Part 1/Transformed: Seeing Who You Are to God/ Mike Bickle/Encountering Jesus in the Song of Solomon

a course on the Song of Solomon is going to be different than the times I've taught it before on the website we have two different series but they're both a systematic presentation right through the book 2007 I have a 24 sessions where we work through it systematically verse-by-verse the 2014 we do the same thing but we do it in half the time I make it abbreviated it's only 12 sessions but it's the same systematic presentation this course is going to be the Matic it's going to be themes we're going to go throughout the book and capture different themes biblical themes about God's heart and how God feels about his people now why would we study a book like Song of Solomon to teach a course on this well one reason is that the very first line of the song it's called the song of all songs or the Song of Solomon the ultimate love song in the Bible and when the Holy Spirit titles a song the song of all songs you want to pay attention to it I think that this song this eighth chapter loves Saul the Holy Spirit is using it now in the nation's many different people are teaching in their teaching in different ways which is many different ways to approach a love song it's in poetic language but it's the biblical truths of God's heart I believe that the greatest love songs and Jesus's heart for his church are yet to be released to through the body of Christ we'll say that again I believe the greatest love songs in his heart have not been given yet this eighth chapter love song each line is a theme each line has many implications and the Holy Spirit will inspire many songs out of each one of a nearly every line from this again statement of God's heart it's a poetic statement of the biblical truths of God's heart now the endtime Church must be equipped with the revelation of God's love and beauty that's a standard idea but it's an oft often neglected subject many everybody believes in God's love and God's beauty but it's not enough to have it kind of as us as a passing idea we have to go deep in these ideas we want to see what he sees we want to feel what he feels about us because I believe that this is good this is key it's essential in equipping the bride the body of Christ to walk in victory and the most emotionally wounded generation in history and the most sexually broken generation in history the Lord's raising up the body of Christ in her Bridal identity the spirit and the bride the church and the revelation of the bridegroom King the church and her Bridal identity it's in that generation there's only one generation in history of which the Holy Spirit emphasizes Jesus as the bridegroom King many generations he's emphasized the king but only one generation does the church you worldwide the whole body of Christ see themselves in their Bridal identity and because God strategically is using that revelation and the most emotionally broken and sexually broken and emotionally wounded generation in history and I believe we're in the early days of that generation and the only healing reality will be the Holy Spirit revealing God's heart well Song of Solomon 1 verse 15 we're going to focus on the subject of being God's beloved that's one of the primary sounds and themes throughout the whole book our beloved nurse the fact that he is our beloved and we are his beloved I like how the new English translation says it in chapter one verse 15 this would be the the bridegroom King speaking again this is one of the great songs of his heart many many songs will come out of this truth in these days ahead of us he breaks forth one of the most transforming declarations in the whole Word of God imagine the one who's fully God who's fully man the bridegroom King how beautiful you are my beloved how beautiful you are this truth will explode out of his heart it will cleanse the body of Christ it will satisfy them it will invigorate them it will give them hope again in a time of unprecedented wounding and sexual brokenness the Lord says I have a superior message I have a more powerful truth you are beautiful and you are my beloved that is the truth and the Holy Spirit is going to use that truth many implications to it as that love song breaks out of the bridegroom Kings heart as it's captured by the People of God as the holy spirit in parks and they sing this in many many different ways well this isn't just a poetic truth in the song of Sullivan's it's also a truth that's pronounced strong emphasized in the New Testament Paul says to all the Saints in Rome every believer and they prophecies he declares over them you are beloved of God the implications of this are vast I believe the church is yet to focus in a consistent way on the implications of this truth I believe those days are on us and yet unfolding where the church is going to be intentionally going deep on this subject it's an old testament it's a New Testament truth look what Romans 9 verse 25 says Paul's quoting the Prophet Hosea in Romans nine I will call them my people even before they were my people I'm going to call them headed I'm my people cuz I'm gonna prophetically lead them into the truth by declaring it over them before they even understand it but it doesn't stop there they're more than my people they're more than servants in my kingdom I will call them her beloved when she was not beloved I will call her the beloved of my heart this is one of the most intimate and cherished truth and the Holy Spirit's calling his people beloved even now many aren't equipped to hear that I don't mean to hear the sound of it in the physical way it's not penetrating their heart but I tell you the day is now and it's unfolding well this truth is going to go deeper and deeper one of the ultimate confessions of the bride in the Song of Solomon in this great a chapter love song chapter 7 verse 10 I love this she declares I am My Beloved's I belong to him and the nature of the relationship is rooted in mutually being one another's beloved I'm not just a servant I am his beloved and he is mine that's the nature of the relationship that God has in the new covenant with his people and then she breaks out declares one of the great implications of understanding the nature of the relationship rooted in the truth of being one another's beloved she says his desire is for me I understand why I'm his beloved his desire is for me this is where we discover our identity in its fullness in this confession we discover our destiny beloved our Dannette our destiny is not only to be citizens in the kingdom in heaven we're much more than citizens this is where our greatness lies this is where our security lives this is where our satisfaction lives and again it's not enough to kind of be casually familiar with a few terms and a few ideas these ideas the Lord wants them to get into the language of our heart endure and art and to our dialogue with the Lord these aren't just truths that we hear here and there but he wants us to talk to us this way and has to talk to him in this kind of language paragraph B I'll just give you a simple working definition being beloved by God or God's beloved this is not comprehend see this is a simple working definition the Lord is relating to his people with affectionate delight what a transforming truth I remember when it first dawned on me I have so much to learn and so much ground to gain in this but I have eternity to gain it but I want to go deep now in this age when I begin I remember when it first dawned on me I was in my twenties that God didn't just forgive me he actually delighted in me and it was startling like wait what if I believe that and that's not really true what a true what a terrible mistake but then I went the other way what if I don't believe it and it is true what a tragedy for my life and I remember when from the Bible this truth began to touch my heart that even in my weakness God actually delighted in the relationship with me with affection with a smile on his face even in my weakness not only when I was mature or but in the journey and a phrase I've said so many times over the years that when this began to touch me then I would run to him instead of from him when I discovered my sin and failure and weakness because the only place of safety was the one who delighted in the relationship well it's not only that he delights in the relationship with affection he enjoys our value we are valuable to him he enjoys the beauty that we possess that of course imparted from him his own beauty the very beauty that God possesses he imparts but he enjoys the beauty that he sees in us now and these are themes we'll develop through the song again we'll take different passages and different themes through this course our belovedness this is the dominant message of this love song change your life it most people catch this slowly I caught it slowly but it builds over the months and years it will change you you'll read the Bible with a new pair of limbs is a new pair of glasses so to speak and you'll see the implications of being his beloved the beloved nests that you possess in the relationship you'll see it from Genesis to Revelation but many people ardent students of the Bible they love God for years with sincerity they know the Bible but this has never it's never touched them in any kind of consistent way because it's a new paradigm it's a new perspective over the years I've taught the Song of Solomon for almost 30 years and I remember the multitudes of testimonies that I've received I'm not talking about how I taught it that's not that point because you teach it under this poetic love song in many different ways but the it's always the same I've heard it over and over and over for almost 30 years all types of people they said I could hardly believe it that he delights in me that he's beautiful that I possess his beauty that we enjoy the relationship that really really this changes everything I guess I say you're getting it it changes everything I receive that testimony and so will you as you teach stays truths and many of you are already teaching them one on one you're still teaching them others of you're teaching them through social media you'll get the same response all kinds of people you know we expect the ladies to like it but I tell you many strong men they like it you know why because the human spirit was created to be loved I don't care how big their muscles are and how many Rambo movies they watched they love to be loved don't care how who they are and they love loving they may have woundings and shyness and hesitations but in their core they love to be loved and they love loving every man every woman every child old and young it's a very core of the human heart that's why you can't go wrong going deep in these truths paragraphs see I remember 1988 I was 33 years old it's a day that changed my life when the Lord spoke audibly I won't tell the story I've told it many times in the other series you can if you want to hear longer the long version you could hear two different teachings on the internet that I've given on this but he spoke audibly he said the in essence Song of Solomon eight six he's going to put a seal of love which is a progressive seal by the way it's not a one-time deal it's a revelation and an impartation of his love progressively touching he said I'm going to do this worldwide in this generation i'ma do worldwide the Lord is going to raise up teachers all over the body of Christ they're going to teach the truths the biblical truths that are set forth in this poetic love song because in the poetic nature of this there's a unique dimension of God's heart and emotion that comes out in it God's raising up hundreds of thousands millions of teachers they'll teach through song through drama through media through blogs to them social media teach many many different ways God is raising up teachers that will capture the unique dynamics of this song the belovedness they just saturated whose's through every line of the song nearly how beloved he is to us and how beloved we are to him Roman numeral - well this is really a couple quick qualifiers I've put these in far more detail in the 2007 series that I went 24 sessions systematically through the psalm but there's two different basic interpretations that are common the natural interpretation where King Solomon it depicts the love that King Solomon had with his bride it sets forth the principles that honor the beauty of married love it's a wonderful book about marriage that is meant to be led paragraph B it's not only a natural story teaching about love in the context of marriage there's a spiritual interpretation of King Jesus and his bride the body of Christ we understand that most of the commentaries throughout church history have focused on Jesus the bridegroom relating to his bride there are more commentaries on son of Solomon that almost any other book in the Bible I was surprised to discover that years ago there's hundreds of different commentaries on this book there's other books like The Book of Psalms and John that has a large number of Song of Solomon it's near the top of the list that surprises me in church history but really so I begin to see the different times I got about a hundred and fifty commentaries myself on this book I just began to collect them and people begin to give them to me for pretty cool so it is not it's not a new idea it's new that the Holy Spirit is emphasizing this in a global way that's new but the truth itself has been proclaimed all through church history one thing I just like to say every time that I know 99% of you don't need to hear this but there's always that one guy or one gal who at whatever that we must refuse all sensual overtones this isn't about Jesus being someone's boyfriend and they go on date nights with Jesus is not about kissing Jesus I mean I know you know that but I just need to say that every time some people ask the question again I go into more detail on the other times I taught this class is Jesus really in the psalmist element is he really in this book well jesus said the Holy Spirit came to glorify Him and the Bible says that every book of the Bible is inspired by the Holy Spirit it's inconceivable to me the Holy Spirit would write a book of the Bible by the way which will last forever that was it ultimately indirectly about Jesus when fully understood Luke 24 jesus said to the disciples on the road of Emmaus he said he took all the scriptures and talked about himself from all the scriptures I wonder what he said about himself when he got the Song of Solomon I wonder if he smiled since you have no idea who I am but you will one day table page two well I wanna kind of tip you off what to pay attention to when you're reading through the Song of Solomon this eighth chapter love song five things to pay attention to paragraph a the reason I want to point this out because in this book the Holy Spirit is emphasizing the emotional dimension of God's personality he's giving the why behind the what the what he's the creator he created heavens of the earth look at Genesis tells us what he did what he accomplished redemption on the cross the book of Romans and all through the New Testament we find out what he did and the cross and what's accomplished but Song of Solomon is focused on the why behind the what and both of them are very important I want to know the what I'm marvel at his power I marvel at his justice and what the cross accomplished but when we see the why behind the wat it touches us in a different way paragraph B right through the book we see God's emotions we see God's emotions you know there was a time in my late 20s I big I made an intentional decision to become a student of God's emotions I remember I made it was a it was a moment where it crystallized in my mind it was in context to teaching the life of David I wasn't a song soul and a guy at all at that time I don't really start the Song of Solomon till that encounter with the Lord I was 33 years old but in my 20s I was a life of David kind of real zealot and David was a student of God's emotions and I remember I said Lord I want to be a student of your emotions like David it was intentional it wasn't a casual thing I love Allan hoods testimony when he was just a young man about 22 years old a long time ago he came and spent a year he lived in forward he came to spend a year in the church where I was pastoring here in Kansas City I didn't even hardly know it and I made a statement I said be intentional about being a student of God's emotion go through the whole Bible and Mark every verse that gives insight into God's emotions in a direct way and he did it and I've heard him give the testimony and many times over the years how that study changed his life set him on a whole different trajectory well the Song of Solomon is a book again that takes in poetic language in the language of song and in a unique way brings forth God's emotions his desires his delight his enjoyment these themes that are often neglected in the body of Christ but they're critical or essential to equipping a generation to overcome shame and darkness and sexual brokenness emotional pain offense the the subject of God's heart that God desires he delights he feels he loves he has affection and he wants us to see it and to receive it and to be moved by it I want to encourage you whatever season of life you're in to make an intentional decision to become a student of God's emotions well obviously most of you are because you're here tonight you're saying what do you think we'll do it I honor you for that I encourage you to stay with it all your life in the resurrection we're going to understand God's emotions more but I don't want to wait till there I want to go deep now paragraph C the second theme of the Song of Solomon it's God's beauty one of the great prophecies for the generation the Lord returns your eyes will see the king and his beauty not just his power it is power - not just his wisdom yes I love God's wisdom and power you'll see its beauty you'll have a new look at old truths and you'll see beauty from A to Z being manifesting God's love and his power in His wisdom this is one of the great promises Isaiah 33 17 you want to be intentional about seeing the beauty of God that was the verse that I mean the theme that God gave us here for the establishing of ihop 17 years ago was Psalm 27 for this one thing we gaze on his beauty that's central to our mandate to keep a 24/7 sanctuary of prayer and worship was people interacting with his beauty one of the reasons that's so key because through the incredible development of media and media is going to continue to become more dynamic to be used for good or evil but more and more dynamic but through this tremendous revolution of media so much you know quality of technology and art and all those things that you're aware of there's a counterfeit fascination going on in the earth and the only thing that will be strong enough to overpower that count fascination is the genuine beauty that only God possesses and it's the very beauty that he imparts that's paragraph D that's one of the other themes is how the bridegroom King repeatedly through this love song says it's not only that I'm beautiful my beloved so are you the beauty that I possess I am parked in other words when I look at you it's what the Lord is saying I'm not repulsed when I look at you I'm not put off when I look at you I'm not hesitant when I look at you I feel delight I see value I like what I see because even though many of our virtues are only budding they're only beginning he sees it clearly and it's beautiful to him and he knows where it's going when we understand that he's not just forgiving us but he actually sees beauty in his people he delights he likes he enjoys he values what's going on that's a whole different way for a relationship to develop Isaiah 60:1 the famous verse that Jesus quoted the Spirit of the Lord is upon me to proclaim the good news he's anointed me he goes on in verse 3 to give Beauty part of my mission under the anointing is to impart Beauty where there was the brokenness of ashes because ashes speaks of the burning passions but burning the wrong way and only ashes are left hey guys I'll give beauty I'll take the ashes of your broken life I'll give you beauty and we'll develop that throughout this book but that theme is all the way through the book at that's a very important feat Moses said in Psalm 90 the beauty of the Lord be upon us paragraph II it's not only that he's beautiful and he imparts it and he loves us he awakens us to love I believe that the truths the biblical truths about God's heart about his desire that are set forth poetically in this love song but it's all the way established Genesis to Revelation they will awaken love there's nothing that will make you love God more than seeing the way he loves you I wrote a book called passion for Jesus years ago and people have asked me how to get passion for Jesus like I can tell you it's real easy be a student of his passion for you when you are a intentionally a student of his passion for you his emotions it will awaken you can't see that truth about it moving you it will move you progressively sometimes we go three steps forward two steps back but we keep moving forward over the months and years there are setbacks but we overcome them and we keep moving forward this is a song about love this is the the bridegroom King the Kings song about love in the Bible it's an eternal Psalm this book the Song of Solomon will last for billions of years there won't be natural marriage in heaven but this song will still be saying again I don't want to wait till the resurrection I want to see it now I want to feel it now paragraph F it's about partnership you'll see through the book particularly the final four chapters well no you see it all the way through but more in the in the last half love longs for partnership he's not only a king who wants workers he's a bridegroom King he with partnership love always wants partnership it doesn't want us to work for him he wants us to work with him the key to not being burnt out in ministry is working with him not for him when you work for him you can work detached you can work separated from dialog and from encountering his heart when you work with him your dialoguing with him you're feeling is heart you're sharing your heart and you get built up even though you might get weary and your physical strength your heart is being energized but when your body gets we read through the labors of ministry but you're not dialoguing you're not interacting with heart that's called burnout because we were made for love I love what Jesus says in John 17 24 right before he goes to the cross he goes father father I desire that they be with me where I am he wants us with him where he is forever we find this theme all the way through the psalmist element then in Revelation 20 verse 4 he says it again of her 6 revelation 20 verse 4 to give verse 6 it says they'll reign with him over the earth not just reign reign with him revelation 20 verse 4 says it again in verse 6 it's the with him that he really desire we see these five themes not only these five things but these five themes over and over in the book all of these themes are biblical from Genesis revelation but nowhere are they so compacted in one short part of scripture eight short chapters just kind of like this firehose of God's emotion and delight and beauty in the way that he sees us all compacted in the song I and again I believe nearly every line of the song can become a thousand songs the Holy Spirit gives as a theme from a line in that book paragraph H I one of the best summaries of the Song of Solomon is given by Paul the Apostle in my opinion in Ephesians 3:18 when the very best summaries of this book he says verse 17 that you may be able to comprehend that's it comprehend understand experience the width length depth and height to verse 19 experience the love that passes human knowledge meaning the love is bigger than our ability to grasp it by the without the Holy Spirit's help and we can't grasp it we'll never exhaust it ever a million years from now we will still be receiving more and fresh insights I love to call the ocean of God's love it passes human knowledge you can't get it without the Holy Spirit helping you and there will never be enough years to exhaust it even in eternity paragraph I the Holy Spirit gives us the ability to comprehend this beloved this is the journey this is the journey you're on this is the journey I'm in I'm not just on a journey to work and the kingdom I love working because I'm working with him now I'm working for what He desires I'm working to see people liberated and brought in to that glorious two-way relationship with him but the Holy Spirit wants more than workers he wants us to comprehend something the width and length and depth and height of love of affection you can put the word affection there he wants us to comprehend his delight the value he sees in us our destiny he wants us to go on this journey with him beloved when we see ourself like he sees us even a little bit we don't look at our lives only through the lens of our brokenness we see our brokenness we're honest about it our sin in our brokenness but that's that's not the dominating narrative of how we see ourselves before God we see ourselves through his lens and it doesn't stop there we see other people to his lens through this lens I remember I was just overcome one night years ago with song as home before nine it says he's ravished for his beloved I go oh look he ravished for me oh my goodness and then you know I'd say like if I was you I wouldn't be that ravished around me that well he knows everything so he knows more than I know about me so okay ravish that I mean affection delight I remember it's caught up in that and that particular time I had a particular man who was really attacking me with all kinds of lies and publishing their horrible lives for it I just paused and it entered my mind I am ravished for him too I went well Lord I mean I want him saved I really do but ravished it's so wrong what he's doing the Lord says my heart is so much bigger that his weakness and brokenness I remember I a was so clear to me I paused was really glad he's saved but not that glad that God delighted it him I thought come on Lord let's be straightforward about this and this idea that my heart is bigger than his brokenness but that's good for you because I never change and that's how I look at you my heart is bigger than your brokenness oh it oh that's a good deal like I said that's how you are okay I can go there it changed the way I looked at that man what he did I still did appreciate but I had a different feeling entirely I said I would say these words why would whisper them I saw him and many times with my eyes and I'd pray for him and say Lord you're ravished for him you delight in him I cook ok ok I can feel that a little bit oh this is easier Lord could say my yoke is easy if you do it my way my yoke is easy doesn't mean there's not a hard a lot of hard work but it means if you if you relate to me and work with me my way through my lens through my paradise I mean paradigm the yoke is easy does it mean the work is easy the yoke is easy because your heart is enlarged and it's invigorated in the journey top of page 3 well I want to get to this idea we're going to develop it through the this course the belovedness well the anchor for this truth is found in Jesus I want you to note two thing unknown something here then we'll look at it for a moment that on two occasions God the Father so to speak bent over the balcony of heaven look down to his son and audibly out loud like thunder you are my beloved son he did it twice that's remarkable the first time was right before Jesus went into the temptation and the temptations of wilderness for forty days Satan literally appears I've seen a demon a time or two I don't like it I don't like the feeling I don't like the look of it I know I got Authority I don't even like anything about it Satan appeared to him with all of his power Jesus weakened in his human his humanity's fully god but as a man he's living as the Holy Spirit gives him human strength his strength as a man is drawn by the Holy Spirit just like you like me he wasn't living out of the resource of his deity though he never ever lost it he was living like a man who lives by faith and in relationship to the Father through the spirit and he's weak his body is way down 40 days of water Satan comes in all of his splendor and fierceness to him because Jesus is in the position as the second Adam that Adam was in the guard of Eden and Jesus gives three temptations in the wilderness the same three temptations that Adam got in the Garden of Eden the same three yahwah I could go to it right now Adam you've it and therefore the whole human race went in a different direction Jesus has to in them as a man stand in the same place that Adam stood but it's not a garden of paradise or he's fully refreshed it's a wilderness hundred degrees whatever parched no food the fierceness of Satan Jesus had to say yes to the Father in the same three temptations that Adam yielded to the father knew what Jesus was facing and beforehand he says Jesus my beloved my beloved and the very statement of Jesus's beloved yes I don't know how it all works because he's fully God but he's fully man too but I know that the truth of being God's beloved was a source of warfare in one of the greatest moments of temptation in his life well then three plus years later right before the cross the Mount of Transfiguration Moses and Elijah appear and God speaks audibly again it says they appeared to speak to Jesus Matthew 17 about his coming death I mean could you imagine Moses and Elijah showing up from history hi Jesus like Peter James and John are going water on earth it's going on and they came to talk to Jesus about his death for the second time the Lord speaks out like thunder Jesus you're my beloved that truth empowered him in the wilderness and it empowered him on the cross and we look at that as a oughta more than a model it we don't know what the word is but we look at that how the father and the son related and in the two most intense hours of temptation of course the cross being far more than the other but the other being the second most powerful time of temptation and he was energized empowered by the truth of you are my beloved beloved the endtime Church it's going to be empowered to face the persecution a type of the cross and to face temptation the whole harlot Babylon reality by the same truth our beloved 'no stu god i mean i don't mean we earn anything by persecution but the end time church is going to bear the cross not for their own salvation but in that way of standing for truth and we're going to face the onslaught of temptation like no time in history and the two times that jesus was tempted most the same truth was uttered over him you are my beloved and beloved the song of solomon captures this theme and unpacks it right from the first chapter to the eighth chapter of this poetic love some and I believe again the great love songs of God's heart the bridegroom King are going to be released by the spirit all through the body of Christ calling them the beloved of God to withstand the fierce temptations and the fierce persecution of the generation the Lord returns and the church will stand unified cross the nations the spirit and the bride the church and her Bridal identity come Jesus we are yours you are our King you are our beloved and we are yours this love song is Song of Solomon is not of secondary importance again because it's poetic because it's the songs to people yeah but I go no no no no don't do yell but it's only one generation that is the bridegroom generation we're the church worldwide sees the Messiah as a bridegroom only one generation in history because they have to they have to see who he is their beloved and who they are as his beloved to withstand the temptation and the persecution that type of a cross that the same way that Jesus was empowered and again the mystery of how a man who's fully God and fully man how that all works I don't even pretend to understand the depths of that we are his beloved look at paragraph 5 I mean Roman numeral 5 the secret to who you are the secret to your identity to your destiny to your greatness the secret to your satisfaction is in the heart and in the words of the father over you in the words of the son so many believers because we're humans we're still wanting to get our identity and our definition of success of great greatness from the mouth of another and I believe that's there's ways we do that through encouragement but the primary way that we establish our identity our sense of Worth and success is from the mouth of God and I believe that the Song of Solomon the truth of our beloved Ness God's going to wash the church with it that's why I want to take these themes to this course and highlight on just themes and pull them out in the book of Revelation and see where they are from Genesis directly I mean the book of Song of Solomon and see where they are established from Genesis to Revelation being God's beloved Jesus said in paragraph a John 15 one of my favorite verses Jesus said in the same way the Father loves me I'm telling you that's the way I relate to you that's how I feel about you we will enjoy intimacy with God's heart more and more as we interact with this truth and again it's not just uh we agree with it we got to stay with it in an intentional way it needs to get into our lips into our prayer life into the language of our dialogue with the Lord paragraph B Paul referred to it he called the Saints the beloved of God paragraph C in Ephesians he chose us before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love some translations say he chose us in love to be holy and blameless that before the world was ever created in love he chose us that we would be holy and like him look at verse 6 that we would be accepted in the beloved go down to paragraph 2 God gives himself to us in a way that he gave himself to Jesus he frames out the whole relationship through the grid of Jesus being the beloved of God and were accepted in that tone and in that spirit of the relationship the beloved of God accepts us before God were accepted in that place where belovedness is a primary truth in and dominating theme of the relationship we're not just accepted in the cane that I would take that in the beloved were accepted because the nature of the relationship is a mutual to wait belovedness it's more than servants paragraph D we looked as I said I already said this but we looked first to the father for our primary identity don't look to it from people now naturally we do look to people for it but we want to go on this journey where we're saying that's not enough they're not giving me the recognition the honor the value that I really should have and the Lord says is never no one's going to ever do it just right get it from me first then you'll be able to receive it or not receive it from others get it from me first a believer that's confident and being God's beloved will be far more dedicated far more consistent paragraph II now that's for all of you that teach the Word of God again whether you're teaching one-on-one and you're home to your children whether you're teaching on the internet through social media condemnation rejection despair is overcome in the truth of being his beloved you don't have to use that term every time but when I meet somebody they have comprar condemnation and compromise they're caught in bondage it's not the only truth but I know that's the dominant truth that's going to liberate them when it's all said and done it's not the only thing but I know that's the dominant truth as a Bible teacher in the Shepherd and when you get that clear in your heart the condemnation the despair the shame the addiction that is overcome by the truth of his beloved as the many facets of that diamond the truth of his beloved being his beloved has many facets it's a diamond with many facets the most effective way to empower them to liberate them is to lead them to that truth that vast diamond of being his beloved of which the Song of Solomon for eight chapters is all about the way to your Liberty in mine the way to your greatness it's the way to your satisfaction it's the way to your freedom but it's also the way to the people you minister to and when you have that clear then ya don't ever want to graduate from this truth paragraph F it's the last minute or two here the primary battleground in the spirit Satan's accusations against our identity he's going to accuse us to get us to yield to the temptations of this generation and he's going to accuse us to try to get us to back away in fear from standing and bearing persecution he wants to bring temptation and he wants us to cower before persecution by weakening us with accusation he tells us we're not God's beloved he tells us we've gone too far he tells us it's too late but the truths of this song will say exactly opposite it's like it's like a weapon in God's hand I mean in the hands of God's people by the spirit to break Satan's lies paragraph G look what John wrote about himself five times five times I mean there's nothing in the Bible where a guy talks about himself five times in the same way he describes himself as the beloved but the term John uses is the one God loves but it's the same truth as the beloved paragraph H David did it look at Psalm 60 your beloved after David struggled in sin and compromise in sick like that he got free I mean after 16 months of compromise look what Psalm 18 verse 19 he says God delivered me from my dilemma and my compromise why because you repented well yeah David did repent but why'd God deliver you he says cuz God likes me David how could you say that you've been in Zig like 16 months you ought to say God delivered me because something I don't know but not because he delighted in here because that's why he delivered me and that's why I didn't give up cuz I knew his heart and his gentleness in my weakness and my sin is what's making me great because I didn't give up because he was gentle with me he didn't cast me aside well the enemy comes in lies and we feel cast aside but we're not David says now his gentleness gives me a new beginning every day so I can go on to be great meaning I can do the will of God completely in my life look at paragraph I Jeremiah this is intense he's speaking about Israel when Israel is under the Babylonian discipline the discipline of God in Babylon I mean the most severe discipline Israel's gone through the Old Testament but look what Jeremiah that God says he says what has my beloved to do in my house cuz they were still in the temple they were offering sacrifices to demons he goes there doing these lewd things but and they're in my temple offering sacrifice to demons but but but they're still my beloved like I looking like a WoW one language Lord if that's how you feel about Israel's that how you feel about me cuz yes you're my beloved even when I'm disciplining you look at chapter 12 I have given the dearly beloved of my heart into the hands of her innocent to Babylon to discipline her to to wake her up but she's the dearly beloved of my soul Jeremiah 31 Jeremiah was persecuted by so many of the leaders in israel his day because he kept saying disciplines coming bondage is coming babylon is coming and they said stop saying that you're getting the whole nation afraid because they need to be afraid they need to be afraid and they put Jeremiah in prison a couple times and here's what God here's a Jeremiah set verse three the Lord appeared to me he appeared to me he said Jeremiah I know you're in prison I know you're hurting I know everybody's rejected you but I want you to know I love you I love you Jeremiah with everlasting love keep telling them I love them but know in your imprisonment in your difficulty I love you and jpg rap Jay there's more references look at romans twelve worship team come on out we're called beloved when we're tempted to take our own vengeance in bitterness the Lord says don't don't I will repay because you're my beloved you can trust me look at first Peter - right - towards the end when we're facing temptation of lust it's the truth of being his beloved that empowers us first Peter for when we're facing trials it's the truth of being his beloved like Jeremiah sustains us the book of Song of Solomon is this explosion of God's heart you are my beloved I am yours and you are mine together forever not just an eternity now you are my beloved I am your beloved amen let's stand before the Lord

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