Bible Repentance: Path to Love - Robert J. Wieland

kingdom.
Therefore, the kind of repentance Christ calls
for from His people in these last days is repenting
as though what is apparently the sin of others were
really our own (which in fact it is). Whatever sins
other people are guilty of, they obviously had the
“opportunity” of committing them; somehow the
temptations were real to them and overmastering.
The deeper insight the Holy Spirit brings us in
these last days is that we are by nature no better
than other sinners are. When Scripture says that
“all have sinned”, it means, as the New English
Bible translates it, “all alike have sinned” (Romans
3:23).
The root of all sin, its common denominator, is
of course the crucifixion of Christ, enmity against
God. A confession of sin that only scratches the
surface can bring only a veneer forgiveness. A
terrible record remains upon the books of heaven,
even though we are not aware of it—”thou knowest
not.”
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