The Walking Dead

January 17, 2017 | By Chuck

Maybe you've heard of the television show "The Walking Dead". I'll admit I've never watched a single minute of an episode but I have heard a lot about the show. I remember at one point that social media blew up with comments about "The Walking Dead". Apparently this show about the dead is very much alive with quite the following. "The Walking Dead", that's an interesting title for a t.v. series. Of course we know the dead can't walk. But, what if I told you the dead can walk and the dead are walking and I'm not referring to heaven. "In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus."(Rom.6:11) Paul is basically explaining that Christians are the walking dead. Paul is writing to those who had been baptized into Christ and are now as a result, dead.(Rom.6:3-4) Yes, it is true that baptism gives new life, (Rom.6:4) but there is also a death that occurs at baptism. At baptism one dies to self and sin. Christians are "dead to sin but alive to God in Christ".(Rom.6:11) Dead to sin means that I can't live for myself and sin anymore. Christians are the true walking dead.