Romans 9:14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not! 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." So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.
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." Therefore he has mercy on whom he wills, and whom he wills he hardens. You will say to me then "why doth he still find fault?" For who has resisted his will? But indeed O man who are you to reply against GOD? Will the thing formed say to him that formed it, "why have you made me like this?"
Does not the potter have control over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel to honor and another to dishonor?
What if God wanting to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much long suffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had prepared beforehand for glory, even us whom he called, not of the Jews only but of the Gentiles? As he says in Hosea: "I will call them my people who were not my people, And her beloved, that was not beloved."
"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 the sons of the living God."
As you see a long statement from Paul explaining who is doing all the things that are being done on the earth and who's will is being accomplished.
And what the outcome is SONS OF THE LIVING GOD.
But seeing he hardens whom he will most cannot even hear these words but for those of you who can rejoice for your destination is clear if you are one of the
vessels of mercy.
