SALVATION, THE NEW BIRTH, THE NEW YOU commandment [to express itself], got a hold on me and aroused and stimulated all kinds of forbidden desires (lust, covetousness). For without the Law sin is dead [the sense of it is inactive and a lifeless thing]”, ROMANS 7:9 says “Once I was alive, but quite apart from and unconscious of the Law. But when the commandment came, sin lived again and I died (was sentenced by the Law to death).” By the scripture saying that Once I was alive, but when the commandment came, sin lived again and I died – this means that when Adam fell from the garden of Eden, I too was considered fallen (disobedient, sinner), however I was once alive 34
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