SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/13/2022 7:11 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-4 “The Anathema”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
12:31-32
Message of the verses: “31 “Therefore I say to you, any sin and blasphemy shall be
forgiven people, but blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven. 32 "Whoever
speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever
speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this
age or in the age to come.”
In
today’s SD we will continue to look at what is called “the unpardonable sin,”
and will begin by talking about the fact that Scripture is clear that during
our Lord’s ministry on earth that He was submissive to the Father as seen in
John 4:24 and also in 5:19-30. Our Lord
was empowered by the Spirit as seen in Matthew 4:1; Mark 1:12; Luke 4:1, 18;
John 3:34; Acts 1:2; and in Romans 1:4.
In Acts 10:38 we see that Peter said “"You know of Jesus of
Nazareth, how God anointed
Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about
doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with
Him.”
It
is those who spoke against the Holy Spirit who were the ones who saw His divine
power working in and through our Lord but they willfully refused to accept the
implications of that revelation and, even in some cases, attributed that power
to Satan, therein lies the problem.
There were many people who had heard Jesus teach and preach God’s truth
in a way that no man had ever heard before as seen in Matthew 7:28-29, and yet
they refused to believe Him, and even though we cannot see or hear our Lord
preach like He did while on earth we have His Word that testifies of that
happening, and so this makes them guilty even today. While or Lord was on earth many people saw
Him heal people and even bring them back from the dead, they saw Him cast out
demons, and saw Him forgive every kind of sin, yet they charged Him with
deceit, falsehood, and demonism.
MacArthur adds “In the face of every possible evidence of Jesus’
messiahship and deity, they said no. God
could do nothing more for them, and they would therefore remain eternally
unforgiven.”
We
will end this rather short SD by quoting from MacArthur’s commentary as he
quotes William Hendriksen on his book The
Exposition of the Gospel According to Matthew.
“For penitence they substitute
hardening, for confession plotting.
Thus, by means of their own criminal and completely inexcusable
callousness, they are dooming themselves.
Their sin is unpardonable because they are unwilling to tread the path
that leads to pardon. For a thief, and
adulterer, and a murder there is hope.
The message of the gospel may cause him to cry out, ‘O God be merciful
to me, the sinner.’ But when a man has
become hardened, so that he has made up his mind not to pay attention to the…
Spirit,…he has placed himself on the road that leads to perdition.”
2/13/2022 7:32 AM
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