3. God says, "Whosoever will may come"; and if they find it in
their hearts to come, they will not be cast out, but freely
pardoned and received with loving kindness through the merits of
Jesus' blood. God's promise will not fail, His faithfulness is
established in the heavens. Bless His holy name! Those who have
committed this sin are full of evil, and do not care to come, and
will not, and, therefore, are never pardoned. Their sin is
eternal.
"HAVE YE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST SINCE YE BELIEVED?"
XIII.
OFFENCES AGAINST THE HOLY GHOST.
"Ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon
you."
One day, in a fit of boyish temper, I spoke hot words of anger,
somewhat unjustly, against another person, and this deeply
grieved my mother. She said but little, and though her sweet face
has mouldered many years beneath the Southern daisies, her look
of grief I can still see across the years of a third of a
century. And that is the one sad memory of my childhood. A
stranger might have been amused or incensed at my words, but
mother was grieved--grieved to her heart by my lack of generous,
self-forgetful, thoughtful love.
We can anger a stranger or an enemy, but it is only a friend we
grieve. The Holy Spirit is such a Friend, more tender and
faithful than a mother; and shall we carelessly offend Him, and
estrange ourselves from Him in spite of His love?
There is a sense in which every sin is against the Holy Ghost.
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