How does the Holy Spirit work holiness in our lives?

Joel Beeke explains in this video that Jesus compared the Holy Spirit's power in effectually calling a sinner to the wind. The Holy Spirit takes the Word, "blows down" your self-righteousness, and you are born again. The Spirit thus begins that great saving work. Then, the Holy Spirit continues this work through the process of sanctification. The Holy Spirit works holiness in us in three ways.

First, the Holy Spirit helps to shape a believer so that they are increasingly in the image of Christ.

The Holy Spirit also helps to conform us to the character of God in regards to His communicable attributes.

Finally, the Holy Spirit works holiness in us by putting His own mind in us which is found in the Word of God. He inspired Scripture and He conforms us to it.

Galatians 5:22-23 (NKJV) – “[T]he fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.”

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.