We must still accept His free gift to us.
Romans 9:14-24 (ESV)
[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, but on God, who has mercy. [17] For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
[18] So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.
[19] You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?”
[20] But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”
[21] Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?
[22] What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
[23] in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—
[24] even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?
Forgot to include you to my previous post.