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Repent | John Piper · Reformed Thinking

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  Welcome to Reformed Thinking, the podcast where we dive into
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  foundational truths and essential doctrines, helping you
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  grasp the core of what it means to follow Christ.
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  Join us now for the Deep Dive where we open up Scripture and
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  theology to find clarity for your walk.
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  Hello and welcome to the Deep Dive.
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  Our aim here is pretty straightforward.
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  Take some key sources, dig into them, and pull out the really
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  vital stuff to help you get a clear handle on things.
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  Today we're getting into a really crucial discussion.
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  It all centers on just one powerful command from Jesus
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  himself. We're mainly drawing from John
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  Piper's work on all that Jesus commanded, specifically the
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  section on repentance, along with some related study notes.
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  We want to understand this call, not just, you know,
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  intellectually, but really consider what it means for us
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  personally. We're going right to the
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  beginning, unpacking the very first command Jesus gave in his
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  public ministry. It's Matthew 4.1.
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  You probably know it from that time Jesus began to preach
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  saying repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.
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  So direct isn't it? So central?
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  Seems like a good place to start.
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  What strikes you about Jesus kicking off his whole public
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  ministry with that word? Yeah, it really is striking.
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  And what's fascinating right off the bat is that this command,
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  repent, wasn't for a specific group.
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  He said it to everyone indiscriminately, anyone who
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  would listen. That tells you something.
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  It signals this call for a really radical inward change, a
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  complete reorientation. So our goal today is to unpack
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  what that change actually looks like, why Jesus commanded it for
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  absolutely everyone. And you know what the outcome is
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  meant to be for you. OK, let's unpack this then,
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  because I think for a lot of people, the word repent
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  immediately brings to mind maybe feeling really guilty about
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  something or just like trying to clean up your ACT, behave
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  better. But the sources we're looking
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  at, they point to something much, much deeper.
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  An internal reorientation, you called it.
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  What does the original Greek word actually tell us here?
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  Is it different from just feeling sorry?
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  That's a really good question, and yeah, the common
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  understanding often just scratches the surface.
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  The Greek word is metanoe, and breaking it down is super
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  helpful to get its real essence. So you've got two parts.
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  The second part no way relates to the mind, but it's not just
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  thinking like abstract thoughts, it's deeper.
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  It includes your perceptions, how you see things, how you
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  understand reality, how you view God, yourself, the world around
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  you. It also covers your
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  dispositions, your kind of default settings, your natural
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  inclinations, the way your heart leans, your attitudes.
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  And it touches on your purposes, what you're aiming for, what
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  drives you, your goals, your fundamental intentions in life.
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  So no way is really about the core of your inner world, your
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  whole way of thinking and relating.
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  OK, so the mind in a really broad sense, perception,
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  attitude, goals. Got it.
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  What about the first part? Meta.
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  Right meta. That's a prefix you see a lot in
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  Greek, and it consistently points to change, movement or
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  transfer. Think of words like metabayenu.
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  That means to like transfer a move from one place to another,
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  or metamorphosis. We get metamorphosis from that
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  means a change in form, a transformation.
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  You can see there's also medetithemi, which means putting
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  something from one place to another.
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  So Meta always had this idea of shifting, altering, moving from
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  one state or condition to a different one.
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  OK. Change or movement?
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  Exactly, so put them together, meta change and noish the mind
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  in that broad sense. Matano Jet basically means to
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  experience a change of the minds, perceptions, dispositions
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  and purposes. It's a radical inward change, a
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  fundamental turning. It happens inside you, changing
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  how you're oriented towards God, towards others.
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  It's not just tweaking a few thoughts, it's a reorientation
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  of your entire inner framework, like your internal compass
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  getting reset. Wow, OK, that's definitely more
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  than just feeling bad or trying harder.
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  It's a complete internal shift, a change in how you
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  fundamentally perceive and Orient yourself.
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  So if it's this deep internal thing, I'm guessing it doesn't
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  just stay inside, right? Or So let's talk about this
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  leading to external effects. Fruits, the Bible calls them.
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  How does that work? Precisely.
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  Yeah, the internal change naturally works its way out.
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  Luke 3.8 puts it very clearly. Bear fruits in keeping with
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  repentance. Yeah, there's a direct link.
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  The fruits are the new actions, the different behaviors, the new
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  deeds that naturally flow out of that changed Interstate through
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  the evidence that something real has happened inside.
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  So the actions aren't the repentance itself, but the
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  results of it. Exactly.
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  The sources are careful to make that distinction.
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  Repentance isn't the new deeds, it's the inward change that
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  produces the fruit of new deeds. So sharing your stuff or being
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  honest in your job, those are fruits.
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  They show that the interchange, the matanalaya, is actually
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  taking root. It stops us from thinking
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  repentance is just about, you know, performing certain good
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  actions. The change has to happen at the
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  root inside. That makes sense.
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  It guards against just putting on a show, right?
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  And the example scripture gives are very practical, very down to
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  earth. Like in Luke 3, after John the
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  Baptist calls people to repent, they ask what should we do then?
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  And he says things like whoever has two tunics is to share with
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  him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.
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  Yeah, very tangible stuff. Very and he tells tax collectors
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  collect no more that you are authorized to do and soldiers
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  don't extort money, be content with your wages.
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  These examples show that the internal change, the new way of
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  seeing God and others, leads to real, concrete differences in
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  how you live, how you treat people, how you handle your
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  money, your job. So Jesus is commanding that we
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  experience this inward change first, and then the behavior
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  follows naturally. It demonstrates the the reality
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  of the inner transformation. Yeah.
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  This is really starting to build a picture.
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  It's a deep internal change that bears outward fruit.
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  Now, here's a really key question the sources raise Why?
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  Why is this radical inward change necessary for everyone?
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  And the source is connected directly to how Jesus viewed
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  sin. They use the strong phrase sin
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  as an assault on God. Can you unpack that a bit?
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  That sounds pretty serious. It is serious.
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  And yeah, that phrase really gets to the heart of why
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  repentance is so fundamental. Jesus's call for everyone to
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  repent comes directly from his understanding of human
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  sinfulness. Remember when He said I've not
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  come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance?
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  That wasn't him saying some people are OK and don't need it.
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  It was his assessment of the fundamental human condition.
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  Everyone falls into the Sinner category and needed this call.
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  And the sources emphasized that sin primarily isn't just about
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  hurting other people or messing up our own lives, though it
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  certainly does that. First and foremost, it's an
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  offense against God Himself. OK, against God first.
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  How does that play out? Well, think about the parable
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  The Prodigal Son. It's a powerful illustration.
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  The son took his inheritance, went off and squandered it on
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  reckless living, totally dishonouring his father.
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  A classic story of messing up. Right.
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  But when he comes back, when he's ready to repent, what does
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  he say? He rehearses his speech.
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  Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you.
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  Against heaven first. I never really focused on that
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  order before. It's significant, isn't it?
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  It shows the primary offense sins.
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  Essential nature is that it's against God, against his rule,
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  His character, his rightful place.
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  Then secondarily, it's against the human relationships like the
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  one with his father. So it's like a cosmic rebellion,
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  not just a personal failing. In a sense, yes.
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  And another angle Jesus uses is debt.
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  He taught his disciples to pray, forgive us our sins, for we
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  ourselves forget everyone who is indebted to us.
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  Comparing sins God Forgives to debts is very telling.
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  It implies that sin dishonors God.
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  It's like we've defamed his character, belittled his glory,
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  his honor. And by doing that, we incur that
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  we owe him something, the restoration of that honor.
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  A debt of honor? That's a heavy thought.
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  It is our sin puts us in the red on God's cosmic Ledger, so to
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  speak. Now, crucially, the sources
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  point out that Jesus himself pays this debt through his
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  death. But for us to receive the
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  benefit of that payment, to have that debt cancelled, repentance
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  is the required response. It's acknowledging the debt and
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  turning to accept God's way of clearing it.
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  So repentance is tied to acknowledging this God
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  dishonouring aspect of sin. Exactly.
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  The sources describe the internal state of sin as having
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  God dishonouring Christ's belittling perceptions and
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  dispositions and purposes. It's not just the bad things we
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  do, but the wrong way we think and feel about God and Jesus,
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  valuing other things more, thinking less of him than he
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  deserves. Repentance, then, is the act of
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  replacing of those with God, treasuring Christ, exalting
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  ones. It's a complete reversal of
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  values, from dishonoring God to honoring him, from belittling
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  Christ to treasuring him above all else.
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  OK, so sin isn't just breaking rules or hurting people.
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  It's fundamentally an affront to God's honor, his worth.
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  And that means repentance has to involve seeing God differently
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  too, right? It's not just changing our
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  actions, but changing our view of God Himself.
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  Absolutely, that's central to it.
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  Repenting involves experiencing such a change of mind that met
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  in OA that you start to see God as He really is, true,
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  beautiful, supremely worthy of all our praise, all our
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  obedience. It's moving from maybe ignoring
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  Him or having wrong ideas about Him, or even actively rebelling
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  against Him in your heart, to a place where you see His infinite
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  value and respond with awe and submission.
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  It's a paradigm shift. A whole new perspective on God.
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  Right. And when you see God that way,
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  as supremely valuable and glorious, it changes everything.
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  Your inner attitudes, your outward goals, they start to
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  line up with his character and his will.
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  And this new way of seeing God automatically includes seeing
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  Jesus differently, too. The sources point to John 8,
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  where Jesus says, If God were your father, you would love me
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  for I came from God. Seeing God rightly means seeing
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  Jesus rightly, recognizing he's not just a good teacher or a
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  historical figure, but he's divine.
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  He came from God. He is God the Son.
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  He's worthy of that same treasuring, that same exulting.
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  So a changed view of the father means a changed view of the son.
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  They go hand in hand. You can't truly repent and see
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  God rightly without also seeing Christ rightly.
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  His divine nature, His unique role, His absolute new
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  worthiness, this new perception lets you value him, treasure him
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  in a way your old God dishonoring mindset just
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  couldn't. You see him as the answer, The
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  one who paid that debt we talked about.
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  OK, so this deep internal change, this matanoa is needed
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  because sin is fundamentally against God.
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  It involves a whole new way of seeing God in Christ.
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  Now, who is this for? Is it just for, you know, really
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  bad people, or the sources seem pretty emphatic that it's
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  universal? Yeah, they are extremely clear
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  on this. The question of who needs to
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  repent gets a very direct answer from Jesus, everyone, no
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  exceptions. He makes this point really
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  powerfully in Luke 13. Some people come to him telling
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  him about a couple of recent tragedies.
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  Pilot apparently killed some Galileans while they were
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  offering sacrifices. A shocking event and also a
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  tower in Saloma had collapsed, killing eighteen people.
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  Right. Tragic news reports of the day.
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  Exactly. And you can imagine people might
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  have been thinking, wow, those people must have been terrible
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  sinners for that to happen to them.
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  But Jesus completely turns that thinking on its head.
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  He uses the occasion to warn the people who brought the news and
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  everyone listening. Unless you repent, you will all
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  likewise perish. Wow, so he wasn't speculating on
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  the victim's sin, he was pointing the finger back at the
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  listeners. Precisely.
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  His point was don't think these disasters mean those people were
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  sinners and you're OK. No, the reality is everyone is a
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  Sinner. Everyone is liable to perish
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  under God's judgement unless they repent.
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  These events are like a wake up call for all.
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  It levels the playing field entirely.
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  That really underscores the universality.
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  It does, and the sources draw a parallel.
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  Just like Jesus said, everyone needs to be born again in John
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  3. Everyone also needs to repent
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  because everyone is a Sinner. So when Jesus said he came to
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  call sinners to repentance, not the righteous, he wasn't
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  implying some people didn't need it because they were already
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  good enough. No.
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  What did he mean then? He meant some people think
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  they're righteous, like the Pharisee in that parable, you
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  know, standing there thinking God, he's not like other people,
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  especially the tax collector praying nearby.
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  Yeah, the self-righteous type. Right, he thinks he doesn't need
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  repentance, but the tax collector beating his chest
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  saying God be merciful to me, a Sinner, he understood his need.
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  And Jesus says that man went home justified, right with God.
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  So the call is for everyone who hasn't yet turned to God in this
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  way, everyone who recognizes or needs to recognize their
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  position as a Sinner before a holy God.
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  That makes sense. It's about recognizing your
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  need. And then, just to seal the deal
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  on universality, after his resurrection, Jesus gives the
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  disciples their marching orders. Luke 24 tells us He commissioned
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  them that repentance and forgiveness of sin should be
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  proclaimed in His name to all nations, beginning from
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  Jerusalem. All nations.
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  That leaves no doubt it's a global mandate.
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  This call lays claim on every single person, everywhere, no
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  matter who you are. OK, so it's for everyone, no
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  exceptions. And you mentioned Jesus's
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  warning. Unless you repent, you will all
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  likewise perish, the source of stress.
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  There's an urgency here because judgement is coming.
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  What does perish really mean in that context?
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  Is it just about, you know, bad things happening in this life?
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  No, it's definitely pointing to something much more significant
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  and final than just earthly troubles.
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  When Jesus warns about perishing, he's talking about
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  the ultimate consequence of remaining unrepentant, facing
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  the final judgement of God. It refers to eternal judgement
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  being separated from God's grace and Kingdom because of
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  unforgiven sin. It's the definitive negative
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  outcome for those who refuse this call to turn.
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  So eternal consequences, that certainly adds to the urgency.
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  Absolutely. And Jesus uses historical
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  example to drive this home to think about the men of Nineveh
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  in the Old Testament. Jonah preached to them this
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  Pagan city, and amazingly, they repented.
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  They turn from their wickedness. And Jesus says in Matthew 12
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  that at the final judgement, those men of Nineveh will rise
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  up and condemn the generation he was speaking to.
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  Why? For they repented at the
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  preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is
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  here. He's saying if they repented at
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  Jonah's message, how much more should you repent when I the Son
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  of God am telling you? Exactly.
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  He's highlighting the greater significance of his own presence
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  and message. He's warning about the coming
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  judgment and offering the way of escape repentance.
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  But the implication is clear. Ignoring this greater warning
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  from the greater messenger invites a greater condemnation.
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  And if people don't repent? Well, Jesus has a very stark
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  warning for those places and people who heard his message,
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  saw his works, and still refuse to repent.
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  He says woe to you Chorizin, woe to you, Bethsaida in Matthew 11.
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  That word woe signifies impending doom, terrible
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  judgement. So the urgency comes from this
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  dual reality, this sources highlight.
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  On the one hand, there's this incredibly gracious offer of
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  forgiveness right now if you repentance, God's extending
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  mercy. On the other hand, there's this
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  serious gracious warning that a day is coming when that offer
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  expires and those who have refused it will face God's
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  judgement. They will perish.
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  So it's urgent because the window of opportunity open now,
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  but it won't be open forever. OK, this paints a really
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  comprehensive picture. Repentance is this radical
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  interchange, this Matanoway. It's necessary because sin is
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  fundamentally against God's honor.
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  It's forever everyone universally, and it's urgent
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  because of coming judgement. So how does this connect to the
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  positive side? How does repentance act as the
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  gateway, you could say, to the Kingdom of God and to receiving
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  forgiveness? These seem like the ultimate
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  goals. Right.
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  Those are the promised blessings linked to repentance, and the
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  connection is immediate and foundational.
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  Remember, Jesus's very first public command, repent, for the
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  Kingdom of heaven is at hand. The arrival of God's Kingdom,
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  breaking into the world through Jesus himself, is the reason why
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  repentance is called for. It signifies that repentance is
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  the necessary prerequisite, the entry requirement for
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  participating in God's Kingdom, for coming under His gracious
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  rule. You have to turn to enter.
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  So Kingdom is here, repent to get in on it.
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  Essentially, yes. Mark's gospel puts it slightly
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  differently but makes the same point.
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  The time is fulfilled and the Kingdom of God is at hand.
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  Repent and believe in the gospel.
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  The gospel, the good news, is precisely that God's kingly rule
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  has arrived in the person of Jesus, offering salvation to
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  sinners before the Kingdom comes in its final future fullness
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  with judgment. So the Kingdom is both a present
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  reality you can enter now through faith and repentance,
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  and a future reality that will bring judgment.
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  Repentance is how you align yourself with the saving aspect
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  of the Kingdom, rather than finding yourself opposing it.
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  When it comes in judgment, it determines which side of the
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  kingdom's arrival you're on. Eating on the right side of
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  God's reign, present and future. OK, and forgiveness is obviously
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  a huge part of that good news. How does repentance specifically
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  lead to sins being forgiven? Does our repenting earn
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  forgiveness? That's a key clarification.
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  No, our repentance doesn't earn forgiveness.
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  Forgiveness is a gift bought by Christ's sacrifice.
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  But repentance is the necessary condition for receiving that
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  gift. It's the turning of a heart that
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  opens us up to God's grace. Think back to Jesus saying he
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  came to call sinners to repentance.
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  The implication is that this turning is the pathway for
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  sinners to be reconciled, to be set right with God, which
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  includes forgiveness. It's the posture needed to
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  receive the gifts. Exactly.
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  We talked about sin being insulted on God's honor creating
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  a debt. The sources are clear.
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  Jesus pays that debt, Mark 10.45.
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  He gives his life as a ransom for many.
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  He settles the account. But for you or me to personally
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  benefit from that payment, to have our debt marked paid in
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  full, we need to repent. We need to turn away from the
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  sin that created the debt and turn towards God accepting His
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  provision in Christ. Repentance is like reaching out
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  your hand to receive the pardon that Christ secured.
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  The tax collector example seems key here again.
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  It really is Luke 18. He doesn't offer God anything.
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  He just stands there, beats his chest, acknowledges his
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  sinfulness. God be merciful to me, a Sinner,
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  that humility, that cry for mercy is the heart of
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  repentance. And what happens?
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  Jesus says he went home justified, declared righteous by
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  God. His repentance, his turning to
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  God in humble need open the door for God's justifying grace and
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  forgiveness. It shows the direct link.
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  A clear demonstration. And finally, that post
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  resurrection Commission in Luke 24 is so explicit.
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  Repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed to all
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  nations. The 2 are packaged together.
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  They're proclaimed in tandem. The command to repent isn't just
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  a demand, it's built in the amazing gracious offer that
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  forgiveness is available through Jesus Christ.
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  Repentance is the way you step into that forgiveness.
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  So it really does all come together, this deep internal
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  reorientation, this turning away from everything that dishonors
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  God and belittles Christ, and turning towards valuing God,
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  treasure in Christ above all else.
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  That seems to be the absolute core of what Jesus commands
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  here. That's it precisely.
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  The ultimate goal of this command is for every single
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  person to be changed within. As Piper puts it, it's about
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  that wholesale replacement, swapping out all those God
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  dishonouring Christ belittling ways of seeing, feeling and
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  choosing, and putting in their place God treasure measuring
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  Christ's exalting perceptions, dispositions and purposes.
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  It really is a comprehensive reorientation of your entire
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  being toward God. Not just a one time act, but a
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  new direction for your whole life.
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  Well, this deep dive into just one command, Jesus's first
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  public command, really shows how much is packed in there.
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  Repentance is clearly not superficial.
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  It's not just feeling sorry. It's a radical inward change of
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  your mind, your perceptions, your purposes, all directed
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  towards God himself. And it's necessary because our
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  sin is fundamentally an assault on God's honor, creating that
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  debt only Christ could pay. And this call goes out to
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  everyone universally, with real urgency because of God's coming
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  judgement and the arrival of his Kingdom in Jesus.
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  Ultimately, it seems repentance is the doorway.
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  It's the pathway to receiving forgiveness and starting to
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  truly see God and Jesus as they are, infinitely worthy of all
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  our praise, all our obedience. It's the turning point.
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  It really is, and reflecting on all this, it naturally leads to
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  a question for each of us listening, doesn't it?
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  If repentance truly is this deep internal reorientation towards
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  God, away from everything that diminishes his honor, well, how
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  did that understanding reshape your own daily thoughts, your
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  attitudes, your actions regarding God and his Son?
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  Are there perhaps Aries in your own heart, your own life, that
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  still need this kind of turning, this ongoing matanoa, something
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  to really consider? That's a challenging thought to
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  end on. We certainly trust this deep
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  dive has given you a lot to think about and reflect on.
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  Join us next time on the Deep Dive for more insights as we
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  continue to explore foundational truths aimed at helping you live
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  a life of Reformed thinking. Until then, may you continue to
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  seek God's truth diligently.