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Song of Songs – Better Than Wine
sermon overview
BETTER THAN WINE,
JUNE 2, 1872
Song of Solomon 1:2
Pastor’s Opening
THE Scriptural emblem of wine, which is intended to be the symbol of the richest earthly joy, has become desecrated in process of time by the sin of man. I suppose, in the earlier ages when the Word of God was written, it would hardly have been conceivable that there could have existed on the face of the earth such a mass of drunken men and women as now pollute and defile it by their very presence. For man, nowadays, is not content with the wine that God makes, but he manufactures some for himself of which he cannot partake, at least in any abundance, without becoming drunken.
Chapter Citation and Verse(s)
Song of Solomon 1:2
“Thy love is better than wine.”
Keys to the Verse(s)
Speaker: Bride/Church/Believer
Thy Wine: Bridegroom/Jesus Christ
Pastor Waxed Poetic
“Oh, for the bliss of flying,
My risen Lord to meet!
Oh, for the rest of lying
Forever at his feet!
“Oh, for the hour of seeing
My Saviour face to face!
The hope of ever being
In that sweet meeting-place!”
Main Theme(s)
I. First, then, I want to prove to you that CHRIST’S LOVE IS BETTER THAN WINE BECAUSE OF WHAT IT IS NOT.
II. Secondly, CHRIST’S LOVE IS BETTER THAN WINE BECAUSE OF WHAT IT IS.
III. “Thy loves are better than wine,” and this teaches us that CHRIST’S LOVE MAY BE SPOKEN OF IN THE PLURAL, because it manifests itself in so many ways.
IV. For my last point, and that is, CHRIST’S LOVE IN THE SINGULAR, a theme which might well suffice for half a dozen sermons at the very least.
