Romans 9:19 –10:4 wrestles with one of the hardest questions in faith: how God’s sovereign mercy and human responsibility coexist. This sermon explores Paul’s response to that tension through three truths. God is the potter and we are the clay, reminding us that our questions must be asked with humility before the Creator. God’s actions reveal His character, showing mercy against the backdrop of judgment so that His glory might be known. And God’s mercy reaches further than we imagine, calling both Jew and Gentile, the outsider and the undeserving, into His family. Yet Paul warns that even great zeal for God can miss the heart of the Gospel when it tries to earn righteousness instead of receiving it by faith. The message invites us to trust what we cannot fully explain, to submit to God’s wisdom, and to rest in Christ who is the end of the law and the beginning of true righteousness for all who believe.