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We meet God through entering into a relationship both of dependance on Jesus as our Saviour and Friend and of discipleship to Him as our Lord and Master.

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J. I. Packer
Age: 93 †
Born: 1926
Born: July 22
Died: 2020
Died: July 17
Anglican Priest
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Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. When you truly know God, you have energy to serve Him, boldness to share Him, and contentment in Him.
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The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.
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The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.
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For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
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There is, however, equally great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, He wants me as His friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose. not merely that we know God, but that He knows us.
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The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead.
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We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?
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Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.
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We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.
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The God of Israel is King of kings and Lord of lords... He know, and foreknows, all things, and his foreknowledge is foreordination he, therefore, will have the last word, both in world history and in the destiny of every man his kingdom and righteousness will triumph in the end, for neither men nor angels shall be able to thwart him.
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The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.
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Arminianism is 'natural' in one sense, in that it represents a characteristic perversion of Biblical teaching by the fallen mind of man.
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Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.
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Your faith will not fail while God sustains it you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.
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Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.
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Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven.
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Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.
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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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It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and Christian joy is greatest, when the cross is heaviest.
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The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.
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