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Podcast Introduction Our reading today is ROMANS 9-10, and I’m calling the episode “Beautiful Feet."  We’ll be reading about God’s grace, God’s selection, righteousness, the importance of being a preacher, and how that directly relates to you. We’ll do our “On This Day In Church History” segment, and we have another praise report. Thoughts on Romans 9  Chapter 9 has some language in it that causes difficulty for some people. Did it get your attention? Here it is again. Paul was quoting Malachi 1:2-3. He said, “As the Scriptures say, ‘I loved Jacob, but I hated Esau.’” What? God hated Esau? What’s up with that? Well, as it turns out, this type of language in the Hebrew was used more in the comparative sense. God was comparing his affection of the two boys, Jacob and Esau. When God said he hated Esau, the meaning was that He loved Jacob more. It was not an active hate.  There are other examples of this language in the scriptures. You’ve heard, “He that spareth his rod hateth his son; but he