Song Of Solomon

Song of Solomon 3:1-11

Theme: The Beloved

Key Chapter: 2

Key Verse: 6:3

8 chapters; 117 verses; 5,584 words

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Author: The Holy Spirit of God by inspiration (2 Tim 3:15) through Solomon

Date Written: 10th Century B.C.

Outline:

I. Fostering of Love. chs.1-2

Courtship

II. Fulfillment of Love. chs.3-4

Wedding

III. Frustration of Love. chs.5-6

Problem

IV. Faithfulness of Love. chs.7-8

Progress

A progression through the poetical Books of the Bible has helped us. Something in each poetical Book has taught a certain truth that points us to the next, except for Proverbs. Proverbs points us to Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon.

Job…..Sovereignty

Seeing God’s Sovereignty causes us to Worship

Job 42:2

I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.

Psalms…..Worship

Worship develops the fear of the Lord

Psalm 111:10

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

Proverbs…..Wisdom

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom

To Ecclesiastes:

Wisdom can overcome life’s vanities

Proverbs 31:30

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.

To Song of Solomon:

Wisdom can maintain a Godly marriage

Proverbs 5:18

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

To have a successful...

Marriage

Ministry

Message

Method

Here are the PLACES we are looking for Christ

I. Looking For His Comfort. vs.1-3

The Awareness of His Absence. v.1

1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

The Agony of His Absence. v.2

2 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 Avenues of Her Asking. v.3

3 The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

II. Looking For His Communion. vs.4-5

The Right Person for Communion. v.4a

4 It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go,

The Right Place of Communion. v.4b

until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

The Right Peace with Communion. v.5

5 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

III. Looking For His Coming. vs.6-11

The Waiting for His Coming. v.6

6 Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

The War at His Coming. vs.7-8

7 Behold his bed, which is Solomon’s; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.

8 They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.

The Wealth of His Coming. vs.9-11

9 King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.

10 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.

11 Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

Conclusion: