<TITLE>08. Par 22-25</TITLE>L-22 Now, in the Old Testament a beautiful picture of the sinner coming to offer for himself a sacrifice... He had to find (We know all in type how it must be) a lamb without a blemish; it must be brought from the... The--the sin offering was--had to be from the first sheep--the first sheep from the old mother ewe. And it must be without blemish. And it must be brought up and sacrificed, die for the sins of the people.
Notice. Then if the man who done something evil, committed adultery, took the Lord's name in vain, or broke the commandments, he brought the lamb to the--to the priest. And now the first... The lamb was washed and so forth, typifying water baptism. Then he brought the lamb up, and he confessed his sin before the priest, what he had done, the evil that he had did. And then the priest... The note was made of that and was put on the book.
If that man done that same sin two times in a year, he died without mercy. If he was caught committing adultery and the lamb was offered once, while the sin offering that sprinkled the mercy seat was atoning for him, then he could not offer another lamb for that. Hebrews the 10th chapter said, "He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses." And the 6th chapter said, "Counting the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified with, an unholy thing, and done despite to the works of grace." They couldn't do it. It must be once for all, until another lamb was killed at the end of the year.

L-23 Now, I might ask you this a way, want you to consider this. In the 10th chapter of Hebrews, about the 40th verse, somewhere there, I want to ask you, if you ever did think, or hear people speak on, what the unpardonable sin was. I used to be told by my mother that the unpardonable sin was a abortion case. In other words, a woman that would get rid of her babies before they were born, taking the life of the children before they even had a chance, that that was the unpardonable sin.
But that... I believed that for years, because I was told that by my mother. She only took it by... She was not a Christian at the time, and so she just took it for granted that that's what it was; it was doing that. Others said it was committing murder: A man that murdered could not be forgiven for it. After reading the Bible for myself, I find out that taking human life is forgiven.

L-24 Now, remember, lady, that's a horrible thing.
Here not long ago a woman come to my house; she said, "Reverend Branham, I'm going crazy."
I said, "What's the matter?" She told me of the little babies lives that she had took of her own before that they were born, or even matured, time for delivered. And she said, "I... Every time I get to myself," said, "I can hear babies crying in my ears." And she said, "Every time I set down to write a letter or something, I can feel little cold hands running through my hair."
"As you sow, so shall you reap." Remember that. Live right; live upright. Confess your wrongs before God, then get out of that way and walk like men and women, servants of God ought to walk and live.
But still, that is not the unpardonable sin.

L-25 Jesus said, when He was here on earth... They brought to Him one day a bunch of men, and they said, "He casteth out devils through Beelzebub, the prince of the devils."
And Jesus said, "You can speak a word against the Son of man; it will be forgiven you. But whosoever speaketh a word against the Holy Ghost will not be forgiven him in this world or the world to come." Whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost... For they were calling... See, the atonement, the blood cell, as I'll get to after a bit, was not bursted yet, so it could be forgiven then. The Holy Spirit had not pierced Itself from this blood cell. But after once coming from there, it's the unpardonable.


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