Bybelskool » Waar kom die ware geloof vandaan? – Die belydenisskrifte
1. Lees die aanhalings uit die Nederlandse Geloofsbelydenis 24, Heidelbergse Kategismus 65, Dordtse Leerreëls 2.1.6-7; 3-4.1.12-14 en Westminster Geloofsbelydenis 11. Wat leer jy waar die ware geloof vandaan kom? Wat beteken dit vir jou? Wat vra dit van jou?
Ons doen dus goeie werke, maar nie om iets te verdien nie – wat sou ons tog kon verdien? Veeleer is ons die goeie werke wat ons doen, aan God verskuldig, terwyl Hy aan ons niks verskuldig is nie, aangesien dit Hy is wat in ons werk. Hy maak ons gewillig en bekwaam om sy heilige plan uit te voer (Filp. 2:13). Laat ons daarom let op wat geskrywe staan: `…wanneer julle alles gedoen het wat julle beveel is, sê dan: Ons is onverdienstelike diensknegte, want ons het gedoen wat ons verplig was om te doen’ (Luk. 17:10). Tog wil ons nie ontken dat God die goeie werke beloon nie, maar dit is deur sy genade dat Hy sy gawe bekroon. Verder, al doen ons ook goeie werke, maak ons dit glad nie die grond van ons saligheid nie, want ons kan geen werk doen wat nie deur ons sondige natuur besmet en ook strafwaardig is nie. En al kon ons ook één goeie werk lewer, is die herinnering aan net een sonde vir God genoeg om dit te verwerp. Op hierdie manier sou ons altyd in twyfel verkeer, heen en weer geslinger sonder enige sekerheid, en ons arme gewete sou altyd gekwel word as dit nie op die verdienste van die lyding en sterwe van ons Verlosser steun nie.
Heidelbergse Kategismus 65
Vraag: Terwyl ons slegs deur die geloof deel aan Christus en al sy weldade kry, waar kom so ‘n geloof dan vandaan?
(a) Ef 2:8; 6:23; Joh 3:5; Fil 1:29. (b) Matt 28:19; 1 Pet 1:22-23.
Dordtse Leerreëls 2.1.6-7; 3-4.1.12-14
Westminster Geloofsbelydenis 11
1. Those whom God effectually calls he also freely justifies.1 He does not pour righteousness into them but pardons their sins and looks on them and accepts them as if they were righteous—not because of anything worked in them or done by them, but for Christ’s sake alone. He does not consider their faith itself, the act of believing, as their righteousness or any other obedient response to the gospel on their part. Rather, he imputes to them the obedience and judicial satisfaction earned by Christ.2 For their part, they receive and rest on Christ and his righteousness by faith (and this faith is not their own but is itself a gift of God).3
1. Rom 8.30, 3.24.
2. Rom 4.5-8, 2 Cor 5.19,21, Rom 3.22,24-25,27-28, Ti 3.5,7, Eph 1.7, Jer 23.6, 1 Cor 1.30-31, Rom 5.17-19.
3. Acts 10.43-44, Gal 2.16, Phil 3.9, Acts 13.38-39, Eph 2.7-8, Jn 1.12, 6.44-45, Phil 1.29.
2. Faith, thus receiving and resting on Christ and his righteousness, is the only means of justification.4 In the person justified, however, it is always accompanied by all the other saving graces and is not a dead faith, but works by love.5
4. Jn 1.12, Rom 3.28, 5.1, Jn 3.16,18,36.
5. Jas 2.17,22,26, Gal 5.6.
3. By his obedience and death Christ completely discharged the debt of all those who are so justified, and he made the correct, real, and full satisfaction to his Father’s justice on their behalf.6 Since Christ was voluntarily given by the Father for them,7 and since his obedience and satisfaction were accepted in their place8 and not for anything in them, their justification is the result only of his free grace9—so that both the perfect justice and the rich grace of God might be glorified in the justification of sinners.10
6. Rom 5.8-10,18-19, 1 Tm 2.5-6, Heb 10.10,14, Dn 9.24,26, Is 53.4-6,10-12, 1 Cor 15.3, 2 Cor 5.21, 1 Pt
7. Rom 8.32, Jn 3.16.
8. 2 Cor 5.21, Mt 3.17, Eph 5.2, Is 53.6.
9. Rom 3.24, Eph 1.7, Rom 6.23, Eph 2.6-9.
10. Rom 3.26, Eph 2.7.
4. From all eternity God decreed the justification of all the elect,11 and in the fullness of time Christ died for their sins and rose again for their justification.12 Nevertheless, the elect are not justified until the Holy Spirit in due time does actually apply Christ to them.13
11. Gal 3.8, 1 Pt 1.2,19-20, Rom 8.30.
12. Gal 4.4, 1 Tm 2.6, Rom 4.25, 1 Pt 1.21.
13. Col 1.21-22, Gal 2.16, Ti 3.4-7, Jn 3.5,18,36.
5. God continues to forgive the sins of those who are justified.14 Although they can never fall from the state of justification,15 they may by their sins come under God’s fatherly displeasure and not have a sense of his presence with them until they humble themselves, confess their sins, ask for forgiveness, and renew their faith in repentance.16
14. Mt 6.12, 1 Jn 1.7,9, 2.1-2.
15. Lk 22.32, Jn 10.28, Heb 10.14, Phil 1.6, 1 Jn 2.19; see proofs under Chapter 17.
16. Ps 89.31-33, 51.7-12, 32.5, Mt 26.75, 1 Cor 11.30,32, Lk 1.20.
6. The justification of believers under the Old Testament was in all these respects identical with the justification of believers under the New Testament.17
17. Gal 3.6-9,13-14, Rom 4.22-24, Heb 13.8, 11.13, Jn 8.56, Acts 15.11, Rom 3.30.
2. Loof die Here in gebed vir die spesifieke wysheid en insig wat die geloofsbelydenisse jou gee oor waar die ware geloof vandaan kom.