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ELVIS PRESLEY THE EARTHY KING

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Jackie Lee:
I love the song You gave me a mountain by Elvis.

Jackie Lee:
You gave me a mountain

Born in the heat of the desert
My mother died giving me life
Deprived of the love of a father
Blamed for the loss of his wife
You know Lord I've been in a prison
For something that I never done
It's been one hill after another
I've climbed them all one by one

But this time, Lord you gave me a mountain
A mountain you know I may never climb
It isn't just a hill any longer
You gave me a mountain this time

My woman got tired of heartaches
Tired of the grief and the strife
So tired of working for nothing
Just tired of being my wife
She took my one ray of sunshine
She took my pride and my joy
She took my reason for living
She took my small baby boy

But this time, Lord you gave me a mountain
A mountain you know I may never climb
It isn't just a hill any longer
You gave me a mountain this time

Deborah-Leigh:
Jackie Lee


Thank you for that post. I had never heard of that song! The lyrics for me describe the Sovereignty of God in the life of Elvis. It also shows that Elvis knew his mountain was from God. Perhaps he even  knew in his heart that his cross was from God sharing what Christ suffered although I doubt that he made that connection in his mortality and most distracting earthly life. Jesus was applauded and pressed to overthrow Rome to take his place as King. He did not do that.

Elvis was applauded and pressed to overtake the worlds approval and he did. When he asked his band why the crowd was screaming, they pointed out that it was because he was wiggling his legs. From that day on, that was to become the Elvis hallmark of performance. Elvis aimed to please. Jesus aimed to obey.

Elvis, had his life written for him and he followed the way of approval and died in the process.

Jesus knew He had to die. Elvis, I believe, did not. Once resurrected and looking back in hindsight, perhaps Elvis will see that his pain was like that of our True King and Lord Jesus Christ. He suffered loss of love and life and the world turned on Christ. Elvis too suffered loss of love and life and perhaps in his last years the pain of rejection and ridicule over his obesity was one way our Lord showed Elvis the fickle unmerciful lust of the world is given only to lust of the eyes, flesh and pride of life which was the path through which Elvis career became so successful. When shown this, perhaps then, Elvis will gladly, triumphantly and heartfully thankfully lay down his crown before our King Lord Jesus in songs of praise! I believe the Lord has saved the best song of Elvis Presley for last!

I wonder what Elvis would say if he read this thread? I wonder if he would agree if he were now raised to judgment? God is Love and every tear will be wiped away. I think Elvis is going to like that part and I believe the greatest teaching for Elvis will come to him in judgment. After all. What did Elvis know about the Myth of Free Will?

Peace to you

Arcturus :)

LittleBear:
Thank you all for this thread.

Jackie Lee, those lyrics bring tears to my eyes. They convey a longing for God in the midst of great sorrow.

I really didn't know all those things about Elvis.

Janice, you said,
As the timeline of his life went on, you could see him getting more and more poplular, bigger concert venues, a lot busier time-wise, flashier clothes, and playing less gospel music....

I feel remorse for this man. It seems he over time lost sight of Him who could bring true comfort to his soul. He must have leaned on drugs more and more in order to fill the void that can never be filled other than with God.

Arcturus, you said,

God is Love and every tear will be wiped away.

I am so thankful for that! Our God is a God of hope and restoration.

Ursula
 

Deborah-Leigh:
Elvis will never experience anything but being alive even though he is now dead.

http://bible-truths.com/death.htm

"The living KNOW that they shall die, but the dead KNOW NOT ANYTHING."

Let’s think about that for a few moments and see if this is not quite encouraging.

"The living KNOW… the dead know NOTHING." The dead don’t know that they are dead. When you die, you will NOT KNOW THAT YOU ARE DEAD! But it gets better. Not only will you never know that you are dead at some point in the future, but from your perspective YOU NEVER EVEN LOST CONSCIOUSNESS. This to me was a marvelous revelation.

Once God creates consciousness in a human they will NEVER EVER know anything BUT CONSCIOUSNESS. From my perspective and from your perspective we will never "know" ANYTHING but life and feelings and emotions and consciousness. From our perspective we will never "know" what it is like to be dead. Oh we will probably die some day (assuming that the Lord doesn't come first), but we will never know that we were dead; we will never know what it is to BE dead, or to BE unconscious. Others will know and sorrow (maybe?) that we are dead and gone, but from OUR perspective we will never lose conscious reality, and we will never "experience" being dead.

When Elvis who died in his sins, is restored to life,  will he blink into a different life from the one he left behind, destitute, anguished, hurting, alone and in painful blindness and desperation....What drove him?

I do not envy him the lessons he will suffer to know the chastisements of God over the abusive flamboyant worldly ways he followed to his ultimate death. Where will the applause of the world be then as he is brought before the Throne of Christ to account for his life? I believe Elvis will cry to have revealed what his motives were and what drove him to acquire his success. Ambition, adulation, applause, approval, success, pride of life....a weak spiritual constitution...free will no....weakness yes that will be revealed and then trained into strength through the righteousness of Christ.

Yes it is easy to criticise but should it not bring us to ask ourselves what is our motive for living? Before God, what is it?

This thread has challenged me to ask myself what is my motive for living? What is it REALLY. It is a most probing question.

Peace to you

Arcturus :)

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