Thursday | 03 July 2025
The Son, when sent into a believer’s heart, prays to the Father, asking Him to give to them the Holy Spirit. Described by Jesus as ‘another Helper’, the Holy Spirit is sent to them to be with them, and then in them. Joh 14:15-17. This is when a person receives ‘the promise of the Spirit’, whom the heroes of faith saw from afar, but did not receive. It is the fruit of the second dimension of faith that comes by hearing the gospel of God. Gal 3:14.
The distinction of the Holy Spirit being with the believer and in them, is important. He is with a believer when He comes into their heart. They now have the Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwelling with them. The Spirit comes into their heart, convicting them of sin, righteousness and judgement. Joh 16:7-11. Through this conviction, they are being asked, ‘Do you want to be a son of God?’
If a hearer does not resist the conviction of the Holy Spirit, He gives to them the faith to believe for what is totally impossible and unthinkable. They are able to believe that they can be born again of the Father’s divine nature as His son. This is the third dimension of faith. Revising the steps of faith through which a person arrives at this understanding, we note that the first dimension of faith and grace makes them alive again from the death of sin. The second dimension of faith is when the hearer receives the Holy Spirit. His work is to convince them that what God has promised, He will give to them. The Spirit then convicts them to choose to become sons of God – first, by adoption, and then as sons of God who are born again of the seed of the divine nature that comes from God through Christ. This is the fruit of the third dimension of faith.
Further Study:
Galatians 3
References:
Joh 14:15-17
If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.
Gal 3:14
That the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Joh 16:7-11
Nevertheless, I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgement: of sin, because they do not believe in Me; of righteousness, because I go to My Father and you see Me no more; of judgement, because the ruler of this world is judged.