Hello my friends, welcome back to The Morning Mindset.

Are you ready to get your mind aligned with the truth of God?

And I wonder if you have given much thought to the issue of guilt.

You know, I know many of us struggle with guilt on a regular basis and there's various

reasons for that.

Sometimes we're truly guilty.

Other times we were raised in a way that made us feel guilty all the time.

But today's passage, Jesus is going to talk about a kind of guilt that at one point

in our lives, every one of us is guilty of.

But in another sense is reserved for those who have turned their eyes and their hearts

away from the work that God is doing in the world.

Let's read in John chapter 15 verse 22, Jesus is speaking to His disciples about the world

they live in.

And he says, if I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin.

But now that they have no excuse for their sin, you see, Jesus is talking about the religious

leaders and those in the culture who were opposed to him.

And he's saying, I came from heaven and I spoke directly to them.

If I hadn't done that, they wouldn't be guilty of this sin of rejecting God's plan

and God's way.

But now they have no excuse for their sin.

And then in verse 23, he says, whoever hates me, hates my Father also.

Now, that was quite a shock, knowing that he's speaking about the religious leaders of

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