Luke 12:10

The essence of the unforgivable sin is unbelief. The Holy Spirit always points us to Christ – the Way and the Truth and the Life. Forever nudging and urging us on to accept the Savior as our only means of reconciliation with a Holy God, the Holy Spirit continually sheds light in our darkness. Our verse for today speaks of one who defames, defiles, rails and speaks evil against the One who imparts to us this truth. The New Testament Lexical Aids of the Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible sheds more light on this topic:

“Reviling against the Holy Spirit means to resist the convicting power of the Holy Spirit unto repentance.”

Jesus tells us in Luke:

32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." Luke 5:32 (NIV)

10 Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. 2 Cor 7:10 (NIV)

Again, the essentially speaks of non-belief. Throughout Scripture the Holy Spirit is represented in intimate union with God the Father and God the Son. It is the Divine Spirit which imparts knowledge of the divine truth. Paul tells is in Romans:

14 because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Romans 8:14-16 (NIV)

In Luke we are told the following regarding John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ:

15 The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if John might possibly be the Christ. 16 John answered them all, "I baptize you with water. But one more powerful than I will come, the thongs of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. 17 His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire." Luke 3:15-17 (NIV)

Regarding the Holy Spirit, when reading own His job description, Jesus Himself states:

17 The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written: 18 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, 19 to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." 20 Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him, 21 and he began by saying to them, "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing." Luke 4:17-21 (NIV)

I bet everybody’s eyes were fastened on Him! This was good news indeed! Jesus was proclaiming freedom for those held in bondage to sin and slavery, He was to open the eyes of those who were blind both figuratively and literally, and He was to release the oppressed from their oppression. This is still His job description – He came to set the captive free. In believing in Jesus, He bestows upon us the Holy Spirit which equips us with the same power that was exerted to raise Him from the dead. That, my friends, is some pretty powerful power! All achieving power offered to all who believe. And Paul adds in Romans:

9 You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. Romans 8:9 (NIV)

All believers are sealed with the precious Holy Spirit albeit, while He never leaves us, we can shrink the Spirit within us:

13 And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession--to the praise of his glory . Eph 1:13-14 (NIV)

One final warning given to us by the writer of Hebrews seals our verse for today:

26 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. 28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him who said, "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people." 31 It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Heb 10:26-31 (NIV)