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Read 4:16-5:1.
Last week our Beloved, the Lord Jesus Christ, came right through His planted garden and He enjoyed some of its choicest fruits.
He enjoyed humility
He collected tears into His bottle
Conviction of sin
Rejoicing and Resting in Christ
He came and walked through that garden and delighted Himself in the praises of His people!
This is a picture of our text today in chapter 5.
The Lord hasn’t deserted this church, we’ve not been left with broken hedges that allows the wild beasts to destroy this garden.
But the Lord has sent a gracious rain.
He has quickened His seed and watered the plants of His garden and has made glad our hearts in His presence!
BIG IDEA.
Here we have Christ Answering the prayers of His Church, Delighting in them and Inviting them to partake and commune with Him!
A. Christ RESPONDING to His Church
"I have come to my garden—my sister, my bride.”
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Eat, friends!
Drink, be intoxicated with caresses!”
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Do you recall Jesus’s promise to those who love Him?
Remember in 4:16, the church refers to Christ as “my love” and rightly so, we love Jesus!
Here’s Jesus’s promise: "The one who has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me.
And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father.
I also will love him and will reveal myself to him.””
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So last week the Bride says, Awake and come wind of God’s Spirit and breath upon us and in v1 here is His answer!
What Christ does is He makes His church lovely!
He plants good things in it,
and then stirs up in her good desires:
He both fits her to pray from an inward gracious disposition, and holy desires;
after which, Christ hearing the voice of His own Spirit in her, and
regarding His own preparations, He answers them graciously.
We glean from this and observe how ready God is to hear prayer!
How ready Christ is to accept the invitations that His people cry out to Him about.
And also how backwards we are in hearing His calls and accepting His invitations.
He freely condescends to our requests, but we’re so hesitant (at times) to ascend to Him! (slow)
Also notice He calls her ‘my sister, my bride’.
Christ comes to his garden—indeed, He says ‘I have come’, the sense being, ‘I am here already’, ‘I am come’.
He was present in His garden anyway, even though his presence was not felt.
He loves to answer such a request without delay, for it is not annoying to the Lord Jesus Christ to come to his own.
The church is His church.
Her graces are His graces.
Her life is His life.
In an expression of deep affection,
He combines once again the terms ‘sister’ and ‘bride’ of the one He loves.
He owns His people in the nearest and dearest relationships.
Look again at v1. “I have come to My garden”.
It would be awesome if He said I’ll send My angel to you guys!
But what an unspeakable blessing are the words: “I have come...”?
As His Word goes forth, Christ presence is in the midst of His people.
Christ hears His church for a couple reasons.
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Our union with Christ.
Would to God that every one of us who knows the Lord Jesus would learn to live in the reality of our union with Him.
If only we would realize that regardless of our
personal failures,
imperfections, and
sins,
the merit of Jesus Christ encompasses and contains all of our service to Him.
What we do personally cannot increase or decrease God’s acceptance of us.
What we do as believers is pleasing and acceptable to God because
He always sees us together with His Son, His dearly Beloved.
Representatively, we’re in union with Christ.
You see God set it up so that what Adam did would effect the entire human race.
In the loins of that first man was the entire human race and when Adam sinned he earned something!
He earned death both for himself personally and for the entire human race corporately united to him.
The Scripture is emphatically clear: “In Adam all die” ().
God’s matchless, infinite grace is why there is a gospel.
Man needed a new representative who could and would fulfill the requirements for life.
God appointed His Son to that position.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the only One divinely chosen and qualified to be the Savior of sinners.
As the Scripture declares: “In Christ shall all be made alive” ().
Whereas by nature, all men in Adam are under the sentence of death,
by grace, all believers in Christ are alive.
The representative to whom we are united determines our eternal destiny.
And it’s our being in union with our representative, the Lord Jesus Christ, is why God delights to hear our prayers!
In John’s gospel, Jesus gives this extended metaphor about the vine and it’s branches.
It’s a comparison that centers on a Vine, which is Jesus and how the Vine produces fruit from its branches (which are believers).
Jesus makes this connection of being in Him, our prayers and our fruitfulness like this:
"If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you.”
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This is why the Word of God is the center piece of our gatherings!
The union together is us remaining in Him by His words remaining in us.
Where the word of Christ dwells richly there Christ dwells.
The word is to be our constant guide as Christ oversees His flock through the word, if it be in us as at hom, then truly we remain in Him.
"You did not choose me, but I chose you.
I appointed you to go and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.”
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Our relationship with Christ didn’t originate with us but with Christ that chose us!
It was the favor of Christ and His sweet grace, not their own wisdom and goodness in choosing their Master.
They were appointed (not to sit in a church pew or to beat the air), but to “go and produce fruit”!
Those in union with Christ are fruitful!
But it’s the amazing last part I draw your attention to.
“whatever you ask the Father in My Name, He will give you.”
Praise the Lord we have a God to go to that we call Father!
And we go to Him in a good name, specifically “in Jesus Name”.
We’re able to come boldly to God’s throne according to God’s will
and there we plead that we’re related to Him!
We’re one with Christ!
So go back to the Song.
It’s the offering up of prayer in His delectable name is what burns the incense, which sweetens its odors.
This is what allows Christ to say what He says in chapter 2:14.
"My dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the crevices of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.”
A dove.
It’s a sign of beauty, "... the wings of a dove are covered with silver, and its feathers with glistening gold.”
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Because the believer is washed in Christ’s blood, clothed with Christ’s righteousness,
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