今日真道聖言/2013年6月2日

威斯敏斯特大要理問答

74問：「收納」是指什麼？

答：「收納」是指神白白恩典的行動，在祂兒子裏，也是為了祂的兒子，賜給我們兒女的名分。

（1）藉此，凡是被稱為義的人，都被收納為祂眾兒女中的一份子，他們都歸屬祂的名下，將祂兒子的靈賜給他們；

（2）他們得到天父的眷顧與供應，得着神兒女一切的自由與特別權利，成為諸般應許的後嗣，在榮耀中與基督一同繼承產業。

Q. 74. What is adoption?

A. Adoption is an act of the free grace of God, in and for his only Son Jesus Christ, whereby all those that are justified are received into the number of his children, have his name put upon them, the Spirit of his Son given to them, are under his fatherly care and dispensations, admitted to all the liberties and privileges of the sons of God, made heirs of all the promises, and fellow-heirs with Christ in glory.

75問：「成聖」是什麼？

答：「成聖」是神恩典的工作，藉此，那些在創立世界以先，就蒙神揀選成為聖潔的人：

（1）在時候滿足的時候，神借着聖靈大能的運行，將基督的死與復活的果效，實施在他們身上，更新全人恢復神的形像；

（2）將悔改得生命的種子，以及其他一切的救贖恩典，都置入他們心中；這些恩典激勵，增長，加強他們，使他們越來越向罪死，越來越活出新生的樣式。

Q. 75. What is sanctification?

A. Sanctification is a work of God's grace, whereby they whom God hath, before the foundation of the world, chosen to be holy, are in time, through the powerful operation of his Spirit applying the death and resurrection of Christ unto them, renewed in their whole man after the image of God; having the seeds of repentance unto life, and all other saving graces, put into their hearts, and those graces so stirred up, increased, and strengthened, as that they more and more die unto sin, and rise unto newness of life.

76問：什麼是「悔改得生命」？

答：「悔改得生命」是拯救的恩典，是神的聖靈與聖道在罪人心中所作成的：

（1）使他不僅意識到己罪的危險，也意識到己罪的污穢與醜陋；

（2）並且使他領悟到：悔改的罪人，在基督里必蒙神的憐憫；

（3）因此他憂傷並恨惡自己的罪，以致他轉離一切罪惡歸向神，並且定意竭力在新生命中全然順服神，恆切與祂同行。

Q. 76. What is repentance unto life?

A. Repentance unto life is a saving grace, wrought in the heart of a sinner by the Spirit and Word of God, whereby, out of the sight and sense, not only of the danger, but also of the filthiness and odiousness of his sins, and upon the apprehension of God's mercy in Christ to such as are penitent, he so grieves for and hates his sins, as that he turns from them all to God, purposing and endeavoring constantly to walk with him in all the ways of new obedience.

77問：稱義與成聖有何不同？

答：成聖與稱義是密不可分的，然而兩者仍有不同：

（1）稱義，是神將基督的義歸算給我們；成聖，是神借着聖靈將恩典融入我們裏面，使我們能操練聖潔；

（2）稱義使我們的罪得赦免；成聖使我們的罪被制伏；

（3）稱義，使所有信徒一致從神義怒刑罰中得釋放，在今生全然稱義，此後絕不再定罪；成聖，每位信徒長進的程度不一，無人在今生能達到完全，乃是不斷在聖潔上長進，漸臻完全。

Q. 77. Wherein do justification and sanctification differ?

A. Although sanctification be inseparably joined with justification, yet they differ, in that God in justification imputeth the righteousness of Christ; in sanctification his Spirit infuseth grace, and enableth to the exercise thereof; in the former, sin is pardoned; in the other, it is subdued: the one doth equally free all believers from the revenging wrath of God, and that perfectly in this life, that they never fall into condemnation; the other is neither equal in all, nor in this life perfect in any, but growing up to perfection.