The person "opposed to God" should be the target of the Works of Mercy
Some of us here were once those "deliberately opposed to God." That's exactly why the whole human race needed (and needs) a Savior.
What you have just stated is a philosophy shared across the entirety of small-o orthodox Christendom. Some may quibble on terminology or on philosophical details of causation, but this description of what plays out is dead on accurate, and scriptural. God would prefer the sinner accept salvation and repent than to end up damned forever.