Psalm 106 is an OT-testament to the GOD who ACTS! Apart from works? Yeah, IN SPITE OF works! Bad works. Really bad works.
So what is the problem in accepting this is who God IS?
“...they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone. As it is written:
“See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall,
and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.”
—Romans 9
How can we read the words of Jesus and delude ourselves into thinking we can produce that kind of Life for God and THEN be accepted? Talk about upping the ante! He turned the Law up to ELEVEN and people STILL trip over Him!
We need to fall ON Him and be broken to pieces. How horrible to have Him fall on us and be crushed!