The most beautiful bride has the most beautiful teeth!

Solomom is complimenting, admiring and delighting in the equal proportions, perfectly matching with nothing missing, clean and fit for their purpose without flaw therefore they do their job in a most excellent manner.  4:1 to 4:5 is Solomon describing the beauty of his wife.  And then concludes with a summary statement “You are altogether beautiful, my darling;  there is no flaw in you.”  So the context is Solomon delighting in the beauty of his bride on the wedding night.  Lets look at how he describes the beauty of her teeth.

Solomon’s Song of Songs 4:2 

“Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn, coming up from the washing.  Each has its twin; not one of them is alone.”…..” You are altogether beautiful, my darling;
    there is no flaw in you.”…”How 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!

1.  clean and pure for they are “coming up from the washing”  = Her beauty is pure and holy.  She has perfect teeth!!  Each has it’s twin and not one of them is missing.

No deformity or disproportions.  The natural beauty of her teeth is a reflection of her moral beauty.

functioning perfectly

Song of Songs 3:6 and following is the bride showing up to their wedding where Solomon will be crowned king in 3:10.  4:1 to 4:7 is the longest most glorious adoration of the brides moral and physical beauty.  But it is her “love” that is more delightful than wine for it is a pure holy sweet unquenchable “flame of the LORD”. Song 8:6  Therefore she has doves eyes in 4:1 that Solomon says are also beautiful.  Her eyes were full of love, love to God and love to others, love to husband and love to the poor.  She had doves eyes.  Her love is beautiful.  Her holy love was beautiful.

The love she had in her heart was beautiful.  Her heart was pure and clean and her meditations were holy, she replaced all the lies with believing the truth and treasuring it always in her heart.  And thinking these thoughts of his wife and admiring the symmetry promotion and harmony of her teeth that made them beautiful.

Its the wedding and she is wearing her veil and he compliments the beauty of her teeth behind her veil.

Solomons Song of Songs 4:2

^” Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.”

Solomon is praising, admiring and pleased with what is “fair”, “Beautiful”.

Whatever she was chewing on that made them dirty, they are now clean, matched, symmetrically paired,  functioning in harmony with the mouth and the whole body.  Her teeth are holy and beautiful in a natural sense. They are beautiful so Solomon compliments her beautiful clean paired up teeth.  They can perfectly do the job they were meant for.  I would say that she is blessed to have healthy teeth.

What is it that God wants her to do with her teeth and is she doing it?  He would want her to keep clean what nourishes her.   Proper and holy meditations will nourish the soul when believing lies leads to death for this is how the father of lies murders unbelievers, by deception.  When the mind is deceived it is not beautiful.  The will is perverted. And the affections are not holy and beautiful either when in sin.

In respect to what she was chewing on before made her teeth dirty.  Now they are clean.  Her ability to get nourishment would be at it’s optimum!  Their function for their purpose is right and also looks good and delightful to behold.

Implied here is that she just got her teeth clean.  “which came up from the washing”  Its like she just brushed her teeth and Solomon is complimenting the beauty, symmetry, proportion and cleanliness of her teeth.

In Context of her spiritual growth the bride had no fear of punishment and assurance that Solomon was hers quickly ensued.  Then night after night She got spiritually prideful and more and more comfortable doing nothing to draw near to the one she loved until finally she had to do something about it, anything and everything to get her relationship with Solomon back on track.  She couldn’t stay comfortable without him near.  Theres no joy of salvation when in sin and Jesus is far from the prideful and gives grace to the humble.  Satan tries to take away the joy of the believer by getting them to believe lies that steal their joy.  Like when we sin and the devil comes by to get you to doubt that you are a christian.  A Christian gets joy from knowing they are a Christian and that Christ is theirs and they are his.

The devil will tell you when you are feeling guilty for sin that “You can’t be a Christian because Christians don’t sin like you just did”  then you doubt your salvation and the lie gathers strength and you continue in sin without any power over it.  The Word of God is not dwelling in someone who continues believing lies.  There’s no power of sin until you learn to meditate on the cross when feeling guilty of sin.   Over and over again the thoughts/teeth must be meditating on the Gospel.  Jesus died for our sins and we rose with Him.  Jesus lived a perfect life so that we could be credited His Righteousness.  Yes, I just sinned but I hate my sin and trust that Jesus suffered in my place and when Jesus died bearing my sin, my old self died with Him, I now have power to joyfully obey.

Although for the Jew this meant taking a spotless lamb as a substitute for their sin to the high priest and then it was offered to God.  The true Jew believed things about the coming messiah and believed God and it was credited to them as righteousness Gen. 15:6.  The point here is that anything that has to deal with God, salvation, and truth in her heart is the same as Scripture,  her thoughts are paired up with God’s, her thoughts are paired up with Solomon’s,  her mediations are pure and clean like her teeth.  And fully functioning fit for their purpose.  To bring nourishment and life to the body by preparing the food for digestion.

How is your ability to meditate on the right truth in order to stay holy?  Are your spiritual teeth functioning properly.  What lies do you believe that need cleaning up by a truth believed abiding in place of the lie.  Then your teeth will be functioning in a way that will deflect like a shield the lies of the evil one and you will not lose the joy of your salvation when you sin because you immediate go to the cross, mournfully confess and joyfully obey.

Other translations about the beauty of her teeth.  “Just shorn” “comping up from the washing” “who are coming up from the washing”

I wonder as to the translation of the above phrases.  Do they imply that her teeth were dirty and asymmetrical and now they are perfect without flaw.  Is something happening to her teeth?  Where they being cleansed and now are clean?

That part of her body is beautiful and able to do its function quite well.  Clearly God would want her to be physically healthy.   God would want her to be spiritually healthy.  What would represent a believers teeth that would be similar to a person having all their teeth and cleansed.

If we were to make a comparison between physical teeth and spiritual.  Having all the teeth would represent all our thoughts.  All our meditations.  All our thoughts and feelings about those thoughts are consistent with Scripture.  Our thought match God’s thoughts.  Truth is written on her heart.   The word of God dwells in her heart.   She doesn’t believe lies.  She gets spiritual nourishment from her holy meditations.

Her teeth produce children they are not “bereft”.  Could this mean that she has lost all her baby teeth but now she has all her adult teeth and is chewing on meat now?

All of her teeth have children.  Not one is barren.  The mother of her teeth bore twins and none of the teeth were bereft, barren or unproductive in their duty.

Different translations.  Or none of her teeth “fail”.  They do their job in giving her nourishment.   “None is barren among them.”  Meaning won’t have and children missing.

This thought with that thought produces a child.  Her thoughts produce children.  Holy meditations produce holy emotions, words and actions.  The proper nourishment of our souls comes from our hearts being one with Scripture so they our meditations will be fruitful, clean and not barren coming up from the washing of the Word of God abiding.

Your teeth can be clean, keep them that way by always listening to your conscience otherwise you meditations/teeth get dirty and sin continues.  Your teeth may decay.  Your mind will be confused and believe lies.  Be are born believing lies about God, Jesus, how to get to heaven etc.  When you notice yourself driving a truth over and over in your head in a way that helps you love God better then you are cleaning your teeth.

For example.  Many people quote Phil 4:6-7 so that they don’t worry.

^“6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. ⁷ And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”

Worrying and not trusting God to fulfill His holy promises to you is the same as to have sinful meditations or unholy thoughts but when you have peace and not worry then your thoughts are holy and consistent with Scripture and your spiritual teeth will be clean.  Forget this truth and start to worry again and your teeth will decay.  Keep these truths in your heart and get better at trusting obeying and soon these truths just abide in your heart giving you strength and peace during times of trouble instead of worry.  This is cleaning your teeth and cleaning your teeth makes you beautiful inside.  The LORD admires holy meditations, he see’s you absolutely beautiful when your thoughts and emotions are consistent with His in His Word.  Oh so lovely.  Dark am I, yet lovely.

Memorize key Scriptures and right thoughts of God and the cross in order to keep your meditations holy and pure, keep the helmet of salvation on by believing truth and obeying so as to keep the joy of your salvation.

The Bride of Christ has the most beautiful teeth, for we have the mind of Christ and His love written on our hearts.

Represent the purity and holiness of what she uses to get nourishment out of her food.

Basically, laziness or spiritual sleep happens quite easily after clear assurance that all that you ever dreamed or hoped for spiritually and physically is yours through union with your husband/Husband.  Like your going to get it all and have it all in Christ, and your just going to sit back in peace and rest.  Still sitting there you lose your assurance of salvation, that clear assurance is gone.  God will use Satan and allow him to tell you lies, you believe those lies and sin, and sin again.   Assurance of salvation through Christ alone and the joys that come with it abide only in a heart that is continually cleansed of believing the lies and believing the truth.

When in your sin the devil will come give you a lie trying to get you to believe it so that you continue in your sin rather than go to the cross with your sin, believe the Gospel, know that you are dead to sin,  sin has no thriving life in you, its dead and is dying, the old man is fading, the flesh is getting weaker, the heart is getting more beautiful, holy and delightful with right meditations on God in Christ at the cross displaying dying love.  Beholding the Beauty of Christ, His Love to God, His Holiness is transformative.

You sin, go to the Gospel and see the sinless Savior dying for you sins.  Beautiful isn’t it, oh so lovely, nothing more glorious in all the world!!  This sight of the glory of God in the face of Christ will beautify your soul.  The soul that sins and repeatedly reminds himself that Christ died for that sin and that its only by Christ’s righteousness credited to my account that earns my acceptance with God and am a new creation created to do good works and am washed and cleansed.  So Read you Bible and obey.

But if you sin then the devil comes to dirty your teeth by letting you believe a lie like

1. Context is that you just sinned really bad.  The lie from Satan  is  “You can’t be a Christian, Christians don’t do things that bad.”  if your heart believes this then you may fall into despair and not have any power over sin.   Your teeth just got dirty and needs cleansing.
   1. How do you cleanse dirty thinking so that your teeth can be clean and beautiful for Your LORD to enjoy beholding?  When you sin and feel guilty this is good.  You should feel guilty for disobeying God.   After guilt either fear of punishment enters the heart or grief/mourning because of the greatness of the offense against a Great and Loving God and Savior.   The one who fears the wrath of God after sinning and never had assurance that your sins have been forgiven for His Names Sake is not saved.  Yet, I believer can fall back into dirty thinking after they sin and feel guilty.  Learning how to go to Jesus after you have sinned is something every believer needs to learn how to do in order to grow.  Their spiritual teeth need cleaning.
2. Context.  You are contemplating a so called “little” sin.   In that context the devil comes by to get your teeth dirty by getting you to believe that “it aint that bad, others are doing worse”  When you believe this and it causes you to sin then you have dirtied your spiritual teeth.  You meditations were not matched up with the Word of God,  Your ideas were not held captive to the Word of God.  You believed a lie and not the truth that sets your free from the bondage of sin.
3. Context.  You are contemplating on doing a sin and thinking God will forgive you.
   1. The lie.  “Its, okay God will forgive you, He is gracious, it’s okay”.   No its not okay.  What is right is to obey God and sin is not okay it is very evil.
   2. The strength of this lie comes from high views of God’s grace without equal ideas of His Majesty and Holy Wrath.  When having high views of God’s Grace Satan comes by at this opportune time, which is you thinking about sinning.  Premeditated sin.  The strength of the lie comes also in the fact that the first thought is true and the lie is half true and half lie.  The truth is that God is gracious and He will forgive and Jesus paid the penalty for all you past, present and future sins!  But sin and continue to sin upon this account leads to death and eternal separation from God.   Believers will fall into this lie over and over again until they replace the lie with a truth, thus cleaning their teeth.  And will have beautiful holy meditations for Christ to enjoy and delight in.
   3. Scripture help.  Romans Chapter 6.    “Shall we go on sinning that grace may abound…”   When contemplating abusing God’s grace by sinning and thinking its okay he will forgive me and the riches of His Grace will be on display for me at the cross.   Think when being tempted to abuse God’s grace that you are dead to sin, you offer yourself to God, obey your conscience, do what you know to be right because you are a new creature created for good works.
   4. Satans lies have an appeal to the flesh and a lie that hides the truth so that we sin.  Believing the lie dirties or spiritual meditations and believing the truth keeps our teeth clean and productive.
   5. Your usefulness and beauty in the Kingdom of God is in direct proportion to your ability to match all your thoughts and feelings up with Scripture, a Gospel centered life and heart, taking every thought captive, abiding in the Word of God.
4. Context.   You just sinned over and over again and knew you knew better.  Maybe for years.  In this context Satan still wants your mind off the cross of Christ.  Whatever lie he can get you to believe that will keep you mind off the gospel when you sin, Satan will throw that fiery dart at that opportune time.
5. Context.  You have been faithful and blessings are abounding.  God has blessed you with Salvation, Christ, all things etc.  Your moving forward and repenting of sin in every area of your life and heart.   Lies directed toward feeding self-righteousness, spiritual pride will be the fiery darts headed your way at this opportune time for a specific temptation.  Dt. 8:14 comes in the context of Moses warning Israel not to get prideful and forgot God in a time of prosperity.   the heart says “My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth”.   The Jews had no ability to free themselves from slavery and conquer Israel.  Truth is you have been quite faithful and God is blessing you.   Then the lie comes mixed with truth
   1. “You did all that, go ahead take the credit.” you worked hard, pat yourself on the back.  Truth you did do all that, you did work hard, but you can’t take the ultimate credit.  It was Christ living in you.  God in Christ gets the glory.  We praise God for the good work He is completing in  us, that He began, when He opened our eyes to see Christ, the Son of God, sent and crucified for our sins.
6. When contemplating the pleasure the sin will bring when your not feeling good.  Yes, sin can bring a temporal pleasure.  Your not feeling happy or joyful.  Drugs, food, sex, tv entertainment can bring immediate pleasure.  Yet the truth is there is greater joy in obedience.  Whatever sin you are contemplating the truth comes “that will make me happy” (yes, it will give temporal please) but the happiness that the soul of a believer is in God alone.   Blessed are those who keep his statutes.

 

Her words also match the various situations.  Her meditations are holy, pure and clean.  Her thought process is beautiful! and oh, so lovely.  Her mind, will and emotions are in proper working order perfectly matched with the Word of God giving her nourishment for her soul.  Further degrees of oneness based on how holy the heart is.

In order for her meditations to be holy, her thoughts must perfectly match scripture and what she believes must be true in order for her heart to be clean.

 

In Gen. 49:12  The tribe of Judah has white teeth like milk.

Imagine heaven where all our thoughts and meditations will be pure all the time!  Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God!

1.  In the four stages of Christian Growth what would the holiness of each heart look like?  Babe, Child, Strong Young Man, Father.  The Song illustrates the flame of the LORD in marriage.
2. Define oneness in Marriage?
   1. Far more often and more intimate communication Song 2:14
      1. Motives are shared and sincerity grows
      2. She is fulling her role
      3. He is loving her as Christ loves the Church.
   2. Right and holy thoughts of God
      1. Included in love to the LORD is Knowledge of God and joy and delight in Him.  Therefore inherent in the Love, the Very Flame of the LORD is knowledge of Him.  You know something about God here is knowledge of God.
      2. Let me try to say it another way.  The bride and Solomon become one because they both loved God and had His Flame in them.  Included in that “Flame” is not just heat that rises but also light.  Light of the knowledge of God in the Face of Christ.  For the Bride she saw the light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Solomon, the greatest type of Christ alive if not ever for Solomon had unmeasurable wisdom 1 Kings 4:29
   3. Right and Holy Feelings.  Religious affections.  Christian holy emotions.  Right and holy thoughts and Holy Heart responses to those ideas.   for the feelings and the heart are different but can’t be separated in their operations so
   4. Right thoughts of their role in marriage
   5. Both need love the “flame of the LORD” Song 8:6 uniting them and written on their hearts.
3. Did Solomon and his wife reach oneness in Song 8:5-6?
4. Her Teeth were clean, her meditations were holy, consistent with the Word of God

 

There is no other way that sensible things can consent one to another but by equality, or by likeness, or by proportion. Therefore the lowest or most simple kind of beauty is equality or likeness, because by equality or likeness one part consents with but one part. But by proportion one part may sweetly consent to ten thousand different parts, all the parts may consent with all the rest, and not only so, but the parts taken singly may consent with the whole taken together. Thus in the figures of flourishes drawn by an acute penman, every stroke may have such a proportion, both by the place and distance, direction, degree of curvity, etc., that there may be a consent in the parts of each stroke one with another, and a harmonious agreement with all the strokes and with the various parts composed of many strokes, and an agreeableness to the whole figure taken together.

There is a beauty in equality, as appears very evident by the very great respect men show to it in everything they make or do. How unbeautiful would be the body if the parts on one side were unequal to those on the other. How unbeautiful would writing be if the letters were not of an equal height, or the lines of an equal length or at an equal distance, or if the pages were not of an equal width or height. And how unbeautiful would a building be if no equality were observed in the correspondent parts.

Existence2 or entity is that into which all excellency is to be resolved. Being or existence is what is necessarily agreeable to being; and when being perceives it, it will be an agreeable perception; and any contradiction to being or existence is what being, when it perceives, abhors. If being, in itself considered, were not pleasing, being’s consent to being would not be pleasing, nor would being’s disagreeing with being be displeasing. Therefore, not only may greatness be considered as a capacity of excellency, but a being, by reason of his greatness, considered alone, is the more excellent because he partakes more of being; though if he be great, if he dissents from more general and extensive being, or from universal being, he is the more odious for his greatness, because the dissent or contradiction to being in general is so much the greater. It is more grating to see much being dissent from being than to see little, and his greatness, or the quantity of being he partakes of, does nothing towards bettering his dissent from being in general, because there is no proportion between finite being, however great, and universal being.

Corol. 1. Hence it is impossible that God should be any otherwise than excellent, for he is the infinite, universal and all comprehending existence.

[Corol. 2]. Hence God infinitely loves himself, because his being is infinite. He is in himself, if I may so say, an infinite quantity of existence.  Edwards

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