The Role of the Holy Spirit
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Holy Spirit bears witness to genuine believers that they are the children of God (Rom. 8:16). Today, Joel Beeke examines five evidences of the Spirit’s witness in the life of a Christian.
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Meet Today’s Teacher:
Joel Beeke is president and professor of systematic theology and homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary and a pastor at Heritage Reformed Congregation in Grand Rapids, MI.
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Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Owen has a beautiful word picture. |
| 0:02.0 | He paints the natural human heart as a thick woods. |
| 0:07.0 | And he says, by nature, it's just all woods. |
| 0:10.0 | But he says, the woods won't be cleared off completely until you die. |
| 0:18.0 | The Holy Spirit is at work in His people. |
| 0:22.6 | He is sanctifying us, progressively. |
| 0:24.6 | And as we grow in holiness, our assurance can increase. |
| 0:28.6 | In fact, the work of the Spirit is key to our assurance. |
| 0:31.6 | As Paul says in Romans 816, the Spirit |
| 0:35.6 | himself bears witness with our Spirit that we are children of God. |
| 0:40.1 | So how does the Spirit witness with our Spirit? |
| 0:43.2 | That's what we'll consider today on renewing your mind. |
| 0:47.4 | Our message today is by our guest teacher, Joel Beakey, and it's from his series |
| 0:52.0 | Assurance of Faith. |
| 0:54.1 | Don't forget that until tomorrow, you can |
| 0:56.0 | own this series when you call us at 800-435-4343 with a donation in support of this daily outreach. |
| 1:04.0 | Well, here's Dr. Beakey with five evidences of the Witness of the Holy Spirit. |
| 1:18.6 | So in this lecture, we want to look particularly at five or six evidences of the witness of the Spirit, the witness of the Spirit, |
| 1:24.6 | with our Spirit in relationship to assurance. So I want to read |
| 1:31.8 | from Romans 8, 12 through 17. I want to walk you through these verses with these five or six |
| 1:38.1 | thoughts. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors not to the flesh to live after the flesh for if we live after the flesh |
| 1:48.7 | ye shall die but if ye through the spirit do mortify the deeds of the body ye shall live for as many |
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