Spurgeon's Song of Song Survey
A Song of Songs – Nearer and Dearer
Nearer and Dearer
Song of Songs 5:2-8
Pastor’s Opening:
THE most healthy state for a Christian is that of unbroken and intimate fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ. From such a state of heart he should never decline. “Abide in me, and I in you,” is the loving precept of our ever loving Lord. But, alas! my brethren, as in this world our bodies are subject to many sicknesses, so our souls also, by reason of the body of this death with which we are encompassed, are often sorely afflicted with sin, sickness, and an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the Lord. We are not what we might be, we are not what we should be, we are not what we shall be, we are net what we wish to be.
Chapter Citation and Verse
Song of Solomon 5:2-8
“I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him. I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I c died him, but he gave me no answer. The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.”
PurchaseMain Theme(s)
Our relationship with Jesus, what of it?
Pastor’s Seven Points
- We observe that the spouse confesses A VERY COMMON SIN: she cries, “I sleep.”
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The song before us reminds us of A HOPEFUL SIGN. “My heart waketh.”
- The third thing in the text is A LOVING CALL.
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That after the knocking and the pleading, the spouse made A MOST UNGENEROUS EXCUSE.
- “My Beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door.” Does not this picture THE WORK OF EFFECTUAL GRACE?
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Observe THE DESERVED CHASTISEMENT which the Bridegroom inflicted, and
- As the poor spouse did not then find Christ, but was repulsed in all ways, she adopted A LAST EXPEDIENT. She went to the watchmen and keepers.
