Song of Solomon: The King's Romance (Pt 2)

Introduction

Open your Bibles this evening to Song of Solomon 1:1-7, and we will actually get into the text this evening. We will read verse 1-7 and get into verse 1-4 today.

I hope you had a chance to read the text and think about it.

It is vitally import we reiterated what we said last time.

Heavens romance is pure

We live is a sin saturated lust filled word and our mind are impacted that no question

This what what Paul means, in Romans 12:1-2 it have our minds renewed.

I was minded of this this week by a tweeter post from Pastor Gabriel Hughes.

So again, at the risk sounding like a broken record.

Guard your minds fiends as we get into this text.

No second commandment violation allowed

Let’s read

Song of Solomon 1:1–7 ESV

1 The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s. 2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine; 3 your anointing oils are fragrant; your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you. 4 Draw me after you; let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you. 5 I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. 6 Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has looked upon me. My mother’s sons were angry with me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but my own vineyard I have not kept! 7 Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who veils herself beside the flocks of your companions?

May God Bless the Reading of His Holy, Infallible, and Sufficient Word.

Let’s Pray

Transition

Body

Wholly in Love

Song of Solomon 1:1–4 ESV

1 The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s. 2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine; 3 your anointing oils are fragrant; your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you. 4 Draw me after you; let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you.

The Author Solomon

Wholly in love, whole body experience.

Kiss = Touch

Wine = Taste

Fragrant Oil = Smell

Be so in love with Christ, that to touch, taste, or smell anything that is not of Him is utterly unthinkable, undesirable, and unacceptable. That your whole life is bound up in the idea of being near him.

Let’s talk first about the human

Life filled Puritan verse Lifeless Puritanical-ism

“his puritanical parents saw any kind of pleasure as the road to damnation”

Jonathan Edwards and Sarah

“they say there is a young lady in New Haven who is beloved of that almighty Being, who made and rules the world, and that there are certain seasons in which this great Being, in some way or other invisible, comes to her and fills her mind with exceeding sweet delight, and that she hardly cares for anything.” [1]

“We should not shy away from emotion, passion, or joy, but should celebrate these things as gifts from God that keep us from being automatons. This applies to romance as much as anything else. In a world gone mad with lust and the desire for transcendent experience, Christians should be clear that we do not advocate an ascetic, joyless existence, but that we in fact have found the most pleasurable pursuit of them all.” [2]

Transition

It is Intimacy

“Draw me after you; let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers.”

“The word “chambers” here as elsewhere refers to the bedroom, the most intimate of rooms. [3]

We must not shy away from the reality that God intends for there to be a whole Joyous deeply intimate physical emotional relationship between the husband and wife.

Like we already talked about puritan and not

He is to draw her.

Christ draws his church.

To quote Jonathan Edwards again, “In the creature's knowing, esteeming, loving, rejoicing in, and praising God, the glory of God is both exhibited and acknowledged; his fullness is received and returned. Here is both an emanation and re-emanation. The refulgence shines upon and into the creature, and is reflected back to the luminary. The beams of glory come from God, and are something of God, and are refunded back again to their original. So that the whole is of God, and to God, and God is the beginning, middle and end in this affair.” (Works 8, 531) [4]

As Christ draws his church, in this ultimate transcendence romance, she exhibits this over whiling desire to be with him.

What believer in coming to know the excellency of Christ does not desire to be with him

Who is more excellent than Christ.

Lets stop for a moment and this about that.

If a woman finds joy in the love of a man

If a man love his wife excellently that joy and that love are real.

How much more excellent is the love of Christ?

He is the lion, over coming all his enemies and crushing all who oppose him

He is the lamb gentle and meek, healing, and restoring.

He is more valuable than all of creation combined holding the entire universe up with the word of his power and for him was everything made.

He has the rightful demand to submission, and he condescends to help us in our weakness.

No one gave up more for his bride

Christ never demeans his church.

Think of that in scripture, even tough we are talking about they God man, he treats he with ultimate dignity.

We are to be instructed here not only how we are to love Christ but how to reflect that love with our spouse.

The king has brought me,

“This is the first of five occurrences of the word “king” (1:4, 12; 3:9, 11; 7:5). Here in v. 4, there are two possibilities for the meaning: either the “king” is just that, a king, who has tried to win the young woman’s affections, or he is her lover, whom she romantically fantasizes to be her king” [6]

Be so in love with Christ, that to touch, taste, or smell anything that is not of Him is utterly unthinkable, undesirable, and unacceptable. That your whole life is bound up in the idea of being

Transition

They rejoice in you

“we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you.”

We are introduced to the ladies in waiting here,

“They are referred to as the “daughters of Jerusalem” (1:5), “daughters of Zion” (3:11), and “young women” (6:9). [5]

A tradition we have dumb ed down here in the US but has a lot of biblical meaning.

Paul Washer once said, show me how a man treat his wife and ill tell you if he is a christian. I am paraphrases, and there was more to his statement be that part stuck with me because it is at the heart of how the marriage exemplifies Christ and the church.

References

[1] 1. Owen Strachan and Douglas A. Sweeney, essay, in The Essential Jonathan Edwards: An Introduction to the Life and Teaching of America’s Greatest Theologian (Kindle Edition) (Moody Publishers, 2018). 43.

[2] Ibid, 46.

[3] R. C. Sproul, ed., The Reformation Study Bible: English Standard Version (2015 Edition) (Orlando, FL: Reformation Trust, 2015), 1097.

[4] 1. Owen Strachan and Douglas A. Sweeney, essay, in The Essential Jonathan Edwards: An Introduction to the Life and Teaching of America’s Greatest Theologian (Kindle Edition) (Moody Publishers, 2018). 102

[5] R. C. Sproul, ed., The Reformation Study Bible: English Standard Version (2015 Edition) (Orlando, FL: Reformation Trust, 2015), 1097.

Bibliography

Strachan, Owen, and Douglas A. Sweeney. Essay. In The Essential Jonathan Edwards: An Introduction to the Life and Teaching of America’s Greatest Theologian. Moody Publishers, 2018.