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Post by gsmithb on Jun 19, 2014 3:24:49 GMT
"There is a sin unto death" John has already illustrated this by defining it as lawlessness (1 John 3:4), and revealing that one who lives in such a way " hath not the Son" (verse12). The person who persistently and deliberately rejects the Truth concerning Christ is committing such a sin (Heb. 10:26-30). If such will not heed the Word of Yahweh, he will not hear their words, nor words of prayers spoken on their behalf. The judgement will be on the basis of the Word ( John12:48) and for those who reject it there is no hope. Such were the separatists referred to in this Epistle. (1 John 2:19, 22; 2 John 10).
Christadelphian Expositor, pg 289
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Post by Lee on Jun 20, 2014 2:53:06 GMT
“ . . . All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit shall not be forgiven unto men. Whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come” (Matt. 12:28–32).
Mark adds “BECAUSE THEY SAID, He hath an unclean spirit” (Mar. 3:30). It needs not this addition to show the meaning of Christ’s words about the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. The whole connection shews it. It was the crime of the Pharisees that was in view. The unforgiveable blasphemy of the Holy Spirit of which they were guilty consisted in attributing the work of the Holy Spirit to another agency.
That the offence should be unpardonable was in the circumstances just. It was both against reason and against the evidence of their senses. It was therefore on a par with the “presumptuous sin” for which there was no forgiveness under the law (Num. 15:30). The spirit in both cases was the same—a spirit of wilful, wanton, presumptuous rebellion against the light—a spirit which in any case makes the difference between that “sin unto death,” and that sin which is not unto death of which John speaks (1 Jno. 5:16). It is this which gives character to the declaration of Paul in Hebrews that “it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good Word of God, and the powers of the world to come (a description applicable only to those who were the subjects of the miraculous gifts of the apostolic age)—if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance” (Heb. 6:4–6); and also the statement that “if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation which shall devour the adversary” (10:26).
1887 Christadelphian: Volume 24. 2001 (electronic ed.) (109)
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