THE UNPARDONABLE SIN OR THE SIN AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST (1Jn5:15-16) By Kenneth Hagin

John is saying here that if we ask God to forgive someone, this is according to His Word and according to His will, and He will do it. Some years ago, I was holding a meeting near my hometown in Texas when I received a call that my grand-mother had fallen into a coma and was near death at her home. Each night after the evening service I drove back to her home and would sit up with her through the night. She never regained consciousness.

The third night as I sat there I prayed, "Dear Lord, I'm so sorry I didn't pray with Granny the other day when I visited her." I knew Granny was a Christian and loved the Lord, but there are sins of omission as well as commission and I could see where she had missed it. (Others can see where I have missed it. We can see where others miss it sometimes better than we can see ourselves.)

So I prayed, "Lord, I wish I had prayed with her. Just let her revive so I can have a word of prayer with her. (She was elderly and I knew in my spirit she was going to go.) Let me make sure there isn't any unconfessed sin in her life." As I prayed, Someone said, "Why don't you ask Me to forgive her?" It was so real it startled me. I jumped out of the chair and the Bible on my lap scooted across the floor and under the bed.

"Who said that?" I asked. I thought someone had heard me pray-ing and was teasing me. However, I found no one when I looked around the room and outside the door. I sat back down and began to study, but I couldn't concentrate, so I started to pray again.

"Lord, why don't You bring her out of it and let me have a word of prayer with her to see that she doesn't die with any unconfessed sin in her life?" Again that Voice said, "Why don't you ask Me to forgive her?" I jumped again and said, "Someone is playing tricks on me." But a check into the bedrooms of everyone else in the house revealed that they were sound asleep.

I went back to Granny's bedroom and tried to study, but I could not, so I began to pray again. When I did, He said the third time, "Why don't you ask Me to forgive her?" This time I had the presence of mind to remember that Eli had told the child Samuel to answer when God called. I realized it was the Lord, and I answered, "Me ask You?"

He said, "Yes, you ask Me. Don't you know that my Word says in First John 5:16, 'If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them...' ?"

I turned the pages of my Bible to that Scripture and read it. "That's right. That's exactly what it says! All right, Lord, I ask You. Please forgive her. You can forgive her of these things that I can see of omission, and of anything else that she didn't see or I don't see, You forgive her." He said, "All right, I have."

I thanked Him for it. To me that settled it. Can't you see that this was according to His will? The last part of that verse does make an exception, however. It says, "... there is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it." How will we know if a person has committed this sin unto death? We will only know this as the Holy Spirit reveals it to us.

This has happened to me only two times in my life when I have been praying for someone and the Lord showed me that there was no need to pray for them, because they had sinned the sin unto death.

What is this sin unto death? First, John is not talking about physical death here, but about spiritual death. This isn't a sin that an unbeliever can commit. It is a sin only a Christian can commit, for he used the term "brother."

Let us look into the Book of Hebrews to find out more about this. HEBREWS 6:4-64For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

HEBREWS 10:26-29 26For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, 27But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. 28He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three wit nesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

The sin God is talking about here is not the sin of lying, cheating, or something like that. God offers forgiveness for such sins. There is no forgiveness, however, for those who have "trodden under foot the Son of God.. . . "

The Hebrew Christians to whom this book was written were under great persecution and were tempted to go back to Judaism. When they accepted Christ, they were cut off from their families, ran into financial hardships, and faced numerous other trials. But God warned them in these Scriptures that to go back to Judaism was to deny Christ. It was to say that they would be counting "the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing," or, in other words, that Jesus' blood was just common blood like any other man's. Let us remember that as long as a person stays in Christ, he is eternally secure. But we don't want to forget that there is a sin unto death. (Kenneth E. Hagin)

my thought exactly, the question on my mind has always been why christians never see this verses or choose to neglect it?

I really do not get your point,is it that when one goes b5ack to one's old sins one cannot be forgiven?

Tovot: I really do not get your point,is it that when one goes b5ack to one's old sins one cannot be forgiven?

All sin can and will be forgiven when one asked for forgiveness, but there are sin that leads to death just as the bible says. When the bible talks about death it is talking about spiritual death which is separation from God, when one intentionally trample the grace of God the person would not have the opportunity to repent and be separated from God.

There are men who treat the grace of God with contempt, using the grace of God as occasion for the flesh and sin according to flesh even when they have been enlightened and care less, this is where those scriptures that was quoted comes handy. Though no sincere christian will find himself in this position, because as many times you come to Him you shall find forgiveness but if you because of this always stray then you are treating the grace with contempt.

Tovot: I really do not get your point,is it that when one goes b5ack to one's old sins one cannot be forgiven?

This sin can only be committed by MATURE Christians. Heb 6:4-6 gives d criteria for sinning against the Holy Spirit. When a very mature Christian decides he doesn't want Jesus again - that is d sin. That guy knows what he's doing. They die cursing God. They have been taken over by d devil. God can not hold a baby christian guilty of this sin.

Sidespin.Do you believe in karma(reincarnation).Again, do you have any idea of the Laws of Creation?

hav u read the book,"Lord,teach me to pray . I am falling asleep"?

it contains a story of a man who commited the "sin against the Holy spirit".

He had backslidden and left church.
held a party with some wordly friends , and there,in a drunken
stupor he asked them , "hey, wanna know what speaking in tongues is like".
Got on a vantage point and started babbling.
But b4 he did it the wife tried to caution him, maybe she wasnt so drunk.
After the show, there was an eerie silence,huh (joke didnt sink in? or what).

fast forward a few years, Man and wife try to get back to Christ.
Wife asks for forgiveness, it works,she's in.
Husband asks for forgiveness,comes out to do the sinner prayer,
pastor pray over him. nothing clicks.
He just feels dead inside. He knows he hasnt been accepted.
Pastor set aside extra time to attend to him- for where? it's like boiling rock- it
didnt soften.
Wife,trust women, sad and broken, begins sobbing.
spills story out.

I've remembered that story so long. its always on my mind.
And most of the people who read the book, i bought it, my mom read it,
and she shares that story with her friends etc..
guess its a shocking tale.

That's the only example i've had of the sin against the holy spirit.
@OP
when i read the first few lines of the story above i knew it was KEH!!.
read that story in "Bible prayer study guide"..

I thought BLASPHEMY is the unpardonable Sin?

Dux-01:
I thought BLASPHEMY is the unpardonable Sin?

No sir. Blasphemy itself is not d sin against d Holy Spirit. Jesus warned those doctors of d law in His days. They were not ignorant folks. They knew Moses teachings. They knew Christ was genuine, but out of jealousy, they attributed Christ's works to d devil openly- that's a dangerous ground. Uc, God would not hold somebody else responsible if d person is ignorant. So when a truly anointed man of God runs down anoda anointed man of God openly nd consistently due ot envy, he may sin against d Holy Spirit that way.