God is all sovereign, amen. But in his all sovereignty is he fair.

That topic of God's impartiality comes up on the podcast a lot. Is God governed by

objectivity or does his sovereignty somehow excuse a bias and unfairness in how he works in this world and deals with each of us.

Many episodes on the podcast come at this essential question, which you can see in my episode

Digest in the new APJ book if you have a copy on pages 355 to 364

you'll see all the diverse ways that this question has come up over the years.

The fairness of God is such a

dominant theme for you, our listeners, that I was not surprised at all to discover

that Romans 922 is the most asked about verse in all of the Bible in our inbox.

No other verse has been asked about more often in the inbox

your emails to us in our 11 plus years of podcasting than Romans 922 and this most asked about text happens to be next up in our reading tomorrow if you're reading along with us in the navigator's Bible reading plan.

So to prepare for that reading in Romans 9 tomorrow, here's one representative question from a listener

named Leslie that captures the heart of a hundred plus other emails that we have.

Pastor John, hello, I could use your help in my struggle with Romans 922.

It seems to me to imply that those who are not elect are not even given a chance to repent since they were born for destruction.

Is this right that many people are created with no chance of ever being saved.

I'm not surprised that Romans 9

is among the text that people have the most questions about

because my own history bore that out.

Just recently, I've been perusing some of my old

journal entries from 1977 to 1979. I was in my early 30s and almost all of my discretionary time was

spent studying and writing about Romans 9, especially verses 14 to 23.

...