Maybe you've already seen (or been thinking) something like this:
"Here was a man who had everything he could ask for in this world but in the end, all his fame and financial success came to nothing. And now, the man who had been given so much and who also squandered even more must stand before his Creator and pay for his sins in hell-fire and eternal damnation."
Would the Apostle Paul have pounded his chest and danced a jig to celebrate the loss of a single soul to the enemy? Would the Christ-like love Paul described in 1 Corinthians 13 suddenly evaporate at this opportunity to preach and proclaim his righteousness?
Even more importantm (actually, this is most important of all), what would Jesus say? Would Christ have wagged his finger and screamed "I told you so!"? Would he have urged his disciples to be proud and arrogant in the face of someone else's tragedy and misfortune?
We don't have to guess, speculate or imagine: scripture vividly shows us instead:
When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
- John 8:7-8
(What was Jesus writing on the ground? Could've been the sins of the woman's accusers ... Christ's way of using first-century motion graphics to remind the would-be stone throwers of both his Authority and of his command concerning Forgiveness.)
There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?
- James 4:12
As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, "If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes."
- Luke 19:41-42
