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The Crowning Virtue of the Cross of Christ
Doing the will of God is the most humble of all things: humility is the embryo of everything good, even salvation, because one has to recognize their complete destitution in contrast to Jesus' perfect life, which was required to satisfy the Law and the Lawgiver. Only perfect obedience can lay claim to a heavenly home, which none of us can do. That's why Jesus tells the Jews who ask Him what work they must do to be doing the works of God: "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent." [John 6:29 ESV] The very first work of God for salvation is not…