Do you ever wonder if you’re guilty of committing the “unpardonable sin”? (Matt. 12:31-32, Mk. 3:28-30, and Luke 12:10), sadly, many do and then needlessly feel insecure in their salvation.

First, let me assure you that The “Unpardonable Sin” has nothing do with us today, as member of “the body of Christ” living today, during this Gentile “dispensation of the Grace of God” (Eph 3:2).

The Unpardonable Sin is the sin of blaspheming against the Holy Ghost and this applies only to the Nation Israel who rejected the Holy Spirit’s witness of Jesus as the Christ, the Messiah.

Note here below Jesus, speaking only to “the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Mat. 15:24). He said blaspheming Jesus is forgivable…  BUT “blaspheming against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven” anyone of Israel in the age of the Gospels or in Israel’s ages to come.

 “… All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. ³² 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.” (Mat. 12:31-32)

How did Israel commit the “Unpardonable Sin”?

You will remember that in baseball, three strikes and you’re out! It’s like that with the Triune Godhead. The Three in One Godhead consists of the Father, Son, and Spirit.

1. Strike one - Israel rejected God the Father by killing all the prophets He sent to Israel. (Mat. 23:37)
2. Strike two - Israel rejected His Son, Jesus by crucifying Him. (Acts 3:14-15) but they were forgiven in accord with Jesus words at the cross (Luke 23:34)
3. Strike three – Israel rejected the Holy Spirit when they stoned and killed of Stephen to death in Act 7:58. Stephen was the embodiment of the witness of the Holy Spirit in his speaking to Israel. You can read the full account in Acts 7:2-57 where it says he was filled with the Holy Spirit and he spoke boldly reciting Israel’s terrible history.

“Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers: ⁵³ Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept . ⁵⁴ When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with teeth. ⁵⁵ But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, ⁵⁶ And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. ⁵⁷ Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord, ⁵⁸ And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet, whose name was Saul.” (Acts 7:52-58)

The so-called ‘Unpardonable Sin’ was the rejection of the witness of the Holy Spirit to the Nation Israel. This is deadly because no person can be saved except by the work of the God’s Holy Spirit on behalf of the Triune Godhead.  

“No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him (by His Spirit): and I will raise him up at the last day.” (John 6:44)

“And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.” (John 6:65)