第33个主日 第三部分 感恩
第八十八问
Q. What is involved in genuine repentance or conversion?
真实的悔改归正包括了什么？
A. Two things: the dying-away of the old self, and the rising-to-life of the new. [1]
两件事，老我的治死和新生命的兴旺。[1]
- Rom. 6:1-11; 2 Cor. 5:17; Eph. 4:22-24; Col. 3:5-10
第八十九问
Q. What is the dying-away of the old self?
什么是老我的治死？
A. To be genuinely sorry for sin and more and more to hate and run away from it. [1]
真实懊悔罪恶，并愈加恨恶而远离罪。[1]
- Ps. 51:3-4, 17; Joel 2:12-13; Rom. 8:12-13; 2 Cor. 7:10
第九十问
Q. What is the rising-to-life of the new self?
新生命的兴旺是什么？
A. Wholehearted joy in God through Christ [1] and a love and delight to live according to the will of God by doing every kind of good work. [2]
在神里面因着基督满心喜乐[1]，并且通过行出各样善事，以爱和喜乐照着神的旨意生活[2]。
- Ps. 51:8, 12; Isa. 57:15; Rom. 5:1; 14:17
- Rom. 6:10-11; Gal. 2:20
第九十一问
Q. What are good works?
善行是什么？
A. Only those which are done out of true faith, [1] conform to God’s law, [2] and are done for God’s glory; [3] and not those based on our own opinion or human tradition.[4]
惟独那些因真实的信仰而行出来的[1]， 并且是遵照着神的律法[2]， 为了神的荣耀而作的[3]， 才是善事， 并且这不当是基于我们自己的观念或属人的传统而行的[4]。
- John 15:5; Heb. 11:6
- Lev. 18:4; 1 Sam. 15:22; Eph. 2:10
- 1 Cor. 10:31
- Deut. 12:32; Isa. 29:13; Ezek. 20:18-19; Matt. 15:7-9