…..The first step in producing the heart change that God requires is, as author and Pastor Jay Adams says, “an awareness of God’s requirements.”

“The mind is renewed when, under the influence of the Spirit, the truth is understood and believed, so as to displace the ignorance and error that previously prevailed.  It is the truth, understood and believed, that purifies the heart from the love of the world; and, just in proportion as that truth is understood and believed, are men transformed. It is by men’s being formed to a right way of thinking, that they are formed to a right way of feeling and acting with regard to this world and the next–To God, and or brethren of mankind.” (emphasis mine)

John Brown