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3/9/2025 0 Comments Pastor’s PenBeloved, I remember years ago, early in my walk with the Lord that a fellow member of the Bible Study that I attended Friday nights told me that he had committed blasphemy against the holy Spirit. Hence, because of this he believed that he had no chance of ever going to heaven. He was doomed.
Well, fortunately for him, his theology was wrong. As one Bible Scholar once said, “If you think you have committed blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, you haven’t.” Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit has to do with accusing Jesus Christ of being demon-possessed instead of Spirit-filled. This particular type of blasphemy cannot be duplicated today in the same manner as in Jesus’ day. The unpardonable sin today is the state of continued unbelief. The Spirit currently convicts the unsaved world of sin, righteousness, and judgment (John 16:8). To resist that conviction and willfully remain unrepentant is to “blaspheme” the Spirit. Let us pray for those with a hard heart that the Lord will soften their hearts and bring them to Himself! In Him, Pastor Joe
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3/2/2025 0 Comments Pastor's PenBeloved, it was CS Lewis who popularized the argument that Jesus was either a liar or a lunatic or the Lord. But, as Kyle Barton has shown, he didn’t invent it.
In the mid-nineteenth century the Scottish Christian preacher “Rabbi” John Duncan (1796-1870) formulated what he called a “trilemma.” In Colloquia Peripatetica (p. 109) we see Duncan’s argument from 1859-1860: Christ either [1] deceived mankind by conscious fraud, or [2] He was Himself deluded and self-deceived, or [3] He was Divine. There is no getting out of this trilemma. It is inexorable. Also, in 1936, Watchman Nee made a similar argument in his book, Normal Christian Faith. A person who claims to be God must belong to one of three categories: First, if he claims to be God and yet in fact is not, he has to be a madman or a lunatic. Second, if he is neither God nor a lunatic, he has to be a liar, deceiving others by his lie. Third, if he is neither of these, he must be God. You can only choose one of the three possibilities. Beloved, was Jesus “out of His mind?” Let’s look at today’s study and find out! In Him, Pastor Joe |
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