A Seriously Happy Puritan: Praising God for J.I. Packer

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🗓️ 19 July 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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On the morning of July 17, J.I. Packer passed into glory. Pastor John shares a tribute to the man he looked up to as a father in the faith.

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0:00.0	The most heavenly-minded man I've ever met, passed into eternal glory Friday morning.
0:11.0	J. Packer entered into his eternal reward five days shy of his 94th birthday.
0:17.5	Packer loved to read John Bunyan and C.S. Lewis because he said they were especially clear
0:22.7	about heaven, clear because heaven had remarkably gripped their hearts.
0:27.4	He celebrated all the English Puritans for this reason, it seems, but especially Richard
0:31.7	Baxter, the most heavenly-minded Puritan of them all.
0:36.3	Heaven captured Dr. Packer's heart, too.
0:39.1	In his now classic book Knowing God, he wrote, quote,
0:42.5	What will make heaven to be heaven is the presence of Jesus and of a reconciled divine father
0:48.0	who loves us for Jesus' sake, no less than he loves Jesus himself.
0:54.4	To see and know and love and be loved by the Father and the Son in company with the rest
1:01.5	of God's vast family is the whole essence of the Christian hope, end quote.
1:09.2	As God centered, heavenly-mindedness marks Packer's entire legacy, his role was to remind
1:14.7	us of an eternity he has now entered.
1:19.1	Pastor John, we are left behind now to celebrate his homecoming by thinking back on his life
1:23.5	and memories of meeting him, talking on the phone with him, receiving faxes from him,
1:28.2	and of course, the many ways that his writings have impacted so many of us.
1:32.5	We are intruding into your vacation, Pastor John, but what comes to mind when you think
1:35.7	of Dr. Packer, the person, the figure, the writer?
1:38.2	Well, I'm happy to come off of vacation to do this with you, Tony.
1:42.4	This is a high, high, and precious moment and not a sacrifice.
1:51.4	The Lord has remarkably set me up for this.
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