Goodmorning family. Trust we are doing greatly. Am brother Ajah Kelvin and am doing this post to share my lesson from the mass indoctrination ,Day 13. The
focus of the teaching was on the "sin against the Holy Spirit".
From the previous teaching ie Day 12 ie we saw that there are four kinds of hearts that receives the word of God according to the parable of the sower. One of them is to be desired and the Lord in that particular one. It's the heart that receives the word of God and acts on it.
To be truly in Christ is for change to have effect on our lives-2 Corinthians 5:17. According to Romance 6:4,we are buried together with Christ in baptism. One change when we accept Christ is that we shall acquire the fear of God not to commit sin. After baptism,we should walk in newness of life-Romans 6:4 . What we formerly do should no longer be part of us because sin is no longer reign ,but the live of Christ in us.
We also learnt that there two types of sins.
The two types of sins;
(1)sin unto death
(2)sin not unto death
The sin that is unto death is not forgiveable. God does not listen to a prayer for sin unto death;praying for such is being disobedient to God. We should obey God-1 John 5:16-17. For a sin that is not unto death,we can pray for such a person to God for forgiveness.
A person that commits such sins intentionally, after being warned twice and still continues, should be expelled from the church, because if this is not done,this would defile the church and others would follow if they are not expelled. There is also punishment for those who continue to tolerate by keeping them in the midst of the brethren.
Titus 3:10-11,Romans 1:19 -20, 1 Corinthians 5:13. There act of rebaptism is not in the bible and is false doctrine. once is to be baptized only ones.
Sin against the Holy spirit can not be forgiven. Those sins include;
- blasphemy against the Holy Spirit ie speaking against the Holy spirit. we can see that in Matthew 12:32,Mark 3:29 .
Doctrines of the Holy spirit that would not be forgiven if done intentionally include;
*eating meat offered to idol
*eating blood
*eating strangled animal
*fornication -Acts 15:19 -21. when a food is offered to idols,the Holy Spirit forbids us from eating such a food.
Idols are works of man's hand. They have eyes, but don't see, have hands but cannot handle, nose but can not smell,feet but can not walk-Psalms 115:4 ,Isaiah 44:13
Anything worshipped other than God is an idol and idolatery is abomination to God-Romans 1:25 . Idolatery can corrupt the body, conscience and spirit. Even the angels should not be worshipped because they are one of the creature of God. Saint John was refused by the angel from worshipping him because the angel is a creature and fellow servant like him.
Revelation 22:8 .
We do not serve one God as muslims. According to Quaran, Allah can not begat,which is right but does not begat but our God can not be begat but does begat.Psalms 2:7 ,John 1:14.
What was given birth to by Mary was the body that Jesus who is a spirit being can dwell-John 1:1 ,Hebrews 1:5 .
Jesus was begotten even before the creation of the world.
In John 17:5 ,the scripture says thus,And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. so,we see there that Christ was already begotten before the world came into existence.
Hence, the God of the muslim is a false God and we must not eat any food offered to the god of the muslims.
The god of the Jews is not the same as that of christain because the Jews does not believe Jesus is the son of God.
Blood is something that is sacred and must not be eaten. Peter and Ezekiel avoided eating things that are unclean. It is prohibited by God to eat blood. The blood should be poured out into the ground and covered with dust according. Blood is for atonement for the soul in the past. it's spiritually sacred- Ezekiel 4:14, Leviticus 17:13.
Strangled animals are also prohibited to eaten by christains. we can acquire bacteria and viruses when we eat blood.
blood should be poured to the ground when the animal is being killed.Lev17:13
We are also instructed to flee fornication. Any one that commit fornication, sins with his or her own body and the body is not ours but God.1 Corinthians 6:18. Our body is the temple of God. God dwells in it and any body that destroys the temple, would face judgement from God.
In summary,the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is a sin that is unto death and can't be forgiven even if we have to pray for such a person. Other sins strongly warned against by the Holy Spirit are
*eating meat offered/sacrificed to idols
*eating strangled things
*eating blood
*fornication
Hope we gained something too going through the post. You are always invited to join us in the study of God's word. God bless us all