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What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.

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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Gloucestershire
James I. Packer
James Innell Packer
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This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.
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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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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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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 Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.
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What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian has in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
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Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.
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The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory--because at the Father's will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.
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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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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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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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Think against your feelings argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.
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What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.
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God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.
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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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God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.
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God then does not profess to answer in Scripture all the questions that we, in our boundless curiosity, would like to ask about Scripture. He tells us merely as much as He sees we need to know as a basis for our life of faith.
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The Life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration
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His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.
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