We're gonna be in Song of Solomon
this morning, both hours, if you'd like to turn there. Song of Solomon chapter one.
Now, last Sunday, we looked at Ecclesiastes, and Ecclesiastes
tells us the emptiness of what our life would be without Christ,
the emptiness and vanity that our life is without Christ. Song
of Solomon, on the other hand, shows us the fullness of the
life that we have in Christ, the fullness of the life we have
in his love, the fullness of life in him, the completeness.
And we get to see Christ as our bridegroom. There's not another
book in the scripture that goes into the depths of the expression
of love, I suppose, back and forth between the husband and
wife, Solomon and the the Shulamite girl, but this is an allegory. An allegory is a story or a poem,
a picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning. So
if we just take it as just a story in and of itself and say, okay,
well, this was just Solomon talking to this Shulamite, then we're
not going to get a whole lot of spiritual meaning out of it.
But this is a picture and an allegory of Christ unto his church
and his church unto him. And I hope the Lord will reveal
that to us this morning. Love is mentioned 30 times in
Song of Solomon. I thought that was very interesting. The only other book of the Bible
that has the word love in it more than that is Psalm, but
there's 150 chapters in Psalm, whereas there's not that many
in Song of Solomon. But we see that this is all a
confession of the love that Christ has for his bride and a confession
of the love that the bride has for the Lord. The scripture tells
us very clearly that we love him because he first loved us. I was talking to the men in the
men's study this morning and I mentioned that the love that
he had is what begot us. We are begotten by love. That
was the very first reason the Lord chose to elect a people
to save them was because of his will according to the love that
he has towards his people. And so I hope we get to see in
this allegory, this wonderful passage, the back and forth between
the husband and the wife. First thing we notice in Song
of Solomon chapter one is a plea, her plea and her confession. And it says in verse one, the
song of songs, which is Solomon's, let him kiss me with the kisses
of his mouth. Thy love is much better than
wine. Thy love is better than wine. Because of the savor of
thy good ointments, thy name is as an ointment poured forth. Therefore to the virgins, love
thee. Draw me. We will run after thee. The king
hath brought me into his chambers. We will be glad and rejoice in
thee. We will remember thy love more than wine. The upright love
thee. I am black, but comely. O ye
daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains
of Solomon, look not upon me, because I am black, because the
sun hath looked upon me. My mother's children were angry
with me. They made me the keeper of the vineyards, but mine own
vineyard have I not kept. Tell me, O thou whom my soul
loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest
at noon. For why should I be as one that
turneth aside with the flocks of thy companions? Now understand,
there's going to be many times that we'll see throughout Song
of Solomon as we go this morning, but also if you were to read
it, it's a conversation that's going back and forth and back
and forth. And a lot of times it can be determined or expressed
on who's speaking by the man saying her or the woman saying
him. And so that's really the only
reason we know that it's her that's speaking here, because
at the very beginning, the plea starts out, let him kiss me with
the kisses of his mouth. And so the first thing we notice
in verse one is let him. The second thing we notice is
verse four, draw me. So this is a plea unto her husband. This is a plea unto the one that
she loves. And this is the same plea that
we have unto the one we love, the Lord Jesus Christ. This is
our plea, Lord, Kiss me with thy kisses. Or what we request. Now, the
confession that she has after requesting this is found in verse
six, look not upon me because I am black. It's a confession
of her righteousness not being adequate for him to look upon
her. What she's implying is if you're going to look upon me,
then it's going to have to be through the eyes of love. It's
going to have to be by grace alone because I am not to be
looked upon. I'm filthy rags. I'm black. I'm not as these other women
are. I'm polluted. I'm not white.
These others are white. I'm not white now. I understand
that they may literally be talking about the skin color, but we
can apply this to ourself, can't we? When we come into the Lord,
we know we know that we're not clean before him. The stars are
not pure in his side. So this is our plea as well,
isn't it? Lord, don't look upon me. Look upon Christ. Now she's seeking. She's seeking
for him in verse 7. And she says, tell me so first
she says, let him. Second, she says, draw me. Her
confession is, I'm black. Don't look upon me, I'm black.
And then she says, tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, verse seven,
where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon.
For why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of
thy companions? Now here's his response to her.
If thou know not, O fairest among women, I want to pause right
there a brief moment because I want us to acknowledge what
he calls her. He doesn't say that she's not
acceptable. He doesn't say that she's not
good enough. He calls her the fairest among
women. Boy, that is our hope, isn't
it? When the Lord looks upon us, that we have been made the
fairest, that we have been made fair like unto him, that we are
robed in his righteousness. We're no longer black, but we're
white. By his grace, he's watched us clean from our filth. and
made us white as snow. That's our hope. He calls her
the fairest among women. He says, go thy way forth by
the footsteps of the flock and feed thy kids beside the shepherd's
tent. He says in verse nine, I have
compared thee, O my love, to a companion of horses and Pharaoh's
chariots. Thy cheeks are comely, thy rows
of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold. We will make thee borders
of gold. and with studs of silver. He
said, I'm going to adorn thee. He's going to put a circlet.
That's what that border's word means, a circlet. He said, I'm
going to put a crown upon your head and a robe upon your back,
and you're going to have gold and silver embroidered in the
hymn of it. What is this a picture of? It's
a picture of the adorning that Christ has given to his bride.
It's an adorning of him placing his righteousness upon her. This
is what he's saying. They're the fairest among women
because of what I've done and what I'm doing. And so we see
when he tells her, she's willing to come after him. And he says,
so she says, where are you? Where do you, where do you keep
your sheep at noon? And she said, he said, if you
don't know, just follow the sheep and you'll find, is that not
what we do? We come to worship the Lord where the sheep worship.
We come to try to hear this gospel because we know this is where
he promised to meet with us. Is that not true? So the Lord's
telling us the same thing. If you don't know where to find
me, look among the sheep. Look among the sheep, because they're
going to be sitting, hearing the gospel. They're going to
get fed from me. This is what this is a picture
of here. And look at her response in verse 14. She says, my beloved
is unto me as a cluster of campfire in the vineyards of NGD. Behold, thou art fair, my love.
Behold, thou art fair. Thou hast dove's eyes. Behold,
thou art fair, my beloved. Yea, pleasant, also our bed is
green, the beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of
fir. That word campfire means the
price of a life or ransom. It means to be pitched as a covering
atonement. So what is she saying here? Talking
about the vineyards of Engedi The word in Getty means the fount
of the kid, the fount of a baby goat. What is she saying here
then? What is her expression in all
this? She's saying, thou hast ransomed me by thy atoning blood
alone. Thou art fair, thou art fair,
thou art fair. I'm reminded of three times something
else is mentioned in Revelation. Holy, holy, holy. This is what
she's expressing. You have ransomed me by your
own blood and made me white. and she's praising him for it,
thou art fair. This is what all this is a representation
of what Christ has done for his people and what our response
is to it. This is why Song of Solomon was
written. It's not just a love story, it is the Song of Song,
he says at the top, the Song of Song. Now in verse two, we have our
beloved speaking unto us again and he says, I am the Rose of
Sharon. in the lily of the valleys. As
the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters."
He declares, I am the Rose of Sharon. I am the lily of the
valley. Now I would remind us that a
rose is red. And I first joined you up here
to be your pastor back in August of last year, I brought a message
on the Rose of Sharon. It's a beautiful picture to think,
now understand, There's two interpretations that we can have with the term
Rose of Sharon. Number one, it could be the rose that's in the
Valley of Sharon, which I'll talk about in a minute. But the
second one is literally, or I guess there's multiple, more than just
two now that I'm thinking about it. You have the Rose of Sharon
being a bush and it's called the hibiscus bush. We would know
it better than that. But then you also have the literal
rose that would be in the Valley. So you have the, The red color
of the rose, you have the thorns on the side, and you have this
valley that's dead that doesn't have any life in it whatsoever.
What's that a picture of? When the father looks down, he
doesn't see the curse that Christ bore in his own body, which is
the thorns. That was the curse that was given to Adam in the
garden, wasn't it? The thorns and thistles. God does not see
those thorns and thistles. He doesn't see those sin. Why?
Because the red blood of Christ has washed them away. And those
who are under him, under the shadow of his leaps, Under the
shadow of the lily of the valley, he doesn't see our unrighteousness.
We're covered in his blood. That's what this is a picture
of. I am the rose of Sharon. The lily of the valley is a cluster
of white flowers. And we see this as being our
beloved being white among the green grass. Is that not what
Isaiah called it? The Lord said prophesying to
him and Isaiah said, what should I call him? He said, tell him
the grass. Speak comfortably to him. Tell him they're grass.
Now, how is that comforting? Well, it's not unless you're
hiding under the shadow of the lily. If you're hiding under
the shadow of the rose, he is the rose among the grass. Do
we see the picture? This is what this is talking
about to us. This is a confession of what
he's done for us. He's our tree of life. He's our
fountain of living water. He is our covering. A lot of men take different scriptures
and try to apply it to life and say, well, this is what this
means and we should do this and we should do that. You know what
the grass does? It just grows according to the
Lord's word. It doesn't realize that it's
grass, but that's what we're called. And so we only have one
hope is that we're under him. We don't want to be seen by the
father in and of ourselves. We're just a bunch of weeds,
if I can put it that way, but he's the rose. He's the most
beautiful, isn't he? He's the fairest one. That's
what we see here. Scripture tells us in you that
we're sometimes alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked
works. Yet now, hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through
death to present you holy and unblameable and unreprovable
in his sight. He hath presented his people
holy unblameable, unreprovable in his sight because of his death
and his body. Now, Sharon is a plain, as I've already
mentioned, and it's centrally located right between Mount Carmel
and Joppa. Mount Carmel was the place of
worship. You remember when Elijah went up against the prophets
of Baal And the Lord allowed you to worship there. The fire
of God came down and consumed the sacrifice and licked up the
water. Everything was consumed. That's
a picture of our substitute, enduring the wrath of God and
taking it into himself and then consuming it. Our sin being put
away, the wrath being satisfied. So it's a place of worship, Carmel
is. And Joppa is beautiful by definition. That's the definition. Beautiful. Only the rose of Sharon can bridge
the gap from our worship to the place beautiful in Christ. Only
the rose of Sharon can be what brings us unto the Lord and presents
us beautiful unto him and allows us to worship. See, we're in
the valley. We're grass. We're nothing that
the Lord would look upon and be pleased with. But when he
sees that rose and he sees that we're under that rose and Then
his banner over us is love. We see that. That's what I've
titled this message. His banner over me is love. When God looks down, he does
not see anything but the blood of his dear son for all those
for whom Christ died. We are hid under the shadow of
his wing. Scripture tells us our life is hid with Christ in
God. Your life is hid, hidden away. What does that mean? That
means because he's reconciled in his own body by his death,
because he's reconciled us back to God, we're hid. Judgment cannot see us. Justice
has been satisfied. We are in Christ, seated in the
heavenlies right now. Now, her response to this, If
you look in chapter two and verse three, now she's speaking. As
the apple tree among the trees of the woods, so is my beloved
among the suns. I sat down under his shadow with
great delight and his fruit was sweet to my taste. He brought
me to the banqueting house and his banner over me was love. Now I want you to notice in your
Bible that word was is in italics. That's the wrong word there.
It should be is. It should be is. His banner over
me is love. Yes, his banner over us was love,
but it is right now, and his banner over us is going to be
love. Why? Because he put away our sin.
We see three things, and I want to spend the remainder of the
time looking at these three things right through here. Three things
that she does. Number one, she sits down. She
rests. She rests, I sat down. Now we know that only rest can
come through and by the Lord's Sabbath. So many times men would
get angry at the Lord because he would do things on the Sabbath,
not realizing that the Sabbath was a representation of Christ
himself. He is Lord of the Sabbath. The
Lord only rested, the Father only rested when he created this
world on the Sabbath day. So whenever we see that she rested,
she's resting because of who he is. She's resting because
of where she is. She's under the shadow of the
tree. She's seated in his righteousness, resting in his finished work.
That's the only way we can rest is to rest on what Christ has
accomplished. The only time that you can rest
is when there's no more work to be done. Is that not true?
In this life, We'll go to bed because it's got to get up early.
We got to do more work. I mean, that's just how it is.
You might not even be done with our work that day, but we have
to, you know, we have to postpone it a little longer because our
body needs rest. And that's why we rest physically. But understand
something, this rest that she's talking about here, the rest
for the believer, it's an eternal rest. It's not, there's never
going to be anything else to do. And it's not because you're
exhausted. It's because the work's been finished. That's the picture
here. The Lord saying rest to his people because I have successfully
accomplished salvation for my people. And that's what she does.
She rests because there's no more work to be done. Hold your
place here, we're gonna turn back in a second, but turn to
Hebrews with me, chapter four. Hebrews chapter four. Look in verse nine with me. There remaineth therefore a rest
to the people of God. In my margin, that word rest
right there is keeping of the Sabbath. There is a keeping of
the Sabbath unto those that are the Lord's people. For he that
has entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own
works as God did from his. Let us labor therefore to enter
into that rest, lest any man fall under the same example of
unbelief. For the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper
than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder
of soul and spirit and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner
of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any
creature that is not manifest in his sight, but all things
are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do."
Now in religion, Men would constantly use that verse and say, the Lord's
seeing everything that you're doing right now, and you better
do better. That's literally what the message was. You had to do
better in order to please God. But understand the hope that
we have in verse 14 through the rest of the chapter. Seeing then
that we have a great high priest that has passed into the heavens,
Jesus, the son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not a high priest
which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities,
but was at all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly
into the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find
grace to help in the time of need." He says, come boldly,
why? Because you have a high priest.
Yes, it's true that the Lord sees all, knows all, but here's
the glorious news of the gospel. the sin of his people has been
put away, so he no longer sees that sin. There's a rest in that,
isn't there, brethren? There's no other rest anywhere
else other than in that, that he hath successfully put away
the sin of his people, that we are resting under the rose of
Sharon, that we are seated, we are seated under the tree of
life, the Lord Jesus Christ himself, we're seated, we're seated. reminded
of being a child. We would have picnics sometimes.
We normally wouldn't cast a blanket out into the open field. We would
find a shade tree. Shade. We need shade from the
sun. It was hot. It was, you know,
sometimes it'd get up high 90s. You'd feel the need to have a
shade. And if you've ever been working
outside in the sun, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
It was hot. We wanted shade. The only hiding place that we
have is in the shadow of the Lord Jesus Christ being found
under him, not having our own righteousness, but his righteousness. This is what all this is a representation
of. I turn back to Psalm of Solomon
chapter two, and I begin talking already on the second thing that
we see, and it's the shadow, sat down under the shadow. Verse
three, as the apple tree among the tree of the woods, so is
my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow. Scripture tells us, be merciful
unto me, O God, be merciful unto me, for my soul thirsteth in
thee. Yea, in the shadow of thy wing
will I take my refuge. There is no other hiding place
that we have from the wrath of God. There is no other resting
place we have but on the Lord Jesus Christ. There's no other
place that we can run to but there's no other place the child
of God wants to run to, is there? We know that there's no other
place and we don't desire any other place. He has satisfied
our desire. He satisfied our need. Why? Because my beloved's fair. He's
the fairest of all men. He's the fairest among 10,000
to my soul. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
one that has allowed us. He didn't just allow us, he had
to make us, didn't he? He's caused us to sit underneath his shadow,
the shadow of his wing, I'm reminded of the passage of scripture where
the Lord's speaking and says, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often
would I have gathered you as a hen would gather her brood,
but thou wouldest not. This is a picture of being hid
underneath the shadow. Men will not come to him to hide
underneath him. Men want to name for themselves. But oh, whenever
we see ourself as being in the, when we see that the son of God
is coming in judgment towards us because of our sin, we need
a shadow, a hiding place, don't we? We need a place of refuge.
We have that. the Lord Jesus Christ. No matter
what is transpiring in our lives, no matter what we're dealing
with physically, rest for a moment knowing that your sin has been
put away. The Lord's people's sin has been
put away, and you have a hiding place under the shadow of his
glorious wing. The shadow is the same thing
that we see in the picture of Noah, and I think I use that
example just about every time I stand. It's just a glorious
picture of the wrath of God falling upon the Ark and everyone inside
was safe, weren't they? Everyone inside, could that rain
got through that Ark? No, why? Because the Ark had
a covering. The Ark had atonement, it had
pitch upon it. It's a representation of the blood of Christ for his
people. The water couldn't pass through it just as the wrath
of God will not pass through the wings of Christ for all those
for whom he died. On that day upon Calvary's tree,
The wrath of God was satisfied. The wrath of God was satisfied
with our beloved, the Lord Jesus Christ. He that dwelleth in the secret
place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the
Almighty. We have to be hiding in the secret place of the Most
High. What is the secret place? It is that which must be revealed.
It is the glorious gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is
Christ himself. That's our hiding place, isn't
it? We know that to be true. The Lord, as he was departing,
told his disciples, I go to prepare a place for you. He said, in
my father's house, there's many mansions. I go to prepare a place
for you. I remember, and perhaps some of you do as well, people
would say, I got a mansion just over the hilltop. Actually, I
think that was a song we used to sing. I've got a mansion just
over the hilltop. And that would be their hope,
is that the heaven to come would be something similar to what
they have here, but better, because they would have more possessions,
obviously, with a mansion. It would be bigger. The place
that he went to prepare for us is himself. We are in Christ. That's what we desire, isn't
it? That's what we desire. People think that it's all about
the streets of gold and the walls of Jasper, the gate of one pearl,
all these things. He was telling us, no, the thing that you value
most, gold, is just pavement to God. The thing that I've done
for you. The place of rest is this tree
of life, the Lord Jesus Christ, and you are Now in the heavenlies under the
shadow of his wing because of his finished work. This is why
he was beloved to her. This is why he is our beloved,
isn't it? We are hidden in Christ. We cannot
be found by the wrath or the justice of God because it's been
satisfied. When he entered into death for
his people, when he endured the wrath of God, he did it in our
stead. And now there's nothing to say
but peace unto us from the Lord. There's nothing that the law
can demand of us anymore, but peace. Justice has been satisfied,
all because we're under the shadow of his wing. The last thing we
notice, let's read this again, chapter two, verse three. As
the apple tree among the trees of wood, so is my beloved among
the suns. I sat down under his shadow with
great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. He brought
me into the banqueting house, and his banner over me is love,
was love. We see that his fruit is pleasing
unto us. What does the fruit represent
here? It represents his work, doesn't it? We see that the fruit
of the spirit is love, joy, peace, gentleness, meekness, long-suffering,
temperance. Understand something, we can't
produce any of those things in and of ourselves, can we? We
can't produce a single fruit of the spirit. In religion, men
say, well, you have to be more spiritual, produce more more
fruit spiritually. We're not looking to our fruit,
are we? We're looking to Christ's fruit. That was what was pleasing
unto the Father, was the work of Christ. And it's pleasing
unto us too, isn't it? It's pleasing unto us too. This
is the tree of life, the tree of eternal life. The Lord said,
come, take ye of the water of life freely. It's the same thing.
It's all the tree of life. It's the fountain of living water.
It's the body of Christ. It's the blood of Christ. That's
what we're talking about here. He's sweeter than wine unto us,
isn't He? That's the representation. He's sweeter than honey from
the honeycomb. Everything needed, He provided.
Now this is a glorious picture because it's called a banqueting
house. It's a great feast. There's not just a little bit
there. There's sufficient for everyone. There's sufficient
for everyone. Come, take of the water of life
freely. Everyone that's going to be there,
there's more than plenty for everyone. The storehouse of mercy
and the storehouse of grace will never be depleted. Not a little
bit, not ever. There's plenty at this banqueting
table because he provided it all. He's given us a place to
sit on Christ, our Sabbath. He's given us shelter from the
wrath of God and the shadow of his wing. And then he's feeding
us. He's taken care of everything in time and in eternity. We just keep feasting upon the
Lord Jesus Christ, don't we? That's why we're here, to hear
about my beloved. I love it. In one portion, she
says, I am my beloved and he is mine. Don't you love that?
He is my beloved. Why? Because he first loved me.
His banner over us is love. That's what we just read. At
this banquet, we are filled with His sweetness. He is satisfying,
isn't He? The Lord Jesus Christ satisfies
His people. That's what we want. That's what
we crave and we need more than anything else is the Lord Jesus
Christ. It's His milk and His honey.
You know, the children of Israel were promised, I'm gonna bring
you to a land flowing with milk and honey. That's what kept being
told unto them, wasn't it? What is that milk and honey?
We know milk is the very beginning sustenance of any child, any
infant born, and it's necessary to sustain them, necessary for
them to grow. That's about the only thing that
they can eat, but it has so much life-giving nutrients in it,
that's all that they need at that time. The scripture tells
us, you being babes, desire the sincere milk of the word that
you may grow thereby. I've heard men say, well, You're
just preaching on the meat, we need the milk, or you need to
preach more milk, or we've grown past the milk, I've heard men
say. No, it's hand in hand. See, the same message is for
the babe, just as much as it is for the one that's mature
in Christ. I can tell you who the ones are
mature, the ones that don't believe they're mature. That's how it
works. The ones that believe that they're the worst, they're
the ones that's grown some. The babes are the one that says,
well, I'm good. I've learned everything I need
to learn. I've grown, I'm mature. Think about your children. Is
that not what they think? Whenever you say maybe, listen,
you're 15 years old. And they're like, I've learned
enough. I know what's going on now. Those are the ones that
are immature, aren't they? What do we come here to hear?
We come here to hear the milk of the word. and the meat of
the word, and it's exactly the same. It's Christ Jesus, and
he satisfies our tastes, and he's our nutrients, our life-giving
sustenance. He's everything to the believer.
He is my beloved, and I am his by his own doing, by his own
blood. No wonder David said, oh, taste
and see that the Lord is good. Oh, taste and see that the Lord
is good. I love these allegories that
the Lord uses in his scripture. It's just deep enough to where
a man would drown in it if the Lord doesn't save him. And it's,
he leaves us enough rope to where a man will hang himself with
it. But the Lord Jesus Christ is the one that gets all the
glory for all of this, isn't it? He allows us to see that
it's all of him. Go taste and see that the Lord
is good. His fruit pleases his people. His banner over us is love. You
know what a banner is? Back in the time of kings, they
would ride in with a sigil above their side, who they were claiming
to be fighting for, who they were claiming to be willing to
lay their life down for. This is my king. This is my country. I'm fighting for my wife. I'm
fighting for my children. Whatever the case may be, this
was the banner that everyone held underneath. And as long
as that banner stood, the men would be rejoicing, knowing that
the victory had not been overtaken. If the banner fell, no one was
holding up the banner. They would have thought, okay,
they've overtaken us. No one's holding up the banner
anymore. Christ Jesus is the one holding up the banner over
you, his people. And what is that banner? It's
love. He's saying, I fought for you.
I fought for you on the cross of Calvary. And I've sat down
and finished the work. He's saying, I died for you.
My banner over you is love. Think about that. He went to
war for his people on the cross of Calvary and got the victory.
And the whole time he was carrying one singular banner and it was
the love that he had for his people in honoring his father
in the covenant of grace. His banner over you is love.
Now, do you believe that there's anything that can get to you
that doesn't pass through him? No, certainly not. If he was
willing to die for you, do you believe there's anything that
he's left undone? Any circumstance in your life that's not ordered
and sure? Certainly not. Why? Because his banner over
you is still love and it will be. Even when we're called home
to be with him for all time, we have his banner over us as
love and all eternity, his banner over his people is love. I mentioned
this Wednesday, If he loves us right now, he's always loved
us. He tells us that he's called us with an everlasting love. That means he's never not loved
his people. And his love accomplished salvation.
He loves us. He loves his people. I don't,
that's overwhelming to think about God loving me. That's overwhelming to me. It's
only that we're found in Christ Jesus. Thanks be to God for our
beloved. who took the wrath of God for
his people. How is it that it's possible
that he could love us? We'll look in Song of Solomon
four. Verse one. Behold thou art fair,
my love. Behold thou art, thou art fair. Thou hast dove's eyes within
thy locks. Thy hair is as the flock of goats
that appear from Mount Gilead. And verse seven says, All fair,
my love, there is no spot in thee. He describes some of her
feminine features previous to this, so we know exactly that
it's him talking to her. What is the point of this? Well,
if you remember, he said, thou art fair, my love. She said it
unto him three times, did she not? And he just said it unto
her three times. What is he saying? Well, we find
in the scripture that the Lord's name is Jehovah Sitkinu, the
Lord, our righteousness. And as it goes on through a couple
of chapters, we find out what her name, the bride of Christ
is going to be. Do you know what it is? Jehovah
said, can you the Lord our righteousness? He has given us his name. He
has given us his holiness before the Lord. Think about that now.
I don't mean that he laid it down and and and got rid of it
and then gave it to us. No, he successfully redeemed
his people in substitution and became sin for his people so
that we might be made the righteousness of God in him so that when he
sees us, what does he say? Thou art fair. Thou art the fairest
among women. You're the one that I choose.
You're the one that I love. My banner over you is love.