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mercy. For God has shut up all in disobedience that He might show mercy to all" (vv. 30-32). Here we see that Paul uses both disobedience and mercy as means for his argument. Man's dis obedience affords God's mercy an opportunity, and God's mercy brings man salvation. Thus, we see once again that Paul has won every case. God has shut up all in disobedience that He might show mercy to all. This is God's economy. What can we say? All that we can say is, "Halle lujah for His mercy!" He has even used our dis obedience as an enclosure to keep us as vessels upon whom He shows His mercy.

A PRAISE FOR GOD'S SELECTION

At this point Paul lifted up a praise to God, a praise for God's selection. "O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How inscrutable are His judgments, and untrace able His paths! For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been His counselor? Or who has first given to Him, and it will be repaid to him? Because out of Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory for ever. Amen" (vv. 33-36). It seems that in Ro mans 9 through 11 Paul has given us a map by which we may trace God's paths. God receives

praise and glory in three stages: in the past, for all things have come out of Him; in the present, for all things are through Him; and in the future, for all things will be to Him. All things came into being out of God in the past, all things exist through Him in the present, and all things will be to Him in the future. God's selection is ac cording to Himself, according to His choice, not according to anything else. All things are of Him, by Him, and for Him. "To Him be the glory for ever. Amen."

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