![]() They came home and the girl was to go to work the next day and she turned into work, and when she turned into work she found out that she'd got the times of her shift wrong. I heard a story about a young girl who got married and they were planning all about it and then they went to the altar and they got married, and they went away on a lovely honeymoon and enjoyed a beautiful time together. I wonder what you would say is the unforgivable sin? All of these things, in many people's minds, and their own little new-fangled religions, are unpardonable things. Some people might tell you that rape is an unforgivable sin, or murder, or terrorism, or homosexuality, or abortion, or adultery, or coveting, or even converting to another faith. Is there such a thing - maybe you've thought about it at times or discussed over the dinner table, or maybe at school even - is there such a thing as the unpardonable sin? Such a thing as something that we can commit, as sinners, that God cannot and God will not forgive? Is there such a thing? If you stopped a man along the street and asked him that question from the human standpoint you'd get very varied answers. Fill me, I pray, and descend upon this meeting, in the name of Jesus Christ Thy Son. I feel the heavy weight of this responsibility O God. But Lord, we pray that the Holy Ghost of God may come and that He may deliver it home to the heart of someone that is on the verge of committing the unpardonable sin. Lord, we pray that we would be faithful to His words, that we would deliver it as He delivered it. Let us pray together: Our Father in Heaven, we tremble at Thy word, at the severity of it, in fact, the words of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. 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, neither in the world to come". 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. He that is not with me is against me and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad. 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. But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you. 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: And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself how shall then his kingdom stand? And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges. And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David? But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. Matthew chapter 12, and we'll begin reading at verse 22 to get the context: "Then was brought unto Jesus one possessed with a devil, blind, and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the blind and dumb both spake and saw. ![]() This is a message, perhaps, that you have never heard or have often wondered about, for I want to preach to you upon: 'The Unpardonable Sin'. As I've said on previous evenings, and I think it bears repeating, that what I bring to you is what I believe God's message is to people here in our gathering who are without Christ and even those that are backslidden, who have once known Christ and known the reality of walking with Him in fellowship but, for some reason, have lost sight of Him. We're turning in our Bibles to Matthew's gospel - the gospel of Matthew and chapter 12.
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