Slavery to Sin

Pastor Martin zooms in on Romans 6 as the watershed passage for definitive sanctification. He shows that verse 2 — 'we who are such as have died to sin' — contains the distilled essence of the chapter and answers the devil's logic drawn from the doctrine of justification. He unfolds Paul's extended analogy of sin and righteousness as two slave-masters, illustrates the change of ownership with a parable of a gracious sovereign slaying a rebellious slave to reclaim him, and shows how our union with Christ in his death and resurrection is both the power and pattern of liberation. He closes by insisting there is no such creature as a justified, adopted sinner who has not died to sin.