“SAY WHAT?!?!?”
CAN SIN REALLY BE UNFORGIVEN?!?!
TAKING A CLOSER LOOK ~ Sunday, September 23, 2007
20 Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that
he and his disciples were not even able to eat. 21 When his family heard about
this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, "He is out of his
mind." 22 And the teachers of the law who came down from
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THE
SCRIBES INVESTIGATE WHO JESUS IS…BUT THEIR MOTIVES WERE WRONG.
V REBUTTAL #1: WHY WOULD SATAN CAST OUT EVIL (V. 24-26)
24 If a
kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 If
a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 26 And
if Satan opposes himself and is divided, he cannot stand; his end has come.
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REBUTTAL
#2: Satan's kingdom has been breeched (v.27)
27 In fact, no one can
enter a strong man's house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties
up the strong man. Then he can rob his house.
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Rebuttal #3: God's love is universal (v.28)
28 I tell
you the truth, all the sins and blasphemies of men will be forgiven them.
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Rebuttal #4: there is one danger—ascribing God's work to the devil (v.29-30)
29 But
whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty
of an eternal sin." 30 He said this because they were saying,
"He has an evil spirit."
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THE LIFE THAT GOD INTENDED FOR YOU…TO DO GOD’S
WILL.
31 Then Jesus' mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they
sent someone in to call him. 32 A crowd was sitting around him, and
they told him, "Your mother and brothers are outside looking for
you." 33 "Who are my mother and my brothers?" he
asked. 34 Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and
said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! 35 Whoever does
God's will is my brother and sister and mother."
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What is sin? It is translated, a person who misses the mark?
1 Once you were dead, doomed forever
because of your many sins.
34 Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a
slave to sin.
5 This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God
is light; in him there is no darkness at all. 6 If we claim to have
fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the
truth. 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have
fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from
all sin.
V hope is found in the forgiveness that Christ offers
which will result in a transformed life.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful
and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we
claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no
place in our lives.
4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. 5
But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in
him is no sin. 6 No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one
who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.
16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,
that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For
God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the
world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but
whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed
in the name of God's one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light
has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their
deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will
not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21 But
whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly
that what he has done has been done through God."