Memories of Love and Beauty
Delve into a poetic exploration of love and beauty as depicted in the Song of Songs, with vivid imagery and profound emotions expressed through memories of going out, adorned with jewelry, and the essence of true love. Experience the timeless tale of intimacy and devotion between God and Israel, intertwined with reflections on the splendor and treasures of love shared between beloved ones.
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Memories those were the days! Song 2:8 5:1
Eat, friends, and drink; drink your fill of love (5:1) Introduction dialogue and pictures Introduction God & Israel e.g., Ezekiel 16 8 Later I passed by, and when I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for love, I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your naked body. I gave you my solemn oath and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Sovereign LORD, and you became mine. 9 I bathed you with water and washed the blood from you and put ointments on you.10I clothed you with an embroidered dress and put sandals of fine leather on you. I dressed you in fine linen and covered you with costly garments.
Introduction 11I adorned you with jewelry: I put bracelets on your arms and a necklace around your neck,12and I put a ring on your nose, earrings on your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. 13So you were adorned with gold and silver; your clothes were of fine linen and costly fabric and embroidered cloth. Your food was honey, olive oil and the finest flour. You became very beautiful and rose to be a queen.14And your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, because the splendor I had given you made your beauty perfect, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Eat, friends, and drink; drink your fill of love (5:1) Introduction Memories of going out (2:8-17)
Eat, friends, and drink; drink your fill of love (5:1) 8Listen! My beloved! Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills. 9My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look! There he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice. 10My beloved spoke and said to me, Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, come with me. 11See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. 12Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come; the cooing of doves is heard in our land. 13The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me. 14My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely. 15Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom. 16My beloved is mine and I am his; he browses among the lilies. 17Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the rugged hills.
Eat, friends, and drink; drink your fill of love (5:1) Introduction Memories of going out (2:8-17) Do we rejoice in God s goodness in creation? As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
Eat, friends, and drink; drink your fill of love (5:1) 8Listen! My beloved! Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills. 9My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look! There he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice. 10My beloved spoke and said to me, Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, come with me. 11See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. 12Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come; the cooing of doves is heard in our land. 13The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me. 14My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely. 15Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom. 16My beloved is mine and I am his; he browses among the lilies. 17Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the rugged hills.
Eat, friends, and drink; drink your fill of love (5:1) Introduction Memories of going out (2:8-17) Do we rejoice in God s goodness in creation? Is there a heartfelt cry for the Lord to be with us and us to be with the Lord?
Eat, friends, and drink; drink your fill of love (5:1) Introduction Memories of going out (2:8-17) Dreaming (3:1-5)
Eat, friends, and drink; drink your fill of love (5:1) All night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves; I looked for him but did not find him. 2I will get up now and go about the city, through its streets and squares; I will search for the one my heart loves. So, I looked for him but did not find him. 3The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. Have you seen the one my heart loves? 4Scarcely had I passed them when I found the one my heart loves. I held him and would not let him go till I had brought him to my mother s house, to the room of the one who conceived me. 5Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.
Memories those were the days! Song Application (pt.1)
Application Leaving home, living with Christ Enjoy Christ s love for you as though it is springtime all year round The reality of pain in love; the reality of the pain in Christ s love for us (Isaiah 53)
2He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. 3He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. 4Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. 5But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. 6We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Eat, friends, and drink; drink your fill of love (5:1) Introduction Memories of going out (2:8-17) Dreaming (3:1-5) Memories of engagement (3:6-5:1)
Eat, friends, and drink; drink your fill of love (5:1) 6Who is this coming up from the wilderness like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and incense made from all the spices of the merchant? 7Look! It is Solomon s carriage, escorted by sixty warriors, the noblest of Israel, 8all of them wearing the sword, all experienced in battle, each with his sword at his side, prepared for the terrors of the night. 9King Solomon made for himself the carriage; he made it of wood from Lebanon. 10Its posts he made of silver, its base of gold. Its seat was upholstered with purple, its interior inlaid with love. Daughters of Jerusalem,11come out, and look, you daughters of Zion. Look on King Solomon wearing a crown, the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, the day his heart rejoiced.
Eat, friends, and drink; drink your fill of love (5:1) How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes behind your veil are doves. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from the hills of Gilead. 2Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn, coming up from the washing. Each has its twin; not one of them is alone. 3Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon; your mouth is lovely. Your temples behind your veil are like the halves of a pomegranate. 4Your neck is like the tower of David, built with courses of stone; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors. 5Your breasts are like two fawns, like twin fawns of a gazelle that browse among the lilies. 6Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of incense.
Eat, friends, and drink; drink your fill of love (5:1) 7You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you. Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon. Descend from the crest of Amana, from the top of Senir, the summit of Hermon, from the lions dens and the mountain haunts of leopards. 9You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace. 10How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much more pleasing is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume more than any spice! 11Your lips drop sweetness as the honeycomb, my bride; milk and honey are under your tongue. The fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.
Eat, friends, and drink; drink your fill of love (5:1) 12You are a garden locked up, my sister, my bride; you are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain. 13Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates with choice fruits, with henna and nard, 14nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree, with myrrh and aloes and all the finest spices. 15You are a garden fountain, a well of flowing water streaming down from Lebanon.
Like apples of gold in settings of silver is a ruling rightly given. Like an earring of gold or an ornament of fine gold is the rebuke of a wise judge to a listening ear. (Proverbs 25:11-12) A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. (Luke 6:45)
Eat, friends, and drink; drink your fill of love (5:1) 16Awake, north wind, and come, south wind! Blow on my garden, that its fragrance may spread everywhere. Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its choice fruits.5 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice. I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey; I have drunk my wine and my milk. Eat, friends, and drink; drink your fill of love.
Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him. Fear the LORD, you his holy people, for those who fear him lack nothing. The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing. (Psalm 34:8ff)
Memories those were the days! Song Application (pt.2)
Application The beauty of Christ (Ps 27:4) One thing I ask from the LORD, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple.
Application The beauty of Christ (Ps 27:4) Our beauty is skin deep and we have no beauty in God s eyes (Revelation 2:29; Romans 3:10-12) Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds. As it is written: There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.
Application And so we turn to the most Beautiful One to be cleansed and clothed in his beautiful righteousness through repentance, faith and hope in Christ alone.