22 Song of Solomon 1-8 - Pastor Chuck Smith - C2000 Series

tonight we want to look at the song of songs which is Solomon's by the title it indicates that Solomon felt that this was the finest of the 1005 songs that he wrote this is the excellency of the songs that he has written of the thousand and five songs this one is it as far as Solomon Sisk is concerned in Ecclesiastes we had a theme vanity of vanities in this we have Song of Songs the vanity or the emptiness of the world apart from God the emptiness of the world in achievement any achievement that is apart from God now he speaks of the song of songs which is Solomon's and the Song of Songs is a song of love now there are some people who consider the Song of Solomon no more than just an erotic oriental love song and feel that it has no place in the scriptures but others have found tremendous inspiration in the Song of Solomon by looking at a spiritual allegory seeing it as a spiritual allegory now to the Jews it became a spiritual allegory of God's special relationship to the nation Israel as God is seen in the figure of Solomon the king and Israel as the favorite choice wife and as they expressed their love of each other so God's expressions of his love for Israel and Israel's expressions of their love for God and of course through a lot of the prophets we find the same theme as God addresses Israel as his wife and God tells of his love his deep love for his people and the espousals of the youth when you first discover me where is that love that we had in the beginning God said why have you turned away from the love who has drawn you away in and as Israel turned their hearts from God and began to worship Moloch and Mammon and Bel and some of the gods of the Canaanites God spoke out against it as having forsaken me your first love the true love and you've taken up with these other paramours that are going to leave you desolate and so to the Jew it became a beautiful spiritual picture of the relationship of the nation Israel the special relationship the nation Israel experience with God to the church because the church is often seen in the New Testament as the Bride of Christ it became a picture to the Church of the bright of the church her relationship to Jesus Christ her bridegroom her coming king who we look forward to and and so the spiritual allegories are then made applicable to Christ and his love for the church and the church's response to his love John Gill one of the great Puritan preachers preached to his congregation a hundred and twenty two sermons out of the Song of Solomon so for those that are looking for sermon material seeking to find it in the spiritual allegories there's just a lot of material here he preached a hundred and twenty two sermons out of this book Bernard of Clairvaux preached sixty two sermons to his congregation just out of chapter one so the book is filled with imagery and possible allegorical applications no I am NOT one who really goes into the mystic allegorical applications of the scripture though I do see here many beautiful allegories and you can take the text and spiritual eyes upon them that just hasn't been my method of ministry of taking a text and seeking to spiritualize the text because different people can see different things in an allegory and even in this Song of Solomon there have been various interpretations of the Song of Solomon the basic interpretation of the Song of Solomon is that this is a young Shulamite girl that solomon has fallen deeply in love with and she is in love with him and he addresses himself to her declaring his love and declaring her beauty and she responding to him while the daughters of Jerusalem are there asking questions of the young girl concerning her love for him asking Solomon of his love for her and so the actually again it's a song so you see it's set up in a dramatic kind of an opera you have Solomon standing there singing his rich baritone voice of his love for his bride and she with her high soprano answering him and you know singing come my beloved into my garden and drink you know taste of his fruits and so forth and and then you have the chorus over here the the women's chorus the female course and they every once in a while sing in tell us if I beloved you know where is he grazing his flocks and so forth at this time and and they are interjecting now there is another interpretation of the Song of Solomon basic overall interpretation and this one is followed in the amplified bible and suggested in the amplified bible and that is that here is the same beautiful young Shulamite girl that solomon has fallen madly in love with and he is seeking to make her a part of his harem for solomon had a harem seconds and none and he is seeking by his wealth by his grandeur by all of the gifts and then the wealth to cause her to become a part of his vast harem seeking to woo her and to seduce her and she is brought in with the other virgins and she is telling them they wonder why she isn't responding to his love and she is telling them that she has a true love a shepherd and she doesn't respond really to Solomon's love because her heart is after another her Shepherd lover who she longs for who she seeks after and in the spiritual allegories to this other way of looking at the Song of Solomon Solomon in this other allegory represents the world the Shulamite woman the Christian and how the world is seeking to allure the Christian away from her love the from her love for her Shepherd Jesus Christ and she has this deep fervent commitment to her shepherd even Jesus Christ and cannot be alert by all of the wealth and the glory and the grandeur of Solomon as he seeks to seduce her and draw her into his harem and all and so this is another possible interpretation but this is the problem the basic problem of spiritualizing the text and seeing it in an allegorical sense because as you go through the book either one fits but surely they are diametrically opposed to each other as far as interpretation goes and yet you can see and you can read it so that either way it fits solomon is the one she loves and they're expressing their love for each other or she is sort of rejecting the love of solomon because of her true love for her shepherd lover the song of songs which is Solomon's it being ins with the first singer who is this young Shulamite beautiful girl and she sings let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth for thy love is better than wine because of the savour of your good ointments or your perfume thy name is as ointment port for perfume poured forth therefore do the Virgin's love thee draw me we will run after thee the King hath brought me into his chambers we will be glad and rejoice in thee we will remember thy love more than wine the upright love be now speaking of herself she said I am black yet beautiful o ye daughters of Jerusalem as the tents of Kedar and as the curtains of Solomon look not upon me because I am black and it doesn't mean that she was an Ethiopian but it she says because the Sun hath looked upon me she was welt and my mother's children were my stepbrothers actually were angry with me they'd meet made me the keeper of the vineyards but my own vineyard or my own complexion and so forth I have not kept time ruddy in tan and so forth tell me o thou whom my soul loveth where thou eatest where you make your flock to rest at noon for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks my companions so her opening declaration of having been brought into the King's chambers her addressing the daughters of Jerusalem concerning her own unkept condition because of being outside keeping vineyard sort of a Cinderella kind of a story the wicked sisters made her do all of the work and she he wasn't able to to keep up her own cosmetics and all now the king responds to her if thou know'st not hold out fairest among women and the question is where you feed your flocks if you know not o fairest among women go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock and feed thy kids beside the Shepherd's tent I have compared the O my love to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots thy cheeks are comely with rolls of rows of jewels thy neck with chains of gold we will make the borders that now these are the daughters of Jerusalem the Virgin's the chorus responds we will make the borders of gold with studs of silver and the bride responds while the king sits at his table my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof a bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts my beloved is to me as a cluster of camphor in the vineyards of Engedi the camphor trees are cypress trees and just that beautiful smell of the out-of-doors and trees in blossom therein and geti behold Thou Art Fair the King answers my love behold Thou Art Fair you have doves eyes she responds to him behold Thou Art Fair my beloved yay Pleasant also our bed is green the beams of our house are cedar and our rafters of fir so you have the opening of this love drama the the song of songs of Solomon I am The Rose of Sharon and the lily of the valleys the bridegroom responds as the lily among the thorns so as my love among the daughters the bride responds as the apple tree among the trees of wood so is my beloved among the sons I sat down under his shadow with great delight and his fruit was sweet to my taste he brought me to the banqueting house and his banner over me was love stay me with flagons comfort me with apples for I am sick and the it probably should be translated sick with love because we have a we have a thing of sick of love we think that you know I'm sick of it but that isn't the meaning here I am sick because of it I am sick and like I would say I am smitten of a bad malady or something well I am sick of love love is the cause of my sickness I am sick with love and just love sick we would say his left hand is under my head his right hand doth embrace me I charge you o daughters of Jerusalem by the Roe's and by the Hinds of the field that she stir not up nor awake my love till he pleased and then the bride goes on to speak the voice of my beloved behold he comes leaping upon the mountains skipping upon the hills my beloved is like a roll or a young heart behold he's dead behind our wall he looks for that the windows showing himself through the lattice my beloved spake and said unto me rise up my love my fair one and come away for lo the winter is past the rain is over and gone the flowers appear on the earth and the time of singing the birds has come and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land the fig tree putteth forth her green figs and the vines with the tender grapes give a good smell arise my love my fair one and come away o my dove thou art in the cleft of the rock in the secret places of the stairs let me see thy countenance let me hear thy voice for sweet as thy voice and thy countenance is beautiful take us the Fox as the little foxes that spoil the vines for our vines have tender grapes my beloved is mine and I am his and he feeds his flocks actually among the lilies until the daybreak and the shadows flee away turned my beloved and be thou like a row or a young heart upon the mountains of bether she continues to speak by night on Meyer sing actually because it's a song by night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves I sought him but found him not I will rise now and go about the city in the streets and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth I sought him but I found him not the watchman that go about the city found me to whom I said did you see him whom my soul loves it was but a little that I passed from them but I found him whom my soul loved I held him and would not let him go until I had brought him into my mother's house and into the chamber of her that conceived me i charge you o daughters of Jerusalem by the Roe's and by the Hinds of the field that ye stir not up nor awake my love till he plays who is he that cometh out of the wilderness like colors of smoke perfumed with myrrh and frankincense some of the powders of the merchant behold his bed which is Solomon's there are three in that would be the the the marriage chariot that he made the nuked Oh bed behold his bed which solemn which is Solomon's there are sixty valiant men around it the valiant men of Israel they all hold their swords being expert in war and every man has this sword upon his thigh because of the fear in the night King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon he made the pillars thereof of silver the bottom thereof of gold the covering of it of purple the midst thereof being paved with love for the daughters of Jerusalem go forth o ye daughters of Zion and behold King Solomon with the crown wear with his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals and in the day of the gladness of his heart and now the bridegroom speaks behold Thou Art Fair my love behold our fair thou hast doves eyes within thy locks thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from mount gilead eye teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn which came up from the washing ware of every one bears twins and you're not missing any there's a nun barren among them now I don't know that if you would try to express your love to your girlfriend like this how well she might take it your teeth are like sheep that are all evenly shorn that just came up from there washing and everyone bearing twins what means your teeth are matched you know you both you know as you go across there even there they match and so forth which is important I guess my lips are like a thread of scarlet and thy speech is comely thy temples are like a piece of pomegranate within thy locks thy neck is like a Tower of David builded for an armory where on their hanging a thousand buckler's all the shields of mighty man thy two breasts are like two young rose that are twins which feed among the lilies until the daybreak and the shadows flee away I will get me to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense thou art all fair my love there is no spot in thee and people of course as a bridegroom is speaking of his bride and as you make the spiritual analogy of Christ to the church which of course is a correct and proper analogy Christ view of the church thou art all fair there is no spot in thee the Bible speaks of the churches being without spot or blemish or any such thing the way the Lord views us and that's to me a glorious thing that the Lord views me that way because he views me through love and the Bible says that love covers a multitude of sins and God sees us through the eyes of love and as he sees us through the eyes of love he sees us not not in our imperfect state but he sees us in that completed perfect state in Christ Jesus and it's so comforting for me to realize that God looks upon me and sees no fault sees no sin sees no blemish looking upon me through love seeing me in Christ Jesus I stand before him without fault in Christ come with me from Lebanon my spouse with me from Lebanon look from the top of a manor and from the top of Shin ER and from Herman from the Lions dens and from the mountains of the leopards thou hast ravished my heart my sister my spouse thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes with one chain of thy neck how fair is thy love my sister my spouse how much better is thy love than wine and the smell of thine ointments than all spices thy lips or my spouse drop as the honeycomb honey and milk are under thy tongue and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon a garden enclosed is my sister my spouse a spring shut up a fountain sealed by plants are an orchard of pomegranates with pleasant fruits camphor and spikenard spikenard and saffron calamus cinnamon and all of the trees of frankincense myrrh and aloes with the chief spices a fountain of gardens a well of living waters and streams from lebanon all right the bridegroom is very expressive it's like the French say you Americans are there so you know you have only one way to tell a woman you love her we Frenchmen have a hundred ways and it would seem that we macho American men are poor lovers I guess as far as really expressing our love our adulation for our wives this song of songs which is Solomon's as he expresses his love uses figures of speech that I would never think of in seeking to express the beauty that I see in my wife I just she says honey do I look alright alright and I say yeah you look fine you know and well are you sure I look alright sure you look great you know well do you like this yeah I like the dress it's nice well I said well you're beautiful she said well thank you and we go out you know I think that we could probably take some lessons from Solomon and learn a little bit about how to express it's interesting how that women wise do need a constant assurance of love you love me honey sure I told you last year I love you I know I have a changed I still come home but it doesn't satisfy they need a continual assuring of that love the continual assuring of their attractiveness to us our love for them that our desire is for them and it's a smart husband who will give to his wife that continued assurance that she needs it's a thumb clock that tells her once a year he loves her and thinks that she'll be satisfied so he is just described now oh she's like a garden the fragrances that come forth from her body are like spices it's just glorious and so she picking up his phrases of love and the garden concept sings back hueco north wind and come down south and blow upon my garden that the spices thereof may flow out let my beloved come into his garden and eat his Pleasant fruits beautiful response to the declaration of the bridegroom as he describes the beauty of his bride a garden kept for itself has little value the work of God in our lives is never just subjective the real purposes of God are not really accomplished in us until there is a flowing out a Waco north wind comes out South those who see now the spiritual allegories here seeing the spirit which in the Hebrew the word wind and spirit are are in Greek the word wind and spirit are the same in Hebrew the word breath and spirit are the same but in Greek NUMA which is wind or air or spirit that through the spirit there might come the outflow of the beauty of the work of Christ in our lives that it might touch others that others might benefit from the work that God has done in me and that is always the purpose of God objective subjective first he wants to work in you but then he wants that work that has been accomplished in your life to flow out and be of benefit to others let the spices flow out and then let my beloved come into his garden and eat of his Pleasant fruits the imitation of Christ into the church that he might come into our midst and partake of the pleasant fruit of his garden as we bear forth and bring forth fruit unto Him in chapter 5 the bridegroom replies I am coming to my garden my sister my spouse I have gathered my myrrh with my spice I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey I have drunk my wine with my milk eat old friends drink yayyyy drink abundantly Oh beloved now the bride responds and she said I sleep but my heart is awake it is the voice of my beloved that knocks saying open to me my sister my love my dove my undefiled for my head is filled with Dew and my locks with the drops of the night I have put off my coat how shall I put it on I've washed my feet how shall I defile them my beloved put his hand by the hole in the door and I was moved for him I rose up to open to my beloved and my hands dropped with myrrh and my fingers with sweet-smelling myrrh upon the handles of the lock I opened my beloved my beloved had withdrawn himself and was gone my soul failed when he spake I saw him but I could not find him I called him but he gave me no answer the watchman that went about the city found me they smoked me they wounded me the keepers of the wall took away my veil from me I charge you o daughters of Jerusalem if you find my beloved that you tell him that I am sick with love and so the daughters of Jerusalem the chorus now responds and answers her what is thy beloved more than another beloved o thou fairest among women what is thy beloved more than another beloved that you do so charge us she charged them if she finds him tell him that she's just sick with love and she answers now concerning her beloved as she describes him my beloved is white and ruddy the chiefest among ten thousand his head is as the most fine gold his locks are bushy and black as a raven his eyes are the eyes of doves by the rivers of water washed with milk and fitly set his cheeks are as the bed of spices as sweet flowers his lips like lilies dropping sweet smelling myrrh his hand are as gold ring set with a burl his belly is a bright ivory overlaid with sapphires his legs are like pillars of marble set in sockets of fine gold and his countenance is as Lebanon its excellent as The Cedars his mouth is most sweet yay he is altogether lovely this is my beloved and this is my friend both daughters of Jerusalem as she describes her lover and thus again in seeing the allegory of Christ in the church as Jesus Christ has come to us to be the fairest of 10,000 as he has become to us the altogether lovely one and our love for him now the daughters of Jerusalem respond her the chorus sings back where has your beloved gone old our fairest among women whether or where as your beloved turned aside that we may seek him with you and she answers my beloved has gone down into his garden to the beds of spices to feed in the gardens and to gather lilies I am My Beloved's and my beloved his mind and he feeds among the lilies now the bridegroom responds to her and he says thou art beautiful o my love as tirzah as comely as Jerusalem terrible or awesome as an army with banners turn away your eyes from me for they have overcome me your hair is as a flock of goats that appears from gilead thy teeth are like a flock of sheep which go up from the washing 's where everyone bears twins and not there's not a barren one among that he says the same thing to her so he isn't you know that you know after ye got a repeat you know I mean you only say so much as a piece of pomegranate are thy temples within thy logs there are sixty Queens and eighty concubines and virgins without number my dove my undefiled is but one she's one among them all she's she is the only one of her mother she is the choice one of her that bear her the daughter saw her and blessed her yes the Queen's and the concubines and they praised her so he's declaring all of this praise for his beloved and this daughters of Jerusalem the chorus now responds as he is declaring again of her beauty and her glory and they say who is she that looketh forth as the morning fair as the moon clear as the sun as awesome as an army with banners and as you see this in the spiritual allegory as representing the church who is she whoo look at forth as the morning the history of man has been dark and bleak we are still living the world in darkness it's been a long night sorrow pain suffering anguish tragedy that man has brought upon himself by his Wars by his greed by the atrocities by the inhumane treatment of fellow man by the oppression and the exploitation of the weak and of the poor it's been a long dark night of history but the church looketh forth as the morning and the church declares to the world that is wrapped in its darkness there's a new day about to dawn and that is always the consistent message of the church new opportunity that God gives to man not only to the world is a new day going to dawn very soon but a new day can dawn in your life and that darkness in which your life has been held can turn into a new day God's work is always that of a new beginning letting you start all over again for If any man be in Christ he is a new creature the old things are passed away all things become now looking forth as the morning always the anticipation living in the anticipation of the new day that is going to dawn for man there is the moon the moon's light is reflected light the light of the Sun reflected in the moon and so the church's light is a reflected light it is the light of Jesus Christ who said I am the light of the world and if any man walk in me he will not walk in darkness but will have the light of Life John testifying of Jesus Christ that he is the true light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world but man put the light out they hanged him on a cross they put him in a tomb and rolled the stone over the door of the sepulchre and as far as the world was concerned they had extinguished the light but the third day he rose again and he lives today and even as the light of the Moon declares to you that the Sun is still shining though you cannot see the Sun but as you look at the moon and see the reflected light of the Sun you know that the Sun still shines so the world who cannot see Jesus Christ knows that he lives as they see the reflected glory of Christ from our lives the light of Jesus Christ shining forth from us ye he said are the light of the world a man doesn't light a candle to put it on under a bushel but on a candlestick that it might give light to the whole house the moon was the lesser light to rule the night to rule in the darkness and thus in the darkness of man's history God has a light fare is the moon his light his witness as we reflect the light and the glory of Jesus Christ to the dark world around us in order to properly reflect that light of Jesus Christ we must live above the world for if we live in the world if we partake of the worldly things if we are living as the world then we do not reflect the light to the world you've got to live above the world by a higher standard than the low standards of men around us there is always the peer pressure there is always the mores of a society that would seek to draw you down to a lower level of living there is always the rationale but everybody's doing it to encourage you and to draw you in to a lower level of experience in life but living on a low plane you'll never reflect the glory of the Sun it's only as we live above it that the world can see the light reflecting from us clear as the Sun again there needs to be a slight change in the word son instead of spelling it s UN capitalize it and spell it s o n clear as the Sun the church we are to be pure as he is pure we are to be holy as he is holy God said be therefore holy for I am holy saith the Lord Jesus said be therefore perfect even as your father in heaven is perfect and he who has this hope purifies himself even as he is pure Christ is our standard for righteousness which immediately eliminates all of us because none of us are as pure as Christ none of us are as holy as Christ none of us are as perfect as God Christ our standard for righteousness but it is a righteousness that I cannot attain by works by rules by regulations by laws for if righteousness could come by the law then Christ died in vain but God has established a new basis of righteousness which is not a new basis of righteousness it is the same basis by which Abraham was accounted righteousness for abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness four hundred years before the law ever came by Moses the law was never intended to make a man righteous but only to show man his sin and his guilt in order that we might be driven to a righteousness that is apart from us the righteousness which is of God through our faith in Jesus Christ so we read in Galatians the law was a schoolmaster to force us to Christ to drive us to Christ to make us realize that we can't do it ourselves we need help and God has provided that help and thus we become clear as the Sun because it's his righteousness that has been imputed to us by our believing and trusting in God and so that's why the bridegroom could say hey she's without spot that's why God looks at you and says hey you're your without spot you're without blemish you're pure you're righteous because he sees you in his son and the righteousness of Christ having been imputed or counted to your account and finally the church is seen as awesome as an army with banners and this is what God intends the church to be to the enemies of Jesus Christ that we might be a terror to the enemies of God even as an army with banners was a very terrifying thing to behold to stand in front of or to try to withstand so the church should be a terror to the enemies of God the bridegroom continues his song I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley and to see whether the vine flourished and the pomegranates butted or ever I was aware my soul made me like the chariots of a minute dib return return o Shulamite return return that we may look upon thee the chorus responds what will you see in the Shulamite and he answers as it were the company of two armies now the daughters of Jerusalem addressed themselves to the Shulamite and they say how beautiful are thy feet with shoes within thy sandals o Prince's daughter the joints of thy thighs are like jewels the work of the hands of cunning workman thy navel is like a round goblet which wanteth not liquor and thy belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies and I suppose that was complementary to them i I'm not that kind of an expressive person and it doesn't do much for me thy two breasts are like two young rose that are twins thy neck is as a tower of ivory thine eyes like the fish pools of Heshbon imagine blue pretty by the gate of Bath Robin thy nose is like the tower of Lebanon I don't know that I would appreciate that which looketh toward Damascus Solomon built this tower in Lebanon after he had completed his palace so some 20 years after he was married to the daughter of Pharaoh there are some who believe that the one he speaks of his pharaoh's daughter but this sort of precludes that because the song evidently was written after 20 years of marriage to her and and it seems that a new interest has taken him with this Shulamite thy head upon thee is like Carmel and the hair of your head like purple the king is held in the galleries or he is bound by that beauty how fair and how pleasant are you Oh love for delights this thy stature is like unto a palm tree and thy breast two clusters of grapes I said I will go to the palm tree I will take hold of the boughs thereof now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine and the smell of thy nose like apples and the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved that goeth down sweetly causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak the bride responds I am My Beloved's and his desire is toward me now think of this in the church and Jesus Christ and it becomes very beautiful indeed he loves me I am My Beloved's and his desire is Tommy he desires me Christ desires you your love your response he desires me that that to me is just uncanny come my beloved let us go forth into the field that is Lodge in the villages let us get up early to the vineyards let us see if the vine flourishes whether the tender grape appears in the pomegranates but forth there will I give thee my love the Mandrake's give a smell and that our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits new and old which I have laid up for thee o my beloved the bride continues her song o that thou wert as my brother that nursed upon the breasts of my mother when I should find thee without I would kiss the a I should not be despised I would lead thee and bring thee into my mother's house who would instruct me I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate his left hand should be under my head his right hand should embrace me I charge you old daughters of Jerusalem that she stir not up nor awake my love until he please the bridegroom speaks who is this that cometh up from the wilderness leaning upon her beloved I raised thee up under the apple tree there thy mother brought thee forth there you brought the fourth that bear thee sent me as a seal upon your heart as a seal upon your arm for love is strong as death jealousy is as cruel as hell the coals thereof are coals of fire which has a most the Hema net flame many waters cannot quench love that always speaking of course is a very picturesque and very powerful demonstration of how strong love is like coals of fire most of the eminent flame and many waters cannot quench love neither can the floods drown it if a man would give all of his substance of his house for love it would be utterly contemptible in other words this kind of love cannot be bought men are always trying to buy love and there is a certain kind of love that can be bought but not true love not this kind of love this is a true love of Christ for us you can't purchase it and an endeavor to purchase that only cheapens it it's utterly contemptible for people to try to buy their way with God if you gave tonight hoping that you could sort of buy your way with God please ask the ushers for your refund when you leave its contemptible to think that you can buy your way with the Lord that you couldn't buy his love God's love for us is uncaused by us and it just comes flowing forth to us you can't buy that kind of love you can't quench that kind of love God's love for us is and it just comes flowing out to us and it is just ours to accept and ours to receive now the bride responds we have a little sister who has not developed what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for and the bridegroom responds if she is discreet will build upon her a palace of silver will display her if she be brash will build a wall around her will think closer and boards of cedar will fence her up and then the bride speaks and she answers I am a wall are discreet and my breasts are like towers then was I in the eyes in his eyes as one that found favor Solomon had a vineyard at Bal Haman he led it out to the vineyard to the keepers and every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver or he leased out the the vineyards for a thousand pieces of silver my vineyard which is mine is before me thou old Solomon must have a thousand and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred but thou that dwellest in the gardens the Companions hearken to thy voice caused me to hear it make haste my beloved and be thou a roll or light to a roll or to a young heart upon the mountains of spices make haste my beloved this takes us to the last of the book of Revelation when Jesus said unto John behold I come quickly and John responded even so come quickly Lord Jesus and so the final word of the bride is significant make haste my beloved to come and our prayer today is O Lord come come quickly that we might enter into that fullness of thy love in thy kingdom that you might bring us into your banqueting house place your banner of love over us that we will be there forever with thee in thy glorious kingdom make haste come quickly Lord Jesus shall we pray father we thank you for that love that we have experienced through Jesus Christ we thank you Lord that we know the beauty the glory and the blessing of thy law and now Lord let us go out to declare thy love to a needy world and to share thy love with others let our lives o God become a fit witness of thy love in Jesus name we pray amen so we sin now you that a romanticist and and true sort of mystics you can take that song of solomon and you can find all kinds of exciting things in it as i say i'm not much of one to make allegories or to to get involved in that because again you can read so many things i think though that it is good i think that i think though that here is a bit of in a sense existentialism that you need to experience it personally what does the Lord say to you in it and I think it's good to give God an opportunity to speak to you in it and because you are different in many ways from me in temperaments or whatever some of you will find all kinds of beautiful exciting things in the Song of Solomon or God will just speak to you in just a very beautiful special way but I think that there is something that is very intimate and personal with love and thus as the expressions of love are here I really don't think that they do stand well in in a public expression because it makes it sort of a general impersonal thing in a public expression I think that the deepest expression of it does come in your own personal devotions as you let God unravel the book to your own heart and make the application of the love to you individually and as you read it in your own personal kind of devotion being open to the Spirit of God he can make many beautiful applications of the song - your relationship with him and you'll find it exciting indeed as he declares his personal love for you and as you're able to relate and express your love for him so don't just pass by the Song of Solomon go back and read it with an open heart that God might minister to you on an intimate personal basis his deep fervent fiery love that cannot be quenched by many waters god bless him watch over you this week give you just a blessed week as he keeps his hand upon your life to guide you according to his will and may you walk in his love and may you be enriched in his love and in all things in Christ Jesus you

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Keywords: Bible, God, Jesus, Christ, Love, Hell, Death, Sex, Marriage, Drugs, Satan, Porno, Cancer, Sports, Girls, Music, Holy Spirit, Children, Family, Heaven, Healing, Pregnant, Aids, Gay, Movies, TV Shows, Animals, Israel Prophecy, Last Days, Christian, Jewish People, Gentiles

Id: GiJ_i1T5zQg

Length: 63min 2sec (3782 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 26 2013