“Have I committed the unpardonable sin?”
This is a common question asked by lots of new Christians, including myself, before they learn how to properly read and divide the bible. And it’s completely understandable.
This amazing experience of getting saved, becoming a new creature in Christ and dealing with the thoughts of eternal life has just happened to you and you’re afraid that something you might do or say could take that gift away.
I’m here to tell you right now, definitively, NO, YOU HAVE NOT COMMITTED THE UNPARDONABLE SIN!
“And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.”
Acts 13:39
“But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.“
1 John 1:7
Did you read that? “ALL things,” and “ALL sin,” are forgiven us… by what?
His BLOOD.
There is absolutely nothing you can do on this earth that you cannot be forgiven for while you are still alive. And you certainly can’t lose your salvation either. See HERE.
Of course, that won’t stop a lot of Christians from trying to tell you that you can lose it, but, luckily, you have the Bible to sort them out. So lets see what the bible actually says on this matter.
The unpardonable sin is mentioned in three of the four gospels:
-Matthew 12:31-32
-Mark 3:21-30
-Luke 12:10
John wrote his gospel after Matthew, Mark and Luke had already been written so he must of thought the subject had already been covered well enough and so he left it out of his gospel. He was right.
The easiest way to break this “mystery sin” down is by using the passages from Mark:
“But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.
Mark 3:29-30
Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.”
It is clear that this mystery sin cannot be forgiven. And what is this mystery sin? Well it’s defined for us… “Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.”
Did you get that? That is a present tense statement. People are telling Jesus, TO HIS FACE, that he hath an unclean spirit.” Who? THEY (see also Luke 11:15). Is “THEY” you? Are you under the LAW like the Jews that are talking to Jesus in this passage or are you under GRACE because Christ shed his blood for you? (Hint, the answer is Grace).
When Christ is talking to these people he had not yet shed his blood on the cross for the remission of sin so it was impossible for this Sin to be forgiven. That is why these men are “in DANGER of eternal damnation,” because if they die before Christ sheds his blood and confess him as Lord then they will go straight to hell.
Under the LAW there is no way to forgive calling the messiah a devil.
So what does it mean, when we see the possibility of committing this sin in the “world to come,” mentioned in Matthew?
“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.“
Matthew 12:32
The Catholics will tell you that the “world to come,” is purgatory, but the Catholics are Mystery Babylon so I wouldn’t trust anything that comes out of their mouths.
Once again, we have the bible to sort us out.
Here’s a passage from Ruckman’s commentary series on Matthew:
The “world to come” is described throughout both Testaments as the Millennial reign of Christ on the earth (see Matt.13:39, 49, 24:13; Mark 10:30). The “world to come” has literal cities (Luke 19), with literal rulers (Matt.19), and literal transformations in nature (Isa. 11; Rom. 8). To equate it then with “life in the grave, after death,” is merely to demonstrate the private interpretation for which the Roman Church is famous.”
The bible tells us in 2 Peter 1:20 that no prophecy in the bible is for private interpretation. We bible believers use the scriptures to define the scriptures and the overarching theme of the entire bible is the return of Christ and his physical reign on the throne of David. This time is known as the Millennial Kingdom and during it the world will once again be under the Law, not Grace:
“And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.“
Revelation 2:27
So, when Christ is back on earth in the “world to come,” he’s talking about when he’s back on earth, in the Millennial Kingdom where once again people, under the Law, will have a chance to commit this unpardonable sin by telling him, face to face, that he’s of the devil.
Lucky for us, we’ll have already been conformed into the image of Christ and won’t be able to sin. Don’t miss out on it.
“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.”
Romans 8:29