Romans: Living the Faith Life
Romans: Living the Faith Life

Vessels of Mercy

FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 9:22–24: What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of …

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Romans: Living the Faith Life
Romans: Living the Faith Life

The Potter and the Clay

FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 9:19–21: You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?” But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why …

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Romans: Living the Faith Life
Romans: Living the Faith Life

The Mercy of God and a Hard Heart

FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 9:17–18: For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.” Therefore He has mercy on …

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Romans: Living the Faith Life
Romans: Living the Faith Life

The Mercy of the Lord

FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 9:15–16: For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.” So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, …

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Romans: Living the Faith Life
Romans: Living the Faith Life

He is Always Right

FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 9:14: What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not!

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Romans: Living the Faith Life
Romans: Living the Faith Life

The Choice to Choose is Yours

FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 9:10–13: And not only this, but when Rebecca also had conceived by one man, even by our father Isaac (for the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election …

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Romans: Living the Faith Life
Romans: Living the Faith Life

The Children of Promise

FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 9:8: That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the seed.

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Romans: Living the Faith Life
Romans: Living the Faith Life

The Unconditional Promises of God

FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 9:6–7: But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel, nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, “In Isaac your seed …

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Romans: Living the Faith Life
Romans: Living the Faith Life

A Surrendered Life for Others

FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 9:3–5: For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh, who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of …

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Romans: Living the Faith Life
Romans: Living the Faith Life

A Love that Longs for Others

FAITH: Comes by Hearing the Word of God Romans 9:1–2: I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart.

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