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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Go wake Jesus
63-1103 §26
And then, 'course there was some of the great orthodox standing by that didn't believe this. And they had to answer to their congregation, and they said, "This man is Beelzebub. He has the spirit of Beelzebub [and Beelzebub was a devil, which is a fortune-teller, or a witch], and that's how he does that. It's a telepathy--that he reads their minds through witchcraft or something on that order--and this makes him a devil." Jesus had said to them that all manner of blasphemy shall be forgiven the son of men, except b...
Hebrews, Chapter 6, part 2
57-0908E §38
Jesus said, "I will forgive you for that, but when the Holy Ghost is come, you speak a word against it, it'll never be forgiven you." (Because they said, "He has an unclean spirit," calling the Spirit of God, "an unclean thing.") A Christian can't do that. A Christian will always call the Spirit of God, "Righteousness." See, a Christian cannot blaspheme the Holy Ghost; it's the outsider that blasphemes. That wasn't Christians standing there. It was religious people---it was orthodox Jews, doctors of divinity and so...
The Indictment
63-0707M §87
And Jesus said, "I'll forgive you for that, but when the Holy Ghost is come, now, you speak a word against it, and it'll never be forgiven you." Remember, it will and cannot, by no means, no mercy... When you blaspheme and call the Spirit of God, the Word of God, that's been vindicated by the Spirit (see, the Word says so; the Spirit's a-vindicating it), and you call it an unclean thing, you've crossed the line between mercy and judgment and can never be forgiven for it. That's the reason I indict this generation o...
Greater than Solomon is here
63-0605 §27
...siah, just as He was showing to us last night. And all their teaching had been to believe that that would be the Messiahic sign. And even to this little woman that we spoke of last night, the woman at the well, how she in her adulterous condition. And yet she knowed more about God and recognized Him more than the scribes and Pharisees did, for when they seen this done they declared it to be some kind of a spirit. Said, "It is Beelzebub." Beelzebub was the chief of the devils, a spirit, a devil. And said that He was...
Blasphemous Names
62-1104M §54
Now, see, the faith, these five streams... I had a piece of chalk here, but I guess he never brought it out. But the five streams you see coming down through here tempers this together. It's been the Holy Spirit that made the Ephesus church. It was the Holy Spirit that birthed the Smyrnaean church. It was the Holy Spirit that give the Pergamos church, and the Thyatira church in the Dark Ages. It's the Holy Spirit that's built that bride, the elect that's pulled out of all the organization systems down through the a...