Union with Christ guarantees that Christians are winners, permanently. We can stay in the winner's bracket because grace provided everything for us. Human works are dead to God because they come from the Sin Nature. Human good promotes boasting and pride.
Grace is the opposite of boasting and pride.
Grace promotes humility, growth, and divine good. To reduce from a state of disorder, to produce order out of chaos. But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law. I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.