My attention getter for this blog could easily have been " COME TO CHURCH SUNDAY AND FIND OUT WHAT THE UNPARDONABLE SIN really is"! I would be tricking you into coming to hear a sermon about this when really its only going to come up at the end of my message. (Oh, so now I still have your attention. GOOD!) Really there isn't a whole lot of explanation to it. Jesus explains it quite clearly in our passage for this Sunday when he talks about any blasphemy directed toward to the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven. There is no sin that is unforgivable other than the sin of never responding to the conviction of the Holy Spirit. Those who are bothered that they have somehow crossed that preverbal line of sinning with no return need fret no longer. The mere fact that you are bothered by it tells me the Holy Spirit is urging you to find cleansing in Jesus. Its the person who never cares, who never stops sinning and dies without ever looking to the cross that is lost and has committed the unpardonable sin.
Now that I have this pesky little issue out of the way, what I really want to talk about Sunday is the joy of following Jesus and knowing that because he enters the battle field with me I can experience every kind of victory. We can only be with Jesus so long on the mountain before being called to follow him into a war zone. A true disciple knows what he us up against and that is what I cannot wait to talk about with you this Sunday.
Pastor Mitch
