Shows the gifts and callings here...
Thou hast ascended on high,
thou hast led captivity captive:
thou hast received gifts for men;
yea, for the rebellious also,
that the LORD God might
dwell among them. (Psalm 68:18)
In respects to the gifts and calling of God it says,
For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. (Romans 11:29)
And because he is good and upright, he will teach sinners
Good and upright is the LORD:
therefore will he teach sinners in the way. (Psalm 25:8)
Although not being a minister of sin, His goodness, forbearance and especially his longsuffering come in here
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; (Romans 2:4a)
Not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
He is still leading us to repentence by the same, and we are to account his longsuffering as this (even salvation)
And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation;
even as our beloved brother Paul also
according to the wisdom given unto him
hath written unto you; (2 Peter 3:15)
He is longsuffering "us-ward" it says,
not willing that any should perish but rather that all (including ourselves)
should come to repentence (that is still the directed course)
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. (2 Peter 3:9)
Even as the longsuffering of God is noted as that which waited in the very days of Noah (1 Peter 3:20)
out of which time we are told few (eight in all) were actually saved.