In my former years I wished that sin would be rarely successful and I would produce a second life of Christianity. I would at some point graduate from the tendencies of feeling desperate under temptation to being strong and unbending toward temptation. The more we grow to understand enemies deeply rooted in us,the more likely we understand sins influence in our routine. Instead of thinking we have become proficient in overcoming the unique power of sin, guilt and shame we see how prevalent they are in us. We grow by knowing sin (this foreign mind encased by the law) better than we know the act of sin.

 This is why the Christian experience is like a wavy line. It goes from getting close to the beneficial effects of the new man (the axioms encasement of sin) to going down facing the sin that is more than the numbers of our hairs. We shun sin ascending in our axiom worship then come down to understand the prevalence of guilt, fear and shame. The specific reason that we suffer trouble is we focus on sin as a deed instead of a heart condition. We attack sin at the branch instead of the root by the effective means of divine grace. A man who goes to the root of sin goes down to the depths of the heart (his axiom identity.) Not to expose his own sins but to obtain grace in the communication of the law, covenants, curses, statutes, promises and decrees.