Dr. Wilson was going to a funeral. He had permission to ride to the cemetery with the undertaker. As they went along, he said to the driver, a young man of thirty years, “What do you suppose the Bible means by saying, ‘Let the dead bury their dead'?”
The young man replied, “There isn’t a verse like that in the Bible.”
The doctor assured him that there was. Then the young man said, “It must be a wrong translation. How could a dead person bury a dead person?”
The doctor then explained the verse, pointing it out to him in these words: “If you were a dead undertaker in front of the hearse, driving it out to bury the dead friend at the back of the hearse, that person is dead to her family, and you are dead to God.” And he quoted him John 10:1010The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. (John 10:10): “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly;” also, 1 John 5:1212He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. (1 John 5:12): “He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.”
The conversation resulted in the conversion of the young undertaker as he received eternal life through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
ML-08/28/1977