Can Man Keep the Law of God?
By Iva F. Cady
EVEN ministers of the gospel are sometimes heard to say that it is impossible for man to keep the law of God. Perhaps such forget that we have a Saviour who “shall save His people from their sins.” “He is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him;” and that means salvation from sin, or from transgressing the law, that it may prove in the end to be salvation from eternal death. “When the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.” Ezek. 18: 27, 28. Should we trust in our own strength to keep the law, it would be impossible; but “with God all things are possible.” We are told that “God’s commandings are enablings.” Through the life and death of the Son of God, all provision has been made whereby we may be saved from sinning, and enabled to live the Christ life here on earth. “Able to deliver! Can it really be?
Is there any power can deliver me?
Tell me, tell me truly, is the Christ once
slain
Able to deliver me from Satan’s chain?
“Able to deliver! Able now to save,
When you are, my brother,
Able to believe.”