Hang naked on the cross

Over and above all this, are you zealous of good works? Do you, as you have time, do good to all men? Do you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and visit the fatherless and widow (James 1:27) in their affliction? Do you visit those that are sick? Relieve those who are in prison? Is any a stranger and you take him in? Friend, come up higher. Do you prophesy in the name of Christ? Do you preach the truth as it is in Jesus? And does the influence of his Spirit attend your word, and make it the power of God to salvation? Does he enable you to bring sinners from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God? Then go and learn what you have so often taught, By grace you are saved through faith (Ephesians 2:8). Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but of his own mercy he saves us (Titus 3:5). Learn to hang naked upon the cross of Christ, counting all you have done but dung and dross (Philippians 3:8). Apply to him just in the spirit of the dying thief, of the harlot with her seven devils. Else you are still on the sand, and after saving others, you will lose your own soul.