God chooses.

God determines destinies before men and women are born apart from anything in them.

That is uninfluenced sovereignty.

God is glorified in such sovereign selection.

It shows his control, it shows his

rulership, and our God is a sovereign God. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson. You may think

that explosions are only destructive and never constructive.

And you would probably say that only a deranged doctor would give rat poison to a patient.

And yet thousands of controlled explosions are what give power to the

cars we drive, and doctors routinely prescribe a neutralized form of rat poison to help people with blood clots.

Indeed, there are some things that common sense tells you should not go together,

but with a closer look you can understand and accept why they do go together.

With that in mind on today's grace to you, John MacArthur will help you see how God can punish

sinners for eternity and yet still be a God of love.

So follow along now, turn to Romans Chapter 9, if you can, as John continues his study titled The Love of God.

At first glance a subject like the love of God may seem somewhat simple and easy to grasp, but upon greater reflection as we have learned,

it is profound and far-reaching

and inexplicable and inscrutable at some points.

Many people think that because God is love and he is, the

Bible says so. And they think that because God loves the world so much that he gave his only begotten son to be the

Savior of the world, that therefore God must love every person in the world with

the same kind of love and to the same degree and with the same purpose in mind.

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