Unforgivable sin

Monday,
January 22, 2018
3rd Week in Ordinary Time 1st Reading:
2 Sam 5-17.10
Gospel: Mark 3:22-30
The teachers of the Law who had come from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed by Beelzebul: the chief of the demons helps him to drive out demons.”
Jesus called them to him and began teaching them by means of stories or parables, “How can Satan drive out Satan? If a nation is divided by civil war, that nation cannot stand. If a family divides itself into groups, that family will not survive. In the same way, if Satan has risen against himself and is divided, he will not stand; he is finished. No one can break into the house of the Strong one in order to plunder his goods, unless he first ties up the Strong one. Then indeed, he can plunder his house.
“Truly, I say to you, every sin will be forgiven humankind, even insults to God, however numerous. But whoever slanders the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven: he carries the guilt of his sin forever.” This was their sin when they said, “He has an evil spirit in him.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
Since God is love to the highest degree, He has no problem forgiving all sins. “But whoever slanders the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven: he carries the guilt of his sin forever” (Mark 3:29). This was the sin of the Pharisees when they poisoned the minds of believers by saying that Jesus was driving out demons by the power of demons. Since the work of Jesus was by the stirring of the Holy Spirit, they were in effect maligning Him.
He who maligns the Holy Spirit bolts out from His jurisdiction. He then becomes incapable of repentance since only by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit can one repent. Since he does not repent he will not ask for forgiveness. God will respect his freedom and will leave him where he is.
In maligning the Holy Spirit the Pharisees also elevated the devil to God’s level. By saying that Jesus was the “Prince of devils”, they were, in effect, crediting to Satan all miraculous deeds Jesus performed. To claim that Satan is the architect of both good and bad deeds is to throw God to the dungeon of obsolescence. The turning of God into a superfluity shuts down the power of the Holy Spirit. It closes the era of forgiveness. The devil only offends; he never forgives. “The offender never pardons,” wrote George Herbert in Jacula Prudentum.
While all sins can be forgiven the Holy Spirit cannot trespass the heart of a person taking exception from His power. When one shuts the Holy Spirit out and marinates himself in juicy power of evil, he takes exception from forgiveness because the devil cannot forgive. Even if he can, he never will. – (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., D.M.

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