Spurgeon's Song of Song Survey
Song of Songs – Rejoicing and Remembering
sermon overview
Rejoicing and Remembering,
April 4, 1886
Song of Solomon 1:4
(second of three)
Pastor’s Opening
IT is a very blessed habit of saints who have grown in grace to enter into actual conversation with the Well-beloved. Our text is not so much speaking of him as speaking to him: “We will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine.” Of course, in prayer and in praise, we speak to God; but I suggest that we should seek to have much more of intense and familiar intercourse with the Lord Jesus Christ than the most of us at present enjoy. I find it good sometimes in prayer to say nothing, but to sit or kneel quite still, and to look up to my Lord in adoring silence…
Chapter Citation and Verse(s)
Song of Solomon 1:4
“We will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine.”
Keys to the Verse(s)
Speaker:
Bride/Church/Believer
Thee/Thy:
Bridegroom/Jesus Christ
Wine:
Things of this world
Purchase
Main Theme(s)
I. We have here A DOUBLE RESOLVE: “We will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine.”
II. The resolve of the text is A SUITABLE RESOLVE FOR THIS OCCASION: “We will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine.”
III. My third point concerning this double resolve, — LET US CARRY IT OUT. I will remember thy love –
- to me.
- Christ himself.
- so we do know of Christ’s love.
