174 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 2 - Part 2 - Book 15 - Unpardonable Sin

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 2 * BOOK 15 MATTHEW REVIEW: UNPARDONABLE SIN: PARABLES OF LUKE 15: THE SECRETS OF THE BODY NOT REVEALED Once you get into the Book of Books you just can't beat it. In Matthew Chapter 12, beginning with verse 31, we have a few little verses that have raised so many questions. Right here we have what people normally call the "unpardonable sin." Let me prove my point. Before we look at Matthew 12, let's look at the Book of Hebrews Chapter 3 for a moment. I don't want someone to go through life scared to death that maybe they have committed the unpardonable sin, which most people feel, according to Matthew 12 is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. Blaspheming the Holy Spirit is a sin, and there is no doubt about it. But if I understand Scripture correctly, there is no sin that the Grace of God doesn't reach beyond. In other words, the most violent of sinners are still candidates of the Grace of God. It certainly wasn't God's. God had never intended for them go search out the land. God said, "Go in and take the land, and I'll send in hornets ahead of you and drive the people out." But Israel couldn't even take God at His word at that point in time. God in His goodness then condescended to their request and said, "Alright, choose out twelve men and let them go in." And that was one of the biggest mistakes that Israel ever made. God had already said that He would drive them out. Hebrews 3:15-18 Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? "UNBELIEF." They couldn't believe what God had said. Hebrews 3:19 "So we see that they (the children of Israel) could not enter in because of unbelief." God can forgive to the uttermost, any sin except the sin of UNBELIEF (when people refuse to believe that Christ died for them, paid their sin debt, and rose from the dead in power. Remember Hebrews 11:6 says to you and I in the Age of Grace: Hebrews 11:6 Let's go back to Matthew 12 and look at the unpardonable sin. I certainly don't tell people to go out and blaspheme the Holy Spirit, because after all, God will forgive you. So to the Nation of Israel He says: Matthew 12:31,32 "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. And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man (Christ), it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world (age), neither in the world (age) to come." Jesus is speaking again to the Jews: Matthew 21:33,34 Matthew 21:35-42 "And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. Jesus saith unto them, `Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?'" Matthew 21:43-45 "Therefore say I unto you, `The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. God called the Nation of Israel out, and gave them the Covenant promises. He called them His son, His favored nation. Remember the Jew only knew about God the Father. So God the Father sent the prophets to His Covenant people and they killed them, or threw them in the dungeons. Did God cancel the Nation of Israel because of that? God sent His only Son next, The Christ. The Holy Spirit. Let's look at the Scripture that pertains to the Holy Spirit. Israel has rejected the overtures from the Father by killing the prophets. They rejected the overtures of the Son by killing The Christ. But how are they going to deal with the Holy Spirit, because here is the unpardonable part now - how they deal with third Person of the Godhead. We have, in Acts Chapter 6, the appointment of seven men, normally referred to as deacons. Now we have the Holy Spirit mentioned twice in two verses. What is permeating Stephen? The presence of the Holy Spirit. Go to Chapter 7 verse 2. If you ever want the history of the Nation of Israel in a nutshell, read this whole chapter. If you don't like that approach about the unpardonable sin you don't have to agree. After the stoning of Stephen and the Holy Spirit aspect, the next event of importance in the chronological unfolding is the conversion of what great man? Saul of Tarsus (Paul). Israel is now falling out of all the things that God had been promising, and now here comes Paul with the Body of Christ, the predominately Gentile Church. When we study the Book of Acts, I'll show you the transitional aspect of this Book, how God deals with His Covenant people Israel under the Law with all the Old Testament promises; and how when they rejected it, God now does something totally different - something the Old Testament knew nothing of. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible