With Guest:

Rev. Kevin Parviz of Congregation Chai v’Shalom in St. Louis, Missouri.
Romans 9:14-18
14 What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! 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.”[a]
16 It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. 17 For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”[b] 18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
Footnotes:
- Romans 9:15 Exodus 33:19
- Romans 9:17 Exodus 9:16