Calling evil good and good evil? Wrong. Dead wrong.
God will never share His glory with anyone or anything! The Holy Spirit was given to us through the death and salvation of Jesus. He is the power of God residing in us to teach us His ways. All truth and goodness reside in Him. You are either for Him or against Him there is no other choice. Satan will try to divide us in order to destroy us. We must remain strong and stand up for what is right but do it in such a way that God’s love directs our path. We love because He first loved us. He wants everyone to have the choice of spending eternity with Him. Ignorance is not bliss!
The Potter has total control over the clay.
This is the first time someone has come from beyond Galilee’s borders to challenge Jesus. These Jewish leaders understood Beelzebul to be the ruler of the demons. Jesus confronts the religious leaders with the possibility that, by opposing Him, they might be aligning themselves with evil powers. The defining mark of a disciple of God’s kingdom is allegiance to Jesus and His teaching. Likewise, Jesus cannot be possessed by Beelzebul, as that would mean that the ruler of demons has risen up against himself by vanquishing demons. Blasphemes against the Holy Spirit refers to insistently and unapologetically misrepresenting the workings of the Holy Spirit as demonic. Faithlife Bible.
The scribes, or teachers of the Jewish law, were more harsh and direct in their assessment of Jesus. They accused Him of being possessed by Beelzebub (literally “Lord of the Flies), another name for Satan. This false charge demonstrates a hardness of heart and is akin to blaspheming against the Holy Spirit. Jesus’ reply in parables was actually a threefold message that contrasted unity and disunity. Nothing—including Satan’s kingdom—can stand if it is divided. Whoever defeats Satan must be stronger than he. Jesus implies that He Himself has come to enter the house of the strong man, Satan, to seize his goods.
While the prophets cited the authority of the Lord, Christ’s words rest on His own authority. While Jesus does not say that anyone in the crowd has actually committed the sin He describes, He nonetheless stresses the hopelessness of such a condition. Anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit places himself or herself outside the redeeming grace of God. It is apparently not a single act of defiant behavior, but a continued state of opposition entered into willfully. The tense of they said indicates a continued action, not a onetime event. The words and works of Christ were spoken and performed by the power of the Holy Spirit. To attribute them to Satan is to call the work of heaven a work of hell. For such perverse belief there is no remedy. NKJ Bible.
Mark 3:22–30 (NKJV)
22 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebub,” and, “By the ruler of the demons He casts out demons.”
23 So He called them to Himself and said to them in parables: “How can Satan cast out Satan? 24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 And if a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. 26 And if Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he cannot stand, but has an end. 27 No one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. And then he will plunder his house.
28 “Assuredly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they may utter; 29 but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation”—30 because they said, “He has an unclean spirit.”
Matthew 9:34 (NKJV)
34 But the Pharisees said, “He casts out demons by the ruler of the demons.”
John 7:20 (NKJV)
20 The people answered and said, “You have a demon. Who is seeking to kill You?”
John 8:48 (NKJV)
48 Then the Jews answered and said to Him, “Do we not say rightly that You are a Samaritan and have a demon?”
John 8:52 (NKJV)
52 Then the Jews said to Him, “Now we know that You have a demon! Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and You say, ‘If anyone keeps My word he shall never taste death.’
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