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What is the Unpardonable Sin?
By Rev (Dr) Timothy Tow
(Preached at Life Church 10.30 am Service, Dec 2, 2001)
Text: Matthew 12:22-37
In the closing days of my father’s life on
earth, he examined himself before God, and confessed all his known
sins to Him. He was afraid he might have committed the unpardonable
sin.
When a person so humbles himself to the dust,
and if you are also of the same lowly frame of mind, I can assure
you; your sins will be forgiven. For David testifies, "The
sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite
heart, O God, thou wilt not despise" (Ps 51:17). Let us not be
hearers and sermon tasters only, but doers of the Word (Jas 1:22).
The unpardonable sin, according to this passage
of denunciation of the Pharisees by our Lord, is their blasphemy
against the Holy Spirit. What is the blasphemy against the Holy
Spirit? It is speaking a lie against the Holy Spirit when he has
clearly convicted them of the truth.
Here is a most notable miracle that Jesus has
done. One who is possessed by a blind and dumb devil is brought
before our Saviour. Jesus cast out the blind and dumb devil, so that
the man could speak and see. All the people were amazed and gave
glory to God. Instead of giving glory to God the Pharisees
blasphemed. They declared Jesus performed the miracle by Beelzebub,
the prince of devils. Jesus had done this miracle by the power of
Satan and not by the power of God. This was a downright lie. This
was spoken out of a heart of wicked rebellion. The Pharisees when
exposed to God’s Spirit, instead of turning in repentance to Him,
rebelled against Him.
This rebellious and blasphemous spirit is also
starkly exhibited against Jesus’ opening the eyes of the man born
blind by sending him to wash at the pool in Siloam (John 9). This
blind man received his sight and told everyone about it. But the
Pharisees refused to receive his testimony. The Pharisees instead of
giving God the glory, swung away from the truth. Now they themselves
became blind when they cast out the blind men whose eyes Jesus had
opened.
The Pharisees, often associated with the Scribes
(Jewish theologians) have their counterparts today. They are the
professors of theology. These professors of theology are entrenched
in the big and well-known seminaries in America especially and are
transformed into angels of light. But they commit the unpardonable
sin of speaking lies against the truth taught by the Holy Spirit.
They preach themselves and not Christ.
It all began back in England in the 1880s. Two
English Greek scholars, Westcott and Hort by name, worked their way
into the Anglican Church. They said the Authorised Version or the
King James Bible translated 1611 was due for revision. They had
found two Ancient Manuscripts dating back to the fourth century, one
called Vaticanus (from the Vatican) and the other Sinaiticus (i.e.
from Sinai). These being much older than the Received Text on which
the King James Version was based were superior, but according to
Burgon, Dean of Oxford, the fact was the opposite was the truth.
Nevertheless Westcott and Hort, the Deadly Duo,
completed their work of dismantling the sacred text. They cut out
the passage of Jesus pardoning the woman taken in adultery, the last
12 verses of Mark and I John 5:7 on the doctrine of the Holy
Trinity. On top of that they changed the Received Text in 9,900
places by addition or subtraction. This is like tearing away the
First and Second Epistles of Peter. (All these deep wounds they
inflicted on the Bible are recorded for our learning by Dr Jeffrey
Khoo in the blue book "Kept Pure in All Ages" which was distributed
to you some weeks ago.)
When I was a student in Faith Seminary, USA
1948, I was taught to accept Westcott and Hort as angels. Many
passages in the KJB were not there by the new Westcott and Hort
Text. So was Dr D.A. Waite taught the same lie when he was in Dallas
Seminary the same year I was in Faith.
About 1970 Dr Waite discovered the hoax of the
ages from earlier discoverers, Dr David Otis Fuller, Dr Edward F
Hills, The Trinitarian Bible Society of Great Britain along with a
rising chorus of KJV supporters — David Cloud, Dr S.H. Tow, Gail
Riplinger. Suddenly Westcott and Hort who had been shielded by a
conspiracy of silence came into the limelight. That is with regard
to their faith and to their character.
Masquerading as Evangelicals it is now
discovered that they are modernists and liberals of the worst dye.
They deny all the fundamentals of the faith including infallibility
and inerrancy of the Scriptures, the Virgin Birth and Blood
Atonement of Christ, His miracles and Resurrection. They declare the
first three chapters of Genesis to be myths. They accept as gospel
truth the doctrine of evolution. They were friends of Darwin and
Freud, whom Straits Times has exposed to be a Fraud. They were
secret worshippers of Mary but called Evangelical fanatics. Westcott
when in Cambridge founded the Hermes Club which was reputed a
homosexual den. Later he and Hort branched into a Ghost Club which
they never knew is condemned by Deuteronomy 18. Scoffers snubbed
them to be operators of the Bogey Club. Bogey means Devil.
"Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or
who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a
pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn
deceitfully" (Ps 24:3-4). With unclean hands and impure heart, how
dared Westcott and Hort to have touched Holy Scripture?
Of the over hundred new Bibles that have
appeared in the last 50 years, one that has made it to the top to
challenge the KJV is the NIV (New International Version). Based on
the Westcott and Hort Text, you will find the total disappearance of
I John 5:7 where the statement is on the Holy Trinity. The passage
on the woman taken in adultery whom our Lord pardoned and the last
12 verses of Mark are in truncated form. Sharp businessmen, the NIV
publishers, while putting them in the Bible declare also they are
out. The reason why they are constrained to put these two passages
in truncated form is if they are totally out no one will buy the NIV
product.
To leave out these three passages and the equivalent of I and II
Peter, eight chapters of sacred text, is it not to commit the
unpardonable sin? Westcott and Hort are worse than those Pharisees
and scribes who spoke against their conscience, who spoke a lie
against what the Holy Spirit was declaring to be the truth.
Jesus had cast out the blind and dumb devil
which amazed the onlookers who gave the glory to God. But the
Pharisees blasphemed that our Lord had done so by Beelzebub, the
prince of devils. What Jesus had done by the power of His Father the
Pharisees relegated to the work of Satan. Such twisting of the truth
is also the work of Westcott and Hort and by modern professors of
theology entrenched in many big and well-known seminaries not only
in America but throughout the world; not the least in Singapore.
"Kept Pure in All Ages" is FEBC’s latest defence of the KJB and of
the Spirit of the Scriptures. And if you worship in a Church that
uses the NIV, you should tell your pastor against it. If they
persist to use the NIV you should leave that church and join another
that uses the KJB. St Paul says, "For we can do nothing against the
truth, but for the truth" (II Cor 13:8).
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