Posts by Ted Ragsdale

The sins of the unbeliever against the Holy Spirit; does ignorance matter? The church has made a distinction between vincible and invincible ignorance. Vincible ignorance is ignorance that can be overcome. I should have known, the Scriptures were available for me and God had made it absolutely clear. I have been clearly lazy or willfully negligent in not searching out the…

The sins of the unbeliever against the Holy Spirit: Blaspheming The Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is an insult to the Spirit of Grace Mark 3:28-29  — “Assuredly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they may utter; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal…

The sins of the unbeliever against the Holy Spirit: Resisting Acts 7:51 says, “You men who are stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears are always resisting the Holy Spirit.” Stephen’s indictment works from the inside out. The Jews are stiff-necked, unwilling to bow to the repeated work of the Spirit. Their resistance is not to human beings but…

This is Part 2 in the series, “The Sins against the Holy Spirit” The Holy Spirit is the instrument of our sanctification even though we can quench the Spirit. How does the Holy Spirit bring about our sanctification? There are at least four ways. First, He illuminates the Word That is to say, the Spirit not only wrote the Word, but He dwells in us as the…

Dr. Sinclair Ferguson of Ligonier Ministries notes that many regard the Holy Spirit as “the forgotten person of the Trinity.” But he further observes that the Holy Spirit is less forgotten than understood. Many Christians, he says, don’t really know who the Holy Spirit is. This is perhaps brought to light when we examine the somewhat unsettling topic of…