APPENDIX B
The Bible Basis for Corporate Repentance
VII. JESUS CALLED JEWISH LEADERSHIP TO
NATIONAL
REPENTANCE
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Fresh from
His own corporate repentance, demanded it of them (Mark 1:15).
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Specified
repentance of Nineveh as model (Matthew 12:41).
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Then
lamented their refusal to repent (Matthew 23:13-38).
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Why did
they bear contemporary guilt for the murder committed 800 years
earlier? (Matthew 23:34, 35). Only answer: corporate guilt.
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National
ruin result of national sin due to leadership rejection of
call to national repentance (Acts 2:36; 3:14,15; Isaiah 9:16;
COL 304, 305, 308; AA 247).
Jesus
Calls Leadership of Laodicean Church to Repentance |