Blasphemy

April 19, 2009
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Could It Even Be Blasphemy?

Blasphemy:

1. To speak of the Supreme Being in terms of impious irreverence; to revile or speak reproachfully of God, or the Holy Spirit. 2. To speak evil of; to utter abuse or calumny against.

Calumny

slander; false accusation of a crime or offense, knowingly or maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; false representation of facts reproachful to another, made by design, and with knowledge of its falsehood.

In the middle ages, blasphemy was used to denote simply the blaming or condemning of a person or thing. Among the Greeks, to blaspheme was to use words ill omen, which they were careful to avoid.

Old Testament Law - death!

Leviticus 24:16 - And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.

A blasphemy that brought on eternal damnation!

Matthew 12:31 - Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
Mark 3:29 - But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:
Luke 12:10 - And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven.

They accused Jesus of blasphemy!

Matthew 26:65 - Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.
Mark 14:64 - Ye have heard the blasphemy: what think ye? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.
John 10:33 - The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
John 10:36 - Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?

They accused Paul, as well!

Acts 17:18-20 - Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection. And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
Acts 17:29-32 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
Conspiracy against him

Acts 23:12-14 - And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy. And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.

Acts 21:27-30 - And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him, Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place. (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.) And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut.

Paul made the Christians blaspheme!

Acts 26:11 - And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
Compel - drive, urge with force, to force someone...

Paul himself was a blasphemer in his past, but...!

I Timothy 1:12-16 - And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

Learn the Hard Way!

I Timothy 1:20 - Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

To Men Today!

I Timothy 6:1 - Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.

Read all of I Timothy 6:1-5

Titus 2:9-10 - Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well in all things; not answering again; Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

Purloin - theft, etc.

To Women Today!

Titus 2:4,5 - That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

Discreet - 1. Prudent; wise in avoiding errors or evil, and in selecting the best means to accomplish a purpose; circumspect; cautious; wary; not rash. Marked by showing prudence and wise self-restraint in speech and behavior; circumspect. 2. Free from ostentation or pretension; modest. With nice judgment - (except during the times of deception / deceiving!) - Paulson

Ostentation - 1. Pretentious display meant to impress others; boastful showiness. 2. The act or an instance of showing; an exhibition.
Pretension - a false claim to merit or importance

Chaste - Pure from all unlawful commerce of sexes - applied to persons before marriage, it signifies pure from all sexual commerce, undefiled; applied to married persons, true to the marriage bed. 2. Free from obscenity within one's conversation!

PS - I am well aware of those ladies who HAVE to work, either from lazy husbands, debt, sickness, no husbands and no family, etc. Reality is reality! We can sure be thankful for God's grace, eh! I hope and pray some day that your situation can be scripturally fixed!

Antichrist Blasphemes!

Revelation 13:6 - And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

His name
His tabernacle
His people

Stubborn people - full of hate towards God- during the Tribulation!

Revelation 16:9 - And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory.
Revelation 16:11 - And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
Revelation 16:21 - And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

Talent, among the Hebrews, was also a gold coin, the same with a shekel of gold called also stater, and weighing only four drachmas. But the Hebrew talent of silver, called cicar, was equivalent to three thousand shekels, or one hundred and thirteen pounds, ten ounces and a fraction, troy weight.

We are headed in that direction - many could exist today

read all of Jude - the people will be so willing to go along with the Antichrist in their hatred and blasphemy against God!

vs 11 - Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain (despising God’s Sacrifice). and have run greedily after the error of Balaam for reward (compromising the worship of God for personal gain). – and perished in the gainsaying of Core. (determined to overthrow Christ, his righteousness, his sacrifice, and his priestly intercession as the only way of access to and acceptance with God, because they thought they were holy) See Numbers 16.
verses 4-8; 10;15,16;19

Conclusion!
Shocking Possibility today!

Jews pushing circumcision not believing the resurrection, and the law, etc....

Acts 18:6 - And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.
Galatians 2: - Paul disputed with the apostles!

Law teachers show blasphemy among the Gentiles!

Romans 2:24 - For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

See Romans 2:17-24

Modern Christianity has its blasphemers!

II Timothy 3:2 - For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
They deny the risen Christ!
They deny the work of the Risen Christ!
They deny Paul as the apostle
They deny the King James Bible
They deny rightly dividing!
They even deny Christians who believe and follow such!

From our own mouths today - put blasphemy off!
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice,
blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Colossians 3:8

And try to help others realize the seriousness of their error when preaching against Paul, etc.!

Sermon notes from King James Bible Church of Touchet, WA
Pastor - Mike Paulson
www.scatteredchristians.org
The entire King James Bible is written FOR us, but it is not all written TO us!
We learn from the "For" and we try to apply the 'TO!"