From this understanding we can glean what the primary job of Holy Spirit is. His main purpose is to bring us into Sonship. When we receive Christ, we receive a seed of Sonship. The job of Holy Spirit, at least His main role, is to water that seed until it grows into maturity. Maturity is God’s view of perfection. Through Holy Spirit, Christ actually becomes one with our spirit in the same sense that a man and woman become one. We can actually say that the oneness that occurs because of the Spirit of God is much deeper than that which occurs in the flesh between a husband and a wife.
1 Corinthians 6:16-17 NASB
[16] Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “The TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.” [17] But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
Holy Spirit is watering the seed of otherness (holiness) so that we take on the nature of Christ.
1 John 3:9 AMPC
[9] No one born (begotten) of God [deliberately, knowingly, and habitually] practices sin, for God’s nature abides in him [His principle of life, the divine sperm, remains permanently within him]; and he cannot practice sinning because he is born (begotten) of God.
The DNA of God resides in us, and Holy Spirit waters that seed. This is the primary role of Holy Spirit in our lives. Here is where God started showing me this concept.
John 16:7,12-14 NKJV
[7] 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. [12] “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. [13] However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. [14] He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare to you.
I have removed the two words that were added, but are not in the original Greek so you can more easily see what God has been saying to me. Papa has been telling me that Holy Spirit takes the image of Jesus and declares it into existence into our very nature. He does this only as we yield to His ministry as we develop relationship with God. The fastest way to allow the ministry of Holy Spirit to do its work, is to develop your spiritual ears so you can hear Him better, and allow Holy Spirit to release the heart of God to you. As Holy Spirit declare the Christ nature into us, we should learn to yield deeper and deeper to abiding. Abiding is often just a practical life of interacting with God daily. Abiding in love is a just daily letting God express His love to us.
In the above scripture, Jesus says that there are things He desires to say, but some of them we can’t handle yet. Holy Spirit declares the nature of Jesus into us as we are capable of handling it and as we yield to His ministry. The reason that I’m using the “watering seed” metaphor is because maturity never happens overnight. By listening to the Spirit, we are learning to think like Jesus. You can’t just be zapped by God and then start thinking like Jesus all of a sudden. Paul says we are to be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Another way of saying it could be that you will be transformed as the Holy Spirit causes your mind to be made new. It isn’t transformed and then you have a new mind. It’s your mind that is made new and then you are transformed. Transformation will not occur without surrender. Notice the verse that precedes.
Romans 12:1-2 NKJV
[1] I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. [2] And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Colossians 3:9-10 NLT
[9] Don’t lie to each other, for you have stripped off your old sinful nature and all its wicked deeds. [10] Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him.
Ephesians 4:23-24 TPT
[23] Now it’s time to be made new by every revelation that’s been given to you. [24] And to be transformed as you embrace the glorious Christ-within as your new life and live in union with him! For God has re-created you all over again in his perfect righteousness, and you now belong to him in the realm of true holiness.
This is the pathway to transformation.