934. "Without Strength."
By Editor
Please explain the expression in the SIGNS of January 18, page 51, second column: "Moreover, there is not one who has strength to do the law," and this by the same writer: "It is not that we are simply given the ability to keep the law" (SIGNS March 22, page 196, column 3). The first, it will be seen by the context, has reference to the carnal man, the man "without strength," the man who has "sinned and come short of the glory of God," the man who has the "carnal mind," which "is enmity against God." God asks more of sinful man than he can perform in order that man may seek help in the One mighty to save. The latter expression, it will also be seen by the context, refers to the man set free in Christ Jesus, who is given "the mind of the Spirit," and the strength of God. Both are absolutely true. The bound man, fettered in brain and body, hand and foot, can not walk; it is the free man who walks. Jesus Christ sets the bound sinner free.