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The Unpardonable Sin

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Good morning R____,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with me.

Here is the scripture in question:

Mar 3:28  Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:
Mar 3:29  But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:
Mar 3:30  Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.

And this is the situation which provoked this statement from our Lord:

Mar 3:22  And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils.
Mar 3:23  And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?
Mar 3:24  And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
Mar 3:25  And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
Mar 3:26  And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end.
Mar 3:27  No man can enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.

Here is Matthew’s account which brings the timing of this forgiveness into consideration:

Mat 12:24  But when the Pharisees heard [ it], they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
Mat 12:25  And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
Mat 12:26  And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?
Mat 12:27  And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast [ them] out? therefore they shall be your judges.
Mat 12:28  But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.
Mat 12:29  Or else how can one enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
Mat 12:30  He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.
Mat 12:31  Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy [ against] the [ Holy] Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
Mat 12:32  And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world [ aion], neither in the world [ aion] to come.

Those who blaspheme against the holy spirit are those who teach lies contrary to Christ’s doctrine and His words which “are spirit:”

Joh 6:63  It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

There is, of course, no such thing as an “unpardonable sin.” That is not a scriptural phrase. The only thing under consideration is whether the pardon is granted in aionian times or at the end of the time of the ages. All life comes through death, and the second death produces more lives by far than does the first.

This subject of the so called ‘unpardonable sin’ is, like the second death, something which “does not hurt” God’s elect. The fire of the fiery furnace did not “hurt” the three Hebrew children, but they still had to endure the fiery trial of being willing to be cast into that fiery furnace. So also inasmuch as we acknowledge that even Pagans and blasphemers of the holy spirit, live and move and have their being in Christ, in that way “ all things are ours, things present and things to come” (1Co 3:21-22).

Act 17:22  Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
Act 17:23  For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Act 17:24  God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
Act 17:25  Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
Act 17:26  And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
Act 17:27  That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
Act 17:28  For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

He gives to all, all things… including to those who blaspheme against the holy spirit and to those who will be “hurt of the second death.” It is all given to all through Him. “In Him we live and move and have our being,” and it is in this way that we have in us His fiery word, by which we are the fire of the lake of fire.

Jer 5:14  Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

In other words, because Christ’s fiery word has judged his elect while they were yet in the flesh, because God’s elect have already, like the three Hebrew children, endured the “fiery trials which are to try us,” we are now promised that we “will not be hurt of the second death, which is the lake of fire.”

Dan 3:27  And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king’s counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.

1Co 3:13  Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
1Co 3:14  If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
1Co 3:15  If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

God’s elect are therefore the pain and hurt of the second death just as the fire of God’s Word in us, is even now painfully burning up and “hurting” those who are  being judged now in this age.

1Pe 4:12  Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

1Pe 4:17  For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

The answer is that those who obey not the gospel of Christ will be “hurt of the second death,” which is the lake of fire (Rev 20:14), whereas those who are the first to endure the fiery trials of this life while yet in these vessels of clay “will not be hurt of the second death.” Here is that URL:

http:// iswasandwillbe. com/ Do_ Gods_ Elect_ Experience_ The_ Second_ Death. php

Rev 2:11  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

Does this mean that the “overcomer” does not “live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God?” Not at all. The element of timing does not mean that the elect don’t live every word. The overcomer has already had all the “wood, hay and stubble” burned out of him in the fiery furnace of God’s word, while He was yet in this flesh. The only persons who have not yet lived every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God are those who live those fiery words last. The last are in the second group of those who endure God’s wrath and the chastening judgment of His fiery Word:

1Co 11:31  For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
1Co 11:32  But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world [ in the second judgment, the “white throne judgment”].

But the “great white throne judgment” is the second death. God elect are even now dying daily, and are therefore the first to die.

Joh 12:24  Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

The second death is not a matter of numbers of death, it is, rather, for those who could not be forgiven in this age or in the age to come. “Second” is a matter of order. The lives of all men were all “written in His book, every day… before there were any of them.”

 Psa 139:16  Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, Even the days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was none of them.
Psa 139:17  How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!

Just as Christ could not be directly guilty of a trespass and it is only through our trespasses that He becomes a trespass offering, so also we cannot be hurt of the second death or be guilty of the unpardonable sin except “through their unbelief.”

Rom 11:30  For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
Rom 11:31  Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
Rom 11:32  For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
Rom 11:33  O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

Both of God’s judgments are “unsearchable.” His inheritance is “in the saints,” and it is “the saints… the church which is his body, which is the fulness of Christ who fills God who in turn fills all.”

Eph 1:18  The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

Eph 1:22  And hath put all things under his [ Christ’s] feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
 Eph 1:23  Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

Look at these two verses of God’s Word. If you have bee given the faith to know and understand that what appears to be a contradictions in scripture is really just the difference between the natural mind and the mind of the spirit, then you will understand that these two verses actually complement each other:

Joh 11:26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this [ Martha, the sister of Lazarus]?

Joh 12:24  Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

Jesus had just told His disciples, “Lazarus is dead.”

Joh 11:14  Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.

The natural man looks at those verses and concludes that Jesus Christ believes in contradictions. Christ himself was only days from His own death. Lazarus and his sisters, Martha and Mary, all believed that Christ was the Messiah. It appears to some that Christ has just contradicted Himself. But that is only because “the natural man cannot discern the things of the spirit because they are foolishness to him and they are spiritually discerned.”

1Co 2:14  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

You are right. We do “live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” And yes, we, just like Paul, are indeed guilty of blasphemy: But we do it all first instead of second. The only people who have not yet lived every word of God by the time of the first resurrection, are those who will “live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God” in the second resurrection, the “great white throne judgment”; the lake of fire. In Christ those in the second death come eventually to know those who were in the first resurrection. And it is also in Christ that those who comprise the fire of the lake of fire, come to know those who are cast into the lake of fire which does not hurt the overcomers, simply because the pains of the lake of fire were lived earlier in the fiery trials of this age.

1Ti 1:12  And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;
1Ti 1:13  Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
1Ti 1:14  And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
1Ti 1:15  This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

Did not Christ tell us that those who blasphemed against the holy spirit and said that He had cast out demons by the prince of the devils, were guilty of blaspheming against the holy spirit? That is exactly what the scriptures teach. Paul says he obtained mercy because he did it in ignorance and unbelief. That, according to Christ is what we all do. Look at what Christ said of those who blasphemed against the holy spirit and delivered Him to be crucified:

Luk 23:34  Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.

Well, here we have the apostle Paul telling us that he was before a blasphemer and was “chief of sinners.” Does this mean that Paul alone is “chief of sinners” or does this not show that we must all come to see that we are all guilty of all? What say the scriptures?

1Jn 2:16  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

A man threw his own four children over the side of a bridge and into the Gulf of Mexico just a few months ago, killing them all. Just a few weeks ago two college girls were killed for no apparent reason, and everyone wonders how this can happen? Until we all come to see that “all that is in the world” is in our flesh, we have not yet had the “wood, hay and stubble” of “the pride of life” burned out of this “vessel of clay… this furnace of earth.”

Psa 12:6  The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

Here is the sum of what all these scriptures teach concerning “living by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.”

2Co 4:15  For all things [ including the unpardonable sin “in this age and in the age to come”] are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

1Co 3:22  Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or  death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;

“Things present or things to come.” That certainly includes the second group who have yet to die to the carnal mind within them in the lake of fire.

“ All are yours,” because…

1Co 3:23 … Ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.

I hope this adds a little to the light God has given you on this subject of the so called ‘unpardonable sin’.

Your brother in the Christ,

Mike

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