Sanctification: A Growing Obsession with Jesus
Update: 2025-06-08
Description
Sermon Series: “The Gospel: God’s Power in Our Salvation”
Sermon Text: Romans 6:1-14
Sermon Title: “Sanctification: A Growing Obsession with Jesus”
Sermon Slides:
- SLIDE 1 – Sermon Title Slide=
- SLIDE 2 – Today’s Big Idea: If Justification is Good News … Sanctification is More Good News. And our Sanctification Progresses … as our Obsession with Jesus Grows.
- SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Our Sanctification Begins … By Our Union with Jesus. (vv. 1-10)
- SLIDE 4 – Justification = God’s Legal Verdict of ‘No Condemnation’; His forgiving and declaring us righteous in Christ, because of Christ alone. Justification is God’s verdict and our new status.
- SLIDE 5 – Sanctification = Our Actual Renewal in the Power of Christ’s Crucifixion, Death, and Resurrection by the Holy Spirit. Sanctification is the Spirit’s work and our new habits.
- SLIDE 6 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon
- SLIDE 7 – 1st Principle (from vv. 1-2): “There are two kinds of people in our world – those who are dead to sin by God’s grace, and those still dead in sin who trust in their works.”
- SLIDE 8 – 2nd Principle (from vv. 1-2): “Our Justification is not our license to keep sinning … but our license to become holy.”
- SLIDE 9 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon
- SLIDE 10 – 1 Cor. 12:13 – “For also by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.”
- SLIDE 11 – Insert a Copy of Point #1 of Sermon
- SLIDE 12 – 1st Principle (from vv. 9-10): “Justification overturns sin’s final penalty … but Sanctification overcomes sin’s present power.”
- SLIDE 13 – 2nd Principle (from vv. 9-10): “Justification is the Gospel at work for us. But Sanctification is the Gospel at work in us. We will be changed!”
- SLIDE 14 – Conclusion (Point 1): “The additional Good News of Sanctification is that we’ve received real power over our remaining sin that will produce real holiness in us. We will be changed … because the change is inside us!”
- SLIDE 3 – Point 1: Our Sanctification Begins … By Our Union with Jesus. (vv. 1-10)
- SLIDE 15 – Point 2: Our Sanctification Progresses … As Our Obsession with Jesus Grows. (vv. 11-14)
- SLIDE 16 – Matthew 5:29 – “But if your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.”
- SLIDE 17 – Insert a Copy of Point #2 of Sermon
- SLIDE 18 – Principle (from vv. 11-14): “You may lose a battle (or a string of battles) against sin, but you’ll never lose the war. For God’s grace of justification rules you … not the Law of condemnation.”
- SLIDE 19 – Conclusion (Point 2): “Sanctification is More Good News not only because we are liberated from the power of sin, but because we’re fully empowered to walk, talk, and live like Jesus! We will look like Him!”
- SLIDE 15 – Point 2: Our Sanctification Progresses … As Our Obsession with Jesus Grows. (vv. 11-14)
- SLIDE 20 – Sermon Uses: Three for our Gospel Sanctification.
- SLIDE 21 – You Can’t Be Sanctified if You Haven’t Been Justified … So Have You?
- SLIDE 22 – Our Sanctification in Jesus… is Also by Grace through Faith in Christ.
- SLIDE 23 – 1 Peter 3:15 – “But sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts.”
- SLIDE 24 – Phil. 2:12-13 – “So then, my beloved … work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.”
- SLIDE 25 – Stop Trying to Be Perfect … Instead, Trust Harder in the Perfect Savior.
- SLIDE 20 – Sermon Uses: Three for our Gospel Sanctification.
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