The Walking Dead - It's Time to Come Alive!

(Scriptures are taken from the New King James Version)

     There is a popular series on AMC that tells the story of a small group of survivors living in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse. The show is called “The Walking Dead.”  Now here is a quick primer on zombies.  Zombies are animated corpses.  These creatures eat survivors.  They also infect “normal” humans with disease.  One bite or scratch from a zombie will prove fatal.  Also these creatures are difficult to “kill.”  Only a fatal blow to the brain will stop these things… dead!

     Why am I talking about a fantasy show dealing with zombies?  It is because sadly today, we live in a world of the walking dead!  These walking dead are individuals who either do not know God or who do not know the full Kingdom message and are walking in darkness and despair.  Appropriately, the title of my sermon is “The Walking Dead - It’s Time to Come Alive!”

Boldly Go Where You Have Never Been Before

How many of you have seen the Star Trek TV series?  When Mike and I began dating, I learned that he was a Star Trek fan so we watched the TV series quite often after the evening news.  I can still see our older son, John, when he was 1 1/2 -2 years old, standing in front of the TV as the series came on.  He was mesmerized by the picture of the Enterprise ship coming into view and the following opening words:

“Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Her five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.”

When I was on the way to work one morning, God gave me those last words, and all I heard was "Boldly Go Where You Have Never Been Before".  Not the exact words from Star Trek, which said boldly go where no man has gone before.  Instead God said " Boldly Go Where You Have Never Been Before".  This was a break-through for me.  It was what I had been waiting for in order to know more exactly what God is trying to teach me through this message, and so this is the title of my message today - Boldly Go Where You Have Never Been Before