What is the end result of living under the total control of old Adam?
Living under the total control of old Adam ends in death—not merely physical death but spiritual death. Scripture calls this the second death, which has no power over believers who share in the first resurrection, but it is the final end of the lost.
Les explains that the book’s statement describes a person who lives under the total control of old Adam and passes off the scene having done nothing different. The result is death, not only physical but spiritual. He connects this spiritual death to Revelation chapter 20, where the rest of the dead—the lost who have not experienced resurrection—live not again until the thousand years are finished, at the great white throne. The first resurrection is only believers, and on them the second death has no power. So the spiritual death Paul refers to is the second death.