False Faith and False Regeneration?

wise seeker

It is quite possible to exercise "false faith" and experience "false regeneration." Many confuse understanding with believing. The former simply means the mind understands the reason of the truth and reckons it believable. The latter, according to the spiritual sense, in involves being united; that is, by believing that the Lord Jesus died for us we unite ourselves with His death. People can understand doctrine without necessarily believing in the Lord Jesus. Men are not saved by their good deed, rather do they obtain eternal life through believing the Son of God. Men must believe in God' s Son. Many believe the doctrine of atonement but fail to believe in the Savior Who atones. Their regeneration is false should they only fill the basin with the blood of the lamb without applying it on the doors of their heart. Countless are the professing Christians who lack the intuitive knowledge of God, although they live like true regenerated Christians-clean, pious, helpful, frequently praying and reading the Bible, even attending services. They can bear and converse about God, yet they do not know God, they have no personal knowledge of Him. "My own know me ... and they will heed my voice" (John 10.14, 16). Those who neither know the Lord nor heed His voice are not His sheep.