Let The Dead Bury Their Own Dead!

Jesus said to a man, 'Follow Me,'

But the man replied, 'Lord, first let me go and bury my father.'

Jesus said to him, 'Let the dead bury their own dead,

But you go and proclaim the Kingdom of God.' (Luke 9:60)

We learn from this Scripture

That the man Jesus spoke to wanted to wait to follow Jesus

Until his father died.

But Jesus admonished him to get his priorities straight;

That those who do not belong to Jesus are dead spiritually

While the live naturally.

He told the man to let those who are spiritually dead

Bury their own dead.

Jesus was telling the man the overriding importance

Of proclaiming the Kingdom of God.

Their was no hope for the man or his father

In waiting until the father died to follow Jesus.

The only hope for mankind is that they receive the Kingdom of God

And walk in the Light of it.

The Kingdom of God is the only realm that is Eternal.

This brief life we have is gone in a moment.

But God's Kingdom is forever.

Jesus was telling the man to spend his brief life

Proclaiming the Kingdom of God;

In doing that, he would be storing up Treasure in Heaven

And those who received the Kingdom, receive Eternal LIFE.

We are to be fishers of men;

That is why we were given this life; to proclaim The Kingdom of God!

Proclaiming God's Kingdom is a test of our faith.

We do not know who will receive the Kingdom of God.

Jesus told Nicodemus: 'You must be born again,'

The wind blows wherever it pleases.

You hear its sound,

But you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going.

So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.' (John 3:8)

We are to proclaim the reality of the Kingdom of God,

And that it is available to every person.

Everyone who receives it goes from eternal death to Eternal LIFE.

However, God alone gives the increase.

No one came to Jesus unless the Father, by the Spirit drew them.

So, it will be with us.

We also realize that we are to encourage each other daily

To remain in the Kingdom; to walk each day in the Light of Christ Jesus.

In that alone is there hope!

As God has written, so shall it be! Hallelujah! Maranatha!