25 October 2024
The first, highest, and most precious of all good works is faith in
Christ, and as it says in John 6 [:28-29], when the Jews asked him, "What
must we do, to be doing the good work of God?" Jesus answered, "This
is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent." Now when we hear that or even preach it, we
pass over it: we think nothing of it and think it easy to do, but actually we
ought to pause a long time and think it over properly. For in this work all good works exist, and
from faith these works receive a borrowed goodness. We must make this absolutely clear, so that
men can understand it.
Martin Luther
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