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Feeling wrongfully Judged

“Do not stare at me…”

1 My main point. 2 Context. 3 Her testimony, request and confession. 4 Why is confession so important? 5 Application. 6 Motives to sincerely confess.

(The longer livestream version of this post is here on Youtube. Feeling wrongfully judged.)

1 My main idea or thought is that, in order for a close and closer, stricter relationship with God and His people we must have a sincere confession of sin to God and one another’s.

Sincere confession of sins is a fruit of Love to God. It is absolutely important, fundamental, and foundational in order to get closer to God, His Messiah and His holy people (which included the daughters of Jerusalem). The song is not just about two enemies that become close friends in marriage but also about how the born again Gentile gets closer to the daughters of Jerusalem. As a couple they become one and closer due to their union with God in love. She also get closer to His people.


2 Context. Read Song

It is about 971 BC. David is alive but old and dying. Adonijah set himself up as king when it should have been a promised Messiah, Solomon. Solomon is being anointed king for the first time and a born again Gentile slave woman falls in love with Him. She desired intimacy with him because experience God’s love through union and communion with him in marriage would be better than any other experience. Better than wine. She professed her love to him and desired for him to take her away with him in a hurry! He takes her to his chambers where there are people rejoicing in the king’s love.

Not everyone is rejoicing. The Daughters of Jerusalem were looking down on what they thought was a sinful devil worshipping Gentile. She gives her testimony, confesses her sins to the Daughters of Jerusalem and the Shulammite gets accepted. (Shulammite means “peace” for she made peace with God, His Messiah, Solomon and His holy people which included the daughters of Jerusalem.) Blessed are the peacemakers for they are children of God.

Naamah was an Ammonite. I believe Naamah is the bride in the Song. (I strongly believe it was Naamah, not I preach it is Naamah. Because I could be wrong.) Ammonites were enemies of Israel. Two people groups at war with one another. They hated each other. History of Ammonites. How can a woman who hates God and the Messiah love God and His Messiah. How could that marriage work or honor God or display His Glory and Love. God’s hatred rightly abided on the wicked Gentiles. Yet, God sent His Son to die for some of them. His bride. Love to enemies is on display. God’s love to her by way of union and communion with a type of Jesus Christ. (Definition of communion is “a mutual sharing of those things that delight those in that relationship) ie. Love to God, his people, love of holiness etc.

Her sinful father was probably killed by a holy Jew, David and his men. She was a sinful Gentile but now is born again and loves the son of David, the king of peace, beloved son of God (Jedidiah), the coming Messiah (David is still alive), coregent king Solomon.

3 Her testimony and confession of sins.

I am dark but lovely,
O daughters of Jerusalem,
Like the tents of Kedar,
Like the curtains of Solomon.
“Do not stare at me because I am swarthy,
For the sun has burned me.
My mother’s sons were angry with me;
They made me caretaker of the vineyards,
But I have not taken care of my own vineyard
.” Solomon’s song of songs 1:5-6

What is included in her testimony? 1 Humility. She has a right view of herself in relation to God and His people. Dark am I, yet lovely. She knows she is sinful and also dark on the outside. Her being dark is a sunburn and also her sin. She compares her darkness to that of being like a tent of Kedar. A dwelling place of evil. If her original darkness was only and always then when the daughters of Jerusalem would stare down at her, their doing so would be justified. She rightly see’s her sin.

She rightly see’s her loveliness. Dark am I, yet lovely. They are looking at her as if she doesn’t belong and ought is not fit to be united to their holy Messiah in marriage. It’s not just external loveliness that she is talking about because the comparison’s are that of moral opposites. Tents of being a place of evil. And the tent curtains of Solomon being curtains set apart for God, therefore holy.

The Hebrew word for lovely also carries with it the idea of being useful or fit. So in her testimony she tries to make peace with the Daughters of Jerusalem by letting them know that, “Yes I am currently sinful and dark but lovely. Fit to be united to a holy type of Jesus Christ. What is truly lovely about a person. Are they holy or dead in their sins? If holy then truly beautiful or lovely and fit for glorifying God and Love in Marriage.

She wants to be accepted based on inner beauty rather than her sinful past.

Included in her testimony is the fact that they are treating her like a sinful prostitute rather than a holy virgin. “veiled woman” Song 1:7 “Why should I be treated and cast out like an evil prostitute”

Her request. “Do not stare at me because of the way I look on the outside.” The enemies of God or Gentiles did the forced labor. She was sunburnt, therefore she looked like an enemy of God on the outside.

Do not judge me based on outward appearance. Then she goes on to confess her lack of doing her duty before God. She confesses her sin. She doesn’t point the finger at her hateful brothers but at herself. “My own vineyard, I have neglected.” 1:6 She was supposed to be a good steward of her own vineyard, yet neglected it. She was a sinful caretaker of her own vineyard. She sincerely confesses her sin. How do we know it is sincere? She had the Love of God in her heart. Song 8:7. A mighty flame above all others was in her heart. A person that loves God will be more and more sincere in their confession. Ps 51. Romans 12:9 Love ought to be humble, genuine, sincere and without hypocrisy. Repentance or not doing the sin again is proof that the confession was sincere. The sinful pattern ought to be broken.

Please accept me into the church, not based on my sinful past but because God chose me, Jesus died for me, lives in me, has forgiven me and made me holy and morally lovely.

Her request is for them to not wrongfully judge her. (It may feel at times that we are being judged by God as a sinner separated from God rather than as a child. God lovingly disciplines his children so that they may be holy.)

4 Why is a testimony and sincere confession of sins so important? We must know God in order for us to have a right view of ourselves. Her sincere testimony is proof that she is humble and able to see her darkness and loveliness properly. Dark am I, yet lovely in Christ. Dark am I, yet lovely due to my love to the holy king as his servant. When she says his name is pleasing, she professes her love of complacency, benevolence in and to him.

If we have no testimony as to our past life and new heart then we are dead in our sins that will forever separate us from God. Rather then standing in the Grace of God in Christ, having a new heart, being a new creation, having love to God in the heart verses enmity, then we can get closer to God, His people, our spouse and other’s in Christ Jesus. At our church we give our testimony at our Baptism.


5 Applicaiton

Sincerely confess your sins. Humbly confess your sins. Say what God says about your sins. Be specific. Be detailed with God. Be sincere. Hide nothing.

Confess your sins to other’s. If you have wronged someone then confess it. Ask them to forgive you. Which is the same as asking them to not hate, be angry with or bitter to due to your sin or offending them. Please don’t be angry with me.

6 Motives to confess

It will be your happiness to have a clear conscience.

Confessing of sin, evil or wrongdoing will bring you closer to the one you love rather than separation. Confession and forgiveness is crucial to a happy, loving, growing tighter and closer relationship with our beloved/Beloved. So make haste and do it.



More on this subject.

Imagine Rahab, a prostitute, wanting to join the Jews in worshipping God.

“Do not stare down at me”

Or imagine if you were a Christian and had a Son who was a Christian and Ben Ladin’s daughter (whom you would assume was a Muslim) wanted to marry your son?

Or imagine you are at Bible Study or Church and AC/DC, a Hells Angel biker or a punk rocker with a mohawk. Imagine the looks they might get?

A woman who looks like a Gentile, their enemy, walks into Solomon’s chambers at David’s palace and the Daughters of Jerusalem are there. She is either acting as if she belongs or that it’s okay for her to be with the holy king. (I use the word “holy” because judging from outward appearance only she was unholy. What does darkness and light have in common? How can two walk together unless their hearts be in agreement?

She is feeling wrongfully judged when she says, “Do not stare on me…”

It’s not really their fault. The believing daughters of Jerusalem were looking down on her because she looked like a non believer or Gentile. She was a born a Gentile but before she fell in love with Solomon at his first anointing she got a new heart that had Love to God in it. She had a flame above all others in her heart, the Flame of YHWH. Flame Jah (in the Hebrew). A flame of Love above all other’s comes from God, is something of God and motivates the person to do good out of love to God. So when we read Solomon’s song of songs 8:7 when the bride describes the Love which she had in her heart it is no common grace love, but a special love that only believers in YHWH had. Therefore was fit to be a wife of a Jewish Messiah and ought not to be judged as having an uncircumcised heart.


Some issues needed to be delt with before engagement. These were called foxes.

List of her possible foxes 2:15. Foxes are anything that gets in the way of a blossoming relationship. What are you foxes?


As believers we might say when feeling guilty and sensing God’s displeasure, “Treat me not according to my sins and what they deserve but forgive me due to what Jesus has done for me.”

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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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