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<\/a><\/p>\nThe song was written during the 7dB<\/a><\/i> days, and performed then. It arose out of musings that I knew I was a teacher but I wasn’t sure how much of my music was teaching. I had long had this idea in my head, but never as a song, and I decided it could work set to music, so I tackled it.<\/p>\n The idea arose from Jesus’ teaching about cutting off your hand and plucking out your eye if they caused you to sin, which for many years bothered and upset me until I realized that our body parts don’t cause us to sin–it is that inner person that does so. This was such a relief to me, and ranks high in my list of great realizations. I thus thought that a song that taught this, that it’s not your body parts of which you must rid yourself but that selfish person inside, would work.<\/p>\n My wife, not seeing it quite as I did, thought the song much too upbeat and happy for the message–that you have to die to yourself–but then, I found the happiness in the fact that I didn’t have to remove body parts. Mohammed got it wrong, I would say. Get rid of what really causes you to sin.<\/p>\n As mentioned, we started doing the song with 7dB<\/i> and continued with Collision<\/i>. This recording<\/a> is none of the above, and I tripped over several words and a few guitar strums, but it does give the flavor of the song.<\/p>\n Heavenly Kingdom<\/i><\/b><\/font>.<\/p>\n So here are the words:<\/p>\n If your hand caused you to sin, If your feet caused you to stray, Would you be crucified with Christ, If your heart is filled with strife, I can only hope you benefit from the song in some way. I will continue with additional songs in the future.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n Previous web log song posts:<\/p>\n #301: The Song “Holocaust”<\/a><\/i> | #307: The Song “Time Bomb”<\/a><\/i> | #311: The Song “Passing Through the Portal”<\/a><\/i> | #314: The Song “Walkin’ In the Woods”<\/a><\/i> | #317: The Song “That’s When I’ll Believe”<\/a><\/i> | #320: The Song “Free”<\/a><\/i> | #322: The Song “Voices”<\/a><\/i> | #326: The Song “Mountain, Mountain”<\/a><\/i> | #328: The Song “Still Small Voice”<\/i><\/a> | #334: The Song “Convinced”<\/a><\/i> | #337: The Song “Selfish Love”<\/a><\/i> | #340: The Song “A Man Like Paul”<\/a><\/i> | #341: The Song “Joined Together”<\/a><\/i> | #346: The Song “If We Don’t Tell Them”<\/a><\/i> | #349: The Song “I Can’t Resist You’re Love”<\/a><\/i> | #353: The Song “I Use to Think”<\/a><\/i> | #356: The Song “God Said It Is Good”<\/a><\/i> | #362: My Life to You<\/a><\/i> | #366: The Song “Sometimes”<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n Next song: #378: The Song “A Song of Joy”<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is mark Joseph “young” blog entry #372, on the subject of The Song “Heavenly Kingdom”. This song is tied for nineteenth on the list; I ranked it number eight for the overall quality of the song, and Tristan included it on his list, albeit at the bottom, tied for fifteenth. The problem pulling it … Continue reading #372: The Song “Heavenly Kingdom”<\/span>
\nWould you cut it off to enter in
\nTo the Heavenly Kingdom?
\nIf your eye caused you to doubt,
\nTo save your soul, would you pluck it out
\nFor the Heavenly Kingdom?
\nIf it’s not your hand and it’s not your eye,
\nWould you give your life, lie down and die?
\nWould you let yourself be crucified
\nFor the Heavenly Kingdom?<\/p>\n
\nWould you give them up, or walk away
\nFrom the Heavenly Kingdom?
\nIf your tongue caused you to lie,
\nWould you bite it off–would you even try
\nFor the Heavenly Kingdom?
\nBut your feet don’t stray and your tongue won’t lie;
\nIt’s your selfish self that has to die.
\nWould you let yourself be crucified
\nFor the Heavenly Kingdom?
\nFor the Heavenly Kingdom?<\/p>\n
\nBaptized and buried in His death,
\nRaised up and living in His life,
\nBreathing Him in with ev’ry breath?<\/p>\n
\nWould you let it die to give you life
\nIn the Heavenly Kingdom?
\nIf your soul is filled with pride,
\nWould you let yourself be crucified
\nFor the Heavenly Kingdom?
\nGive up your soul, give up your life,
\nGive up your pride, give up your strife,
\nCome and let yourself be crucified
\nFor the Heavenly Kingdom.
\nFor the Heavenly Kingdom.
\nFor the Heavenly Kingdom.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n