J. I. Packer Quotes About Son

Quotes about: Son

• 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.

  J. I. Packer

  Son, Order, Might

• 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.

  J. I. Packer

  Son, Order, Desire

• 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.

  J. I. Packer

  Father, Son, Together

• Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and received into heaven.

  J. I. Packer

  Mean, Son, Heaven

  J. I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.249, InterVarsity Press

• Has the word propitiation any place in your Christianity? In the faith of the New Testament it is central. The love of God, the taking of human form by the Son, the meaning of the cross, Christ's heavenly intercession, the way of salvation-all are to be explained in terms of itand any explanation from which the thought of propitiation is missing will be incomplete, and indeed actually misleading, by New Testament standards

  J. I. Packer

  Son, Missing, Way

• 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.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Sweet, Father

  J. I. Packer (1973). “Knowing God”, Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press

• God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture.

  J. I. Packer

  Father, Son, Scripture

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