The mere knowledge of truth is not enough. We may possess this, but the tenor of our thoughts may not be changed. The heart must be converted and sanctified. He does not obey. When the requirements of God are accounted a burden because they cut across human inclination, we may know that the life is not a Christian life.
True obedience is the outworking of a principle within.
It springs from the love of righteousness, the love of the law of God. Page 98 is loyalty to our Redeemer. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth.