Solomon’s Song of Songs 1:11 “We will make you earrings of gold studded with silver.”
Solomon had just complimented the moral beauty of his bride in 1:9-10 and now in verse 11 everyone involved with the beauty of the bride promise to make her more beautiful. She is precious, valuable, desirable and pure like gold and jewels and they are going to add to her beauty, her moral beauty that is, her holiness which consists in love to God is what they promise to increase. They promise to beautify her soul!
The bride in the Song beheld the glory of God in the face of Solomon. Beheld the beauty of the LORD in the temple where God was dwelling, revealing Himself to them through the types in the sacrificial system. The beauty of Yahweh is his holiness. She beheld the Beauty of the covenant keeping LORD. His Holiness, which consisted in Love to God or Himself and love to sinful man. She understood with her mind greater views of God’s holiness.
Most of us have heard of sanctification, Sanctification is the act or process of acquiring sanctity, of being made or becoming holy. Supporting verses are at the bottom of this page *1
The “Beautification” of the Soul has to do with Christ in you becoming more beautiful more lovely by you becoming more holy, closer to God, further degree’s of renewal of the heart. Christ lifts the veil over our eyes and we see His Face, Glory and Beauty and we are transformed from one level of beauty to another 2 Cor. 3:18. Beautification also has the idea of attraction due to similar natures. Solomon helps his wife through 5 stages of spiritual beautification. Words can’t express how beautiful she is in His eyes and how morally beautiful she becomes!!
In order for greater sanctification greater and greater revelation of the knowledge of God in the coming messiah must be revealed. God has revealed Himself in many ways from Creation onward to the end of time. To all in a common sense and to some by special revelation. Special revelation is any information needed for salvation outside of common revelation. The promise God gave that Satan would strike at the messiah’s heal but the messiah would crush his head. He will reverse the curse and destroy Satan. The messiah gets hurt but Satan gets crushed, a death blow to his head. Then God came and properly clothed them with the covering of a substitutionary lamb. The lamb would have to be greater than the devil. The substitute must be more powerful and more wise than the Satan. Satan was the most glorious of God’s creation, the most highly exalted angel after he took one look at his own beauty and glorified himself he became evil, the worst enemy of God.
Who could it be that is higher than Satan but lower than God the Father? Who could destroy Satan? Who has the Power, Wisdom and Knowledge to destroy Satan?
Sanctification is a process.
Beautification implies a relationship. Something is beautiful. Which means someone is looking at the beauty of another. Delight is also in the mind when the beauty is comprehended. Christ is holy and delights in the holiness and happiness of His Bride so He works all things together for the spiritual beautification of our souls through 5 distinct phases of our sanctification.
Repeat conversations in order to strengthen the bond. Each meditation is repeated in order to a richer view of Christ! One thought of God and a thought of yourself. Another thought of God and his love for you and the lower and more humble you get. Yes, Song 1:2-2:7 was a great meditation for an hour or two. Now move forward all the while learning and applying 2:8-3:5 never forgetting 1:2-2:7 Each section has a different deepening union in mind. The point of each is for you to learn how to communion with Christ, guided by the unmeasurable wisdom of Solomon. The more one you are with Solomon the more one your are with Christ. Put yourself in the brides position and meditate on the Song, feel her feelings, think her thoughts, be one with the bride and have your heart agree with hers as Solomon is getting your heart to agree with his as Christ desires our hearts to agree and be one with His. Solomon was one with Wisdom, What is his becomes hers. She is in possession of a husband of unmeasurable value!
This woman is absolutely beautiful at the feet of Jesus!
Beauty is a mutual consent and agreement of different things, in form, manner, quantity and visible end or design; called by the various names of regularity, order, uniformity, symmetry, proportion, harmony…. Jonathan Edwards
“The glorious excellencies and beauty of God will be what will for ever entertain the minds of the saints, and the love of God will be their everlasting feast.” [ii]
“For as God is infinitely the greatest Being, so he is allowed to be infinitely the most beautiful and excellent; and all the beauty to be found throughout the whole creation, is but the reflection of the diffused beams of that Being who hath an infinite fulness of brightness and glory.”
The Song of Songs illustrates for us the union and communion of a bride with a lesser Christ, Solomon. That union and communion with him in brought her closer to him by his/His love and grace. He loved her closer to himself. His name was like perfume poured out. How does the greatest husband who ever lived that was “Chief among ten thousand” Song 1:10 and “better than any other beloved” Song 5:9 commune with his wife? What are their conversations like?
The Bride of Christ in the Song of Song is the most beautiful woman of all! What is beautiful about her? God see’s her love to Himself upon her heart and she is the most beautiful of all women! God is love. Love to God is beautiful. Love to God has degrees of both light and heat. Light is knowledge of God and heat is the “very flame of the Lord” or love to God. Light is the idea of God understood in the mind and love to and delight in God with the whole heart. This idea of God or image renewed on the heart is beautiful! Most beautiful! Christ in you! God looks at you only in Christ, “let them be one, as We are One.” John 17:22
We will forever be being continually growing in beauty or moral excellency. Beauty carries with it the idea and feeling of attraction or agreement of natures. When the mind perceives the Beauty of the LORD Psalm 27:4 Moral excellency has virtue overtones to it. Therefore if the nature of the soul is beautiful by God’s definition of beauty then it must be morally excellent. Another way of saying moral excellence is holiness. Holiness consists in Love to God. Each degree higher 2 Cor. 3:18 is more holiness which consists in Love to God, therefore more moral beauty is added and you are more beautiful. Thus the more worthy of honor and praise. This is why Solomon praises his wife often in the Song as he is compliment the moral beauty of her love to God Song of Songs 4:1, 7, 10. Seen in her submission to and delight in him. “I am my lovers, and his desire is for me.”
Nothing in the world can compare with the beauty of God’s Son, who always was, is and will be One with His Bride. From God’s perspective we were always one with Christ, married to Him, united to Him. When God see’s Christ we are one with Him and he See’s us in Christ alone. Christ the Head and the Bride the body. Most Beautiful she is having Him as her adornment.
- What is the beauty of the soul?
- Right view of God in Christ.
- This view gets purer and greater. Higher views of God in Christ.
- Greater love is written on the heart.
- With the proper heart response
- Christ had a right view of God in relation to Himself with a proper heart response, “found in the appearance of a man, humbled Himself to the point of death on a cross.” Philippians 2
- Right view of God in Christ.
- What is the beautification process of the soul? The beautification of the soul is that by which the soul due to its union and communion with the infinite Beauty, the Lord Jesus Christ, the soul becomes more holy, more morally excellent, more delightful to behold because their is more of that sweet love flame of the Lord in them.
- Solomon’s and all who are involved in the beautification of the believer promise to make His bride more beautiful Song of Songs 1:11 “Adorning Jewels” the beauty of the soul.
- The value of her lovely beautifier, Solomon and Christ, goes up depending on his skill level to beautify her.
- What are the 4 stages of beautification?
- The Beautification process has 4 maybe 5 phases in the Song of Songs similar to the phases of growth in a believer in the New Testament 1 John 2:12-14 Babe in Christ, Child, Young Man and Strong Young Man, Fully mature spiritual Father. The Babe in Christ phase is not in 1 John but the Galatians, Corinthians and Hebrews were Babe, new born in Christ.
- The beauty of the soul is different in various beings in “relations” and “degree”.
- Angels
- Adam and Eve before the fall
- Adam after the fall
- In believers
- Old Testament
- New Testament
- The beauty of the soul in heaven!
- THE MATCHLESS BEAUTY OF CHRIST!
- The soul of man is beautiful, how so?
- Naturally in the thoughts and mind
- Morally in the will, affections and desires.
- The degree of moral beauty consists in its holiness or the degree and quality of love, joy and delight in God
- Beauty, delight, pleasant to the senses Song of Solomon 1:2-3
- What is the soul?
- Mind and will. Heart. Thoughts and emotions. Understanding and delight. Where “Knowledge of God” and “love to Him”.
- What is the nature of God’s beautiful image?
- Natural
- Moral
- Define Beauty, harmony, moral excellency, symmetry, unity.
- Delight and complacency in holiness. (More below *2)
- To Love a sinful wife as Christ loves His Bride is to view her as Christ views her, “the most beautiful of all women” and “flawless” Song of Songs 1:8, 4:7, 6:8-9
- What is God’s image in man?
- The Beauty of the Lord is most glorious in the temple in the Holy of Holies Ps 27:4
- Being ready and as beautiful as can be for your Bridegroom.
- Solomon promised to make her more precious and desirable to himself by adding beauty and value to her. Song 1:11
- Prerequisites to the beautification process.
- Must be born again.
- Does the Song of Songs beautify the soul better than any other?
- Good question. If you ask me I would say so due to the title Song of Songs. It is a love Song!
- What is the Song superlative in nature?
- God’s intended purpose for marriage was to illustrate the Love of God. We desire to have an understanding of the Love of God. The Song communicates to our minds and understandings the Love of God by experiencing more of Him.
- Any ordinance or truth that communicates
- Is the renewed image of God upon the soul more beautiful than Adam’s?
Isn’t she Beautiful “The Warrior Bride of Christ!”
Verses and more information
*1 “Indeed, the more sanctified the person is, the more conformed he is to the image of his Savior, the more he must recoil against every lack of conformity to the holiness of God. The deeper his apprehension of the majesty of God, the greater the intensity of his love to God, the more persistent his yearning for the attainment of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus, the more conscious will he be of the gravity of the sin that remains and the more poignant will be his detestation of it….Was this not the effect in all the people of God as they came into closer proximity to the revelation of God’s holiness.” –John Murray, Redemption Accomplished and Applied
- Matthew 5:48 – “You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”
- Romans 6:22 – “But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.”
- 1 Corinthians 6:11 – “…But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.”
- 2 Corinthians 3:18 – “And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.”
- “We” 1 Corinthians 3:9 “For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building”
*2 Complacency not meaning “lazy” but the way the puritans meant it in relation to God holiness. Complacency in holiness is an agreement of natures. Both lovers are holy and most beautiful in Christ.
Oh yeah, this will help beautify the soul as well. Heb. 12:10
Application
Let me keep it simple. Read your Bible daily and whatever your conscience tells you to do then do it. Whatever God wants you to do will make your more beautiful. More like Christ. All things work together for you to be more conformed to the image of Christ Romans 8:28-29. Wow!!! This means God works all things together for you to be more beautiful!!
Definitions
Beautification= the act of becoming more beautiful. What Solomon promises he will do to his wife in Song 1:11
Beauty= is a mutual consent and agreement of different things, in form, manner, quantity and visible end or design; called by the various names of regularity, order, uniformity, symmetry, proportion, harmony…. Jonathan Edwards
The Beauty and excellency of spirits consists in love.
Deformity of evil spirits consists in hatred or malice.
It is the Work of the Holy Spirit to Beautify the Soul
This is very consonant to the office of the Holy Ghost, or his work with respect to creatures, which is threefold: viz. to quicken, enliven and beautify all things; to sanctify intelligent [creatures]; and to comfort and delight them.
(1) He quickens and beautifies all things. So we read that “the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters” [Genesis 1:2], or of the chaos, to bring it out of its confusion, into harmony and beauty. So we read, Job 26:13, that God “by his spirit garnished the heavens.” Now whose office can it be so properly to actuate and enliven all things, as his who is the eternal and essential act and energy of God? And whose office can it be so properly to give all things their sweetness and beauty, as he who is himself the beauty and joy of the Creator?
(2) ‘Tis he that sanctifies created spirits, that is, he gives them divine love: for the Scripture teaches us that all holiness and true grace and virtue is resolvable into that, as its universal spring and principle. As it is the office of the person that is God’s idea and understanding to be the light of the world, to communicate understanding, so ’tis the office of the person that is God’s love to communicate divine love to the creature. In
As the beauty of the divine nature does primarily consist in God’s holiness, so does the beauty of all divine things. Herein consists the beauty of the saints, that they are saints, or holy ones: ’tis the moral image of God in them, which is their beauty; and that is their holiness. Herein consists the beauty and brightness of the angels of heaven, that they are holy angels, and so not devils (Daniel 4:13, 17, 23; Matthew 25:31; Mark 8:38; Acts 10:22; Revelation 14:10). Herein consists the beauty of the Christian religion, above all other religions, that it is so holy a religion. Herein consists the excellency of the Word of God, that it is so holy; Psalms 119:140, “Thy word is very pure, therefore thy servant loveth it.” V. 128, “I esteem all thy precepts, concerning all things, to be right; and I hate every false way.” V. 138, “Thy testimonies, that thou hast commanded, are righteous, and very faithful.” And v. 172, “My tongue shall speak of thy word; for all thy commandments are righteousness.” And Psalms 19:7–10, “The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple: the statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes: the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever: the judgments of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether: more to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey, and the honeycomb.” Herein does primarily consist the amiableness and beauty of the Lord Jesus, whereby he is the chief among ten thousands and altogether lovely; even in that he is the Holy One of God (Acts 3:14), and God’s holy child (Acts 4:27), and “he that is holy, and he that is true” (Revelation 3:7). All the spiritual beauty of his human nature, consisting in his meekness, lowliness, patience, heavenliness, love to God, love to men, condescension to the mean
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