The Unpardonable Sin (Mark  

This sermon was preached by R.C. Sproul at Saint Andrew's Chapel in Sanford, Fla. Hear more from his series in the gospel of Mark: ru-vid.com/group/PL30acyfm60fWpFiMnbLmGb8WD5YXXOAxX

I am religious Christian fanatic, I love God, I love Jesus, I love the Holy Spirit and I love reading the Bible and can't seem to live without praying, praising and thanking God no matter how difficult life is. I am so attached to God that people ridicule, snob, sneer at me and treat me like alien or crazy.

I miss Mr. Sproul. But he lives on through his messages. He's such a blessing..!!

Amen Sproul. Very encouraging to hear. How wonderful it is, and how grateful I am that God will never let me commit this sin, and any of His other children. God bless you all.

I am a Christian fanatic amd never ashamed of it!

I needed this peace in my soul. When I had lost all faith in God, I said out loud that I don't believe in the holy spirit. That has haunted me day in and day out, and my heart hurt when I said that. I'm back with Christ now and I regret all of the blasphemies I have spoken in my rebellion against the God I was raised with. I was such an idiot. I'm Christian again and wish I could start all over again and be a saint.

Praise the Lord Jesus Christ.✝️🙏💙

Classic RC. He explains what it is, explains that we are capable of falling into the danger, and then explains that we are completely capable of avoiding this danger through the Lord’s leading.

What a stunning example of a man and teacher who possesses the love of the Word of God personally An Awesome example

My Daddy!! I love listening to you. I love this series

God, continue to raise teachers of your Word in this generation.

Great sermon and powered by the Holy Spirit. Grounded in God Truth RC knocks one out of the park for the Lord of Hosts. A life that will not be quiet even in death; because of Christ. M

Dear God ..thank you .i cant thank you enough but lay my life an the lives of my family members before your presence that you will find pleasure in our worship of thy name ..through Jesus name we ask amen

Great message! Very enlightening. Thanks to God and Jesus for sealing us in his salvation and protection.

i enjoy this lecture is not a sermon i learn a lot from this explination and even i didn't have the opportunity to meet him,i enjoy his teaching and his voice is so pause and tranquil voice i much enjoyed🥰😊👏

Glory to God in heaven 🙏🙌

Excellent and clear teaching

How refreshing is to listen to this message! Thanks a lot! Gby

Our love for God is demonstrated in our love for our neighbours!!!

Thank you for sharing this Good News.

God bless you.

Amen. Brilliant message. Thank you.

In Luke 23:46, before Jesus died, he said, “Father, into Your hands I entrust My spirit.” In Acts 7:59, before Stephen died, he said, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

Amen

@Ligonier Ministries does he mean if you repent of it 1John 1:7-9?

If what he says is real about the positive miracles satan cannot do, as healing, how do we explain those "miracles" happened in fatima or medjugorie that the catholics impute to Mary? And if i thinks these miracles are real, but done by the devil to deviate the worship from God to a dead human, even if a Saint as Mary certainly is, am i committing the unforgivable sin, considering what Dr. Sproul said about this question?

if someone calls Jesus accidentally a Demon will God forgive Them? And they also ask to forgive them.

First he said it can be done today by christians than not? Then he says God won't allow christians to do it, but in another ligonier video he says one can worry about it and still do it. I'm confused.

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It's difficult to find a teaching on this passege addressing that Jesus had "brothers" dispelling the Catholic and Eastern orthodox belief that his mother Mary was "ever virgin".

Notice it says, not to take the lord's name in vain, is not Gos name Eliom and is not the son of God Jesus, if a battle for the mind, how a Christian commit that sin

The devil takes his orders from his creator, Almighty God. And don't you forget it.

If blasphemous thoughts are in my mind so much to the point that it seems intentional, is that blasphemy, also if somebody who blasphemed repents, can they receive forgiveness?

So if I wrote something against the Holly Spirit, and I realized that sin , j cannot be forgiven even if repent ?

This sin was committed once in the Bible, when the Pharisees saw Jesus healing people and casting out demons. Outside of that one time, it did not occur once again. Why is that? It’s because to commit this sin, one would have to see the Lord himself doing the miracles, and if they hard heartedly attributed to a bad source, they would be guilty of that sin.when Jesus said it will not be forgiven in this age or age to come, this age meant the ministry of Christ was on earth. The age to come is when Jesus returns. Therefore, this is not something that can be committed today.

so what if that thought occurs in your mind, but you never speak it, nor do you believe it?

"Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come." (Matthew 12:32). It sounds like every other sin _will_ be forgiven in the next age. Hmmmm.

However though if you’re regenerated that means you have the Holy Spirit. So how can you blaspheme the Holy Spirit. That would be saying that you can lose your salvation.

Sproul and Arnold Murray were the only two that explained what blaspheming the Holy Spirit actually is...

If a believer blasphemes the name of Christ, is it an unpardonable sin?

32:40 doesn't look like there is any scriptural backing given here. Yes we are sealed by the Holy Spirit, but to what effect? Somehow God takes away our free will and makes it impossible to commit a specific sin? Christians have spoken out against the Holy Spirit in the past, and it is conceivable they could be ignorant about a move of the Spirit that looks unusual to them. I would prefer to have solid scriptural backing but I find no basis for this position.

So uh. I’m probably damned. I don’t know the degree of which I was enlightened, but I was definitely baptized, and saved. I was in my bathroom, I don’t remember the exact process of how I got to that state of mind, but I eventually got fed up and said f-- the Holy Spirit. And fell back into sin and the world. I came back to christ, but the Bible is CLEAR. I’ve recently had greater revelation of God and now I’m fairly certain I’m done for. Don’t insult the spirit of grace. I still love Hod and His word. But when God says eternal, He means eternal. I still trust in Christ, even if it’s futile. And I can only hope He will have mercy..

Denying any work of the Holy Spirit is just as bad now as it was then. Religious types deny His work outside of their own understanding.

31:02 The key is here.

He seems to have contradicted himself. He said at about 32 minutes its one thing to have doubts its another thing to have come to true faith and regeneration and then you commit it, but then says God's elect cant commit it later. In another video on assurance he says the elect are the regenerate. Regeneration is by the holy Ghost to his elect so how can that be? Maybe he misspoke. Maybe he meant enlightened instead of regeneration. I think of Hebrews. In the case of those enlightened but fall away. Also he mentioned earlier that they didn't commit this sin, but were about to because they were Blaspheming against Christ and later were forgiven for ignorance. That doesn't make sense. The Pharisees were saying the power of the holy spirit to cast out demons was doing it by Satan and therefore were blaspheming the holy spirit. Jesus said even if you don't believe my words believe the works I do so they were calling clear miracles a lie and from satan. How can you say they were ignorant? They may have been blind but wasn't it will full blindness because there hearts were hardened? Jesus called them whitewashed tombs and were sons of the devil and want to do the works of their father. They had the law and the prophets and they rejected them with their hearts because they cared about the rituals and not their own people. Then they had the Son speaking the words of the Father to them and rejected him, then they rejected the undeniable proof of the Holy Ghost. So now they've rejected the entire Trinity. Plus, how could Pharisees be ignorant of the idea that only God can do miracles? They were the teachers of the law. Didn't they know of Moses vs the Egyptians who couldn't replicate what Moses did because it was God's power? It seems to me that they didn't want people worshipping someone else. They loved people's praise and cared more about their status than God. Where in the context of father forgive them is it referring to them? Could he not have been referring to the Romans and the other Jews and not necessarily the Pharisees who were accusing him of working with Satan? And just because Peter says had they had known they would not have crucified the Lord of glory doesn't seem to indicate just ignorance but willful ignorance. They didn't see him as God because they didn't know God or love him. They were selfish and arrogant. Didn't Jesus say they were of the devil? So they were like the demons in that case right? The context of Hebrews seems to indicates the sin of unbelief/apostasy (which is outraging the spirit of grace because you are rejecting his grace in by knowing the truth and abandoning it). Now it seems to me that someone could also blaspheme the holy spirit as well, but nothing I see in the context of Hebrews is talking about the verbal sin of Blasphemy. Also, is it possible that someone could say that in a moment of anger and be forgiven? I don't know. I'm so confused why so many people have different views. The closest thing that makes sense to me in interpreting scripture with other scripture is that the unpardonable sin is a final deliberate rejection of the truth about Christ whether by blaspheming the holy spirt in your words or in your heart by apostatizing. It seems to manifest itself in different ways. There comes a point where genuine repentance is impossible because the Spirit of God no longer convicts them of sin so that they repent. I do know that Jesus said he would never cast anyone away. I'm still trying to understand all this and it gets confusing. I wish he would have done the sermon based on all of the synoptic gospels because there is more scripture that fits in. Like in Matthew he says those who are not with me are against me, therefore... It doesn't say truly truly, so how do you put them together?

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Which people in the world are true Christians according to the bible?

The unpardonable sin is more likely those who are no different to the chief priests, the scribes and pharisees who heap condemnation upon people causing guilt and condemnation where there's no cause for guilt or fear. Causing unneeded condemnation upon people causing them to fear they have committed the unpardonable sin. This is despicable that they do this. "Let us stand on our feet as we read God's word". Sounds very ritualistic.

I do appreciate RC, but I don't agree with his interpretation of the unpardonable sin and relating it into Hebrews 10:26. They're different audiences with different contexts.

Yep. Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they know NOT what they do." If they did know, there would be no forgiveness. That is why, as is written in Hebrews 6, it is impossible to renew unto repentance one who, after being enlightened, "crucifies" Jesus in their heart. The Holy Spirit is the means by which we KNOW God - to blaspheme the Son of Man is to blaspheme in ignorance. To blaspheme after having KNOWN God is to blaspheme the Holy Spirit. The elect cannot commit this sin. Neither can unbelievers. It can only be committed by those who were saved in the sense that they believed for a time, having escaped the pollution of the world, but due to a wicked heart of unbelief, fail to enter in to that door within the door - perfection of faith, the total, absolute reliance upon Christ. Instead, their carcass falls in the wilderness.

If a kingdom is divided against itself it can not stand. Sounds like America.

Wait a minute: 32:56 Sproul says that once someone reaches a certain point on this earth in her/his relationship with God, the Lord who has sealed you with the Holy Ghost will never ever ever ever let you commit that sin....... this is the first time in all these years have I heard Sproul say something like this. We know that Judas saw/ experienced .... but .......? There were warnings about people in the New Testament. WE ARE HERE ON THIS EARTH TO BE TESTED AND TRAINED. WHAT SPROUL IS SAYING GOD TAKES AWAY OUR "FREE WILL" TO REJECT HIM AFTER CONSIDERING IT OVER AND OVER. SPROUL IS TRYING TO MAKE THINGS NICE HERE. CANT ACCEPT THIS. HE DID THE SAME THING WHEN TALKING ABOUT HELL IN ANOTHER MESSAGE .... WHERE HE SAID THAT HE DOUBTED IT WAS AS BAD AS WHAT JESUS SAID IT WAS/IS.

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Didn't St. Paul blaspheme?

I did it yesterday...I'm doomed.I don't know how I'm going to live this life..

The unpardonable Sin. What is sin? Sin is to exceed the Natural bounds governing Human Beings or to willing with full knowledge deaden the flesh of the human body. What is unpardonable about the sin against the Holy Spirit is that you can no longer avail of this "heavenly means" to restore you to the realm of the living; it is the created universal Consciousness of the universe. Therefore, the Holy Spirit is an aid to restore to life and Human Nature is the guiding rule.

Good News: Matthew 12:32 says this sin won't be forgiven in this age or in the age to come. Ephesians 2:7 says there are at least two ages to come.

Satan can't cast out himself. But HE can cast out demons in order to deceive the faithful. To convince them that he is a true prophet. Christians should be fanatics. If his family , friends and family called him mad then it isn't surprising that the Pharisees.called him mad because he claimed he was God! That was BLASPHEMY. Which IS an unforgivable sin if you do not confess and repent! Gangsters have cast out other gangsters for the own benefit. 🤔😇😎😉

Isn't this man a calvinist ? And don't calvinists believe that your eternal destiny has already been determined before the foundation of the world ...and that there is absolutely nothing that you can do to change that determination...? If this is so , then the only people who could possibly commit this sin are those who are condemned to begin with and the " unpardonable sin" that they commit is the sin of BEING BORN...

33:15 "I think the only ones who commit this sin are the demons themselves who come straight from hell." Excellent point! Therefore we can say that ALL PEOPLE WILL BE FORGIVEN THEIR SINS!! (Mark 3:28) Wow! Here Sproul is just one step away from the salvation of all people through Christ Jesus! Praise God!

try talking smack about someones mom and see the wrath that follows... it is not natural or even logical that the father , son and holy spirit could be two dudes and a baby.... what has been altered and who would want to alter the verses??? one of the seeds created in the garden of course. there is NO truth in them!

There is no "unpardonable sin" that is not forgiven. Jesus was just giving the Pharisees a taste of their own medicine. The Pharisees "forgave" the common Jews per their own self serving will. There really didn't need to be forgiveness in the life to come as all sin upon death was gone because the body was dead and no long subject to sinning & no longer subject to guilt. All the parables of Christ were against these Jewish rulers habits of excusing their own unlawful misjudgement and hypocrisy; but harshly never excusing the common Jews.

There is no unpardonable sin. God CAN forgive whatever & whoever He wants. Through the cross of Christ; God Has forgiven all sin. When Jesus was speaking to the Pharisees; He was speaking pre-cross. The Pharisees lived as though they were above the law..and judged others with a strict adherence to the law that they didn't hold themselves to follow. The Pharisees considered themselves forgiven of all sin. Also considered themselves as judges of the common Jews.

Jesus is a Living God. He is With me and Speaks to me Directly. Jesus is Not a book and He is Not these beastly prideful men that ruin people’s lives with their lies.

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This is totally incorrect, if you want to know the true meaning of this go and watch Robert breaker video about this topic

Throwing around a lot of Fear..Condemnation..Judgment..unless you believe just what they tell you to..is what seems to really turn Religionists on.

The unpardonable sin is not making donations to these people and shutting off their money supply. That is 100% unpardonable...

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There is NO unpardonable sin which will go under punishment.

There is no unpardonable sin; since the cross

As a 73 year old atheist I am so glad I don't have to participate in this nonsense.