God’s purpose in blessing has been towards us from all eternity. He chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world; but our apprehension and the application through faith to us of the person of Christ and of His work on the cross have been gradual and in detail. Thus: We are born again, receive eternal life, and become sons of God by faith in the person of Christ (John’s gospel, first epistle, and Galatians). We are at the same time converted, quickened, and sanctified, by the action of the word upon us by the Spirit. Our sins are remitted, and we cleansed and justified, and we sealed with the Holy Spirit, when we have faith in the death of Christ, and His blood-shedding upon the cross. (Romans; 1 John 1; Ephesians; Acts 10) We have to reckon ourselves dead to sin on the ground of Christ having died for us to meet the judgment, and of our having died with Him. (Romans 6)
We get deliverance from ourselves (after experimentally passing through Romans 7) by realizing our inability to help ourselves, and by faith in the death of Christ for us and in His resurrection, on the ground of which we shall get ultimate deliverance at the resurrection of the body, and on the ground of which we get present deliverance, looking at sin in us as judged in the death of Christ, and walking by faith in the liberty in which we are placed in Christ. (Romans 7-8:11)
There are other points not noticed in the above epitome, such as our position in the house of God, and in the body of Christ, also, repentance.
T. B.W