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• Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers: higher even than justification.. . To be right with God the Judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is greater.

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  Father, Judging, Adoption

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.231, InterVarsity Press

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• The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.

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  Love Is, Giving, God Love

  J. I. Packer (2009). “Rediscovering Holiness: Know the Fullness of Life with God”, p.55, Baker Books

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• The stars may fall, but God's promises will stand and be fulfilled.

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  Encouraging, Encouragement, Stars

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• What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time.

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  Doe, Eternity, Carrie

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.80, InterVarsity Press

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• The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.

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  Stronger, Body, Waste

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

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• Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.

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  Strong, Fall, Failing

  J. I. Packer (2017). “Knowing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional”, p.319, InterVarsity Press

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• To an age which has unashamedly sold itself to the gods of greed, pride, sex, and self-will, the church mumbles on about God's kindness but says virtually nothing about his judgment... The fact is that the subject of divine wrath has become taboo in modern society, and Christians by and large have accepted the taboo and conditioned themselves never to raise the matter.

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  Christian, Sex, Kindness

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

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• Doctrinal preaching certainly bores the hypocrites; but it is only doctrinal preaching that will save Christ's sheep.

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  Hypocrite, Sheep, Christ

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• We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent

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  Dishonor, Discontent, Savior

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• 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.

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  Father, Son, Together

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• If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.

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  Devil, Digging, Would Be

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• 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.

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  Son, Order, Might

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• You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.

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  Knowing God, Stills, Knows

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• Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.

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  Repentance, Moaning, Knows

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• Do I as a Christian understand myself? Do I know my own real identity? My own real destiny? I am a child of God, God is my Father; heaven is my home; every day is one day nearer. My Saviour is my brother; every Christian is my brother too. Say it over and over again to yourself first thing in the morning, last thing at night, as you wait for the bus, any time when your mind is free, and ask God that you may be enabled to live as one who knows it is all utterly and completely true. For this is the Christians secret of the Christian life, of a God-honouring life.

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  Christian, Morning, Brother

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• God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ, the good shepherd, ever lose track of his sheep.

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  Jobs, Sheep, Track

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.95, InterVarsity Press

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• Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at all.

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  Church, Would Be, World

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• The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.

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  Simple, Religion, Utterance

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.298, InterVarsity Press

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• The worlds greatest need is the personal holiness of Christian people.

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  Christian, People, Holiness

  J. I. Packer (2005). “Keep in Step with the Spirit: Finding Fullness in Our Walk with God”, p.86, Baker Books

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• We complain today that ministers do not know how to preach; but is it not equally true that our congregations do not know how to hear?

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  Complaining, Today, Ministers

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• Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us his way, that we may tread it; he wills also to guide us in the more fundamental sense of ensuring that, whatever happens, whatever mistakes we may make, we shall come safely home. Slippings and strayings there will be, no doubt, but the everlasting arms are beneath us; we shall be caught, rescued, restored. This is God's promise; this is how good he is.

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  Mistake, Home, Blessing

  J.I. Packer (2011). “Knowing God”, p.212, Hachette UK

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• The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living

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  Attitude, Humility, Heart

  J. I. Packer (2014). “finishing our course with joy”, p.43, SPCK

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• Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms... Confusion here is fatal.

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  Christian, Confusion, Missionary

  J. I. Packer (1958). “"Fundamentalism" and the Word of God”, p.136, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• God is good to all in some ways and to some in all ways.

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  Way

  J. I. Packer, Carolyn Nystrom (2009). “Knowing God Devotional Journal: A One-Year Guide”, p.309, InterVarsity Press

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• Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object.

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  Mean, Men, Secret

  J.I. Packer (2016). “God Has Spoken”, p.47, Hachette UK

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