Romans 9:19-29

The answer to our question yesterday… God is the Potter!
We are but lifeless spiritually clay if He doesn’t mercifully choose to alter our destiny.

Controversies have surrounded God’s sovereignty and His role in salvation since the early days of the church. Suffice to say opponents are as passionate as Paul in their arguments against his positions in our passage.

Everyone can't be right.

It’s hard to hear, no less accept, but what the Bible says is clear. God is the Potter regardless of what we believe. He is sovereign and He decides who will be saved and who won’t. Romans 3:23&24 aren’t vague or ambiguous. For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; they are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

God hasn’t hidden any of this. It’s all there in His word. As was mentioned yesterday, problems and controversies set in when we don’t like what it says. Or worse, we ignore the Scriptures we don’t like in order to have a god more acceptable to us. Both can result in tragic, eternal consequences.

There was a John Piper devotional last week on the subject of God’s Sovereignty. It’s based on a verse we will get to in the next week or so. Piper speaks of the pleasures that can be ours because God is sovereign. There’s a link to it below. I’m confident it will be worth your time.