“Not of works.” (Eph. 2:9.)
I remember hearing of a young man who went to a minister of Christ in great distress about his spiritual state. He said to the minister: “Sir, can you tell me what I must do to find peace.”
The minister replied, “Young man, you are too late.” “Oh” said the young man, “You don’t mean to say I am too late to be saved?” “Oh! no,” was the reply, “but you are too late to do anything. Jesus did everything that needed to be done twenty centuries ago.”