Welcome to a new week on the podcast. This is a really good question from a listener named Danny. “Hello, Pastor John, and thanks for the podcast. What is the sin that does not lead to death, in 1 John 5:16–17? Can you explain this?”
Well, let me venture an answer in summary form and then drop back and give the foundations for it from the context of 1 John and the wider New Testament teaching. Here’s my answer: the sin that does not lead to death (that is, eternal death or damnation — which is what I think John means) is any sin that we commit that we are, by grace, capable of truly confessing and repenting from. That’s my answer.
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