2.5 KiB
Lord’s Day 33
88. Q. What is involved in genuine repentance or conversion?
A. Two things: the dying-away of the old self, and the rising-to-life of the new.1
1 Rom. 6:1–11; 2 Cor. 5:17; Eph. 4:22–24; Col. 3:5–10
89. Q. What is the dying-away of the old self?
A. To be genuinely sorry for sin and more and more to hate and run away from it.1
1 Ps. 51:3–4, 17; Joel 2:12–13; Rom. 8:12–13; 2 Cor. 7:10
90. Q. What is the rising-to-life of the new self?
A. Wholehearted joy in God through Christ1 and a love and delight to live according to the will of God by doing every kind of good work.2
1 Ps. 51:8, 12; Isa. 57:15; Rom. 5:1; 14:17 2 Rom. 6:10–11; Gal. 2:20
91. Q. But what are good works?
A. Only those which are done out of true faith,1 conform to God’s law,2 and are done for his glory;3 and not those based on our own opinion or human tradition.4
1 John 15:5; Heb. 11:6 2 Lev. 18:4; 1 Sam. 15:22; Eph. 2:10 3 1 Cor. 10:31 4 Deut. 12:32; Isa. 29:13; Ezek. 20:18–19; Matt. 15:7–9