SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/15/2022 8:42 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-6 “The Anathema”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matt.
12:31-32
Message of the verse: “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.”
I
have to say that there has not been too many “PT-6’s” since I have been writing
my Spiritual Diaries, but this is a subject that I don’t want to take a short
time in studying.
As
I begin this last SD on this subject it reminds me a lot of my study in Hebrews
that I am teaching in our Sunday school class as it has much to do with the
Jewish people not realizing the truth of the Gospel. The Jews that Jesus is talking to here have
seen His supernatural power, and yet they wanted to say that His power came
from Satan, that is the power that Jesus had while walking this earth actually
came from the Holy Spirit whom He totally depended on in order to do the work that
God the Father had planned for Him to do.
Now speaking of Hebrews I want to quote Hebrews 2:3-4 which says “3 how will
we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? After it was at the first spoken
through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard, 4 God also
testifying with them, both by signs and wonders and by various miracles and by
gifts of the Holy Spirit according to His own will.” The answer that the writer asks in verse
three is that no one can escape the fires of hell if he neglects the salvation that
Jesus Christ offers through His death on the cross, His burial for three days, and
His resurrection from the grave. Now we
will look at another of the warnings found in Hebrews, and this one comes from
Heb. 6:4-6 “4 For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have
tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and
have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 and then
have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since
they again crucify to themselves the Son of God and put Him to open shame.” I am not really wanting to go into all of the
details of these verses except to say something about “have fallen away,” and
that it this certainly does not mean that a true believer can lose their
salvation.
Now
speaking for a moment about the generation that followed after Jesus went back
to heaven we see that the apostles were the ones who were teaching people about
the gospel and they also did it with signs and wonders. Now if people who saw these things did not
realize the truth of the gospel then that was all that God could do for them. We know that the apostles were not
blaspheming when doing these signs and wonders.
The guilt of the Pharisees who added blasphemy to unbelief was greater
than that of those who saw the same evidence and disbelieved but did not speak
against the Holy Spirit. But the rebels
in both groups left themselves no future but hell.
Now
how about today? Well in a similar way,
people today can so totally turn their backs on God’s revelation, as we now
have all of God’s revelation found in our Bibles. When people today turn away from God’s
revelation they permanently cut themselves off from salvation. In John 9:4 Jesus says “We must work the
works of Him who sent me, as long as it is day, night is coming, when no man
can work.”
I
will conclude this section with a quotation from John MacArthur as in the first
paragraph he tells a story, and then the last paragraph concludes this section,
a section that people truly need to take heart in understanding it if they are
not true believers.
“During
World War II, an American naval force in the North Atlantic was engaged in
heavy battle with enemy ships and submarines on an exceptionally dark
night. Six planes took off from the carrier
to search out those targets, but while they were in the air a total blackout
was ordered for the carrier in order to protect it from attack. Without lights on the carrier’s deck, the six
planes could not possibly land, and then made a radio request for the lights to
be turned on just long enough for them to come in. But because the entire carrier, with its
several thousand men as well as all the other planes and equipment, would have
been put in jeopardy, no lights were permitted.
When the six planes ran out of fuel, they had to ditch in the freezing
water and all crew members perished into eternity.
“There
comes a time when God turns out the lights, when further opportunity for
salvation is forever lost. That is why
Paul told the Corinthians, “Now is the acceptable time,’ behold, now is ‘the
day of salvation.’’(2 Cor. 6:2). One who
rejects full light can have no more light—and no forgiveness.”
Spiritual meaning for my life today: There has been much food for thought in these
six lessons on the unpardonable sin and for me as a believer it is my desire to
speak to people about their eternity, and for those who read this and don’t
really know about their eternity, then it would be my prayer that they would
turn from their sin and confess Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior by
accepting what He did for them on the cross as He died for their sins.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Be ready to tell others about what happened
to me forty-eight years ago when Christ invaded my life through His Holy Spirit
and saved my soul.
2/15/2022 9:20 AM
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