Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life in the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Keith Simon.

Okay, so I have a story for you and as far as I know it's a true story. There was a pastor in Minnesota who traveled out to rural communities where they didn't have enough churches to do funerals.

And the pastor would partner with the funeral home so that he would ride out in the hearse with the

undertaker.

They'd do the funeral and then drive back.

Well, one time they were on the way back from the funeral and the

pastor was exhausted so he decided he would just take a nap. Since they were in a

hearse he thought well I'll just lay down in the back of the hearse. It sounds kind of

like a creepy thing to do but you you know, okay, if you want to do that,

pastor, you can. Well, the undertaker was driving the hearse and he pulled into a service station

to fill up on gas. This was back in the days when there were gas attendance who would come out and fill up your tank for you.

So the service station attendance filling up the tank of the hearse and he's kind of freaked out because there's this dead body stretched out in the back of the car.

Well, the attendant is filling the tank, the pastor woke up, he sat up, he knocked on the window

and waved at the attendant.

He said he never saw anybody run so fast in his whole life.

When people find life where they were expecting only death,

they freak out.

When people saw Lazarus walk out of the tomb

after being dead for four days,

you might say they freaked out.

There were some different responses to Lazarus coming out of that tomb.

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