I wrote about repentance from Luke 10 back on October 1. Here’s another call to repentance from Luke 11. Jesus said:

Yes, the people of Nineveh will also rise up on the day of judgment to accuse and condemn this generation. For they all repented when they heard the preaching of Jonah, but you refuse to repent. Yet there is one greater than Jonah who is preaching to you today. (Luke 11.32, Passion Translation)

I saw several lessons here: 

• What is my response to Jesus’ preaching (or anyone’s preaching)? The only appropriate response is repentance. Our pastor’s recent compelling sermon on the Good Samaritan wasn’t for entertainment, for example.
• Not even Jesus won over everyone. In fact, he didn’t win over a great many people, percentage-wise, with only 120 in the Upper Room in Acts 1.
• I can’t expect huge success with preaching. Most people don’t listen to sermons to see what they should repent of (but we should!)

Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. (Matthew 7.24, NIV, emphasis mine)

Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. (2 Corinthians 7.10, NIV)