Romans 9:22-24
22 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, 23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, 24 even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
22 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, 23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, 24 even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
God prepared some for destruction and some for mercy. He demonstrated His absolute power and patient restraint in holding back His due wrath on sin. He also showed mercy on those He determined in advance would have it, so that He could also make them know the endless value in His glory through that undeserved mercy (grace). He called us to Himself out of both Israel and the other nations promised to Abraham, and so also He did not call from these the ones prepared for His wrath on the sin we are all born with. It is His choosing of mercy that any of us are spared our due justice.
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