October 29, 2018

Romans 9 – Divine Decisions, Part 2

Romans 9 – Divine Decisions, Part 2

Dave Riddle – 10/28/2018

Key passage: Romans 9:14-18

God’s choices are neither random nor unjust.

Romans 9:14

“Never, no, not ever” = absolutely not

God’s choices are:

Self-willed

Sovereign

Romans 9:15

Rooted in His Mercy

Romans 9:16

Purposeful

Romans 9:17

Pharaoh’s hardened heart is mentioned 20 times. 10 times God hardened his heart. 10 times he hardened his own heart.

“Neither here nor anywhere else is God said to harden anyone who had not first hardened himself. That Pharaoh hardened his heart against God and refused to humble himself is made plain in the story. So God’s hardening of him was a judicial act, abandoning him to his own stubbornness.” (John Stott, Romans: God’s Good News for the World [InterVarsity Press, 1994], 269, quoting Leon Morris)

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