Bible Repentance: Path to Love - Robert J. Wieland

we need to understand our corporate relationship to
the entire human race in Adam.” The entire body
feels the fever of the malarial infection. So did
Christ feel the weight of the sins of the world. This
we must appreciate, if we are to appreciate His
healing. As long as we feel that we have escaped
infection by the common parasite of sin “in
Adam,” as long as we feel superior to other
“sinners” simply because the infection happened
not to occur in our particular “member,” we will be
unable to share in the corporate healing provided
by Christ. This means that we are powerless to help
another person find deliverance from his sin if we
in superiority refuse to feel the weight of his guilt.
In order to feel this weight we do not need to repeat
his actual sinful deed. By sensing the reality or
corporate guilt and repentance, we put ourselves in
his place. As we shall see in the next chapter,
Christ has shown us the way.
A Portrait of Christ and of His Body
Marvelous will be the results when God’s
people as a church learn to love sinners as Christ
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