Featured I've Blashphemed the Holy Spirit. What now?

If you care about salvation and The Holy Spirit, you have not committed blasphemy. The fact you are here with concern guarantees you The Spirit is speaking to you and calling you to repent.

 

It bothers you enough you are talking about it.

 

You would only care if The Spirit is convicting.

 

I don’t believe a Christian can lose their salvation. If you are saved, Holy Spirit indwelling is a permanent condition.

God, Holy Spirit, indwelling is the pledge promise from God that all of His promises are true. One of those promises is that none that have been given to Christ will be lost.

I don’t really want to address your situation directly because I cannot look inside you to see if Holy Spirit indwells.

All I can do is say is work out your salvation in fear and trembling.

Peace to you

 

No man can pluck them out of My Father's hand.

 

Tyler, I'm going to be honest. You have posted on this board and several others the same post. The same reasonings are given to you.

Honestly it is almost as if you want it to be that you have lost your salvation and have no hope and are seeking just attention.

 

How do you know you can't repent?

 

God is not a quiter and neither should you be. Continue to pursue God. Consider the likes of whom God has brought to repentance. King Manasseh, King Nebuchadnezzar, ect..... God is able.

 

What you are describing is not new, especially among those who believe they can lose their salvation. Martin Luther nearly drove himself insane worrying he was not confessing all of his sin. I understand that is not exactly what you are saying is your case.

All of your focus is on what you are doing, how you are feeling and so forth. You should be focused on what God has done and is doing.

I suggest that you find a quiet place and sing praise songs to God. Music can often bridge all kinds of bad feelings.

Peace to you

 

I hate moments like this. More than anything, I want to just “sit down, shut up and don’t draw any attention” ... but what do you do if you know the answer to a question that someone else it struggling with? (I am confident that no good deed will go unpunished.)

I started out where you are before God grabbed me by the collar and jerked me around. So here are some answers from a “been there, done that, got the tee shirt” perspective.

Q1. What do I do if I can't repent?

• You face God at the judgement seat and you burn in hell. Does that bother you? The thought didn’t bother me at the time. First, it only seemed like an unlikely possibility with “you are born, you die and when you are gone, you don’t even leave behind a hole to show that you were here” as the more likely outcome ... which isn’t particularly comforting either. However, let’s at least be honest with ourselves. If you are not a “friend of God” and it doesn’t seem like God is much of a friend of yours, then we belong in a place with all of God’s other enemies. If God and you had irreconcilably parted ways, then this reality would not bother you. Give it time and you will grow to REALLY hate God. Read Romans 1 for an example.

Q2. If I'm hard hearted and cannot repent of sin, what then do I do?

• You are sort of asking the exact same question twice. Here is a better question: How sure are you that the reason that you cannot repent is because you are “hard hearted”? You are smarter than I am ... because I have never been able to figure out where God was leading before God led me there.
• Personal story (Reader’s Digest Version): I always had a talent for Architecture. Before I was aware that there was a God, there was Architecture. It was one of God’s gifts to me at birth. So I was doing everything that I knew to do to please God and suddenly the bottom fell out of my world. (Like unemployed in a recession with a few hundred dollars between me and homelessness bad). I angrily confronted God about to formally renounce our covenant and go back to crime and the streets. ... Long story short, it was never about what I did or didn’t do for God. God needed to show me that Architecture (His gift to me) had occupied the place in my heart that belonged to God and God alone. It was all about getting ME right with GOD before God could trust me with anything else.
• From your own story, it strikes me that God tried to approach you with a soft word and a gently touch, but you shrugged that off. Isn’t there a verse in Proverbs about God calling and calling and then just stepping back and laughing at your calamity when you are finally ready to cry out to him? Quit whining when you set the conditions for this lesson. Is it possible that God has not abandoned you to hell, but is prepared to do whatever it takes to get through to you and keep you out of hell? You chose the 2x4 solution, so now you need to just see it through to the end.

Q3. Do I keep going?

• That sort of depends on what you mean by “keep going”. If you are asking about just accepting damnation ... sure, go ahead. If you have peace with hating God then you probably are reprobate. On the other hand, the thought of being damned seems to bother you, so you are going to make a lousy sinner and depress all of the other drunkards, fornicators and God haters around you.
• If you are asking about just falling into a pit of depression and disengaging from life ... just quit trying. Then I suggest that the verse about “If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves” ... well you seminary types know the verse. The one constant in life is change and as long as you are alive, you can have hope that things will change. The valley of the shadow of death may be long, but it does not go on forever. There are “green pastures” at the end of it (I am speaking of seasons of refreshing in this life).

Q4. Do I kill myself?

• I have given this question an unhealthy amount of thought over the years. I am the oldest of three brothers and the only surviving one. The youngest was murdered and the middle brother committed suicide. I came close at one point. That was when I discovered the power that comes from being ready to die. Think about it for a moment, you can attempt ANYTHING else with absolutely no fear of failure because whatever happens, death will always be waiting as an option of last resort. You can fill your car with gas and drive to California and live on a beach and become a full time surfer (there is nothing to stop you). You can get a part time job in Dallas Texas to pay for flying lessons and become an Alaskan Bush Pilot (what is there to stop you). Open a neighborhood grocery store in a small town. Learn to become a plumber and just travel the country living in a town for a month and moving on. You have nothing to loose so you have nothing to fear.

Q5. What do I do????

• Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. You say that you are resisting the “sin that so easily ensnares us”. That sounds like a generally good idea, but a former SOB like me expects that someone in a seminary knows that DOING GOOD don’t get no one saved. I assume that you apologized to God and asked for His forgiveness. God never struck me as someone that was swayed by begging. Say it. Mean it. Move on.
• I am not God (which is good for all of us), so I will not pretend to have a clue what God is up to. That being the case, I offer the best general advice that I have to give:
  • Tell God how you feel. (Be honest, He already knows).
  • Take time to just quietly listen for God’s answer.
  • You were too busy when God wanted to talk, so now you need to be patient until God decides he is ready to speak and you are ready to listen.
  • Do something. A law of physics is that static friction is greater than dynamic friction so it is harder to start something moving from rest than it is to turn an already moving object. Stop being an emotional sponge and do something to help someone else. Anything for anyone.

 

Tyler, just keep praying and reading the Bible. Somewhere in Scripture is your answer.

 

First thing, first. You have to eliminate the chaos in your life. That means Get a job! It doesn't matter what the job is - flipping burgers or cleaning toilets, you will feel better after you have a job.

If you still have time on your hands, get a second job. Idle hands is the Devil's workshop.

Next, realize that viewing pornography is at least partially a symptom to a problem. But you still have to make sure you don't feed your addiction. But don't stop pornography because it is a sin, do it because it is bad for you. Using pornography will lower your overall happiness in life. In addition, you will miss opportunities feeding a porn addiction. Fight it as something that is unhealthy for you, not just something you should not do.

Finally, read Deuteronomy. The kings of Israel were suppose to read it every day. Deuteronomy lists the actual sexual offenses God hates and goes into quite some detail. Realize that being unclean was not the same as sinning or else having daughters would be a sin.

Read Deuteronomy because it lists what the sexual sins are. You may be surprised. I know when I was a teenager, I was surprised at how much I was lied to. Remember that in Acts 15, it says to not to have sexual immorality just as Moses taught. You can find that in Deuteronomy.