It was a strange question to ask at a dinner party. A senator turned to the guest seated next to him and said, “Suppose you are driving in the country tomorrow afternoon and run over a man. You stop to see how badly he is hurt, and a country doctor runs up and bends over the prostrate but conscious man. He exclaims, ‘Dying! Will be dead in five minutes.’ The man cries out, ‘Am I dying? What must I do to be saved?’ The question is: What would you tell him?”
Everyone waited for her reply. “I would tell him to pray,” was her answer.
“But the man never prayed in his life, and only four minutes to live!”
Turning to a man, the senator asked, “What would you tell him?”
“I would tell him to see a minister.”
“But there is no minister within three miles, and the man has but three minutes to live.”
To another he asked the same question, and their response was, “I would tell him to do the best he could under the circumstances.”
What would you have answered?
Would you have answered as the Apostle Paul answered the Philippian jailer when he asked, What must I do to be saved? . . . Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. That is the one right answer!
If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
Even that dying man could have done that much.
Just as I am—poor, wretched, blind,
Sight, riches, healing of the mind,
Yea, all I need in Thee to find:
O Lamb of God, I come!
Just as I am—and waiting not
To rid my soul of one dark blot,
To Thee, whose blood can cleanse each spot:
O Lamb of God, I come!