Worst Sin Against Jesus?

[Ryan&Amber2013]

Notice the last sentence. What is meant by it? Didn't Jesus teach that the worst sin is against the Spirit, and not even Himself?

We remember that the Jews responded to Pilate's act of washing his hands, "May His blood be on us, and on our children!" No one who has read the story of the next forty years, can doubt that their self-imprecation was fulfilled. Thirty years later, thousands of the Jews were crucified. The crime of the Jews was successful; but what came of the success in the end? Let us learn the lesson, that sin brings always terrible woe — and that the worst of all sins, is sin against the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

[Ask Mr. Religion]

Actually I think the last sentence refers to the great sin of crucifying Our Lord, who was without any stain of sin whatsoever. Clearly that must be the greatest sin man could commit.

Is this a quote from something? Link? Source?

 

[Ryan&Amber2013]

Actually I think the last sentence refers to the great sin of crucifying Our Lord, who was without any stain of sin whatsoever. Clearly that must be the greatest sin man could commit.

Is this a quote from something? Link? Source?

It seems that you may be right. It's from J.R. Miller - a civil war era Presbyterian. Here is the whole devotional.

"Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified." John 19:16

So we see the sad and terrible end of Pilate's weak struggles with his conscience and his sense of right. He first tried every way to avoid the issue; then he temporized, hoping in some manner to get free from responsibility. At last he yielded; and his name goes through history pilloried forever as the man who delivered Jesus to be crucified. He is known by no other act. It had been a thousand times better for him if he had remained forever in obscurity, instead of going to that high place of power where he had to meet and deal with this momentous question of history.

We read that Pilate took water in the presence of the Jews and washed his hands — thus by symbol declaring that he was not responsible for the sentencing of Jesus to die. But the water did not wash away one particle of the stain of the guilt of that terrible sin. Pilate had the misfortune to be the only man in all the province who could send Jesus to the cross. Upon him, therefore, the final responsibility rested, no matter what the pressure was, which was brought to bear upon him by the enemies of Jesus. The fact that others urge us to sin — does not take away our guilt for that sin! No being in the universe can compel us to do wrong; if, then, we do wrong, the sin is our own.

We remember that the Jews responded to Pilate's act of washing his hands, "May His blood be on us, and on our children!" No one who has read the story of the next forty years, can doubt that their self-imprecation was fulfilled. Thirty years later, thousands of the Jews were crucified. The crime of the Jews was successful; but what came of the success in the end? Let us learn the lesson, that sin brings always terrible woe — and that the worst of all sins, is sin against the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

[Dachaser]

Notice the last sentence. What is meant by it? Didn't Jesus teach that the worst sin is against the Spirit, and not even Himself?

We remember that the Jews responded to Pilate's act of washing his hands, "May His blood be on us, and on our children!" No one who has read the story of the next forty years, can doubt that their self-imprecation was fulfilled. Thirty years later, thousands of the Jews were crucified. The crime of the Jews was successful; but what came of the success in the end? Let us learn the lesson, that sin brings always terrible woe — and that the worst of all sins, is sin against the Lord Jesus Christ.

I think we are were guilty of the death of Jesus, for he died in the place of reprobates like which you and me were at one time.