After the incident with the Pharisees Jesus gives a warning to His disciples to avoid the hypocrisy that inflicted the Pharisees. You see, the capacity for sin resides in all of us. We can see the fruit of this very easily in others, but we are often strangely blind to seeing the sin in our own lives. We are all prone to hypocrisy, so we all need to be on our guard against it.
Our hearts deceive us, they tell us that no one will know, no one has seen, therefore we can get away with it. But this is not true. God sees everything and everything will be brought to light, some at the final judgement, some in this life, but it will be brought to light.
The Pharisees lived to please men, to gain praise from men. We can live in fear of men, but this is stupid. It is God whom we should fear, for He is the one with all power and authority, He can throw our body into hell.
Yet this awesome God actually cares for us. So when we truly fear God fear actually goes. Oh what fools we are when we rebel against God!
Jesus is quite clear that there is a spiritual kingdom, a spiritual court, that we should be more concerned about than any earthly kingdom. We should seek to be acknowledged by Christ in this court.
Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is then mentioned. No one really knows for sure exactly what this means, but it probably involves rebelling against the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Receiving clear inner revelation and rejecting it.
Jesus then goes on to tell them that when they are hauled before courts and councils the Holy Spirit will give them words to say, He will witness through them. In rejecting this the courts and councils could be blaspheming against the Holy Spirit.
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