Lord’s Day 33
Text: CRC/RCA 2011 · Read it at the source
Q. 88 What is involved in genuine repentance or conversion?
Two things: the dying-away of the old self, and the rising-to-life of the new.
Scripture proofs
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- Rom. 6:1-11; 2 Cor. 5:17; Eph. 4:22-24; Col. 3:5-10
Q. 89 What is the dying-away of the old self?
To be genuinely sorry for sin and more and more to hate and run away from it.
Scripture proofs
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- Ps. 51:3-4, 17; Joel 2:12-13; Rom. 8:12-13; 2 Cor. 7:10
Q. 90 What is the rising-to-life of the new self?
Wholehearted joy in God through Christ and a love and delight to live according to the will of God by doing every kind of good work.
Scripture proofs
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- Ps. 51:8, 12; Isa. 57:15; Rom. 5:1; 14:17
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- Rom. 6:10-11; Gal. 2:20
Q. 91 What are good works?
Only those which are done out of true faith, conform to God’s law, and are done for God’s glory; and not those based on our own opinion or human tradition.
Scripture proofs
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- John 15:5; Heb. 11:6
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- Lev. 18:4; 1 Sam. 15:22; Eph. 2:10
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- 1 Cor. 10:31
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- Deut. 12:32; Isa. 29:13; Ezek. 20:18-19; Matt. 15:7-9