Bible Repentance: Path to Love - Robert J. Wieland

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How to achieve the active and powerful love as a body, so that the full resources and cohesion of the church can be perfectly used to demonstrate it to the world—this is our problem of surpassing importance. Can formal committee actions or high pressure promotion provide the needed motivation? No, These have all been tried repeatedly without real success. Truth must be the vehicle, because only truth can penetrate to the secret recesses of the human heart. The Lord has in reserve a means of motivation that will be truly effective. There will be no need to harangue God’s people to respond, no need to provide artificial stimulation to induce them to put forth effort, any more than the apostles needed to in the beginning. Something happened at Pentecost that provided the early church with a truly phenomenal motivation. That motivation was provided by an experience of full repentance, a doctrine that we shall see pervades both the Old and New Testaments. A hazy, indistinct concept of repentance can result only in a state of lukewarmness. Like medicine that 8
must be taken in a quantity sufficient to provide a proper concentration in the blood stream, Bible repentance must be full and thorough or a truly Christlike love can never operate effectively in the church. This is the kind of repentance Christ demands of Laodicea. This full spectrum of repentance is a truth that is included in “the everlasting gospel,” but its clearest definition has been impossible until history reaches the time of the last of the “seven churches” of Revelation. This is because repentance can never be complete until the end of history. Repentance in the Greek is metanoia, from meta (“after”) and nous (“mind”). That “end” could have come many decades ago if the “angel of the church of the Laodiceans” had been willing to receive the Lord’s message when He says, “As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous, therefore, and repent.” (Rev. 3:19). We are still in this world of confusion and rebellion, battling still with evil spirits and wrestling with constantly worsening problems, for one simple 9
Page 1 and 2: BIBLE REPENTANCE: PATH TO LOVE Robe
Page 3 and 4: The Christian church was formed by
Page 5 and 6: The three angels of Revelation 14 a
Page 7: Love is the Only Way This grand fin
Page 11 and 12: epentance. Repentance is sorrow for
Page 13 and 14: Chapter 2 Two Phases of Repentance
Page 15 and 16: short-circuits this work of the Hol
Page 17 and 18: Repentance and a New Life Repentanc
Page 19 and 20: Far from being a negative experienc
Page 21 and 22: What Makes Repentance Possible The
Page 23 and 24: “first resurrection”. Theirs ha
Page 25 and 26: She is “wretched, and miserable,
Page 27 and 28: appropriate to the ministry of Chri
Page 29 and 30: of repentance that is unique in wor
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Page 33 and 34: Horatius Bonar learned this in a dr
Page 35 and 36: kingdom. Therefore, the kind of rep
Page 37 and 38: Chapter 3 A Deeper Repentance That
Page 39 and 40: whole were one single organ, there
Page 41 and 42: guilt is its disease. The wounded t
Page 43 and 44: A familiar disease may help to illu
Page 45 and 46: loves them. The only way He has to
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Page 49 and 50: committed?” We have assumed that
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cleansing from it (1 John 1:9). But
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1. The guilt of crucifying Christ
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claims to be “covered” with the
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whose particular evil deeds we do n
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humiliate himself before God propor
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Chapter 5 How Jesus Called the Jews
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p. 308.) The leaders in the Jewish
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spoke of the national ruin impendin
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It is easier for us moderns to beli
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How Caiphas Could Have Led Israel t
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Fortunately, however, the very natu
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The Ingathering of the Jews The Spi
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ejected and crucified, the true Mes
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Chapter 6 How the Jewish Nation Rej
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“Zacharias son of Barachias” wa
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unto Moses,” and adds, “we, bei
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- Speaking as a mouthpiece for the
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land of their enemies; if then thei
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of Himself in the Old Testament, ma
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crucified,. . . even by Him doth th
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impenitence. But in that very hour
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prophet’s point is that sin and g
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them to repentance. If we do everyt
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The most solemn truths ever intrust
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ecognize the church in the last per
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church. It is loyal. It recognizes
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occasionally arisen on the assumpti
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message when we assume that the cal
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When the experience Christ calls fo
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message will fully accomplish its o
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ecause He remains a covenant-keepin
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Chapter 8 How Can a Church of Milli
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At every advance step in Christian
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Jerusalem was a corporate, denomina
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church becomes, the more involved i
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converted unto Thee” (Psalm 51:13
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the most miraculous aspect of this
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Spirit. The cheerfulness of the wor
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depths of contrition, the early chu
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any different. Everywhere Paul went
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human hearts, and God’s forgivene
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her identity by pinpoint accuracy o
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are several possible ways of lookin
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Nevertheless, it is a view highligh
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3. At this writing, widespread prop
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espected voices that now suggest th
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Our denominational history is in fa
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devastating to any individual’s s
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their light in their age. (Review a
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a miniature Calvary. It afforded a
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through uplifting faith rather than
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statements toward a blanket condemn
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Luther had a great work to do in re
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I am ashamed and blush to lift up m
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The result of this humble, honest r
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wrote to a friend a few months afte
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Much the same situation existed in
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Those who wait for the bridegroom
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and signs and wonders will follow t
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and on the unjust” (verses 45-48)
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Repentance Lights the Fire in the C
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“enmity against God,” we sense
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the cross” can find a path to get
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which he thinks he has actually com
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individual repentance need no longe
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Christ in all time. Already we can
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minister them. Chasms of estrangeme
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pieces of silver.” Acts of fright
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mostly made up of ministers and the
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that He is not a man that He should
show all

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