今日真道聖言/2013年6月1日

威斯敏斯特大要理問答

69問：無形教會的會員，在恩典中與基督的相交，是指什麼？

答：無形教會的會員，在恩典中與基督的相交，是有分於中保基督所作成的救贖果效，使他們得以稱義，得兒女名分，成聖，以及今生一切的福分，這都顯明他們是與基督聯合。

Q. 69. What is the communion in grace which the members of the invisible church have with Christ?

A. The communion in grace which the members of the invisible church have with Christ, is their partaking of the virtue of his mediation, in their justification, adoption, sanctification, and whatever else, in this life, manifests their union with him.

70問：「稱義」是什麼？

答：稱義是神的作為，祂將白白的恩典賜給罪人，藉此祂赦免他們一切的罪，接納他們，使他們在祂面前被算為義；這並非因在他們裡面成就了什麼，或他們作了什麼，乃是唯獨因為基督的完美順服與償清罪債；神將此歸算在他們身上，並且是唯獨借着信心領受的。

Q. 70. What is justification?

A. Justification is an act of God's free grace unto sinners, in which he pardoneth all their sins, accepteth and accounteth their persons righteous in his sight; not for anything wrought in them, or done by them, but only for the perfect obedience and full satisfaction of Christ, by God imputed to them, and received by faith alone.

71問：為何「稱義」是神白白恩典的作為？

答：雖然基督借着順服與受死，的確為我們向神獻上贖罪，這是適當，真實與完全的滿足了神公義的要求。然而，事實上：

（1）神可以定規我們要自己負責，然而神接納借着中保代贖來滿足祂公義的要求

（2）神親自賜下這位中保，就是祂的獨生子，將祂兒子的義歸算給我們，

（3）我們得以稱義並非出於我們自己，唯獨是借着信，連這信心也是祂所賜的；

所以，我們得以稱義，對我們而言，完全是神白白的恩典。

Q. 71. How is justification an act of God's free grace?

A. Although Christ, by his obedience and death, did make a proper, real, and full satisfaction to God's justice in the behalf of them that are justified; yet inasmuch as God accepteth the satisfaction from a surety, which he might have demanded of them, and did provide this surety, his own only Son, imputing his righteousness to them, and requiring nothing of them for their justification but faith, which also is his gift, their justification is to them of free grace.

72問：「稱義的信心」是什麼？

答：稱義的信心是拯救的恩典，聖靈與神的道在罪人心中做成的。藉此恩典：

（1）罪人確知自己的罪與苦況，以及自己與所有其他受造物都不能拯救他脫離其失喪的情況；

（2）他不僅是認同福音應許的真理，更是領受與依靠基督與祂的義；

（3）他因此罪得赦免，在神面前得蒙悅納，被算為義，以致得救。

Q. 72. What is justifying faith?

A. Justifying faith is a saving grace, wrought in the heart of a sinner by the Spirit and Word of God, whereby he, being convinced of his sin and misery, and of the disability in himself and all other creatures to recover him out of his lost condition, not only assenteth to the truth of the promise of the gospel, but receiveth and resteth upon Christ and his righteousness, therein held forth, for pardon of sin, and for the accepting and accounting of his person righteous in the sight of God for salvation.

73問：信心如何使罪人在神面前得稱為義？

答：信心使罪人在神面前得稱為義，

（1）並非因為那些必與之俱來的其他恩惠，也不是因為信心所結的善行之果，也不是因為將信心的恩惠（或因之而來的行為）歸算在罪人身上，使他稱義；

（2）只是因為信心是媒介工具，罪人藉此領受並支取基督和祂的義。

Q. 73. How doth faith justify a sinner in the sight of God?

A. Faith justifies a sinner in the sight of God, not because of those other graces which do always accompany it, or of good works that are the fruits of it, nor as if the grace of faith, or any act thereof, were imputed to him for his justification; but only as it is an instrument by which he receiveth and applieth Christ and his righteousness.