This idea today that you are in and of yourself able to please God, my friend, is absolutely contradicted in the Word of God. It’s impossible to please Him; you can’t meet His standard. Therefore, good works cannot produce salvation, but salvation can produce good works. And Paul makes it very clear how we’re saved in Ephesians 2:8-10. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”