Lloyd Pulley is the Pastor of Calvary Chapel Old Bridge - and the speaker here on the program. He's currently taking us verse by verse through the book of Romans. We'll be in chapter ten today - and the subject will be our responsibility to have knowledge accompany our zeal for God.

Today on Bridging the Gap - Lloyd Pulley considers this as he continues a message based in Romans chapter nine. God's fairness is always a topic of debate among the saved and the unsaved, but God's sovereignty should never be questioned.

The Book of Romans has been given some very lofty status among Bible scholars. It's even referred to, by some, as the "Magna Carta" of Christianity. Yet within the pages of Romans come some passages that leave a lot of people scratching their heads. Romans nine is one of them. It's part of God's word, so we need to understand what message Paul is conveying here.

It's a shame that there is any anti-semitism in the world. God chose the Jews as the way to bring the world the Law and ultimately His own Son. The whole world should be grateful for the Jewish nation and the Jewish people. And yet there is a difference between the spiritual and physical Israel. And in Romans nine - we'll see that not all Israel is Israel in God's Eyes.