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The above Scripture has puzzled many. In the first place, it was written to the Hebrew Christians who had been converted through faith in Christ and the gospel, but were tempted to give up Christianity and lapse into Judaism under the pressure of the Judaizing teachers who threatened to excommunicate them if they continued being loyal to Christ. It was through Christ, Who was crucified, and Who fulfilled their ceremonial law, and through the work of the Holy Ghost that they became partakers of the gift of eternal life. The writer to the Hebrews informs them if they give up Christ and lapse into Judaism with its sacrifices and ceremonies (which prefigured the crucifixion of Christ), they would be guilty of crucifying the Son of God afresh. By giving up salvation and Christianity which had been given to them by virtue of the death of Christ, would bespeak that whatever they take up when they give up Christ is worth more to them than He. The contemplation of going back into Judaism, which then was of no value in getting saved was trifling with the Holy Ghost. VI. Despite Done to the Holy Spirit "Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and bath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?" (Heb. 10:29). Despite is an act of insult, of malice, and contempt. Despite means to put aside. The sinner who is under conviction and does not yield to the Spirit, but ignores His wooings, or who takes himself away from His influence, or stays away from a revival meeting purposely to dodge the conviction wrought by the Spirit, is doing despite to Him. The sinner can only be saved on the ground of the shed blood of Christ. It is through His death that he obtains eternal life. All who backslide and renounce Christ and Christianity trample the blood of Christ under their feet and count the work which has been wrought by the Spirit in regeneration as null, as void, or as of no consequence, and Christ's death as though it had not amounted to anything. This greatly grieves the Spirit and does despite to Him. Those who say "No" to Him too often may so grieve Him that He will never again strive with them. VII. Blaspheming Against the Holy Spirit "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" (Matt. 12:31, 32). Blasphemy means defamatory or injurious speaking against the Holy Ghost. The Pharisees were guilty of committing blasphemy against the Holy Ghost. Their sin consisted of ascribing to Satan that which the Holy Ghost wrought through the Son of Man. Christ is the Saviour and the only way of salvation. The miracles which He wrought to prove His Person and claims were not so much the employment of His own Deity, but rather the employment of the Deity of the Holy Spirit Who enabled Him as a Man to perform them. When the Pharisees said that He cast out devils by Beelzebub, the prince of devils, they ascribed the power of the Holy Ghost to Satan. This was absolute perversion of the truth and a complete reversal of righteousness which in their belief
ought Christ down to the depth of Satan for whom there is no forgiveness, and defamed the power of the Holy Ghost as being satanic. Christ as such could not save anyone; therefore, they were bound by an eternal sin because there is no other way of salvation. Conversion is wrought by the Holy Ghost, Who through the atoning merits of Christ regenerates the person who exercises an evangelical faith in the Saviour. The sin of the Pharisees was fatal to themselves and serious in its effect on those who heard them. They uttered their statements from a deliberate choice which they made in taking their stand with Satan against Christ. *************************************
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esurrected life of Christ and impar
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the gospel to all people. It is the
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will do for each of us all we will
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the beautiful type of Christ our gr
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VII. Wine Wine also symbolizes the
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second Person of the Trinity out of
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Christ was not baptized with the Ho
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performed; the manner in which His
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flesh and humanity; the brass, that
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III. The Vessels Unto Honor The Lor
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