What bible passages tell us If we must accept GOD'S GRACE when HE gives it to us?

God gives us all freewill. He will not compel you to accept him. It's your choice to make. There will be consequences based on your decision. Choose Christ and you receive the gift of eternal life. Note: Romans 6:23. Hosea 4:6, Hebrews 4:7, Romans 10:9, John 3:16). Reject Christ and you receive eternal death.

Have faith dear friends in God.

Ephesians 2:8-9 “For by grace you are saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.” †

1 Peter 5:5 “Likewise, younger ones, be subject to older ones, and all being subject to one another. Put on humility. For God resists proud ones, but He gives grace to the humble. †

Matthew 10:33 “But those who reject me publicly, I will reject before my Father in heaven.” †

By rejecting the grace of God, one must reject the entire Old and New Testament, since there are hundreds of examples of the unmerited grace of God. †

I have read the answers but none of them answer the original question. We know you can only go to the Father through CHRIST from John: and that if you reject CHRIST or GOD you will be damned and not saved. But the reason you deny them could be as simple as GOD DID NOT SELECT YOU TO BE SAVED. see JOHN 6:44,65 CHRIST said" you can only come to me if MY FATHER selects\chooses you to come unto me .SEE John15:5,2Cor3:5 Matt16:17 1Cor12:3 all of which are referred to in Canons 7&8 of The COUNCIL OF ORANGE. In other words maybe GOD THE FATHER DID NOT SELECT YOU TO BE SAVED AND DID NOT GIVE YOU HIS GRACE BY NOT SELECTING YOU. THAT WOULD BE DEPRIVING YOU OF HIS GRACE THEREFORE: DENING YOU SALVATION. Now I hope someone will answer the original question which was : What passages tell us if we can deny HIS GRACE IF GOD GIVES IT TO US or DO WE HAVE TO ACCEPT IT . If we must accecpt it THIS WOULD MEAN WE ARE PREDESTINED FOR SALVATION AND IF HE DOSEN'T SELECT US WE ARE PREDESTINED FOR DAMNATION

Mark 1:15, Acts 3:19-26

Actually, it is written everywhere in the Bible but it is implied, meaning, it is up to you to understand or to decode the message...god bless and thanks for asking

The only way that you can reject God's Grace is not to accept his gift of Salvation.

Together with Salvation comes Grace (unmerited favor) it can not be bought or earned.

So, if you don't want to accept Jesus Christ by faith though grace into you heart you have rejected Grace.

What is it that saves man from sin? What is it that makes salvation available to us? Some would say that our righteous works save us. But that is not true. Some would say that a certain act makes salvation available. But that also is not true. Salvation is available to us only because of the amazing grace of our God. This principle is taught very clearly by Paul in Ephesians 2:8-9. As we read the apostle’s comments, we can understand exactly how faith and grace work together for the child of God. Paul wrote: “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any­one should boast.” Here, Paul makes the point that salvation is made by possible through God’s grace. It is made accessible by our faith. Thus, we could say that grace makes sal­vation available, and that faith makes salvation accessible. God has done everything He can to save us. Because we are saved “by grace through faith” (Eph. 2:8), it is through our faith that we access the grace of God that saves us from our sin.

As we consider this topic of salvation by grace, it is essential that we also consider certain false teachings about grace. Many in the religious world today are teaching things about grace that are simply not true. For example, some seem to suggest that grace gives us a “license to sin.” True, they may not come right out and word it in that way, but such a teach­ing definitely is implied by their lifestyles. It is implied by the way they speak. Some people who claim to be “Christians” use words that are ungodly—words that passages like Colos­sians 3:8 and Ephesians 4:29 teach are unwholesome. Some people, by their actions, im­ply that a Christian has a license to sin. They do things that the Scriptures teach are not right—whether it be lust, adultery, drunkenness, etc. It is implied, then, that grace provides a license to sin. I remember watching a softball game once between two supposedly religious teams who were playing each other. After the game, one of the two teams—with their religious organization’s name plastered all over their uniforms—went out to the team’s truck, opened an ice chest, and began to devour bottle after bottle of beer. I remember thinking to myself when I saw their actions, “Those people must think that grace gives them a license to sin.” Apparently some people—whose lives are so closely associated with sin and whose lives are surrounded by worldliness—infer that grace gives them a license to sin. But grace does not give us a license to sin. Romans 6:1-2 makes this point very clear. Paul wrote: “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?” Paul’s point was this: You cannot say that just because we have grace, the more sin we commit the more grace we are going to receive. So, let’s just go out and live it up and commit sin so that we can have an overabundance of grace.” That is not how Christians are supposed to live. Grace teaches us to deny sin (Tit. 2:11-13).

Another false doctrine that is popular is that grace alone saves us. But the Bible never says that grace alone saves. Rather, the Bible says that we are “saved by grace through faith, and that not of ourselves, but it is the gift of God.” Scripture makes is perfectly clear that we are not saved by grace alone. We cannot simply look heavenward and say, “God, I believe in you and I want to receive your grace.” That is not what the Scriptures teach. Je­sus taught in Matthew 7:21, “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the king­dom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.” In am reminded of Matthew 23, where Jesus taught the people not to be legalistic. Ephesians 2:8 says, again, that we are “saved by grace through faith.” Do you remember the question that Jesus asked in Luke 6:46? “Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do the things which I say?” Re­member that Jesus is the Author of eternal salvation to all those who obey Him” (Heb. 5:9). James 2:24 says, “You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only.” Thus, salvation is not by grace alone, and it is not by faith alone. When we combine God’s grace with our faith, and when we do what God says, then the free gift of salvation is made available to us.

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