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Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.
J. I. Packer
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J. I. Packer
Age: 93 †
Born: 1926
Born: July 22
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
Anglican Priest
Christian Theologian
Theologian
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Twyning
Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.
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Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.
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Have you been holding back from a risky, costly course to which you know in your heart God has called you? Hold back no longer. Your God is faithful to you, and adequate for you. You will never need more than He can supply, and what He supplies, both materially and spiritually, will always be enough for the present.
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A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.
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Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by Biblical standards less than faith, and less than saving, and to elicit only assent of this kind would be to secure only false conversions.
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Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that one knows about the works and ways and purposes and promises of God.
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Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.
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If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time.
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God is good to all in some ways and to some in all ways.
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There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.
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A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man's image, and therefore an imaginary God, not the God of the Bible at all.
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Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.
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Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God's near presence and holiness. Thence springs a vivid sense of sin and a profound exercise of heart in repentance, praise, and love, with an evangelistic outflow.
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God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.
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The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).
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He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.
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Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.
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The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.
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