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But what about someone who gets that last call from the Holy Spirit and then walks away without heeding his call and getting saved?
The only time you can get saved is when the Holy Spirit is dealing (speaking to your heart) with you. There will come a time when a person could be dealt with by the Holy Spirit for the last time and if the person doesnt get saved at that time then they will forever seal their fate. For some people that last call from the Holy Spirit could happen many years before the person is physically dead.
The Holy Spirit is the life-giver, so for as long as we are physically alive, He dwells within us. (Gen 2)
Oh Robert....
The only sin you can commit that is unforgivable..is to harden your heart to "the point you no longer seek God"
You are quite obviously seeking him..But i wonder if you are fighting him as well?
some people cling to there sins so hard they will not let the holy spirit take away the burden of guilt..even though you are forgiven
I don't know you personally obviously so this is just a guess on my part
Still praying
CQ
I have to disagree with you here as the Holy Spirit does not dwell inside of the unbeliever yet the unbeliever is still physically alive but spiritually he is dead.
You look at it the wrong way I think.
Life is The Lord's, we participate in Him, He is our life, only in Him can we exist or have reality - both good and bad! (Gen 3)
So we humans get from Him our own life - we haven't got life in ourself - we can only ever exist in The Truth - there is no existence outside of Him.
So from this pespective we all have life in the Holy Spirit, however we kill Him within us and the right of Him to exist - when we follow lying sinful way and not loving truthful way - harvesting us the spirit whom brings death and misery alive within instead - for good life suffers bad life!
However when bad life dies, either physically or spiritually then good life comes back to life again (Rev 21) - like I said our lives are in Him.
Please let Him speak before you determine what you believe.
Acts 17:24-28
"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'
I understand to a point what you are saying and I appreciate your advice but there is no doubt at all that the only people with whom the Holy Spirit indwells are those that are believers.
Unbelievers do not have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit and that much I know because its a Biblical fact.
The Holy Spirit comes to live inside of an individual at the moment of the second birth which only the Spirit can give.
Robert,
A lost person would not have posted here 1,315 times trying to ascertain the state of his or her salvation. God is calling you or you wouldn't be posting here.
But what about someone who gets that last call from the Holy Spirit and then walks away without heeding his call and getting saved?
I can certainly see your point and I want to agree so bad that as long as im seeking God that I didnt commit the unforgivable sin but there is one problem and that is found in the book of Proverbs.
There is a passage of scripture which God is stretching out his hand to people who will not listen to him or take his advice, it goes on to say that when their fear and calamity comes they will search for God diligently but will not find him. It goes on to say that because they would not listen to God when he was calling that they will now not be able to find him because they ignored his reproofs.
Basically God has abandoned these people and all hope is lost. I asked my pastor about that scripture and he told me plainly that it was in regards to people that harden their hearts to the voice of God and that terrified me because I know I hardened my heart and now it seems I cant find him just like the example of the people in the book of Proverbs.
But is that something a saved person goes through? I mean honestly, if I am saved then wouldnt God want me to know for myself that I am his? why would he allow for one of his children to go through something horrible like this which only hurts my faith and makes me think that im not saved?
28Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Proverbs
God has never forsaken those who seek Him.
You are seeking Him therefore you are not forsaken
28Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Robert, the video is nonsense. The blasphemy against the Holy Spirit has nothing to do with hardening ones heart and missing the opportunity to receive salvation.
The unforgivable sin is witnessing the undeniable power of God being shown through Christ's miracles, and then deliberately and maliciously attributing them to the power of Satan.
Mark chapter 3 probably gives the most detailed definition of the unpardonable sin in its original context. Jesus said "whoever SPEAKS against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness" and Mark stated that Jesus had said this because the Pharisees accused Him of having an unclean spirit.
In Matthew 12, in the passage immediately following the Pharisee's blasphemy, Jesus said "out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks", that the Pharisees would have to give account to God for every careless word they had spoken. So there are two important aspects to this sin. First of all, it is a VERBAL sin which judgement is based on what the what the Pharisees actually said. Secondly, it is a WILFUL sin committed deliberately and maliciously by people who were totally opposed to Christ and His ministry. Therefore, anyone who is worried about the fact that they have committed this sin can be totally assured that they have not committed it.
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