Bible Repentance: Path to Love - Robert J. Wieland
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them <strong>to</strong> repentance. If we do everything we can for<br />
them, and yet they do not repent, the sin lies at<br />
their own door; but we are still <strong>to</strong> feel sorrow of<br />
heart because of their condition, showing them<br />
how <strong>to</strong> repent, and trying <strong>to</strong> lead them step by step<br />
<strong>to</strong> Jesus Christ. (MS. 92, 1901; SDA Commentary,<br />
Vol. 7, pp. 959, 960).<br />
However faint such a reflection may be,<br />
repentance like this in “behalf” of others must be<br />
based on Christ’s “repentance … in behalf of the<br />
human race” that Ellen White discusses (General<br />
Conference Bulletin, 1901, p. 36). It would be<br />
impossible for any of us <strong>to</strong> feel such concern and<br />
sorrow “in behalf” of others, had He not felt it first<br />
in our “behalf.”<br />
If it is true that “we love because He first loved<br />
us,” perhaps we can also say that we repent<br />
because He first repented in our “behalf.” He is our<br />
Teacher. Let us be His disciples.<br />
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