You're going to. All right guys we're in Romans 9 Romans 9 and we're looking at we're going to

look at one verse today which we started to look at two weeks ago.

But Romans chapter 9, I just want to read the one verse, put it 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 sawau 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 just as it is written and the

affection God has, Jacob I loved, but now Roman numeral three, the animosity God has.

He says, but Esau, I hated.

And I want to just jump into this

without much of an introduction at all because I don't know that I even have time to squeeze all this in because there's so much to be said.

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