CAN NOT PERCEIVE on your OWN if you aren’t born again!
John 14
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth (gk. – perceive) him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know (gk.- perceive) him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.