Do you understand the metaphor of the zombie?

When you're watching popular shows like The Walking Dead, do you truly understand what's being programmed into your mind?

It's not just an innocent show. I stumbled across the Walking Dead by accident during the second season. I happened to be over a relative's house, and I walked into a room where the television set was on. I hadn't even heard of such a thing as a walking dead. On the tv, I could see a group of people running from what looked like zombies chasing them. Then they started killing the zombies... which is kind of an oxymoron because technically speaking: a zombie is supposed to be dead already.

It wasn't that it was a zombie show: it was the blatant brutality that was being shown in the way the zombies were being killed. Nothing seemed to be off limits. I saw heads getting smashed in, people's faces getting ripped off, blood and limbs splattered all over the place.

I thought it was an HBO movie! Imagine my shock when I discovered this was on a run of the mill cable TV station... on a Sunday!

I'm not here to advocate for watching or not watching the Walking Dead as a show. You have enough sense to make that determination for yourselves. What I want to deal with here is the subtle programming and desensitization that's taking place while watching it.

The purpose of the Walking Dead and other gory shows like it is to awaken your carnal desires and to program you towards unbridled lust. The great metaphor is that YOU are the zombie!

And it's your unbridled thirst, your insatiable appetite for appeasing your own flesh that has you on a constant brainless search for more flesh to feast on.

You are the walking dead! And so is everyone else who finds it entertaining to watch human beings getting their faces smashed in and limbs ripped from their bodies. When physical brutality becomes your entertainment, it's only a matter of time before you begin to hunger for more forms of brutality.

From what I understand about the show from talking with some of its fans: it didn't start off being so gory. The first season or two was more about the story line. But fans kept requesting more gore and greater kill scenes. So the show's writers and producers gave the masses what they wanted. They upped the ante on blood and brains, interspersed with sex scenes.

More fear. More blood. More gore. More sex. See how subtle yet blatant that is? While you're waiting in rapt attention for the next zombie attack to take place, you're suddenly given a sensual scene that arouses your sexual appetite: followed shortly by another head splitting, face smashing, bloody brain-spilling battle with living flesh eaters. The show forces you to remain at a heightened state of fear juxtaposed with heightened states of sexual arousal.

I honestly don't see how 'saved' folks can enjoy watching such a demonic show. It's only purpose is to activate the zombie inside of you: which is just another way of saying that it is designed to activate your flesh.

And if you're a born-again believer, your first duty once you gave your life to Christ was to start the process of crucifying your flesh.

"Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires." *Galatians 5:24

You're supposed to kill the natural man through discipline and by living a holy lifestyle: not revive it through watching zombie shows. I told you some of you are really the zombies. You keep allowing the pleasures of sin to revive your old sinful nature.

There's no way you can watch shows like the Walking Dead as a believer without wanting to please your flesh more. And the same applies to watching shows like Empire and the Game of Thrones.

Watching such programming will only help resurrect the sinful nature in you that Christ has commissioned you to destroy:

"For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin." *Romans 6:6

Failure to bring your flesh under complete subjection leaves the backdoor of your life open through which Satan can access your life any time he wants to. Close that back door today!

Guard your eye gate! Don't allow any and everything to enter your mind via your eyes. Television is one of Satan's greatest most effective weapons against the Church. Be smart, be aware and be vigilant.

"Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour." *1 Peter 5:8

Treat watching television and movies like it's a potential serial killer that's trying to break into your home: your home being your mind!

Guard what you watch, and don't think you're strong enough to entertain sin without eventually falling victim to it. I've met plenty of crackheads over the years who thought they were strong enough to enjoy getting high on crack without getting addicted. Most of them are still drug addicts to this day.

And if you play around with watching powerful scenes of sin long enough, eventually you will be overthrown by it too; just like the crackhead. We'll just call you a Walking Dead-head.

"Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a helpless people." *Proverbs 28:15

Quit trying to revive what God is trying to kill! "Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." *Galatians: 5:1

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Some of you have already heard from the Holy Spirit on this matter, and you've been consistently ignoring His voice. This is your reminder. Now it's time to pay attention.

Don't allow a simple TV show to become a snare to you. Salvation is serious business. It's not something to take lightly.

We are in a literal WAR for our spiritual survival and well-being. When you're a soldier on the battlefield, you can't afford the luxury of letting your guard down. The minute you do could be the moment your life gets taken. You have to be equally vigilant as a soldier of Jesus Christ:

"Whoever serves in the military doesn't get mixed up in non-military activities. This pleases his commanding officer." *2 Timothy 2:4 (God's Word Translation)

You're in a war: and Jesus Christ is your Commanding Officer! Satan and the hordes of Hell are your sworn avowed enemies.

But you are well equipped to not only come on top by winning every battle: you're already guaranteed to win the war! But it all hinges on you rising to the occasion and putting sinful pleasures behind you.