Grow Our Faith By Obedient Works 透過順服的工作來培養我們的信仰

J.Y.

So I was wrong? Obedience and repentance cannot grow our faith? Then how do you explain Js 2:22? And what is faith actually if there’s no works? Without works faith is dead.

所以我錯了？ 順服和悔改不能增強我們的信仰嗎？ 那你如何解釋Js 2:22？ 如果沒有行為，信仰到底是什麼？ 沒有行為，信仰就死了。

Jas 2:22  (KJV)  Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? 

可見信心是與他的行為並行，而且信心因著行為才得成全。

 T.A.

We can grow our faith by adding to the qualities mentioned in 2 Peter 1: 5-11. We are told to walk in the Spirit (Galatians 5:16) and we can know we are walking in the Spirit if we have and develop the fruit of the Spirit( Galatians 5:22,23).

我們可以透過增加彼得後書1：5-11中提到的品質來培養我們的信仰。 我們被告知當順著聖靈而行（加拉太書5:16），如果我們擁有並發展聖靈的果子，我們可以知道我們順著聖靈而行（加拉太書5:22,23）。

2Pe 1:5  Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge,

2Pe 1:6  and in your knowledge, self-control, and in yourself-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness,

2Pe 1:7  and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love.

2Pe 1:8  For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2Pe 1:9  For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.

2Pe 1:10  Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble;

2Pe 1:11  for in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly supplied to you.

2Pe 1:5  正因這緣故，你們要分外的殷勤；有了信心，又要加上德行；有了德行，又要加上知識；

2Pe 1:6  有了知識，又要加上節制；有了節制，又要加上忍耐；有了忍耐，又要加上虔敬；

2Pe 1:7  有了虔敬，又要加上愛弟兄的心；有了愛弟兄的心，又要加上愛眾人的心；

2Pe 1:8  你們若充充足足的有這幾樣，就必使你們在認識我們的主耶穌基督上不至於閒懶不結果子了。

2Pe 1:9  人若沒有這幾樣，就是眼瞎，只看見近處的，忘了他舊日的罪已經得了潔淨。

2Pe 1:10  所以弟兄們，應當更加殷勤，使你們所蒙的恩召和揀選堅定不移。你們若行這幾樣，就永不失腳。

2Pe 1:11  這樣，必叫你們豐豐富富的得以進入我們主救主耶穌基督永遠的國。

Gal 5:22  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Gal 5:23  gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Gal 5:22  聖靈所結的果子，就是仁愛、喜樂、和平、忍耐、恩慈、良善、信實、

Gal 5:23  溫柔、節制。這樣的事沒有律法禁止。

Faith is the substance (ground, foundation) of things hoped for; the evidence of things not seen. I didn't say you were wrong. When we repent, we obey God. We do so because of our faith. I think as our faith grows we have less to repent of because we sin less. Some preachers say we sin every day; I don't think that is necessarily true.

信是所望之事的實底（基礎、根據）；是未見之事的確據。 我沒有說你錯了。 當我們悔改時，我們順服神。 我們這樣做是因為我們的信仰。 我認為，隨著我們的信仰的增長，我們悔改的更少了，因為我們的罪更少了。 一些傳教士說我們每天都在犯罪；我認為這不一定是真的。

We are told to "rightly divide the word of truth" this is a work of obedience. Jesus often said, "He that have ears, let him hear" ; therefore this shows obedience. "Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God" (Romans 10:17). And so yes there is an opportunity for our faith to grow if we believe what we read. Some people read the Bible with skepticism; they try to find mistakes and contradictions. Their faith will not grow. A proof that our faith is growing when we read the Bible is if we are "doers of the word"(James 1:22,25).

我們被告知要“按正義分解真道”，這是一項順服的工作。 耶穌經常說：“有耳的，就應當聽”；因此，這表明了順從。 “可見信道是從聽道來的，聽道是從基督的話來的”（羅馬書10:17）。 因此，是的，如果我們相信我們讀到的東西，我們的信仰就有機會成長。 有些人持懷疑態度閱讀聖經；他們試圖尋找錯誤和矛盾。 他們的信仰不會成長。 當我們閱讀《聖經》時，我們的信仰正在增長，這證明如果我們是“行道者”（雅各書1:22,25）。

J.Y.

Yes, that’s what I believe, obedience is the real faith.

是的，這就是我相信的，順服才是真正的信仰。