Dead to Sin, Alive to God

Dead to Sin, Alive to God
ROMANS 6.6-11

From time to time I hear of someone who has suffered a bad accident, or a particular kind of illness, and can no longer remember who they are.

It must be deeply disturbing – both for the person concerned and for those trying to help. We are so used to people knowing their own name, where they live, what job they do, who their family are, and so on, that the thought of talking to someone who genuinely can’t remember any of these things is alarming. Taking it back a stage further, there are those even more rare occasions, verging off into legend, when a child who has been lost as a baby is found some years later, having been brought up by animals, without any idea even of what a human is, let alone that they themselves are human...