What is the spiritual condition of every person according to Paul?
Paul teaches that every person is spiritually dead in trespasses and sins. The whole human race is dead until Christ moves in with His life-giving power, which is triggered by faith in the Gospel. This death is universal, as Paul concludes that if one died for all, then all were dead.
Les explains that Paul is writing to the Corinthians, who were Gentiles, and he quotes 2 Corinthians 5:14: "the love of Christ constraineth us... that if one died for all, then were all dead." Les emphasizes this is Paul's doctrine: we were dead in our trespasses and sins, and that is where the whole human race is. They remain dead until Christ moves in with His life-giving power, which is triggered by faith in the Gospel. So every person is spiritually dead until Christ moves in with His life-giving power through faith in the Gospel.
For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: