Spurgeon's Song of Song Survey
A Song of Songs – Good Works in Good Company
Good Works in Good Company
Song of Solomon 7:11-13
Pastor’s Opening:
THE daughters of Jerusalem had been praising the Church as the fairest among women. They spoke of her with admiring appreciation extolling her from head to foot. She wisely perceived that it was not easy to bear praise; and therefore she turned aside from the virgins to her Lord, making her boast not of her own comeliness, but of her being affianced (betrothed) to her beloved: “I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me.”
Chapter Citation and Verse
Solomon’s Song 7:11-13
“Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves. The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.”
Keys to Verse
Speaker: Bride of Christ, Individual
My Beloved: Jesus Christ, Bridegroom
Field/Villages/Vineyard: Outside world
Grapes/Pomegranates
/Mandrakes: Fruit of the vineyard
Main Theme(s)
Pastor’s sermon presents three main points in his discourse:
- In the Matter of Self-Examination – This is a most desirable and important business, but every believer should desire to have communion with Christ while he is attending to it. Self-examination is of the utmost importance.
- The Church was about to engage in earnest labor – It is the business of God’s people to be trimmers of God’s vines, and .
- The Church desires to give to Christ all that she produces – She has “all manner of pleasant fruits,” both “new and old,” and they are laid up for her beloved.
Thus, is the substance of Pastor’s sermon for your edification and God’s good pleasure.
