It's hard to confirm exact numbers, but by educated guess I would safely assume that the

most asked about chapter in the Bible in our emails are questions about Romans 9.

I know without any exaggeration we have hundreds of questions in the inbox on this one chapter

alone.

And within that chapter, Romans 9.22 is very likely the most asked about text of all the

other verses in the chapter.

I know of at least 65 emails just asking about this single text, a hard text.

Here's one representative question from a listener named Leslie that captures the heart

of dozens of those emails.

Pastor John, hello, I could use your help in my struggle with Romans 9.22.

It seems to me to imply that those who are not elect are not even given a chance to

repent since they were born for destruction.

Is this right?

Many people are created with no chance of ever being saved.

I'm not surprised that Romans 9 is among the texts that people have the most questions

about because my own history bore that out.

Just recently I've been perusing some of my old journal entries from 1977 to 1979.

I was in my early 30s and almost all of my discretionary time was spent studying and

writing about Romans 9, especially verses 14 to 23.

And it may interest our listeners that this text, which is so problematic for most of

us, the text which highlights the absolute sovereignty of God over salvation.

As clearly as forcefully as any other text in the Bible, this text was the text God used

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