The Bible in 50 Words, “God made, Adam bit, Noah arked, Abraham split, Joseph ruled, Jacob fooled, bush talked, Moses balked, Pharaoh plagued, people walked, sea divided, tablets guided, promise landed, Saul freaked, David peeked, prophets warned, Jesus born, God walked, Love talked, anger crucified, hope died, Love rose, Spirit flamed, Word spread, God remained.”
Elvis Presley was known as,“The King of Rock ‘N Roll.” This past month, his personal KJV Bible was sold at auction to the highest bidder for $120,000. (The buyer wished to remain anonymous.) The Bible was found by Elvis’s family on the night table next to his bed, following the singer’s death. The black leather cover had “Elvis Aaron Presley” embossed in gold letters on the bottom right hand corner.
Dr. Jack Hyles, a famous Baptist preacher, writes,
Many years ago when I was pastoring in Garland, Texas, I had a daily radio program. Ordinarily the broadcast was live. However, on occasion, if I were scheduled to be out of town, I would make a tape and take it to the radio station located on the eleventh floor of the Stoneleigh Hotel in Dallas, Texas.
On one occasion I took a tape to the station. When I got on the elevator, I told the operator, an attractive young lady, that I wanted to go to the 11th floor. She didn’t hear a word I said! She was in a daze because Elvis Presley had just ridden her elevator. Finally I convinced her that I needed to go to the eleventh floor, and all she talked about was the fact that she had been alone with Elvis Presley for a few minutes. She finally gathered herself together and took me to the 11th floor. She waited as I dropped the tape at the station and then took me back down to the main floor.
On the way, however, she stopped the elevator, and Elvis Presley got back on. He was wearing a green satin suit and at that time was in his rock ’n roll heyday. I introduced myself, we shook hands, and then I asked him, “Elvis, do you know, if you were to die today that you would go to Heaven?” His answer was startling. “I certainly do,” he said. “I was saved at the altar when I was a child after hearing an old-fashioned Gospel preacher. I went to church every week, sang in the choir and taught Sunday School.” He was as clear in his testimony as one could be.
And yet when Elvis Presley passed away at the still young age of 42, his body was full of prescription medications: uppers, downers and pain killers. In the last seven months of Elvis’s life, his personal physician had prescribed 8,805 pills, tablets, vials, and injections.
The bottom line? Those who grow up in the church greatly gifted in talent by God; may choose worldly success, but they will not know worldly satisfaction.
Ecclesiastes 6:1-2
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, a man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, an evil disease.
(Add to this list the likes of Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston – who also received a Bible- upbringing, but left it all behind to use their God-given talent for the riches of this world. And like Elvis, they too in their 40’s went to the grave full of drugs.)
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