Bible Repentance: Path to Love - Robert J. Wieland

1. The guilt of crucifying Christ “still rests”
upon the world, even upon “every sinner.” Even
“ministers” and church members partake of this
sin. Apart from the grace of God manifested
through repentance, we each share the guilt.
2. Without this grace, “every sinner” would
repeat the sin of Christ’s murderers if given enough
time and opportunity.
3. The sin of Calvary is seen to be an outcropping
of a sub-stratum of sin which men are not
aware of except by enlightenment of the Holy
Spirit. At Calvary, every man’s sin is fully
unmasked. We can’t “see” it until we “see”
Calvary.
4. In a very real sense we were each one at
Calvary, not through pre-existence or preincarnation,
but in the sense of corporate identity
“in Adam.” If it is true that “upon all rests the guilt
of crucifying the Son of God,” Adam likewise
partakes of that guilt equally with us today. His sin
in the Garden of Eden was to Calvary what the
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