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was in the time of Luther, of the Wesleys, and other reformers. Thus it
is today.
Korah and his companions rejected light until they became so
blinded that the most striking manifestations of power were not suffi-
cient to convince them; they attributed them all to human or satanic
agency. The same thing was done by the people. Notwithstanding the
most convincing evidence of God’s displeasure they dared to attribute
His judgments to Satan, declaring that Moses and Aaron had caused
the death of good and holy men. They committed the sin against the
Holy Spirit. “Whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man,”
said Christ, “it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against
the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him.”
Matthew 12:32
. It is
through the Holy Spirit that God communicates with man; and those
who deliberately reject this agency as satanic, have cut off the channel
of communication between the soul and Heaven.
If the Spirit’s work is finally rejected, there is no more that God
can do for the soul. The transgressor has cut himself off from God;
and sin has no remedy to cure itself. “Let him alone” (
Hosea 4:17
) is
the divine command. Then “there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation,
which shall devour the adversaries.”
Hebrews 10:26, 27
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