Chapter 7 RESULTS AND RELEVANCE FOR TODAY Old Covenant Believers: Regenerate, Not Indwelt As I embarked upon this study I planned to argue that Old Testament saints were indwelt, but the evidence to the contrary forced me to abandon that position. Those who hold that old covenant believers were indwelt have not given satisfactory explanations of the salvation-historical aspects of John’s Gospel, particularly John 7:39 and 16:7. The major objection to the assertion that old covenant believers were