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Intro Story-My fathers house



Nobody in their right mind would ever say that my dad was unjust or unfair in this situation



He had every right to remove me



It was his house and his rules and I broke them



I convinced myself and anyone that would listen that my dad was wrong



I believed it in my heart



For years I was angry as if it was my dad that was the problem



How could he do that? Doesn’t he love me? Why did he reject me?



It wasn’t until after I gave my life to the Lord that I knew I was wrong



I was the reason I was removed



I rejected Him



I was guilty and he was just



Romans 9:14-29



14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not! 15 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.” 16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy. 17 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.” 18 Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.



19 You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?” 20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?” 21 Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?



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?



25 As He says also in Hosea:



“I will call them My people, who were not My people,And her beloved, who was not beloved.”26 “And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them,‘You are not My people,’There they shall be called sons of the living God.”



27 Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel:



“Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea,The remnant will be saved.28 For [a]He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness,Because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth.”



29 And as Isaiah said before:



“Unless the Lord of [b]Sabaoth had left us a seed,We would have become like Sodom,And we would have been made like Gomorrah.”



In the beginning of this verse it asks if God is unrighteous? Other translations use unjust



Paul is answering the question boldly. Certainly Not



Romans chapters 9-11 are talking about Israel’s election, rejection of the gospel, and salvation



Even though God had made His covenant with Abraham, Gods chosen people ended up not being chosen only be lineage



but to faithfulness to God and the gospel of Jesus



Because Israel rejected the Gospel of Jesus it opened the door for gentiles to be saved



So the question. Is God unjust? Certainly not



Often times the reason people think that God is unjust or unfair is because they try to regulate God with their own morals



But this cant be done



We cant comprehend the holiness of God



He is perfect, pure, and righteous



Nobody could live up to that standard even if they consider themselves a good person



Because next to God nobody is Good



Luke 18:19



19 So Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God.



Since some people truly cant grasp the holiness of God and their depravity



They tend to think that maybe God is the one who is unjust



But He isn’t



I have heard many reasons over the years of why God is unjust



What about innocent babies and children dying



If God was fair then there wouldn’t be disease and illness