 then salvation is not by God's grace alone anymore. God doesn't receive all the glory. Now you've earned your salvation. Now you have something in which to boast. And it just started to strike me that that is never presented in the Old Testament, faith and obedience, as a problem. It's never presented that way. Okay, step three is this. I came to see that this pattern illustrated in the lives of all these Old Testament figures carried on right into the New Testament as well. And again, without a hint of concern.