Romans 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

My cousin posted a comment in Facebook today. “If you are dead, you don’t know it.” Yes that is true, but spiritual death is different from physical death. It occurs in two distinct phases.

1 If you are dead in your sins, you do not know it.

2 If you are dead in Christ, you do know it.

Romans 6:4 defines the differing points of view. It all depends upon where the body is buried. If I am dead in my sins, I am buried in the world. The world does not know they are spiritually dead and as such see others who are spiritually dead as normal. “You are one of us.”

Being dead in Christ means that I know I am dead to sin and now walk in newness of life. Yet we walk among the dead in sin as we walk in newness of life. Because we know we are dead in Christ and that this walk in newness of life is the cure for being dead in sin, we want others to see and share this life in Christ.

John 3:11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.

We walk about dead in Christ and are seen and treated as zombies. They run from us in fear that we are going to eat their brains and turn them into zombies. We walk differently than they do. We walk by the Spirit, they do not. They run away, we are patiently persistent in our approach. Our flesh is falling away as we walk in newness of life, they see it as something ugly.

Yes, I am a zombie for Christ.