FLESH ZOMBIE WEAPONRY: THE GARLIC CONNECTION

Greetings O Ye Lovers of Garlic. Not only is garlic a delicious addition to meals...and depending on who you are listening to...very healthy for you...it is a retardant for those pesky zombies and vampires. For our purposes...we will be talking about GARLIC as one of our weapons against the FLESH ZOMBIES that rise again...and try to convince us that our old nature rules. Sometimes my flesh reminds me of our friend...Rondo Hatton...star of multiple B-movies...who is also known as THE CREEPER. Everyone tip your hat and say hello to Rondo. His big hit was in the 1946 movie House of Horrors..but he reprised the role in many movies in the 40's. In our last Ramblings...the first weapon that we looked at was LIGHT...when we walk in the light as He is in the light...we have fellowship with one another...and the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin (I John 1:7) In this light...the sin is revealed...we confess the sin (confession=homo-legos=same word)...we say the same word that God says about our sin...we have fellowship...something in common with other believers...and the BLOOD OF JESUS is applied to our sin...and we walk forgiven. A lot of stuff happens...but it starts with LIGHT.
Weapon #2 is GARLIC: Garlic...a bulbous plant of the lily family (Jesus is know as the LILY of the Valley). Garlic is a strong smelling bulb that is made up of small sections called CLOVES, use as seasonings in meats, salads, crafish boils, and warding of vampires and zombies...especially the FLESH kind. Vincent Price in THE LAST MAN ON EARTH... would place garlands/wreaths of garlic on his doors and around his neck. The doorway represents the ENTRANCE way into a house...or the ENTRANCE way into your mind, will, emotion and your very life. The purpose of the GARLIC was to REPEL the ones trying to enter into your DOMAIN. Domain is your place of AUTHORITY.
Garlic...very offensive to some...especially if they have not been partaking...but to some it is a sweet SAVOR. I know that at a crawfish boil...they cook that sweet meat with seasonings...potatos, celery, corn, mushrooms...and clove after clove of GARLIC. This is my lovely wife's favorite part of the meal. Since we both partake...that offensive GARLIC smell now becomes a SWEET SAVOR as we smooch.
The GARLIC in our war with the FLESH...that we hang on our doorways is the doorway to our minds...our wills...our emotions...our lives...to keep out the FLESH ZOMBIES from enter in is defind in II Corinthians 2:14-17. That GARLIC is "the knowledge of Him in every place." Remember...it's not what you know...it's WHO you know...and when you know JESUS... that gives you the advantage in the battle. "But thanks be to God, who always leads us in HIS TRIUMPH, and manifests through us the SWEET AROMA of the [knowledge of Him in every place]. For we are a FRAGRANCE of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing; to one an AROMA OF DEATH, to the other AN AROMA FROM LIFE to LIFE. For we are not like many peddling/corrupting the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, we SPEAK in Christ in the sight of God." (II Corinthians 2:14-17)

NOTE: If you eat enough GARLIC...it will not only manifest itself on your breath as you SPEAK...but it will come out the pores of your skin...and you will be a walking garlic perfume factory...with that fresh and new fragrance...Ode De Le Stinko...or Ode De Le Lifo...depending on your perspective and your nasal sensibilities.

Another place to put GARLIC ( in the movies and folklore)..is in the MOUTH of the vampire/zombie. This supposedly keeps the creature of the night in his place. We need to keep a clove of GARLIC in our MOUTHS...so that our SPEECH will not ALLOW the entrance or the exit of the old creature. Jesus used SPEECH to deal with the devil as he quoted Scripture...and then took authority over the devil and told him to leave...begone...get out...scat. (Matthew 4/Deuteronomy 8)

"Let no (don't allow it) NO unwholesome word proceed from your MOUTH, but only such a word as is good for edification (building up versus tearing down) according to the NEED OF THE MOMENT, that it may give GRACE to those who hear." (Ephesians 4:29)

The attacks come through the mind...drops into our hearts...and then comes out our mouth...that will eventually result in our actions. If we put a GUARD of GARLIC in place on what tries to come in...then we will have control on what comes out...of our lives. When we RESTRAIN...put a RESTRAINING ORDER on the old things trying to come back...we are exercising the EXOUSIA...power...delegated authority that we have. When we combine this with the DUNAMIS...power...dynamic ability that we have...we have a powerful one...two...punch over the sin, the flesh, and the devil. WRITE THIS STATEMENT DOWN AND HANG IT AROUND WHEREVER YOU CAN SEE IT...

UNRESTRAINED THOUGHTS...PRODUCE

UNRESTRAINED WORDS....RESULTING IN

UNRESTRAINED ACTIONS

What we think...produce what we say...resulting in what we do.

NEXT TIME: The weaponry of MIRRORS.

Love and Pungent Kisses
Rodney "Sweet Savor" Boyd