James 1:14-15 “But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. (15) Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.”
So what is the sin to death that the apostle John speaks about? In the above quoted passage of scripture the Holy Spirit through the apostle James give us some insight into what that sin is, for He tells us that full-grown sin brings forth death. In context the apostle James is writing to believers. And so in this passage James teaches the church that if sin is allowed to reach maturity or become full-grown, that it will ultimately bring forth death. The death that he is referring to is spiritual death not physical death. And so what James is saying is that all sin, if left unchecked, will eventually lead the believer to committing the ultimate sin, which is the sin to death that John spoke about. This truth explains to us why it is, as we saw earlier, that the Lord Jesus judges His saints when they refuse to repent from their sinful practices, for the reason given is that Jesus judges His saints so that they will not be condemned with the world. In other words, the Lord Jesus knows that if we continue to practice sin unchecked, that we will eventually commit the sin to death and thus be condemned with the world.
John 3:18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
As revealed to us in the above quoted passage of scripture, the apostle John teaches us that there is really only one sin for which the world will be condemned, which is the sin of rejecting Jesus Christ as Lord. And so knowing what sin the world will be condemned for, gives us a bit more insight into what our Lord Jesus wants to save us from when He judges us in this life, for He knows that if we continue down the path of sin unchecked, that we will eventually commit the same sin for which the world is condemned, i.e. the sin of rejecting Jesus as Lord.
Michael E.B. Maher
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