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BUT even heathans do good work so we have to glorify God in our good works ..does that makes sense?

Agreed and excellent point! Even when we do good works we must always and everywhere give the glory to God. You are so right, and I was missing it.

In some ways, they are not really our works at all then.

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And therefore, the works are actually of and from Christ, not us, so we can't take credit for them in any way.

Which means faith is the only thing we can "work" for and hope will be our salvation. As you said...LOL.