What Jesus Demands | Repent

The following "What Jesus Demands" is taken from the book, 

What Jesus Demands from the World by John Piper. 

He mentions a list of 50, 

so I thought we might take a glimpse of each of them individually.

#2 — REPENT

Jesus Christ tells us: "I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." [Luke 5:32]

Repent:

to experience a change of the mind's perceptions and dispositions and purposes.

Repentance:

is not the new deeds, but the inward change that bears fruit of new deeds.

Sin is an assault on God. 
"Repenting means experiencing a change of mind so that we can see God as true and beautiful and worthy of all our praise and all our obedience."

There is an universal need for repentance.
It is not that some need repentance or some need a Savior, but that all have sinned against God thus requiring all the necessity to repent.

There is an urgency to this demand because judgment is coming.
"So the demand of repent is based on the gracious offer that is present to forgive and on the gracious warning that someday those who refuse the offer will perish in God's judgment."

To all nations beginning from Jerusalem.
"And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem." [Luke 24:46-47]

This is the demand of Jesus to every soul:

Repent. Be changed deep within. 

What Jesus Demands | You Must Be Born Again

The following "What Jesus Demands" is taken from the book, 

What Jesus Demands from the World by John Piper. 

He mentions a list of 50, 

so I thought we might take a glimpse of each of them individually.

#1 — YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN

Mankind—every male and female—is born spiritually dead. We are very much alive, but very much dead. Whereas our flesh is alive, our spirit is dead in trespasses and sin. [Ephesians 2]

Jesus told Nicodemus [John 3], "Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again."

Jesus draws two connections:

1. Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
2. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

We are born—of the water (flesh)—in Adam, and "in Adam all die." [1 Corinthians 15]

We must be born again—of the Spirit (spirit)—because "in Christ shall all be made alive." 

[1 Corinthians 15]

Being born again—the new birth—is a demand and a necessity to enter the kingdom of God.