✝️ What is Blasphemy? •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• JESUS EXPLANATION TO THE PHARISEES What is Blasphemy? 1 THE PHARISEES ACCUSED JESUS OF BEING ASSOCIATED WITH SATAN AND SOUGHT TO PROVE THIS BY CLAIMING THAT SATAN WAS HELPING JESUS CAST DEMONS OUT OF PEOPLE. THE LORD EXPLAINS THAT NO DIVIDED KINGDOM CAN STAND. AND HOW DID THE PHARISEES EXPLAIN THE SUCCESS OF THE (RELIGIOUS) JEWS IN CASTING OUT DEMONS? JESUS DECLARES THAT THIS ACCUSATION THAT THE PHARISEES HAD RAISED WAS A VERY GRAVE SIN. • AWARE OF THEIR SIN THE PHARISEES SHOULD HAVE KNOWN FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES THAT GOD THROUGH HIS POWER HAD THE ABILITY TO CAST OUT DEMONS. THIS SIN WAS PRACTICED CONSCIOUSLY SINCE THEY HAD KNOWLEDGE OF THE SCRIPTURES, UNLIKE A SIN THAT IS COMMITTED OUT OF IGNORANCE. THIS SIN IS NOT ABOUT SPEAKING EVIL OF GOD, BUT AFFIRMING OR ACCUSING THAT THE WORKS OF CHRIST ORIGINATE WITH SATAN, THAT IS, SAYING THAT CHRIST IS AN AGENT OR SERVANT OF THE DEVIL. Thank you for your time, and I hope you enjoy it!!! What is Blasphemy? 2