Pastor Josh continues teaching us through Romans 9 this morning:
“Welcome, this morning if you are visiting. We are in the most difficult part of the Bible. Not the most difficult part to understand, mind you. But the most difficult part to be comfortable with…Any attempt to explain the election of Jacob over Esau on the basis of God’s foresight of Jacob’s good works or Jacob’s choice is to reverse everything Paul is saying here and to turn the text here on its head. Paul very carefully and specifically explains that it was not Jacob’s choice or Jacob’s works that saved him only the sovereign choice of God who chooses. To come up with some apologetic that makes this make no sense doesn’t help us. We just must hear the word of God and it’s us that needs to change if we don’t like it…”