(Ver 1.3)  Today is Part 2 on the subject of “Once Saved, Aleays Saved”, “Eternal Security”, or “Unconditional Security” of the believer after salvation.  I will continue to talk about this subject today in greater detail giving you a new perspective on the subject that I call the introduction of the  unpardonable sin.  Does an unpardonable sin exist?  Can a Christian commit this sin and even lose their salvation?  In the first lesson on this subject I contrasted the teaching of some churches that is often called the doctrine of “once saved, always saved”, to a new but clear reference found in the Bible of what God calls the “Sin Unto Death”.  In that lesson I taught that God instructs us not to even pray for a person that has commited this type of Sin Unto Death.   If you did not read this first lesson, I would strongly suggest that you go back and start your reading with “Part 1” and then continue forward to today’s lesson. 

So what is the “Sin Unto Death”?  As you recall from Part 1 of this series I determined that man still possessed a free will choice and that they could decide at any point in time not to be saved.  This action would result in their rejection of the saving grace of God.  That which God has given to them for free can be freely given back to God at any time.  People will never lose the right to choose between good and evil, God and Satan, light and darkness even if it is an extremely stupid choice to make the wrong decision.  I do not think that the people who teach “once saved, always saved” have taken this reality into account.  They simply want to rely on the divine omnipotence of God to make all of their choices and decisions for them but God just does not do this.  There are several references in the Bible that indicate people must strive and contend for the faith (Jude 1:3).  That there is a struggle and an armed conflict raging in the spiritual realm (2 Tim 4:7).  We have a spiritual enemy doing all that he can to deceive us and cause us to turn back to our previous ways.  There are numerous scriptures that clearly inform us that people are not once saved and then can never make the choice to go back to their old life styles.  For example:

Heb 10:26  For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

This verse in Hebrews is another prime example of someone who was saved by the shed blood of Christ and who has now wilfully chosen to go back to sin.  Wilfully displays a choice of their freewill.  This verse describes a Christian that has learned the truth of God’s Word, but now decided to ignore it.  I gave you another verse in the last lesson and it was interesting to see that this person was described as someone who has trodden or walked on the Son of God in verse 29.  This is a common Bible term that is used for when someone defeats an enemy.  So to this person, Christ is no longer their savior, but has become their enemy.  When a person turns back to this old way, you can read here in vese 26 that there is no more sacrifices that can save them.  This verse says that they had accepted the one true way to God but have now turned away from the truth and as a result have lost their salvation without any hope for salvation.  That is a clear definition to what an unpardonable sin is.  God clearly tells us that there is only one sacrifice for our sin, not two, three or more.  Christ died one time on the cross, so do not take it lightly, thinking that it is OK to walk away from Christ and that you can come back whenever you like.  This is the sin unto death that God is speaking of. 

Here is a new problem that I was recently introduced to.  One persons tried to explain away all of these verses in Hebrews 10 as not applying to Christians because they said this book was only written to the natural Jews or the Hebrews.  Wow, people can become so deceived, can’t they?  How ignorant do you have to be to not see this book was written to church?  That means it was written to me!  That means the scriptures apply to me.  If you used their logic then the book of Timothy only applies to Timothy and we should it ignore it also.  Using their logic the book of Romans was only written to the people in Rome so we should iginore that one also.  I could go on and on like this through every epistle in the N.T. and explain each of them away using some ignorant human reasoning.  I’ve seen this type of behavior by Christians and even seminary graduates repeatedly.  Whenever they do not want to embrace a truth as being applicable to them, they say it was written to someone else.  Heaven help them to see the truth!

THE UNPARDONABLE SIN

Now is the time to get into my new main subject verse that is very important for you to understand.  Here is another key verse of scripture that has great significance to our subject of eternal security and to what I have been teaching on subject of the sin unto death.  The Eternal Security Extreme Grace message is based solely upon the theory that there are no sins that are possible for a Christian to commit that will cause them to lose their salvation.  I mean that would be a radical message, if that is what Jesus believed.  However since Jesus didn’t even believe that I think I will not write off His words to believe in a false eternal security.  Look here in this verse in Matthew, and see that Jesus is speaking and that He says some things that are very hard to accept for my Grace teachers so they have to ignore them or explain them away:

Mat 12:31  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.

Apparently, according to what Jesus just said there is at the least one sin that will not be forgiven of anyone that commits it.  If you did not understand that this was an all-inclusive statement that leaves no one out, then you are not reading it correctly.  This verse would have to apply to all Christians as well as to all non-Christians equally since Jesus did not qualify the target audience.  Jesus informs us that there are a whole bunch of different kinds of sins and blasphemies that will be forgiven a man or a woman on this planet.  But, Jesus then says that there is one that will not be forgiven any man or any woman at any time and that is when they blaspheme the Holy Ghost.  Therefore, if there is just ONE SIN that is unforgiveable, then salvation is no longer unconditionally secured, but has been transformed by definition to a conditional salvation.  Remaining saved would then be totally dependent upon you not commiting the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost.  That clearly changes salvation to an unsecured CONDITIONAL event!  So let’s define this word blaspheme, using the Strong’s:

G987

From G989; to vilify; specifically to speak impiously: – (speak) blaspheme (-er, -mously, -my), defame, rail on, revile, speak evil.

Obviously, according to this definition, blasphemy is the spoken words of a person, that are directed against the character of God.  As you can see it implies that God’s character and nature is good and yet I hear men constantly speaking of Him in terms of being an evil being.  I would be very careful with what you say about God, after reading this verse.  If you walk about speaking of God as being evil or being the reason for evil you do not understand the Bible and are in jeopardy of being guilty of blaspheming the Holy Spirit of God.  I heard people speak of God being responsible for the 9/11 attacks of the terrorists and that to me is blasphemy.  I have heard people claim God is responsible for the earth quake in Haiti, and that to me is also blasphemy.

Satan uses whatever he can to try to deceive you.  I have been guilty of this in the past.  Because of my ignorance of the Bible, Satan used my ignorance against me to his advantage when I was young.  I remember when I was a kid growing up in church, a traveling minster came into the church and spoke.  I do not recall everything he was talking about, but I do know that he spoke about the “unforgiveable sin”.   Later in my life, as I was getting close to 21 years old, I was faced with a very hard set of circumstances.  I was recently married and my father fell unconscious in his living room.  It appears later that we found out that he had a stroke.  They rushed him to the hospital and he lay there for a few days still unconscious.   Now my father was a preacher a big part of my life.  He went to Bible school and had a church that he was the pastor of and seemed to me to be doing the right things.  One day as I drove by the hospital I was very discouraged and down about the situation and I said out loud “if this is the kind of God you are, I don’t want anything to do with you”.  You see we had many Christians praying and God was not appearing to answer.   What I did not know was all of the things that God had tried to do months earlier to get my father to change and fix the problem that was causing these results.  My father either out of pride or rebellion did not heed the warning given to him by a great man of God that tried to help him.  My father was sitting in a Bible class with this man one day and God showed the teacher that my father was going to die.  God told the teacher what to say to him and asked my father to come see him privately to talk about it.  This man prayed for my father in public, but did not tell anyone what he saw or what God said.  Months later this same man spoke at my father’s funeral service.  God put the responsibility of what happened to my father in my father’s hands and my father chose to ignore it as being unimportant.  You do realize that God leaves your destiny up to you and you alone?

So now the years went by and Satan used the fact of what I said to God to convince me that I had committed the unpardonable sin against God.   Satan used the words of a minster from my childhood to convince me that I could no longer by saved.  Ministers need to learn to be careful what they say to who.  If they are not careful they can affect someone just as easily negatively as they can positively.  There were times that I thought of suicide and had a desire to just end it all.  But, thank God for His mercy and His grace!  You see later in my life I had another situation come up that I had no other place to turn, but to God.   In crying out to God for help I started to seek Him to know Him better and to see if I could still be saved.  I learned from my mother that God had tried to help my father months before he died in that Bible class.  So it was not God’s fault that my father died.  So even though I blamed God for it, it was because of my ignorance of the situation that caused me to say what I did to God.  God as a result did not hold it against me and God could still and did forgive me.  One night with my wife, after I had been seeking for more of God, God came upon me and then filled me with His Spirit on the inside.  This was a manifestation of His Spiritual divine power like I had never experienced before or since.   God solved Satan’s plan of deception with an experience that left no doubt in my mind that God was real and that He was on the inside of me and I belonged to Him.  I now knew for sure beginning that night that I had not committed the unpardonable sin and that God cared about me personally enough to prove it.  So I cannot guarantee you that God will do for you what He did for me in the exact same way.  Rarely have I ever seen God do the same exact thing twice in the precise same way.  However, God knows how to reach you if you are interested in being reached.  If you believe in God, like I did you have half the battle won.  If you want more of God and are truly hungry and thirsty for more of His Spirit, you are on the right path to allowing God to work in you, however He sees fit to make Himself real to you.  God is sovereign and God is omnipotent.  But, God will not override your will or your choices.  God will remain hidden, until you make the choice to seek Him diligently.

So I gave you a mini version of my testimony and I usually do not talk about me in my blogs.  My blogs are not about me!  However, I think my experience might be able to help someone so I included it in hope that the right people would find it.

1Jn 5:16  If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.

If you are concerned that you have already committed the unpardonable sin, but are questioning it and reading this blog, you probably have not.  Satan is very tricky, he definitely uses what you do not know to hurt you and deceive you any way that he can.  Satan uses your thoughts against you.  He puts doubts and thoughts in your mind to mislead you into destruction.  Be hungry for the truth!  Seek God with all of your heart!  God will not let you down, He actually wants to show you how real He is.

Rom 6:16  Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

There will always be a choice set before you as long as you are on this earth in the flesh.  God will never take your ability to choose away from you.  You can choose to obey Him and His Word or select to go your own independent way.  This verse in Romans clearly says that you still have responsibility and the choice to make and this verse was specifically written to Christians.  There is still a “sin unto death” and this is also called by the synonymous title of the “unpardonable sin” that Jesus spoke of in Matthew.  If you still do not understand what these are you should go back and reread these lessons and look up every scripture in your own Bible and study them more until you get them on the inside of you.  I’m not through with this subject because God says many more things in His Word that we need to know about it.  So I will continue “Once Saved Always Saved” in the future.  God Bless!

If you would like to continue reading on the subject of Once Saved Always Saved you may continue with “Part 3“.