"It is the Holy Spirit in particular who brings the change about. ‘No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit’ (1 Corinthians 12:3). He is the great writer, the great artist, the cleanser and renewer of hearts. It is the Spirit of the living God who writes, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts to reveal believers as a letter from Christ. The transforming art of changing people into Christ’s likeness with ever-increasing glory so that they reflect his glory comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. He is the one who brings about the new birth itself (2 Corinthians 3:8, 18; Titus 3:5-6)."
