Keeping in mind that warnings are one of the ways God preserves the regenerate, who heed the warnings, while the unregenerate do not.
I agree completely. It is surprising how God does what he does, often with the mundane, ordinary means, when we would prefer that he do the spectacular.
But notice how the Arminians want to accuse us of saying it is 'automatic', when we say no such thing! The reverse, self-important, humanocentric thinking, and the gall of it! to say that if the human does is nothing by which he gains a gift of God, it must be 'automatic', and if God does the work by which we gain something, he cannot use means to accomplish it, is self-condemning.
When we speak of Perseverance of the Saints, we do not claim, nor do we mean, that the Elect need not be obedient, nor do everything else that it takes to persevere, as though it will happen automatically. We only mean that God will indeed keep us, by whatever means he uses to do so, to include our wills and our deeds.
When I said the main difference between Arminianism and Reformed Theology was the Gospel of Grace, I was perhaps not entirely accurate, because the main difference is really that mindset behind that false Gospel, that necessarily must separate
our activity from
God's activity —a notion that is denied emphatically by both Scripture and Reason, not merely by the simple fact that God is the first cause of all fact, but particularly in the unity of the believer to God, that no good is done by us but by God in us.
I have been accused of teaching many things that I never have taught, including that the Elect can be lazy as they please, or that their whole life and pursuit of Christ is automatic, requiring no effort at all on the part of the believer. I have been careful to say outright, that even though salvific faith is entirely of grace, a gift, it involves the believer's heart and will, even to the extreme. I'm not the one who calls anyone a robot, but I've been accused of teaching it.