Old Robert Flockhart, the old Edinburgh street-preacher, never failed to use a situation for applying some telling truth of the Word of God.
For some time he had visited a young man in prison who was awaiting the death sentence to be carried out on him. Although the young man never came to a point of professing Christ as his saviour, his heart was greatly warmed to the old saint who had spoken so tenderly to him, and he declared that he had made out the "will" of all his possessions in favour of Flockhart.
On the morning of the hanging, Robert Flockhart was in attendance with a friend. Just before the sentence was to be carried out, the young man gained a last-minute reprieve. Flockhart was overjoyed, but turning to his friend, he said, "isn't it a good thing that the One who placed us in His will really died; for," he said, referring to Hebrews, "unless there is the death of the testator, the will is of non-effect.
Flockhart thought for a minute, and then he turned to his friend again; "However," he said, "my wife once was left an estate, and the testator in that case really did die; but by the time the whole thing had been pulled this way and that way, she never so much as got a penny from it. Isn't it a good thing," he said, "that our Testator not only really died, but ever lives to be the Executor of His will for us?"
Hebrews - Chapter 9
(Verse 15) And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
(Verse 16) For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
(Verse 17) For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.