今日真道圣言/2013年6月2日

威斯敏斯特大要理问答

74问：“收纳”是指什么？

答：“收纳”是指神白白恩典的行动，在祂儿子里，也是为了祂的儿子，赐给我们儿女的名分。

（1）借此，凡是被称为义的人，都被收纳为祂众儿女中的一分子，他们都归属祂的名下，将祂儿子的灵赐给他们；

（2）他们得到天父的眷顾与供应，得着神儿女一切的自由与特别权利，成为诸般应许的后嗣，在荣耀中与基督一同继承产业。

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问：“成圣”是什么？

答：“成圣”是神恩典的工作，借此，那些在创立世界以先，就蒙神拣选成为圣洁的人：

（1）在时候满足的时候，神借着圣灵大能的运行，将基督的死与复活的果效，实施在他们身上，更新全人恢复神的形像；

（2）将悔改得生命的种子，以及其他一切的救赎恩典，都置入他们心中；这些恩典激励，增长，加强他们，使他们越来越向罪死，越来越活出新生的样式。

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问：什么是“悔改得生命”？

答：“悔改得生命”是拯救的恩典，是神的圣灵与圣道在罪人心中所作成的：

（1）使他不仅意识到己罪的危险，也意识到己罪的污秽与丑陋；

（2）并且使他领悟到：悔改的罪人，在基督里必蒙神的怜悯；

（3）因此他忧伤并恨恶自己的罪，以致他转离一切罪恶归向神，并且定意竭力在新生命中全然顺服神，恒切与祂同行。

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问：称义与成圣有何不同？

答：成圣与称义是密不可分的，然而两者仍有不同：

（1）称义，是神将基督的义归算给我们；成圣，是神借着圣灵将恩典融入我们里面，使我们能操练圣洁；

（2）称义使我们的罪得赦免；成圣使我们的罪被制伏；

（3）称义，使所有信徒一致从神义怒刑罚中得释放，在今生全然称义，此后绝不再定罪；成圣，每位信徒长进的程度不一，无人在今生能达到完全，乃是不断在圣洁上长进，渐臻完全。

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.