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The gospel tells that our Judge has become our Savior.
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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Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.
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The Son of God came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him where he is.
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There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.
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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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Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.
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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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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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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.
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A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
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...love and pity for hell's occupants will not enter our hearts.
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Im amazed at the amount of time people spend on the Internet.
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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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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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Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.
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The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.
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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 character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times.
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Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.
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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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God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.
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