The law will not create that desire for holiness.

Only the Gospel of Christ has the ability to affect that sort of deep transformation.

It is the gospel that changes our hearts so that we want to walk in Christ-likeness.

As Jesus said, it is those who love him who keep his word. We all want to grow as Christians.

Our remaining sin lays us down, doesn't it? But how do we grow in holiness? How does God

through his spirit conform us more and more into the image of his son? That's what

Michael Reeves will help us think through today on renewing your mind.

What you'll hear today is a message from Ligonier's recent Winter Conference.

We've already heard about the role of doctrine in the Christian life.

We've considered God as our Father, Jesus, as our mediator,

and today the Spirit as our Sanctifier.

If you'd like to watch all of the sessions from this conference,

they are available in the free Ligonier app or on Ligonier's YouTube channel.

So how do people experience the kind of deep transformation that Michael Reeves mentioned earlier?

Here's Dr Reeves as he looks to scripture and the Westminster Confession of Faith to answer. We believe. Well Christian creeds being Christian are shaped by the nature of the Christian God.

And therefore they are always elegantly Trinitarian in shape,

as we must be in our thinking.

And so last night we considered God the father.

Early this morning we were looking at his son, the mediator,

and now we come to the Holy Spirit, the one who remakes us in the

image and likeness of God. Now the first thing that the Nicene Creed says about

the spirit is that we say I believe in the spirit the Lord the giver of life.

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