In the show, at the end of the second season you learn that the "virus" that turns people into zombies does not come from being bitten or scratched and it is not ingested or airborne. The virus is in every person already. Now we don't yet know where it came from (perhaps in season 3) but it is present in every person.
That means that even though you are alive right now, you are walking dead.
I read the other day in Philippians 2 this sentence, Jesus, being God, didn't "claim special privileges. He lived a selfless, obedient life and died a selfless, obedient death..."
Jesus was (and is and always will be) equal with God. However, He willingly gave up His POSITION as God refusing the special privileges that came with His deity. Instead of making the rules (like He made the universe and everything in it) He obeyed them. Instead of being outside and beyond death (as everlasting and eternal) He obeyed it's physical requirements and offered Himself willingly to the most horrific death of His time.
In my prayer journal I wrote these lines.
-Jesus died to self way before He died for my-self on the cross.
-Jesus died to sin way before He died for sin.
Jesus was a walking dead.
From at the least the age of 12 He knew exactly what He had been born to accomplish. He knew exactly where He was headed and He followed that path with unwavering commitment to the end. He was born to die.
In you and me is the potential to live like Christ Jesus. To die to sin means we MUST die to self because in the end sinfulness is selfishness.
Jesus, thank you for setting the example for me, an example I too often fall WAY short of, so that I might know what the life of a walking dead looks like. The walking dead are completely alive and vibrant and awake to You and Your power, even though they are dead to themselves and to sin. Help me to live the real life of the walking dead.
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| Walking Dead message series begins October 7th 2012 at the El Dorado Civic Center Sunday's at 10am |
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