Making Victory Impossible
There is one trouble with this program of human effort co-operating with divine power. It always leads to defeat, bringing the struggling man under the dominion of sin. It produces the man pictured in the seventh chapter of Romans. It is the program followed by nearly all Christians.
And that is why nearly all Christians are living in defeat practically all of the time.
It is not that defeats come now and again in the face of difficult temptations; the distressing thing in the experience of most earnest Christians is the consciousness that complete victory is never enjoyed; the occasional bad falls are but indications of a chronic condition of defeat.