Exceedingly Sinful.

Rom 7:8  But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead. 

Rom 7:9  For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 

Rom 7:10  And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. 

Rom 7:11  For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. 

Rom 7:12  Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good. 

Rom 7:13  Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. 

God forbid that the commandments given to God's chosen and written on the hearts of even those who weren't born into God's chosen, would be call evil. How could they ever be called evil? Tell me this, were people filled with evil and dying before the commandments were written down on stone? Yes, they were. Remember Cain, Adam and Eve's firstborn son? He had no commandment written in stone to follow, yet when he killed Abel he sinned. The law he followed was one that was a moral law mankind was given instantly upon deciding to disobey God and commit sin. This is why people who claim no belief in God still have a moral law. There is a law of the land, so to speak, a law that is common to all humankind outside the realm of religion. This law was put into man, it is a part of man. It is a part of man that man chooses to listen to, or to ignore.

'Sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.'

After much time passed and God gave a people He chose, a people that committed themselves to Him, the moral law, He also gave them ceremonial law and other laws so that they were daily exposed to a life under laws. They were being taught to obey, and not oppressively, but for a spiritual freedom, a life with God. The commandment revealed the exceeding sinfulness of sin.  The commandments reveal our inability to be holy on our own without the holiness of our Savior.

Rom 7:14  For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. 

Rom 7:15  For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. 

Rom 7:16  If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. 

Rom 7:17  Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 

Rom 7:18  For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. 

Rom 7:19  For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. 

Rom 7:20  Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. 

Rom 7:21  I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. 

Rom 7:22  For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 

Rom 7:23  But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 

Rom 7:24  O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 

Rom 7:25  I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. 

More on this tomorrow by the GRACE and WILL of our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, now and forever!!!!!!!