J. I. Packer Quotes - Page 6

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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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  Criminals, Transition, Inheritance

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

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• If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time.

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  Preaching The Gospel, Helping, Preaching

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• God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.

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  Exercise, Love Is, Merit

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• He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.

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  Two, Lessons, Sin

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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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  Kings, Angel, Destiny

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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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  Christian, Imagination, Goal

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.46, InterVarsity Press

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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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  Grace, Merit, Guilty

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2004). “Knowing God Through the Year”, p.196, InterVarsity Press

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• Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.

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  Suffering, Want, Inevitable

  J. I. Packer (2009). “Rediscovering Holiness: Know the Fullness of Life with God”, p.178, Baker Books

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• All true theology has an evangelistic thrust, and all true evangelism is theology in action.

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  Christian, Action, Evangelism

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• The whole story of the Father's Christ-exalting plan of redeeming love, from eternity to eternity, must be told, or the radical reorientation of life for which the gospel calls will not be understood, and the required total shift from man-centeredness to God-centeredness, and more specifically from self-centeredness to Christ-centeredness, will not take place.

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  Father, Men, Self

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• How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each Truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God.

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  Prayer, Simple, Meditation

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.16, InterVarsity Press

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• For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

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  Goal, Knowing God, Higher

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.46, InterVarsity Press

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• Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

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  Mean, Goal, Together

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.117, InterVarsity Press

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• Read two old books for every new one.

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  Book, Two, Old Books

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• Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.

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  Struggle, Maturity, Luxury

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• When we reach the outer limit of what Scripture says, it is time to stop arguing and start worshipping.

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  Limits, Scripture, Arguing

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

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• Infallible denotes the quality of never deceiving or misleading and so means wholly trustworthy and reliable; inerrant means wholly true. Scripture is termed infallible and inerrant to express the conviction that all its teaching is the utterance of God who cannot lie, whose word, once spoken, abides for ever, and that therefore it may be trusted implicitly.

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  Lying, Teaching, Mean

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• Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven.

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  Needs, Sin, Shots

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• A simple Bible reader and sermon hearer who is full of the Holy Spirit will develop a far deeper acquaintance with his God and Savior than a more learned scholar who is content with being theologically correct.

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  Simple, Spirit, Holy

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.54, InterVarsity Press

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• But man's eyes are blind through sin, and he can discern no part of God's truth till the Spirit opens them. Inner illumination, leading directly as it does to a deep, inescapable conviction, is thus fundamental to the Spirit's work as a teacher.

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  Teacher, Eye, Men

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.118, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Adoption is the highest privilege the gospel offers.

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  Adoption, Privilege, Offers

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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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  Son, Order, Desire

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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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  Prayer, Spirit, Sin

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• There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.

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  Self, Self Absorbed

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.56, InterVarsity Press

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• Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.

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  Christian, Zealous, Natural

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