Grace And Choice

Grace brings salvation, it brings Sanctification, it also grants you access to all the benefits of the Holy Spirit in fulness, but it does not turn you into a statue (of no will) nor a robot (of a programmed choice).

 

"For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;" (Titus 2:11-12).

 

Unlike the unregenerated man who is destitute of the grace of God, and who, as a servant of sin, with or without his free will/choice is subject to obeying the desires and dictates of sin, self and Satan (Romans 7:15-20) ... Grace brings you to such a level at which the matter of sinning or not sinning becomes subject to your own conscious and deliberate choice/decision. Temptations coming to your heart first reaches a 'barricade', thereby becoming subject to your more convenient refusal against sin or your deliberate rebellion against the will and the word of God (1 John 3:8,9). 

 

Now, God, in His own integrity, as long as you are human and as long as you are on this earth, will not deprive you of your right, that He gave you from creation, to choose and to decide your own ways and your own destiny.

 

Satan seem to know this, and therefore does not give up on tempting anyone to sin as long as he/she still lives in this body of flesh, believing that one day before death he/she, of it's own choice (like Adam/Eve), can rebel against God by yielding to the temptations to sin.

 

"Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own steadfastness. 

 

But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever. Amen." (2 Peter 3:17-18)