How does the Holy Spirit impact the life of a believer?

Joel Beeke explains in this video that the Holy Spirit begins a saving work in your life. The natural man is full of sin. But, the work of the Holy Spirit helps to make us increasingly more Christ-like. Last, the Holy Spirit also helps us to love the Word of God more and the ways of God.

John 14:26 (NKJV) - "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you."

The Holy Spirit's power in effectually calling a sinner is compared by Jesus to the wind. It says you don't know where it's coming from, you don't know where it's going, but the Holy Spirit takes the word and it's like the wind blowing down a house, blowing down your self-righteousness and you're born again and you've got new desires, the things you hated before, you come to love, the things you loved before, you come to hate, namely sin. And so the Spirit begins that great saving work, Sometimes like a wind that's more gradual, sometimes like a mighty rushing wind, very powerfully, all of a sudden. He's sovereign in his dealings, but when he affectionately calls a person, that person is never the same again. And then the Spirit continues that work, bringing that sinner to a fuller repentance and fuller belief in Christ so he's justified and justified in the courtroom of God and then continues on shaping, molding, chipping away at the sanctifying process.

Like Paul says in 1 Corinthians 2, the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God, but the spiritual man does. So the Spirit works in that man whom he makes spiritual, and he continues that work through a process that we call holiness. When he works holiness, he's really doing three things. He's first of all shaping us so that we are conformed to the image of Christ. The mind that is in Christ becomes more the mind in us the mind that Pulses and Philippians to let his mind be in you.

He was emptied. He made himself of no reputation Though he was equal with God and so we are to be like that even to take up the cross and to follow him. That's the Holy Spirit's work, working holiness in us. But the work of the Holy Spirit is also, secondly, to make us more like the character of God in his communicable attributes, goodness, mercy, truth. And so, Stephen Charnock, the Puritan, said, God's goal with us is not to have some mystical, far-out experience, but his goal is to make us more like the Father, so that in our relationships as father to our children or husband or work associate, we display the goodness, the truth and the mercy of God.

And then thirdly, in his power, the Holy Spirit works holiness in us, not only by putting the mind of Christ in us and conforming us to the communicable attributes of God But he also puts his own mind in us, which is deposited in the Word of God Because the Word of God is really the book of the Holy Spirit. He inspired it And so he conforms us to the word, so we learn to love the word, we want to live out of the word, and we want to think God's thoughts after him in the word. So holiness really has a Trinitarian framework in which the Holy Spirit makes us more like God in all three persons, and then we learn to live in more of a holy way.