What does First B Jackson teach about blasphemy holy spirit?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At First B Jackson, the teaching on blasphemy against the Holy Spirit starts with the scene that provoked Jesus to address it: religious leaders watching undeniable miracles and choosing to credit Satan rather than God. Both Pastor Carl and Pastor Ray have worked through this passage carefully, and both land in the same place. This is not an accidental sin or a moment of doubt. It is a deliberate, sustained inversion of what is plainly true, calling the Holy Spirit's work the work of the devil.
Pastor Carl was careful to distinguish that from ordinary struggle or failure. The scribes who came down from Jerusalem were not confused or searching. They had watched a blind and mute man healed in front of them, and they already had an explanation ready that kept them from having to respond to Jesus in faith. Jesus answered them on their own logic first, pointing out that Satan casting out Satan is a divided house that cannot stand, and that what He was actually doing was binding Satan's work and plundering his house. The scribes' accusation simply did not hold together. What it did reveal was what filled them, because out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.
Pastor Ray was equally clear about what the unpardonable sin is not. It is not suicide, not divorce, not any of the things people most often carry into that question. It is persistently refusing to hear the Holy Spirit when He is actively calling a person to trust Jesus, and that refusal only becomes final when a person runs out of time. The warning Jesus gives is serious, but the very fact that someone is troubled by it is itself a sign the Holy Spirit is still at work in them.
Taught from Mark 3:28-29 · Luke 12:10 · Matthew 12:33 · Mark 3:22 · Matthew 12:36
The passage taught · 1 John 5:20
20 We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
World English Bible
The messages that teach on it
- November 29, 2023 Hope Was Born This Night Pastor Carl walks through Mark 3, where crowds press in on Jesus, the twelve are chosen, and religious leaders call him demon-possessed while his own family thinks he has lost his mind.
- March 20, 2022 The Sign of Jonah Jesus refuses to perform signs on demand, explains the sign of Jonah, and redefines family as those who hear and do the will of God.
- March 13, 2022 He Comes Home Pastor Ray walks through Matthew, Mark, and Luke on Jesus responding to accusations that He cast out demons by Satan, including a look at the unpardonable sin.
Mentioned along the way
- April 16, 2023 Repent or Perish: Five Warnings and Two Alternatives Five warnings from Luke 12 on hypocrisy, greed, worry, division and judgment, paired with Jesus's call to repentance and trust in a patient, providing God.