Monday – Gospels

Reading – Luke 12

Highlight Verse:

“Anyone who speaks against the Son of Man can be forgiven, but anyone who blasphemes the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.”
‭‭Luke‬ ‭12‬:‭10‬ ‭NLT‬‬

I remember reading this when I was young and wondering What if I made a joke about it Holy Spirit, or disregarded something that the Holy Spirit said? Would that be blasphemy?

If you have ever thought that, let me put your mind at ease. If you had truly blasphemed the Holy Spirit, you would know it.

Basically, it would mean that you had totally and consistently rejected Jesus.

Enduring Word put it as a “settled disposition of life that rejects the testament of the Holy Spirit regarding Jesus.” (Enduringword dot com)

So, yes, if you have completely rejected Jesus, you will not be forgiven.

Some would say that repeated sin is a rejection of Jesus.

I would say that repeated sin can lead to a rejection of salvation as the human psyche will tend to justify that sin to the point where you no longer see the need for forgiveness.

If Jesus asks us to forgive others 70 times 7 times (which represents infinity),

you can be sure that He will extend the same amount of forgiveness to us.

Make no mistake, repeated sin is harmful to the sinner. All sin is harmful. That’s why God calls it sin. He knows the best way for us to live and when we trust Him and follow that way, that is when we live our best life.

When we follow our own ways, we suffer.

When people fall far from the truth, that’s when they tend to reject Jesus.

And that is fatal.

Have you ever come back from the edge of rejecting Jesus?
What can you do today to stay far from that point?