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Blaspheming the Holy Spirit: Refusing God's Approach

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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, February 19, 1880.

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 8

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Blaspheming the Holy Spirit: Refusing God's Approach

By Jos. May

—To blaspheme against the Holy Spirit is not to utter mere ribald words of profane import. It is to outrage the Spirit by refusing it admission. It is to turn away God from the heart’s doors with contumelious rejection of his loving and saving approach. To be accepted is all God really asks from his children: their childish, ignorant, and perverse denials and aspersions of his majesty, with all other wickedness, he can forgive, for his accepted presence will purge all away; but he cannot bless with forgiveness the soul which persists in an attitude of hostile alienation; for he cannot reach it with his healing, reconciling influences.—Jos. May.