Vessels of Wrath fitted for destruction
What if God willing to show His wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction -Romans 9:22 What is a vessel of wrath? Well to understand the opening verse, let’s go back go verse 21: Hath not the potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor? Paul in this illustration is contrasting two types of people, vessels of honor (the righteous), and vessels of dishonor (the wicked). The point of this brief parable is God in His absolute sovereignty chooses how He wants to use each human being He has created, and how He wants to bless them. In chapter nine of Romans Paul recounts that God exercised His sovereignty when He chose Jacob over His twin brother Esau. Jacob was a vessel of honor, Esau was a vessel unto dishonor – God’s sovereign ch