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Corporate Repentance - Robert J. Wieland

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joyful experience of appropriate repentance.<br />

From Acts 10 onwards we read of how others<br />

besides Jews partook of the same experience. The<br />

apostles marvelled that the Gentiles should<br />

experience the same profound response to the cross<br />

that the believing Jews did, and thus receive the<br />

gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts 10:44-47). The Holy<br />

Spirit sent the truth closer home than the apostles<br />

expected. Their contrite hearers identified<br />

themselves with the Jews and recognized their<br />

share of the guilt. In other words the Gentiles<br />

experienced a corporate repentance.<br />

Nothing in Scripture indicates that the full<br />

reception of the Holy Spirit in the last days will be<br />

any different.<br />

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