When does the Holy Spirit come to indwell a believer?

Les teaches that every believer, the moment he believes, the Spirit comes and indwells. He illustrates this by telling young people that when they go to some ungodly place, they are not going to check God at the door; they take Him wherever they go. This body is the temple of the indwelling Holy Spirit, and He comes the moment we believe. Les connects this to the Scripture, “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” He notes that the third person of the Trinity comes and indwells the believer, which is why God can know every thought, every place, and everything we do, because He is here. Les also compares it to Solomon’s temple: when the temple was complete and dedicated, the presence of God in the Shekinah glory came down into it. That was a foreview of this age of grace, where when God saves an individual, He immediately becomes a temple, a dwelling place, and just as the Shekinah glory came into Solomon’s temple in Jerusalem, the Holy Spirit comes into us.