Work Shop The Second Death

There are eight behaviors over which the second death maintains authority. These eight behaviors bring the one who practices them to torment and eternal separation from God. What Christians may not always understand is that the Lake of Fire Lake of Fire, which is the second death, always maintains authority over these behaviors—even when they are in a Christian.

When we receive the Lord Jesus Christ as the atonement for our sins, the Lake of Fire Lake of Fire is forced to withhold its claims for a season while the Lord seeks to assist us in overcoming the specified behaviors. Those who conquer these unlawful behaviors can no longer be tormented by the second death. The second death has no authority over them. They could walk on the Lake of Fire Lake of Fire without being harmed.

But if we refuse to permit the Lord to remove such behavior from us, then we eventually will find ourselves in the Lake of Fire Lake of Fire even though we profess faith in Christ. Divine grace provides us with the opportunity to be forgiven and delivered. But after we have been forgiven, if we do not bear the fruit of righteousness and holiness that God is looking for, then we are in clear danger of having our name blotted from the Book of Life and being thrown into the Lake Lake that burns with fire and sulfur.

It truly is appalling that the Divine warnings concerning wicked behavior are hidden from the understanding of Evangelical believers because their teachers and pastors are so willing to curry favor with them. But the fact remains: the second death always retains authority over these eight behaviors whether or not we are taught the truth of the Scriptures.

Primary Scriptures

For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a man is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ of Christ and of God. (Ephesians 5:5)

Blessed and holy are those who have part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years. (Rev 20:6)

But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death. (Rev 21:8)

Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. (Rev 22:15)

Essential Points of Emphasis

All sin will be removed from the creation, not by virtue of dying and going to Heaven but by the power of the Lord Jesus Christ. This work of the removal of sin, which is the spiritual fulfillment of the Jewish Day of Atonement, has begun today.

Suggested References

Doing Good, and the Resurrection; The Second Death; The Second Goat

Follow up Activities

Answer Review Questions for this topic. 38

List additional Scriptures which support this concept.

Summarize this topic in your own words in one paragraph.

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