A sinner saved by grace

The will of God for a sinner is salvation but His will for the saint who sins is sanctification. Sanctification is the process that transforms the common things into holy things. This important process starts at salvation and ends at death.
Sanctification happens in two stages; instant sanctification at the moment of salvation and insistent salvation that continues until death. There are three divine agents involved in sanctification which are the blood of Jesus, the Holy Spirit and the Word of God. Instant sanctification is wholly the work of God but insistent sanctification involves both divine power and human responsibility. The rate at which gradual sanctification takes place depends on one’s diligence in obeying God’s word and the leading of the Holy Spirit. 
As Christian believers we are called by many good names: children of God, the righteous ones, sons and daughters of God, the elect, or saints. Each of these names reveals a certain characteristic that defines our relationship to God. For example we are called children of God because we have been born again. This name reminds us not of our physical family and natural heritage but of our spiritual rebirth and divine heritage. But the most fascinating of all these names we are called by is saints.
The term saints refer to the holy ones, righteous ones or the sanctified ones. It is this name that must remind us that we are no longer sin-sick products of our past but holy children of a holy God bought out of slavery to sin by the precious, sinless and incorruptible blood of the lamb, Jesus Christ.
Some Christians do not think they are worthy to be called holy because they still commit sin here and there. That is why they describe themselves as just sinners saved by grace. But there is confusion in that statement. Sinners are people who are not saved; those who have not been born again. But you know you have been born again and you know it was by grace and not by your own righteousness.
So if you call yourself a sinner saved by grace you mean you are both saved and unsaved at the same time. The confusion lies in the fact you cannot be both at the same time. If you are saved you belong to the class of saints. If not, you belong to class of sinners.
But I can understand the root cause of the confusion. You know that you are saved but you fail to understand how a born again, tongue talking and holy child of God can continue to sin as you do. Thus calling yourself a sinner saved by grace is your attempt to tell others that though you are saved you still have human weaknesses.
Your idea and analysis of the matter is not wrong but the name you are coming up with is wrong.
You are not a sinner saved by grace but a saint who sometimes sins. The difference is that a sinner sins by nature but a saint sins by choice. Also, a sinner is not convicted of sin when he/she sins, he/she enjoys it just like a pig enjoys being in the mud. But a saint has something in her/his heart that convicts her/his of wrongdoing even before he/she does it, she/he hates sinning though she/he finds herself/himself doing it. He/She is like a sheep that bleats for help when it is in the mud.
Now understand that sanctification comes in two parts. At the moment of salvation, there is what is called positional or instantaneous sanctification. What happens is that holiness comes instantly into your spirit when it gets born again. However, the sanctification of the mind and the body is not instant; it is gradual and insistent until the day of death.
This explains why one can be truly born again today but only begins to show it outwardly after ten years. It is so easy to think that such a one is not truly born again because he continues to live the same way he lived before salvation. But the truth is that he was saved ten years ago and is a true child of God who must undergo gradual sanctification in order to match his outward life to the inward nature which is completely holy.
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