IS IT FAIR FOR GOD TO CHOOSE?
Romans 9.14-29
Romans: Faithful To Save – Part 3 of 10
Romans 8.28 “… all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.” (esv)
Romans 9.11 “… God’s purpose according to His choice …” (nas)
Phillips: “… do we conclude that ϴ is monstrously unfair?”
Hebrews 10.31 “It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”
GOD’S SPECIAL LOVING CHOICE IS GOOD BECAUSE …
GOD DOESN’T Owe Us Salvation
v. 16 “… depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.”
v. 17 “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” (esv)
GOD DOESN’T Owe Us An Explanation
v. 19 “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?” (esv)
v. 20 “But who are you, O man, to answer back to God?” (esv)
Ephesians 2.10 “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works …” (esv)
v. 23 “… vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory …”
v. 22 “God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction …”
GOD ISN’T Limited By Our Imagination
v. 24 “… the ones he … called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles.” (csb)
v. 25 “Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people’ …” (esv)
v. 27 “… only a remnant of them will be saved …” (esv)
v. 29 “If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring, we would have been like Sodom and … Gomorrah.”(esv)
v. 26 “And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’” (esv)