If God is sovereign, can He be unfair?

Les explains that Romans 9 brings us into tough verses about God's sovereignty, but they must be taken as they come. For believers, this is not a problem because they can look back and see they were chosen from before the foundation of the world. For the lost, they are still on the other side of the door, where 'whosoever will may come.' Les shares William R. Newell's encounter with a man in Michigan who said if he was elect he had nothing to worry about, and if not, nothing could be done, so he would go to hell anyway. Newell told him to wake up: he did not have to worry about being elected; he had to worry about what he would do with the gospel—believe it and be one of the elect, or reject it and go to his doom. Then Les points to the sovereignty of God: He can do whatever He wants, but being the righteous, holy God that He is, He will never do anything that is unfair. He will never be unrighteous or treat somebody unfairly. Verse 14 asks, 'What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God?' and the answer is 'God forbid.' God says to Moses, 'I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.' So it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God who showeth mercy.