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Questions 92 (COD Page 402)
Please explain First John 5:16.
First John 5, we got it right here.
If any man see a brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not
say that he shall pray for that sin.
190 All right. We go... Let’s just take it right back and get it right quick, this is the last one. Let’s turn right over to Mark, and this’ll just explain it exactly what that sin unto death is. There is a sin unto death, and you don’t even pray for that sin. How many knows that there’s a sin unto death. You don’t even pray for it. Take Mark, the 3rd chapter of Mark. And after we find the 3rd chapter of Mark, then quickly we shall have this one Scripture before closing. Let’s go to 3 and 22.
And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He has Beelzebub,... (They seen Him discerning the thoughts of the people.)... and they said, He has Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils cast he out devils.
And he called them unto him, and said unto the-unto them in a parable, How can Satan cast out Satan?... (Now, if the devil can heal, how can he do it?)... How can Satan cast out Satan?
... if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
And if I... And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but has an end.
No man can enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind him-the strong man; and then he will spoil his goods.
How can he go out into there, into them hearts and find what... (See?) lest it be of God?
Verily I say unto you, All sin shall be forgiven unto... sons of man, and blasphemy wherewith... they-whatsoever-soever they shall blaspheme:
But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost has never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation: (That’s the separation!)
Because... (Why did He say it?)... Because they said, He has an unclean spirit.
191 Calling the Spirit of God that was doing these miracles in Christ, they said it was the spirit of the devil doing that; Jesus said it is the unforgiveable sin. And if you see a man... Pray-don’t pray for him if he’s making fun of the Holy Ghost and talking against the Holy Ghost, you are forbidden to even pray for such a person. You understand it? For there is a sin unto death. There’s only one sin. Jesus said all manner of sin shall be forgiven the sons of man, but to blaspheme the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven.
192 Now people say, “Well, blaspheming the Holy Ghost,... ” What is blaspheme? Means “to talk about, ridicule, make fun of, blaspheme.” All right!
193 What did they blaspheme Him? Telling that Holy Spirit that was within Him, making Him act and do the things that He was going, they said, “He’s possessed with Beelzebub, the devil. And that’s the devil, a fortune-teller in Him making Him do those things. Seeing the secrets in the people’s heart, and telling Philip He knowed where he was at before he come to the meeting, and casting out devils, and doing those things there, He does it by Beelzebub, and He is a devil.” And Jesus said that sin shall never be forgiven, so that is the unpardonable sin never to be prayed for. It can never be forgiven. A man and a woman that does that has eternally sealed themself from the Presence of God forever and forever, no forgiveness.
Do you love Him?
I love Him, I love Him,
Because He first loved me,
And purchased my salvation
On Calvary’s tree.
194 Listen, you’ve been so nice, and these has been rugged, and they’ve been a long time. Now you’ve been setting in this church since seven-thirty, eight-thirty, nine-thirty, two and a half hours, setting in this hot church. You didn’t do that just to be setting there. And I guess ninety-eight or ninety-nine percent of the congregation has stuck right in their seat since that time. I want to say this: Jeffersonville, I feel this; that it’s sinned away it’s day of grace. I do, that. I believe the whole United States has, but I’ve got some of the most loyalist friends that there is in the world right here in Jeffersonville. I’ve got people here that would die by me.
195 Now, a hot night like this, the strangers that’s in our gates, tell me where a person would set just to be setting to hear a person, perhaps, speaking on Scriptures that they don’t even believe the way I’d explained it, but they’re reverent and godly enough to set and listen at it. And long may you live. When the stars is turned to dust, may you live on in Christ Jesus. May God supply everything that you have need of. May He give to you the desire of your heart. If you believe me to be His servant and believe that my prayers would help you, let the God of Heaven Who raised up His Son, Jesus Christ, to be the propitiation of our sins, to die in our stead, may He Who is omnipotent, He Who is omnipresent here at this building now, may He give unto you the
desire of your heart is my sincere prayer for each and every one of you. And in a land where the sun will never light on you again to scorch you, where the hot winds will never blow, I hope to have years times millions of years to set with each one of you in the Kingdom of God and talk over the eternal things of this nights and things how we set together. I mean that with all that’s in me, all my heart. I pray that God will give that to you, each one.
196 May His grace be with you. May He heal you of your sickness. May He give to you the baptism of the Holy Ghost. And I say this now without any slightness, without... If I brought any offence by anything that I said about the seed of the serpent, the baptism in Jesus’ Name, which those things...
197 Now somebody says, “Brother Branham is a oneness.” No, sir, I am not a oneness. I do not believe that Jesus could be His own father. I believe that Jesus had a Father, and that was God. But God dwelled and tabernacled in this body called Jesus, and He was Immanuel, God with us. And there’s no other God besides this God. He is Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. And the Name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost: Father, the Lord; Son, Jesus; Holy Ghost, Logos, Spirit of God. Father, Son, Holy Ghost: Lord Jesus Christ; that’s Him. And in Him dwelled the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
198 And I do believe without one shadow of doubt, loving you, and no matter if you remain baptized in the Name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost, sprinkled, poured, whatever you will, I pray God with my whole soul and body that you and I will meet in the Kingdom of God, and God will, if I’m wrong, will overlook mine, if you’re wrong overlook yours. But in-by my own convictions of the Scripture to try to make the target hit to be from Genesis to Revelation, I command you to be baptized over again in the Name of Jesus Christ if you haven’t done it.
199 And if you have not received the Holy Ghost, and your life does not feel sweet, no matter if you spoke in tongues, if you’ve shouted, if you’ve jumped up and down, if you’ve laid hands on the sick and they recovered, if you have done all kinds of miracles and signs, if you haven’t got the fruits of the Spirit of love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, patience, faith and all these things in you, then I command you and constrain you in the Name of Jesus Christ to not cease praying until the Holy Ghost comes on you! No matter how much you’ve spoke in tongues, how much you’ve shouted, how long you’ve been a church member, if you’ve been here, what all you’ve done will have nothing to do with it until Christ, the Holy Spirit, takes His place in your heart and you’re dead to the things of the world and live anew to Christ.