Welcome to the Bible Study. I'm Stephen Lawson, President of One Passion Ministries.

And each week I will teach verse by verse through the passage of scripture

so that you can better understand the word of God

and put it into practice in your life. Join me now as we look together into this

section of the Bible.

So, all right guys we're in Romans 9 Romans 9 and we're looking we're going to

look at one verse today which we started to look at two weeks ago but Romans chapter

nine I just want to read the one verse put it back back before your eyes.

And I think you know what it is.

Romans 9, verse 13, just as it is written,

Jacob I loved, but he saw I hated.

I really want us to get our arms around this verse

and really understand.

And I don't want to belabor this. I want to keep our

pace going through Romans. However, we come to certain verses that really require

some explanation more so than other

passages and this just happens to be one of those verses that I think we really

need to just pause for a moment because there are so many strands of theology

that run through this text and intersect with this verse that we really need to have I think an accurate

understanding of what this means. I've already looked we've already looked

at the first part of this verse.

I said the authority Paul quoted,

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