“There is a sin leading to (spiritual) death” (1 John 5:16). That is the sin of turning away from the Lord. If a young believer commits this sin, it is possible for them to come back to salvation. However, if one had attained a certain level of spiritual maturity prior to the sin, it is impossible for them to be restored. They will spend all their days in the lake of fire. “For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance” (Hebrews 6:4-6).
In 2010, I had a dream in which a prominent woman preacher in Uganda had died. Curiously, no one was allowed to look into her coffin to see the dead body; when I tried to do so, I was almost whipped by those surrounding the casket. When I woke up from the dream, the Spirit of the Lord told me: “That preacher died spiritually; there are people around her who know it but are keeping it a secret.”
In the book I Believe in Visions, Kenneth E. Hagin tells of a vision in which Jesus showed him a preacher’s wife whom the Devil tempted into running after fame and fortune. Along the journey of her evil pursuits, she finally rejected the Lord. When she did so, Jesus said she was destined for hell.
Once upon a time, we were all dead in our trespasses and sins (Ephesians 2:1). “But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ” (Ephesians 2:4-5). Since we were once dead but have now been made alive in Christ Jesus, God desires that we do not die again. If we do so, we will spend eternity in the lake of fire, the destination for those whose names will not be in the Book of Life - the book of those alive in Jesus (Revelation 20:15).
It is important to note that a believer rejecting the Lord and thereby dying spiritually is the final step after falling into temptation and getting comfortable in sin. Therefore, we are safer if we resist the first step of giving in to temptation. “Each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth (spiritual) death” (James 1:14-15). Our Lord Jesus Christ faced the same temptations that we face. If we constantly walk with Him, He will give us the grace to overcome every one of them, just like He did.
Please do not die again. The lake of fire is real, and a terribly awful place.
God bless you.