J. I. Packer Quotes - Page 9

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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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• 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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• There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.

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  Two, Sick, Sin

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.307, InterVarsity Press

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• Our are speculations are not the measure of our God.

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  Speculation

  J. I. Packer, Mark Dever (2008). “Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God”, p.31, InterVarsity Press

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• Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will.

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  Lord, Calvinism, Endeavor

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• Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.

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  Jesus, Prayer, Lame

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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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• Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading to Him.

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  Spiritual, Literal

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.104, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• 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

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  Son, Missing, Way

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• Holy is the Bible word for all that makes God different from us, in particular his awesome power and purity.

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  Different, Purity, Holy

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• Men who know their God are before anything else men who pray, and the first point where their zeal and energy for God's glory come to expression is in their prayers. If there is little energy for such prayer, and little consequent practice of it, this is a sure sign that as yet we scarcely know our God.

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  Prayer, Men, Expression

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• The Christian's instincts of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. But this is knowledge which Christians today largely lack: and that is one reason why our faith is so feeble and our worship so flabby... When a person in the church, let alone the person in the street, uses the word God, the thought is rarely of divine majesty.

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  Christian, Greatness, Church

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• Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine.

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  Church, Doctrine, Realizing

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• God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.

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  Thinking, Mind, Guides

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

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• N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds

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  Backgrounds, Foreground

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• God then does not profess to answer in Scripture all the questions that we, in our boundless curiosity, would like to ask about Scripture. He tells us merely as much as He sees we need to know as a basis for our life of faith.

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  Curiosity, Answers, Scripture

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.109, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The gospel does in truth proclaim the redemption of reason. Obscurantism is always evil, and wilful error is always sin., All truth is God's truth; facts, as such, are sacred, and nothing is more un-Christian than to run away from them.

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  Christian, Running, Errors

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.127, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The very quality of books to read and facts to master with which the twentieth-century man is confronted encourages him to think broadly and superficially about much, but hinders him from thinking deeply and thoroughly about anything.

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  Book, Men, Thinking

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• William Wilberforce...w as a great man who impacted the Western world as few others have done. Blessed with brains, charm, influence and initiative, much wealth ... he put evangelism on Britain's map as a power for social change, first by overthrowing the slave trade almost single-handed and then by generating a stream of societies for doing good and reducing evil in public life... To forget such men is foolish.

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  Blessed, Men, Evil

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• Thank you, Mr.Lewis, for being you. I wouldn't have missed you for the world.

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  World, Missed You

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• The biblical authors wrote of God's sovereignty over His world, and of man's experiences within that world, using such modes of speech about the natural order and human experience as were current in their days, and in a language that was common to themselves and their contemporaries. This is saying no more than that they wrote to be understood. Their picture of the world and things in it is not put forward as normative for later science, andy more than their use of Hebrew and Greek is put forward as a perfect model for composition in these languages.

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  Biblical, Men, Order

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• What we often feel in ecstatic moments in this world - 'I don't ever want this to stop' - will be the constant thought of our hearts in that world. We shall think it, knowing that in fact it never WILL stop.

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  Heart, Thinking, Knowing

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• Many humanists in the West are stirred by a sense of outrage at what professed Christians, past and present, have done; and this makes them see their humanism as a kind of crusade, with the killing of Christianity as its prime goal.

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  Christian, Religious, Past

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• If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Supposing That

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• It is Deism which depicts God as the passive onlooker rather than the active governor of His world, and which assures us that the guarantee of human freedom lies in the fact that men's actions are not under God's control. But the Bible teaches rather that the freedom of God, who works in and through His creatures, leading them to act according to their nature, is itself the foundation and guarantee of the freedom of their action.

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  Lying, Men, Guarantees

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.81, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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