We also should be conscious of exactly the same experience as we review our lives.  We should observe the workings of the Holy Spirit in ourselves too, as we listen to his voice speaking to us through our conscience, as we see the gradual conquest of temptations in spite of many falls, as we compare the power of our most besetting sin now with what it was two or twenty years ago or more.  But it is when we compare what we have been and still are, with that perfect holiness of character which life with the all-holy God demands from all without exception, it is then that we are aware of our imperative need for God to transform our souls from within if we are ever to share his life.

So though we have been restored to the Father by God the Son, it is as repentant sinners that we have been restored and we still need God the Holy Spirit within our souls to complete the work by changing us into Saints.