When we were born into this world, we were born into sin. We had never committed an act of sin when we were born, but we were just as guilty as Adam because we came from Adam. In just the same way, when we accepted Jesus Christ as our Savior by faith and were born of God, we inherited a victory over the forces of darkness that we never earned. Our ability to live as a free child of God that has fellowship with the Father and deliverance from the law of sin and death was given to us as a gift through the offering of the spotless Lamb upon the cross.