Besides our actual sins, there are two points of our state connected with our fall in Adam. Our alienation from God in nature and will, and our alienation from God in condition, place or standing—both must be corrected; the former is by having Christ for our life, being born again, but this does not in itself take us out of law—the new nature feels the evil of the old, not only what we have done, but what we are. It is not merely we cannot say we have not sinned, but we cannot say we have no sin—"I know that in me, that is in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing"; the law is a mere means of discovering this, the remedy is not in dealing with it at all, but my place is altered—in Christ not only I have a new nature, but I have died as in the old—in Him I am not in the flesh at all, I am in Christ who has died and risen again. I have a new nature—that must be—but Christ having died and risen again, and I being in Him, I have a new place too. This is what Rom. 7 and 8 teaches us. Baptism is not the sign of life-giving, but of change of place—we arise out of death, but death is the main point here. I do not take verse 2 Chapter 8 as an inferential "for"; verse 1 is the result of what goes before, and stands by itself, verse 2 begins an explanation of the "now" of the whole matter in life. The change of state, as previously the change of place or condition—deliverance, not new life.