The absolute inability of man to save himself from his sin and its condemnation is a constant theme throughout the Scriptures. Job declared, “If I wash myself with snow water, and cleanse my hands with soap, yet You will plunge me into the pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.”1 The psalmist lamented that his sin was always before him, and the apostle Paul cried out in desperation, “O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?”2
