Spurgeon's Song of Song Survey
Song of Songs – Paved with Love
Paved With Love
Song of Solomon 3:9-10
Pastor’s Opening
THIS portion of the Song describes the royal bridegroom as travelling up from the wilderness in an eastern palanquin, attended by his bodyguard, and by those who bear torches and burn perfumes. We have a description of the sumptuous chariot-bed in which this great monarch travelled, describing it as being made of cedar-wood, with pillars of silver, a basis of gold, curtains of purple, and then within it a tessellated floor, with pavement, not of precious stones, but of priceless love.
Scripture Verse(s)
Solomon’s Song 3:9…10
““King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon… the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.”
Keys to the Verse
Speaker:
Holy Spirit/King Solomon
Chariot:
Conveyance of grace/new covenant
Daughters of Jerusalem:
Believers elect
Quotable Quotes from the Sermon
Of the chariot of salvation we may say with quaint Ralph Erskine—
“Its bottom is a groundwork sure
Of pure and solid gold,
From bankrupt beggary to secure,
From falling through t’ uphold.”
Pastor’s Main Theme(s)
I. I shall beg you to notice, first, this morning, The growth which is indicated here as to our views of the covenant of grace.
II. We shall now note the position from which the love mentioned in our text is best seen.
III. I want you to notice the peculiar position of the pavement of love described in the text, and
IV. To close, dwell on that love itself just for a moment.
In closing, Pastor Spurgeon described the love of Christ as undeserving, eternal, and unrivalled. Such is the love that Jesus has for us.
