March 10, 2026, the 69th day of 2026
Zombie Sin Nature
I starting writing about this a while back, but it didn't fit the post I was working on. That post had already gotten too long. So, I set thi... View MoreMarch 10, 2026, the 69th day of 2026
Zombie Sin Nature
I starting writing about this a while back, but it didn't fit the post I was working on. That post had already gotten too long. So, I set this aside for the time.
Since this is the time of the year where we start to think more about the death of Christ and what it means to u--who have become new creations in Christ, through repentance and surrendering our lives to Jesus as our Lord and Master, our King--I figured I would finish it.
During the process of salvation when God makes a new creation of us, our old man, our sin nature was crucified and should not longer be ruling over us.
But though it is dead, it can rear up its ugly head if we dwell on darkness, let bad moods control us, or in any way turn back to the ways of the flesh. Because of that I started calling it the Zombie Sin Nature, or the Zombie Nature.
We are to put to death the sin nature in us, and yet while we live in this flesh, we must battle against it.
For most of the unsaved, sin nature is their guiding force. It is not dead in them. It is alive and well. It will lead them down the part of destruction, but they won't seem that different from the rest of the crowd headed down the same path. They will not reek of death.
But it is different for a Christian. For us, sin nature is a corpse. If it stays nailed to the cross, it will not corrupt us. But if we free it to reign again in us, it reigns as the living dead, a zombie nature.
That is why a sinning Christian is so much worse than the unsaved going about their life. The carnal Christian will spiritually reek of death and decay, which should not be a part of any Christian's life.
The zombie sin nature thrives in darkness and on darkness. It hates the light. So it will cause those led by such a nature to avoid the light, to avoid Christians, or to bad mouth them or try to corrupt them.
"And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another."
Galatians 5:24-26
Though it may not feed on brains, like fictitious zombies do, it feeds on the lower and meaner thoughts and tendencies in us.
Putting to death, nailing it to the cross, is not an act that we do just once--in repentance--but any time that evil zombie nature rises its ugly head. Pound those nails in deeper and draw closer to Jesus instead!
"Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them. But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him Who created him, where there is neither Gentile nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.
Colossians 3:5-11
Here is another pretty good list od some of the things that the Zombie Sin Nature thrives on, the works of the flesh.
"Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God."
Galatians 5:19-21
If we hold the old man close to our heart, refusing to walk the way of righteousness, that sin nature will corrupt us.
It is like holding the decaying, putrid, body of the walking dead zombie, next to our heart, breathing in its stench and having it permeate our very essence. Only a fool would think they could remain untouched by that rot!
"This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But you have not so learned Christ, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness."
Ephesians 4:17-24
The Zombie sin nature will become stronger when we feed it those things by dwelling on such things, or worst of all, by giving into, and doing those things.
Christians are redeemed sinners. We still need to battle against sin nature. The difference in any of us who are victorious is that we don't give into sin nature, we battle it. We are vigilant and watchful for any signs of corruption in us. And when we find it trying to rise in us, we pound those nails tighter into its ugly corpse.
There is a difference between being human, with human limitations, and giving into sin nature--the nature corrupted in the fall.
We need to take care of ourselves, of our bodies and our health, but we do not let our vile, old man, our zombie sin nature, have sway in our lives.
We cannot be soft on our own sin nature or give it any leeway in our life. We need to see it for what it is and have no mercy with it!
If we have been saved, having repented and surrendered our lives fully to Jesus Christ, as our Lord and Master, our Saviour, we are a new creation.
But we carry with us the remanents of the old man, the sinful, selfish, obnoxious man. We are to pound those nails back down when it tries to free itself. And to put it back to death as many times as it takes until Jesus returns or calls us home!
Stay strong! Be led by the Spirit, not your Zombie Sin Nature!
NAN
