It is important to note that everyone is capable of committing heinous crimes, even if they have previously been devout and law-abiding citizens. This is because sin is powerful and can overtake anyone at any time. Therefore, it is not entirely up to individuals to avoid sin, but rather society as a whole needs to be vigilant in order to create a safe environment for everyone.The real reason we sin is not because we're trying to avoid it, but because we're depending on grace. All the things that could potentially make us sin - all the temptations and deadly problems in our lives - are reliant on grace. We only sin or die because of our relationship to grace. Whenever grace is present, sin is overcome.If we thought that we were righteousness in ourselves, then the tension between our ability to sin and our ability to overcome that sin would be from a legal perspective. The power of sin is not just from being overcome by addiction or having a ruling effect, but it is also from the law. The law creates a sense of tension and conflict within us that can only be resolved by overcoming the sin that dominates us.When the law is revived, sin also revive and we die. The law strengthens the desire to sin. Our problem is that we do not understand the other problem with ourselves other than the addiction or the sin. We need to realize that there is more to our problem than just the addiction or sin itself, and only then can we hope to truly overcome it.When we first come to Christ, we are naturally blind to the things that were so apparent to us when we first came to Christ. When we first came to Christ, we had a very real understanding of the power of God, because we had such a clear understanding of what it was like to live with a rebellious heart and under the power of sin without any other remedy. We were so thankful for forgiveness that we experienced grace as if we were clean, having a direct renewal of the Holy Spirit. This went from the height of sin to the glories of renewal.In our first introduction to the law, we may feel guilty and ashamed for the sins we have committed. However, our real problem is not the sin itself, but the false belief that we are somehow entitled to the new power that the law provides. We struggle to control our temptation to sin, but we also struggle to overcome the sense of entitlement that we have acquired. In this paradigm of secularism, the doctrine of Justification by faith and the understanding of definitive Sanctification are not part of the equation. This leaves us without the ability to experience the freshness of our conversion experience.There is something about the law that attracts us, in spite of the fact that it is only a shadow of the true righteousness that comes through faith in Jesus Christ. We mistakenly think that being good enough will get us into God's good graces, rather than realizing that Christ's work on our behalf gives us a full and true understanding of the law. This way of living enables us to share in all the praise and glory that belonged to Christ from the start.