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Virgins love King Jesus!

“Your name is like perfume poured out, therefore the virgins love You.” Song of Solomon 1:3

 

Lesson 4

Think every day about who Jesus Christ is and what He has done for you.

Think often about who Jesus Christ is and what He has done for you.  This is absolutely necessary in order for you to grow!! 2 Cor. 3:18   If you fail to do this then God will still love you but you will feel His Loving Hand of discipline sooner or later. Hebrews 12

What makes Christ lovely?  Why do virgins consider Him lovely?

  1.  The loveliness of Jesus Christ consists in
    1. Who He is
    2. and what He has done.  The things he has done for her is included in His Name.  They are attracted to Him because He fully satisfies all our needs.  This includes all He has done from Eternity past to Eternity future is all taken care of therefore the Holy and Blameless love Him.
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Born Again “Virgins Love Jesus” Song of Solomon 1:3

Born again virgins love Him because of who He is and what He has done for them.  Who is this beloved like that these virgins love Him so?  Glad you asked, because other Christians asked the bride the same thing.  When a Christian wants Christ back in their life then God wants to remind us that we should be having High thoughts of Christ in this dark time.  So to be reminded of this Christ sends friends to help put our mind back on Christ so they say to us, “How is your beloved better than others,  most beautiful of women?  How is your beloved better than others?” Song of Solomon 5:9  Because thinking great thoughts about Jesus Christ will get us back on track again.  So thinking the highest and best we can about Jesus Christ will draw out more love to Him!   Meditating upon who He is and what He has done for us will set us aflame and get our first love back.  So she describes the glory of God reflected in the face of Solomon.  Here is her description:

10 “My beloved is radiant and ruddy,” (Infinitely Glorious yet humble, Holy and Just yet Gracious and Merciful),
    “outstanding among ten thousand.”
11 “His head is purest gold”; (Head is King and gold is divinity, value, purity, holiness, Leadership, His role as King Husband is most valuable and precious to her like pure gold!!)
    “his hair is wavy
    and black as a raven.” (Wrathful, righteous anger agains sin and sinners, Holy hatred for those who are evil and do evil) therefore the pure holy virgins love Him.
12 His eyes are like doves (Knowledge, wisdom, judgements and reasoning) (faithfulness and love in marriage union)
    by the water streams, (gentle and humble)
washed in milk, (pure and holy)
    mounted like jewels. (perfectly set on her making her outright adorable, valuable and desirable because His Love and Delight is in her.  The Holy Spirit is the Love and Delight of God.  And His Love and Delight is in her therefore she is a virgin and Loves Him.)
13 “His cheeks are like beds of spice” (multiple different valuable,pleasing and precious things about Him and what he does for her that draw out our love and value for Him more and more.) (My Covenant promise keeping God and LORD who’s desire is for me and who’s delight is in me, compassionate, gentle, amiable, Merciful, gracious and slow to anger, abounding in love yet does not leave the guilty unpunished.)
    yielding perfume.
“His lips are like lilies” (Only beautiful and lovely WORDS of truth comes out His mouth)
    “dripping with myrrh.” (over and over, precious, valuable yeah, infinitely precious and valuable blood of Christ and His sacrifice could only give off the most precious and valuable aroma to a sinner with a broken heart)
14 “His arms are rods of gold”  (He is powerful and has great authority ruling Nations with great precision set with topaz)  The idea is to get you thinking really great, precious and valuable and desirable qualities that could add to the glory of His Power. Rom. 9:22-23
    set with topaz.
“His body is like polished ivory” (How everything meets and comes together in Him is perfect and on top of that it is all sufficient and ever flowing fountain)  Imagine if His well went dry?  No way!  God is all sufficient and overflowing in who He is!  He can satisfy the hungriest soul forever!!)
    decorated with lapis lazuli.
15 “His legs are pillars of marble”(Legs = Foundation or a metaphor for His walk with God. “walk with God.”   Legs hold everything up so that it all works.  Love to God is the foundational principle behind His immovable flawless walk with God.  This foundation of Love to God is compared to pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold.  Marble, Solid, immovable, immutable, pure gold, flawless, holy and valuable and precious to the bride)
    “set on bases of pure gold.”
“His appearance is like Lebanon, (Majestic and Glorious)
    choice as its cedars.”(cedars where the best.  So there is no one like Him)
16 “His mouth is sweetness itself;”
    “he is altogether lovely.” (perfect, sinless, free from all evil, holy, no sin in Him, infinitely and immutably altogether lovely.)
This is my beloved, this is my friend”

 

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“I am a rose…I belong to Christ and His desire is for me.”  Song 2:1, 7:10
  1. He obeyed the Father.  The Father sent His Son to die for them.  If Jesus had not loved and obeyed the father, virgins could not love Him.  Christ obeyed the Father perfectly so that born again virgins could love Him.
  2. He purchased the Holy Spirit by His death and resurrection and gives believer the Holy Spirit when they believe so that they can love.  Jesus gave believer the Holy Spirit, therefore they love Him.
  3. He gives them a new heart so that they can love Him.  Virgins love Jesus because they have a new heart.  God took out the heart of stone and put a soft heart there. Ez. 36:26  This new heart because they are a new creation causes them to be drawn to and love Jesus.  The new heart has doves eyes. Song 1:15  Meaning doves have no peripheral vision they see only straight ahead at their lover, thus beholding the beauty of their lover and go where He goes and flies where He flies.  Virgins eyes are faithfully on Him because He gave her a new heart, therefore the virgins love Him.
  4. Along with a new heart come new apprehensions of the Glory of God to the mind and heart.  The ground of this love to Christ is the discovery and believing apprehensions of Christ’s loveliness and love, understood in the mind and felt in the heart.  First there must be a discovery of Christ as a suitable object for love; and not merely a bare notion of this—but believing apprehensions of it, that Christ is infinitely lovely, superlatively excellent, and that His love is matchless and that His Love is transcended towards His people; that there is a treasure in Him, and a storehouse of all graces, and the most needful and rich supplies. Otherwise there will be no going forth of the heart in love to Him.  The mind must be convinced of the truth that Jesus Christ is lovelier than all other beings in order to Love Him above all others.

Virgins not only love King Jesus because of who He is and what He has done but they love Him also because of what He is doing now:

  1.  Christ is sanctifying His bride, therefore the virgins love Him.  Their love to Christ is unstoppable. Song of Solomon 8:6.  They may fall, but Christ pick them up and Saves them from a life of sin.  It is the Bridegrooms job to save His bride from a life of sin.  He will do it.  Christ will make their love grow stronger, therefore the virgins love Him.
  2. Christ is interceding for His virgin bride, therefore they love Him. This means that when they sin, Jesus prays to God and says do not be angry with them because You poured out your anger on Me.  Christ ever lives to intercede and pray for His virgin bride so that they receive grace and mercy and more love to Him, therefore the virgins love King Jesus.
  3. He is perfectly satisfying all their needs.  Virgins love Him because He satisfies all their needs. Ever since the first convictions of sin and guilt the believer realizes their need for a Savior.  Convicted sinners are drawn to Christ because they need Him.  They perceive themselves to be lost and Jesus can help them find their way so they love Him and are drawn to Him.   They sense God is angry with them and that Christ can give them peace so they Love Christ and are attracted to Him. Their conscience is feeling guilty and because of who Jesus is and Him paying the punishment for their sins they are drawn to Him by His Love displayed for them at the cross. The virgins both drawn to and love their Redeemer, King, Friend, Savior, Lord, Bridegroom, and Son of God who was sent to die for them.
  4. Satisfying even more needs.  The virgins love Him because the Remission, Reconciliation and Salvation, which they had by their Beloved Christ, did lay the first Foundation of a most endearing love to Christ; And still they perceive a continual need of Christ, to procure daily pardon for their sins, and to convey daily supplies of Grace unto them. They are fully dependent on Him for all that is good, when they are Dark to Enlighten them; when they are Dead to Quicken them; when they are Weak, to Strengthen them; when they are Sad, to Comfort them; when they are Tempted, to Help them; when they are Fallen, to pick them up; when they are in Doubts, to Resolve them; when they are under Fears, to Encourage them; when they Stagger, to Establish them; when they Wander, to Restore them.  Christ, and None but Christ, can do all this, and more than this for them: and therefore because of the need and useful∣ness of Christ, true Christians do love him.  There are endless reasons why virgins love Jesus!  All things are working together for those who love Jesus to love Him more.  Romans 8:28-29

Application

  1. Desire the strictest union with God through Christ because His Name is like perfume poured out.
  2. Obey God’s Commandments. “If you love Him you will obey His commandments”
  3. Ask God to reveal who Jesus is and what He has done for us to you!  Show me Jesus!  Show me your Glory.  Let me behold Your Beauty!
  4. Think often about who Jesus Christ is so that your love for Him will grow. Grow in grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ so that you become more mature.  Love Jesus Christ because His Name is like perfume poured out.

Lesson 4

Think every day about who Jesus Christ is and what He has done for you.

 

 

Song 1:3  “therefore the maidens love you” or “virgins love you”

  1. He is the perfect Husband.  The perfect match, therefore the maidens love Him.
  2. Because of who He is and what He has done and can do for her, she is drawn towards Him and also the maidens love him.
  3. Since His delight is in them, him in them, therefore their delight is in Him.  Him in her and her in him so that her love of complacency can be in Him.  The wicked do not love Christ.  They have no delight in His love or Character.  They hate him.  Their minds are at enmity with Him.
  4. Virgins are those in whom their is no adultery.  No spiritual or physical adultery.

 

 

 

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Saved in 2000 at age 27. Nearly immediately I fell in love with the Song and grew very fast the first two years memorizing large portions of scripture purifying my mind the started chewing on meat to soon and struggled for 12 years and Christ has me on track like always but I just took the long way around and now I love leading others closer to Christ by seeing His love reflected in Solomons love for an enemy slave girl.

I have experienced God's love to me in the Song in ways that words can't express. There are many portion of the Word where she experiences extra ordinary outpouring of the Holy Spirit of God. If you have a burning desire for a close intimate relationship with God by experiencing His Love to you over and over again at greater and greater heights, depths, lengths and breaths then The Song of Songs is where you need to be.

I can help you with this process of Growing in the experience of God's love. As of 7-23-16 I have experienced everything prior to chapter 8. The Song of Song is progressive in experience. Meaning that if you are mature then you can experience the joys and extraordinary outpourings of God's Love shed abroad in your heart.

If you are not so mature then the delights in the first chapter of the Song will satisfy your thirst for experiencing the Love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Many Christian are living in sin because they do not know how to experience God's love and get hooked on Loving Him. It feels good to be loved and to love Him. His burden is not heavy and His yoke is light, Jesus said in Matt. 10:28

I believe God wants to use me to help beautify His Bride through the Song of Solomon.

If you see the book literally you will not understand nor grasp the Love God has for you. If you see the book and the verses in it relating to Christ's love to you then I would love to show you how to experience this Love to the fullest. I will pray for you daily and guide you every step of the way.

16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

I grew up going to church but was a hypocrite. I lived my life how I chose but went to church on Sunday because my family went.

Mom and Dad divorced when I was about 5.

About this time I was sexually abused by "Bob" a made up name. This incident changed my life for the worst. I had no clue how to deal with it.

As I got older I grew in my hatred for Bob. I didn't blame anyone of my family because I was to young to know any better. Some of what happened during the abuse was in a bathroom. So overtime I would use the bathroom and look at my private parts that night would replay in my mind. My hatred for Bob would continue to grow each time.

Now I know this only happened to me one night. I can't image the pain other's go through who have had this happen to them over and over. Even as I write this now I cry with many tears for those hurting. God love you even though you may not know it or feel it. Go to Him in your time of need.

I was a really bad teenager. I only cared about myself and not even my family. I always came first in my mind. Even at the expense of hurting others. I was growing in my hatred for God by now.

I was going to church and was learned that God was in control. I thought well, if God was in control then He must have let me be sexually abused. I didn't understand this, How could a good and loving God allow this. I hated Him for it. My hatred for Bob grew as well. I was still using the bathroom and memories kept coming back. My heart grew even harder for Bob and God. As far as I was concerned God would have nothing to do with my life so I lived even worse. I thought I would be in jail or dead and I really didn't care, I thought it could be much worse than reliving your painful past over and over again. Little did I know that God's plan later would be to use these events to give me a burning passion for the closest most intimate love relationship with Himself through Christ mainly through the love poem in the Song of Songs in the Bible.

I remember hating Bob so much that the only thing that would relieve my pain was actually thinking he would suffer forever for what he did. I grew so much in my hatred for him that I had to continue to think that he would get even worse than what I imaged before. After some time I would only be relieved of hatred for him unless I thought he would burn in a hotter and hotter hell for all the suffering he put me through.

I never told my mom or family what happened, although I think some of them knew something had happened.

I grew up quite rebellious and even went to jail at the age of 20. I was living the fast life pursuing all my sinful desires and wanting more. It never seemed to be enough. I was quite happy in my sin but I just wanted more of it.

I lived life thinking I would die at a young age, riding motorcycle and living on the edge put me in the hospital many times and I should have been dead.

California at age 26.

I moved to California for a job opportunity at the age of 27. While trying to figure out what radio stations to program in my car, I ran across a RC Sproul talking about "people who have the faith that saves and people who only say that have faith" only the people who have the faith that saves will go to heaven. I thought "I don't think I have the faith that saves because my life was so bad." I searched the scriptures to try to get this faith. I found a church and thought people there could help me get this faith that saves. All along God kept showing me how sinful I was and that I deserved punishment from Him for living my life hating Him.

One weekend I read Matthew, Mark, Luke and John desperately trying to find out how to get this faith that saves. By now I knew that if you had the faith that saves that Jesus would be saving you from a life of sin. I still liked my sin and Jesus sure wasn't saving me from a life of sin, so I rightly concluded that I didn't have the faith that saves.

By the time I got to John, I saw "believe" everywhere. John 3:16 and other verses and wow the whole book was written so that you may believe. John 20:31 "these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name." So at night I would pray "I believe Jesus died for me, I believe, I believe. This was just an intellectual belief. I knew that in history and the Bible that Jesus died for everyone, so I believed it. But this belief did not change my life.

I would go on night after night saying the same prayer only to wake up the next day wanting to fulfill my sinful desires. The prayer wasn't working so I started to word it different each time hoping some prayer would work. After about 2 weeks of this I was fed up with it all, nothing was happening. I still was living in my sin and wanted more of it. A Christian hates their sin and does something about it, and certainly they don't continue to make plans to sin. The prayers weren't working so I gave up. I thought to myself "God, I tried with all my might, I searched the Scriptures, went to church, read the Bible and prayed all to no avail. If Im going to be saved your going to have to do it because I tried."

So I quit praying but still the Bible kept calling me so I read more. 3 Days later I was laying in a tanning bed and God convicted me really hard that I had offended Him by the life I was living. I was so scared of God, where could I run. You can't hide from God. It seemed like forever that I was under these terrors of being punished by a Holy Angry God. This lasted about 10 minutes then this is how I understood it. God let me understand that all that anger that He had for me for all my sin should come my way but He had poured that anger out on Jesus 2,000 years ago. I immediately started weeping an couldn't stop for about 20 minutes. All the sins that I could think of I confessed for that 20 minutes one after another after another, I was so sorrowful and grieved it physically hurt inside.

After I stopped crying I thought that was the weirdest thing that ever happened. I walked out of the tanning salon and stood outside and everything seemed so beautiful, the tree's, the birds, even the air seemed pleasant. Now I was really wondering what was going on.

I pondered all of this as I drove to work that day. I brought my Bible to work and was thinking what am I doing, I want to take my Bible to work so I can read it. As soon as I got to work I started reading my Bible. I couldn't believe what I was reading!! It all was so wonderful. It felt so good to just read my Bible. My client showed up and as I was training them the only thing I could think about was getting back to my Bible. I read all night and slept about 2 hours and was reading again.

I had sinful things in my apartment and I rounded everything evil up and threw it in the garbage. It was weird I was thinking but it felt good so I left it all in the garbage. I called my girlfriend to break it up and she thought I had another girl, I said no, I just think this is wrong we shouldn't be sleeping together. She didn't understand so I told her I was a Christian now and she still thought I had another girlfriend. She said "Im glad your a Christian, so am I" I thought to myself, "I have a strong conviction that sleeping together is wrong and she thought it was okay" I wondered how she could think that. Anyway we broke up.

I kept reading my bible and repenting, there was so much to repent of and I had lived a very sinful life. I was a thief for some part of my life and all the people I stole from kept coming to mind. I owed so much money. I was instantly in debt about $80,000. As I could I paid them back. As of 7-18-2016 I still owe about $25,000 but it sure is a joy to be paying them back.

The first week of being saved a car just about ran me over, they hit me but I wasn't hurt at all. The guy in the car felt so bad. I just looked at him and said "God bless you and have a great day, I am okay" smiled at him and moved on. Now I was really wondering what was going on because I normally would have cussed him out left and right and instead of cussing I blessed him. That was so weird. But again it felt good. I learned to do good by what my conscience told me was good and that it felt good. I got hooked on this feeling good by doing good and did it more often.

About two weeks after being saved I thought of Bob. I immediately prayed for him, something like "Lord help him.." then I stopped praying and said out loud "What am I doing?" I'm praying for a man that I hated my whole life, but it feels good and right, so I did it again. I stopped again midway in the prayer and started pacing around. I was trying to make sense of what was going on and couldn't figure it out. But again it made me happy to pray for him so I did. Bob would often come to mind when I went to the bathroom and each time I would pray for Him. The more I did this the less weird it got. And the greater my love grew for him.

I started memorizing large portions of scripture and this was wonderful because it felt like the words were cleaning my mind and as Proverbs 2:10 "For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul." I wanted more and more of this pleasantness. So I memorized even more and the joy got more and more.

Then this life changing advice came:

A friend from church told me to find a book of the Bible and really understand it. Read through the Bible and pick one and read it over and over and study it and really get it. So I started in Genesis and read through. When I got to Proverbs I really liked it so I thought that would be the book. I started by memorizing all of Proverbs chapter 3. After that I thought maybe there is a better book than Proverbs. So I read on. Then I came to Song of Solomon. I read it with quite some confusion. It wasn't as good as the other books, I didn't know why. So I bought a commentary on it. George Burrowes commentary on the Song of Solomon.

In the commentary I found that George and other saw the book as illustrating God's love to the Church. And not only illustrating it but displaying the Love of Christ better than any other book. This caught my attention big time, because I was having a burning desire for a closer relationship with God and desperately learning about His Love so that I could Love God. You see I had hated Him for so long that God used that old hard heart to spur me on in loving Him. I so much did not want to hate God anymore that I was on fire to learn to Love Him as much and as fast as possible. So here was a book that would help me do that. So I landed on the Song of Solomon. I committed to learning as much of this book as possible.

I memorized the first chapter and would repeat it often throughout the day. I didn't know much of what I was repeating but it sure made me happier and on fire for God. I grew so fast repeating the first chapter over and over again all day, like a dozen times a day at least. It felt so good and I never found any other book that caused me to weep so much. I would often weep everyday just reading it. I was to immature to know what was going on. Even though it hurt to weep so much, I felt like my heart was being cleansed from the filth that was in it by repeating it over and over again so I did. As I read the commentary I understood more and more. What God was doing in me through the Song was greater and faster than any other portion of Scripture so I tended to stay there often. I was so excited about God that I thought it funny that other's in church weren't the same way. Some where happy but it seemed most of them didn't seem to care much about God. They would talk about work, football the weather. The only thing I wanted to talk about was Jesus and God and how can I grow closer to Him.

About this time there was a mission trip to Ireland.

I started to have convictions that I should try to find Bob and witness to him. I kept praying for him but how could he be saved if he hadn't heard the Gospel that has power unto salvation. So I asked family if they had any information. Like me before, my family hated him and thought he deserved hell. After some time I got his name but no location or phone number. Either they didn't know where he was or didn't want to tell me. I prayed some more and then started to get stronger convictions to do something about finding Bob.

So I went on the internet and typed in "his name and child molestation sex offender court" thinking that some court record would have some info leading to where I may find him" I even talked to a private eye and he couldn't help. So I googled some key words and spent hours each day looking through each page. I believed it was God's will for me to witness to Bob. I wanted him to be saved. Really bad. So much so that I thought God would save Bob if I were to witness to him. So I didn't stop searching for him. I kept my computer on each day and went page by page. It took two years to go through about 15,000 pages but I found someone who matched his name in a prison for molesting his grandchildren. I wrote the prison and he wrote back. All kinds of emotions went through my body when I saw his letter from the jail. I didn't open it right away but two hours later God gave me enough courage to face my fears again and I opened the letter. He admitted to being the one who molested me. We wrote back and forth I told him I was angry before but now I was saved and that I loved him and believed God wanted me to talk to him. He read my letters over and over again. I shared the gospel in each one.

I got mad at Bob 2x. Once he said that he love me. I got really angry with him. He didn't love me. That night it was hard to love Bob, I had to call a friend to pray for me to repent, after he prayed I felt greater love for Bob. Then I wrote him back saying "I'm sorry but you can't say that you loved me. You did not love me you lusted after me." He admitted he didn't love as he should have and admitted that it was lust and sinful. Finally some conviction. Yet I only thought he was saying that because I was being nice to him. All his family had left him and he said I was the only "friend" he had.

Wether or not it was true Bob said that he had cancer in his arm and that the help the prison gives was not enough and if he had money he could see a different doctor and get help. I sent him some money and since I was in jail before I knew what it was like to be in there without money, so I sent him money.

About 4-5 months in the economy went down, it was 2008. Work was hard. I still sent him money and I had to work harder. This was a really good lesson for me because I had to "work hard for the benefit of someone who did not deserve it." This was one of the greatest blessing ever because I realized with great certainty that Jesus was in me. This is what Jesus did. Jesus worked his whole life for me and I didn't deserve it!! Christ was in me! This was one of the best feelings ever and it put me in worship for months.

Then a mission trip to Croatia.

Each time I had to leave my business and amazing as it is I was completely okay each time. I am a self employed personal trainer and it is normally absurd to just leave and start over, but each time I had enough work within 2 weeks of coming back. This is a flat out miracle. I trusted God to provide and he did. How many people can start up a business in 2 weeks. Only with the help of God. God was teaching me early on in my walk that as long as I did what He wanted me to do then I had nothing to worry about.

About 3 years saved now.

I Taught the 4 year old's at church Sunday morning for 10 years.

Left my business 2x for mission trips and God miraculously provided when I came back.

I taught 5 x a week plus held a job.

Sunday morning to the kids.
Sunday night with the 5th graders
Friday afternoons at Good News Clubs. Sponsored by Child Evangelism Fellowship.
Friday Nights with the Kids teaching through Pilgrims Progress, I did this 2x
Teaching Monday afternoons at a nursing home. I taught through the Song of Songs once then John, then Romans then back to the Song again! I love the Song of Songs.
I grew up hating God for what happened to me, and now I love Him because He first loved me. My passion is for children to grow up loving God and not hating Him.

My other passion which has become ever greater is to help others see the Love of Christ to His Church in the Song of Songs!!

I would love to help you, just let me know and I will lead you and pray for you.

God demonstrates His love to us in sending His one and only Son to suffer in our place, taking our sins upon Himself so that whoever believes they get to heaven because of what He did for us will not perish but have everlasting life.

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