Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is an unforgivable sin. It is unforgivable because those who sin in this way resist grace and do not wish to repent.

One can think his or her love for Jesus to be great, but blasphemy of the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven in this world or the next.

All of us will be held accountable for every unguarded word we speak, and action taken on judgment day. By our words and our actions, we will be acquitted or condemned. See Matt. 12:30-37 and Matt. 7: 21-23.

The fate of both Ananias and Sapphira warns us not to lie to ourselves about our love for God and that we will not get away with lying to God. There is always a great consequence to doing this.

There are so many in Christendom today blaspheming the Holy Spirit. If you say you have left sin and yet you come against the Holy Spirit, who do you fool? If you twist the Scriptures to support your wrong beliefs and actions against the Holy Spirit, who do you fool? If you say you are saved by the Blood of Jesus and yet you come against the Holy Spirit, who do you fool?

One can be fooled by Satan into blaspheming the Holy Spirit. One can commit this sin and feel they love Jesus. And if you do, it is most deadly to the soul. If one sins against Jesus, they can be forgiven. But a blasphemer of the Holy Spirit cannot be dealt with mercifully. (Matt. 12:31-32)

St. Paul’s former ignorance of the truth did not keep him from regarding himself as having been the worst of sinners. (1Tim.1: 13-17) Mercy was his and God changed his name from Saul to Paul.

Those of you today who have distorted ideas of God, and who have tangled consciences, need rescuing. Our confidence is in Jesus the one hope for us all.

An act of hope is an expression of our complete trust in God. When we make an act of hope we are asserting our conviction in the fact that God loves us so much that He has bound Himself by solemn covenant to bring us safely into heaven. However, there is just one condition to all this which many choose to ignore. It is a condition presupposed and taken for granted and that is: “ provided that we for our part do our reasonable best.” Many are sinning against hope by forgetting the “ silent clause” in the act of hope by expecting God to do everything, instead of almost everything.

God will give to every one of us all the grace we need to get to heaven. But He expects us to co-operate with His grace. He has given us the gift of free will. We can choose at all times to reject God’s grace. Sins against the Holy Spirit lead one to reject God’s grace. So when Jesus says that one who blasphemes the Holy Spirit cannot be forgiven either in this life or the next, it is because this “ non-forgiveness” is linked, as to its cause, to “ non-repentance”, in other words, to the radical refusal to be converted to the truth.

The action of the Holy Spirit (the Spirit of Truth), which works towards the saving “ convincing concerning sin” encounters in a person in this condition an interior resistance, as it were an impenetrability of conscience, a state of mind which could be described as fixed by reason of free choice. That is what Holy Scripture usually calls “ hardness of heart”.

There are six sins against the Holy Spirit, which lead one to resist grace and are unforgivable.

First there is the sin of presumption. We must do our part to be saved. If we blandly assume that because God wants us saved then it is up to Him to get us there regardless of what we may do, then we are guilty of the sin of presumption. The sin of presumption is a rash confidence of obtaining eternal salvation by other means than those truly ordained by God.

You must repent, you many men of God preaching the false salvation in Christ as you preach a false gospel of Christ. But how will you ever repent if you are unwilling to be refined and purified by the Holy Spirit?

All of you, the people of God, who are following after these men of God, who are in love with their words and who are living according to the fables they preach, you too must repent. But how will you ever repent if you remain closed to the Spirit of Truth knocking on the doors of your hearts if your hearts are closed to Him?

Despair is another sin against the Holy Spirit. The sin of despair is willful and complete abandonment of hope and assurance that God will bring you to life everlasting, that following God’s way of life for salvation is impossible, or that one’s sins are unforgivable.

A third sin against the Holy Spirit is resisting known truth. Resisting known truth is a stubborn resistance to a truth known to come from God. An example would be sodomy, as many Christians believe it ok to go along with the gay program, which has accelerated now to same sex marriages which are not Godly but satanic. This is a terrible sin against man and God as God has spelled out in no uncertain terms.

Because resisting known truth is a sin from contempt it reveals a state of mind, which makes repentance difficult and is therefore called one of the sins for which there is no forgiveness, although, if the sinner does repent, forgiveness will be given. But how will that person committing it ever repent if he or she believes the sin to be right.

A fourth sin against the Holy Spirit is that of envy. Envy creates sadness at the good of another.

Obstinacy is a fifth sin against the Holy Spirit. The sin of obstinacy is clinging to the intention of offending God in spite of opportunities for amendment of your ways. It is the refusing of the forgiveness of God and the help of the Holy Spirit.

And the sixth sin against the Holy Spirit is that which St. Augustine explains as final impenitence. Final impenitence is an unpardonable sin because it is not repented. It is the denial of repentance in a sinner that is willful at the moment of death.

The greatest sin of this time we live in is the sin the loss of the sense of sin and the loss of the sense of God, the two go hand in hand. Yes, many Christians are guilty of this!

The truth is to be told. The will of God is to be done. Choose your side. Satan will have you against God and believing that you are with Him. God will have you repenting and heeding His call to truth.

You cannot lie to God and get away with it. To put words in God’s mouth is to blaspheme God. Human error or prejudice will be forgiven but not attacks upon the Holy Spirit, for the Holy Spirit is the One who inflames us to do the will of the Father and to avoid sin.

Just as a tree that is watered and nourished, and carefully tended, brings forth good fruit, so the soul made Christian by the waters of Baptism and strengthened by the virtues and gifts of the Holy Spirit produces good fruit in us. The fruits of the Holy Spirit, then, are the acts of us as good Christian’s which result when we allow the virtues and the gifts of the Holy Spirit to produce their effects.

Ask yourself, “Am I producing the fruits of a good Christian life or something short of that? “”Could it be that I am in danger of being a tree in Christendom to be cut down?” Reflect upon: (Matt. 3:10)

Your brother in Christ, Eddie