Mateus 12

Mateus 12

Johnson says about the unpardonable sin - When is this sin committed? Well, we can say this at least. There is only one time in which sin against the Son of Man is blameable and forgivable, while sin against the Holy Spirit is blameable and unforgivable. There is only one time when that situation exists. Now that the Son of Man is glorified and at the right hand of the Father, sin against the Son is sin against the Spirit.So it’s evident that the historical situation which called forth the comment from our Lord, the unpardonable sin can only exist while our Lord is here in our incarnate flesh when he looked as other men looked. So it can only be committed, in my opinion, when the king is personally present – the unpardonable sin. That is, the specific historical sin to which he refers here. And I think this is confirmed by the fact that it is only referred to this one time by our Lord, and never referred to elsewhere by the apostles. It was a particular situation that had its particular interpretation with reference to that particular time.....What is, then, the unpardonable sin? The unpardonable sin is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit’s supernatural work of performing miracles prevalent in the days of the supernatural miracles. It may be committed by hardened, impenitent men. But now having said that, two other things ought to be said. In the first place, there is an unpardonable sin today. It is not the unpardonable sin to which our Lord refers, but it is the unpardonable sin of rejecting Jesus Christ. In John 3:18, the Lord Jesus in the continuation of the passage in which he has had his interview with Nicodemus says, ““He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." so that personal faith in Jesus Christ – if it does not come – sin is unpardonable. There is such a thing as the unpardonable sin, historically (REFERRING TO THIS PASSAGE IN MATTHEW), and there is such a thing as an unpardonable sin throughout this present age. And it is possible for us to commit unpardonable sin in that sense. (ED: HE IS SPEAKING OF COURSE OF UNBELIEVERS, NOT BELIEVERS) And furthermore, it is possible for there to exist a prolonged rebellion that leads to retributive judgment and hardness of heart. That is still possible today. It is my own opinion that that is what is referred to in Hebrews 6, when we read that it is impossible to bring certain people to repentance, who have had great privilege but have turned away from them. They apostasized from the apperceptive sense of truth that they possessed, and there is no hope. In the Old Testament, we read that God sent the prophets to Israel, and they ministered to them and ministered to them, but they rejected them and rejected them, and then we read “til there was no healing.” (ED: READ 2 Chronicles 36:15, 16 = "UNTIL THERE WAS NO REMEDY.") Retributive judgment must set in.(Sermon) J