我们如何正确地忏悔我们的罪？

我们如何正确地忏悔我们的罪？

  How do we correctly confess our sins?

       约翰·费斯科博士  Dr. John V. Fesko

                           吴家望译

改革宗神学院《智慧星期三》讲座，2/24/2025

当我们认识到自己是罪人时，如何正确或适当地认罪？我认为，当我们在祈祷时，无论是在一天的开始、一天的结束，还是其中的其他时刻，我们所有人都可能会达到这一点，我们认识到我们一直有罪，我们知道我们一时一刻刻都在犯罪。但当我们回想这一天时，也许我们很难准确地记住我们是如何以及以何种方式犯罪的。当我们阅读神的话语时，圣灵会为我们每一个罪责备我们，因为圣灵会更加意识到我们犯罪的多种方式。然后，当圣灵使我们认识到我们的罪时，我们可以认罪，特别可以悔改我们的罪。也许如果我们生活中发生了一件大事，也许我们对某人展示愤怒，那么我们当然可以为此悔改。

我们可以说：“主啊，请原谅我的愤怒态度。”  或者说，“主啊，请原谅我的急躁”，这样我们就可以通过这种方式忏悔我们的罪过。但《威斯敏斯特信仰告白》第十五章第五段中提到，我们应该具体地忏悔和悔改我们的罪过。因此，我们的忏悔应该针对我们犯下的每一种具体的罪过。所以我和其他人一样，有时我会说：“主啊，我不记得我做了什么。但我知道我说过，所以请原谅我的罪过。”  但与此同时，我认为我们越是深入上帝的话语，阅读上帝的律法，默想它，看看 《威斯敏斯特大要理》等教材怎么说关于我们违反上帝律法的多种方式，阅读箴言书，阅读福音书，就会看到罪会是多么的多样和短暂，无论是大事还是小事。当我们这样做时，希望当我们阅读上帝的话语时，圣灵会让我们认识到我们个别的罪，因为它会让我们更加意识到我们犯罪的方式有很多。然后，当圣灵让我们认识到我们的罪时，我们可以具体地忏悔，我们可以具体地悔改我们的罪。

《Wisdom Wednesday》（《智慧星期三》）改革宗神学院通讯, 2025-02-24

How do we correctly confess our sins?

Dr. John V. Fesko | February 24, 2025

How do we correctly confess our sins?

How do we correctly or best confess our sins when we recognize that we’re sinners? I think that all of us perhaps get to that point when we’re in the midst of prayer, whether it’s maybe at the beginning of the day, at the end of the day, or some other point therein, and we recognize that we’ve been sinful, we know that we sin moment by moment. But as we think about the day, maybe it’s difficult for us to remember precisely how and in what ways that we have sinned. As we read the Word of God, the spirit will convict us of our particular sins because it’ll become more aware to us the many ways that we can sin. And then, as the Spirit convicts us of our sins, particularly, we can confess, and we can repent of our sins particularly. Perhaps if there’s a big event in our lives, maybe we lash out in anger at somebody, then we can, of course, we can repent of that.

And we can say, “Lord, forgive me for my outburst of anger.” Or “Forgive me, Lord, for my impatience”, so we can confess our sin that way. But one of the things that the Westminster Confession says, and it says this in chapter fifteen, paragraph five, is that we should confess and repent of our sins particularly. Thus, our confession should be particular for each and every particular sin that we commit. So I’m just like anybody else, sometimes I say, “Lord I don’t recall what I did. I know that I said, so please forgive me of my sins.” But at the same time, I think the more that we’re in the Word of God, read the law of God, meditate upon it, see what the larger Catechism has to say or the many manifold ways in which we can violate God’s law, read the book of Proverbs, read the Gospels and see how varied and how minute sin can be, whether big things or small things. And as we do so, hopefully, as we read the Word of God, the spirit will convict us of our particular sins because it’ll become more aware to us the many ways that we can sin. And then, as the Spirit convicts us of our sins, particularly, we can confess, and we can repent of our sins particularly.

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