Bible Repentance: Path to Love - Robert J. Wieland
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I am ashamed and blush <strong>to</strong> lift up my face <strong>to</strong> Thee,<br />
my God: for our iniquities are increased over our<br />
heads, and our trespass is grown up un<strong>to</strong> the<br />
heavens. Since the days of our fathers have we<br />
been in a great trespass un<strong>to</strong> this, day” (Ezra 9:6,<br />
7).<br />
Daniel’s Corporate <strong>Repentance</strong><br />
Our position before the Lord closely parallels<br />
that of Israel in the days of Daniel. Here the<br />
principle of corporate guilt and corporate<br />
repentance comes in<strong>to</strong> sharp focus.<br />
Daniel could have argued before the Lord,<br />
“Some of us and some of our fathers were true,<br />
Lord; look how faithful Shadrach, Meshach,<br />
Abednego, and I have been! We have practiced<br />
health reform, we have received all the light You<br />
gave us! Remember how some of our ‘fathers’ in<br />
Jerusalem, as Jeremiah for example, Baruch, and a<br />
few others, s<strong>to</strong>od nobly for the truth in times of<br />
apostasy. We are not all guilty, Lord!”<br />
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