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=What the Bible teaches= | |||
Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is mentioned in 3 places in the New Testament. | |||
In Matt 12:31-32: | |||
:''Therefore I tell you, people will be forgiven for every sin and blasphemy, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. 32 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.<ref>New Revised Standard Version: Updated Edition (Friendship Press, 2021), Mt 12:31–32.</ref> | |||
In Mark 3:29: | |||
:''but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit can never have forgiveness but is guilty of an eternal sin.”<ref>New Revised Standard Version: Updated Edition (Friendship Press, 2021), Mk 3:29.</ref> | |||
And in Luke 12:10: | |||
:''And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him.<ref>New American Standard Bible (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 2020), Lk 12:10.</ref> | |||
=Quotes of William Branham= | =Quotes of William Branham= | ||
Revision as of 22:31, 19 May 2026
Why do message believers often fail to witness to non-believers about Christ? Some are afraid that they might evoke a bad reaction to the Gospel, thus causing a person to blaspheme the Holy Spirit. Rather than risk this, they choose to remain silent.
But what does the Bible say about this?
What the Bible teaches
Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is mentioned in 3 places in the New Testament.
In Matt 12:31-32:
- Therefore I tell you, people will be forgiven for every sin and blasphemy, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. 32 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.[1]
In Mark 3:29:
- but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit can never have forgiveness but is guilty of an eternal sin.”[2]
And in Luke 12:10:
- And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but the one who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him.[3]
Quotes of William Branham
Sure, Nazarene… There's nobody can say a word against them fine religious people; they're just as nice as they can be. Church of God, Nazarene, Free Methodist, those people are real, but when it comes down to the works of the Spirit, they say, "Oh, oh, that's the devil." And what'd they do there? Blaspheme the Holy Ghost. When they do that… Now, what is blasphemy? There's no forgiveness. Is that right? He that once enlightened, made partakers, and tasted of the heavenly gifts (partasted—tasted of God's sanctification: cleaned up from cigarettes, and filthy women, and all kinds of life like that)—and tasted of the heavenly things (to see that they'll walk up to that borderline like those spies did that eat part of the grapes… See? But what do they have to do? They had to break up their denomination to come over into this. See? Say—See?)—tasted of the heavenly gifts; seeing that they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and count the Blood of the covenant wherewith they were sanctified an unholy thing.[4]
Footnotes
- ↑ New Revised Standard Version: Updated Edition (Friendship Press, 2021), Mt 12:31–32.
- ↑ New Revised Standard Version: Updated Edition (Friendship Press, 2021), Mk 3:29.
- ↑ New American Standard Bible (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 2020), Lk 12:10.
- ↑ 64-0830M - Questions And Answers #3, para. 293