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Song of Songs – Warning and Encouragement
Warning and Encouragement
Song of Solomon 5:2
Pastor’s Opening
How changeable is the creature! In the verse preceding our text, we find the spouse in a happy, healthy, heavenly frame of mind, for her Beloved was with her, and she was in the enjoyment of the closest communion with him. We find him saying, “I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk; eat, friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.” Yet, from the height of this glorious fellowship, how soon the spouse comes down to the depths of such a cry as this, “I sleep, but my heart waketh!”
Chapter Citation and Verse(s)
Song of Solomon 5:2
“I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my Love, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.”
Main Theme(s)
I. First, here is A LAMENTABLE STATE: “I sleep.”
II. Yet, secondly, there is, in the text, A HOPEFUL SIGN.
III. Now, thirdly, here is A POTENT REMEDY: “the voice of my Beloved.”
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