God’s choice of Jacob over Esau is not a display of divine malice, but of holy, covenantal priority that calls us to humbly trust His sovereign wisdom over our own limited logic.

Outline:

1. God’s Love
2. God’s Hatred
3. God’s Care for Esau
4. God’s Secret Things

 

Rom. 9:10 And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac,

Rom. 9:11 though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God’s purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls—

Rom. 9:12 she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”

Rom. 9:13 As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”