The Walking Dead - Romans 8:11

"The Spirit of God, who raised Jesus from the dead, lives in you. And just as God raised Christ Jesus from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you." In this verse, the Apostle Paul describes Christians as being like the walking dead. We live in mortal bodies and death begins its work in us from the day we are born. But when we experience supernatural birth, the Spirit of God gives immortal life to our mortal bodies. When the Spirit of God is alive in us, then the Holy Spirit will resurrect our physical bodies to eternal life just as Jesus was raised from the dead. The work of the Holy Spirit is to bring eternal life into this present age—to bring God’s future Kingdom into our present reality. The presence and life of God lives in and through us by the Holy Spirit in this present world in anticipation of what will be our future. When God’s Holy Spirit lives in us, we begin to participate in eternal life. The Holy Spirit enables us to live according to God’s will in our present life and in preparation for our eternal life: "We have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory" (vs. 23).