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. All right guys let's start with the word of prayer.

Father in heaven, as we now come to your word, we know we're stepping onto holy ground.

You speak continually to us

your word that's living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword.

We pray that you would open our eyes,

that we would behold wondrous truths in your word and as we look into your truth

I pray that you would shape us mold us make us prune us nurture us grow us develop us for Christ's sake

amen

okay we're in Romans chapter 9.

And today we're going to be looking at verses 14 through 18, Lord willing.

And you've heard me say, we're playing big boy football. Well this is smash mouth football, okay?

So this is we're up in the ante here a little bit. If you're taking notes the title of this is simply this is God's

choosing unfair. Is God's choosing unfair.

So beginning in verse 14, we read,

what shall we say then?

There is no injustice with God is there. May it never be. For he says to Moses,

I will have compassion on whom I have compassion and I will have excuse me I'll have

mercy on whom I have mercy and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. So then it does not depend on the man who wills,

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