Page 59 - Apostasy

I had a man call me yesterday. This man

lives in this state but a long ways away from

here, and he said, "I am just now starting to

understand." He said, "You don't know what I

was like before I got saved," and he said, "After

I accepted the Lord, this thing in Matthew and

this thing in Hebrews," he said, "have I

blasphemed the Holy Spirit?" And he said, "I'm

just now getting some peace over this subject

after many years, because I thought I had failed

in that area." And I said, "Good timing to call

me because of what I'm going to preach on

tomorrow,” and we started going through

reading these verses. I said, "This is not talking

about some little mistake or something you

did." I said, "This is talking about somebody

who out and out denies who Jesus Christ is,

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