I got saved when I was young. I don’t remember what age I was, maybe 8 or 9, but I do know I was young. My dad was a pastor, so I knew the Gospel from when I was young. How many of you in here were saved before middle school? Awesome! It is such a blessing, such a wonderful gift that we were saved so young. If I didn’t have Jesus, I could be in jail, addicted to drugs or alcohol, dropped out of school, whatever. I have no idea and I’m glad God saved me from that! During my high school years, I noticed very clearly that those who did not go to church talked and acted much differently than I did. They cussed and didn’t feel bad, drugs and alcohol and sex were a good thing. Having an abortion didn’t matter to them, cheating on boyfriends and girlfriends didn’t matter. Disrespecting their parents didn’t matter. Failing class and mistreating classmates and teachers didn’t matter. There was something different about them. During thought I thought about one of the dumbest things that a lot of Christians thought about. I thought I was better than them, and wanted to come up with ways to get them to choose to act like me. I thought I was a better person, better at this and that, I just thought I was better. I thought many of them were stupid and I was smart. As I grew up, I learned why this was stupid. I learned that I am not a good person. I learned that I am no different than them by my own choices. The only reason I am different, the only reason I stood out, the only reason I acted differently than them was because of a guy that came back from the dead. Jesus came back from the dead and changed the whole world. He changed my world. I once was a zombie and then I was awakened. I was brought back from the dead myself.
You see, we all as Christians have a tendency to sometimes think we are better than non Christians, and non Christians think they are the same as Christians. Christians always think non Christians are bad people, and they think they are alright, and sometimes even better than us. Here’s what I think. I think we are all bad people. I think everyone one of us in this room are as filthy. I think the way we typically think about ourselves and others is wrong, and we all need to stop pretending like we’re better than each other and turn to God and realize that standing before God, we are all on the same level. Every sin committed is disobedience to God. We all need to figure out what the difference is between the Christians and non Christians. Why are Christians going to heaven, and non christians going to Hell? How are we different? How did we Christians become awakened zombies? What is the difference between a zombie and a Christian? We all need to know this for various reasons. If we are Christians, we need to know how to treat those who are not Christians. And an even bigger reason that we need to know what the difference is between a zombie and a Christian is because there could be some of you in here that think and say you’re a Christian, but you’re not. So how do we figure this out? We turn to God’s word to learn about Zombies versus Christians.
