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.
Blasphemous Names
62-1104M §56
Now, and number two ... three: Then you'll have spiritual ... you'll have the Holy Spirit, and will seal all these things into you, as that Holy Spirit covers this. From your faith up to the Holy Spirit seals you in with Christ; then you become one. Amen! (Get this thing out of my way. It's hard on your arms.) You become one. See, you and Christ live together. "At that day you'll know that I'm in the Father, the Father in me, I in you and you in me." Then that's a sealed unit of the Lord God. Why? And then they are...
The Identified Christ of all ages
64-0401 §54
So there He was standing there. Oh, there was some of them stood there, said... They had to give an answer to their congregation. They had to do it, 'cause the mighty works was done and they couldn't deny it. See, they already had healing, as far as healing was concerned. They had the pool of Bethesda up there, you know. At Bethesda they went into that pool and got healed. They had divine healing in every age; but here was a prophet. They had to do it. You know what they said? "This man's Beelzebub, a fortuneteller...
Blasphemous Names
62-1104M §62
Then Ephesians 4:30 says, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed until the day of your redemption." Now, some of you Baptists that wants to go on eternal security, now, if you'll come to that stage, I'll stand with you in eternal security, if you'll come to that place. But just to say, anybody says, "I've joined the Baptist church"; "I'm a Presbyterian"; "I got eternal security"; that's wrong. Your own life proves you haven't got it. Until this is there and God has adopted you and seals you by th...
And then Jesus came
57-1213 §74
Now, if you believe that, then it depends on what you think it is. If you'd say, "Oh, well, he's a mind reader." Well, that's your reward you'd receive. But, of course, there you'd... I wouldn't say it in that way. It might be terrible because that would be the same as they did: blasphemy of the Holy Ghost, see, which is unpardonable. Now, that's what they blaspheme when they call the works that He was doing, Beelzebub. How many knows that? And Jesus said it would never be forgiven, see, to call the working of God...
Divine Healing
54-0620E §51
...no more?) sin no more (Is that right?) or a worse thing come upon you." What is sin? Unbelief. Exactly right. I heard someone the other day trying to preach the blaspheming of the Holy Ghost. He said, "A Christian couldn't blaspheme the Holy Ghost." And then turned around and read Hebrews 6. I thought, Oh, brother. "He who was once made enlightened, made partakers of the Holy Ghost, to fall away and to renew himself again unto repentance..." Sure, He can blaspheme the Holy Ghost. Jesus said that they had blasphemed...