What does it mean a sin leading to death and a sin not leading to death?
“If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.” – 1 John 5:16-17.
Prior to excepting Jesus, we are bound by sin. So if we die before the acceptance of Christ, we will lose everlasting life. If we accept Christ we no longer are bound by sin but we still sin being on a fallen world but we limit such sin and get discussed we we do sin. The Lord washed us clean of our sin with his Blood.
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There are two types of death. One temperal of this life. The other eternal which we have if we do not have faith. This is essentially what Richard said.
Off the cuff… being deceived by false prophets unto slackness is a sin not leading to death. If it were we are all doomed since we are all alike born into a world where sectarian Xtianity has existed. Those who maintain sectarianism, your hierarchies and the secular powers they move, blaspheme in matters they know nothing about. These, if they will not turn, commit the sin that leads to death. In the end they will prove to have blasphemed the Holy Spirit of the Living God with whom they contend. The one deceived will find mercy since they will be made to see their deceivers. The one who deceives, however, will find not one ounce of mercy. He speaks the language of his father who was a liar from the beginning.
Thank God for this unsolved mystery. Oh how man will seek to exploit it.
There’s deliberate willful sin and then there are sins we are not aware of. God weighs the heart, motives and intentions.
We will always have sins not unto death as we grow more and more. But willful deliberate sin brings on death
I don’t say for you to pray for that (1Jo 5:16).
You see, that’s a line that God won’t cross. God won’t cross your free will. He has given you the power of choice and then He honors it. He won’t cross your free will and He won’t save you against your will. You don’t have to worry. God’s not going to force you to be saved; God’s not going to force you to be with Him in heaven. If you don’t want to be with God, then He doesn’t want to make you miserable. “You don’t have to be with Me.” But you have chosen your own misery; God didn’t make you miserable, you made yourself miserable.
So when a brother is sinning, we should pray for them. Now, quite often they cannot see their own error, Satan is very deceptive and he comes as an angel of light to deceive. He brings a strong delusion that man might believe a lie rather than the truth. And so you see a brother taken in a sin, a fault, a sin not unto death, pray for him, because Satan has blinded his eyes; he can’t see what he is doing himself. He is deceived, pray for him. Pray that God will open his eyes and cause him to see the deception that Satan has pulled over his eyes. Pray that God will set him free from the blinding power of the enemy that has distorted his true sense of values. That God might give him life, and cause him to see and deliver him.
But if a person deliberately and willfully turns his back and rejects Jesus Christ, then pray also for him, but not, “God, save him.” Because God won’t save him against his will. Pray that God will bind Satan’s power and work, and God will open his heart to the truth. You can’t really say, “God, save him,” because that’s something God won’t do against a person’s will. So,
There is a sin unto death: I do not say that you should pray for it. All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death (1Jo 5:16-17).
A lot of things we do that are wrong, but they’re not going to damn your soul eternally. And I disagree with that kind of preaching that gets on these little issues and hangs you over the pit and tells you that you are going to hell. And, “You’ll wish you had listened to me when you are kicking coals in hell,” and this kind of stuff. I don’t believe in that. I believe in the grace of God, and I think that there is only one sin that can damn your soul, and that’s the rejection of God’s love in Jesus Christ. That’s the sin unto death. And God is so gracious and merciful, and there is a sin that’s not unto death.
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