><>..Hi my old buddy ...><>
Ah yes, Mr Charles Spurgeon...always inspiring!
James you wrote:
I was commenting about Elvis state of his soul when he overdosed and passed
away. His lifestyle did not give much hope that he was a born again Christian. So, I
was just commenting that he had no tickets to board that trip to Zion.
How would you or anyone else know the state of his.....or anyone elses soul....especially at the time just prior to his passing on?
As a matter of fact James.....Christ was his Saviour. Did you also know that at one of his concerts somebody up front in the audience yelled to him ...."hey Elvis you are the King".....Elvis took his guitar from around his shoulder, held it at his side,walked straight up to the guy, looked the guy in his eyes, and said..." No I am not Mr., Jesus Christ is the King, and don't you ever forget it".!!!
His drug addiction was indeed a tragedy ....but through it all he never stopped loving and worshipping God. Christ was his Lord and Saviour for sure, and....his death bed became his prayer closet...But certainly not his first and only!!!
Like all homan beings Elvis had many sides to him, most people only saw what the media portrayed, and that was but a morsel of the man!
Indeed, Elvis was made up of so much more, much more. But know this for sure James......Christ was his Lord and Saviour.!! And right now he is probably doing one of his sacred praise songs...for God...his KING!!!... in the midst of God's heaven as we speak...!!!
The way you talked about him not having a ticket to heaven..... If I didn't know any better...I would have thought you were the gate keeper and the ticket taker!!
Have a most blessed day James....You and your family
Shalom...><>
Now a little Spurgeon
“In my flesh shall I see God.”
— Job 19:26
Mark the subject of Job's devout anticipation “I shall see God.” He does not say, “I shall see the saints”—though doubtless that will be untold felicity—but, “I shall see God.” It is not—“I shall see the pearly gates, I shall behold the walls of jasper, I shall gaze upon the crowns of gold,” but “I shall see God.” This is the sum and substance of heaven, this is the joyful hope of all believers.
It is their delight to see him now in the ordinances by faith. They love to behold him in communion and in prayer; but there in heaven they shall have an open and unclouded vision, and thus seeing “him as he is,” shall be made completely like him. Likeness to God—what can we wish for more? And a sight of God—what can we desire better? Some read the passage, “Yet, I shall see God in my flesh,” and find here an allusion to Christ, as the “Word made flesh,” and that glorious beholding of him which shall be the splendour of the latter days.
Whether so or not it is certain that Christ shall be the object of our eternal vision; nor shall we ever want any joy beyond that of seeing him. Think not that this will be a narrow sphere for the mind to dwell in. It is but one source of delight, but that source is infinite. All his attributes shall be subjects for contemplation, and as he is infinite under each aspect, there is no fear of exhaustion. His works, his gifts, his love to us, and his glory in all his purposes, and in all his actions, these shall make a theme which will be ever new.
The patriarch looked forward to this sight of God as a personal enjoyment. “Whom mine eye shall behold, and not another.” Take realizing views of heaven's bliss; think what it will be to you. “Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty.” All earthly brightness fades and darkens as we gaze upon it, but here is a brightness which can never dim, a glory which can never fade—“I shall see God.”
Spurgeon, Charles
Matt 18:10-14
10 Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
11 For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.
12 How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?
13 And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.
14 Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish. |
