J. I. Packer Quotes - Page 8

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• Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.

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  Taught, Endeavor, Response

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

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• Only when it is seen that what decides each individual's destiny is whether or not God decides to save him from his sins, and that this is a decision that God need not make in any individual case, can one begin to grasp the biblical view of grace.

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  Biblical, Destiny, Views

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• The Evangelical is not afraid of facts, for he knows that all facts are God's facts; nor is he afraid of thinking, for he knows that all truth is God's truth, and right reason cannot endanger sound faith.

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  Thinking, Facts, Sound

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.34, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.

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  Christian, Godly, Greatness

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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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  Commitment, Biblical, Simple

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• God was happy without humans before they were made; he would have continued happy had he simply destroyed them after they had sinned; but as it is he has set his love upon particular sinners, and this means that, by his own free voluntary choice, he will not know perfect and unmixed happiness again till he has brought every one of them to heaven. He has in effect resolved that henceforth for all eternity his happiness shall be conditional upon ours.

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  Mean, Perfect, Choices

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• The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances, and free acts of angels and men, and directs everything to its appointed goal, for His own glory.

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  Angel, Men, Goal

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• In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

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  Honesty, Cost, Facts

  J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.81, InterVarsity Press

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• Any theology that does not lead to song is, at a fundamental level, a flawed theology.

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  Song, Doe, Fundamentals

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• God's overriding goal is to glorify Himself.

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  Goal, Glorify

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

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• Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.

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  Fiction, Christian Christmas, Religious Christmas

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.20, InterVarsity Press

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• You thank God [for your salvation] because "you do not attribute your repenting and believing to your own wisdom, or prudence, or sound judgment, or good sense.

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  Believe, Thank God, Sound

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• Man is a responsible moral agent, though he is also divinely controlled; man is divinely controlled, though he is also a responsible moral agent.

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  Men, Agents, Moral

  J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.30, InterVarsity Press

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• God's Word is not presented in Scripture in the form of a theological system, but it admits of being stated in that form, and, indeed, requires to be so stated before we can properly grasp it - grasp it, that is, as a whole. Every text has its immediate context in the passage from which it comes, its broader context in the book to which it belongs, and its ultimate context in the Bible as a whole; and it needs to be rightly related to each of these contexts if its character, scope and significance is to be adequately understood.

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  Book, Character, Scripture

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• The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead.

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  Firsts, Doe, Peace With God

  "Knowing God". Book by J. I. Packer, 1973.

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• The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.

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  Prayer, Vigor, Matter

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• We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.

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  Human Life, Humans, Commandments

  J.I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking.

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  Emotional, Thinking, Feelings

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• What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individual's problems—the meaning of life and death, the mastery of self, the quest for value and worth-whileness and freedom within, the transcending of loneliness, the longing for love and a sense of significance, and for peace. Society's problems are deep, but the individual's problems go deeper; Solzhenitsyn, Dostoyevsky, or Shakespeare will show us that, if we hesitate to take it from the Bible.

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  Loneliness, Self, Life And Death

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• Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.

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  Prayer, Guarantees That, Long

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

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• The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.

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  Church, Newton, Canon

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

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• I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding even though it's no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly desires.

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  Heart, Desire, Sin

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• Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.

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  Prayer, Unique, Reality

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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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  Prayer, Wife, Making Love

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• If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.

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  Conceited, Proud, Sake

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