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🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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0:00.0 | Well, does God detest Africa? |
0:08.8 | To start question, and it comes to us from inside the continent, Pastor John, hello. |
0:13.7 | My name is Jason from Campala, the capital city of Uganda. |
0:17.5 | First thank you for your continued ministry, it's been a huge blessing of my life. |
0:21.3 | My question is this, does God care for Africans? |
0:26.4 | Providence has a long track record here. |
0:28.4 | About history we have been a beastly, deplorable, inslavable race, constantly riddled with |
0:34.6 | disease, famine, and suffering. |
0:38.6 | How are we not to conclude that we are God's least favorite race every day is pure struggle |
0:45.3 | for most Ugandans? |
0:46.8 | I know God promises to look after all people, but it still makes me wonder why does he especially |
0:52.1 | seem to hate Africa so much? |
0:57.1 | I feel a special urgency about this question. |
1:00.4 | It would be an easy question for us to ignore, but the reason I feel a special urgency is |
1:06.8 | not only because it comes with such heartfelt painful earnestness about Jason's own experience |
1:15.8 | and his love for his people in Uganda, not to mention the whole of Africa, but also because |
1:24.7 | I wrote a big book on Providence, so I feel indebted to give some accounting for his |
1:31.9 | statement Providence has a long track record here, meaning God's Providence has been hard |
1:40.7 | on the continent of Africa. |
1:43.6 | None of us can just blithely say that we believe in the all wise, all embracing, all pervasive, |
1:51.4 | all sovereign Providence of God and then just walk away from such questions that won't |
1:57.0 | do. |
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