APPENDIX B
The Bible Basis for Corporate Repentance
VI. CHRIST’S OWN CORPORATE. REPENTANCE
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Personally
"repented" before His baptism (Matt. 3:13-17; 1901 GCB, p.
36; RH Jan. 21, 1873; Letter 96, 1900). Yet was personally sinless
(1 Peter 2:24; 2 Corinthians 5:21, etc.).
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Took upon
Himself corporate guilt of Jewish nation and of the world (Isaiah
53; John 1:29).
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Demands no
more of us than He Himself experienced: but commands what He did
experience (Revelation 3:19-21; the command to "repent" in
verse 19 is linked with the "even as I" of verse 21).
Jesus
Called Jewish Leadership to National Repentance |