Deceived Me - Romans 7:9-12

Romans 7:9-12 ESV 

I was once alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin came alive and I died. The very commandment that promised life proved to be death to me. For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me and through it killed me. So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.

The same thing was demonstrated in the Garden. Sin entered through deception and proved the death for Adam and Eve, for all mankind. The commandment was broken. The knowledge of good and evil, a life compromised by the darkness of evil, was unleashed according to their disobedience. Death followed after the serpent. 

The Israelites were given a similar choice of life and death. The law, showing the difference between good and evil, was disobeyed. Choosing evil always results in death. 

We are given the opportunity to choose for ourselves between life and death. We have the same choice as was before Adam, to pick the fruit of our destiny. Leave the chains of the law and stand before God. Overcome the world you've been given for the life of the living.