The following resource is from desiring God.org. So what I'm going to do is pick it up. I hope it doesn't feel hurried. I want you to get the sense of what the unit is about and how each piece fits in.

So we may leave out some details, but I hope you feel like, okay, I got the big picture of how this works. So here we are at 19 to 23. You will say to me then, why does he still find fault? So he's with us. He knows that what he's saying, he has mercy on whom he wills and he hardens whom he wills and yet he's going to find fault with Pharaoh.

Yes he is. And he asks asked why does he do that? For who can resist his will? And the answer

that is nobody. He's just taught that very clearly. That is nobody can resist his will decisively,

ultimately. You can say no to God all day long if he lets you. But if he

wants to move into your life and overcome that no with a great yes of new

birth, he will and can.

Verse 20, but who are you, O man, to answer back to God?

Now, is that response to the question he just asked, a shut up,

and don't ask God's questions.

Is, should we take it that way? But who are you, oh man, to answer back to God?

I don't think so. This word answer back,

Unta, but crinomai, it's used one other time in the New Testament.

It's used in, I don't know if I wrote down the actual text.

It's in Luke somewhere.

But what it means is Jesus told,

responded to the Jewish leaders and it says they were not able to answer him.

In other words, they couldn't come up with a way to contradict him.

They could, they had nothing more to say.

He had answered their objections and they couldn't answer back.

So I think answer back carries the connotation of show to be wrong.

Contradict.

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