When you were a child, I'm sure you could recognize your mom or your dad's voice, even from across a crowded room.

I know that was true for me. Wherever I was, I could single out those two voices.

Today on Truth for Life, we'll learn why believers can similarly recognize Jesus' voice.

Alastair Begg is teaching from the opening verses in John chapter 10. What in the world is Jesus saying here? For judgment, I came into the world, but I didn't come as a judge.

Well, it's straightforward, I think. He says, my coming inevitably creates division. My words

create a distinction, a distinction that is obvious already in the response

of the Pharisees. We are the disciples of Moses. You are his disciple. Their judgment is that

Jesus is not what he claims to be, and the judgment of the man is that clearly whoever he is,

he has the power to change. Jesus, by his word and by his works, exposes the hearts

of these religious leaders. These are the ones who are looking for the one who is to come, and he stands before them,

and they reject him. And it's not a matter of speculation. It's a matter of eternal significance.

At the end of chapter 9, he says, you know, if you were blind, if you had no, if you didn't

even have the Old Testament, if you were just completely blind, you wouldn't be guiltless,

but you wouldn't be as guilty as you are now, because you are the beneficiaries of all these things.

Think of what Paul says in Romans chapter 2.

And he says, but now that you say,

we see, and you don't actually see, your guilt remains. Your guilt remains. I can't pause here,

but let's just acknowledge that there's a lot of talk about guilt. People

say, well, you shouldn't have any guilt. Psychiatrists are dealing with guilt all the time.

Mental health. Guilt is the problem. Guilt is the issue and so on. There are all kinds

of notion concerning that. But the real guilt, the real guilt, which every single person

on the face of the earth faces, is that we are

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