Matrimonial Love Song of Songs 5-7

1. Matrimonial Love Song of Songs 5-7

2. She begins to describe the Beloved • 5:10 "My beloved is white and ruddy" • White  purity and heavenly • Ruddy = red / healthy blood running through Him. • Unlike • Acts 23 where St. Paul told Ananias the high priest "God will strike you, you white washed wall". • Matthew 23 Jesus says woe to the Pharisees for they're like white washed tombs white on the outside and on the inside full of death and uncleanness. • While Jesus is white and pure, but also he is full of life and His Blood is the life giving blood.

3. 5:11 His headis like the finest gold; His locksare wavy, and black as a raven. 12 His eyesare like doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set. 13 His cheeksare like a bed of spices, banks of scented herbs. His lipsare lilies, dripping liquid myrrh. 14 His handsare rods of gold set with beryl. His bodyis carved ivory inlaid with sapphires. 15 His legsare pillars of marble set on bases of fine gold. His countenanceis like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. 16 His mouthis most sweet, yes, He is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem! • When a soul is in love with the Lord and she is talking about Him, it’s never enough • And after all this… “He is altogether lovely”

4. 6:1 Where has your Beloved gone, O fairest among women? Where has your Beloved turned aside, that we may seek Him with you? • A true Christian is the 5th gospel • When a soul is in love with the Lord  unintentional evangelism • Am I so?

5. 6:4 O my love, you are asbeautiful as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with banners! 5 Turn your eyes away from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats going down from Gilead. 6 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep which have come up from the washing; every one bears twins, and none is barren among them. 7 Like a piece of pomegranate are your temples behind your veil. 8 There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and virgins without number. 9 My dove, my perfect one, is the only one, the only one of her mother, the favorite of the one who bore her. The daughters saw her and called her blessed, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her. 10 Who is she who looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, awesome as an army with banners? • She is "dark; tanned by the sun; ‘don't look at me’; have not kept her own vineyard…." Yet to Him we are simply the most beautiful thing. • “Your eyes have overcome Me”

6. 6:11 I went down to the garden of nuts to see the verdure of the valley, to see whether the vine had budded and the pomegranates had bloomed. 12 Before I was even aware, my soul had made me as the chariots of my noble people. • The natural progression of the love relationship with the Lord is service of any kind • Notice: • She’s happy that she serves • “I”

7. 7:1 How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O prince’s daughter! The curves of your thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman. 2 Your navel is a rounded goblet; it lacks no blended beverage. Your waist is a heap of wheat set about with lilies. 3 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle. 4 Your neck is like an ivory tower, your eyes like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus. 5 Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple; a king is held captive by your tresses. 6 How fair and how pleasant you are, O love, with your delights! 7 This stature of yours is like a palm tree, and your breasts like its clusters. 8 I said, “I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of its branches.” Let now your breasts be like clusters of the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples, 9 And the roof of your mouth like the best wine. Behold! My Servant whom I uphold, my Elect One in whom My soul delights! I have put My Spirit upon Him; he will bring forth justice to the gentiles. Isaiah 42:1

8. 7:1 How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O prince’s daughter! • Eph 6:15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace • 7:2 Your waist is a heap of wheat • Eph 6:14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth • 7:4 Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon • Tower  friend or foe • Nose  good / nourishing or rotten / harmful • Servant  truth or lies

9. 7:7 This stature of yours is like a palm tree • Straight and upright • Not proud when the storm winds come • Has deep roots / provides food nourishment in hard, dry places • The more it’s hit, the more it gives the fruit (of the Spirit) • Happily ready to give up her branches to lay them under the feet of Jesus

10. 7:10 I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me. 11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth to the field; let us lodge in the villages. 12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine has budded, whether the grape blossoms are open, and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love. • Progression: • My beloved is mine and I am His • I am my beloved's and He is mine • I am my beloved's and His desire is toward me • Finally she now says "Let us" not "I" • "He must increase and I must decrease" John 3:30 • She's eager to work in His garden "rise up early"

11. Glory be to God Forever, Amen.