Bible Repentance: Path to Love - Robert J. Wieland

whose particular evil deeds we do not understand
and pride ourselves on not having committed.
Corporate repentance enables us to bridge the gap
that insulates us from needy souls whom Christ
loves, but for whom He can exercise no healing
ministry because we as His instruments are
“frozen” in our unfeeling impenitence.
Like Christ “who did no sin” but knew
repentance, so we can feel a genuine compassion in
behalf of others whose sins we may not personally
have committed, either for lack of opportunity or
for lack of temptation of equal intensity. Forthwith
we begin helping them. Our work for them “comes
alive,” and we find our efforts become effective.
Love is freed from the chains of our impenitence
and immediately goes to work just like Jesus did.
Our experience of repentance has produced a
revolutionary change in our feelings toward “every
sinner.” Of each one we genuinely feel, “There but
for the grace of God am I!” Make no mistake about
it: he will immediately sense the reality of our
identity with him in exactly the same way that
sinners sensed the reality of Christ’s identity with
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