do you ever think what you would do if you were Jesus I mean here’s here’s these religious dudes come down from Jerusalem they see you do the greatest Miracle you’ve done up to this point and then they say you’re powered by a demon and you’re Jesus and you have all the power available to you that comes from almighty God you know I’m thinking you want to see somebody cast out watch this I’ll cast you all out I’ll show you something you can’t deny it you know what Jesus did it’s amazing to me there’s no sense that

he even got upset he just presented his argument I want you to see how he goes about this the answer of the Savior first of all he asks a question that’s always a good way to get involved with somebody who’s spoken against you without making an accusation you ask a question you have an inquiry he called them to himself and he said to them in Parables how can Satan cast out Satan one of the questions I have been asked over the years that I’ve been doing what I do is this pastor can I commit a sin that God cannot

forgive quite often this question is asked in the past tense like I think I’ve done something that God will not forgive I’ve tried to get God to forgive me but I don’t feel like he has forgiven me and I can’t forgive myself Pastor I think I may have committed the unpardonable sin now this question usually comes from someone who has an overwhelming sense of guilt for something that they have done in the past and it is usually a reference to the passage of scripture that we’re going to study today for here in Mark

and again in a more fleshed out way in Matthew’s account of this event we are told that there is something which a person can do for which there is no forgiveness in this age or even in the age to come I’m not making that up that’s what the scripture says our context today is the story about a man who was possessed of a demon and in the story our Lord confronts this demon and the demon is cast out and the man is completely healed but the result of what Jesus did is another confrontation with the religious people of his day these people