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Lords 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. 6:111; 2 Cor. 5:17; Eph. 4:2224; Col. 3:510


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. 51:34, 17; Joel 2:1213; Rom. 8:1213; 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. 6:1011; Gal. 2:20


91. Q. But what are good works?

A. Only those which are done out of true faith,1 conform to Gods 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. 20:1819; Matt. 15:79