Understanding God's Sovereignty and Human Responsibility
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"Now here the Apostle asserts God's right, God's Sovereign right to show Mercy or to harden as he wills and as he pleases. Now that's what we've got in this particular part of the argument. It is an assertion of God's right to do this." [00:05:27]
"Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, why hast Thou made me thus? Now then, what is the significance of that? Well, you notice he's carrying on in a sense the rebuke which is already given, and he does so in a manner which shows the utter absurdity of our attempting to question or to query what God has done." [00:06:00]
"Remember, he says, that you're nothing but the things formed, and that means, let me remind you, plastic material. That's what thing formed means. You are just the plastic material, he says. Does the plastic material say to the man who molds it, why have you made me thus?" [00:09:56]
"Surely, he says, the master potter has the right and the authority to do as he wills and as he chooses with that mass, that lump of clay, to make one vessel into honor and one to dishonor. Very well, but what does he mean by that?" [00:21:13]
"Everybody born into this world from Adam is already lost. He is already under condemnation, is already in a state that deserves damnation, everybody. But that God chooses some to Salvation, and others he hardens and consigns to Perdition." [00:28:40]
"All deserve damnation as the result of the sin of Adam. Now you remember that, don't you? We needn't go back over that. That's proved in verse in chapter 5:2, wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned." [00:29:28]
"If a man is saved, it is entirely of the mercy of God. If he's damned, it is his own responsibility. That's what the Apostle's teaching. That is precisely the teaching here. It came out in our teaching concerning Pharaoh. God hardened Pharaoh's heart; Pharaoh hardened his own heart." [00:38:07]
"Let me put it to you like this: this is the teaching. If any man is saved, it is entirely because of the mercy and the choice of God. I will show Mercy to whom I will show Mercy. Therefore, he hath Mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will, he hardeneth." [00:36:05]
"Now then, here of course, as you all must realize, is a statement about which people have argued and contended throughout the centuries and, as I have reminded you before, have lost their tempers and become bitter and violent and entered into party spirit and have refused to speak to one another and so on." [00:18:35]
"Now, what does it mean? Well, let's look at the terms. Has not the Potter power over the clay? What does he mean by power here? Well, he chooses a word which means Authority, right. Now let me prove that to you. Look at the next verse, 22." [00:19:28]
"Now, this is a most interesting term here. Let me impress upon you the importance of observing that he doesn't say the thing created. He says the thing formed, not created. You will see the significance of that in a moment. He's here describing men as something that has already been created." [00:10:17]
"Now, this is where we come, of course, to the crux of the whole matter. He does not say that God has created some people to honor and some to dishonor. He doesn't say that. He isn't talking, I remind you again, about creation." [00:21:28]
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"Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, why hast Thou made me thus? Now then, what is the significance of that? Well, you notice he's carrying on in a sense the rebuke which is already given, and he does so in a manner which shows the utter absurdity of our attempting to question or to query what God has done." [00:06:00]
"Remember, he says, that you're nothing but the things formed, and that means, let me remind you, plastic material. That's what thing formed means. You are just the plastic material, he says. Does the plastic material say to the man who molds it, why have you made me thus?" [00:09:56]
"Surely, he says, the master potter has the right and the authority to do as he wills and as he chooses with that mass, that lump of clay, to make one vessel into honor and one to dishonor. Very well, but what does he mean by that?" [00:21:13]
"Everybody born into this world from Adam is already lost. He is already under condemnation, is already in a state that deserves damnation, everybody. But that God chooses some to Salvation, and others he hardens and consigns to Perdition." [00:28:40]
"All deserve damnation as the result of the sin of Adam. Now you remember that, don't you? We needn't go back over that. That's proved in verse in chapter 5:2, wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned." [00:29:28]
"If a man is saved, it is entirely of the mercy of God. If he's damned, it is his own responsibility. That's what the Apostle's teaching. That is precisely the teaching here. It came out in our teaching concerning Pharaoh. God hardened Pharaoh's heart; Pharaoh hardened his own heart." [00:38:07]
"Let me put it to you like this: this is the teaching. If any man is saved, it is entirely because of the mercy and the choice of God. I will show Mercy to whom I will show Mercy. Therefore, he hath Mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will, he hardeneth." [00:36:05]
"Now then, here of course, as you all must realize, is a statement about which people have argued and contended throughout the centuries and, as I have reminded you before, have lost their tempers and become bitter and violent and entered into party spirit and have refused to speak to one another and so on." [00:18:35]
"Now, what does it mean? Well, let's look at the terms. Has not the Potter power over the clay? What does he mean by power here? Well, he chooses a word which means Authority, right. Now let me prove that to you. Look at the next verse, 22." [00:19:28]
"Now, this is a most interesting term here. Let me impress upon you the importance of observing that he doesn't say the thing created. He says the thing formed, not created. You will see the significance of that in a moment. He's here describing men as something that has already been created." [00:10:17]
"Now, this is where we come, of course, to the crux of the whole matter. He does not say that God has created some people to honor and some to dishonor. He doesn't say that. He isn't talking, I remind you again, about creation." [00:21:28]
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