Romans 6:3

No one enters into the experience of entire sanctification without going through a “white funeral,” (i.e., the burial of the old life. If there has never been this crisis of death, sanctification is nothing more than a vision). There must be a “white funeral,” the death that has only one resurrection—a resurrection into the life of Jesus. Nothing can upset this life; it is one with God, for one purpose, to be a witness to Him.

Have I come to my last days really? I have come to them in sentiment, but have I come to them really ? You cannot go to your funeral in excitement nor die in excitement. Death means stopping being. Do I agree with God that I stop being the striving earnest kind of Christian I have been? We skirt the cemetery and all the time refuse to go to death. It is not striving to go to death, it is dying—“baptized into his death” (v . 3).