Don't Let Regret Stop You from Accepting God's Grace

The entire sermon is worth a listen (Winter Is Coming: https://youtu.be/vj1SKnbBKBs) The sermon was uploaded June 26, 2023, the pastor passed into glory November 5th. The part that stuck out to me was the part where Pastor noted this:Show more

■ We're not guaranteed another opportunity to come to Christ. Don't wait until your life is consumed with, with regrets and missed opportunities. I deal with people like that all the time - that their life is just consumed with regrets and missed opportunities. Don't wait.

Many push off an opportunity to investigate the claims of Jesus till their life has an abundance of emotional and life choice decisions that lead to obstacles in thinking Jesus' sacrifice on Calvary is not big enough to overcome their sin. This is not the case, but it is one I think drives many to reject opportunities presented. How do you share the Love of Christ with a person to overcome this calloused sense of being before it's too late? Or, at least harder for that person to see an opportunity in what Christ has wrought on Calvary? C.S. Lewis opined well on the issue:

■ Finally, it is objected that the ultimate loss of a single soul means the defeat of omnipotence. And so it does. In creating beings with free will, omnipotence from the outset submits to the possibility of such defeat. What you call defeat, I call miracle: for to make things which are not Itself, and thus to become, in a sense, capable of being resisted by its own handiwork, is the most astonishing and unimaginable of all the feats we attribute to the Deity. I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside. I do not mean that the ghosts may not wish to come out of hell, in the vague fashion wherein an envious man “wishes” to be happy: but they certainly do not will even the first preliminary stages of that self-abandonment through which alone the soul can reach any good. They enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded, and are therefore self-enslaved just as the blessed, forever submitting to obedience, become through all eternity more and more free.

C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (New York, NY: Simon & Shuster, 1996), 113-114.