Point Of No Return

Copyright by Joe Crews.
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The most fateful words ever spoken by Jesus had to do with the 
fearful possibility of committing the unpardonable sin.   He 
said, "Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy 
shall be forgiven unto men:   but the blasphemy against the Holy 
Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men."   Matthew 12:31.   
No one can misconstrue the clear message of these verses.   
There is a sin unto death.   A man or woman may pass over a line 
which separates God's mercy and His wrath and not be able to 
come back.   These chilling words of our Lord stand in stark 
contrast to His usually benevolent utterances.   For this 
reason, if for no other, they should be examined with great 
care.   
What is this sin which Heaven regards with such abhorrence and 
loathing?  Why will God deal so severely with those who are 
guilty of this sin?  To the human mind a great number of 
depraved and cruel acts might fall into such a category but 
which one of them would God count so heinous and horrible that 
it could never be forgiven?  
Occasionally, one meets an individual who wonders if he has 
committed this sin.   His prayers seem to bounce back from the 
ceiling, and he feels no hope of God's favor or forgiveness.   
Yet he can't identify any particular act of sin that severed him 
from the hope of salvation.   How can he tell if he has actually 
committed the unpardonable sin?  Can a person really know?  
Before answering all the troubling questions people ask about 
the unpardonable sin, a glorious truth needs to be recognized.   
We serve a God of infinite love and compassion.   It is not His 
will that anyone should be lost.   He has made provision in His 
Word for every soul to be cleansed and sanctified.   The 
incredible promise of 1 John 1:9 applies to every man, woman, or 
child in the world today:   "If we confess our sins, he is 
faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from 
all unrighteousness."   
On the condition of sincere confession, God promises to forgive 
any sin, regardless of its nature.   "Come now, and let us 
reason together, saith the Lord:   though your sins be as 
scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like 
crimson, they shall be as wool."   Isaiah 1:18.   
What a special assurance for those who have violated every law 
of God and man in their wild plunge into degradation.   God 
loves them still! There is no guilt too great for Him to cleanse 
away.   He waits with outstretched arms to receive any who take 
the first step toward His forgiveness and mercy.   
Such a picture of God seems totally at odds with the words of 
Jesus in Matthew 12:31, 32.   If the Father is so willing to 
forgive and save, why should there be such a thing as an 
unpardonable sin?  The answer is simple.   This sin is never 
forgiven because it is never confessed.   It is never repented 
of.   God will not force His pardon upon sinners.   They must 
repent and confess.   Even the beautiful promise of 1 John 1:9 
contains that significant little word "if"--"if we confess our 
sins.  ..."   On the authority of God's Word, we can be assured 
that every sin will be forgiven if confessed in faith and 
repentance.   
Various opinions have been put forth as to why this one sin is 
never confessed.   Some believe it to be suicide; others, that 
it must be some dreadful immorality or cursing of the Holy 
Spirit.   
One thing is certain--it is a sin! That is a good starting 
point, because the Bible gives a simple definition of that ugly 
little word "sin."   "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth 
also the law:   for sin is the transgression of the law."   1 
John 3:4.   Paul enlarges on that statement by declaring that 
sin is the breaking of the Ten-Commandment law.   "I had not 
known sin, but by the law:   for I had not known lust, except 
the law had said, Thou shalt not covet."   Romans 7:7.   
Not only does the unpardonable sin have something to do with the 
breaking of God's great moral law, but it also is an offense 
against the Holy Spirit.   The nature of that offense is tied 
closely to the primary functions of the Spirit.   Jesus said, 
"But the Comforter which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will 
send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all 
things to your rememberance, whatsoever I have said unto you."   
John 14:26.   
Besides teaching us all things, Jesus indicated that the Spirit 
will also "guide you into all truth."   John 16:13.   Every 
searching student of the Word has probably experienced this 
teaching, guiding influence of the Holy Spirit.   There can be 
no true insight into biblical truth without the enlightenment of 
this Spirit of God.   
The third mission of the Holy Spirit is to convict of sin.   
Jesus said:   "It is expedient for you that I go away:   for if 
I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I 
depart, I will send him unto you.   And when he is come, he will 
reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of 
judgment."   John 16:7, 8.   
It is the special work of the Spirit to reprove or convict us of 
sin.   When wrongs are committed, the conscience is pricked with 
a sense of guilt.   Please take note that as long as we allow 
the Holy Spirit to teach, guide, and convict, we could never be 
guilty of committing the unpardonable sin.   But suppose we 
refuse to acknowledge these three offices of the Spirit in our 
own personal experience with God?  That is when people approach 
the deadly parameters of the worst sin on record.   
It is intriguing to study the actual incidence of this sin in 
the Bible record.   At one time practically everyone in the 
world passed over that point of no return.   "And the Lord said, 
My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is 
flesh:   yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years."   
Genesis 6:3.   
Here God speaks of the antediluvian world which perished in the 
flood.   
For over a hundred years the Holy 
Spirit pleaded with that wicked gen-
eration through the preaching of Noah.   Although the very 
imagination of their hearts was evil continually, a small 
remnant of eight responded to the Spirit and entered the ark.   
All the rest were swept away in the raging waters which covered 
every inch of the earth's sur-
face.   After years of patient striving, the Spirit withdrew to 
leave the stubborn resisters to their chosen fate.   
Could the same thing happen again?  There is an amazing parallel 
between the days of Noah and today.   Jesus said, "As it was in 
the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of 
man."   Luke 17:26.   The very same gross excesses are being 
committed right now in all the great cities of the world.   
Perversions of the worst degree still mark the carnal course of 
every nation under the sun.   
Why did the vast majority of pre-flood people refuse to enter 
the ark of safety?  Many of them actually helped Noah in the 
construction of the huge boat.   The Holy Spirit deeply stirred 
them with conviction, but they would not move out to obey the 
message.   Finally, God said, "Let them alone.   My Spirit will 
no longer strive with them."   
Is there going to be another flood?  Indeed so.   But it will be 
a flood of fire, utterly destroying this planet and its 
contents.   How is the world responding to the call of God to 
enter the ark of protection and safety?  The same Spirit pleads 
today; a similar message of separation and revival is being 
sounded; and the Spirit of God is being treated exactly as in 
Noah's day.
 
Insulting the Holy Spirit

I read in the Bible three things that people are doing to the 
Holy Spirit.   First of all, in Ephesians 4:30:   "And grieve 
not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day 
of redemption."   Notice that people can grieve the Holy Spirit, 
and the Bible says it will be done in these last days.   
What else will they do to God's personal representative?  In 
Hebrews 10:29 we are told that men will despise the Holy Spirit.   
"Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought 
worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath 
counted the blood of the covenant,  wherewith he was sanctified, 
an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of 
grace?"   That word "despite"   means the same as despise.   
Just think of it! They will despise the Holy Spirit.   And then 
let's get one other thing before us.   This is in Acts 7:51:   
"Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do 
always resist the Holy Ghost:   as your fathers did, so do ye."   
So there we have three things that men will do to insult the 
Spirit of God:   they grieve, they despise, and they resist Him 
just as they did back in the days of Noah.   
What effect does all this rebellion against the Spirit have upon 
the person who does it?  Almost imperceptibly the conscience is 
seared and the heart is hardened.   In fact, this is why it is 
counted such a terrible sin.   Sometimes people say, "I don't 
understand why God should consider this the worst thing that can 
be done."   I'll tell you why:   because the Holy Spirit is the 
only way God can reach an individual.   There is no other way 
for God to save a person except through the Holy Spirit.   That 
is the way we are led to repentance.   If we do not have the 
Holy Spirit, there is no hope for us.   
It's like a man out in the sea who is drowning alone, and 
somebody throws one life preserver to him.   If the man will lay 
hold of that life preserver, he can be saved, but if he refuses 
to take hold of the only link to the shore, he will perish 
without hope.   In the same way, we are in this world, and the 
only way God can reach us is by the Holy Spirit.   If we turn 
away from that Spirit and refuse to listen and obey, God will 
have to let us go and be lost.   This is why David was so deeply 
concerned in his great prayer of contrition.   While pouring out 
his heart to God in Psalm 51, David said, "Cast me not away from 
thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me."   Verse 11.   
He realized that if God removed the Holy Spirit, he was lost.   
He would be left alone with no way of being saved.   And that's 
why Jesus said that it's the unpardonable sin.   When you cut 
yourself off and refuse to listen to the Holy Spirit, there is 
no hope for you. 

  
Three Ways to Offend the Spirit

I've marked down three ways that people can commit this sin.   
The first way is for a man simply to say, "I don't want to be 
saved; I don't want to be bothered with God and the Bible."   
Once in a while you'll find a person like this.   I'm glad to 
tell you that it's not very often.   Most people really want to 
be saved, but now and then you'll find some who just aren't 
interested.   They are perfectly satisfied with their 
materialistic world of the flesh.   Notice what it says in 
Proverbs 28:13:   "He that covereth his sins shall not prosper:   
but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy."   
Those who don't want to give up their sins will finally convince 
themselves that they are happy without Christ.   They will 
eventually feel no conviction, and the Holy Spirit will leave 
them alone.   
The second group which is so vulnerable to this sin reaches the 
same state of rejection by a different route.   They really want 
to be saved and will tell anyone that it is their primary future 
priority to get right with God.   Unfortunately, this class 
keeps waiting for that opportune time to step out into the path 
of total surrender.   With all good intention, they allow the 
golden moments to slip by them until their wills have been 
paralyzed by indecision.   Such people still talk about 
following Christ all the way, but their ability to act has been 
destroyed by procrastination.   At last they linger too long and 
pass the point of no return.   
Without doubt the largest group of unpardonable sinners is to be 
found in the third group I want to talk about.   Strangely 
enough, these folks appear to be the most unlikely ever to 
commit the unpardonable sin.   They are church members--perhaps 
even pillars in the congregation.   Does that shock you?  Why 
should these Christians stand in greater danger of this sin than 
the other two groups?  Because they do not understand that truth 
is progressive.   Millions of Christians have settled back in 
their comfortable pews, complacent about being saved.   They 
feel absolutely secure in their conformity to a church, not 
realizing that baptism is only the beginning of a long, growing 
experience.   
Said the psalmist:   "Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a 
light unto my path."   Psalm 119:105.   The farther we walk into 
the Bible, the more truth is revealed, and the more accountable 
we become before God.   He has never unfolded all the truth to 
any one person at any one time.   A lamp only shines far enough 
to expose one safe step.   As we move into that step, another 
one is revealed.   As we grow in grace and knowledge, God 
requires us to move with the advancing light of truth.   
 
Conscience Seared by Disobedience

Now suppose that I see the light from the lamp of God's Word, 
but refuse to obey it.   Let's say that the Holy Spirit has 
convicted me, and I understand perfectly what He requires of me, 
but it is unpopular and inconvenient.   What happens if I 
disregard the light and reject the truth which the Spirit has 
revealed--for any reason whatsoever?  The Spirit continues to 
speak, of course, and for a time there is a battle in my 
conscience.   I feel miserable and guilty.   Days pass by, and 
even months, while I keep on violating my conviction of what is 
right.   Gradually, the conscience begins to adjust to what is 
being done in the physical body.   Slowly the guilt feelings 
begin to subside and the acts of disobedience appear less and 
less objectionable.   
Finally, the truth which seemed so clear and uncomplicated in 
the beginning turns into a muddle of uncertainty.   
Rationalizations spring forth to justify disobedience, and the 
early convictions of sin fade away.   Life is almost as 
comfortable as it was before the light came.   What has 
happened?  We have sinned against the Holy Spirit and are 
sinking into the state of the unpardonable sin.   
You see, this deadly sin is not any particular act which can be 
isolated and labeled.   It can be any sin which is cherished in 
the face of light and knowledge.   It actually is a condition of 
seared sensitivity brought on by persistent disobedience to 
recognized truth.   The reaction is similar to ignoring an alarm 
clock.   The conscience becomes more and more tolerant of the 
pricking reminder of transgression until, finally, it no longer 
even recognizes the unwelcome sting of conviction.   Like the 
clock it runs down, too, and just as well, because no one is 
listening any longer.   
Do you begin to see that every-
thing really depends on what we do 
with truth?  James wrote, "Therefore 
to him that knoweth to do good, and 
doeth it not, to him it is sin."   James 4:17.   It doesn't 
matter an iota whether we 
are rich or poor, Catholic or Jew or Protestant; the big issue 
is whether we are acting upon what we know.   
Jesus expanded on this crucial principle.   He said, "If I had 
not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin:   but now 
they have no cloke for their sin."   John 15:22.   Who, then, is 
accountable and chargeable before God?  Those who have been 
enlightened by the Holy Spirit out of the Word.   The sincere 
souls who are faithful to all they know, be it much or little, 
will be accepted.   Sin will only be counted against those who 
have heard truth and rejected it.   
Christ said, "If ye were blind, ye should have no sin:   but now 
ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth."   John 9:41.   
This whole problem of the unpardonable sin revolves around the 
issue of obeying what we know.   On another occasion Jesus said, 
"Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you."   
John 12:35.   
Where does light come from?  It is the Holy Spirit who guides us 
into all truth.   When we refuse to obey the truth, we are 
rejecting the ministry of the Spirit who is our only link to 
salvation.   We literally drive away the one Person whom God has 
sent to save us.   Can you now see how self-destructive that can 
be?  God's special messenger is grieved away by our deliberate 
refusal to respond to His invitations of mercy.   God said long 
ago, "My Spirit will not always strive with man."   He will say 
to the Holy Spirit at last, "Let them alone.   If they insist in 
having their own way, do not pursue them any longer."   

Parent's Religion
May Not Be Good Enough

Probably the most accurate description of the unpardonable sin 
in the New Testament is found in Acts 7:51:   "Ye stiffnecked 
and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the 
Holy Ghost; as your fathers did, so do ye."   How were these 
people fighting the Spirit ot God?  Stephen says they were doing 
it by hiding behind their fathers' religion.   They simply 
followed in the same religious path that their parents had 
walked.   Is there anything wrong with that?  In this case there 
was, because the text goes on to describe them as those "who 
have received the law [of God] by the disposition of angels, and 
have not kept it."   Verse 53.   
Do you get the picture?  Regardless of what their fathers had 
understood, these people received a law which God required them 
to obey.   Every generation and every individual will be judged 
on the basis of what they know and how they obey it.   Nobody's 
religion is good enough for anybody else because there are 
varying degrees of accountability for each person.   My 
grandfather could be saved by following the light he had, but I 
couldn't be saved doing the same thing.   I have a different 
measure of revealed truth for which God will hold me personally 
responsible.   
The truth is that any person rejects and despises the Holy 
Spirit when he willfully disobeys any of God's commandments.   
According to the Bible, the Spirit cannot abide in the life of 
anyone who does not obey.   "And we are his witnesses of these 
things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to 
them that obey him."   Acts 5:32.   Again, Jesus said:   "If ye 
love me, keep my commandments.   And I will pray the Father, and 
he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you 
for ever."   John 14:15, 16.   

Known Sin Drives Away Spirit

Please notice that disobedience immediately disqualifies one to 
be Spirit-filled.   This remarkable representative of God is 
offended when His primary function is denied.   His very nature 
is to make sin appear exceedingly sinful.   Sin cannot 
comfortably remain where the Holy Spirit abides.   Either the 
sin is renounced or the Spirit finally will be rejected and 
depart.   
Refusing to walk in the light does not bring an immediate 
separation from God, but persistent disobedience continues to 
harden the conscience to the seriousness of sin.   That state of 
darkness developed by repeated violation of known truth is what 
we refer to as the unpardonable sin.   
Are church members and religious people really in danger of 
committing this sin?  In one of my crusades a dear lady shook my 
hand at the door and told me how excited she was about the 
Sabbath truth she had learned that night.   When I encouraged 
her to make a decision to keep the Sabbath, she earnestly 
replied, "I'm going to pray about it, and if God impresses me to 
do it, I certainly shall."   
That answer may have a good sound to it, because it speaks of 
prayer, but it disappointed me greatly.   Even though the truth 
was clearly revealed out of the Word, she was going to ask God 
for a final evidence before obeying.   What was to be the acid 
test?  A feeling.   Is it safe to trust impressions as the 
criteria for truth?  Never.   Satan can create feelings as well 
as God.   I was not surprised a few days later when she told me 
that God had impressed her that she did not have to keep the 
Sabbath.   
Her mistake has been repeated by millions of good people.   They 
do not understand that every impression from whatever source, 
must be tested by the infallible Word of God.   "There is a way 
that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways 
of death."   Proverbs 14:12.   God never contradicts Himself.   
To lead anyone contrary to His Word would be a violation of His 
nature.   The Holy Spirit always speaks in perfect harmony with 
the Bible.   Paul asks his hearers to take "the sword of the 
Spirit, which is the word of God."   Ephesians 6:17.   This 
reveals that the Bible is the cutting edge of the Holy Spirit.   
The two work together in convicting people of sin.   
If a person decides that he is not going to obey the truth, will 
God recognize that decision and allow him to follow it?  Yes, 
God will even permit a person to believe a lie if he chooses to 
do so.   Paul spoke of those who "received not the love of the 
truth, that they might be saved.   And for this cause God shall 
send them strong delusion, that they might believe a lie."   2 
Thessalonians 2:10,11.   
Those who love a lie more than the truth will gradually be 
confirmed in it as the Spirit of God is grieved away.   The 
thief who continues to steal after he has been convicted by that 
Spirit will finally see nothing wrong with stealing.   The 
Sabbath-breaker who willfully continues to violate the Sabbath 
will someday begin justifying his sin.   After a while his con-
science becomes seared and insensitive to the influence of the 
Holy Spirit.   There comes a day when God speaks for the last 
time, and the will, paralyzed by indecision and continued 
transgression,  is unable to respond.   Furthermore, the Spirit 
does not tell us when He begins to make that final invitation.   
We only know that the Holy Spirit will not always strive with 
man.   At last God will say, "Let him alone."
Obedience Not Optional

The greatest mistake people can make is to believe that they can 
come to God whenever they choose.   The truth is that you can 
only obey God when the Spirit is speaking to your heart.   As a 
farmer, I knew there was a time to sow wheat and get a harvest 
of wheat, and there was another time to sow wheat, and get 
nothing.   As an evangelist, I know there is a time you can say 
yes to God, and there is another time you cannot say yes.   
One of the strongest statements Jesus ever made is found in Luke 
13:24:   "Strive to enter in at the strait gate:   for many, I 
say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able."   
That text confused me for a long time.   How could a loving God 
hold anyone out of His kingdom who was seriously seeking to 
enter in?  It just didn't make sense.   Then I noticed the 
words, "shall not be able."   This placed the problem on the 
people instead of God.   God was willing and able to take them 
in, but they were not able to accept His salvation.   They had 
become so settled and hard in their long-term disobedience that 
they were incapable of true repentance.   Like the seekers of 
the Old Testament "they shall wander from sea to sea, and from 
the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek 
the word of the Lord, and shall not find it."   Amos 8:12.   
Someday it will be too late to find salvation.   Someday the 
door of probation will close, and no one will be able to enter 
in.   Now is the accepted time.   Now is the day of salvation.   
No wonder Jesus called this the sin that can never be forgiven.   
It is the sin of waiting too long to obey, until the soul is set 
in its mold of stubborn delay.   
I repeat that you can only obey God when the Spirit is 
convicting you to come.   When that Spirit is driven away and 
rejected, there is no possibility for repentance.   
The interesting story is told of a great eagle who spotted the 
carcass of a calf being swept along the Niagara River on an ice 
floe.   Swooping down on his mighty wings the eagle settled on 
the ice and began to feed on the carcass.   Trusting the 
strength of those wings, he continued to feast until just before 
the deadly plunge over the cataract.   Then he spread those 
powerful wings to make his escape, but alas, his talons had 
frozen into the ice, and he could not move.   He was swept over 
the precipice and crushed on the rocks below.   
I've also known people who waited too long to make a decision.   
Over and over again men have spoken to me at the door after a 
crusade meeting:   "I know what you're preaching is the truth, 
and I'm planning to do something about it."   Others tell me 
that they really are thinking about the things they have heard.   
Is God looking for people who will be great talkers about the 
truth?  And what about those who are always thinking about the 
truth?  Jesus will never welcome anyone into the Kingdom with 
these words:   "Well said, thou good and faithtul servant; enter 
thou into the joy of thy Lord."   Neither will the Master ever 
say, "Well thought, thou good and faithful servant."   But He 
will say to all who enter there, "Well done, thou good and 
faithful servant:   ...  enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."   
Matthew 25:21.   
The most presumptuous thing anyone can do is to pray for an 
understanding of the truth, and then refuse to obey when God 
answers that prayer.   It is better not to know the truth than 
to reject it after knowing.   "Be ye doers of the word, and not 
hearers only."   James 1:22.   

Hearing and Not Doing

The real test of love is what we do with the truth we 
understand.   It is really not very hard to convince people of 
what is right, but it is very difficult to convince them to 
obey.   Doesn't that tell us something important?  Satan knows 
that faith without works is dead, and he also knows that 
continued transgression grieves away the Holy Spirit.   His most 
concentrated attack is upon the will, and obviously, he is 
having great success in causing people to postpone obedience.   
The longer they wait, the greater their chance of waiting 
longer, and the greater their danger of driving away the Holy 
Spirit.   
Jesus faced the same problem in His own ministry.   He had to 
taste the bitter heartache of seeing people turn away from 
truth.   The crowd stayed until He got into some hard thing that 
required sacrifice and action.   Then they all left.   That is 
the most shattering experience for any preacher or teacher.   I 
know because I've seen a few walk out, too.   I'm not comparing 
myself with Jesus, but every soulwinner can empathize with 
Christ when He asked His disciples,  "Will ye also go away?"   
Then Peter answered, "Where would we go?"   What a question! 
Where do you go after hearing the full, unadulterated truth?  
Surely there is no need to look further for it, and additional 
light will only come after you obey what you have.   
There is only one safe thing to do with truth--obey it! You 
cannot get over it, around it, or through it.   It won't go 
away, and it will not change.   We don't break God's law; it 
breaks us if we disobey it.   
How can a person know if he has committed the unpardonable sin?  
The answer to that question is simple and easy.   No one has 
grieved away the Holy Spirit who still has a conviction of sin 
and a drawing to God.   Those who search and seek after truth 
have not yet passed the point of no return.   But since the 
Spirit does not announce when the last, pleading call is made to 
the heart, no one should be presumptuous enough to disobey 
willfully a single known truth.   The most deadly danger facing 
anyone today is to insult the Spirit of God by refusing 
obedience to His conviction.   The results are the same 
regardless of the words we might use to justify it.   The end is 
always separation from God.   
The most deceptive aspect of the unpardonable sin is the seeming 
comfort with which people are able to live without God.   Their 
lives are finally free from the conflicting turmoil of 
struggling with conscience.   It did not happen overnight, but 
the nagging convictions grow fainter and fainter, blending at 
last into a very comfortable, satisfied lifestyle.   
No Christian should marvel at this amazing peace of mind which 
the unconverted seem to display.   That deadly malaise is only 
apparent in those who no longer have two voices and two natures 
contending for the mastery.   With the Holy Spirit gone, the 
flesh enjoys uncontested control over the heart and life.   No 
more spiritual battles rage, and the unpardonable sin appears to 
have brought a measure of relief.   But that mirage covers an 
empty soul, bereft of any capacity to pray or to trust.   
Often, in my public crusade meetings, people express concern 
that they might have driven away the Holy Spirit.   Even while 
they listen to the messages night by night, they are filled with 
fear that they have committed the unpardonable sin.   To such I 
can give a clear and positive assurance that they are not guilty 
of this sin.   If so, they would never be concerned about the 
things of God.   Certainly they would not be found in the place 
of prayer and Bible study, expressing concern over their 
relationship to God.   Obviously, the Holy Spirit is still 
drawing them and creating a desire for truth and salvation.   
On the other hand, no one should feel secure from this sin who 
is walking contrary to the light God has revealed.   Every 
person who is deliberately sinning will continue moving 
inexorably toward that fatal moment when the conscience is no 
longer able to respond to the Spirit's call.   Our only safety, 
each moment, is to know that we are claiming the grace of God to 
obey every ray of light and truth which falls upon our pathway.   

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