{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"New Song Students OKC","title":"Romans - Unfair? ","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3285,"description":"9 For this is what the promise said: “About this time next year I will return, and Sarah shall have a son.” 10 And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, 11 though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls— 12 she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” 13 As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”14 What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means! 15 For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” 16 So then it depends not on human will or exertion,[b] but on God, who has mercy.ROMANS 9:9-16 UNFAIR?“I don’t think the way you think.    The way you work isn’t the way I work.”        God’s Decree.“For as the sky soars high above earth,    so the way I work surpasses the way you work,    and the way I think is beyond the way you think.ISAIAH 55:8-9 (MSG)MACRO-THEMES IN ROMANS 9-11ISRAEL WHO IS SAVED? (God’s choice, my choice, both, neither?)FAITHISRAELGod chose to bless the whole world through a Jewish family; not a gentile family. Three Kinds of Offspring:Physical (biological) descendants: the JewsPhysical and spiritual descendants: Jews who share a mutual faith in the God of Abraham, Jesus ChristSpiritual descendants: Gentiles (non-Jews)  who share a mutual faith in the God of Abraham, Jesus Christ10 And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, 11 though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God's purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls— 12 she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” 13 As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”ROMANS 9:10-13“The word ‘hate’ does not bear the same weight as our English translation. Words, like...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/BjiZxrt0a9mZ2dDE8857wRItwuk9xfgMH36A4JE3q70/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI3OTc4LzE2OTMw/NzI5MzktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}