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Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.
J. I. Packer
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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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James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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A simple Bible reader and sermon hearer who is full of the Holy Spirit will develop a far deeper acquaintance with his God and Savior than a more learned scholar who is content with being theologically correct.
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The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it.
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Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.
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Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.
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God is triune there are within the Godhead three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and the work of salvation is one in which all three act together, the Father purposing redemption, the Son securing it and the Spirit applying it.
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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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The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.
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The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.
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Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.
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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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If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.
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Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.
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The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.
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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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If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time.
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God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.
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His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.
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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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You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.
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