马太福音12: 30-32：30不与我相合的，就是敌我的；不同我收聚的，就是分散的。31所以我告诉你们：人一切的罪和亵渎的话，都可得赦免；惟独亵渎圣灵，总不得赦免。32凡说话干犯人子的，还可得赦免；惟独说话干犯圣灵的，今世、来世总不得赦免。”
你是否曾经犯罪干犯了圣灵？如果你问这个问题的时候严肃省察了自己，你可能会感到脊柱发凉和来自灵魂深处的震颤。在我的服事中我经常问自己这个问题。
首先，我们要严肃对待耶稣说的话。耶稣说这些话是在警告我们的不信。他是在和他那个时代的法利赛人说话，这些法利赛人笃信虔诚。他们认真对待上帝的律法并努力遵守。但他们这样做是因为他们认为好行为能换来救恩。也正是因为这个原因，他们弃绝了耶稣，甚至密谋要杀害他。更糟糕的是，他们拒绝圣灵在他们的心里做工。干犯圣灵的罪得不到赦免，因为这意味着不信。
你是否曾经犯罪干犯了圣灵？如果你曾经这样做了，那你就根本就没有在读这个灵修材料。如果你曾经这样做了，你根本不会问自己这个问题。这个问题也根本不会让你感到脊柱发凉和来自灵魂深处的震颤。如果你认真对待这个问题，那是因为你确实相信耶稣，而且你也害怕自己会陷入罪和不信，并把圣灵完全丢弃。
你不该相信自己。只是，你不该不相信耶稣。相信你的救主，他死是为了能够拯救你。相信圣灵，他像耶稣一样，希望你能够被拯救，而且会继续在你心里做工。
祷告：亲爱的耶稣，我信，但我信不足，求主帮助！谢谢你今天对我的警告，我不该阻挠圣灵在我里面的工作，或者试图把他从我心里赶出去。请让我继续聆听你的话语，请让我的信心继续增长。我的心永远属于你，直到你来接我回天家。阿们！
Matthew 12: 30-32: “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. 31 And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. 32 Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.
Have you committed the sin against the Holy Spirit? If you have ever asked yourself that question in a serious moment of self-examination, you probably felt a shudder in your soul, a chill up your spine. This is a question which I have often had to answer in my ministry.
First, we should take the words of Jesus very seriously. Jesus spoke these words to warn us against unbelief. He was talking to the Pharisees of his age, who were very religious people. They took God’s law seriously and made every effort to keep it. But they did it because they thought they could earn their salvation. It was for that very reason that they rejected Jesus, even plotting to kill Jesus. Worse, they rejected the working of the Holy Spirit in their hearts. The sin against the Holy Spirit cannot be forgiven because it is a sin of unbelief.
Have you committed the sin against the Holy Spirit? If you have, then you are almost certainly not reading this devotion. In fact, you wouldn’t be asking yourself the question, if you have committed the sin against the Holy Spirit. The question wouldn’t make you shudder in your soul or send a chill up your spine. You take this question seriously, because you DO believe in Jesus and you are afraid that you might fall into sin and unbelief and cast it all away.
You should distrust yourself. Only, don’t distrust Jesus. Trust your Savior, who died to save you. Trust the Holy Spirit, who wants you to be saved as much as Jesus does and will continue to work in your heart.
Prayer: Dear Jesus, I do believe. Help me overcome my unbelief! Thank you for the warning today not to frustrate the work of the Holy Spirit in me or to cast him out of my heart. Keep me listening to your Word. Keep me growing in my faith. Own my heart until you come to take me to heaven. Amen.