The doctrine of God's Providence is the theme of Pastor John's new book by that title,

Providence, the truth that God governs over everything that he makes is gloriously true.

And when we see it and embrace it as true and glorious, this doctrine can make a very

deep and definite impact on how we live our lives, and especially when suffering hits.

So we're celebrating the implications on Wednesdays on the podcast.

There are a total of 10 implications Pastor John wants to address and work through.

Last time in episode 1586, we looked at how embracing the Providence of God enables

us to be patient and faithful in the long, dragged out, often unexpected trials of life.

It's the most inexplicable circumstances, detours, and delays that from our limited viewpoint,

make no sense to us.

Providence makes us patient in trials.

That was implication number five.

Here now with implication number six is Pastor John.

If someone asks me, do you think God planned for those planes to fly into the world-tried

towers in New York on 9-11-2001?

I answer in two ways, I say, if God cannot blow a plane with His breath, a hundred feet

off course to the right, then He's not God.

And I say, if we surrender the all-governing Providence of God in order to save Him from

any causality in those tragic events, then by saving Him, I lose Him as a sovereign wives

God who can give meaning and strength and hope to those who have lost the most in this tragedy.

In other words, it is the very sovereignty by which He governed those jets that enables

Him to govern all things for the good of tens of thousands of survivors who look to Him

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