Blasphemy!

Jesus made it common practice to expel demons from people who were suffering. One time, as He set a man free who was mute, people in the crowd accused Him of being demon possessed Himself. “Why would a demon drive out a demon, that’s self defeating” was His response (paraphrased Luke 11). In today’s lingo, it would be similar to saying that members of an army had turned upon one another with their weapons.
This section of scripture begins with Jesus instruction to the crowd to continually pray and ask God for the Holy Spirit. He promises He won’t give them a scorpion or a serpent or something evil, but the power of God through the Spirit. Then He demonstrates the effectiveness of God’s power through His Spirit by casting out a demon.
But some of the crowd didn’t see that God desires to set us free from all oppression by the power of His Spirit! They didn’t understand it so they turned on Jesus. A man who couldn’t speak a moment before now stood in front of them and praised God for his deliverance, and some of the crowd said that Jesus had done this through the power of the devil.
This is blasphemy to the Holy Spirit: attributing the works of God to the devil. It includes speaking ill of God and the works He does out of His great love and grace toward us. It’s denying the power of God through His Spirit to bring freedom from oppression.
Our God is all powerful! He died to set us free and give us the Holy Spirit that we could be used to set others free. Bless His name and praise His great works in the earth!
God, help us to discern your great works. Help us to guard our hearts and mouths that we'd never think or speak blasphemy against your power and grace.