Romans 9:10-13
"That the purposes of God might stand." - (So that it rests not on us, but the determinate grace of God)
Why would God give His grace to some? Doesn't seem fair.
Why would God give His grace in a greater measure to some than to others? It just doesn't seem fair.
- One person receiving a blessing from God and the other not, and it's still based on the good pleasure of God.
- - The Apostle Paul anticipates the objection; and states - "What; is there unrighteousness with God?"
- - - (If Paul was teaching a semi-pelagian, or armenian view of election - that is; a soul meeting some condition -who would raise an objection about that being unfair?)
Shall the elect sin that grace will abound?
God forbid! - (If they continue in sin they are not elected)
"I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy." Here the apostle is reminding us that it is God's right to prosecute Divine Executive clemency. (When and where He so desires it)
He says from the beginning, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy"; - not on those who have met the conditions.
- One BIG condition to receiving the birthright(blessing) was being firstborn. (But on whom was God pleased to bestow the benefit in two important occasions?)
- - Esau or Jacob?
- - Elias, (Jessie's firstborn), or David?
For an example, say there are two sinners. - One is saved, one is lost.
Now.....think about it...... if God chooses by His sovereign power to bestow His grace on one and withhold it from the other, has He violated justice?
If we examine the lives of those who do not receive the gift of His grace, is there any injustice in this?
If God allows these sinners to perish, do they receive something they do not deserve?
- If a governor of a worldly state pardons one - (by given him/her clemency); is that governor beholden to grant clemency to all?
The apostle Paul is saying there is no injustice, because Esau didn't deserve the blessing in the first place, and Jacob didn't either. Yet one was condemned and the other accepted.
- Jacob received the blessing; and Esau received the justice.
- - Nowhere is an injustice perpetrated. -(Why is that?)
- - - "So therefore it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs; but of God who shows mercy."
"That the purposes of God might stand." - (So that it rests not on us, but the determinate grace of God)
Why would God give His grace to some? Doesn't seem fair.
Why would God give His grace in a greater measure to some than to others? It just doesn't seem fair.
- One person receiving a blessing from God and the other not, and it's still based on the good pleasure of God.
- - The Apostle Paul anticipates the objection; and states - "What; is there unrighteousness with God?"
- - - (If Paul was teaching a semi-pelagian, or armenian view of election - that is; a soul meeting some condition -who would raise an objection about that being unfair?)
Shall the elect sin that grace will abound?
God forbid! - (If they continue in sin they are not elected)
"I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy." Here the apostle is reminding us that it is God's right to prosecute Divine Executive clemency. (When and where He so desires it)
He says from the beginning, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy"; - not on those who have met the conditions.
- One BIG condition to receiving the birthright(blessing) was being firstborn. (But on whom was God pleased to bestow the benefit in two important occasions?)
- - Esau or Jacob?
- - Elias, (Jessie's firstborn), or David?
For an example, say there are two sinners. - One is saved, one is lost.
Now.....think about it...... if God chooses by His sovereign power to bestow His grace on one and withhold it from the other, has He violated justice?
If we examine the lives of those who do not receive the gift of His grace, is there any injustice in this?
If God allows these sinners to perish, do they receive something they do not deserve?
- If a governor of a worldly state pardons one - (by given him/her clemency); is that governor beholden to grant clemency to all?
The apostle Paul is saying there is no injustice, because Esau didn't deserve the blessing in the first place, and Jacob didn't either. Yet one was condemned and the other accepted.
- Jacob received the blessing; and Esau received the justice.
- - Nowhere is an injustice perpetrated. -(Why is that?)
- - - "So therefore it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs; but of God who shows mercy."