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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Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
The unpardonable sin
54-1024 §39
Here, the first thing we got to think about now, when we... And Jesus said to those Pharisees, in the twelfth chapter there, He said: "If a man speaks against the Son of man, it'll be forgiven him: but whoever speaks against the Holy Ghost, will never be forgiven him in this world, neither the world to come." What is "speaking evil against," "speaking against the Holy Spirit," "speaking against?" Now, you could be mistaken, say, "The operation of the Holy Ghost... Somebody shouting, it could be the Holy Ghost." Tha...
Hebrews, Chapter 6, part 2
57-0908E §37
...ot "after he received Christ in his heart"; the Bible doesn't say that.] Said: He that ... if we sin wilfully [disbelieve wilfully] after ... we have received the knowledge of the truth ... [get it? Wasn't talking to a Christian at all!] Some woman come to me not long ago, and said, "Brother Branham, I'm a Christian, but I blasphemed the Holy Ghost." I said, "It's impossible." A Christian could not blaspheme the Holy Ghost. You can't do it. A Christian spirit bears record with Christ's Spirit, see. And you'll call...
The True Easter Seal
61-0402 §118
If He don't keep this, there's no resurrection. If He does keep it, it's assurance of the resurrection. It shows that the Easter seal ... that He is not dead, but He's a-living. Then to condemn that would be blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, and it's unforgivable. Now if the Holy Spirit will come into this meeting... I thought maybe we'd just raise the people up, but we can't have a prayer line. Look here, just jammed in here, little kiddies all over the altars, and everywhere. We can't have a prayer line. But, loo...
Blasphemous Names
62-1104M §37
Now, there's some of these things you might miserably disagree with. So if there is, just like I always said about eating fried chicken: When you hit the bone you don't throw the chicken away, you just throw the bone away. So always do that. Eating cherry pie and you run into a seed, you wouldn't throw the pie away, you just throw the seed away. So you do the same thing in listening to this. Now, I believe that the reason that there's so much confusion today about the Holy Spirit, it's not correctly taught. I belie...
A Greater than Solomon is here
61-0515 §53
Then when Jesus came---a black name behind him as an illegitimate child, being born out of holy wedlock, an outcast, and so forth---and here He comes forth, discerning the hearts of the people and telling them their thoughts and perceiving their thoughts; and doing exactly what God said He would do and the prophets said He would do. Then they said, "This man is a devil." See, they said... They had to answer to their congregation. They were standing there. It was beyond a doubt that he was doing it, so they had to m...