God the Holy Spirit helps the church to hold fast to the promises of God’s Word—to believe that judgment is coming and that God will rescue them. Knowing what God has done in Christ to save his children from judgment, the Spirit also works in their hearts to encourage obedience. He prevents them from indulging the desires of their sinful nature, helping them to fight against it and pursue godliness instead.
4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;