INALIENABLE GRACE means nothing stops God's grace. Nothing.

FIRST CONCEPT: God's Righteousness is TOTAL, ergo He gives Grace (the Cross is what justifies Grace).

God's Integrity cannot be threatened by anything. So, shall He not glory in this fact? Shall He restrict what He creates? Why? Nothing can attack His Integrity. Human will, what is that? If it is free, can it threaten the living God? If it sins, what is that to the Holy God? Nothing, really. If it produces "good works", what is that to God? Cannot God do any "work" perfectly? So what does God need with man's works? Nothing. What does God need with man's sins or evil? Nothing. So what does God need with man at all? Nothing.

On the other hand, why should God WANT man at all? Well, if man's existence could be made to praise God, then it would be right to make him. God, after all, should receive every type of glorification and praise which could exist! That is demanded. What, shall God restrict Himself?

God doesn't have to restrict Himself because He is total Integrity. God also doesn't have to "put up with" man's sins, human good, or evil. God can do something about that, to realize His Personal Desires.

So, as we saw in "U", we can ONLY exist because Christ paid for everyone born. Even so, God is under no obligation whatsoever to apply the payment of the Cross to us. He could have just chosen for us all to die anyway. What does God owe anyone? So, it's pure Grace we exist, and it's pure Grace if God decides to extend the salvation offer to anyone. Anyone at all.

So, why does He bother? Ah, here's the Glory of it: Grace praises all God's Attributes. It is a policy of His Integrity, therefore. Righteousness demanded reparation for the corruption; Justice executed the imputation and judgement of our sins upon Christ, Who voluntarily received both in His Own Human Body, without sinning even once in reaction, and instead thought pure Bible Doctrine, which glorified the Father. So, Love, a third Attribute of God's Integrity, chose to honor Christ by a policy of Grace, in the complete salvation offer to mankind.

Grace praises and GLORIFIES all God's Attributes: Who is Like the Living God? That He is so TOTAL as to be uncompromised by any free will, any act of failure, any freedom which does not meet His Standards? So much so, He is not "threatened" in even the remotest way for allowing them to occur? Who is like Christ? Whose Humanity, depending upon the Power of the Holy Spirit, used Divine Thinking (Bible Doctrine) to actually PAY for all the sins of mankind?

Shall not God thus extend total Grace to all mankind, to praise and honor Himself, His Son? It glorifies Both utterly, to do this. Shall such Grace be given in the form of "irresistably" forcing those to be saved to Heaven, then? Shall such Grace be given in the form of denying Grace to those who will go to Hell? NO! Grace would then no longer BE grace. For Grace is not compatible with works, since works create debt, and debt creates an owing. But the Cross ERASED owing. Therefore Grace. Shall Grace thus be a forcing, which is the result of owing? NO!

Rather, the Glory of the Cross is Free Will! God the Father freely imputed and judged the sins on His Son's Humanity; the Holy Spirit freely empowered the Humanity of Christ as His Humanity freely desired; and that Humanity thus freely paid for all the sins of all mankind, justifying their existence, and...full restoration. At all points, Free Will expressed itself; at all points, Righteousness expressed itself. At all points, Justice expressed itself. Most of all, at all points, LOVE expressed itself. Shall Grace not be free? Perish the thought!

So, shall full restoration of anyone be accomplished apart from that person's free will? A "yes" would mean a forcing, which is anathema to the Glory of the Cross. If God was free, if Christ was Free, if They are Sovereign, forcing is NOT Glory. Forcing is anthema to the entire nature of the Godhead, to Christ, to the Cross...and to LOVE, the motive of All Parties in providing salvation in the first place.

Such full restoration, then, likewise MUST be freely offered and accepted, or Grace is no more Grace. What, does it Glorify the Holy, Omnipotent God to force anyone? What, does it glorify the Free Payment of His Son to receive forced subjects? Perish the thought!

Further, there would be no need for Grace if there were no free will, or a compromised free will. In fact, it would not be right to even judge such persons, or to CREATE them. Hence there would be no need for the Cross, either, nor any need for God the Son to even take on Humanity.

Grace also could not be justifiably extended absent foreknowledge. What, shall God brush aside His Veracity? Shall Justice be Justice, if it ignores facts? If Grace were extended apart from facts, then God is not Just, is He? So how could Grace be Grace? It would be incompetent, or ..a forcing, to the extent it is not consonant with the facts.

Thus, if the facts of who would freely choose to believe in Christ were not taken into account, those who did not want the Son would be forced into Heaven. Likewise, those who would freely choose Him would be left out. Does it honor Christ, to accept those who would not choose Him? Does it honor Christ, to reject those who would? Perish the thought! Righteousness would be offended! for Christ paid freely and God accepted the payment freely. Truth would be offended! for the facts would be ignored! Justice would be offended! for Justice was not served in the policy of such "grace". Shall God go against His own Nature? Perish the thought!

To recap: God is TOTAL. That He allows, or seems to allow something which is contrary to His will in no way even remotely signifies a lack of control (e.g., Sovereignty) on His part. No one defeats Him in even the smallest thought, not for a nanosecond, not ever. For "even the wrath of man shall praise" Him. 'Including the wrath of Satan&Co., for that matter. To even think that God could remotely be anything less than praised, even by evil, even by disobedience, is to anthropopathise God (unwittingly, of course).

See? Grace is free, and requires free will, so to praise All of God's Attributes. Period.

SECOND CONCEPT: You and I can't understand the smallest thing about God unless He Alone empowers it, and unless He completely and totally runs the information processing.

So, the "common grace" of communicating the Gospel to everyone is Sovereignly run by the Holy Spirit. People freely choose to believe in Him, or not. As we saw in "T", belief is merely an attribute of personhood, and has no merit, because merit resides in the object, not in the act of belief...even if the person believing were perfect. The merit of Christ is total, and the merit of anything else is zero. So, since the merit believed "programs" the person's knowledgebase and desires, the person's quality is affected by acceptance or rejection, but the person's ability to believe remains neutral, in and of itself (aka "nonmeritorious").

Likewise, salvation is also something totally done by God. One's faith in Christ, as we saw in "T", is that of a spiritually-dead person; it has no merit, and of course of itself has no power to save. However, in His Grace, God the HOLY Spirit takes that dead faith and makes it alive (aka "efficacious"), creating a human spirit; then, the Father imputes His Own Righteousness and Eternal Life to that human spirit. These two Ministries of the Holy Spirit and the Father are the ones which make you permanently saved ("reborn"). Theologians call this "regeneration". (Notice, the cart is not before the horse; you are regenerated AFTER you believe in Christ, NOT before. Acts 16:31 and John 3, among other passages, make this order clear.)

One's post-salvation spiritual life is likewise totally done by God. Even the faith of a spiritually-alive person, what is that? It also has no power to "grow" the person spiritually. It has the power to believe, but, as we saw in "T", even if a person (say, Christ) is perfect, the merit of the choice resides in the object, not in the subject. Belief by nature is a choosing BASED UPON the merit of the object. That is why Christ did not depend even on His Humanity to stay Perfect: He instead eschewed works, and depended on Bible Doctrine (then, the OT). So, Christ being the model, what conclusions must we draw?

All we have is our God-given (by grace!) free-will consent to the GRACE MANDATE to learn Christ, at any given moment. (2Pet3:18; "until Christ may be formed in you"; "that Christ may be at home in your hearts";"that Christ..may be glorified in my body";"..learn Christ". These are but a few of the passages. More will be said about this mandate in V, as I've time to write it up.)

Note well: GOD SETS THE CONDITIONS HE WANTS. You either accede to them via your nonmeritorious free will or you do not. 'With all the attendant consequences. God wants to see His Son's thinking in YOU. Not your "works". He provides the entire mechanism for this Thinking to be transferred to you, to program you..but only as you freely desire. Just as it was for Christ. Christ is the Standard, not you, not your works, not me, not my works. Just Christ. And, as we know, the resultant Quality of Him was so high, even the "earthquake" of all our sins being imputed and judged upon Him did not cause Him even the slightest lapse. 'Due to His THINKING, THINKING, THINKING..which thinking He received in the form of Bible Doctrine from the Holy Sprit.

So, we know God's Sovereignly-chosen "work" conditions: "learn Christ". Run by God, so total grace, not works of man. Not wood, hay, stubble, but gold, silver, and precious stone. After all, what "work" is competent if the thought behind it is not? Thought, not doing, is the rule. And Christ is the Model, the "Author and Finisher of Our Doctrine", as it says in Heb12:2. (Greek word "pistis" has either an active or passive meaning, just as in English: active meaning, the mental act of belief; passive meaning, the object believed, like in the English phrase, "articles-of-faith", meaning "doctrine".)

See? Everyone, angel or human, saved or unsaved, is always totally DEPENDENT on God's Grace. Every moment, any sort of knowledge about Him comes from and is run solely by HIM (the Holy Spirit, here). We merely use our power of choice (nonmeritorious free will) to assent to or reject learning about God. God is free, and God takes responsibility for His own freedom.

He has equipped us to do the same: and that is why He runs the system, so our finite depravity cannot restrict our freedom -- or, give us an excuse.

If you're still having problems jettisoning the idea that you "contribute" something, or that God's Grace should not be extended in accordance with His Own Standard of free-will acceptance, the following paragraphs might help.

People often mistake knowledge of any subject as indicating the person's own merit. Knowledge is solely gained, even secular knowledge, through God's grace system: free will, plus faith perception (more on this is in "T" and VIII's "1."). The things you learn you obviously did not know before you learned them: you had to BELIEVE the person who taught you. If you did not believe in that person's teaching, you did not learn it. The merit thus was in teaching, not in you. Further, your ability to do this came from God's gift of free will (as well as faith), because you did not invent your own power to choose or believe.

How much more, then, is the knowledge of God Himself strictly a grace gift from God?

God the Holy Spirit makes the Gospel perspicuous to spiritual brain death: that's "common grace" (Gospel communicated). He also makes one's belief in that Gospel efficacious for salvation ("efficacious grace" -- being "born again").

Thus, the "TULIP" explanation, which implies man can't help but go with the Gospel, if "elect", is false. Calvinists here often resort to using certain verses which have the verbs "draw" or "drag" in them to claim proof that man has no free will, and that the "elect" can't resist the call of Grace, as if men were robots. Review those "draw" and "drag" verses, and you'll quickly see there's no connotation about the will, in either the Greek texts, or in the English. They have a structure like the following sentence: "He dragged her to safety." Now, you don't know if she was conscious, unconscious, whether she WANTED to be dragged to safety or not. Thus, the "drag" and "draw" verses some Calvinists use to claim will is not free do NOT prove their claim. All those verses prove is that one's will cannot CAUSE salvation; the verses merely indicate helplessness to make good on it, as the "T" explained. Since man's always trying to EARN salvation, and these verses prove he can't, it matters a GREAT deal to get the interpretation here correct!

After salvation, the same dependence continues: "they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in doctrine ("aletheia" there is the "truth" of the Word)". "Carnal" Christians can't really use the learned doctrine, as per 1Jn1:8, 10. So, still helpless. 1 Jn 1:9 puts such a Christian back "on-line", as it were, with the Holy Spirit.

In short, we can reject this grace, either before or after salvation, and we all do. It's a concomitant result of continuing total depravity, as Romans 7 through 9 so aptly illustrate. Such rejection, however, was foreknown; so, cannot be nullified, since Grace, as we saw in the FIRST CONCEPT, is totally free to begin with. In short, God is not compromised, there is no "waste" to Him, because we reject His Grace. Rather, we and we alone are hurt by our own soul's rejection. God is NEVER affected.

IN SUM: Grace takes into account everything: sin, evil, good, rejection, acceptance, and works all things together for God's pleasure. There are so many verses attesting to this fact, one probably sprang to your mind as you read this sentence. 

Nothing evades Grace, even when rejected! So, "inalienable" is really a better word, to describe the nature of this Grace.

(If you turn over these core concepts in your brain for awhile, you'll discover that the old TULIP "I" of "irresistible grace" was way too narrow, and misleading!)