That is essential for salvation. Just sometimes somebody professes Christ in a wrong way. I believe in Christ, they say. I have come to Christ. But their lives do not change. They do the same things they did before. They have the same interests, the same tastes. They are very worldly people, maybe. They want worldly things. From the beginning of the day, their mind is on the world. They have not seen Christ as the eternal Son of God, God himself. They do not obey him.
What a perfect description of conversion and new life. We see him because our eyes are opened, and our minds grasp his love, and we understand that Christ is the Son of God, the Messiah, the Saviour, and we grasp his infallibility and his wonder, and we see his work on Calvary’s cross and how he made a substitutionary atonement for sinners. And we see his work within ourselves when we come to him and repent and trust him, he changes us and we recognise the changes that he’s made, and we pray to him. And this is the greatest moment when we see the Son of God and he speaks to us in salvation and we speak to him and repent and go on to praise him.