Sermons citing Romans 9:13–24

^9:15 For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

^9:16 So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.

^9:17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

^9:18 Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.

^9:19 One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”

^9:20 But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”

^9:21 Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?

^9:22 What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?

^9:23 What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—

^9:24 including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?