“Believe in the big thing God has done for us!” Gerhard Forde says this: The righteousness before God comes only by hearing and believing. God makes us who we are. Works performed on the premise that one was going to become righteous (or a man or woman of God) thereby are not good to begin with. They defend us against the goodness of God. They are done not for the neighbor but for the glory of the self. Works that can be called good, however, flow from righteousness as from an overflowing vessel, not