Song of Solomon
The Song of Solomon is about the relationship that the church enjoys with Jesus Christ, our Maker who has become our husband. We need a song—an excellent song—about love… about beautiful love. Not about the duty of love, but about being loved and about the love that we already have in us by grace but don’t always recognise.
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February 27, 2022 • 68 mins
The Song ends with a request for Jesus to come to us. These words (v. 14) are clearly our words to Him if we are betrothed to Him.
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February 20, 2022 • 51 mins
This may seems like a surprising conclusion to the Song of all Songs. It speaks about the love between Jesus Christ and His church in a beautiful allegory. You might expect such a song to end with the bride, Shulamite (the princess of peace), moving into the palace of King Solomon (the prince of peace), to live happily ever after. Instead, we find the beloved and his bride separated—not due to a quarrel, but with Him expressing His...
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February 13, 2022 • 65 mins
What we have in our text today (Song of Solomon 8:10-12) is the bride, who has just expressed interest in helping her little sister, recognising the progress that she has made over the years by His grace.
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January 30, 2022 • 78 mins
Today we continue in our sermon series in the Song of Solomon. We are in the last chapter where the bride's desires desire for her husband's love are passionately expressed to Him. We have seen that the traditional, and best understanding of the Song of Solomon is that the bride is the church and that her beloved groom is Christ. It is about their mutual love. So here we are now, in the last chapter, and most of it is taken up with...
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January 23, 2022 • 57 mins
Today in our Song of Solomon sermon series, we come to a verse that beautifully captures the essence of our relationship with Jesus Christ in this world.
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January 16, 2022 • 74 mins
Today we are returning to our sermon series in the Song of Solomon. This Song is an allegory about the relationship of Christ with His church. It has so much that is helpful. It shows the desire He has for us—the delight He has in us. It shows how we rejoice to be the object of His desire. It shows the ups and downs of our experience (very realistic). Most recently, we saw a time when He has been restored to her. He expressed His d...
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December 19, 2021 • 69 mins
This Sunday, we will continue our series in the Song of Solomon. For the last couple of weeks, we have been looking at chapter 7 where the Bridegroom (who represents Christ in the Song of Solomon) expresses His delight in His Bride (who represents the believing church in this Song—she is one bride with many members). After hearing of His delight in us, we (His church) conclude that: "I am my beloved's, and His desire is toward me."
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December 5, 2021 • 62 mins
In this part of the Song, He describes how lovely we (His bride) are to Him once we have fully returned to Him. Last week we saw how eager He was for us to fully return to Him—without any of the hesitation that we so often have, especially when we have sinned. In the passage we are looking at today, He describes how desirable we are to Him when we are dancing with joy to be with Him.
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November 28, 2021 • 54 mins
You can see how He is continuing to reassure us of His full acceptance of us now that He is with us again. In verse 10, He uses yet another illustration of His present delight in us.
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November 21, 2021 • 57 mins
Today as we continue to work our way through the Song of Solomon, we come to a passage that is quite timely for us. The church around the world is experiencing the Lord's hand of chastisement. In such times we can wonder if our Lord still loves us the way He did before. In Song of Solomon 6:4-9, we are shown what Christ thinks of His church, even when she has resisted Him and caused Him to withdraw for a time.
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November 7, 2021 • 70 mins
The Song of Solomon is a book in the Bible that is often neglected and misunderstood. Although it is meant to be understood as an allegory depicting the relationship that Christ has with His church, many limit it to ordinary marriage.Nevertheless, even those who hold that view must admit that in the Bible marriage is a picture of Christ and His church which is called His bride. Therefore, even if you believe the Song of Solomon is ...
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October 31, 2021 • 52 mins
The devotion of the Church to Christ her Bridegroom is quite conspicuous! The daughters of Jerusalem are struck by it. They have seen the bride's relentless pursuit of Christ. They ask her what makes Him so special (v. 9). They Repeat the question, showing how earnest they are to know.
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October 24, 2021 • 58 mins
You see that there is something very disturbing here. The song speaks of Christ our husband deserting us! We are going to look at this experience that characterises us as believers.
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October 17, 2021 • 54 mins
As we have progressed through this Song, we have seen how it speaks of the many different experiences that we have with Christ as His bride. When we left off at chapter 5, verse 1, Christ had been telling His bride how enraptured He was with her, praising her and enjoying her fruits as most precious to Him. In 4:9, He spoke of being ravished with her love. In 4:16, we saw how she was thrilled to have Him enjoying her and how she wa...
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July 25, 2021 • 69 mins
So having seen last week that He is ravished with us, I want to move on to show you how glad we ought to be (and how glad we will be) to give ourselves to Him. The passage I began last week continues and brings this out. We pick up today in 4:12—Song of Solomon chapter 4 verse 12, but I will read from 4:1.
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July 18, 2021 • 77 mins
Last week, we saw how we who belong to Christ by faith were brought up out of wilderness of this world, as it were, to be His wife. Today that picture seems to go on, with Christ doing what grooms often did in those days at their wedding—they would praise their bride for her beauty as they prepared to consummate their marriage. Such a praise poem was called a wasf. So today, we are able to see through this allegory what Christ thin...
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July 11, 2021 • 56 mins
This week, I read through the entire Song a few times. The more I do that, the more I appreciate the fullness that is in this Song. It gives us a wonderful picture of the many different experiences that the church (which is the bride of Christ) has with Christ her husband.
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