The Importance of Choosing Unlikely People to Bring About His Promise to Save the World

This fits in line with the rest of the context where we're talking about people that God exalts or God uses for the purpose of bringing about his grand plan. Question that comes up is why would you pick Jacob? Why would you pick this scandalous person here? They are everywhere in the lineage of Jesus to bring about the Messiah. And essentially the answer from Paul in this passage and really throughout the whole rest of this book is there are no better people. Like everybody is a vessel of wrath and therefore everybody by the work of Christ can be made into a vessel of mercy.