Spurgeon's Song of Song Survey
Song of Songs – Love to Jesus
SERMON OVERVIEW
Love to Jesus
Song of Solomon 1:7
Pastor’s Opening
If the life of a Christian may be compared to a sacrifice, then humility digs the foundation for the altar… prayer brings the unhewn stones and piles them one upon the other… penitence fills the trench around about the altar with water… obedience lays the wood in order… faith pleads the Jehovah-Jireh, and places the victim upon the altar… but the sacrifice even then is incomplete. Where is the fire? Love, love alone can consummate the sacrifice by supplying the needed fire from heaven.
Main Theme(s)
I. First, then, the words spoken – the rhetoric of the lips. The text calls Christ, “Thou whom my soul loveth.”
II. Now let me come to the reasoning of the heart, which lies at the bottom of the text. My heart, why should you love Christ?
III. Now I come to my last point. I must dwell on it briefly. Language is good, reasoning is better, but a positive demonstration is the best.
