Pastor John can a sinner repent and be saved in their final moments leading up to their

death.

Before the answer can be given to that question, we have to ask which sinner, which might

seem strange, I suppose.

The sinner who can genuinely repent, genuinely trust, genuinely be changed into a lover of

Christ who deeply regrets a life wasted in preferring the world to Christ.

That's one kind of sinner who might try to repent.

There's little reason to think that anyone who puts off repentance and loves sin for

a whole lifetime would ever become that kind of sinner at the end.

Who genuinely repents, genuinely trusts, genuinely loves Jesus.

Now genuinely hates sin, genuinely regrets a whole life of sinning.

The mistake that so many make when they contemplate the possibility of putting off Christ is that

they think it's like snap in their finger, it's like choosing to eat or not eat and it isn't.

You can't choose to raise yourself from the dead.

You can't choose to stop loving the world, especially when you have loved it for 70 years.

I wonder if people who contemplate this possibility and wonder about it read Romans 8, 7, the

mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God.

It does not submit to God's law, indeed it cannot.

That's why I said if you're going to ask can a sinner repent at the moment of death,

I said which sinner this one can't and the cat is not God won't let him but he doesn't have it in

himself to change himself.

I can, I'm a lover of the flesh or 1 Corinthians 214, the natural person does not accept the things of the

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