Unpardonable Sin Is Blasphemy, Evangelist Says

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 51, 1 June 1948, Page 8

Unpardonable Sin Is Blasphemy, Evangelist Says

“For the past six weeks I have endeavoured to show from the Scriptures the willingness of God to forgive sins and to receive those who will have God’s Son to be their Saviour,” said Mr C. C. Graham, evangelist. “But tonight, I want to speak about the sin which the Lord Jesus said hath not forgiveness, neither in this world nor in the world to come. (Matt. 12; 31-32). The unpardonable sin, said our Lord, is blasphemy against the Holy Ghost.”

The speaker said he was persuaded there were many in danger _of committing that sin today, and if they did it would be impossible for God to forgive them and they must therefore spend eternity in hell, away from His>presence. There was no excuse for the blasphemy of the Pharisees, and none for the blasphemy of men today who have witnessed the power and influence of Christ for nigh on 2000 years. Even murder and “all manner of sin” hath forgiveness, said Christ, but never the sin of resisting the strivings of God’s spirit who seeks to lead us to repentance and an acceptance of Christ as Saviour.

A collector of stalactities in one of the mammoth caves in Kentucky once tied a cord on the outside of a dangerous cave and following the cord with his lantern, entered the cave a great distance. Suddenly he became excited as he saw the beautiful stalactites in front of him. In his excitement he let go the cord and began to collect his treasures, but accidentally he kicked the lantern, the light went out, and he was left in darkness. He never found the cord and later he was found lying dead a few feet away. How he would regret his neglect of the cord! “Beware,” said the speaker, “that in grasping for life’s pleasures and possessions that you do not kick out God’s light and be left in the darkness of despair, when even a great ransom cannot deliver you.”