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What is blasphemy against the Holy Ghost?

What is blasphemy against the Holy Ghost?

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 (This podcast was previously published on January 31, 2021) Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney ... To attribute the works of God and the Holy Spirit to being works of the devil would be blasphemy against the Holy Ghost. Jesus said: Matthew 12:31-32 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, 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. As a new Christian in 1975, I went to the church my best friend and her husband attended. The pastors of that church group were professors at Dallas Theological Seminary. When I began attending this church, Believer's Chapel, the head pastor was teaching a seminar on the subject, "Tongues are of the devil." One day, I was reading the Bible and saw the following: The apostle Paul said, Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues. (1 Corinthians 14:39) But at Believer's Chapel the pastor was teaching tongues to be of the devil. The church I was attending at that time was teaching something exactly opposite to that which I was reading in the Bible! I never went back to that church group. I believe this pastor was committing blasphemy against the Holy Ghost. A Baptist woman told me this story: She went into her neighborhood grocery and saw a young man and she said to the grocer, "Who is that?" He told her the name of the young man. She said, "I'm going to marry him." They did marry and they were married approximately 60-years until Jerry died. I thought this was such a wonderful story and I said to my friend, "OH, that was a word of knowledge from God!" My friend seemed frightened while I rejoiced. I suspect she had been taught at her church group against the spiritual gifts of God. (I Corinthians 12, Romans 12, I Peter 4:11) Some churches teach against the gifts of the Holy Spirit. On this podcast, I will give examples of some of the great works done in the church by the Holy Spirit and some of the blasphemy against God and the Holy Spirit as presented in the Bible. ***** The gifts of the Holy Spirit: I Corinthians 12 1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. 2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led. 3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. 4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. 6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. 7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. 8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; 9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: 11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as HE (God) will. *** Romans 12 5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. 6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; 7 Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching; 8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness. *** I Peter 4:11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. *** At the end of the great tribulation, we read this: Revelation 16:21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great. (I suspect this form of blasphemy was cursing God.) *** After the crucifixion and resurrection, Jesus set up the New Testament church from heaven by HIS Spirit. We are born again by the Holy Spirit of God convincing us of our sin. In 1975 the Holy Spirit spoke to me by bringing the following thought to my mind: "Joan, you know those mistakes you've been making all these years? Those weren't mistakes. Those were sins." I ...
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