Following Christ In Obedience: Total Submission

Evangelist Thomas, you kept us hanging each time you speak on this amazing subject. There's a debate happening in the church these day's. How much of the Christian life is grace, and how much of it is obedience? Or, how does gospel centeredness and justification work together?Oh, how I would love for the lovers of sovereign grace to be of one mind about how sovereign grace works in the process of sanctification, how grace relates to obedience, the process of our attitudes and actions becoming more holy by the grace of God. 1 Peter 1:15 says: As he who called you is holy, be holy in all your conduct. So there are controversies out there about the process of sanctification and the role of obedience and effort in it, the role of grace and Christ's cross and justification in it. And I want to try to come at this in a way that maybe could bring these sides together. All of us want to exalt grace. Grace is our only hope. None of us deserves heaven. We all deserve hell. Only grace will keep us out of hell and that grace flows to us from God through Jesus Christ, only through Jesus Christ who absorbed the curse and the wrath of God and who provided righteousness for us and enabled us to be forgiven so that God could be 100 percent for us. All of us have in mind those glorious truths when we think about grace and we all agree and the people I am thinking about anyway would.