This is what Jesus is talking about in the judgment day, when, after hearing about all the great things Jesus did do through their lives, while they were walking under His Lordship, He tells them to depart from Him because he never knew them (Matt 7:21-23). He knew them at one time, but somewhere down the road they decided not to obey one of Jesus’ dictates that was critical in His will for their lives and they kept hardening their hearts until they could no longer respond to Him.

Why would Jesus send a man to hell for not submitting to one dictate? If Jesus is dealing with us about an area of life at present, it is because that area of our lives must be taken care of before He can move us on to the next area of His purpose and plan for our lives. It is not always that cut and dry. It depends on the issue and what Jesus’ purpose and plan for your life is and how that particular issue at the moment will effect His overall purpose and plan for your life. The main point is if you are getting close to that point it will not be vague. Jesus will make it plainly known to you and you will have plenty of time and opportunity to respond.

The initial blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is rejecting the Holy Spirit’s conviction in one’s life of their need of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Jesus said about the Holy Spirit,

"And He, when He comes will convict the world concerning sin, and righteousness, and judgment; concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me; and concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you no longer behold Me." (John 16:8-10).

If we rejected the initial promptings of the Holy Spirit to receive Christ as Lord and Savior and then died physically first before making that decision, we would spend eternity out of Jesus’ presence. If we have received Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and He is presently Lord of our lives, then we are assured that if we were to die tonight we would go to be directly with the Lord in heaven.⁹³ But, if at some point Jesus comes to us through the Holy Spirit and begins to deal with us about a certain area of our lives and we go on sinning willfully, sin being going against whatever Jesus makes plain is His Lordship over our lives individually, persistently for a long period of time, there will come a point that Jesus by the Spirit will tell us that if we do not decide toward His will in the individual issue, if critical, we will lose our salvation. If we then die in that condition, we will then spend eternity out of Jesus’ presence forever.

Just having presently known sin in your life would not send you to hell if beyond your immediate control you were killed. The unpardonable sin after initial salvation is a long drawn out process and becomes a reality long before death. If you were to then die and end up in hell, it would be of no surprise to you. You would know why you were there. No body is in hell by surprise. They knew they were going there before they died and willingly knowingly chose to go there. Jesus is a good God. Do not allow Satan to ever convince you or tell you otherwise.

I have been a Christian for over thirty-seven years and in this time only twice has Jesus had to deal with me this strongly about an issue in my life. The first time as mentioned above came about because of willful rebellion. The second time came several years later because of present obedience and as an encouragement for an up coming trial which only Jesus could possibly know about (John 16:13-15).

Several years later Jesus brought me the wife He had for me. As long as Jesus was Lord of our house it was a very beautiful situation. Shortly, though, after we were married I was just in the process of finishing a Basic Textbook on Evangelism, of which this textbook is an extension, when the Lord came to me in my spirit through the Holy Spirit and said the following to me, "If you drop out of school and walk away from the ministry work I have called you to do, you will go to hell." After he said that to me, I thought to myself, "Jesus, why would I want to walk away from your calling? Nothing gives me greater fulfillment in life." Jesus knew something that I did not know at that moment.

What He knew was that my first wife had decided she did not want Jesus to be Lord over her anymore and had decided to go back to the world. That night when I went to bed with my wife she began putting pressure on me to drop out of school. She already knew I could not do that. Two weeks later she left me and I never was able to reconcile the relationship. This pressure did not come because I did not love my wife, because I did not spend quality time every week with her, or because I did not listen to her needs and do what I could to meet them. It did not come about because the bills were not paid or because I was drunk most of the time or on drugs. I don't drink and I have never been drunk. It came about for no other reason other than that she decided she no longer wanted Jesus' plan for her life and His Lordship over her life. When she decided that, she then attempted to sway me to her position. When that did not succeed, she found she could no longer be comfortable living with me because of my devotion to the Lord, moved out and demanded a divorce.

I immediately went to prayer asking the Lord what to do? The only answer I got was to focus on obedience to Him and that if he could bring her back He would. It would not be proper for me to go into details, but only to say that six months later the Lord made it plain to me it was over and to go on.

Needless to say that school year I went through terrible emotional hell. The only thing that gave me the strength to get through my studies and not quit and disobey the Lord was the Lord's earlier revelation to me that if I quit school and dropped out of the ministry I would go to hell.

I realized a year later that Jesus really loved me. He had given me the strongest form of encouragement He could have given me at the time. He knew how it would effect me emotionally, the unjustified rejection of the Church I would go through and still go through, and the doubts I would have continuing in the ministry. He was telling me through his statement to me that regardless of what my wife did and how it effected our marriage it was His will that I stayed in the ministry. It is in fact a continuing encouragement to me today. "Thank you Jesus. I needed that. Thank you that you cared enough about my soul and your will in my life to give me this encouragement to continue walking with you no matter the storm that followed." Had I left the Lord to save my marriage I would have died spiritually and Jesus’ Lordship over my life would have never been realized. That was over seventeen years ago.

Some people try to say that I married the wrong woman and had I waited on the Lord and married the right person, this would not have happened. I had waited on the Lord, was not even seeking a relationship when the Lord brought her to me in His time. If this kind of logic were true then we would have to say Adam made a mistake marrying Eve. You see, I came under the same trial Adam did which was to make a choice to put Jesus and His will and Lordship over me first or to reject God for Eve. The Apostle Paul explains to us in 1 Timothy 2:14, "And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being quite deceived, fell into transgression." Paul tells us plainly that Adam was not deceived. Adam made a clear conscious choice against God. Adam chose to make Eve his god instead of Yehovah his God. I chose to make Jesus my God instead of my wife my god and I have suffered dearly for it ever since and especially by an apostate Church that puts family above man’s relationship with God and the will of God.

Jesus made the man the head of the home. It is not Jesus’ will that the man compromise his walk with God to save his marriage. It is not God’s will that man or woman compromise anything in their relationship with God. The Bible commands us to love God first with all our hearts, mind, soul and strength (Matt 22:37- 39), then our spouses second, and our neighbor third. The man’s love for his wife is always to be second to his love for God. If you have doubts about this, then read the following quote from Deuteronomy 13:6-8,

"If your brother, your mother’s son, or your son or daughter, or the wife you cherish, or your friend who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, let us go and serve other gods’ (whom neither you nor your fathers have known, of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end), you shall not yield to him or listen to him; and your eye shall not pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him." (Deut 13:1-11).

When you listen to Your spouse and go against and reject the Lordship of Jesus Christ over Your life, you are committing idolatry and the Apostle Paul plainly tells us in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and in Galatians 5:19-21 that idolaters will not inherit the kingdom of God. I know many people who are committing this sin. One brother in particular whose decisions were based on the wishes of his wife. The Lord had made it plain to them that he had a plan for their lives. He had told the husband very plainly that if He did not start taking the steps that were necessary in order for His will in their lives to be fulfilled that His will in their lives could not be carried out.

I was not aware of this fact. I did not know anything about these matters in this man’s heart, but one night while studying the Lord came to me in my spirit and told me what he wanted this man to do and that if he did not do it His will in his life could not be realized. Part of what the Lord told me involved doing something with some property he owned.

I thought to myself that it would be very arrogant for me to go to him and tell him what I believed God told me he wanted him to do with his property and that he would never accept it coming from me for good reason and so would require undeniable confirmation. So the way I handled it was to tell him that the Lord had told me something about what He wanted him to do with his life and that part of what he told me involved his property. I had already written down on a piece of paper the prophecy Jesus had given me and sealed it in an envelope with a seal on the flap. I showed him the envelope and told him that what I wanted him to do is seek the Lord himself and ask the Lord to tell him what he told me. I then instructed him that once he had done this to then come to me, but before sharing with me what he believed the Lord told him to let me hold the envelope in front of us so that when he was finished telling me what he believed the Lord had showed him, I would then hand him the envelope for him to open and read to show this really was the Lord and for confirmation of what the Lord told him.

Several weeks went by and he never did get back with me. I was at California Fresno State University sharing the Gospel when the Lord told me to go to this man’s house immediately. I went to his house and visited with him and his wife. We began talking about spiritual things. The Lord then told me I had to share with him what He had told me about what he wanted them to do. I told them I was not God and so therefore they were not to base their lives on what I believed was a revelation from God, that like themselves I too was a fallen man. I then shared with them the Word I had received from the Lord. They pretended like they were interested, but as I was leaving the man followed me out of the house and when we were alone shared with me that three months before the Lord had given me this word, as a result of long prayer, the Lord had given him the same exact word. He already knew what God wanted him to do when I first showed him the envelope but had no intentions of sharing it with me because he did not want God’s will for his life.

Understand I am talking about two people who knew Jesus and as Hebrews Chapter 6 shares had tasted of the heavenly gifts and of the age to come. Several weeks later for three days the Lord told me this man was committing the unpardonable sin. He specified the man because he is the spiritual leader in his home. After the Lord told me this for three days with great grievance in my heart, I prayed to the Lord and said,

"Jesus, I do not know how I can know absolutely that this is true, but if you were telling this to someone about me, I would hope that person loved me enough to come and tell me what you were telling them so that I would have the opportunity to repent. Do You want me to tell them?"

The answer I received was "Yes!" I did go and share with them this word in love. The end result was there telling me to get out of their lives permanently. I am not God and therefore I am not absolute and I did not deliver this message with an absolutest attitude, but there response and total lack of concern for their spiritual welfare did not deconfirm what the Lord had been saying to me. Proverbs 27:5-6 and 9:8 states,