So far I've been getting pretty good responses on the stuff I've been dealing with Calvinism online

and I'm happy to hear that and I've been getting good responses from you guys and that means a lot to me as well.

But today we're going to be looking

at Romans chapter 9. I don't think that this passage teaches Calvinism but what I want to

do is this. My wife told me that she's heard this passage taught,

and there's some of the verses in Romans 9,

where she goes, I've never heard someone explain this

in a way that made sense to me and there's just some difficult

passages and so what I want to do is tackle the hard passages and the hard

verses that are in Romans 9 and I want to do this even though it's going to be I'm going to offer you the non-Calvinist interpretation of that I want to do it thoughtfully carefully like brothers in fellowship with with my there my Calvinist friends my Calvinist brothers and sisters.

And so we're just wrestling with these topics that should not divide us.

We're trying to understand Romans 9.

And this is the chapter.

Romans 9 is the chapter. When someone is the chapter when someone says,

so you're not a Calvinist and I go,

no I'm not a Calvinist and they say,

what do you do with Romans 9?

This is just the natural thing to pop up.

So I would remind us of one thing before we jump into the text, which is

what Peter said about Paul's writings. Peter wrote about Paul's writings and he said that

in Paul's writings there are some things

that are hard to understand.

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