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His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.
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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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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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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God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.
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The Trinity is the basis of the gospel, and the gospel is a declaration of the Trinity in action.
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Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.
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For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?
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Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.
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Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.
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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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Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.
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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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God is good to all in some ways and to some in all ways.
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I need not torment myself with the fear that my faith may fail as grace led me to faith in the first place, so grace will keep me believing to the end. Faith, both in its origin and continuance, is a gift of grace (Phil 1:29).
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What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.
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If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time.
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Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.
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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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There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.
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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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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.
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