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.
Blasphemous Names
62-1104M §46
Each church age has had that rock confession on up to this rock confession of the Laodicea. And now, you cannot make a holy church. There's no such a thing as a holy church or holy organization. The Holy Spirit can be preached in it, but in there you find good and bad, renegades, indifferent, and everything else. So a organization will not hold... You can't say, "We got it; none of the rest of them has it." No, sir! The Holy Spirit is poured out on individuals. It's the individual. So therefore, the rock... This la...
Hebrews, Chapter 7, part 2
57-0922 §38
If you deliberately see the Holy Spirit do the things that it did right here this morning, and see that Christ is risen from the dead, and He's living in His church and among His people, and you willfully turn it down, it's impossible for you to ever come to God, because you've blasphemed the Holy Ghost. Jesus said the same things when He was doing those miracles. And they said, "Why, He's Beelzebub. He's a fortune teller. He's a devil." Jesus turned around, and said, "I will forgive you for that. But when the Holy...
Perseverant
64-0305 §101
...now, if the Lord Jesus should tell me something about yourself that, something like that lady there---whatever it was---would you believe that it was the Lord Jesus instead of? ... It wouldn't be me, you know. And now, you could, like the Pharisees, say "It's Beelzebub, an evil spirit." And because they said the Spirit of God that was doing that work in Him was an evil spirit, it was blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, which can never be forgiven, when this comes in this day. That's the reason this nation stands in...
Questions and Answers
59-0628E §110
Calling the Spirit of God that was doing these miracles in Christ, they said it was the Spirit of the devil doing that; Jesus said it is the unforgivable sin. And if you see a man... Pray... Don't pray for him if he's making fun of the Holy Ghost and talking against the Holy Ghost; you are forbidden to even pray for such a person. You understand it? For there is a sin unto death. There's only one sin. Jesus said all manner of sin shall be forgiven the sons of man, but to blaspheme the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiv...
Time of decision
59-0418 §70
...en unto me. It'll come to pass that whosoever will not hear..." That's the reason they was looking for it. That's the reason the real Jew believed Him when He done the sign of the prophet. The unbelieving Jew, the, oh, the classical type, they said, "This man's a fortuneteller, a Beelzebub." And anybody knows that fortune-telling is of the devil. That's right. It's a perverted spirit. And said, "He's a Beelzebub." And Jesus said that would be blasphemy of the Holy Ghost. To speak one word against the Holy Ghost wou...