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Song of Songs – Love’s Vigilance Rewarded
Love’s Vigilance Rewarded
Song of Solomon 3:4
Pastor’s Opening
WHEN I look upon this great assembly of people, I think to myself, — there will be many here to whom these chapters that we have read out of Solomon’s Song will seem very strange. Of course they will; for they are meant for the inner circle of believers in the Lord. Jesus Christ. This sacred Canticle is almost the central Book of the Bible; it seems to stand like the tree of life in the midst of the garden of Eden, in the very center of the Paradise of God. You must know Christ, and love Christ, or else many of the expressions in this Book will seem to you but as an idle tale.
Scripture Verse(s)
Song of Solomon 3:4
“It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I hold him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.”
Keys to the Verse
Speaker:
Bride/Church/Believer
Him, Whom She Spoke of:
Bridegroom/Jesus Christ
Mother’s House:
Church/Body of Christ
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Main Theme’s
I. First, before we actually come to our text, we may notice THREE PRELIMINARY STEPS IN THE SPOUSE’S PROGRESS.
- The first one is implied in the words, “I love him.”
- Then, in the spouse’s progress, there came another step, “I sought him,” and
- Then comes in a little minor or mournful music, for the next clause is, “I sought him, but I found him not.”
II. Secondly, inside the text, there are THREE FURTHER STEPS: “I found him,” “I held him,” “I brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.”
