Do you know who God says you are in Christ—and how that changes your relationship to sin? In this sermon, Josh Strelecki, Pastor-Teacher, continues the “Union in Christ” series by examining sanctification from 1 Corinthians 6:9–11, showing that believers were once defined by unrighteousness but are now washed, sanctified, and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of God. Sanctification means being set apart by God: no longer belonging to the old identity in Adam, but now belonging to Christ with a new standing, purpose, and life.

Pastor Josh explains the difference between positional sanctification, which is complete and permanent the moment we believe the gospel, and practical sanctification, in which we learn to possess our bodies in holiness and honor. From Romans 6 and related passages, he emphasizes that believers are dead to sin and alive unto God through union with Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. Because sin is no longer our master, we are called to reckon this truth as real, refuse sin’s reign in our mortal bodies, and walk in newness of life by the Spirit through the renewing of the mind.