Aheemmm. In my most staunch and distinguished voice, I would like to say that I have prepared a thesis on Romans 9 that anyone who cares to may examine all they like. I'll only post scriptures 1-9 for now because these are the one's that will probably need the most attention. Ahheemmm, let's discuss, shall we??? B) Thesis Statement – This chapter displays Paul’s desire for the Jews to receive Christ, shows how God elected certain people for certain purposes (positive and negative) throughout history to bring to pass His divine plan and also reveals why the Israelites who fell away did so, because they did not seek righteousness by faith, but by the works of the Law. Romans 9:1-5 In this portion of the chapter, Paul is lamenting for his Jewish brethren and speaks of all of the good things God did with them. Paul makes it clear in verse 5 that God divinely chose the Israelite race to bring for the Christ according to the flesh (meaning Jesus’ race). Romans 9:6 Here Paul states that just because the Jewish people had all of this history with God and they still rejected the Christ didn’t mean the word of God was ineffective. He also states that just because a person was born in the nation of Israel physically didn’t mean they would be counted as member of the spiritual Israel (he also explains why the Israelites who fell away did so in verses 32-33). Romans 9:7-9 Continuing from verse 8, Paul states here that a person also wouldn’t be counted as a spiritual child of Abraham because they were the natural “seed” of Abraham (meaning because Abraham was their natural father). He specifies that through Isaac (not Ishmael) the seed would be called. (This word “seed” is referring to Jesus Christ.) Verse 8 further explains verse 7 by contrasting between the children of the flesh (meaning descendants of Ishmael) and the children of the promise (meaning descendants of Isaac). Verse 9 verifies this by naming the portion of the promise he was referring to, namely Sarah herself bearing Abraham a son.