State consumer officials have issued a warning about “El Gordo,” the latest foreign lottery scam. In order to claim the prize, you’re told to pay a fee that goes toward the taxes, bank costs and processing fees. It’s…illegal for people in the United States to participate in a foreign lottery.

Think You’ve Won Foreign Lottery? It’s A Scam
August 9, 2004. WISC Channel3000.com

Comment: Think you can get to heaven through the law? It’s just a scam; no one can get there by that route – you can never do enough.

But whatever good we do in God’s eyes isn’t what gets us into heaven. I suppose it’s like getting in to see a Star Wars movie. You can be a great fanatic, knowing everything there is to know about Star Wars, you can have seen every film twenty times, know every line by heart, have Dennis Lawson’s autograph and can even know who Michael Sheard is. It still takes one ticket to get in. The person next to you may never have seen a single film and not even know who Darth Vader is. But a ticket is a ticket. It’s all you need to get in.

The Final Judgment
WELS Daily Devotion – Revelation 20:11,12

The robe of righteousness cannot be won by giving away a vest now and then.

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[C]operation in sanctification is in no way a meritorious work that partially earns salvation. Our sanctified life does not make us any more children of God than we already are.

…It is not our good works that preserve faith. Good works aren’t a means of grace… The most crucial battle of the good fight is living in daily repentance. That’s hardly a meritorious work!

…Fruits of faith don’t strengthen or preserve faith but flow from a faith that has been strengthened and preserved.

Gurgel, Richard. Losing Salvation, p. 9
December 2004. Forward in Christ – Question and Answer, Vol. 91, No. 12

In Luther’s time some monks would “sell the merits of their orders to others… As the Barefooted monks and other orders have shamelessly done in placing the hoods of their orders upon dead bodies.”

Apology of the Augsburg Confession,
Art. III Of Love and the Fulfilling of the Law,
Triglotta 219.239

Comment: The only clothes that bear righteous works that can save us are the robes of Christ's righteousness, received through Baptism and are ours by faith.