God may, if He wills, save the entire human race. Or if it pleases Him, He may save none. If He so wills, He may make one man a monument of mercy, and leave his neighbor to reap his due punishment. This is what God has a right to do, and He claims His sovereign prerogative. No doctrine in the whole Word of God has more excited the hatred of mankind than the truth of the absolute sovereignty of God!
Men have no objection to a god who is really no God. I mean, by this:
a god who shall be the subject of their caprice,
a god who shall be a lackey to their will,
a god who shall be under their control they have no objection to such a being as that.
But a God who speaks, and it is done;
a God who commands, and it stands fast;
a God who does as He wills among the armies of Heaven and among the inhabitants of this lower world such a God as this they cannot endure!
[Charles H. Spurgeon]
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Romans 9:13-16 ... As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
Psalm 115:3 ... But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.
Psalm 135:5-6 ... For I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all gods. Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and all deep places. ❤
