When Adam and Eve sinned, it did not just affect them alone. It also affected the entire human race. You and I were affected as well. Every human being born into the world through Adam has been born in a state of Sin.

Paul said, “Sin entered the world through one man, and death through Sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned” (Romans 5:12). Through the disobedience of one man many were made sinners, Romans 5:19.

Every one of us is born into this world with a sin nature. All humans beings are born into the world in a state of sin with out any thing directly to do with it. The Sin nature is passed on from conception. Sin can only be dealt with by the shedding of blood, (Hebrews 9:22).

Now since everyone is a sinner and cannot stop sinning, what is the “Sin unto death” mentioned in 1 John 5:16? The Sin into death has been the cause of a lot of concern among Christians. Many interpretations have been handed down through the years, about the Sin unto death.

Some believe that it refers to spiritual death of unbelievers. I don’t think that’s what it means. I don’t believe it is a unbeliever at all. I believe it is a person that is a believer and is saved. There are three types of death, Physical, Spiritual, and Eternal.

I believe that this is referring to physical death of a believer. Physical death as a result of committing a particular known sin. Physical death also is a result of continuely committing sins that have a unrepentant attitude.
Reading St. John and the three epistles you will find that continual sinning leads to a permanent separation of the believer into the fallen world system called the kosmos. The kosmos is a system that will end up killing the believer physically. It also hinders spiritual growth.

John shows us that sin, death and the kosmos are all closely related. A believer’s relationship to the kosmos (world system). Continuing relationship with this Kosmos is a death sentence to that person.

To become a part of this world system and continue entrenched into it is to yield to the grip of death. Sin that is known and willfully committed can lead to sin unto death. Sin that is unrepentant and continual are sins unto death.
Sin unto death are those persistent sins which lead to total separation into the kosmos death system. In this case the kosmos ends up killing the believer physically. The wages of sin is death. The World system yields it’s fruit called death.

Sins that do not lead to death are sins that are repented. Other sins that are not unto death are the sins that people stop doing and don’t continue living the world’s way.
It is important to notice that the sin unto death does not guarantee physical death. Physical death does not always happen, if the believer does not continue living the world’s way. Death physically is the natural consequence if the person continues sinning.

Our lack of concern for sin reminds me of this mother and her son. Her son absolutely hates school. One weekend he cried and fretted and tried every excuse not to go back to school on Monday. Sunday morning on the way home from church, the crying and whining built to a peak.
The mother at the end of her rope, stopped the car and explained to her son by saying, “Honey it’s a law. If you don’t go to school, they’ll put mommy in jail.” The son looked at his mother, thought for a moment, then asked, “How long would you have to stay?”

Some of us are so selfish that we are only concern with our wants and not Gods concerns. Sin unto death, is a condition like this for a believer persists in continuing to live in the kosmos (world’s) way. Death is imminent if there is no repentance.

Sin unto death is physical death for those who are separated to live in the kosmos in a permanent state from any spiritual living. But they would be saved and have eternal life if they know Christ as their Saviour.

Sin unto death is a state in which God allows the believer to go their own way because of their willful choice to live in sin. So please listen to this article and let God help you see if you are in this condition.

Rest assured that if you are not saved you will die a eternal death. Scriptures make it very plain that, “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved,” Acts 4:12. The bible says there is only one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 1Timothy 2:5.

Are you sure of your eternal condition? Have you ask your self what is Sin unto death? Have you committed it?