If a person truly wants forgiveness, God's spirit is at work in him/her.
“If a person truly wants forgiveness, God’s spirit is at work in him/her.”
Holy Spirit can’t speak of His own authority, only thru. Christ.
John 16:12-15
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 authority, 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 it to you. 15 All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.[c]
Hebrews 1:1 God talks to us thru His son, not the Spirit.
Hebrew 1:1-2
1 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds;
You and I are saved by words:
Acts 11:14
who will tell you words by which you and all your household will be saved
Rom 1:16 Words the gospel God’s word. That what saves us.
Romans 1:16
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ,[a] for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.