusion once again.
Satan
watches for every opportunity to make a prey of even the born-again
when they are separated from their churches and their leaders. For
example, as we’ve often seen in nature documentaries, when some
predators stalk a herd of herbivorous animals, it is always those that
fall behind or otherwise separate themselves from the herd that fall
prey and ultimately succumb to the predators’ attack. Just like this, it
is those who fall away from the gathering of the righteous that will
end up perishing.
This
is why God the Father has established His Church on this earth by
gathering those who believe in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.
Regarding God’s Church, it is written in Matthew 16:16-18, “Simon Peter
answered and said, ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.’
Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for
flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in
heaven. And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I
will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against
it.” We must pay close attention to the fact it is on this faith in
Jesus Christ as the true Savior that God’s Church has been established,
just as Jesus Himself said to Peter.
Elsewhere
in 1 Corinthians 1:2, the following is also written about God’s Church:
“To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified
in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call
on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours.” The Apostle
Paul defined God’s Church as the gathering of the saints who have
received the remission of sin. Put differently, God said here that His
Church is the gathering of those who have been remitted from all their
sins by their faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit.
And
God also said in Jeremiah 3:14-15, “‘Return, O backsliding children,’
says the LORD; ‘for I am married to you. I will take you, one from a
city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion. And I will
give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with
knowledge and understanding.’”
Just
as God promised to us here, He has raised the born-again servants whose
hearts are in accord with His as the leaders of the Church, and He has
made them work in many ways, so that they would nourish the born-again
children of God. Just as God said here, there indeed is His born-again
Church in this world, and there also are His born-again servants. It is
God’s will toward the born-again that He puts up His shepherds in His
Church to nourish and to take care of the saints who believe in the
gospel of the water and the Spirit with the Word of Truth. This is how
the saints grow strong in the Truth.
The
Apostle Paul testified to his calling before King Agrippa, saying, “I
will deliver you from the Jewish people, as well as from the Gentiles,
to whom I now send you, to open their eyes, in order to turn them from
darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may
receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are
sanctified by faith in Me” (Acts 26:17-18). God wants to deliver all
sinners from all their sins through His Church and His servants so that
they can inherit the Kingdom of Heaven and all His blessings by faith.
To
become members of God’s Church is the privilege of the saved. And we
now have another privilege to preach the gospel of the water and the
Spirit throughout the whole world in union with God’s Church. When we
are faithful to these privileges, we can lead the entire mankind to the
way of new life.
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