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11.8 How can anyone resist the Holy Spirit’s bringing about this transformation?
No one can entirely resist the Holy Spirit. In the end the Holy Spirit will make clear and evident to
all the truth and reality that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior of all. In the end, all will either willingly
or unwillingly admit the truth that Jesus Christ is Lord of all. However, Scripture warns of the real
danger of willfully rejecting, and thus blaspheming the Holy Spirit. Apparently, some will do this,
even after being convicted of the Holy Spirit’s undeniable witness that Jesus is Lord and Savior and
there is no other. Exactly how this rejection is possible we are not told. We are simply warned of its
possibility, which we are to take seriously lest we resist the Holy Spirit, presume upon God’s grace
and minimize the many directives in Scripture to accept, receive and respond positively in
repentance and faith to the proclamation of the grace of God in Jesus Christ that comes to us by his
Word and Spirit. (Mark 3:29; Rom. 14:11)

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