No sinner has the right to say with impunity you owe me grace

Because if grace is owed

It's not grace the very essence of grace is in its voluntary

character

An objection that I've heard countless times from unbelievers as I've tried to explain

the reality of hell, and the coming judgment is simply, that's not fair.

Well, sometimes even those within the church can raise the question of God's

fanace, especially when it comes to our text today in Romans 9.

Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and you're listening to a special Sunday edition

of Renewing Your Mind. All October, what we like to call

Reformation Month, we're featuring sermons preached by R.C. Spurl

from the Book of Romans, an epistle that was significant

in the rediscovery of the gospel during the Protestant Reformation.

Today, we come to Romans 9, where Paul quotes the Old Testament, where God says,

Jacob, I loved, but he saw, I hated, and then Paul asked the rhetorical question,

is there injustice on God's part? So, is it unjust of God to sovereignly give his grace

to some and not to others? Here's R.C. Spurl to explain this often controversial

and misunderstood text.

The evening I'll read from chapter 9, beginning with verse 14,

and reading through verse 21, though without any intention whatsoever of

covering that much in the lesson this evening. So, we'll be looking at Romans 9,

14 through 21, and I'll ask the congregation to stand for the reading of the

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