The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 652

:

:

LOVE

6i2 at the

same time

ever rob

it

it is

the Gospel of all consolation, and no

man may

of that character.

we add that ordinary wanderfrom God do not commit the sin against the Holy Spirit; for they have seen naught of the powers and glories of the age to come In close adherence to the Word,

ers

(Heb.

To commit

vi.).

this sin

two things are required, which

absolutely belong together First, close contact

in

with the glory which

is

manifest in Christ or

His people. Second, not mere contempt of that glory, but the declaration

that the Spirit which manifests itself in that glory, which

Holy

is

the

Spirit, is a manifestation of Satan.

One may sin against the Son and not be lost forever. There is hope of pardon in the day of judgment for the men who crucified Him. But he who desecrates, despises, and slanders the Spirit, who speaks in Christ, in His Word, and in His work, as tho He were the spirit of Satan, is lost in eternal darkness. This is a wilful sin, intentionally malicious.

It

betrays systematic opposition

That sinner can not be saved,

to God.

unto the Spirit of

He

all grace.

sinner, the taste for grace,

for

he has done despite last remnant in the

has lost the

and with

it

the possibility of receiving

grace.

Hence

word

this

of Jesus is divinely intended to put souls on

Word

of

God

coldly, carelessly, indifferently; the souls oi false shepherds

and

their guard

;

the souls of the

saints, lest

they treat the

people who, ministering in the holy mysteries of the cross, contemptuously speak of the " blood theology" blas-

deceivers of the

—

pheming the supremest manifestation eous abomination

who once knew

;

the souls of all

the truth and

conceit decry their

still

now

of divine love as an unright-

who have

reject

it,

forsaken the way,

and who

in their self-

believing brethren as ignorant fanatics.

Their judgment shall be heavy indeed, prophet, and

From

this.

Nineveh did not resist the was exalted above Capernaum and Bethsaida! Christian love deduces a twofold exhortation

First, to professed believers,

to

tempt others

by ignorance and presumption not

to fall into this sin.

Second, to erring brethren, not to say that skepticism

is

the

way

For this very skepticism is the fatal gate by which the sinner enters upon the awful sin against the Holy Spirit.

leading to the truth.

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