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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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