Mark 3:26-30
Mark 3:26 (KJB)
And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath
an end.
Then Jesus applies that principle to the kingdom of Satan. If Satan divides
himself, then how could he have one unified kingdom? It would weaken and implode
and thus destroy itself. Therefore, if Satan is to have a strong united front,
then all the devils in his kingdom must be united in both cause and desire to
overthrow the Kingdom of God.
Mark 3:27 (KJB)
No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will
first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.
Jesus then tells another parable. He likens Satan to the strong man and those
who are devil possessed as his goods. This would also refer to the unsaved who
are the goods of Satan. Those who are devil possessed have no will of their own
as we saw in the Gadarene Demoniac. The only way that one can affect the change
in a person’s life is that the strong man must first be bound. This means that a
stronger man than he is required to do the job. Once the strong man is bound,
then his house will be able to be spoiled without any intervention on his part.
This happened at the cross where Satan was bound and could no longer stop a
person from being saved or hinder prayers like he did to Daniel. (Rev 20:2
KJV) And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and
Satan, and bound him a thousand years, The thousand years is symbolic of
the entire New Testament as Satan is bound for the entire duration, until such a
time that he is released right before the return of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus
is telling these Pharisees that He is stronger than Satan and therefore His
power is of God.
Mark 3:28 (KJB)
Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and
blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:
Jesus uses the word “verily” to begin this statement and it means “truly”
because a serious truth is about to follow.” He is stating that all kinds of
blasphemy and sin are forgivable sins and those who are the Elect of God will
have those sins forgiven because in all of our lives, we have committed heinous
sins of blasphemy. From telling evil jokes to just plain cursing and swearing
the name of God and Jesus. Jesus now halts from using parables and goes into a
straightforward warning.
Mark 3:29 (KJB)
But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but
is in danger of eternal damnation:
Then Jesus states in no uncertain terms that blasphemy against the Holy Ghost
will never be forgiven. What the Pharisees and Scribes had just done was to
proclaim that the miracles that Jesus did such as delivering someone from the
power of Satan was done by the power of Satan. The miracles of Jesus were done
under the power of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is the third person of
the God head, fully God. What they were saying was that the miracles Jesus did
was under the power of Satan, thus stating that the Holy Spirit was an unclean
Spirit akin to Satan himself. This would mean that they were also saying that if
the Holy Spirit was an unclean Spirit, that would make God the Father an unclean
Spirit since the Holy Spirit was eternal God Himself. This was blasphemy of the
highest order and was a sin that was not forgiven.
Mark 3:30 (KJB)
Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.
Jesus had made such definite statements in the previous two verses because they
were continually accusing Him of having an unclean spirit. The imperfect tense
in the Greek underlying “because they said” tells us that they had continually
accused Him of being under the authority of Satan and was not just a one time
accusation. They accused Him of having an unclean spirit which means they were
teaching the Holy Spirit was under the authority of Satan. These people hated
Jesus so much that they did not realize the immensity of the accusations they
were making and it cost them eternity because they could not be redeemed from
this one sin.