God's Sovereign Purpose: Exposition of Romans, Chapter 9

This is pure foundational doctrine - wonderful, deep, clear and very systematic. Although this series was written in the 1960's we are now reaping the results of departing from these foundational doctrines.

I have been preaching through Romans (for the first time in my51SX33RXAZL._SX317_BO1,204,203,200_ life). I know of at least one evangelical who after they finished chapter 8 – just jumped to chapter 12 – finding 9,10 and 11 too difficult. But we have stuck with it and amazingly have found it to be a great blessing. Much of that is due to Lloyd Jones’s book on Romans 9 which I have just finished. It is so warm and helpful…..highly recommended. There are far too many quotes to put in a review…but here is one taster…“We must give people a chance, give them an opportunity. They are blinded by the devil; we must not be in too much of a hurry to be negative and denunciatory. We should put the positive and make it as attractive as we can. We must do everything we can to win people. And the more certain we are that they are wrong, the more we should go out of our way to try to win them to the truth”.

OK book, but not life changing for me. I've had a lot of issues in my life at that time and was looking for help in various Christian literature; however, I have found little help if any at all. It would have been better if I've just read the Bible.