J. I. Packer Quotes - Page 5

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• There is no peace like the peace of those whose minds are possessed with full assurance that they have known God, and God has known them, and that this relationship guarantees God’s favor to them in life, through death and on for ever.

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  Mind, Guarantees, Favors

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.43, InterVarsity Press

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• If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God's child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all.

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  Prayer, Children, Father

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• His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.

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  Purpose, Conscious, Communion

  J.I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.84, Hachette UK

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• Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.

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  Heart, Law, Renewal

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• Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or falling. By this he meant that when this doctrine is understood, believed, and preached, as it was in New-Testament times, the church stands in the grace of God and is alive; but where it is neglected, overlaid, or denied, ... the church falls from grace and its life drains away, leaving it in a state of darkness and death.

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  Fall, Leaving, Darkness

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• Always and everywhere the servants of Christ are under orders to evangelize

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  Order, Christ, Servant

  J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.13, InterVarsity Press

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• There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.

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  Knowing, Comfort, Unspeakable

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.7, InterVarsity Press

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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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  Thinking, Feelings, Looks

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• Men treat God's sovereignty as a theme for controversy, but in Scripture it is matter for worship.

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  Men, Scripture, Matter

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• Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

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  Creativity, Maturity, Resilience

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• The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by which its life is marred.

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  Two, Church, Needs

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.69, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The saving power of the cross does not depend on faith being addded to it; its saving power is such that faith flows from it

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  Doe, Saving, Flow

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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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  Christian, Spring, Heart

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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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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  Christian, Sweet, Father

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

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• The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor -- spending and being spent -- to enrich their fellow humans, giving time, trouble, care and concern, to do good to others -- and not just their own friends -- in whatever way there seems need.

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  Christian, Giving, Shining

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• Scripture sees hell as self-chosen. . . Hell appears as God's gesture of respect for human choice. All receive what they actually chose. Either to be with God forever, worshipping Him, or without God forever, worshipping themselves.

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  Self, Choices, Forever

  J. I. Packer (1995). “Knowing and Doing the Will of God”

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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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  Jesus, Entering, Lord

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• We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts. Many of us, I suspect, have no idea how impoverished we are at this level. Let us ask the Lord to show us.

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  Prayer, Heart, Responsibility

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.44, InterVarsity Press

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• Have you been holding back from a risky, costly course to which you know in your heart God has called you? Hold back no longer. Your God is faithful to you, and adequate for you. You will never need more than He can supply, and what He supplies, both materially and spiritually, will always be enough for the present.

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  Heart, Faithful, Needs

  J. I. Packer (2017). “Knowing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional”, p.314, InterVarsity Press

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• This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.

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  Grace, New Testament, Theology

  J. I. Packer (1997). “Great Grace: A 31-day Devotional”, Servant Publications

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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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  Teaching, Biblical, Men

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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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  Born Again, Born

  J. I. Packer (2000). “In God's Presence: Daily Devotions with J.I. Packer”, Shaw

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• The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.

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  Looks, Firsts, Ethics

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• The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly godly.

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  Godly, Way, Truly Happy

  Dr J I Packer (1987). “Hot Tub Religion”, Tyndale House Pub

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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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  Men, Negative, Growing

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