Intimacy in his Chambers!
Kiss me. Kiss me in your chambers. Kiss me over and over again! “Kiss me for your loves are more delightful than wine” Solomon’s Song of Songs 1:2
The heart of a sunburnt slave woman wanting love in marriage over and over again!
“Let him kiss me with the kisses of his lips, for your loves are more delightful than wine,”
Then thinking of who he is and what he has done, is doing and will do as Israel’s new Messiah, the king of peace, she thinks of his name, “Solomon” and she thinks of the most delightful and pleasing smell of the ointments he has just been anointed with and makes a comparison between his name and the ointments pouring forth.
When his name is mentioned delight is felt in the soul similar to when the most pleasing anointing oil smell when poured out. Both give great delight.
Since he had a superlative character, “chief among ten thousand” Song of Songs 5:16 and unmeasurable wisdom 1 Kings 4:29 and “Love to God” 1 Kings 3:3 just the mention of his name brought great delight to those who were in a covent relationship with him as their king.
Now every single lady would want to marry this single newly anointed king of Israel and want to have the closest most intimate relationship with him, “No wonder all the maidens loved him” and “rightly” did they do so.
Listen and feel the brides love to the king.
“Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth—
for your love is more delightful than wine.
3 Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes;
your name is like perfume poured out.
No wonder the young women love you!
4 Draw me after you—let us hurry!
Let the king bring me into his chambers.”
Question? What does the bride want?
She wants to be kissed.
She wants to be kissed over and over again.
She doesn’t want to waist any time getting more intimate with the king. She wants him in a hurry.
She wants him to draw her closer to himself by his faithfulness and love. “Draw me after you,” she says.
She wants to be brought by the king into his chambers.
Do you see her wanting intercourse with the king? If you do then you are reading into the text what is not there. She want to be with him in his chambers. This is what the text says. What the text implies can be multiple things. Like this could imply that she wants
- to have sweet conversations with him in private.
- her heart shepherded in private by the unmeasurably wise king.
- to be married and have physical intimacy is implied but not stated.
- to be kiss over and over again.
For sure she wants to be kissed and for sure she wants the king, for sure she want to be brought to his chambers.
What is God trying to teach us? What is the intent of the book? To illustrate love in marriage.
She says of the king that his “loves” plural were more delightful than wine. In context this is a single slave girl speaking about here already experiencing various ways of the kings love. For she says, “Your loves are more delightful than wine.”
What she means is that currently with him as her king she has been loved by him. She has been loved by the greatest type of Christ alive and they aren’t even engaged til 2:16 and married by the end of Chapter 3 and consummate the marriage at the end of Chapter 4.
The context is that she is at the anointing of the “child” Solomon and she wants to have the closest most intimate relationship with him as soon as possible because his character was praiseworthy and pleasing to her.
Culturally it was proper to kiss your lover outside. We get this information from Song 8:1 when the bride isn’t wanting him to kiss her over and over again but she is wanting to kiss him “outside” but wouldn’t be able to without being despised.
“If only you were to me like a brother,
who was nursed at my mother’s breasts!
Then, if I found you outside,
I would kiss you,
and no one would despise me.” Solomon’s Song of Songs 8:1
So we see here that it would be okay for her to give her brother a kiss of affection outside, but it would not be proper in their culture for a wife to kiss her husband outside. My guess is that a woman initiating the kiss would not be proper. The king would have to initiate the kiss. She wants to just go up and kiss him outside but knows it to be improper at the end of the Song and at the beginning.
So also she asks him to kiss her over and over again but not at the anointing. She wants to be taken to his chambers for the kisses. So here is a single woman wanting to be taken to the kings private chambers and be kissed multiple times by the king, with him initiating the kiss.
They were enemies, yet know she wants to be shown love by Israel’s Messiah, the king of peace, by being kissed multiple times in a private place.
A kiss from the king would show that you are in favor with the king and his righteous anger was not abiding on you. 2 Sam 14:33 2 Sam. 15:5.
She wanted a kiss of affection from the king of peace and not a “whip” of wrath by him through her mother’s sons. 1 Kings 12:11, Song 1:6
Now culturally men did sometimes kiss women in public. Gen. 29:11
And it could be someone that was thought to be your brother.
“Who has made you like a brother to me,
who was nursed at my mother’s breasts!
I find thee without, I kiss thee, Yea, they do not despise me,” Song 8:1
By the end of the Song the daughters of Jerusalem don’t despise the sunburnt bride kissing her beloved husband outside. Earlier in the Song the holy fair skinned daughters would have been tempted to despise her and look down upon her 1:6,
because she looked like an enemy of God due to her sunburn, only God’s enemies worked outside in the hot sun. Here she finds him outside his chambers and kisses him, rather than someone who was at peace with God and His king of peace here on earth.
like they have made it to the point in their relationship where they share the same brother to sister and sister to brother love. So much so that if they were found outside and she kissed him, then the daughters of Jerusalem would not despise her for it.
Application
Get a sense or a feeling that she has. Feel it yourself. Imagine yourself to be her and think about what she would be feeling.
See how ardent her affections. How much she doesn’t deserve God’s love through the greatest Messiah in marriage. Sense the awe of being in the presence of the greatest king who would ever live before or after him in “unmemorable wisdom”, honor, riches and splendor! Imagine they both are single and he is the most desirable man alive!! “Chief among ten thousand other’s.”
The point of the Love Song is for you to get the feeling of love for your heart and her heart to become one. You can have the same feelings. Love is love in the OT as it is in the New. She felt love from someone and to someone. We feel love from God and other’s and we love God and other’s. Love is not just an action but a pure, holy, and delightful subjective feeling based on an objective reality.
The love Song helps us understand the feelings the bride had for the greatest type of Christ alive at the time!
Since she had such ardent affections for the king of kings. How much more so ought our affections be for the King of Kings. We argue from the lesser emotion she has for the greatest type of Christ to the greater love which is holist, most delightful, sweetest, and joyful beyond words.
It makes perfect sense. We ought to love God more than other’s. The intensity of our love should be greater for the Greater Being. Meaning, how much more so ought we to love Jesus the Greater Anti-type. The degree of worthiness to be loved and praised is greater in Jesus than Solomon.
So if our affections ought to be more so for the Greater Anti-type then we think of the glory and majesty of Solomon and argue from his glory to the glory of the coming Messiah. For we must put ourselves in their shoes. Meaning back then they were expecting a Messiah to come that would be a substitute for their sin and reign forever. They knew Solomon was a Messiah of Israel but he wouldn’t be a substitute for their sin, so they would be looking for someone greater than Solomon. Solomon was like Christ and close to being The Messiah but didn’t measure up completely.
I believe the believing Jew back then knew that the Messiah would be God. They would be looking for someone greater than Solomon, therefore the believing Jew in the OT would argue from Solomon to the coming Messiah in their understanding.
So as a believer in the OT, we argue from Solomon as a king of peace to the coming Price of Peace. From a husband that is the chief among ten thousand other earthly husbands to the Greater Spiritual Husband, God in the person and work of the coming Messiah.
They were to argue from the types to the Anti-type. What they knew of the messiah’s and types in the temple helped them understand the coming Messiah. They would get a higher view of the coming Messiah by arguing from the lesser to the Greater Messiah.
So we also can argue from the lesser type to the Greater but we know who the coming Messiah is!! It’s Jesus Christ. They were eagerly looking forward to His coming and any king like Him.
God’s Name would be in Him. To have God’s name in a being would be to have God’s Character in him/Him. God’s Divine Character would have been in God’s Messenger/Angel.
Have you ever been in love for the first time?
What does it feel like?
We should have greater feelings for God in Christ than we did when we first fell in love!! Not all the time to a great degree for our religious emotions fluctuate, but in our quiet most intimate and holy times with the Lord, there ought to be a sweetness that is a better and sweeter than any other!
Seek higher and greater revelations of the Beauty and Glory of Christ!
Ask for God to reveal to you, open your eyes, give you a spirit of revelation to know Jesus Christ and His love and grace to you.
Oh Lord, Show us your Glory!! Fire us up with a Greater Revelation of Your Son of love!
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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.