What does the indwelling Holy Spirit do inside a believer?
The indwelling Holy Spirit becomes the believer’s guideline for Christian living—not cold rules but His influence and power. He is warm and loving, giving the desire to live pleasing in God’s sight and removing the desire to rebel or be wicked. This is His work, not the believer’s.
Les explains that the indwelling Holy Spirit becomes the believer’s guideline for Christian living—not a set of rules and regulations, but His influence and power. Unlike the Law, which sat in cold stone, was severe, condemned, and did nothing to help a person keep it, the indwelling Spirit is warm and loving. He embraces and cuddles us, and in doing so gives us the desire first and foremost to live pleasing in God’s sight. He takes away the desire to be a rebel, obnoxious, and wicked. This is the work of the indwelling Holy Spirit, not the work of me or you. The Law was powerless, like a mirror that can only show what is wrong and cannot reach out and clean you.