Skolfields teachings Part seven

(This is a really good one and one of the most misunderstood of all teachings)

Unforgivable Sin

I have heard from several believers who are afraid they might commit the
gravest of all sins (blasphemy against the Holy Spirit) if they speak
out against a spiritual manifestation that doesn't agree with the Bible.
Well, that sin is far more than just criticizing a spiritual gift or
criticizing a work that you don't believe to be of God. What's more,
it's never wrong to obey the Bible and the Bible actually tells us to
test the spirits behind spiritual manifestations. Here is the command:
1John 4:1-3 "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits,
whether they are from God; for many false prophets have gone forth into
the world. By this know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses
that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God. And every spirit
which does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not
from God; and this is the antichrist which you heard is coming, and now
is already in the world."
That isn't optional, it's a command (for more details, read "The Shining
Man with Hurt Hands," downloadable free on www.fish-house.com
<http://www.fish-house.com/> ). Point being: just because someone gives
a prophecy or whatever doesn't mean it's from God and we aren't supposed
to believe it unless that spirit is tested. Guess what else, it's
impossible for a true to Christian to blaspheme the Holy Spirit. Here is
how you can prove it. While Jesus was casting demons out of a blind and
dumb man He told the surrounding Pharisees about that blasphemy, first
in Matthew and then in Mark:
Mat 12:31-32 "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. 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."
Mark 3:28-29 "Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the
sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme: But
he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness,
but is in danger of eternal damnation."
Notice that ALL sins except blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is
forgivable. John the Baptist, through the Holy Spirit, also tells us
about an unforgivable sin:
John 3:36 "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he
that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God
abideth on him."
So if someone rejects the Lord Jesus he will never be forgiven either.
But wait a second, isn't blasphemy against the Holy Spirit the only
unforgivable sin? Yes indeed, so rejection of the Lord Jesus and
blasphemy against the Holy Spirit are the same sin or there would be TWO
unforgivable sins! Let me explain:
No one comes to Jesus through his own volition. God the Father, through
His Spirit, draws us to His Son (John 6:44, John 12:32). The Holy Spirit
then witnesses in our hearts that Jesus is the Son of God to the point
that we know it to be so down into our innermost being. If we stand
against His irrefutable witness, we are turning against God with the
knowledge that we are turning against the truth. That is what happened
to those Pharisees. Jesus was standing before them casting out demons.
Meanwhile the Holy Spirit was witnessing in their hearts, saying:
Matthew 17:5 "This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased; hear ye
him."
The Pharisees knew that Jesus was the Christ from the Holy Spirit's
irrefutable witness in their hearts. When they spoke against His witness
they were calling the Holy Spirit a liar. In so doing they blasphemed
the Holy Spirit. The unforgivable sin is rejection of the witness of the
Holy Spirit in our hearts by which we know without question that Jesus
is the Christ.
In the Islamic Dome of the Rock (on the temple mount in Jerusalem), is a
major inscription in Arabic that reads: "God forbid that he should have
a son." That declaration is also in the Koran. So here is the question:
Did the prophet of Islam commit blasphemy against the Holy Spirit? The
answer is obvious from what the Bible says his fate and the fate of his
followers will be:
Revelation 14:9-11 "If any man worship the (Leopard-Bear-Lion) beast and
his image, and receive his mark (666) in his forehead, or in his hand,
The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured
out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be
tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels,
and in the presence of the Lamb."
Revelation 19:20 "And the beast (Islam) was taken, and with him the
false prophet (Muhammad) that wrought miracles before him, with which he
deceived them that had received the mark of the beast (666), and them
that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of
fire burning with brimstone."
That God has no son is a major tenet of Islam and there are 1.3 billion
people in Islam today. We need to pray for Moslems, their eventual fate
is a spiritual tragedy of unimaginable proportions.
How the above verses apply to Islam is explained in "The False Prophet"
and in other books, letters and essays downloadable free from this site.

Ellis Skolfield
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"The conversion of the entire population to Islam and the extinction of every form of dissent is the ideal of the Muslim State - This is Islamic Peace"

A moderate Moslem is one who sends others blow themselves up.