Moment of Salvation

John Piper, on the mysterious co-working of God's sovereignty and human will that brings about our regeneration:

"Our first experience of this is the faith in Jesus that this life brings. There is no separation of time here. When we are born again, we believe. And when we believe, we know we have been born again. When there is fire, there is heat. When there is new birth, there is faith."

"Your act of believing and God's act of begetting are simultaneous. he does the begetting and you do the believing at the same instant. And - this is very important - His doing is the decisive cause of your doing. His begetting is the decisive cause of your believing."

"The instant there is fire, there is heat. The instant there is fire, there is light. But we would not say that the heat caused the fire, or the light caused the fire. We say that the fire caused the heat and the light." ~ John Piper, Finally Alive