1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,080 If you think you've committed the unforgivable sin, I want you 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:06,640 to pay close attention because literally thousands of people 3 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:09,360 believe that they have crossed the point of no return. 4 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:12,400 And if that's you, you probably believe that there's no hope for 5 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:13,960 you. You probably believe that God 6 00:00:13,960 --> 00:00:17,000 has withdrawn any chance of mercy and that He can't even 7 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,240 stand the very sight of you. So why do so many people think 8 00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:23,440 like this? Well, I think it's because 99% 9 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:27,480 of people are totally way off about the unforgivable sin. 10 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:31,840 So what on earth is this sin? What is the one sin that God 11 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:34,800 will never forgive? Some people say that making a 12 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,720 deal with the devil is the unforgivable sin, but here's the 13 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:41,920 evidence of why it is not. The Lord God says behold All 14 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:44,600 Souls are mine. Now either that Bible verse is 15 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:47,400 true or it's not. Either the Lord God really does 16 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:50,280 own all the souls on earth or he doesn't. 17 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:54,160 And personally I want to say let God be true and every man a 18 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:56,400 liar. Now perhaps something dark has 19 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:59,960 happened, and perhaps the devil himself has deceived a person's 20 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:03,840 mind into thinking that he has more power than he really does. 21 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:07,040 But the truth is this. It is impossible to sell your 22 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:10,040 soul because your soul does not belong to you in the 1st place, 23 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:12,920 it belongs to the Lord God. I mean, which of you can sell a 24 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:15,240 house that you do not own in the 1st place? 25 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:19,000 OK, but others say that the sin that God will never forgive is 26 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:22,920 repetitive sin, like the man or woman who habitually watches 27 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,000 wrong things on the Internet. Is that the unforgivable sin? 28 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:29,480 Personally, I don't think it is, but that doesn't mean it can't 29 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:31,520 lead to. And in a moment's time, I want 30 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:35,000 to tell you a very embarrassing story about myself and how I 31 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,480 nearly committed the sin that has no forgiveness. 32 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:40,720 And I want to warn you not to make the same mistake that I 33 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:42,680 did. Some people say that the 34 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:46,840 unforgivable sin is to speak a disrespectful word against the 35 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,040 Holy Spirit, to take his name in vain. 36 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,960 Just like it's a grievous sin when we say OMG and we say Jesus 37 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:55,040 Christ and we're using it in the wrong way. 38 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,040 Many people do this. They use Christ's name as a way 39 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:01,680 to express disgust or shock. They use it as a curse word. 40 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:05,040 And it is a very serious sin to drag the Lord's name through the 41 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:06,880 dirt, to laugh at it, to mock it. 42 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:09,280 I mean, would any of you be OK with someone dragging your 43 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:11,720 daughter's name through the dirt, your mother's name through 44 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:14,920 the dirt, and yet the name of the Lord Jesus Christ? 45 00:02:14,920 --> 00:02:17,640 We're so casual with it, but it should be the complete opposite. 46 00:02:17,640 --> 00:02:21,080 When His name goes on our lips, there should be a fear, there 47 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:24,840 should be a sense of reverence. This is the name above all 48 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:27,320 names. This is the only name that can 49 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,520 Get Me Out of the consequences of my sin, can Get Me Out of the 50 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:32,960 judgement of God, and can take me to heaven. 51 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:35,120 And it's the name of Jesus Christ. 52 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,960 Did you know the Bible says that God will not hold any man, any 53 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,720 woman guiltless who takes His name in vain. 54 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:44,600 So we should see it as a very serious sin. 55 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:47,440 But I do believe there is forgiveness to be found for any 56 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:52,320 man, any woman who cries out for mercy if they blasphemy the name 57 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:54,880 of the Lord. OK, before I tell you what I 58 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:57,520 personally believe the unforgivable sin is, I want to 59 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:01,000 set the scene first. You need the full context to 60 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,800 understand this warning. And Speaking of context, one 61 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:07,160 thing I've decided on this channel is to put no adverts. 62 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:09,440 Why? Because I know that this sin 63 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:12,080 that we've just been talking about, habitual sin, it often 64 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:14,960 comes from these kinds of distractions, from these kinds 65 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,600 of unhelpful ads. It can lead some people to do 66 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:19,320 that. And that is why I wanted my 67 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:23,160 little space on YouTube to be pure to be totally ad free 68 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:25,320 content. So if that's something you value 69 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:27,720 and you'd like to see more videos like this in the future, 70 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:30,240 please do subscribe. Now back to the topic. 71 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:33,960 If you are living in repetitive sin, there is a serious warning 72 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:35,800 that I have for you at the end of this video. 73 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:39,520 But first let's unpack what the unforgivable sin really is. 74 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:42,640 One day a large crowd had gathered around the Lord Jesus 75 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:45,960 Christ and the people brought a man before him, a man who was 76 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:48,040 blind. He could not see, he could not 77 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:50,320 speak and he was possessed by a demon. 78 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:52,640 So what did the Lord Jesus Christ do with that man? 79 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:57,360 He cast that demon out of him. He opened those blind eyes and 80 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:00,920 he made those lips to speak. The crowd was amazed. 81 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:02,680 They couldn't believe what they'd just seen. 82 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:05,280 And they started to say amongst themselves, could this be the 83 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,600 son of David? In other words, could this be 84 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:09,800 our Messiah? Could this be the one we've been 85 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:12,360 waiting for? Could this be the Saviour of the 86 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:14,680 entire world? But when the Pharisees heard 87 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:19,480 this, they became very angry. They were irritated and they 88 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,400 said, no, no, no, no, there's no way that this man is doing this 89 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:24,120 in his own strength, in his own power. 90 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:26,920 No, it is by the power of Beelzebub, the leader of the 91 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:29,280 demons. That's how he's able to cast out 92 00:04:29,280 --> 00:04:31,960 demons. All right, Now, this is very, 93 00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:34,360 very important. So you need to catch this. 94 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:37,240 What you need to know about these Pharisees is they weren't 95 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:40,400 just your average unbeliever on the street that might say, oh, 96 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:42,760 God isn't real. There isn't enough evidence. 97 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:45,840 No, these were sophisticated Bible scholars. 98 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:48,880 These were the men who studied the Scriptures for hours and 99 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:51,360 hours, and they had done this for years and years since they 100 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:53,720 were children. They knew the Word of God inside 101 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:56,720 out, and they should be able to recognize the work of God better 102 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:59,320 than anyone else. But for some reason or another, 103 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:02,720 they decided to reject the Holy Spirit's witness when it was 104 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:05,760 right in front of them. They decided to reject the work 105 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:09,240 of God and had the audacity to say that what Jesus Christ was 106 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:12,600 doing, he was doing under the power of the devil. 107 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:16,520 And at that point, at that very point, Jesus Christ gave them 108 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:20,080 perhaps one of the sternest mornings in all of Scripture. 109 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:23,640 He said this. And so I tell you, every kind of 110 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:28,480 sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit 111 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:32,200 will not be forgiven. Anyone who speaks a word against 112 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:36,200 the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against 113 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:40,400 the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or 114 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:43,280 in the age to come. So let's take all of that into 115 00:05:43,280 --> 00:05:47,160 our minds and then let me share a definition of the unforgivable 116 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:49,440 sin. After much research, after much 117 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:51,240 thinking, this is what I think it is. 118 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:55,800 The blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is a willful, stubborn, 119 00:05:55,840 --> 00:05:59,040 intentional rejection of Christ and the gospel. 120 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,560 Even when the Holy Spirit has given you overwhelming evidence 121 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:05,920 and clarity of who Jesus Christ is, and you have a full 122 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:08,840 knowledge of his power, you can see it with your own two eyes. 123 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:12,080 And yeah, after all that, you still choose to reject him, and 124 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:15,440 you reject him stubbornly. Yes, the Pharisees could see 125 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:17,480 that the man in front of them had been healed. 126 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:20,640 Yes, the Pharisees could see that he had been delivered from 127 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:22,760 a demon. Yes, the Pharisees could see 128 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:26,280 that this man, Jesus Christ, was literally changing lives. 129 00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:29,000 And yet to have all of that light, to have all of that 130 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,160 revelation, but to still say that this work came from the 131 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:35,760 devil, that, my dear friend, is unforgivable. 132 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:37,720 OK, but I can hear some of you right now. 133 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,240 You're still saying, I still don't quite understand what the 134 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:42,280 unforgivable sin is. I don't understand what you 135 00:06:42,280 --> 00:06:43,960 mean. But if I was to sum it up in 136 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:48,120 just two words, I'd say this. It's ongoing apostasy. 137 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:51,120 This is not a sin you can commit accidentally. 138 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:53,320 This is not something you can do unconsciously. 139 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:57,400 No, this is a day by day stubbornness, A continuous 140 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:01,160 refusal to obey the gospel, to put your trust in the Lord Jesus 141 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:03,960 Christ and to come to him. Countless times in the 142 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:07,560 scriptures we read of men and women who refuse to believe on 143 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:11,200 the Lord Jesus Christ, the Bible says they would not believe. 144 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:14,800 But then there is a very scary verse in John chapter 12, verse 145 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:17,600 39, and it says they could not believe. 146 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:19,640 What does that mean? Well, I think it means this, 147 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:22,720 that for so long they had said I reject Jesus Christ. 148 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:24,640 I don't want Jesus, I do not want God. 149 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:27,840 For so long they did this that there comes a point where they 150 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:31,320 just could not believe anymore. A classic example of this is 151 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:33,440 Pharaoh. You remember Pharaoh, he had the 152 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:36,280 people of Israel in his captivacy and Moses kept 153 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:38,560 approaching him saying let my people go. 154 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:43,120 The Lord says let my people go. But Pharaoh refused to obey the 155 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:45,760 voice of the Lord. In fact, it says that Pharaoh 156 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:48,680 hardened his heart. And then what does the Bible 157 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:50,840 say? Because Pharaoh continued to 158 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:54,840 harden his heart, It then says the Lord also hardened Pharaoh's 159 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:56,400 heart. May I go deeper? 160 00:07:56,480 --> 00:08:00,520 There comes a time when God sort of says, OK, I respect your 161 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:03,160 decision. I affirm your decision, I 162 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:06,440 strengthen your decision. If you do not want me, I now 163 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:08,480 hand you over to complete darkness. 164 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:11,040 But you do not have to have anything to do with me. 165 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:14,520 The Bible says my spirit will not strive with man forever. 166 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:17,160 That's what God himself says. And if you are going to keep on 167 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:20,720 saying day after day, week after week, month by month, year after 168 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:23,520 year, no, no, no, no, no. I do not want Jesus Christ. 169 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:26,000 I do not want to come to him. I do not want to put my trust in 170 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,400 him. I will not come to Christ. 171 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:29,640 I reject him. Well, can I say this? 172 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:33,320 There comes a point where God will not propose to you anymore. 173 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:36,840 There comes a point where God will say enough is enough. 174 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:38,919 I'm not going to force you into my Kingdom. 175 00:08:38,919 --> 00:08:42,000 If you don't want me, then I affirm your decision and I will 176 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,600 leave you into the powers of darkness. 177 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:47,600 I will leave you in a place because you shut out the light 178 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:50,040 for so long. You can go to that place where 179 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:53,160 there is no light. And when that happens, that's 180 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:55,160 when you cross that invisible line. 181 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:58,440 And the terrifying reality is you don't even realize that 182 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:00,680 you've crossed it. There comes a point where you 183 00:09:00,680 --> 00:09:04,720 have 0 desire for the Bible, you have 0 desire to hear the 184 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:07,000 gospel, you have 0 desire for God. 185 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:11,120 That not even a £400 gorilla could break that hard heart 186 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:13,640 because you've crossed that invisible line and you've shut 187 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:16,960 Him out one too many times. You can probably tell by my face 188 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:19,240 that this isn't easy for me to talk about. 189 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:21,840 But if what I just said terrifies you, I want you to 190 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:25,720 take a deep breath now, because it's very, very likely I truly 191 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:27,760 do believe this. You have not committed the 192 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:30,840 unforgivable sin because if you had, like the Pharisee, you'd be 193 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:33,600 apathetic. You simply would not care, and 194 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:36,760 all that would be in your heart is a rejection to the Lord Jesus 195 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:38,320 Christ. And you won't care about this 196 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:39,880 sin. The fact that it bothers you 197 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:42,880 right now is very strong evidence that you have not yet 198 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:46,200 committed the unpardonable sin. But friends, some of you 199 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:48,880 listening, you know there is unbelief in your heart. 200 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:51,760 Some of you listening, you have not yet put your trust in the 201 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:54,280 Lord Jesus Christ. And I want to say this to you, 202 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:58,080 be very careful because there is a day when mercy is cut off. 203 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:01,800 There is a day when God finally says, OK, you've rejected me 204 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:04,600 long enough, I'm not going to knock on the door of your heart 205 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:06,840 anymore. And I don't know how many more 206 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:09,960 second chances you've got left. I don't know how many more times 207 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:12,440 you can reject him. I don't know how many more nose 208 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:14,480 you have left. I don't know when your last 209 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:16,480 opportunity to hear the gospel will be. 210 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:21,360 I don't know if even this very video is the last chance you 211 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:24,680 have to repent and put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. 212 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:27,520 But there's one thing I do know and it's this. 213 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:31,640 If today you can see the Son of God hanging on that cross, 214 00:10:31,680 --> 00:10:34,200 standing there, condemned in your place for your sin, 215 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:37,040 bleeding there, dying there so that you might be forgiven, I 216 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:39,440 plead with you, don't look the other way today. 217 00:10:39,440 --> 00:10:42,880 If you can see the stone being rolled away, you can hear the 218 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:46,720 voice of the people saying he is alive, he's risen, Jesus Christ 219 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:49,200 has conquered the grave. He's it's on the impossible, and 220 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:51,880 He gives eternal life to all who come and receive Him. 221 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:55,640 If today you can hear that, do not close your ears to that 222 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:58,600 sound. If today you can feel the Lord 223 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:02,000 Jesus Christ knocking on the door of your heart, behold, I 224 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,400 stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice, I will 225 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:08,680 open the door and I will come into Him and dine with Him and 226 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:11,720 He with me. If today you can see Jesus 227 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:14,680 Christ standing there, His hair is wet with you. 228 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:17,720 The night has been long. He's patiently knocked on your 229 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:20,880 heart for so long, but today he says let me in. 230 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,040 If today you can see him standing there, I plead with 231 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:26,200 you, do not shut the door in his face. 232 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:30,120 Oh my dear friends, how many more times do these videos have 233 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:32,080 to appear in your recommendations? 234 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,080 Oh my friends, how many more times do you have to hear the 235 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:38,240 urging of a preacher telling you to come to the Lord Jesus 236 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:41,080 Christ? When will you stop hardening 237 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:44,600 your heart like Pharaoh? When will you finally say today 238 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:47,720 is the day of salvation? Now is the accepted time. 239 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:51,040 I must my trust in Him because tomorrow might be too late. 240 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:55,120 So if right now you can feel the Holy Spirit laying his finger on 241 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:58,520 an air of your life or urging you to come, I plead with you, 242 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:01,040 turn to Him right now. Pause the video. 243 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:04,520 Everything else can wait. Stop the video and cry out to 244 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:07,400 him right now. And the God who hears all things 245 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:09,560 will answer your prayer and save you. 246 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:12,320 So here's my message to the man or woman who's living in 247 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:14,360 habitual sin. You need to hear this. 248 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:17,640 When I was 24 years old. I'm embarrassed to admit this, 249 00:12:17,680 --> 00:12:21,520 but I was living in habitual sin for such a long time that I was, 250 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:23,920 you could say I was bathing myself in sin. 251 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:26,600 It wasn't just one sin, It was many different sins. 252 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:28,880 And I'd gone further than being backslidden. 253 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:32,240 I got to the point where I cherish my sin, where I sort of 254 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:35,560 had a fantasy about my sin. And I'd started to think this 255 00:12:35,560 --> 00:12:37,640 way of being a Christian is nonsense. 256 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:39,680 The way of a Christian is not for me. 257 00:12:39,680 --> 00:12:42,200 I want to enjoy my sin. I want to live in my sin. 258 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:43,720 I want to have a really good time. 259 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:46,120 And while I'm young, I want to have all of the pleasures of 260 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:48,480 this life. And guys, I got very, very 261 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:51,320 close. I nearly became an apostate. 262 00:12:51,360 --> 00:12:53,720 If you don't know what that word means, an apostate is someone 263 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:56,920 who walks away from their faith in Christ and turns their back 264 00:12:56,920 --> 00:12:59,240 on the gospel with no desire to follow God. 265 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:00,560 By the way, let me just say this. 266 00:13:00,560 --> 00:13:03,600 I do believe that the weight of Scripture teaches that even the 267 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:06,520 apostate himself can be restored if they repent. 268 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:09,880 And that's why I said ongoing apostasy is the unforgivable 269 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:11,480 sin. What happened to me? 270 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:16,000 Well, God had mercy on me. God in his grace drew me out of 271 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,560 that. He showed me the foolishness of 272 00:13:18,560 --> 00:13:22,960 my mind and He showed me just how wonderful he really is and 273 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:26,560 how weak and pathetic that kind of life is. 274 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:28,760 And friends, why do I tell you that story? 275 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:32,120 I tell it to you because if you are playing with habitual sin, I 276 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:35,400 want to say play any game, but do not play that game. 277 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:38,320 Because there are men and women who I know personally and you 278 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:41,400 probably know personally, who got too close to the edge and 279 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:43,640 then they fell off and they never came back. 280 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:46,240 Now some of you will say, well, they were never saved in the 1st 281 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:48,120 place. Well, I don't know about that. 282 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:51,000 These are really deep things we've been talking about today 283 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,720 that a simple St. preacher like me, I can't answer these 284 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:56,320 questions at times. But there is one thing I do 285 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:59,120 know. If today you know that your sin 286 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:01,800 has got a hold of you, it's got a grip of you, you're getting 287 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:04,680 too close to the edge. I'm asking you, I'm pleading 288 00:14:04,680 --> 00:14:07,720 with you, turn from it. Because the Bible says let none 289 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:11,320 of us be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin and sin can 290 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:13,800 really harden you over a slow period of time. 291 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:16,280 It's the point where you don't even desire the things of God. 292 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:18,720 But let me give you some hope now, because there's one more 293 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:20,240 thing you need to remember, and it's this. 294 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:21,880 What was that verse we read before? 295 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:25,360 What did Jesus say before? One of the most severe warnings 296 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:27,840 in the entire Bible? He said something very 297 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:29,680 comforting. This is what He said. 298 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:32,920 Every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven. 299 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:35,280 And it's true, isn't it? God really does have a bigger 300 00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:37,280 razor that can wash away our sins. 301 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:40,440 And any man, any woman who humbly turns back to God and 302 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:43,280 asks for that forgiveness of sins, He'll forgive them of all. 303 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:46,240 So there's always hope. There's always restoration to be 304 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:49,320 found for any person who is willing to come back to God. 305 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:52,360 And that's the key message. Are you willing to come back to 306 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:54,000 God? All right, but if you thought 307 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:57,280 that the unforgivable sin raised a few eyebrows, what about this 308 00:14:57,280 --> 00:14:59,880 question? Where does the unbeliever go 309 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:02,960 when they die? Is it a place of eternal sadness 310 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:04,720 or is it a place of unconsciousness? 311 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:07,400 Or does everyone go to heaven? Well, if you want to know the 312 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:11,200 answer and I spent a lot of time studying this, click this video 313 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:12,240 right away.