["Pomp and Circumstance"]
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Good evening and welcome to Verity Baptist Church.
Let's go ahead and find our seats this evening.
Come on in, find the seats and find a hymnal close to you and turn to page number 194.
That's song number 194 since Jesus came into my heart.
This is song number 194.
Let's go ahead.
We're going to sing it out on the first.
What a wonderful change in my life has been brought since Jesus came into my heart.
I have lied in my soul for as long I have stopped since Jesus came into my heart.
Since Jesus came into my heart, since Jesus came into my heart.
Floods of joy on my soul like the sea billows roll since Jesus came into my heart.
Song number 194 on the second.
I have seized from my wandering and going astray since Jesus came into my heart.
My sins which were many are all washed away since Jesus came into my heart.
Since Jesus came into my heart, since Jesus came into my heart.
Floods of joy on my soul like the sea billows roll since Jesus came into my heart.
I'm possessed of a hope that is sad, pheasant, sure since Jesus came into my heart.
And from the dark clouds of doubt now my path will secure since Jesus came into my heart.
Since Jesus came into my heart, since Jesus came into my heart.
Floods of joy on my soul like the sea billows roll since Jesus came into my heart.
Sing it out on the fourth.
There's a light in the valley of death now for me since Jesus came into my heart.
The gates of the city beyond I can see since Jesus came into my heart.
Since Jesus came into my heart, since Jesus came into my heart.
Floods of joy on my soul like the sea billows roll since Jesus came into my heart.
Sing it out on the last.
I shall go there to dwell in that city I know since Jesus came into my heart.
I am happy, so happy as on would I go since Jesus came into my heart.
Since Jesus came into my heart, since Jesus came into my heart.
Floods of joy on my soul like the sea billows roll since Jesus came into my heart.
Amen.
Great singing.
We want to welcome everyone here to the Sunday evening service here at Verity Baptist Church.
We're glad to see everyone here this evening.
Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.
Dear heavenly father, Lord, we thank you again for the opportunity to come out to church this evening.
Lord, thank you for the beer people that would come, Lord, and serve you through singing
and pray that you bless everybody here.
Pray that you bless the evening of singing and preaching and bless everything that would be said and done.
Lord, we pray that everything that would be said and done would bring glory and honor to your name.
We love you.
And Jesus, may I pray.
Amen.
All right.
It's now time for favorites where if you're selected, we will sing a stanza from the song that you picked.
We'll start over here.
Brother Graham, go ahead.
202.
Song number 202.
My Redeemer, song number 202.
Song number 202.
On the first.
I will sing of my Redeemer, and his wondrous love to me.
On the first he set me free.
Sing, O sing of my Redeemer, with his blood he pushes me.
On the cross he sealed my pardon.
He made the debt and made me free.
Josh, yes, Stella.
What was it?
410.
Faith is the victory.
Amen.
Song number 410.
Sing it out.
On the first.
And count along the hills of lightning Christian soldiers rise.
And rest the battle in the night shall fill the glowing skies.
Against the flowing bales we loathe at all our strength we hurl.
Faith is the victory we know that overcomes the world.
Sing it out.
Faith is the victory.
Oh glorious victory that overcomes the world.
Um.
Montel Junior Guide.
119.
Song number 119.
Until the storm passes by.
We're going to sing it out on the first.
In the dark of the midnight have I oft hit my face.
While the storm howls above me and there's no hiding place.
And in the crash of the thunder precious Lord might cry.
Keep me safe till the storm passes by.
Till the storm passes over.
Till the thunder sounds the war.
Till the clouds hold forever on the side.
Hold me fast let me stand in the hollow of the hand.
Keep me safe till the storm passes by.
Lexi go ahead.
144.
Song number 144.
A mighty fortress is our God.
A bold work never failing.
Our help of He amid the flood.
A mortal ill's preventing.
For still our ancient land.
A mighty fortress is our God.
To 15 on the third
This will be the last song for favorites song number two one five
And we're gonna sing it out on the last and sing that last tag as well
When that last tag dressing it up to one five on the last
And it's because of that one
My sins were washed away and my night was certain today
Heaven came down and will be filled my soul
Amen, all right. We welcome you tonight to the Sunday evening service here at ready Baptist Church. We're glad you're with us
Let's go ahead and take our bulletins
We'll look at some announcements if you did not receive a bulletin on your way in just raise your hand and one of our ushers
Can get one for you need a bulletin just put your hand up and we'll get one for you the verse this week Proverbs
21 15 it is joy to the just to do judgment
But destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity and that's a good verse that we've been learning about
Judgment of course on Sunday mornings if you look at our
Bulletin there if you open it up
You'll see our service time Sunday morning service 10 30 a.m.. And we have we had a wonderful service this morning
We're glad you're back out tonight for the evening service
And we do invite you to be back on Wednesday night for the Wednesday night Bible study this Wednesday night is a special
Wednesday night service, and we'll talk about that here in a little bit
If you look at our sowing times our main sowing times on Saturday mornings at 10 a.m.
And then we have additional sowing times on Thursdays Fridays and Sundays at 2 p.m.
And if you are a soul winner don't forget to
Return your unfinished maps if you have a map if you finish the map you can discard it
We count it as done, but if you have a map that is not finished clearly mark
What was done was not done on the map or if there's something wrong with the map?
Let us know what the problem is and you can turn it in in the bin in the foyer
And we will get that fixed and recycled out so that it can get done if you had any
Salvations make sure you mark them on your communication card so that we can add it to the bulletin
And if you're running late to the sowing times you can call us or text us at the number there
916-868-9080 let us know you're planning on being there, but you're running late
And that way our team captains can have our sowing captains can have
You partnered can have a map for you can have everything that you need if you're a first-time guest if it's your first time here
At Verity Baptist Church. We are so glad you're with us
We have a gift we'd like to give you as you walk out of the church building tonight as you go through the main foyer
Or if you go out our secondary foyer
You'll see a little table set up there by the entrance with a sign that says
Gift gift bags or guest gift bags, and you'll see these little bags on table
Please grab one on your way out as a gift from us to you for being our guest tonight
There are several resources in this bag that we'd like you to have the one I like to highlight is this documentary
That our church made is called being Baptist very well made very interesting, and we think you'll like it
We want to give this to you as a gift
So please make sure you do not leave here this evening without grabbing one of these gift bags on
Your way out and if you are a guest we'd ask that you please take a moment to fill out the communication card
Which is inserted in your bulletin if you need a pen just raise your hand and one of our ushers can bring you by a
Verity Baptist Church pen you're welcome to keep the pen as a gift from us as well
We're not gonna do anything odd with your info. We would just like a record your attendance
We actually would like to send you a little gift, but we need your information to do that
So please take a moment to fill the card out when we're done with the announcements
We're gonna sing a song and when we're done singing
We're gonna receive the offering as the often plate goes by you can drop this card in the often plate
Or you can hand it to me after the service
I'll be standing at the main door greeting people on the way out if you notice there in our announcements
We of course are a family integrated church what that means is that children and infants are always welcome in the service
We do not separate children from their parents for any reason we do have mother baby rooms and daddy rooms available for your convenience
All the rooms have comfortable seating and monitor setups you can watch the service and listen to it
So if you have a child that's been distracting during the service
So if you need some privacy we would encourage you to use those rooms as needed if you need to be baptized
Please let us know you can let us know on your communication card on the back of the card
There's a place for you
To let us check off that you'd like information about baptism
And we'll follow up with you in regards to that or if you are already spoken somebody
You know you need to be baptized all you need to do is at the end of the service after the preaching
While we're singing the last song if you step out that door one of our staff guys will meet you there
And we can get you situated for baptism so if you look at the announcements and upcoming events
you've got the nine chapters a day challenge and
If you already finished you can start letting us know on your communication card make sure to legibly write
Your name so that we can read it so that we can spell your name correctly for the plot
But go ahead and start getting those in I'm just curious is there anybody that's already finished nine chapters a day
I know you're the overachiever Salvador always finishes early, but I good praise Lord well
I'm sure many of you will be getting done in the next few days so praise Lord for that
And if and if you're behind this is the time to get caught up all right, so don't quit don't quit
You'll be glad that you did it and then this Wednesday
Deacon Corbin Russell is coming from paperwork Baptist Church in Tucson, Arizona
He's gonna be preaching for us this Wednesday January 25th at 7 p.m.
You don't want to make you don't want to miss it and even if you don't normally come on Wednesday nights
I want to encourage you to come this Wednesday night for brother Corbin and
Then of course teen activity is this Friday January 27th at 6 p.m.
The address is there laser tag for all the teens make sure you don't forget about that married couple sweetheart banquet
It's coming up on Friday February 10th at 6 30, and it's always a fun time
We're gonna have dinner for you, and we'll be playing the not so newlywed game
There's a $50 gift card to the cheesecake factory for the winning couples so you can sign up on your communication card
There's actually not a sign up on here
We apologize for that, but just write your name somewhere and married couples or a heart or something
And we'll get you signed up for that and of course
It's married couples only and you have to sign up by February 5th, and we've got a lot of young couples
That got married this last year, so they can start figuring things out like you need to start asking things like what's her middle name?
What's his birthday?
You know just the basics at least get the basics favorite colors stuff like that, and you'll be fine
It'll be a good time. I love my church Sunday
you should have one of these in your bulletin, and I love my church Sunday's coming up Sunday February 12 and
We want to encourage you to invite someone to church. I want you to be thinking about
Somebody that you can invite to church for I love my church Sunday. You've got a neighbor you got a co-worker
You've got a friend, and you we want you to use this card to invite somebody
We're gonna be giving out pink vanilla and caramel Valentine's Day popcorn for all the families in attendance the choir is gonna be singing that day
We'll have a potluck after the evening service
So I want to encourage you to be a part of that and then next Sunday night
After the evening service in the fellowship hall if you could help us out
We're gonna have a mailers to assemble for I love my church Sunday choir
Practice was today at 5 p.m.
I heard there was some talk that brother Nate was going to start a choir with the safety team and
I don't know how that'll go, but I'd like to hear that, but I think the choir did a good job
Homeschool group they've got PE class on Thursday February 2nd Valentine's Day party on Tuesday
February 14th, and there's other things are for your look at please don't forget to turn your cell phones off replace them on silent
They're in the service that they're not a distraction to anybody if you look at the back of the bulletin
Birthdays and anniversaries for the month of January today is my dad's birthday Felix Jimenez January 22nd tomorrow
It's Michael Beals birthday January 23rd Oliver Gonzalez the second January 23rd Joe Maples the second January 23rd
Edgar de Dios the second January 24th all these are the seconds all right
After each other and then miss Andrea McQueen on January
25th praise report money matters all those things are there for you to look at if you signed up last week
Saying that you wanted information about the UK
missions trip coming up in August brother Oliver Gonzalez has
Packets for all of you that give you some information
The schedule locations were staying and all that so if you signed up
He has a packet for you, so either
He was gonna find you or you can try to find him after the service
But make sure you don't leave here without grabbing one of those and he I think he's got a few extra
So if there's anybody else that wanted
information about the UK missions trip to see
Our deacon brother Oliver Gonzalez, and he's got some packets with some information
Regarding that so make sure you get that I think that's it for all of the announcements
So we're gonna go ahead and sing the chorus of the week as we prepare to receive the offering this evening
And we'll sing I'm standing on the solid rock is a happy song so you got to sing it like you're safe on the first
Sing it out on the first
through my disappointment
strife and discontent
I pass my every care on the Lord
No matter what obsession pain or deep depression
I'm standing on the solid rock
I'm standing on the rock of ages saying
From all the storms that rages
rich but not for Satan's wages
I'm standing on the solid rock
Good, sing it out on the second
Even though he's gone now
I don't care, I will not
be there for good
The spirit of the Lord
I'm standing on the rock of ages
I'm standing on the solid rock
I'm standing on the rock of ages
Saying from all the storms that rages
rich but not for Satan's wages
I'm standing on the solid rock
Now I'm pressing onward
Each step leads me onward
I'm trusting in my Savior and my head
And forces our elation
Firm is its foundation
So on the solid rock I'll stand
I'm standing on the rock of ages saying
From all the storms that rages
rich but not for Satan's wages
I'm standing on the solid rock
Amen, good singing
We'll have the guys come up and help us with the offering at this time
And let's go ahead and bow our heads and have a word of prayer
Heavenly Father, Lord, we do thank you for allowing us to gather together tonight
We pray that you bless the offering, we pray that you bless the time
Set aside for the preaching of your word
In Jesus' name we pray, Amen
We pray that you bless the time
Set aside for the preaching of your word
In Jesus' name we pray, Amen
We pray that you bless the time
Amen, good singing
Matthew 12, we read the entire chapter as our custom
Matthew 12, verse 1
Then the Pharisees went out and held a council against him
How they might destroy him
For when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence
And great multitudes followed him
And he healed them all
And charged them that they should not make him known
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Sius the prophet saying
Behold my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved
In whom my soul is well pleased
I will put my spirit upon him
And he shall show judgment to the Gentiles
He shall not strive nor cry
Neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets
A bruised wreath shall he not break
And smoking flax shall he not quench
Till he send forth judgment unto victory
And in his name shall the Gentiles trust
Then was brought unto him one possessed with a devil
Blind and dumb
And he healed him
And so much that the blind and dumb both spake and saw
And all the people were amazed and said, Is not this the son of David?
When the Pharisees heard it, they said
This fellow doth not cast out devils
But by Beelzebub the prince of the devils
And Jesus knew their thoughts
And said unto them
Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation
And every city or house divided against itself shall not stand
And if Satan cast out Satan
He is divided against himself
How shall then his kingdom stand?
And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils
By whom do your children cast them out?
Therefore they shall be your judges
But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God
Then the kingdom of God is come up unto you
Or else how can one enter a strong man's house
And spoil his goods
Except he first bind the strong man
And then he will spoil his house
He that is not with me is against me
And he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad
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
Either make the tree good and his fruit good
Or else make the tree corrupt and his fruit corrupt
For the tree is known by his fruit
O generation of vipers!
How can ye, being evil, speak good things?
For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh
A good man out of the good treasure of the heart
Bringeth forth good things
And an evil man out of the evil treasure
Bringeth forth evil things
But I say unto you
That every idle word that men shall speak
They shall give account thereof in the day of judgment
For by thy words thou shalt be justified
And by thy words thou shalt be condemned
Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered
Saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee
But he answered and said unto them
An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign
And there shall no sign be given to it
But the sign of the prophet Jonas
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the well's belly
So shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth
The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation
And shall condemn it
Because they repented at the preaching of Jonas
And, behold, a greater than Jonas is here
The Queen of the South shall rise up in the judgment with this generation
And shall condemn it
For she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon
And, behold, a greater than Solomon is here
When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man
He walketh through dry places
Seeking rest and findeth none
Then he saith, I will return it to my house from whence I came out
And when he is come he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished
Then goeth he
And taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself
And they enter in and dwell there
And the last state of that man is worse than the first
Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation
While he had talked to the people
Behold, his mother and his brethren stood without desiring to speak with him
Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without desiring to speak with thee
But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother?
And who are my brethren?
And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples
And said, Behold, my mother and my brethren
For whoso shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven
The same is my brother and sister and mother
Let's pray
Heavenly Father, thank you for this evening
God, I thank you for your word and for our church
For everyone that's here, please give us all tender hearts at the message
And I say please be with our pastors tonight, just strengthen them
And from them your spirit, we love you
In Jesus' name we pray, Amen
Amen
Alright, we're there in Matthew chapter number 12
And tonight we are continuing our doctrinal series
We've been off and on in a series called Declaring Doctrine
And I am taking you through a systematic study of the major doctrines of the Bible
We are in part 26 of this series
And we've been taking it by sections
And we will do it for a little while and then do something else and then come back to it
And we've been talking about the doctrine of sin over the last several weeks
This is sermon 26 out of 60
So we're about halfway through these major doctrines of the Bible
But we talked a couple of weeks ago about the concept of sin
Last week we talked about the practice of sin
And then tonight we're going to finish this little section on the doctrine of sin
By talking about the unpardonable sin
And when we talk about the unpardonable sin
Just by way of introduction, let me explain this
Well, first of all let me say this
And I've already said this several times but I just want to say it again
That we call it the unpardonable sin
But we should call it the unpardonable sins
Because there's more than one
And when we're talking about the unpardonable sin
We're talking about sins that the Bible says
That once you perform them, once you do them
That person is done, that individual is done
They have lost because of that sin
They've lost their opportunity to be saved
And they are damned
And they will never have the opportunity to be saved
With that said, let me say this
The unpardonable sin is similar to
But different than becoming a reprobate
Now when somebody performs an unpardonable sin
They become a reprobate pretty much
But it's not the same as going down the road of being a reprobate
And I'm not preaching on the subject of being a reprobate tonight
That has its own sermon in this series
The doctrine of what the Bible teaches about being a reprobate
But let me just say this
They are similar in the sense that both
Those that cross the line with the unpardonable sin
And those that become a reprobate
Lose their opportunity to be saved
But they are different in the sense
That becoming a reprobate is a road you go down
You go down this road
And eventually you reject God
And you reject God and you reject God
And God comes to the place where he rejects you
And it's a process really
That you go down in becoming a reprobate
Becoming a reprobate happens in a moment
When God decides it
But you go down that road
Versus this, the unpardonable sin
These are just sins that are performed
That God says because you've done that
These sins will not be forgiven
And cannot be forgiven
So I hope that makes sense a little bit
And let's just kind of dig into this
I've got several things that I want to cover tonight
Three major sins that we would call unpardonable sins
And then if we've got time tonight
I'd like to talk about the tree of life
And give you some notes regarding the tree of life
And like I've said before
These doctrinal sermons are meant to be
Feel maybe a little bit like a college lecture
And I hope that's okay
And I'd like for you to take notes on the back of your course
That we've just placed for you to write down some things
So let's talk about the first unpardonable sin
And it's what we saw there in Matthew chapter 12
And it is the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
The blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
In Matthew chapter 12 we learn about the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
And this sin of the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
Is highly misunderstood by many people
And I'd like to walk with you and kind of explain this to you
Here from Matthew chapter 12
You notice there in verse number 31 the Bible says this
Wherefore I say unto you
This is Jesus speaking about the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
This unpardonable sin
Why don't you notice what he says
He says all manner of sin and blasphemy
Shall be forgiven unto men
So Jesus is saying
Look there's lots of different sins
And even blasphemies
That will be forgiven unto men
He says
But the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost
Shall not be forgiven unto men
And whosoever speaketh the word
Against the Son of Man
The Son of Man is a title of Jesus himself
He says
Whosoever speaketh the 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
And I want you to notice that little phrase at the end of verse 32
Neither in this world
Neither in the world to come
Is what causes us to refer to this as an unpardonable sin
God says this sin will not be forgiven
Not in this world
Not in the next world
What is it?
It is the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost
Now there is a lot of debate
And a lot of conversations that happen about this blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
And lots of different people have lots of different ideas
But I like to just see what the Bible says
I like to just read the Bible
Take it literally
And just look at what it says
And tonight I want to begin by just actually looking at what happened
When these people blasphemed the Holy Ghost
Because like I said
People will often run with this
And they'll call
They'll say the sin of the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
And they'll kind of add a lot of stuff to it
But if you just look at the story
And ask yourself
Well what actually happened here?
What is it that took place?
Notice there in Matthew chapter 12 and verse 22
Just to get the context
The Bible says
Then was brought unto him
The him there is referring to Jesus
Then was brought unto him
One possessed with a devil
Blind and dumb
And he, Jesus, healed him
Healed who?
The man possessed with a devil
In so much that the blind and the dumb both spake and saw
Now I want you to notice
That here we're told
That this man was brought unto Jesus
Possessed of the devil
Jesus heals him
In so much that the blind and dumb both spake and saw
Verse 23
And all the people were amazed
And said
Is not this the son of David?
Notice verse 24
But when the Pharisees heard it
They said
This fellow
And the phrase there
This fellow
Is referring to Jesus
The Pharisees are talking about the Lord Jesus Christ
They said
This fellow
Does not cast out devils
But by Beelzebub
The prince of the devil
So when we look at the story
And we ask the question
Well what actually happened here?
With the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
What we see is
That the Pharisees
Observed Jesus
Casting out
A devil
And they said
That Jesus did it
By Beelzebub
The prince of the devils
I want you to notice
That Jesus himself
Identifies Beelzebub
As Satan
Notice there in verse 25
And Jesus knew their thoughts
And said unto them
Every kingdom divided against itself
Is brought to desolation
And every city or house
Divided against itself
Shall not stand
Verse 26
And if Satan cast out Satan
Cause remember they said in verse 24
This fellow does not cast out devils
But by Beelzebub
The prince of the devils
Jesus responds to that and says
If Satan casts out Satan
He is divided against himself
How shall then his kingdom stand?
So Jesus identified
That Beelzebub
Was Satan
And Jesus stated
That he did not cast out devils
By Beelzebub
The prince of the devils
Or by Satan
But that he cast out devils
By the Spirit of God
Notice verse 27
And if I by Beelzebub
Jesus speaking here
Cast out devils
By whom do your children
Cast them out
Therefore they shall be your judges
Verse 28
But if I
Jesus speaking
Cast out devils
By the Spirit of God
Then the kingdom of God
Is come upon you
So what is it that happened here?
When the Pharisees
Performed this blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
What happened?
Well they saw
If we just look at the story
And take it at face value
The Lord Jesus Christ
Cast out devils
People were brought to him
A man was brought to him
Jesus cast out the devil
The blind saw
The deaf heard
He healed them
And then the Pharisees
Saw Jesus do this
And they said
He's doing that
By the power of Satan
And Jesus pretty much responds
And says
No I'm actually doing it
By the Spirit of God
I'm doing it
By the power of the Holy Ghost
And the devils
Testifying
And saying that Jesus did it
By Satan
Is what Jesus refers to
As the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
Because Jesus said
No I actually did it
By the power of the Holy Spirit
But you're saying
I did it by the power of Satan
You're saying
That I did it by
The power of Beelzebub
Look at verse 31
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
What was the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost?
The blasphemy was this
That Jesus by the Spirit
By the power of the Holy Spirit
Cast out devils
And the Pharisees said
No he didn't do it
By the power of the Spirit
He did it by the power of Satan
And Jesus says
And whosoever speaketh the 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
So what we see is that
They saw Jesus cast out devils
By the power of the Holy Spirit
And the Pharisees attributed that
To Jesus doing it by the power of Satan
So if we ask the question
What is blaspheming the Holy Ghost?
The answer we have to walk away from
If we're actually just reading the Bible
And taking the Bible at face value
What happened?
This is the only time in the Bible
You see the sin of blaspheming the Holy Ghost
Jesus was casting out a devil
He did it by the power of the Holy Spirit
They attested it to the power of Satan
They said you did not do it by the power of the Spirit
You did that by Satan
And Jesus says
You just blaspheme the Holy Ghost
And that sin will not be forgiven
In this life or in the life to come
Now here's why I make a big deal about that
It's because that's what the Bible says
What happened when Jesus said
You just blasphemed the Holy Ghost
People like to
Because people, they get confused
With this idea of an unpardonable sin
And instead of just believing the Bible
Instead of just saying
Well look Jesus said this sin is not going to be forgiven
In this life or in the life to come
They try to like explain it away
Because today you've got Christians that want to teach
That any sin can be forgiven
No matter what you do it can be forgiven
So they literally have a verse where Jesus is saying
Jesus is saying all manner of sin can be forgiven
But not this one
This one's not going to be forgiven
In this life or in the life to come
And then preachers want to come alongside Jesus and say
Well that's what he said but what he actually meant was
And try to explain it away
People come up with all sorts of alternative views
Regarding the blaspheming the Holy Ghost
And here's the thing
If you've got an alternative view
I'm not picking on you
You can believe whatever you want
It doesn't make a difference
That's between you and God
But here's what I've heard some people say
Some people say that the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
Is simply not believing on Christ
When the Holy Spirit draws you to him
So you know
You give the Gospel to somebody
And they're like
No
And then they're saying like
They just blasphemed the Holy Ghost
Well that's not what happened here
Jesus wasn't preaching the Gospel to the Pharisees
And they're like
No
I don't think so
Here's another thing that people often come up and say
You know
The blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
That someone cursing
Or speaking ill of the Holy Ghost
Or cursing at the Holy Ghost
Is blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
And you know
People have often brought this up to me
And I've never seen this
But I've heard lots of people talk about this
Where like on YouTube
There'll be these young people
That they want to show how much they hate God
Or how much they want to disrespect
And they'll record themselves
Like
Saying bad things about the Holy Spirit
And cussing out the Holy Spirit
And saying the Holy Spirit
Blankety blank this
And the blankety blank that
And they'll say that that
Is blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
And here's the thing
That's pretty bad
But that's not what happened in this story
Now
I don't necessarily believe
That those kids
When they made those videos
They blasphemed the Holy Ghost at that moment
And lost their opportunity to be saved
I will say this
I do think that those kids
Are probably reprobates
Because they probably would just be a reprobate
Who would want to do something like that anyway
But that's not exactly what blaspheming the Holy Ghost
I mean I've been accused
Of blaspheming the Holy Ghost
One time I was out salt winning
And I was giving the gospel to this
Pentecostal
Tongue speaking Pentecostal
And you know
I was trying to be nice
And I was
But they kept pushing
They kept wanting to talk about tongue speaking
And I was just like
Well we can talk about that
But let's talk about you know the Bible
And believe on the Lord
And I kept trying to go
But they would not drop it
They would not drop it
So eventually I'm just like
Okay fine you want to talk about it
Let's talk about it
And I started showing them all these verses
About how tongue speaking
Their version of tongue speaking
Is not real
It's just a bunch of fakers
Or demon possessed people
Doing it
And this person got upset
And they were like
We speak in tongues by the Holy Ghost
You just blasphemed the Holy Ghost
And you've lost your opportunity
And I'm like no
Jesus had the Holy Spirit
And they said it was a devil
You have a devil
And you're saying it's the Holy Spirit
It's actually the exact opposite
So that is not blaspheming
And here's the point that I'm making
Is that people want to come up with all these things
About blaspheming the Holy Ghost
And we get emails around here
All the time
People emailing
And I'm really worried
I might have accidentally blasphemed the Holy Ghost
Let me tell you something
You do not accidentally blaspheme the Holy Ghost
It's not something you accidentally do
And I'll just be very honest with you
I don't even know that it's possible
To blaspheme the Holy Ghost
In 2023
Right now anyway
You say well how could you know that
Well here's the thing
The only example that I have
In the Bible
Of blaspheming the Holy Ghost
Is Jesus
God in the flesh
Who knew all their thoughts
Through the power of the Holy Spirit
Heals somebody
And they said
He didn't do that by the Holy Ghost
But he did that by the power of Satan
And Jesus said you just blaspheme the Holy Ghost
So unless you can watch Jesus
Heal somebody
Right now
And then testify
To the fact that it wasn't the Holy Spirit
It was Satan
I don't even know that it's possible
To blaspheme the Holy Ghost
And I'm just trying to help you understand
That we need to be careful
About just running with things
And making stuff up
If somebody asked me the question
What is the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
The only answer that I can give you
As a Bible believing Christian is
Well in the Bible
When Jesus said they blasphemed the Holy Ghost
Here's what happened
He healed a man
They said he did it by Satan
He said he did it by the Holy Spirit
And he said you blasphemed the Holy Ghost
I can't add anything else to that
So if it's possible to blaspheme the Holy Ghost
Today maybe it is
But I think it would require somebody
Seeing Jesus heal somebody
And then testifying
And attesting it to Satan
So I just, I think that
We need to study the Bible
And be very careful to just not run with things
And run with ideas
What is the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
It is what it is
Jesus cast out devils
They said he did it by the power of the devil
When he'd actually done it by the power of the Spirit of God
They said no you did it by Beelzebub
And he said you just blasphemed the Holy Ghost
That's what it is
Now there is something that we need to understand
That is important
Regarding this doctrine
Go to Matthew 23
Matthew 23
And again look
If somebody's cursing the Holy Spirit
They're probably a reprobate
I don't see why just a normal person would want to do that
But I just want you to understand that
You don't accidentally blaspheme the Holy Spirit
Now the reason that I think it's very important
That we just understand
What in the Bible was the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit
And here's why
Because this is a question
This is a thing
That gets brought up a lot
In regards to people doubting
Either wanting to prove or doubting
That it's possible to lose your salvation
And there have been many times
When I'm out soul winning knocking doors
And I'll knock on the door
Of someone that's a Baptist
Or someone that comes from a more conservative church
Maybe they were influenced by Baptists
And you ask them all the questions
Do you know if for sure if you died today
That you're on your way to heaven
They say yes
You ask them how do you know
They give you a good answer
I put my faith in Jesus Christ
I ask Jesus to save me
Whatever
Then you ask them the question
Do you believe there's anything that you could do
To cause you to lose your salvation
And I've had this
People give me this answer so many times
Where they'll say like
I don't think so
But maybe like blaspheming the Holy Ghost
And people will get
Even in good churches
They get this idea
Like you know I went to a church that
Said you couldn't lose your salvation
But I'm just not sure about this blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
And here's the point that I want to make
And really the big takeaway
Is that the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost here
Does not teach
That you can lose your salvation
When Jesus said
This sin that you just performed
Will not be forgiven
In this world
Or in the world to come
He was not teaching
That a saved individual
Could do something
That would cause them to lose their salvation
You say well how do you know
Well here's how we know
Because he was speaking to the Pharisees
And the Pharisees were not saved
So people will often bring up
The blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
As an argument
For losing your salvation
And they'll say well yeah I mean
You're one saved always saved
But I mean Jesus said
If you blaspheme the Holy Ghost
That sin won't be forgiven
In this world
Or in the world to come
And it's like yes
But when Jesus said that
He was talking to people
That weren't saved
Let me just
Let's run some verses
Let me prove that
Matthew 23 13
The people who blaspheme the Holy Ghost
Were not saved
Matthew 23 13
Notice what Jesus says to the Pharisees
But woe unto you
Scribes and Pharisees
Hypocrites
For ye shut up the kingdom of heaven
Against men
Notice what he says
For ye neither go in yourselves
Neither suffer
The word suffer means allow
Ye them that are entering to go in
So does it sound like Jesus thought
That the Pharisees were saved
When he said
For ye neither go in yourselves
In reference to the kingdom of heaven
Look at verse 14
Woe unto you
Scribes and Pharisees
Hypocrites
For ye devour widows' houses
And for a pretense
Make long prayers
Therefore ye shall receive
The greater damnation
Does it sound like Jesus thought
The Pharisees were saved
When he said
Ye shut up the kingdom of heaven
Against men
For ye neither go in yourselves
Neither suffer
Ye them that are entering to go in
When he said
That they were going to receive
The greater damnation
Look at verse 15
Woe unto you
Scribes and Pharisees
Hypocrites
For ye compass sea and land
To make one proselyte
The word proselyte is a convert
And when he is made
Ye make him twofold more
The child of hell
Than yourselves
Does it sound like Jesus thought
These men were saved
When he says
You're a child of hell
You're not entering into the kingdom
You don't allow other people to enter
And you're not entering in yourself
You're going to receive
The greater damnation
There's no way
That Jesus is teaching
That these men lost their salvation
When he's speaking to people
That were not saved to begin with
So when the Pharisees
Blaspheme the Holy Ghost
I want you to understand this
They did not lose their salvation
They weren't saved
What they did lose
Was they lost their opportunity
To be saved
They were not saved
But at the moment that they
Blaspheme the Holy Ghost
Jesus said
You cross the line
That sin will never be forgiven
Not in this life
Not in the life to come
It's never going to be forgiven
And what they lost
Was not their salvation
They had no salvation
But they lost their opportunity
For salvation
And that is probably
For us in 2023
As Bible-believing Christians
The most important thing
That we need to understand
About the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
Is this
That the people who blaspheme
The Holy Ghost
Were not saved
And when they blaspheme
The Holy Ghost
They did not lose their salvation
Because they weren't saved
But they did lose their opportunity
For salvation
That is the whole point
The whole point
Of the unpardonable sin
Go to 1 Corinthians chapter 12
Whether or not someone can blaspheme
The Holy Ghost
Is
You can debate that if you want
I don't necessarily think they can
Based off what the Bible tells us
About blaspheming the Holy Ghost
I don't know that it's possible
But even if it were possible
Here's what I can tell you
Only an unsaved person could do it
And they would lose their opportunity
To be saved
They would not lose their opportunity
And then of course people ask the question
Well what
I'm saved
What if I accidentally blaspheme the Holy Ghost
What if I blaspheme
Will I lose my salvation
Well look you've got a thousand other verses
That tell you
That you're secure in Christ
That it's once saved always saved
That it's eternal life
That you'll never lose it
But let's look at one verse here
1 Corinthians 12 and verse 3
The Bible suggests that true believers
Will not blaspheme the Holy Ghost anyway
And look here's something you need to understand
And one of these days
I probably need to preach a sermon
On just this subject
Of things that saved people
Will and will not do
But the Bible does teach
That there are some things
That saved people will not do
Now it may not be what you're thinking
Because people get this idea like
Well if you're saved
Then you're not going to get drunk
Then you're going to be good
The Bible doesn't say that
Okay?
And if you believe that
You've never read the Bible
Because some of the greatest believers in the Bible
Murdered, committed adultery
But the Bible does say
There are some things
That a believer is not going to do
1 Corinthians 12 and verse 3
Wherefore I give you to understand
That no man speaking by the Spirit of God
Calleth Jesus a curse
And that no man can say
That Jesus is Lord
But by the Holy Ghost
Here the Bible says that look
If somebody has the Spirit of God
Genuinely, authentically
No man speaking by the Spirit of God
Calleth Jesus a curse
When the Spirit
Excuse me, when the Pharisees
Accused Jesus
Of being filled with Satan
What they were saying
Is that Jesus was damned
Or that he was cursed
That he was demon possessed
That he was possessed of the devil
So here the Bible says
That no man speaking by the Spirit of God
Calleth Jesus a curse
The Bible teaches that a believer
Would not call Jesus a curse
Would not call Jesus damned
So therefore if you're saved tonight
You don't have to worry about
Accidentally blaspheming the Holy Spirit
It's not going to happen
If you actually have the Spirit of God
No man speaking by the Spirit of God
Calleth Jesus a curse
So we have the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
Go to Revelation chapter 13 if you would
Last book in the New Testament
Should be fairly easy to find
Revelation 13
The blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
What is it?
Well here's what we know from the Bible
Jesus cast out devils
The Pharisees said he did it by the power
Of Beelzebub the prince of the devils
He said, no I actually did it by the power
Of the Holy Spirit
You just blaspheme the Holy Spirit
And this thing is not going to be forgiven
In this life or the life to come
That's what we know for sure
The blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
And what we also know is that
Those people did not lose their salvation
They were never saved to begin with
And what they lost was their opportunity to be saved
And look I don't care how long you've been in church
And how long you've used it
You've heard people say this
But there is a such thing as crossing a line with God
And not everyone is just going to have the opportunity
Because here's what Baptist like to preach
They like to say like, until your last dying breath
You've got the opportunity to be saved
Now look that may be true for a lot of people
But it's not true for some people
And please don't misunderstand me
I've given the gospel to people
That were close to death
And I think we should try to get people saved
That are close to death
And I'm not saying that just because someone is close to death
They can't be saved
A lot of times people are more receptive to the gospel
When they are staring down death's door
But just understand
That there are some people that lose that opportunity
Way before they ever die
These people did
The Pharisees did
When they blasphemed the Holy Ghost
So we got the first unpardonable sin
Is to blaspheme the Holy Ghost
Let's talk about the second unpardonable sin
And it is taking the mark of the beast
The mark of the beast
Now what is the mark of the beast
And I don't want to spend a lot of time on this
I've preached entire summers on this
I don't want to spend a lot of time on this
I've preached entire summers
On the mark of the beast in the past
But let's just talk about it real quickly
The mark of the beast is something that
Once you take it
Like the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
That individual loses their opportunity
To be saved
Revelation 13 form
And they worship the dragon
The dragon is Satan
Which gave power unto the beast
And they worship the beast
The beast is the antichrist
Saying who is like unto the beast
Who is able to make war with him
Verse 7
And it was given unto him to make war with the saints
And to overcome them
That's talking about the time of great tribulation
And power was given unto him
Over all kindreds and tongues and nations
That's the one world government
Verse 8
And all that dwell upon the earth
Shall worship him
Why don't you notice this
All that dwell upon the earth shall worship him
Let's talk about honestly people
Worship who? The beast
The beast and his image
All that dwell upon the earth shall worship him
Whose names are not written in the book of life
I'd like to be able to talk about the book of life
At the end of the sermon tonight
Hopefully we got time to do that
Notice what he says
Whose names are not written in the book of life
Of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world
Go to Revelation 14 look at verse 9
The Bible says that all that dwell upon the earth
Shall worship him
In Revelation 14 and verse 9
The Bible says this
And the third angel followed them saying with a loud voice
If any man worship the beast and his image
And receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand
So I want you to notice that the Bible teaches
That receiving the mark of the beast
Is connected with worshiping the beast
Worshiping the beast and his image
Is required in order to receive the mark of the beast
And once somebody receives the mark of the beast
They lose their opportunity to be saved
You say how do you know somebody loses their opportunity to be saved
Well notice there in verse 9
We read that they receive his mark in his forehead
Or in his hand verse 10
The same
The same there is referring to the people that receive the mark of the beast
The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God
Which is poured out without mixture
In 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
What is that saying?
Revelation 14 10 is saying
When someone takes the mark of the beast
They're going to go to hell
The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God
And he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone
Verse 11
And the smoke of their torment
Ascended up forever and ever
And they have no rest day or night
Who worship the beast and his image
And whosoever receiveth the mark of his name
So look the Bible is clear
The Bible is clear
When somebody takes the mark of the beast
They lose their opportunity to be saved
They do not lose their salvation
Because a saved person will not take the mark of the beast
And I'll prove that to you here in a minute
But let's look at some other verses real quickly
Go to 2 Thessalonians chapter 2
2 Thessalonians chapter 2
Keep your place in Revelation
We're going to come back to it
But go to 2 Thessalonians chapter 2
You can find the t-books
They're all clustered together
1 Thessalonians 1 Timothy Titus
2 Thessalonians chapter 2
The mark of the beast is something that once you take it
You lose your opportunity to be saved
The mark of the beast is something that
Most unbelievers
Either willingly
Or by caving into pressure
Are going to take
The Bible teaches that the vast majority of this world
Of unsafe people are going to receive
Are going to fall for
And receive the mark of the beast
2 Thessalonians chapter 2 and verse 3
The Bible says
Let no man deceive you by any means
For that day shall not come
The that day there is referring to the rapture
The day of Christ
For that day shall not come
And the pre-tribbers like to say
Well nothing
It's imminent
It could happen at any moment
That's not what the Bible says
The Bible says
That day shall not come
Except there come a falling away first
And that man of sin be revealed
The son of perdition
So the Bible says
That day will not come
Except there come a falling away first
This great falling away
Look at verse 11
Same chapter 2 Thessalonians 2 verse 11
And for this cause God shall send them
Strong delusion
That they should believe a lie
Why would God send a strong delusion
Look at verse 12
That they all might be damned
Who believe not the truth
But had pleasure in unrighteousness
What is this great falling away
Because people often talk about the falling away
There's going to be a great falling away
And people will say
You know we're in the end time
So there's a great falling away
Of the churches and apostasy
And look here's the thing
Do I think there's a lot of apostasy?
Absolutely
But this great falling away
That is being talked about here
Is connected to the revealing of the man of sin
The son of perdition
This is the mark of the beast
When people take the mark of the beast
There's going to be a great falling away
Thousands and hundreds of thousands of people
Will become instant reprobates
When they take the mark of the beast
They're going to be deceived to do it
The antichrist and the false prophet
Are going to do great wonders
That are going to deceive them
And the bible says
That God himself shall send a strong delusion
That they should believe a lie
So when the mark of the beast is rolled out
And somebody takes it
They're going to lose their opportunity to be saved
Most unbelievers are either willingly going to take it
Or they're going to take it by pressure
Go to Matthew 24
And let me just kind of explain this a little bit
Because I actually was asked about this
Just this morning
I thought it was interesting
I was asked this specific question
And I'm dealing with it tonight
But I don't believe that everyone
Is going to take the mark of the beast
Because at the end of Daniel's 70th week
After the battle of Armageddon
There are some unsaved people
That go into the millennial reign
As unsaved individuals
So there are some people that are not saved
But they also did not take the mark of the beast
And they go into the millennial reign
As just normal human beings
Entering into the millennial reign of the Lord Jesus Christ
Those are the people
And those people have children
And those are the people that we judge and rule over
During the millennial reign
So the question is
Who are these people who did not receive the mark of the beast?
Well I think some of them are going to be babies
Because think about the fact
We're talking about a seven year period
But when we're talking about the antichrist
We're talking about a three and a half year period
And when we're talking about the mark of the beast
We're literally talking about a 75 day period
Where the mark of the beast is rolled out
And the antichrist rolls it out
Like he wants to get the entire world
To take the mark of the beast
But God only allows it to go for 75 days
Because if you remember while they're taking
While they're having the entire world take the mark of the beast
At the same time they are persecuting Christians
Who are not taking the mark of the beast
So God only allows this time of great tribulation
To go for 75 days
Because if it went any longer than that
Everyone would die
And here's what I want you to understand
If it went any longer than that
Everyone, every Christian would die
And if it went any longer than that
Every untamed person would take the mark of the beast
But then who are these people who don't end up taking the mark of the beast
Well I think, and look this is mainly my opinion
I just want to be clear about that
But I think that there's probably going to be a lot of babies that are just born
They're not going to be giving the mark of the beast to babies
Because you have to worship the image to receive the mark of the beast
So there's probably going to be babies and young children
That don't have the mark of the beast
That enter into that millennial reign
And then there's probably going to be people
Who wanted to take the mark of the beast
But it just never got to them
Because this has to be rolled out worldwide
And the antichrist is going to be very organized
And he's going to have a plan to roll this out to the entire world
But is he going to be able to just cover the entire world in 75 days
Probably not
So there might be people that are waiting for their covid shot or whatever
Their vaccine, they want it
But they just, you know, they live in Alaska
Or they live in some far away rural area
And it just hasn't got to them yet
And before they can even take it
It's already done and Jesus is coming back and whatever
So there are going to be some unsaved people
That don't take the mark of the beast
And they enter into the millennial reign
But the point that I want you to understand is that
If God allowed it to go for those 35 days
Everyone would take it
And they would either take it voluntarily
Because they wanted to
Or they would take it just by the pressure
Because if you remember, if you don't take the mark of the beast
You cannot buy or sell
There is no cash anymore
It's a cashless society
The only way that you can participate in the economy
Is by having the mark of the beast
So people, even if they don't want to take it
They'll end up caving in and taking it
Just because they need it
But because God only allows it to go for 75 days
I think there will be some people who
It just doesn't get to them
They don't have the opportunity to take it
So not everyone will take it
So hopefully that makes sense
Go to Matthew 24
And let me just make this point real quickly
And it is this
That no true believer
Will be deceived or coerced
Into taking the mark of the beast
Matthew 24, 24
The Bible says
For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets
And shall show great signs and wonders
In so much that
If it were possible
Now this little phrase here
If it were possible
Tells us a lot about
What will be happening during this time
If it were possible
They shall deceive the very elect
Here's what he's saying
The great signs and wonders
Because remember the false prophet
Is going to be performing miracles
The false prophet is going to be
Causing the image of the beast
To live and to speak
And these things that are going on
God is going to send a great delusion
And it's going to be so real
And so motivating
That if it were possible
They shall deceive the very elect
The elect there is talking about
Believers, saved people
So here's what I want you to take away
From this little phrase
If it were possible
They shall deceive the very elect
Here's what that means
It's going to be very convincing
It's going to be so convincing
That even the saved would be deceived by it
If it were possible
But I also want you to take this little
This away from it
This phrase if it were possible
Tells us that it is not possible
It is not possible
For a saved person
People ask these questions
You can't accidentally take the mark of the beast
You can't accidentally take it
No saved person is going to take it
You say what if somebody takes it
That I thought was saved
Then they weren't saved
Because it is not possible
For a believer to take the mark of the beast
I don't know what that means
I'll be honest with you
I don't know necessarily what that means
Does that mean that just God is going to supernaturally
Not allow saved people to take the mark of the beast
I don't know
But maybe
I tend to think that
You have to
Worship the image to take the mark of the beast
And I don't know what that worship entails
But I can tell you right now
There are some things that if I was asked to do that
I'd be like just kill me
Just take my head off
I mean if they're like you got to do some faggotry
To take this
You want to borrow your cell
There's a lot of people that would
Not this guy
Let me get a sergeant for you
We are not going on that road
I don't know what it means
But I know this, it's not possible
No saved person
Is going to take the mark of the beast
Period, end of story
And the people
Who take it
They don't lose their salvation
Because they're not saved
But they do lose their opportunity
To be saved
It's a pardonable sin
And God calls it
A great falling away
But no man deceive you by any means
For that day shall not come
Except there come a falling away first
And that man of sin be revealed
The son of perdition
Go to Revelation 22
Revelation 22
So we have the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
I hope you
See a pattern here
The blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
Is unsaved people
Did it and lost
Not their salvation, their opportunity
To be saved
And the Bible seems to indicate
That
A
Saved person would not
No man speaking by the spirit of God
Calls Jesus a curse
Then we have the mark of the beast
These people did not lose their salvation
Only
These people that were not saved
To be win with will take the mark of the beast
They don't lose their salvation
But they do lose their opportunity to be saved
And the Bible is very clear
About the fact that no believer
Will take the mark of the beast
So then we have this third example here
A third unpardonable sin
What is it?
Adding to and removing from
Scripture
Revelation 22 18
For I testify unto
Every man that heareth the words of this
Of the prophecy of this book
If any man shall
Add unto these things
God shall add
Unto him the plagues
That are written in this book
And if any man shall take away
From the words of the book of this
Prophecy, God shall take away
His part out of the book of life
And out of the Holy City
And from the things which are written in this book
The Bible teaches
That when somebody corrupts
When they add to or remove
From the word of God
That God takes away
Their part
Out of the book of life
And that they lose
Their opportunity to be saved
Now again people get highly
Confused by this, but let's just think
Through the pattern. Every other
Unpardonable sin has been this
Not something that a
Believer would ever do
Not something that you could
Accidentally do
And when it happens
The person that does it
Doesn't lose their salvation because
They're not saved, they simply
Just lose their opportunity to be saved
That's been the pattern
So when we come
To this
Unpardonable sin of adding to
Or removing from the scripture
We can with confidence say
Hey this is not something that a saved person would do
And this is not something
You would accidentally do
Because people say
What if I accidentally remove
From the word of God
I was texting a verse
And I accidentally deleted a part
It's like no
This is not something you do
By mistake
This is something that's done with intent
Or somebody
Set out to corrupt
The word of God
To attack the deity of Christ
To attack salvation by grace
To pervert the gospel
To take the word of God and manipulate it
And corrupt it that people might be damned
And let me tell you something
All of the people that had a part
In translating all of these
Perverted Bible versions
The NIV, the ESV
The New King James
The whatever translation
All of those people are going to die and go to hell
Because you cannot
Add or remove from the word of God
But this is not something
Please understand this
No true believer would ever do it
And it's not something you can accidentally do
And once they do it
They don't lose their salvation
Because no believer would do it
They do lose
Their opportunity to be saved
So these are the unpardonable sins
Blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
Mark of the Beast
Adding or removing from scripture
They're all things that are done on purpose
They're all things that are done by unsaved people
And they're all things that are done
And when they're done
Those individuals lose
Their opportunity to be saved
They don't lose their salvation
They're not saved
They lose their opportunity to be saved
Are you there in Romans chapter 20?
Let me transition
And just talk about this
The book of life
Real quickly
And I want to talk about the book of life
Because the book of life has actually been brought up
A couple of times already
In the references we've been looking at
So I just think it's a good place to just kind of
Deal with it
We'll try to do it quickly
When it comes to the book of life
The Bible teaches that
Your name must be
In the book of life
In order for you
To go to heaven
In order for you
To go to heaven
And in order for
You to be saved
Let's just run some verses
Revelation 20 look at verse 12
And I saw the dead
Small and great
Stand before God
And the books were open
Now here when the Bible says the books were open
I believe that the books
Plural there is a reference
To the 66 books of the Bible
The 66 books that
Make up the canon of scripture
And the books were opened
And so you got the Bible
Gets opened, the 66 books of the Bible
And another book was opened
What is this other book?
Which is the book of life
And the dead
Were judged out of those things which were written
In the books according
To their works
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it
And death and hell delivered up the dead
Which were in them and they were judged
And according to their works, obviously we're reading here
About the great white throne judgment
God is going to judge
The unsaved
From the books, the Bible
And also the book of life
Look at verse 14
Now just like with the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost
Let me just say this
Because people have a lot of ideas about the book of life
Some ideas about the book of life
That I'm about to mess up for you
So let's just take it slow
And let's look at it this way
Let's just decide right now
That we're just going to allow the Bible
To tell us
What it says
Forget everything you know about the book of life
And let's just figure out
What does the Bible actually say about the book of life
Okay well here's one thing the Bible says
About the book of life
That your name has to be in the book of life
For you to go to heaven
I mean can we all agree on that? We just read it
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire
This is the second death
And whosoever was not found written
In the book of life was cast into the lake of fire
If your name is not in the book of life
You are not getting into heaven
You are not saved
Your name must be in the book of life for you to go to heaven
I mean we just read that from the Bible
Is that clear?
Okay go to Philippians chapter 4
Philippians chapter 4
If you kept your place in 1 Corinthians
You can go past
From 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians
Let me say this
And I'm going to prove it to you from the Bible
The Bible references
Names being in
And names not being in
The book of life
Let me give you some examples
Of names being in the book of life
Philippians 4 verse 3
And I entreat thee also
True yoke fellow
Help those women which labor with me
In the gospel
With Clement also
And with other my fellow laborers
Whose names are in the book of life
So here's what we know
Your name has to be in the book of life
For you to go to heaven
We saw that in Revelation chapter 20
And it is possible
For your name to be in the book of life
We saw that in Philippians 4, 3
Because Paul is talking to people
And he says about those people
That their names are in the book of life
Go back to Revelation 21
Go back to Revelation
Go to chapter 21
And look at verse 27
Revelation 21, 27
And there shall in no wise
Enter into it
Anything that defileth
Neither whatsoever
Worketh abomination
Or makeeth a lie
But
Here's what's going to enter into heaven
The kingdom of God
But they which are written
In the Lamb's book of life
So your name has to be
In the book of life
For you to enter into
Heaven
Go to Revelation 13
Look at verse 8
Now let's look at verse 13
Revelation 13
Now let's look at some references
To the names not being
In the book of life
And I realize I'm taking this really slow
But I want you to see it
What does the Bible say?
The Bible says your name has to be
In the book of life for you to go to heaven
The Bible references
Names being in the book of life
And it references
Names not being in the book of life
Revelation 13
Look at verse 8
Revelation 13
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him
Notice the words
Whose names are not
Written in the book of life
Of the Lamb
Slain from the foundation of the world
Go to Revelation 17
Verse 8
Revelation 17
The beast of thou sawest
Was and is not
And shall ascend out of the bottomless pit
And go into perdition
And dwell on the earth shall wonder
Whose names
Were not written
In the book of life
From the foundation of the world
When they behold the beast
That was and is not and yet is
So here's what we've seen
Your name has to be in the book of life for you to go to heaven
We've seen
That the Bible references
Names being in
And names not being in
The book of life
Those in the book of life
Philippians 4-3
Whose names are in the book of life
We saw names in the book of life
Revelation 21-27
But they which are written in the Lamb's book of life
We also saw names not being in the book of life
Revelation 13-8
Whose names are not written in the book of life
Of the Lamb
Revelation 17-8
Whose names were not written in the book of life
Go to Revelation chapter 3
Here's the next statement
The Bible references
Names being
Blotted out of the book of life
Revelation 3-5
He that overcometh
The same shall be clothed
In white raiment
And I will not
Notice what Jesus says
Blot out his name
Out of the book of life
Now here Jesus is saying
I'm not going to blot out
His name out of the book of life
What does that tell us?
Some people's names are blotted out of the book of life
He says I will not blot out his name
Out of the book of life
But I will confess his name before my Father
And before his angels
Go to Revelation 22
Look at verse 19
Let's look at another example
Of names being blotted out
Or being taken out
Of the book of life
Revelation 22-19
And if any man shall take away
From the words of the book of this prophecy
God shall take away
His part
Out of the book of life
What does that mean?
It means that this person
Had a part
In the book of life
There was a section in the book of life where their name
Was or should have been
But when any man shall take away
From the words of the book of this prophecy
God shall take away his part
Out of the book of life
Go to Exodus 32
In the Old Testament, Genesis and Exodus
Now if you're thinking to yourself
Wait a minute pastor
So you're showing us verses where names get blotted out
Or taken out of the book of life
Are you saying that somebody can lose their salvation?
If you're asking that question
You have not been paying attention
Because listen
When you have a preconceived theology
And then verses you read in the Bible
You have to make a decision
Am I going to believe the Bible
Or am I going to believe what I already
This preconceived idea
And your belief makes you go into heresy
You have a problem there
You have to be willing to say
I did have this preconceived idea
But now that I read this verse in the Bible
I think I might have been wrong
Because here's what I know
They're losing their salvation
And if somebody has their name blotted out
Or their name
The part
God shall take away his part out of the book of life
Here's what I know
That's not somebody losing their salvation
So maybe there's something I'm missing here
Or maybe there's something I misunderstood
And I'm not getting about this book of life
Exodus 32
Look at verse 32
Here's Moses speaking to God
Yet now
If thou wilt forgive their sin
This is Moses as an intercessory prayer
Interceding on behalf of the children of Israel after their sin
Yet now if thou wilt forgive their sin
And then he stops
I love this portion of scripture because the way it's written out
You can see his pause, he kind of stops
He says
And if not, this is Moses' request
He tells God
If you're not going to forgive them
He says
Blot me I pray thee out of the book which thou has written
So Moses makes this dramatic request
He says
God if you're not going to forgive them
Then don't forgive me
Blot me out of the book
I pray thee out of thy book which thou has written
Notice God's response
Verse 33
And the Lord said unto Moses
Whosoever hath sinned against me
Him will I blot out of my book
So God tells Moses
Don't tell me what to do
I'll blot out whoever I want to blot out
I'm not going to blot you out Moses
Are you serious?
He says
Him will I blot out of my book
He said whosoever hath sinned against me
Him will I blot out of my book
There you've got a verse where God's saying I blot people out of my book
Okay so let's talk about this
Tree of Life
That's a different sermon
Book of Life
The traditional view of the Book of Life is this
That when somebody gets saved
Their name gets written in the Book of Life
And then
If your name's in the Book of Life
You get to go to heaven
Right? You die
You're standing before the pearly gates
Peter's there
I mean it sounds like the beginning of a joke
You say I've got a reservation
You open up the book, your name's there
Come on in
Tree of Life
Here's the problem with that
We saw several references in the Bible
Where the Bible says that people's names get blotted out of the Book of Life
And here's the thing
We looked at every verse of the Bible that references the Book of Life
We looked at all of them
And you know what we did not see?
Anybody's name's being written in the Book of Life
There's no verse in the Bible
Where somebody's name was written in the Book of Life
But there was several verses
Where their name was blotted out or taken out
And then the Bible's clear
If your name's in it, you go to heaven
And if your name's not in it, you go to hell
So you say well how can we make these things jive?
Well here's what you gotta do
You gotta stop trying to make things fit with the Bible
And you need to make yourself fit with the Bible
Our job is not trying to make the Bible fit to us
And conform the Bible to our beliefs
No, we conform our beliefs to the Bible
So let me give you a theology for the Book of Life
That makes sense and actually jives with everything the Bible says about the Book of Life
And it's not the traditional view
That when you get saved, your name gets written in the Book of Life
You say what is it?
Here's what I believe the Bible teaches
And what most New York churches believe about the Book of Life
That everybody's name is in the Book of Life
I believe that it's called the Book of Life because your name gets written in it the day you're born
Which is why it's called the Book of Life
Does that make sense?
Wouldn't it make sense if God had a name called the Book of Life
That your name gets put in it the day you get life?
Now you say well why would God put everybody's name in the Book of Life
If your name has to be in the Book of Life for you to go to heaven
Well here's why
Because God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance
God wants everyone to be saved so when you get born
He puts your name in there because you were born, you were given life
But if you remember when we talked about babies going to heaven
We talked about the fact that they are born body, soul, and spirit
And they are not condemned until they understand the law
Paul said, this was a verse, I didn't reference this verse in my sermon
I wish I would have, I read it in my 9 chapters today
But Paul said where there is no law there is no transgression
So if there's no law there's no problem
If there's no law there's no sin
Well for babies there is no transgression because there is no law
They're born with a sin nature but they're not sinners
They're not condemned
And doesn't it make sense that when you're born your name is in the Book of Life
They're body, soul, and spirit and if a baby dies they go to heaven
Why? Because their name is in the Book of Life
So everyone's name is in the Book of Life
When they're born because God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance
And no one's name gets written in the Book of Life
The Book of Life already has everybody's name in it because God knew everyone that would be born
So no names are written, there's no reference in the Bible to names being written in the book
They're in the book because God already knew who was going to be born and God is not willing that any should perish
So what about blots?
What about when they get blotted out, when they get removed?
When do they get removed?
They get removed when somebody crosses the line and they can no longer be saved
So look, when we are at the Great White Throne Judgment and they bring out the Book of Life and they open it up
I promise you there's going to be blot after blot after blot after blot all over that book
Just blots everywhere
Name scratched off, cut out, gone
Say well when does that happen?
Well we've been spending the night talking about it
For some people it happened, for the Pharisees when they blasphemed the Holy Ghost
And Jesus said all manner of sin shall be forgiven unto you
But this sin, the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven to you in this life or in the life to come
I promise you some angel in heaven opened up the Book of Life, looked up the names of those Pharisees and scratched them out
You're done
Blotted them out
What about when the NIV translators began to translate their Bible?
As they began to work on their book, God began to work on his book
And started blotting out all those names because they corrupted the Word of God
What about in the future?
When people line up to take the mark of the beast, the moment they take that thing in their hand or in their forehead
Their names are going to scratch out of the Book of Life, they lost the opportunity to be saved
What about every reprobate that has ever lived?
The moment they cross that line and they're given over to a reprobate mind, Romans 1
The Bible says that God gave them over, that God gave them up
The moment they become a reprobate, their names are crossed out, removed, cut out of the Book of Life
And you say well what about everybody else that's not a reprobate and didn't do an unpardonable sin?
Well you know the Bible says an asset is appointed unto man once to die and after this a judgment
And here's what you need to understand
Every other unsaved person that dies without Christ
Non-reprobate, non-pardonable sin, just normal unsaved person who dies without Jesus Christ
The moment they die, they become a reprobate
For all intents and purposes, they die and they've lost any opportunity to ever be saved
In that moment, their name is blotted out of the Book of Life
So it's not that your name gets written in when you're saved
It's that your name gets written out when you're not saved
Gets blotted out, gets cut out
Babies go to heaven because their names are in the Book of Life
Because they're not condemned
And the names are in the Book of Life
Because God is not willing that any should perish
But that all should come to repentance
I hope that makes sense and that connects it to these unpardonable sins
The names are blotted out
They're taken out when people cross the line
And look, every person that goes to hell comes to a point where they cross the line with God
Where they can no longer be saved
Either because they perform an unpardonable sin
Either because they became a reprobate
Or simply because they died without getting saved
And as it is appointed unto men, wants to die
But after this, the judgment
Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer
Heavenly Father, thank you Lord for your word
And I hope that these doctrinal sermons are clear and understandable
And I just want our church to be a church that understands what they believe and why they believe it
And we should be people who are willing to conform what we believe to the Bible
Not try to make the Bible conform to what we believe
And this Book of Life thing
It's taught by so many people that your names get written in the day you get saved
But the Bible doesn't teach that
And Lord I pray that you'd help us to just be loyal to the word of God
Biblicus, we love you
In the matchless name of Christ, we pray, Amen
Alright, well we're going to have Brother RJ come up and lead us in a final song
Just want to remind you a couple of things
First of all, don't forget this week
We've got Brother Deacon Corbin Russell coming from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tucson, Arizona
He's going to be preaching for us this Wednesday
So make sure you're here on Wednesday night
Don't, we don't want to bring someone all the way from Tucson and then you don't show up
Alright, you'll be glad you came
He's a great preacher, he's a good friend of mine
And we want to make sure that you're here
If you don't normally come on Wednesday nights, come this Wednesday night
And you'll be glad you did
And then of course we've got the laser tag for the kids
The teens on Friday, January 27th at 6pm
So do not forget about that
If you are interested in going to the UK
See our deacon, Brother Oliver
He's got the handouts with the information
He's going to ask us any questions about, if you've got any questions regarding that handout
He's got those for you after the service
If you would not mind looking around your area
And making sure everything's picked up
And the hymn books are back where they need to be
And you pick up whatever mess that you have for your kids there
We would appreciate that
If there's anything we can do for you, please let us know
We'll have Brother RJ come up and lead us in a final song
Hey man, let's grab our songbooks and turn to page number 59
Song number 59
And the service with Caught Up
Together
We sing Hallelujah, Jesus is coming
Song number 59
On the first
I sing Hallelujah
That Jesus is coming
And oh what a raising
Of life from the dead
The grave's bursting open
To give up God's children
Those bodies long older
Their graves are sleeping
Caught up to meet Him
Together, together
Caught up in Jesus
And never to part
Change in a moment
To be with my Savior
Caught up together
And never to part
We wait for the coming
Of Jesus our Savior
Expecting the rapture
Caught up in the clouds
The world has its sorrows
With hope
Gladly we'll wipe all our tears
When a trumpet calls loud
Caught up to meet Him
Together, together
Caught up in Jesus
And never to part
Change in a moment
To be with my Savior
Caught up together
And never to part
Seen out on the third
Will rise incorruptible in sound
A trumpet oh great
Where the victory long you have known
All chains and a living
And all go together
And oh what a gathering
To rise up His own
Caught up to meet Him
Together, together
Caught up in Jesus
And never to part
Change in a moment
To be with my Savior
Caught up together
And never to part
Seen out on the last
Come up all you saints of the past
Through that meeting from
Abel to Moses and David to Paul
Come up all you martyrs
So winners, Christ lovers
All under the blood of our Savior
Come up
Caught up to meet Him
Together, together
Caught up in Jesus
And never to part
Change in a moment
To be with my Savior
Caught up together
And never to part
Amen, great seeing. Brother Graham, would you dismiss us with a word of prayer?
Father God, thank you for this message, thank you for this instruction, thank you for salvation.
Please bless the rest of the week and bring us back to St. Glenn Wednesday.
In the name of Jesus Christ, I pray. Amen.
Amen.