Heidelberg Catechism – 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 coming-to-life of the new*1.
Q & A 89
Q. What is the dying-away of the old self?
A. It is to be genuinely sorry for sin, to hate it more and more, and to run away from it*2.
Q & A 90
Q. What is the coming-to-life of the new self?
A. It is wholehearted joy in God through Christ*3 and a delight to do every kind of good as God wants us to*4.
Q & A 91
Q. What do we do that is good?
A. Only that which arises out of true faith*5, conforms to God’s law*6, and is done for his glory*7; and not that which is based on what we think is right or on established human tradition*8.
*1. Rom. 6:1-11; 2 Cor. 5:17; Eph. 4:22-24; Col. 3:5-10
*2. Ps. 51:3-4, 17; Joel 2:12-13; Rom. 8:12-13; 2 Cor. 7:10
*3. Ps. 51:8, 12; Isa.57:15; Rom. 5:1; 14:17
*4. Rom. 6:10-11; Gal. 2:20
*5. John 15:5; Heb. 11:6
*6. Lev. 18:4; 1 Sam. 15:22; Eph. 2:10
*7. 1 Cor. 10:31
*8. Deut. 12:32; Isa. 29:13; Ezek. 20:18-19; Matt. 15:7-9
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