The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-01-29
THE UNPARDONABLE SIN.
Rev. David Husband Preached Upon
The Above Subject In the
Christian Church Sun
day Night.

Christian Church Sum
day Night.
Sunday evening, Rev. Mr. Husband
preached to a goodEy number in the
Christian church. taking for his text
Matthew, XII, 1928 verses. He said
in part:
Christianity, as developed in the
New Testament, is sustained by three
divine missions. l. That of the Lord
Jesus, which was to the Jews-'the
lost sheep of the house of Israel
2. That of the twelve apostles, which
was to the whole world. 3. That of
the Holy Spirit, which was to and
with the church. The mission of
Jesus terminated with his departure
from earth. That of the apostles
with their death. But the mission OF
the Holy Spirit continues in and
through the Christ to the end of time.
The Holy Spirit is associated with
each of these divine agencies in devel-
oping, perfecting and executing the
scheme of redemption. After his bap-
tism and temptation, Jesus said: The
Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because
he hath anointed me to preach the
Gospel to the poor: he hath sent me
| to heal the brokenhearted; to preach
deliverance to the captiveS, and re-
covering Of sight to the blind, to set
at liberty them that are bruised, to
proclaim the acceptable year OF the
Lord, Luke " 1919.
TO this spirit Jesus aScribed the
power of casting out the evil spirit,
Matt. XII 22-2S. The PhariSees affirm
ed that he cast out demons by the
prince of demons. Jesus proved the
fallacy of their reasoning by showing
that satan would thus be arrayed
against himself and his kingdom
would therefore be destroyed by his
own power. Having sufficiently proved
that he had not cast out demons by
the power of satan, he now takes as
granted the only alternative-that he
did it by the spirit of God: and from
! this established fact he draws the
| conclusion, verse 2S, then the king
dom Of God is come unto you. The
argument then is this: If ] cast out
demons by the spirit of God, this
proves the divine authority of all that
| say and therefore you should believe
that the kingdom of God is at hand,
as have preached it to you. The I'M
pardonable sin of these PhariseeS,
therefore, consisted in rejecting the
only evidence upon which faith in
Jesus could be based and aScribing it
| to satan, without faith in Christ there
is no forgiveness.
Rejecting the evidence, refusing TO
accept Christ as their Lord and Saw
our, and ascribing his wonderful
works to the prince of demons, they
proved themselves to be what Jesus
said to them, Matt. XXIII, 33, ye SER
penis, We brood of viperS; how can you
escape the damnation Of hell? And
in Jno. VII, 81, He therefore said
unto them [ 60 away and you shall
seek me, and shall die in your sins;
whittier [ go you cannot come. That
was equivalent to saying, ''you shall
not be forgiven in this world nor in
the world to come" This l under
stand to be the Sin against the Holy
| Spirit under the personal ministry of
Jesus.
| 2. Under the Second divine mis-
sion the Holy Spirit, through the
| twelve apostles, was to convict the
world of sin, righteousness and judg-
ment." About year before the Cru
cifiXion, Jesus said to Peter: Matt.
XVI, 10, II will give unto thee the
keys of the kingdom of heaven, and
whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth
shall be bound in heaven, and what
Soever thou shalt loose on earth, shall
be loosed in heaven" On the day
that Jesus rose from the dead he said
to his apostles, Jno. Xxx, 21-23: peace
be unto you: as my Father hath sent
me even so send you. And when he
had said this, he breathed on them
and said: Receive We the Holy Spirit:
whatsoever sins We remit they are re-
mitted unto them, and whOseSOever
sins We retain they are retained" To
remit and retain sins was to be the
| hOnOred instruments under the reign
of the Messiah and under the inspira-
tion of the Holy Spirit of opening the
doors of the Kingdom to both Jew
and Gentle and proclaiming the con-
ditionS of pardon and Sanctification
! to the whole world. In view of this,
Jesus therefore said to them again
| lust before his ascension, Mark XVI,
| Is. l6: Go We into all the world and
preach the gospel to every creature:
he that believeth and is baptized shall
be saved: but he that diSbelieveth
sholl be damned" Paul taught, Rom.
/, 49, that "The gospel is the power
of God unto Salvation to every one
that believeth, to the Jew first and
also the Greek" Also in Rom, XVI,
25, 26, that ''the gospel is made known
unto all nations for the obedience of
the faith" To believe and obey this
Gospel is to place ones self in that
attitude toward God and Christ in
which the blood of Christ will cleanse
him from all sin, and the Holy Spirit
will be sent as an abiding Guest. To
disbelieve the testimony of the spirit
as presented through the apostles is
to reject the same evidence that it
had presented through Jesus himself
Disbelief, therefore, places and detains
the sinner in that state of heart and
life in which God, consistent with
His will, cannot forgive him-neither
in this, nor the world to come. ''If
the righteous scarcely be saved, where
shall the ungOdly and the sinner ap-