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Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.
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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To know that nothing happens in God's world apart from God's will may frighten the godless, but it stabilizes the saints.
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Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.
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...love and pity for hell's occupants will not enter our hearts.
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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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Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.
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Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator.
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Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling it is, primarily, a state of mind.
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God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.
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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 gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again.
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.
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A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.
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Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.
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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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The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.
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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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His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.
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God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.
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God’s wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.
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