Zombie Sins (Title link to sermon)
Romans 6:2 (KJV) God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
That scripture simply states that once the sin is dead its dead! Amen?
The Incas worshiped the sun, which they called “Inti.” The king was considered to be the son of the sun and was called Sapa Inca, or “Child of the Sun.” As a god, the king lived in a spacious palace and was cared for by a staff of servants. Just like the Egyptian Pharaoh, the Inca Kings were living children of the sun god dwelling among the people.
Because they were living deities, these kings were already presumed to exist in a sort of supernatural state all the time. More to the point, when they died they did not really ‘die,’ but rather they simply changed form. They still lived among human beings and gods, just as they always did, but now their body couldn’t move. They were thought to be fully aware of their surroundings and ‘live’ among the people, but they did so in a different form.
The World has given a name to this. They call them Zombies. Zombies are people who were once dead but have risen to a state where they are not dead, but not alive. The zombies are said to walk the earth seeking out the living to destroy them. The pop culture has even come up with complicated rules about the zombies and how they can be killed.
In fact, this idea of a coming zombie apocalypse is so prevalent that you can go to the sporting goods store and buy shooting targets with pictures of zombies on them.
One bullet manufacturer even sells special zombie ammunition.
Just like these ancient ones, we have a tendency to resurrect the dead (sins in our lives) and worship them again.
Our sins are like the zombies that the world talks about.
Except instead of our sins rising from the dead on their own, we go out and intentionally pick back up those sins.
Like a zombies, you live in fear of those old dead sins coming back to life and chasing you down.
You were delivered from sins, but you keep resurrecting the dead sins!
Sins from which God has delivered us, but we (not God, not the Devil) keep bring back up.
Kill that sin today!
Bury that sin at the altar today and leave it there at Jesus feet.
What is dead is dead!
Praise the King for his Grace and Mercy
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