{"id":5884,"date":"2019-09-30T04:11:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/beyond-forgiveness\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:11:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:11:14","slug":"beyond-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/beyond-forgiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Forgiveness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon on the Unforgivable Sin.                              Mark 3:28-30<\/p>\n<p>                             BEYOND FORGIVENESS?<br \/>\n                             ===================<\/p>\n<p>    I. Knowing you are doomed.<\/p>\n<p>   II. Old Testament background of blasphemy.<br \/>\n        A. Blasphemy is serious stuff.          Lev 24:11,15; 1 Cor 10:5-13<br \/>\n        B. There are degrees of sin in Bible.   Numbers 15:22-29, 30-31<\/p>\n<p>  III. New Testament considered it just as serious.<br \/>\n        A. Jesus himself was accused of blasphemy at his trial.<br \/>\n        B. Jesus on blasphemy against Spirit.<br \/>\n        C. Sin that leads to death.                            1 John 5:16<\/p>\n<p>   IV. Being beyond forgiveness.<br \/>\n        A. Topic has caused great anxiety.<br \/>\n        B. Settled condition of the soul, not isolated act.<br \/>\n        C. Genuine Christians cannot commit unpardonable sin.<\/p>\n<p>    V. You could be committing it right now.<br \/>\n        A. Outright rejection of God.<br \/>\n        B. Living life without recognition of God&#8217;s presence and power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon on the Unforgivable Sin. Mark 3:28-30 BEYOND FORGIVENESS? =================== I. Knowing you are doomed. II. Old Testament background of blasphemy. A. Blasphemy is serious stuff. Lev 24:11,15; 1 Cor 10:5-13 B. There are degrees of sin in Bible. Numbers 15:22-29, 30-31 III. New Testament considered it just as serious. A. Jesus himself was accused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1949,3349,2979],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}