instance, is that while sin is a continuing reality for the believer, it is not my lord. Because of union with Christ in his death and resurrection, I am no longer sin’s slave. Sin is indwelling, but not overpowering; for the believer, indwelling sin is not enslaving sin. In fact, as we have already seen, sanctification is an aspect and outcome of the reality of the resurrection already experienced by the believer, and the process of its realization has no deeper perspective from which it can be