Song of Solomon
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Facts About the Song of Solomon
The Love of Loves in the Song of Songs Chapter 2: Underneath the Apple Tree
Starting with the church fathers—and then through the Middle Ages and up to the Puritans—the Song of Songs was one of the Bible’s most popular books. Believe it or not, pastors preached and scholars commented on this book more than any other book in the Bible.
The Genre of Song of Solomon is poetry.
The Love of Loves in the Song of Songs Prelude to the Song of Songs
Doug O’Donnell to conclude that the Song of Songs is “erotic poetry set within the ethical limits of the marriage bed.”
Main Themes ans Doctrines
Main Characters
Bride
Groom
Wedding Party
A Wedding Party
Main Doctrines
Ian Duguid explains, “In the Song, the woman is not a land to be conquered by the man or a field to be planted with his seed; she is a vineyard to be cultivated by him so that together they can enjoy the sweet wine of their relationship.” Ryken, P. G. (2019). The Love of Loves in the Song of Songs (p. 35). Wheaton, IL: Crossway. ”
A. Doctrine of Courtship
A Brides Loving Desire
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She desires his kisses;
The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine; your anointing oils are fragrant; your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you. 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.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine;
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Song of Solomon 1:1-
She desires his fragrance:
your anointing oils are fragrant; your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you.
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She desires his leadership:
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.
She desires godly women to rejoice in her relationship:
2. A Bride’s Concern with Her Beauty
I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. 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! 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?
When the Bride is considers her loving desire for her husband to be she begins to call out her self perceived problems with her image. She is concerned about her complexion. She explains she has spent so much time in the fields that she hasn’t had time to care for herself the way some of the other ladies may have. Her skin is darkened by the sun, may be weathered. She may have a rougher exterior than the young ladies who never had to work for anything or who had access to all the beauty products money could buy.
This problem continues to this day, not that many of our young ladies are spending time in the field, but they do have problems with the way they look. They feel like they are to little or to big, they are to white or to dark, they are not pretty enough, etc.
Fathers and mothers this is where we need to help drive the doctrine of who our young ladies are. They are image bearers of God, created exactly the way he wanted them. I am not saying we don’t need to be responsible in teaching them to care for themselves, and be a good steward to the body that God has given them. But we must assure them that they are beautiful daughters of the King and not to let their fallen view of themselves lead them to give up their hearts and bodies in order to attract the attention and desire of a man. Instead they need to see their beauty and their body as a treasure to be guarded for the glory of God!
3. A Bride’s Desire for Companionship
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?
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Solomon’s girl want to be with him night and day. She doesn’t just want to be with him at night after everything else is done. She desires to spend the day in the field with her man. Where do you pasture your flock? Where will you be a noon? She wants to spend every waking minute possible with the one she loves.
4. The Man’s Assurance
Song of Solomon 1:9
I compare you, my love, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots. Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.
Notice, he didn’t call her a nag, but a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots. Many of you ladies may be going well that isn’t much assurance of her beauty. But think about the beauty of high bred quarter horse or thorough bred. They have a glistening coat, a flowing main, and a well defined body! Horses are beautiful animals. He goes to define horses of royalty that were decorated with fine ornaments and jewels.
He assures her she is beautiful and all those around offer her assurance in verse 11 as well.
We will make for you ornaments of gold, studded with silver.
Those close to here are watching their relationship, watching their conversation and carefully guiding them through their loving desire as they approach the day of their wedding. Do you see the points of application for the church?
Ladies, it is a good thing to have a healthy, passionate desire for your spouse or spouse to be! God has created us to long for, leave with, and cleave to the man he has given you.
Parents, we need to make sure out daughters know that they are beautifully created in the image of God. We need to teach them their body is a temple of the Holy Spirit created for the glory of God and theirs and their spouses good.
Church we are to encourage godly courtship, and provide protection for the purity of our young men and women. This means we need to go to them and invite them into discipling relationships. Let me tell you they are not going to come to us, they may be intimidated, unsure, and may even feel inadequate to ask. We need to be more open and assertive to invite young teens, youth, and young adults into these relationships. Let them know we love them and desire to help lead and navigate them through these waters of courtship and marriage, they need us whether they know it or not!
These are temporal points of application, but there is also an eternal point of the Song of Songs,
I want to let Philip Graham Ryken explain this point for us. He writes,
The Love of Loves in the Song of Songs The Mystery of Spiritual Matrimony
The Song of Songs is not an allegory, but it is part of a bigger mystery—the mystery of the Father’s love in Jesus Christ for his beloved and beautiful bride. So the song is not just about a man who loves a woman. It is also about the love of all loves, which means that there is a place in this story for all of us. The image of the bride is in the Bible to show “the uninhibited joy and tender intimacy of the divine-human communion” that all of us are offered through the Son of God.”
Let me ask you a few questions.
Do you long for the consummation our our union with Jesus Christ?
Do you love Jesus and desire to spend time with Him day and night. Spending time loving Him, His Word, and His people?
As the Bride of Christ do we as the Church desire to protect the purity of His assembly of believers.
1:16-17 Desire for a home
2:1-6;15 Desire for protection and provision
English Standard Version Chapter 2
15 Catch the foxes for us,
the little foxes
that spoil the vineyards,
for our vineyards are in blossom.”
B. Doctrine of Premarital Purity
2:7, 3:5;2:15-17 Don’t stir up or awaken love until it pleases.
C. Doctrine of Marriage
The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills. My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, there he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, looking through the lattice. My beloved speaks and says to me: “Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away,
Song of Solomon 2:8-
The Beloved Comes
The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills.
2. The Beloved Stands and Looks
My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, there he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, looking through the lattice.
He is not creepily peeking in the window. Instead he is outside looking for her, waiting on her, desiring to spend time with her.
One of my Uncle’s used to say it this way, “if I was you every time her mama through the dishwater out the front door it would hit me in the face.” In other words that women is so special I would be there every waking moment waiting to spend time with her.
3. The Beloved Proposes
My beloved speaks and says to me: “Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away,
C. The Doctrine of Sexuality
Meant for a husband and wife
Meant for the benefit of the other
Meant to be celebrated 5:1
D. The Reality of Sexual Sin
I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone. My soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he gave no answer. The watchmen found me as they went about in the city; they beat me, they bruised me, they took away my veil, those watchmen of the walls. I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love.
Song of Solomon 5:6-
Men Don’t Leave Your Beloved Vulnerable to Sexual Sin.
Women Beware of the Reality of Sexual Sin
Church
Ian Duguid explains, “In the Song, the woman is not a land to be conquered by the man or a field to be planted with his seed; she is a vineyard to be cultivated by him so that together they can enjoy the sweet wine of their relationship.” Ryken, P. G. (2019). The Love of Loves in the Song of Songs (p. 35). Wheaton, IL: Crossway. ”
Ryken, P. G. (2019). The Love of Loves in the Song of Songs (p. 35). Wheaton, IL: Crossway. ”
