The gospel of grace is true and magnifies the works of God. The gospel of works is false and magnifies the efforts man. The gospel of grace runs against-the-grain of man’s innate pride and sense of self-achievement—giving evidence of the depth of his depravity and inability to save himself. The gospel of works floats downstream, quietly feeding man’s pride and self-righteousness—reassuring him that he is not really as bad as the Bible says he is.
But according to Scripture, we are sinners who can only be saved by the grace of God. As a result, God alone is glorified, as Paul writes in Ephesians, the work of the Trinity in planning and carrying out God’s salvation of sinners is “to the praise of the glory of His grace.” Therefore, when the gospel of grace takes hold in a sinner’s heart and mind, the only logical response is one of surrender, praise, and worship. But when the gospel of works takes a sinner’s mind captive, it produces a different kind of boasting—the kind of boasting that the Bible says God hates.
God hates such boasting, since it pulls attention away from His grace and the all-sufficient work of His Son, who
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