What Is Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit?
1) Direct Answer
Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is to knowingly and willfully call the Holy Spirit’s revealed work and Word “unclean,” attributing what God is doing to the devil after light has come. That is the unpardonable sin—no forgiveness in this world or in the world to come.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Matthew 12:31–32: Jesus said every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven except blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. He added that speaking against the Son of Man could be forgiven, but speaking against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven. The context shows the Pharisees saw the works of the Spirit in Jesus and said He did it by Beelzebub.
- Mark 3:28–30 explains why: “because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.” They called the Holy Spirit’s work demonic.
- Hebrews 6:4–6 describes those once enlightened and made partakers of the Holy Spirit who then fall away. It is impossible to renew them again unto repentance. That’s a willful turning from known truth.
- Hebrews 10:26–29 warns that if we sin willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, we do “despite unto the Spirit of grace.” That is despising the very One who brings us to Christ.
- Ephesians 4:30 says we can grieve the Holy Spirit; Acts 7:51 shows men can resist the Holy Spirit. Notice: grieving or resisting is serious but still a call to repent. Blasphemy is when a person crosses the line and calls the Spirit’s manifest work evil after full light is given.
- 1 Timothy 1:13 shows Paul obtained mercy because he acted “ignorantly in unbelief.” So it’s not mere ignorance or a rash word—it’s a settled, knowing rejection.
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- Forgiveness reaches us by the Holy Spirit drawing us to Christ. If a person knowingly declares the Spirit’s work to be of the devil, he shuts off the very channel that brings repentance. With no door left to grace, there can be no forgiveness.
- It’s not a slip of the tongue or a moment of doubt. It is a hardened stance against revealed truth after clear witness by the Word and the Spirit.
- Now notice: we test all things by the written Word. If the life, fruit, doctrine, and power line up with Scripture, be careful not to speak against it. If something is unscriptural, reject it by the Word—but don’t hastily brand what God is doing as satanic.
4) Reinforcing Statement
If you are concerned that you may have done this, that concern itself shows the Spirit is still dealing with you. Come to the Light, confess, and walk softly before God. Keep your heart tender, agree with the Word, and never call clean what God calls unclean—nor call unclean what God has made known to be His own work.
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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
Jubilee Year
54-1003E §61
Brother, sister, don't play around with God too long, for the time might come when the jubilee time passes your door. Then you're took to the post of the devil; then you're bored through the ear and you can't hear the glorious Gospel no more. "What do you mean?" You won't have any use for it. You know what the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost is?---is to reject it. That's right. When they blasphemed the Holy Ghost, when they rejected Jesus Christ. They called Him Beelzebub. And the very works that He was doing, they sai...
Influences
64-0215 §39
...at's going to happen to that man, when God sends something to the earth, and they see a thing operating just exactly with the Word, and then men talk about it, and make fun of it. Do you know what the Bible said? Jesus said, "It's blasphemy of the Holy Ghost, and will never be forgiven." "Oh," they say, "that's of the devil." Be careful what you say, brother, sister. Be careful what you say, sinner. There's no forgiveness for it. Jesus said, "To speak a word against it would never be forgiven in this world, or the...
Why cry? Speak!
63-0714M §54
A man picked up the picture of the angel of the Lord the other day, a Baptist minister, and laughed at it, see. That's blasphemy. There's no forgiveness for that. That's what Jesus said. It's blasphemy when you see it doing the very works that Christ did, and He said when they seen that works in Christ---He was the sacrifice---and they called Him "Beelzebub," a devil, because He was doing it. And now they say ---He said, "I forgive you for that, but when the Holy Ghost comes to do the same thing, you speak a word a...
Questions and Answers on the Holy Ghost
59-1219 §87
...t believe in pulling, and begging, and bumming money. I think it's a wrong thing. Now, brother, if you do it, don't let me hurt your feelings, see. You might have the right-of-way from God to do it. But I'm speaking just for myself. I do not believe in it. And I've even knowed of ministers going and say... I stood right ... not long ago... Now, this isn't Pentecostals, this is... Well, it's churches, see, other churches. It was at a big camp meeting. Gertie, you was with me, many others present. And they took the w...
Questions and Answers
59-0628E §37
Now, just in a few minutes I'm going to get to that same question, if we get to it, because it's the same order of the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost; because you are professing something, and playing the part of hypocrite with it, when you should not be doing it. All right! Let me finish this then, see, and then we will stop. For this cause many are sick and weakly among you, and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should...