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Now, for this morning we want you to turn to Mark chapter 3 in your Scripture...run a little behind and I've got an awful lot to say...so be patient and we're going to try to unpack a really critical portion of Scripture. Mark chapter 3 and our text for this morning starts in verse 20 and goes down to the end of the chapter. We did Part 1 last time and we'll comment on that in a little bit and then we're going to do Part 2 and kind of wrap it up this morning.
The theme of this particular section is the unforgivable sin...the unforgivable sin. Now drop down to verse 28 for a moment and let's at least identify this as the core of our study, this morning. Jesus is speaking here and He says, "Truly I say to you..." By the way, that little formula, "Truly I say to you," never appears in the book of Acts, never appears in the epistles of the New Testament. It only appears in the lips of Jesus. It seems to have been a phrase that He used to identify something that had very significant meaning and was, in fact, a representation of divine truth that needed to be heard. "Truly I say to you, all sins shall be forgiven the sons of men and whatever blasphemies they utter. But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness but is guilty of an eternal sin."
Now it might strike you as strange that there would be a sin that would not be forgivable. Don't we say that God offers forgiveness to sinners? Doesn't the gospel promise that the Lord will forgive all our sins? That He'll pass by all our iniquities? Isn't He a pardoning God who overlooks sin? Doesn't He bury it in the depths of the sea, remove it as far as the east is from the west and remember it no more? Isn't God gracious and merciful as the prophet says, who is a pardoning God like You? When we preach the gospel, don't we say that God will forgive all your trespasses, all your sins? Doesn't this sort of contradict that?
It doesn't contradict that and I'll show you why. But it is a very serious passage to take to heart. It is in one sense a passage that ought to frighten the comfortable and comfort the frightened because on the one hand there are people have no idea that they have committed the unforgivable sin...they have no idea that they have committed the unforgivable sin. They're comfortable and they ought to be frightened because they're headed for eternal hell.
There are other people who think they've committed the unforgivable sin and haven't and need to be comforted. Through the years of my ministry, of course I've met both kinds of people...the comfortable who ought to be frightened and the frightened who ought to be comfortable. Perhaps in our congregation today there are some of you who have the notion in your mind that somewhere along the line you've blasphemed the Holy Spirit and it lingers in your thinking that you may never be able to be forgiven for that. Now understanding in a simplistic way that you said something against the Holy Spirit you are somehow beyond the hope of salvation. There are people who believe that. There are people who propagate that. There are people who espouse that. There are people who have accused me of that, many people through the years have accused me of having committed a blasphemous sin against the Holy Spirit by denying healings and miracles and tongues and wonders supposedly that are going on today in the church, and thus I have blasphemed against the Holy Spirit and put myself in a position of never being forgiven...having committed an eternal sin. Maybe there are some of you who feel that somebody has told you that and laid that burden upon you and there are others who think that maybe they've blasphemed the name of Jesus Christ and in blaspheming the name of Jesus Christ and speaking against Him in some reviling way with calumny and evil thinking and evil speaking...they're thus beyond the hope of forgiveness.
Well this morning the message has two objectives. One would be to frighten the comfortable, and the other would be to comfort the frightened. Let's look at it together. As we remember last week, the four gospels are written, all four of them, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, to leave a refutable historical evidence that Jesus was God. While He was 100 percent a man, He was 100 percent God...He is God in human flesh. He is the Messiah of Israel. He's the Savior of the world but all that comes from the reality that He is the Lord God. He is God the Son. And that is important, that is critical because believing that and committing your life to Christ is the only way to escape hell and enter heaven. There's only one way to escape eternal hell and eternal heaven and that is by believing in Jesus Christ. There's no other way to be saved, the Bible makes that absolutely clear. The gospel is exclusive, it alone is the means of salvation, there is no other way.
So it's pretty important then that you believe in Christ. And in order for you to believe in Christ savingly and entrust your time and eternity to Him, you have to have the evidence that He is who He claimed to be and that evidence is presented to us not once, not twice, not three times, but four times in the gospel. And then that evidence is interpreted for us in the rest of the New Testament all the way through to the book of Revelation. The evidence is powerful. It is powerful when it's inscripturated and those of us who have come to believe have come to believe because of the power of the inscripturated record of the life and ministry of Christ. The evidence is laid down by the power and inspiration of the Holy Spirit in the pages of the New Testament and we have read it and we understand the truthfulness of it and we embrace it as true and thus we embrace Christ. The evidence is powerful, I say, even when inscripturated.
But the evidence was powerful, as well, even when it was demonstrated, when it was lived out in the life and ministry of Jesus. For three years Jesus traversed the land of Israel, starting His ministry down in Judea with the cleansing of the temple and doing teaching and miracles and wonders for the beginning year of His ministry in Judea. Then He moved to the north to Galilee, the bulk of His ministry was in Galilee and all across Galilee and even outside Galilee into some of the surrounding regions. And then the final portion of His ministry, the last months, came back into Judea and went from town to town and village to village. Those three years He blanketed the land of Israel and gave evidence of who He was...more evidence than we have on the pages of the gospels because John ends his gospel by saying, "If everything that He said and did were to be written down, the books of the world couldn't contain it." We have stories of healings and stories of deliverances from demons and stories of raising the dead, and we have them scattered throughout the gospel record, but they don't begin to come close to the thousands upon thousands if not tens of thousands of miracles that were being done by Jesus.
And so periodically throughout the gospel record, you have statements that are general, like He went on from village to village doing signs and wonders and miracles and delivering people from demons. There's just no way to count it all up. So the people who were living at that time were exposed to that and He had a massive crowd of people following Him everywhere He went, sprinkled, of course, you remember, with the leaders of Israel, the Pharisees and the scribes who collectively were responsible for basically the existent Judaism that was reigning over the minds and hearts of the people at the time. And they were following Jesus doggedly, not because they believed in Him, because they wanted to rather find ways to discredit Him in order that they might kill Him.
But the only reasonable conclusion that an eyewitness should have to what he saw and what he heard would be that Jesus is God. The testimony was so clear and so obvious. However, in spite of what was reasonable, in spite of what was manifestly clear, in spite of the fact that people saw the miracles day after day after day after day, the human heart, the human mind is hard and blind and dead to the truth. And so here we are already at the end of the third chapter of Mark and we haven't heard a human testimony that Jesus is God. The Father said it at His baptism, "This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." The demon said it in chapter 1, "We know who You are on behalf of the rest of the demons, You're the Holy One of God." So testimony has been affirmed but it is testimony from before, testimony from demons, testimony from the eternal Father.
So all the evidence is being mounted up. People have not made the right response. Some have. Jesus now has disciples and out of the disciples He has Twelve Apostles more intimately close to Him who will be trained to preach the message of who He is. But most people haven't come to the right conclusion in spite of what they've seen, and they've seen it...they've seen it. They've experienced it. Most people would say He's a good teacher. That's what they said. He's a man from God...because only a man from God could do these things. That pretty much is what they said...He's a good teacher, He's a humble man, He's wise, He's compassionate, He delivers people from the horrendous oppression of disease. He delivers them from the terrible possession of demons. This is a good man. This is a model of virtue. This is a powerful man. He must be...He must be tapping into divine power.
That's what they said but they stopped there. Now that would be pretty much the way it's been ever since. People say about Jesus He's a good man, He's a wise man, He's a noble teacher. He's a model of virtue. He's a righteous man. That's pretty much what you hear. Even critics of Christianity, even enemies of Christianity, even atheists tend to put Jesus in the category of a sort of a misguided spiritual revolutionary who came to help the poor and the oppressed and deliver people from their burdens and even though they deny the miracles, they think He was making a noble effort to help people and thus He's a good man.
But that's not an option. That is one option no one has because good people, wise people, sensible people don't say they are God. As soon as you say you are God, you have just eliminated yourself from the category of the normal...certainly from the category of the wise and sensible and reasonable and good because that is such an outlandish claim. When you say you are God, you have just eliminated the possibility for us to say you're a good teacher because that....that just doesn't fit into the category of good teaching.
I told you in the last century, C.S. Lewis, the great English writer, said, "When Jesus claimed to be God, there were only three options. Either He is God or He is a lunatic, or He is a liar pulling off a very, very grand scheme of deception." Those are the options. But you can't really come to Jesus with some patronizing nonsense about Him being a good teacher. As soon as somebody says they're God, they have left that category permanently.
So we have some options. He is God which would be the right option since He had power over disease, He had power over demons, and He had power over death. He raised dead people. He healed sick people. And He delivered people from demonic oppression. That's all an evidence of divine power which gives testimony to the fact that He is God. But if you're still fighting that in your heart, you have two other options. He is a lunatic, He's a crazy person like other crazy people who say they're God. Or He is a liar who really pulled off a very deceptive scheme, in fact so deceptive that we have Christianity today two thousand years later still flourishing. So those are the options that C.S. Lewis put before us and I kind of think he probably got them out of this passage.
Now last week we looked at option number one that Jesus is a lunatic and we saw it in verses 20 and 21. Let's look at it. "He came to a house, literally, in Capernaum, probably which was the headquarters of His Galilean ministry, maybe Peter's house. And the crowd gathered again to such an extent they couldn't even eat a meal." He is now collecting a massive crowd, swelling crowd because they're bringing to Him all the sick and all the demon possessed, everybody with issues and the people who are well are coming because they've never seen anything like this. Nothing has ever happened like this in the history of the world and it's just collecting a massive crowd, so great that Jesus is crushed. He can't even eat a meal. This is then dangerous to Him and His family has gotten word about this, they heard about it. They're not there. They don't believe in Him. John 7:5 says, "His family didn't believe in Him. His mother did, of course, Mary, she knew who He was from the time an angel gave her the announcement and she knew she had never known a man and had a child by the Holy Spirit, so she knew who He was, believed in Him. He was clearly her Savior and her Lord. Joseph believed in Him because it was announced to him who He would be, as well. And Joseph probably is dead because he doesn't appear anywhere in the record of the New Testament gospels. But the brothers and the sisters and aunts and uncles and cousins did not. And it says here in verse 20 that...or verse 21, "When they heard about it..." What did they hear? They heard about Jesus' exploits. They heard that He was just collecting a massive crowd, numbering in the tens or twenties of thousands of people. They were crushing Him. And their determination was this, they went out to take custody of Him for they were saying He's lost His senses. They conclude that He's a lunatic. They conclude that He's lost His mind, that He's insane.
Now remember, they're in Nazareth. That's not a very far distance from Capernaum, but they aren't following Jesus. They don't believe in His claims. And keep in mind, the New Testament says He did no miracles in Nazareth cause of their unbelief. He had been there but they tried to kill Him after one visit. So these people are operating with only hearsay and they're hearing information about the fact that supposed healings and deliverances are happening and miracles are being done. They're not buying into it. They are not eyewitnesses to it, they haven't experienced it, their conclusion is that this is the...this is the final expression of a very odd child. Now remember, He had brothers and sisters clearly indicated to us in the New Testament. Their names are even given, James and Jude and Joses. And He had sisters also. They were born to Joseph and Mary, so Joseph lived a while during those 30 years, the silent years of Jesus, they were having a family. And there were brothers and sisters and they grew up with Jesus and Jesus is God in human flesh.
So this little boy, this kid, this junior high or early high schooler, this adult man is God in human flesh which while He didn't show His deity, He didn't do miracles, didn't teach, as far as we know, He was still sinless and perfect and that would come across as very odd...would it not?...in a family full of wretched sinners. It's touch enough to get along with your brothers and sisters without being perfect. That would rankle them endlessly. They would never be able to comprehend Him. They would never be able to understand Him. They would be blown away by every response that He had which would be a perfect response measured against their imperfect reactions to everything.
And so the conclusion they had was this is a very bizarre child and now He's gone totally off the deep end. So for the sake of the poor guy, we've got to go rescue Him, we need to go get Him. So they made that determination...the word there "to take custody" means to seize, like in an arrest. It's used a number of times...I think eight times in Mark for arresting someone, including John the Baptist and Jesus. And so they decide they're going to do that because He's lost His senses.
Go down to verse 31, "They come, they arrive and Mary comes, because I think she knew the truth and she's there as a protective influence. And His brothers arrived and they're standing outside the house. They sent word to Him and they called Him. The crowd was sitting around Him and they said to Him, 'Behold, Your mother, Your brothers are outside looking for You.' Answering them, He said, 'Who are My mother and My brothers?'"
Wow! Is He ignorant? No, of course He knows who they are. Not only that, He loves them. In fact, later on they will come to believe in Him, Acts 1:14 says, they'll believe in Him after the resurrection. They'll be a part of the first church. They'll be there on the Day of Pentecost. So He loved them right into the Kingdom and He loved His mother because He committed her to John to care for her when He died on the cross. It's not about that.
What He is saying there is, "Look, the time for all human relationships to end has come. The only relationship to Me that matters is a spiritual one." So in a sense, He keeps them at a distance. It doesn't matter that you're related to Me through My mother. That carries no weight in the Kingdom. That's not going to get you into the Kingdom. "Looking about those who were sitting around Him, He said, 'Behold, My mother and My brothers. These are the people who have a true relationship to Me cause they're the disciples and the followers who have committed themselves to Me in faith as their Lord and Messiah. For whoever does the will of God, he's My brother and sister and mother.'"
There's no advantage in having a relationship to Jesus that is merely human. It gains you nothing. The only relationship to Jesus that matters, He says, is the one that's spiritual. Listen to what He said in John 6:40 about that. He said...here He says, "Whoever does the will of God, he's My brother, sister and mother, he has a relationship to Me." But in John 6:40, "This is the will of My Father that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life."
What is the will of the Father? To behold the Son, that is to assess Him, to look at Him carefully, thoughtfully, believe in Him and receive eternal life. Jesus said, "The people sitting around Me, some of them have done that, they have a relationship to Me." If your conclusion about Jesus is that He's a lunatic, you don't have a relationship to Him...you don't have a relationship to Him. The plus in this is that they were ignorant...they were ignorant. They were not firsthand eyewitnesses. They hadn't been there following, watching. So they were making their conclusion out of ignorance. They rejected Him as insane, taking all the things that were coming back to them as hearsay. And later on they came to faith in Him, they came to believe in Him because when they got the full information, the full revelation, they embraced Him, they did the right thing. So there are many people who might conclude that Jesus was insane, crazy, out of His mind, over the top, had a Messiah complex, thought He was the Savior of the world when He wasn't. That's forgivable because that might come from ignorance of the truth.
The second possibility is that He is a liar and that's the one we see in verse 22, and I want you to look at it, verses 22 and following. "The scribes," now we move from the family to the scribes, they're the ones who decide that He's a liar. "The scribes who come down from Jerusalem." Now that's very important because now we've got the big boys coming down from the center of authority in Israel, the city of Jerusalem. These are the elite, they start to show up. Now there have been...there are Pharisees and scribes, those are the theological brains, the brain trust of Judaism of the time, the ones responsible for designing it and propagating it. They're after Jesus. They don't like His message. They don't like what He says. They don't like what He does. They want Him dead, they've already concluded that back in chapter 3, just go back to verse 6, "The Pharisees had already begun conspiring with the Herodians, another power group, as to how they might destroy Him." So they've made their conclusion. They want Him dead. They want Him out of the way. But He keeps going from town to town to town and we saw that back early in the gospel of Mark. He's just ubiquitous, He's going everywhere all the time. In fact, in 1:28 it says, "New about Him spread everywhere and to all the surrounding district of Galilee." And everywhere He went, every village, every location, out in the countryside, everywhere He went He was doing these miracles, making His claims, teaching this gospel of the Kingdom, gospel of salvation and the leaders were there listening and reacting negatively.
So finally the word gets to Jerusalem. Jerusalem sends some delegates. This...this shows that the brain trust, the elite have weighed in on the fate of Jesus. Over in chapter 7 verse 1, "The Pharisees and some of the scribes gathered around Him when they had come from Jerusalem," chapter 7. Finally they get Him back to Jerusalem and that's where the same people come together and seal His fate, as it were, and have Him crucified by the Romans. So the heavyweights come down. They're coming with the party line, folks. This is not their personal opinion, this is the line that the Pharisees and the scribes have come to.
They didn't just confront Him with this once. Matthew has a parallel passage to this, Matthew 12:24 to 32, the same account. But Luke gives this account in Luke 11:14 to 23 of a different occasion. This was in Galilee, the account of Luke is in Judea at a later time, where the same accusation comes and the same conversation takes place. If you go back to Matthew 9:34, they said He did what He did by the power of Satan. Back to Matthew 10:25 he reflects on the fact that they had said what He does He does by the power of Satan. This is their mantra now and they're propagating this with the people. So this is one of those occasions, we have at least two of them described, one by Matthew and Mark, the same one by Luke. Now this conclusion can be far more sinister and spiritually fatal than the first one. Let's see what they said.
They said this, they summed it up, "He's possessed by Beelzebul." That's their final judgment, the final verdict on the evidence. The verdict on His teaching and the verdict on His miracles, He's possessed by Beelzebul. Now why don't they conclude that He's just insane? Because they have to explain the supernatural. Insanity doesn't explain the supernatural. It doesn't tell you anything. You only say that if you don't know that there's a supernatural element. Look, they knew that He had this massive power over demons. Demons were running amok out of the people that He had commanded them to leave. They knew He had power over disease. They had to explain the supernatural power, no getting around it. And it was either God or Satan because those are the only two supernatural persons who have that kind of power, God and His holy angels, Satan and his unholy angels. They're unwilling to say it's the power of God which was the logical thing to say which is what the sort of popular opinion was and they had to change that. No man could do this except God be with him. But they had to make people think it was satanic so that was their mantra. He's possessed by Beelzebul.
Now Beelzebul had become a name for Satan. There was another one the Jews used, Belial, remember that? Beelzebul was a name for Satan. It was basically a name that meant what Mark says they said in the second statement, verse 22, He cast out the demons by the ruler of the demons. Beelzebul was a name to designate the ruler of the demons. And Luke says Beelzebul means the ruler of the demons in Luke 11:15. By the way, that word Beelzebul is used five times in the Old Testament, so it had been around a long time. The Jews were familiar with it and used it.
Now where did it come from? Probably from Beelzebub which came from Baal. Baal means lord and the Ekronites...Ekron was a city in Philistia and according to 1 Kings, or rather 2 Kings chapter 1, the Ekronites had a god named Baalzebub which means the Baal of the high place, or Baal meaning lord, lord of the high place, lord of the dwelling, lord of the temple. That was Beelzebub, that was the Ekronite god.
Well the Jews purposefully corrupted Beelzebub into Beelzebul because when you change it from the B to t he L, it goes from being the lord of the high place, to being the lord of the manure...a very purposeful corruption showing Jewish disdain for the false Canaanitish god. So through the years, this Beelzebul, lord of the dung, or lord of the flies that collect on the dung, had become the name for Satan.
So what is the conclusion of the elite religious leadership of Israel? Jesus is not the holy Lord of heaven. They use the vilest possible slander and blasphemy and say the Son of God is nothing but a servant of Beelzebul. Most people wouldn't say that. I don't think most people in Israel would say that. I think it was a hard sell for them to convince the people that this was actually who He was. I don't think there are very many people that would say that today. Some would, some would say that Jesus was satanic but it's pretty rare. If you reject Jesus, you probably don't want to say that, you probably never have said that, you might never have thought that. There are atheists who reject Christianity who don't go that far. But really, you certainly can't say that He's just a good man. If He's not a lunatic, He's a very bad man. He is a great liar. He is a massive deceiver. He's trying to convince people that he's God and he's got supernatural power and if he's not God, that supernatural power has to be satanic.
There was reason in their conclusion. Really, because of their unbelief, they were stuck with it. They couldn't just say He was crazy because crazy people can't do that. He had supernatural power. So that's what they said. I love the next verse, verse 23, "He called them to Himself..." Guys, come here, come here. I love that. Come over here. He knew who they were, He knew where they had come from and He knew exactly what He needed to say in front of all the people. He began speaking to them in parables, or analogies, parabole means to lay something alongside. You've got something you don't understand, you lay something you do understand and it makes it clear. It's not an actual parable in the technical sense, but an illustration or an analogy. And He gives them a negative one and a positive one. And they're just logical statements.
He starts with a logical absurdity and then goes to a logical reality. Here's the absurdity. "He called them to Himself and began speaking to them in these kinds of parables. Number one, how can Satan cast out Satan?" Good teachers ask questions, don't they? Ask questions the students have to answer. Even better, ask questions that put students on the horns of a dilemma. Even better, ask questions that makes student's comments absurd. How can Satan cast out Satan? How can he do that? I mean, that is an absurdity. While there might be inconsistency in his kingdom, and there certainly is because he's not omnipresent and he's not omnipotent, therefore he can't run everything all the time everywhere among all the demons. And while there's a certain amount of freedom in the chaos of evil to express itself in different ways, he is certainly not by design going around tearing up his own kingdom. He's not going around exposing people with demons who are sitting comfortably in synagogues doing his damning work. He wants them clandestine and unknown, not exposed. But every time Jesus goes into a synagogue, the demons scream. And, "Oops, there goes our cover." He's not designing to destroy himself and his enterprise. Listen, this is a being that was created originally as a holy angel and lived in the presence of God and is extremely magnificent and wise, been around a long time. Satan is no fool. He is cunning. He is deceptive. He is wily. He is conniving. It's absurd to think that Satan would be running around dismantling his kingdom.
And then he makes some truisms, some axioms, self-evident statements. "If a kingdom is divided against itself, the kingdom can't stand. If a house is divided against itself, the house will not be able to stand." House being some entity, any entity. That's obvious, that's a truism.
So, verse 26, "If Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, he is telos ekka(??), it's over. He's just brought an end to himself. He just brought the whole thing down on his own head.
So he says, "You've got to be kidding. I mean, that is a logical absurdity. Satan is not going to do that. Satan wants to destroy the work of God, he doesn't want to destroy his own work." From that logical absurdity He goes to a positive reality that they can't deny in verse 27. Let's go positive on this one. "On the other hand, no one can enter the strong man's house and plunder his property unless he first binds the strong man and then he will plunder his house."
Is that obvious? That's another truism. That's axiomatic. That's a positive kind of axiom. Look, if you want to go in and get the property of someone, you have to overpower the guy. You've got to be stronger than he is to get his property. So Jesus is saying the only logical conclusion here is that I am stronger than Satan and there is only one who is stronger than Satan and who is that? It's God. You can't enter the strong man's house. The strong man is Satan.
What about his property? His property...if you're going to enter the strong man's house and plunder his property...what property does Satan have? Well Satan is a spirit, right? He doesn't wear a red suit and a pitchfork and a pointed tail and horns and all of that. Satan is a spirit. So he doesn't possess anything material. So he doesn't have a warehouse with a lot of Halloween costumes. Satan doesn't possess anything material. His whole world is immaterial. All his demons are called spirits, they're called unclean spirits. So you have a spirit world with nothing material. So when He goes into Satan's domain and plunders his property, what's his property? His property would be the demons and the people that they have commandeered. If you're going to go in and you're going to take power over the demons and scatter the demons and deliver the people that they have possessed, then you have to bind the strong man to pull it off, right?
But that's exactly what Jesus did. He exposed the demons. He dismissed the demons. And He rescued the people who had been possessed by the demons. He plundered the strong man's house. You have to bind the strong man to do that. He's going to pull that off if Satan's stopping him, therefore, whoever Jesus is, He's stronger than Satan. They've set themselves up for this one because they said He did what He did by the power of Satan. The problem with that is that's a logical absurdity for Satan to cast out Satan. And if He's not Satan casting out Satan, then He's greater than Satan and greater than Satan is God. He's able to crush the kingdom of darkness.
No, this is not a lunatic. That doesn't work. And Jesus is not satanic, deceptive liar who represents hell and wants everybody to think he represents heaven. Oh there's been a lot of religious leaders like that, but they don't heal diseases, cast out demons and raise dead people.
Who is He? Well you're left with one final option and that is He is God...He's Lord. And we see that kind of played out in the final verses, verses 28 to 30, I'm going to say this very fast, so hang on. "Truly I say to you, all sins shall be forgiven the sons of men and whatever blasphemies they utter, but whoever blasphemes the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness but is guilty of an eternal sin." What's that eternal sin? "Because they were saying He has an unclean spirit."
The eternal sin for them was this...Jesus is demonic. They went to hell for that. You say, "Wait a minute. What if I said that? Would I go to hell for that?" Not necessarily, if you said that without full information. That's a blasphemy that's forgivable, right? But if that's your final conclusion with full revelation, if that's your response to the full understanding of the gospel, the full revelation of Christ contained on the pages of Scripture, if that's your final conclusion, you could never be forgiven because you've had full revelation, you've had full light. What else is there? You can't get anymore if that's your final conclusion, that's an eternal sin.
That's what He's saying. Now this is what is called Apostasy. This is an apostate. Now I have to say, these are unusual people here. This is a very unusual circumstance. This is...you can't just catapult this into some universal category here. You will please notice that it is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit but it's not denying tongues, or denying a healing, or denying some power display, supposed power display of the Holy Spirit. It is blaspheming the Holy Spirit by saying Jesus is demonic.
How does that blaspheme the Holy Spirit? Because when Jesus came into the world, the New Testament says, He set aside the prerogatives of His own power. He said, "I only do what the Father shows Me to do, tells Me to do. And He did it by the power of the Spirit." That's what the incarnation meant, that when He laid aside His glory, became a man, He restricted the independent use of His divine attributes and He left Himself to the will of the Father and the power of the Spirit. Whatever He did was the Father's will and was done through the Spirit's power. So if you say Jesus is satanic, you have just blasphemed the Holy Spirit cause the Holy Spirit doing His work through Him. The Holy Spirit came upon Him at His baptism, the Holy Spirit led Him from there into the wilderness to be tempted, was with Him through His temptation. The Holy Spirit then anointed Him to preach and away He went preaching and doing all His ministry.
If you were there and you saw it and you heard it and your final conclusion was He's demonic...you're damned, you can't be saved because that's your ultimate conclusion with full revelation. So this is unique to those people who had that full revelation.
What about today? Could somebody commit this? Right. He could? Look, we've all been forgiven for rejecting Christ, haven't we? We've all been forgiven for rejecting Christ because we weren't born saved. So we've all been forgiven for that. But the one who won't be forgiven is the one called the apostate who gets full exposure to the truth, full exposure to the gospel, full revelation and makes the final conclusion...it's not true, I reject Christ. It's a deception.
If that's where you end up after full exposure, that's what's called apostasy...that's unforgivable. The Holy Spirit's testimony is that He is Lord. The Holy Spirit did this mighty work through Him to demonstrate that He is...He is Lord.
Now look, there's a commentary on this that I want to show you, just briefly. Turn to the book of Hebrews, written to Jews, written to those Jews in the first century who were well aware of the ministry of Jesus, the miracles of Jesus, the teaching of Jesus, the power over demons, disease, death. But they hadn't come to Christ. They weren't believing. They knew the truth. They knew the gospel. And they were holding back. So in Hebrews 2:3 comes the first of several warnings to them in this book, written to, obviously, Hebrews, Jews. "How shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?"
If you come all the way to the full understanding of the greatness of this salvation and you walk away, how are you going to escape judgment? Because, "After it was at the first spoken through the Lord and confirmed to us by those who heard...namely the Apostles...who testified both by signs and wonders and miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit according to His own will."
He says, "Look, you knew about Christ. You knew about Christ's life and ministry. You knew about it from the eyewitnesses, namely the Apostles who had the signs and wonders and gifts of an Apostle and affirmation of all that they said. If you neglect after that kind of evidence, how you going to escape judgment?"
Look at chapter 6, here's another warning to the same people. Chapter 6 verse 4, "In the case of those who have once been enlightened...that's knowledge, mental...you are enlightened, you had information, revelation, you tasted the heavenly gift...heavenly gift being the kingdom, Christ, the message of salvation, the gospel, you tasted it, you didn't eat and drink of it, but you tasted it and you were partaker of the Holy Spirit." Maybe you got healed. Maybe somebody you know got healed. You were there when the miracles were poured out by the power of the Holy Spirit and you tasted the good word of God when Jesus taught it and you tasted the power of the age to come miracles. In other words, you were exposed to all of it and you've now fallen away...turn away, walk away. It's impossible to renew you to repentance because you crucified to yourself the Son of God and put Him to open shame. You say, "I reject full revelation and enlightenment, you tasted it, you touched it, you were there, you're exposed to it, your decision is to walk away...you join the crucifiers. You conclude He's not God. And with those supernatural powers, must be satanic.
You're left with that. You say He has an unclean spirit after full revelation. You can't be saved. Verse 6, "It's impossible to renew them again to repentance.
One final warning that I want to show you is in chapter 10, verse 26. "If we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins." Look, if you just go on living your life of sin after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there's nothing else. There's no other sacrifice. If you reject Christ and His sacrifice, there's nothing waiting for you except verse 27, "A terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries."
And then verse 29, "How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled underfoot the Son of God and regarded as unclean the blood of the Covenant by which He was sanctified as insulted...whom?...the Spirit of grace who is the power behind the life and ministry of Jesus."
Look, all that's left for you if your final decision is with full knowledge to reject, fearful judgment, terrifying judgment, severer punishment, the hottest hell is for those who rejected with the most knowledge. There are perhaps some of you who have rejected Christ. Your knowledge is increased today. You are in danger of greater judgment if you conclude that He is not the Lord He claimed to be. You need to be frightened by this. Some of you perhaps have thought that you were guilty of some blasphemy that could never be forgiven. May I remind you in final comments that the Apostle Paul in 1 Timothy, and I love this, said this, chapter 1, verse 12, "I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who strengthened me because He considered me faithful, putting me into ministry even though I was formerly a...what?...blasphemer." All manner of blasphemy can be forgiven except that final blasphemy that says with full revelation, "I reject Christ." And you're left with the fact of explaining His supernatural power as satanic. And you stand then with the crucifiers, crucifying Him again and putting Him to open shame.
Much better to remember Matthew 12:32 says, "You can speak a word against the Son of Man and be forgiven." We're all blasphemers of a sort who have been forgiven if we've come to faith in Christ. Don't turn away, get the full revelation and respond in full trust.
Father, again Your Word is clear to us and it is convincing and convicting and converting. May it do all those things even today, we pray to Your glory in Christ's name. Amen.
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NOTE: I apologize for the lackluster quality of this photograph. I was at the beginning stages of food photography, and this is my old point-and-shoot. One of these days, I'll re-shoot this recipe, as it's worth making. Pinky Promise!
I'm at the tail end of cleaning out my freezer. I found a package of ground pork and ground beef that I wanted to use, before it expired. I remembered watching one of my favorite (new) Food Network chefs (Anne Burrell, Secrets of a Restaurant Chef) making a recipe for meatballs. That must've been months ago, but I decided this would be the best way to use these meats.
I have to tell you, that this really is an excellent recipe for meatballs. Those of you who have been following my blog (and I sure appreciate all of you) know that I like to show how I make things-- me, being highly visual myself in how I learn.
Let's just say that something happened on the way home from the office and I felt cranky... downright ornery. Many of you foodies understand the therapy that goes with chopping and being in "the zone". It's that forcefield that I put up that my husband interprets as "don't come in the kitchen...don't talk to me and don't ask me when dinner's going to be ready". He quietly read a book and I got to work...and I worked...and then I realized that this recipe should be made on a lazy Sunday. Too late! I was on a mission to finish this recipe but the natural light was fading (and I try not to do flash photography).
I abandoned focusing on photography, because I didn't want eat late. I sure hustled on this meal. My photos do not do justice to how delicious this meal turned out to be.
I got 24 meatballs... a little bigger than a golfball...
I browned these in 3 batches and then roasted in the oven for 15 more minutes.
As for marinara sauce, I stopped buying bottled spaghetti sauce years ago-- though I love Trader Joe's Tuscan style marinara sauce for quick dinners.-- I have an easy recipe here. So many of you have your own way.
My son claimed that these meatballs were the very best he's ever eaten. That's a huge compliment. I have to say, that the combination of ground pork, beef (and I bought 1/2 pound of ground veal), the parmesan-romano blend (all I had), eggs, cooked onion and garlic and freshly cut flat-leaf parsley was really good.
I ended up freezing half of this meal for one of those nights when I just don't have the energy to cook.
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Lady Panthers shutout Lady Tigers
THOMAS — After an 0-0 draw at Teton on Wednesday in less than desirable playing conditions the Snake River Lady Panthers returned home Thursday for a duel with county rival Aberdeen.
While the sunny skies did not deliver the warm temperatures we have been used to this summer, it did allow the teams conditions to play some very aggressive soccer.
Ivy Goff's goal in the 28th minute proved to be the game-winner as the Lady Panthers earned a hard fought 1-0 win.
While Snake River led on the scoreboard for most of the game, the visitors from Aberdeen had many, many more scoring chances.
But the advantage in scoring chances proved to make no difference in the end result for the Lady Tigers.
The opening 20 minutes was a defensive struggle as neither team could really mount much, if any of an offensive run.
Goff's late first half goal came as she beat two Aberdeen defenders and found herself one-on-one with the Aberdeen keeper, who she promptly beat with a shot into the right side of the net.
During halftime Snake River coach Randy Turpin voiced to his team how they needed to improve their play in the middle of the field, while Aberdeen head coach and former Snake River player Kenna Henicksman told her team that she was proud of their effort, but the needed to be more aggressive on their runs towards the Snake River goal.
Easier said than done for an Aberdeen squad that had just 11 players.
It was evident midway through the first half that fatigue was going to be a factor, it proved to be for some players. BUt despite being tired, many players kept running the entire 80 minutes.
During the second half Aberdeen did mount one very good scoring opportunity when Priscilla Villegas picked off a Snake River pass and then broke through two defenders and took a shot at a wide open net.
The shot went wide, but sent a reminder to the Lady Panthers that Aberdeen was not going to go away without a fight.
For the reminder of the half the two teams kept the ball in the middle of the field with neither mounting much of a threat.
When the final whistle blew the mood of the two teams was vastly different.
Despite winning Snake River was not happy with the way the played, while Aberdeen was thrilled with the outcome.
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Talented youth take the stage at festival
Area youth brought some "magic" to the stage Saturday as they entertained a crowd for more than 90 minutes.
Of the nearly 20 performers, two young women performed at the Summer Moon Festival scholarship pageant, another tried out earlier in the day for the Disney Channel and a third recently returned home from trying out for American Idol.
In total, 17 area youth took to the stage Saturday and displayed their talent and courage in front of more than 150 people gathered in the Summer Moon Festival Entertainment Tent.
"I am just in awe at how many talented kids there are in this community," Youth Talent Show organizer Jackie Martell said after their performance as fans lingered around the stage congratulating
the performers. "All we did was send out a few fliers to churches and schools and all these kids are calling wanting to be in the show.
"You always have the kids who are first-timers and you really want to support them and you always have the kids who have been doing this for years and years," she said. "In all of them you can see the magic they bring to the stage because they become so comfortable and they are really enjoying themselves — there is nothing better in the world when you see that in kids."
Martell said she loves to watch all the area youth grow and mature on stage.
While she watched competitors aged from 7 to 18 blossom as they gained confidence, she also gets a front row seat as she watches her daughter, Shelby, and her son, Liam, perform.
Shelby and Liam performed a snippet of the play "Willy Wonka Jr." being performed in Sidney at the Sock and Buskin Community Theatre on Sept. 9 and 10.
"That is a special part of being in this," Martell said. "I have been a part of the (Noon) Optimist club for years and we do a lot in this community to support the youth, but once your kids become involved it takes on a life of its own, watching them get up and enjoy something so much."
Ali McClintock and Alicia Sawmiller were two performers who also competed in the Miss Summer Moon scholarship pageant. McClintock performed "Break Even" by The Script as she played her guitar.
Sawmiller signed the lyrics of "Party in the U.S.A." by Miley Cyrus.
The 17-year-old enrolled in a sign language class at Wapakoneta High School when her friends were taking the class and teaching her words and phrases.
"I really liked it so I started taking the class myself," said Sawmiller, who started taking the sign language classes two years ago. "As I go forward, I would like to learn to sign more songs.
"I intend to do both competitions again next year because I had so much fun," she said.
Alex Bauer intends to bring her friend, Ashley Haag, to sing next year. Bauer performed "Itsy, Bitsy, Teenie, Weenie, Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" on the keyboard.
"It was fun, but I was kind of nervous," Bauer said. "I will leave here remembering watching everybody perform and all the different talents."
Kaelan Voght sang and played guitar to "The Only Exception" by Paramore. Earlier in the day, Voght traveled to Columbus to try out for the Disney Show. She learned to play guitar two years ago and "thought it would be fun to participate in this contest."
The show ended with 16-year-old Cedric Gagel, who traveled to St. Louis to try out for American Idol.
He told the crowd the American Idol judges liked his singing but he needed to build his confidence for being on stage.
Gagel sang "Follow Me" as all the performers stood in front of the stage as he tried to build that stage presence.
"It was crazy — they are cheering, they are clapping and singing along — you just look out and they are supporting you," Gagel said. "It was great feeling."
The son of Tammy and Mike Gagel said he started singing because his father played the Oak Ridge Boys at home a lot when he was younger and he liked to sing the song "Elvira." He then branched out and sang other songs.
During his time in St. Louis three weeks ago, Gagel, whose sister, Tori, competed in the Miss Summer Moon pageant, said he developed a lot of friendships and gained a lot of experience and knowledge.
"You can't be nervous on stage, you just have to be yourself and as long as you are yourself the people are going to like you," Gagel said. "If you try to be somebody else, they are not going to like you — so you just have to be yourself and give them your best and that is all anybody can ask of you."


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Preliminaries for the contest will be held over the next three Tuesdays (Jan. 22 and 29, and Feb. 5) at O'Niell's Pub (4310 Central SE). Songwriting categories are for Americana, blues, country, folk/
The point is to perform your own material (no covers allowed), but your songs may be cowritten. Performing songwriters can bring up to two accompanists on stage with them at the preliminaries, but that's it. If you make it all the way to the Feb. 9 finals at Grandma's Music and Sound, you'll be able to bring a full band.
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Replacement RS5000 steering stabilizer for stock and lifted applications. Improve tire wear and provide better control.
easy to install improves steering.. must have with 31x10.50
Great product, ordered it because I got a 4.25" lift and 33' mud tires and it rides better than stock. the dampener is almost twice the size of the factory one.
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Easy install you need a steering knuckle removal tool to remove ome damper and bbaster once you get the tapperd stud out it's an easy replacement. Check you tube for information.
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Replacing the steering damper was a great thing. I get a better ride out of my TJ with the Rancho damper which insulates the driver's wheel effectively. Much better ride with a smoother 'feel'. The only difficult part of the install was the removal of the OEM damper with it's tapered bolt. It took three cycles of applying heat to break the bolt free. The install was easy after that...good fit with the correct hardware supplied too...
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DERBY- North Country Union Junior High School (NCUJHS) board member Richard Cartee shared bad news at the October meeting. As a member of the building Committee, Cartee said the engineer and new foreman have discovered more problems with the school's physical plant. Inadequate heating in some classrooms and bathrooms, aging equipment in the kitchen, fire doors that may be a safety hazard have already been identified as needing fixing. Recently they learned that there are problems with the hot water in several classrooms as well as the locker room.For more of the story see Friday's Express.


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When brothers Andrew and Dan Callaway put together a band with their father Liam, they chose to call it England in 1819.
When brothers Andrew and Dan Callaway put together a band with their father Liam, they chose to call it England in 1819.
The name was taken from the title of a Percy Bysshe Shelley sonnet that Andrew said they discovered while "flipping through a poetry book."
It wasn't so much the content of the poem as it was the title that grabbed the Callaways' attention.
"Our very first album we made was definitely (comprised of) this atmospheric, dream-like super slow music," Andrew said. "And we just thought (England in 1819) was a great name for that music because it had this kind of built in sense of space and time.
"It was far away in terms of place and in years, and that just seemed to incorporate the sense that we were trying to (convey) musically."
England in 1819 offers an atmospheric, ethereal sound that blends the pensiveness of British folk-rock with the dreaminess of shoegazing indie rock while also mixing in elements of everything from post-punk to classical. The term "chamber rock" has been used to describe the band's unique sound.
Although their family roots are in Athens, Ga., and they now call Baton Rouge, La., home, the Callaway brothers grew up in the United Kingdom, where their father taught U.S. Air Force bands. Andrew lived there from age 2 to 12, and Dan from birth to age 10.
"Like anybody's childhood, those years were just great," Andrew said. "For us, England will always represent these really fun years of our lives and will kind of be tied to a feeling of innocence and not having any stresses."
The family moved back to the United States in 1994, and Andrew and Dan enrolled in separated music conservatories in Ohio. Andrew studied composition, and Dan studied French horn.
England in 1819 began as an outlet for songs that Andrew composed. The group has released two albums, "Three Cheers for Bertie" and "Alma," and plans to put out an EP next spring.
Andrew said he draws inspiration from the early works of Radiohead and Coldplay as well as from newer electronic outfits such as Beach House and Future House.
Liam's involvement in the late '70s and early '80s Athens, Ga., scene that spawned the B-52s and R.E.M., also contributes to England in 1819's sound.
"My dad real big into music when (Dan and I) were kids, so we were constantly surrounded by it," Andrew said.
And their musical lineage goes back another generation. Liam's father, World War II veteran William Callaway, was a traveling musician during the late 1940s and early '50s.
"It was kind of like a big band type thing and my grandfather played trombone," Andrew said of Bill Callaway and the Counts. "They released one 45 (RPM single). We still have a few copies of it around somewhere."


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Organisers details do not seem to have got in here so here is the info :
All bookings to :
Paul Lohr, 3, Churchfield Road, Tewin, Herts. AL6 0JX.
Tel : 01438 717709.
E-mail : paulfnlohr [at] googlemail.com
Many thanks.
Tewin Memorial Hall, 11, Lower Green, Tewin, Hertfordshire AL6 0JW.
Sellers : 9am to 1pm. £5. CLEAN jumble inside where a single table will be provided. Outside pitches in car park.
Buyers : 10am to 12.30pm. Admission 50p.
Refreshments and indoor seating area available.
If parking in village be considerate please as we wish to come back next year.
Tewin is a small village to the west of Hertford. It has pleasant lanes surrounding so make a cycling day of it. There are two pubs to retire to when the buying and selling becomes too much.
Railway Stations : Hertford (3 miles) : Hertford North – Kings Cross/Stevenage line, Hertford East – Liverpool Street line. Welwyn North : (3.5 miles) - Kings Cross - Cambridge/Peterborough Line.


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After AMA Pro Racing and Virginia International Raceway had their little hubbub over hosting one of the last road racing events on the AMA calendar, the news that the two parties had fallen-out meant that the TTXGP round scheduled to piggyback off the VIR round was by proxy also cancelled. With TTXGP's New Hampshire round (yes, you read that right…New Hampshire) also cancelled because of worries over competitor attendance, TTXGP's joint-round with the FIM e-Power Championship at Laguna Seca threatened to be the series's final running of the 2011 season.
With rumors swirling at the US GP that TTXGP was hard at work securing a final round, we get word tonight that the final round will be held at the venerable Miller Motorsports Park on the weekend of September 3rd & 4th. With MMP hosting Bike Fest (a regional gathering of motorcycle enthusiasts) during that weekend, TTXGP will presumably become a part of the Fests' festivities. That is of course if anyone actually shows up to the racing event.


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Entice your feline to eat soft food by placing it in a microwave-safe dish and heating it until warm to the touch. The produced aromas and added warmth often appeal to kitties.read more
Trimming your cat's nails is essential, since they grow in layers and fraying or worn ends should be removed to avoid any injury. Still, cat nail clipping is a skill that's important to learn how to do correctly, since most cats don't necessarily enjoy the experience. Of course your veterinarian will be happy to show you the step-by-step instructions for clipping your cat's nails safely, but here are a couple of tips to keep in mind:
Keep your cat calm
Creating a calm environment with which to trim your cat's nails is the key to doing it successfully, says pet expert Steven May, a certified veterinary journalist. "The best ways to keep your cat calm during the nail trimming process is to get him used to it at an early age, and use treats as rewards," he said. "When your cat is young, get him accustomed to having your hands on his paws by gently rubbing them when he's relaxed. This bonding will make it much easier come clipper time."
It also helps if you remain calm, as well. You can try to hold your cat on your lap, but you risk being accidently scratched. Instead, May recommends having your cat stand on a table to avoid this. He also suggests trimming nails before your cat has eaten, so you can reward him after each paw with treats for being a good kitty. If your cat starts squirming before you finish, let him go and start again after he calms down.
Use the right tools
The most common type of clipper is called the "guillotine" model. "It works by inserting the nail through the opening and closing the handle like a three-hole punch, which then runs a blade through the nail and slices it safely off," said May. "This style is easier to use, but the blades will dull over time."
Another style of clipper is the scissors type, which has a slight curve and demands a bit more technique. It offers more cutting strength than the guillotine style, and works particularly well with longer nails and dew claws, or the nails on the inner side of each foot.
How to clip the nails
The process of cutting your cat's nails starts with you getting her claws to extend. "If you're right-handed, start by holding the cat's paw between your thumb and index finger of your left hand, with the thumb on top," says May. "Gently rub the pad, while speaking in a calm, soothing voice, and then smoothly squeeze the thumb and finger together, which should extend the claw so it can be trimmed."
The trickiest part of cutting the nails is learning how far down the nail to clip. "Cut too far and there's the risk of hitting an area of arteries called the 'quick', which will cause bleeding and pain for the cat," says May. "With cats that have clear nails, the quick can be seen as a pink stripe at the base of the nail and should be avoided with the clippers. With cats that have dark nails, the best way to avoid cutting the quick and causing pain is to cut the nails more frequently, making sure to take off just the tips."
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Even someone who is experienced in cutting nails can accidently cut too low, so May recommends keeping a clean cloth handy to apply pressure should your cat start bleeding, and make sure to have either styptic powder or cornstarch on hand to quickly stop it.
Stacey Brecher is a freelance writer. She has contributed to Animal Fair magazine, and her blogs have previously appeared on The Dog Daily.
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I can't understand why should $\sin(0)$ exist, because if an angle is $0^{\circ}$, then the triangle doesn't exist i.e. there is no perpendicular or hypotenuse. However, if we take $\lim_{x \to 0} \sin(x)$, then I can understand
$$\lim_{x \to 0} \sin(x) = 0$$
since perpendicular $\approx$ 0.
So although $\lim_{x \to 0} \sin(x)$ is $0$, I can't understand how $\sin(0)=0$, and if $\sin(0)$ is not defined, then why is graph of $\sin(x)$ continuous ?
Trigonometric functions $\sin, \cos,..$ are defined by the means of triangles first but they are generalised by defining them on unit circle and using negative numbers.
$\sin\left ({3\pi\over 2} \right )=-1$ but ratio of two length can not be $-1$. (I think it is more interesting for $\sin(x) $ to be negative rather than to be $0$, when we regard triangles)
But this happens almost every area of math.(the generalisation of functions, definitions…)
As an example think the expression $2^n$. It had been used for " $n$ times multiply by $2$".
$2^3=2\cdot 2\cdot 2=8$ but what is the meaning of $2^{1\over 2}$ or $2^{-1}$. Now we are using all of them indeed, $2^x$ is defined for all $x\in \mathbb R$.
I hope what I mean is clear.
There is no triangle with an angle of $3 \pi / 2$ or $2 \pi$, but we nevertheless define $\sin(3 \pi / 2) = -1$ and $\sin(2\pi) = 0$.
Essentially, we want to generalize the sine of an angle between $0$ and $\pi / 2$ to a sine of any angle.
To do this we use the unit circle:
$\sin$ is the $y$-coordinate and $\cos$ is the $x$-coordinate.
This agrees with the original definition of $\sin$ on the interval $0$ to $\pi / 2$ using triangles.
Triangles may be a motivation for the trigonometric functions, but they are not actually defined based on triangles. There are many equivalent ways to define them, for example they are easily defined using a power series, which will have no problem with sin (0).
There are many uses that are unrelated to triangles: For example, 3D graphics where rotations are calculated using trigonometric functions: It would be absurd to define sine and cosine in a way that rotation by zero degrees needs special treatment or doesn't work. If you calculate where the end of the seconds digit of your watch is depending on time, it doesn't make sense to define the sine function so that the calculation doesn't work once or twice a minute. Then there are applications like FFT where sine and cosine are heavily used, without any geometry involved at all.
I don't see why you'd have to take $\lim_{x \to 0} \sin(x)$. I'd like to argue that every line segment is a (degenerate) triangle. So with the definition of $\text{sin} = \frac{\text{perpendicular}}{\text{hypotenuse}}$, we get $\sin(0) = \frac{0}{\text{hypotenuse}} = 0.$
Similar reasoning can be applied to $\sin{90^{\circ}}$, $\cos{0^{\circ}}$, $\cos{90^{\circ}}$ and so on.
If you use right triangles for defining the trigonometric functions, you can't immediately give a sense to $\sin 0$, $\cos0$, $\sin\frac{\pi}{2}$ or $\cos\frac{\pi}{2}$ (let's limit to angles in $[0,\frac{\pi}{2}]$, for the moment).
For acute triangles we know the law of cosines
where $a$, $b$, $c$ are the side lengths and $\alpha$ is the angle opposed to $a$. This law reduces to Pythagoras' theorem if $\alpha$ is a right triangle, so it's natural to define
in order to extend the law of cosines also to that case. But for acute angles we already know that
so, if we want to preserve this identity we have to define $\sin0=\cos\frac{\pi}{2}=0$.
Similarly, the law of sines says
where $\beta$ is opposed to $b$, $\gamma$ is opposed to $c$ and $R$ is the radius of the circumscribed circle. If we want this holds also for a right triangle, we must set $\sin\frac{\pi}{2}=1$ and so also $\cos0=1$.
However, these considerations are superseded by a different definition of the trigonometric functions. Consider the circle with center at the origin and radius $1$ in an orthogonal Cartesian reference system. If we draw the ray forming the angle $\alpha$ with the positive $x$-axis, then, by definition, $\cos\alpha$ and $\sin\alpha$ are, respectively, the $x$-coordinate and the $y$-coordinate of the intersection between the ray and the circle.
With this definition, $\sin0=0$ and $\cos0=1$ are obvious.
It is a degenerate triangle with altitude $0$, and therefore $\sin(0)=0$. This is a bit troubling but in a way is not that different from the question why the number $0$ exists in the first place. In fact, it took many centuries to accept this "degenerate" number as a legitimate one. This happened only in the 19th century, which is remarkably recent. In fact the ancient Greeks did not even accept $1$ as a genuine number (and certainly not the negatives, another relatively recent innovation).