Romans 9:22-24 (KJV) 22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: 23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, 24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
God has declared the wages of sin is death but his free gift of Salvation through Jesus Christ is available to those who will repent of Sin, believe and confess the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior, and follow him. The Lord wants to spend eternity in heavenly bliss and fellowship with those he saves. But the unbelieving and unrepentant serve a purpose as well. They will be his example to believers (and unbelivers who die without Christ as their savior) of just how patient and merciful he is by giving them their entire lives to respond to his grace and mercy. God’s wants all to come to repentance but the sad fact is that many will reject Christ and be eternally condemned. To show his mercy on the unbelieving and unrepentant the Lord continues to send the message of love and salvation through his son daily. It can be heard in preaching, read in the Bible, seen in faithful believers, and witnessed in nature. To the believer these are all wonders of God of which we are thankful. But those who do not, and will not, believe hold the works of God in contempt.
John 3: 17-21, ESV For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has notbelieved in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light,lest his works should be exposed. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”
Romans 10:21 (ESV) 21 But of Israel he says, “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”
But God’s going to continue to reveal his message and offer his salvation until the end. When that happens the ledgers will be opened and all accounts will be finalized. All rewards will be dispensed. Those who have rejected the grace and mercy of God will never have the chance to change their minds.
Romans 10:21 (ESV) 21 But of Israel he says, “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”
2 Peter 3:9-10 (KJV) 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Romans 3:23-26 (KJV) 23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; 24Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Gal 6:7-8 (KJV)