Ordo Salutis
Our redemption
Was established before time began (2 Thessalonians 2:13-14, 2 Timothy 1:9 )
Initiated at the Incarnation (1 Timothy 1:15)
Secured in the Garden by the obedience of Christ (Hebrews 5:7-9)
Accomplished on the cross
Guaranteed by the resurrection
Applied at the time of our effectual calling, regeneration, and union with Christ
And will ultimately be realized in our glorification in heaven
John Murray Redemption Accomplished and Applied
https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/onsite/natureatone.html
John Owen, The Death of Death in the Death of Christ, “The Proper End of the Death of Christ Asserted”
Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but he died for all God's elect, that they should believe.
Thomas Manton Works, Vol. 1 in Voices From The Past - Puritan Devotional Readings
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The work of conversion is completely of God. God alone frames our hearts to the obedience of his will. This must be so as we consider the nature of man. Man is stark blind in the things of God. How many times does the Word of God work upon him to no purpose! Sin is an overruling master, and man a willing servant (Romans 6:6). Sin never stops commanding and we are at its beck and call.
Man is blind with a hard heart (2 Corinthians 4:4, Ephesians 4:18). He is an enemy to the law of God (Romans 8:7), and cannot please God. He does not even desire a guide. If someone directs him into the right way he becomes angry. He is dead in trespasses and sins (Ephesians 2:5). He is worse than dead, his life is alive to resist and rebel against God.
What a miserable, wretched creature man is! There is nothing in man's nature to carry him to grace. In conversion, God must work or he can never be renewed. To remedy so great an evil requires almighty power. God must open our understanding and our hearts (1 Corinthians 2:14, Ephesians 1:18, Acts 16:14). God does not only knock at the heart by his Word, he also opens the heart and enters to take possession. God uses different keys to unlock the door of our hearts. He uses one cross, another affliction, a sermon, and one message after another. It is not however until God puts his fingers upon the hole of the lock that we open.
Salvation is expressed by regeneration (John 3:3), resurrection (Ephesians 2:5), creation (Ephesians 2:10), and light out of darkness (2 Corinthians 4:6). We are called new creatures (2 Corinthians 5:17), and are overcome by God's power (2 Corinthians 10:4).
What a mystery is grace, and the power of God that works in us! 'He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus' (1 Corinthians 1:30).
C.H. Spurgeon
“Our Lord’s Prayer for His People’s Sanctification”
John 17:17 “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.”
By the election of grace from before the foundation of the world this distinction (separation) commences, and the names are written in heaven. Thereupon follows a redemption peculiar and special. This redemption is followed by effectual calling, wherein men are made to come forth from the old world into the kingdom of Christ. This is attended with regeneration, in which they receive a new life, and so become as much distinguished from their fellow-men as the living are from the dead. This separating work is further carried on in what is commonly known as sanctification, whereby the man of God is removed farther and farther from all fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, and is changed from glory unto glory, into an ever-growing likeness of his Lord, who was “holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners.” (Hebrews 7:26)
Justification is perfect the moment it is received; but sanctification is a matter of growth. He that is justified, is justified once for all by the perfect work of Jesus; but he that is sanctified by Christ Jesus must grow up in all things into him who is the Head.
Regeneration, in which sanctification begins, is wholly the work of the Spirit of God. Our first discovery of wrong, and our first pang of penitence, are the work of divine grace. Every thought of holiness, and every desire after purity, must come from the Lord alone, for we are by nature wedded to iniquity. So also the ultimate conquest of sin in us, and the making us perfectly like to our Lord, must be entirely the work of the Lord God, who makes all things new, since we have no power to carry on so great a work of ourselves. This is a creation; can we create? This is a resurrection; can we raise the dead?
“Alive or Dead – Which” on 1 John 5:12 "He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life."
https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/spurgeon_charles/sermons/0755.cfm
The faith which brings salvation, looks away from everything that is inward to that which was accomplished and completed by our once slain but now ascended Lord; and yet no man has this faith except as it is wrought in him by the quickening Spirit.
Thomas Goodwin Justifying Faith
When you (were converted), God the Father rose up in heaven and said: "Son, yonder is a soul which I have given you from everlasting, which you died upon the cross for; now is the fullness of time for you to have mercy upon him. Go, take him and own him for your own, and now actually possess him."
Horatius Bonar God's Way of Holiness
Faith comes from God. The revelation which we believe, and the power of believing that revelation, are both divine. The Holy Spirit has written the Scriptures, and sent them to us to be believed for salvation; faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. He quickens the dead soul that it may believe; and then after its believing He comes in and dwells. Hence we are said to receive the Spirit by "the hearing of faith" (Galatians 3:2). He opens our hand to receive the gift, and He places the gift in our hand when thus opened by Himself.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones Victorious Christianity
You do not decide to be a Christian; you are made a Christian...by the Spirit of God Himself.
John Bunyan "A Map Shewing The Order and Causes of Salvation and Damnation"