GOD’S COUNTERACTIVE GRACE The Bible is quite explicit regarding what the sinner’s response to God’s overtures of grace would be if it were left to the sinner to determine it. He would adjudge such overtures foolishness (1 Cor. 2:14) and would refuse to submit to them (Rom. 8:7). And a form of grace that would only place salvation before lost men, God knowing all the while that as sinners they are incapable of receiving it apart from powerful divine aid that he would not extend, is no grace at all.