75-4 If we can’t work our way into salvation, how can we work our way OUT?

   

There are few sermons on Romans 9:15, as the pictures above show that in three Google searches, none of the suggested results were for that passage and even when it was typed in, the suggestions stopped.

Romans 9:14-18 “What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means!  For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”  So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.  For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”  So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.” 

Three posts ago, I wrote of Pharaoh’s rise to power and the hardening of his heart being part of his purpose as a vessel for destruction.

Every day we choose life or death −Righteousness or unrighteousness− and those who have been made as vessels for distruction always have the choice, no matter how deep in the mire they are, they can always choose to turn away from evil. 

Romans 9:21-23 “Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?  What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,  in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory”

Galatians 6:7  
”Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.”