The nominal professor of religion

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The children of God and the mere nominal professors hold the same truths—but they believe them in a different way.

The nominal professor receives the doctrines because he sees them in God's Word. The child of God receives them because they are taken out of God's Word by the Holy Spirit—and are revealed with power to his soul.

Thus the living family and the nominal professor of religion differ in the way they believe the truth. The one believing it spiritually—the other believing it naturally. The one believing it with his heart—the other believing it with his head.

The one feeling it in his conscience—the other having it merely floating in his brain. A mere professor of religion may have the doctrines of grace in his head—but is devoid of the feeling power of truth in his soul.