Lord’s Day 33
Q & A 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
Q & A 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
Q & A 90
Q. What is the rising-to-life of the new self?
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)
1 Ps. 51:8, 12; Isa. 57:15; Rom. 5:1; 14:17
2 Rom. 6:10-11; Gal. 2:20
Q & A 91
Q. 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 God’s 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