1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,600 Amen. We're so grateful today, Amen, 2 00:00:02,600 --> 00:00:06,240 for him, each of you, your smiling faces, Amen. 3 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:07,720 Glad to have one, each one of you. 4 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:09,280 So good to see Jeanette back with us. 5 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:12,480 Jeanette Lewis, I know there's been some loss in her family and 6 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:16,600 other things in our prayers even have been with you through all 7 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:19,440 of those different scenarios of life, Amen. 8 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:21,200 And so it happens. Don't. 9 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:23,800 It's just part and parcel of life. 10 00:00:24,240 --> 00:00:28,200 There's nothing that we can do but depend upon one that is 11 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:31,720 stronger than us and capable and we that's when we put our trust 12 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:36,240 and our confidence in the Lord and it just shows itself firm a 13 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:38,800 man in our life. And then we're glad to be in the 14 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:41,000 House of Lord. We're glad that the mortgage is 15 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,520 paid off. Thank you for your giving a man 16 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:46,400 about 2/3 of that came just in about a week or so. 17 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:48,680 And then we're still thankful today for that. 18 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:51,600 We celebrate that. So you say some of you, some of 19 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:54,920 you ever since 2007, since we've been in this building has given 20 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:57,600 toward a building fund or a building pledge. 21 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:00,360 And so your question might be now what do I do with that? 22 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:04,040 Well, you can keep giving toward that aspect because they're 23 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:06,560 always be repairs and different things that have to take place 24 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:09,200 around the church. Or if you want to, you can 25 00:01:09,200 --> 00:01:12,480 reallocate it just as a general offering to be used for anything 26 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:16,280 that's necessary around here. And so those are two options. 27 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:18,440 I think that would be good options. 28 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:22,120 If you want to say what should we do that those are some things 29 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:24,000 you can do. And I do tip my hat. 30 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,960 I'm thankful for everyone that gave in the last week toward 31 00:01:26,960 --> 00:01:29,480 that. But I and then I just say this 32 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:31,400 with with a heart full of gratitude. 33 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:36,920 Those people that have given since 2007 of in this building, 34 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:40,800 some gave monthly, some gave weekly Amen toward that. 35 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:45,760 And so we tip our hat Amen to you Amen this morning because we 36 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:49,000 understand that you weren't necessarily given to a a 37 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:53,440 institution or a building or a church, but you were giving Bob 38 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:56,280 says as we do it, we do it as unto the Lord Amen. 39 00:01:56,280 --> 00:02:00,120 And so I know that he has richly blessed your life as a result of 40 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:02,520 that, and we're grateful for that today. 41 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:04,800 Hey, man, we're in the House of the Lord this morning. 42 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:07,280 Yeah, the Lord just kind of took everything I was going with and 43 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:09,800 flipped it upside down about 12:00 last night. 44 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:14,160 You know, I started studying toward this means on Wednesday, 45 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:18,120 and it's been kind of crazy. My daughter Mariah goes to USI 46 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:21,160 in Evansville, and her car gave up the ghost about a week and a 47 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:24,160 half ago on her way to school. And so I picked her up and took 48 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:26,600 her to school. I was going to let her take 49 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:29,200 Trevor's car and Trevor's car needs some wheel bearings and 50 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:31,520 such and it just, I didn't feel comfortable about that. 51 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:35,040 My truck has a cold weather cough and it likes to die in the 52 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:36,520 cold weather. So I didn't feel like taking her 53 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:38,400 that. So the past week and a half, I 54 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:41,880 take her to college. I take it it's just where we're 55 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:44,360 at. And so I study at Starbucks and 56 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:47,200 I study at the university library, and I study at 57 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:49,440 McDonald's, and I study anywhere I can study. 58 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:53,480 I've studied in my truck on my dash, and so on and so forth. 59 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:55,880 And so it's just the way that it is. 60 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:57,960 Amen. And God is faithful. 61 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:01,600 God is faithful, Amen. And so we're hoping that the 62 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:04,200 vehicle contagion isn't taking place. 63 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:07,480 All right, By no means pray it off of you. 64 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:10,680 Lord, be offense, Amen. Whatever you need to do. 65 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:13,080 But I want to turn to the book of the Song of Solomon. 66 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:15,480 God was dealing with me and standing with me. 67 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:19,400 Song of Solomon chapter #1 I was thinking about this being the 68 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:25,680 love weekend, you know, all the amorous feelings that come with 69 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:29,560 that and significant others and sweethearts and husbands and 70 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:32,360 wives and, or maybe maybe hopefuls. 71 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:36,120 All right. And so, and so far. 72 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:38,440 And I was going to take just a real practical means, a real 73 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:41,080 practical means and, and approach something. 74 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:44,240 And, you know, there's a lot of times, whether it be a book, 75 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:46,760 whether it be a film, even the Bible, that a lot of times 76 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:51,200 there's a story within a story. There's a story within a story. 77 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:55,520 You know, there's for instance, you look at some of the some of 78 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:59,040 the grand classics, like all of the the Rocky series, you know, 79 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:05,520 man classics here is a underdog boxer that got his chance at a 80 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:09,480 heavyweight championship, you know, with Apollo Creed and say, 81 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:11,160 man, that's what the story's about. 82 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:14,760 That right there, that fight that that major cataclysmic 83 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:17,279 fight. But you know, he lost that first 84 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:20,480 fight. And the story's really not about 85 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:23,160 him as an underdog getting there, but it's about the battle 86 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:28,160 within himself believing that he could become more than what he 87 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,400 was. And so we find the same type of 88 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:34,400 thing that happens in books and even in Scripture. 89 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,200 There is a story. I was going to tell you the 90 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:40,400 surface story this morning, but I need to tell you the story 91 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:44,800 within the story this morning. Song of Solomon chapter #1 And 92 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:49,160 I'm going to begin with verse #1 the Bible says the Song of 93 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:54,960 Songs, which is Solomon's. Let him kiss me with the kisses 94 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,520 of his mouth. We almost got to put a age limit 95 00:04:57,520 --> 00:05:01,360 on the Song of Solomon here. For thy love is better than 96 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:05,400 wine, because of the savour of thy good ointments. 97 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:08,960 Thy name is as ointment poured forth. 98 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:11,680 Therefore do the virgins love thee. 99 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:14,560 Draw me. We will run after thee. 100 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:17,520 The king hath brought me into his chambers. 101 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:19,920 We will be glad and rejoice in thee. 102 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,160 We will remember thy love more than wine. 103 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:28,040 The upright love thee. I am black but comely, O ye 104 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:32,800 daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kadar, as the curtains 105 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:37,920 of Solomon, look not upon me because I am black, because the 106 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:42,320 sun hath looked upon me. My mother's children and were 107 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:46,040 angry with me. They made me the keeper of the 108 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:49,640 vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept. 109 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:54,280 Tell me, Oh, thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, 110 00:05:54,280 --> 00:05:57,840 where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon. 111 00:05:57,840 --> 00:06:02,360 For why should I be as one that turneth the side by the flocks 112 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:06,960 of thy companions? If thou know not, O thou fairest 113 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:13,320 among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and 114 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:17,400 feed thy kids beside the shepherd's tents. 115 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:21,760 Ladies and gentlemen, don't you feel love, a little bit of love 116 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:24,400 in the air with these 8 verses today? 117 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:26,440 And you should. Amen. 118 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:28,320 I'm going to tell you what I was going to preach and then I'm 119 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:29,600 going to tell you what I need to preach. 120 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,400 Is that all right? I'm going to preach 2 sermons to 121 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:34,800 you this morning. I'm just, I'm joking, OK? 122 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:38,600 I want to talk to you today about marked by life, but named 123 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:43,800 by love, marked by life but named by love. 124 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:46,800 Help us right now, Lord Jesus, we're thankful today. 125 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:50,880 I pray, O Lord, let your spirit, God, your power, Lord, just 126 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:55,040 usher into this place alongside Lord, your forever settled word. 127 00:06:55,280 --> 00:06:59,200 God, make it known to us, plain to us, understood to us. 128 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:02,120 God will not fail. Thank you and praise you for 129 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:05,400 what only you can do and for what only you can accomplish. 130 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:08,160 We lean God not their own understanding, but we lean upon 131 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:11,680 you this morning and the lovely name of the Lord Jesus Christ 132 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:16,000 that I pray and the church say Amen, Amen. 133 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:20,360 You may be seated this morning the Song of Solomon it is it is 134 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:25,040 full of those amorous reasonings and thoughts and feelings. 135 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:27,960 There's a lot of takes place in the Song of Solomon. 136 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:31,240 It's, it's not necessarily written in chronological order. 137 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:35,480 We, we have different scenarios that's related to us of a man 138 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:38,640 and a woman that's in the courtship aspects of their day, 139 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:42,040 when love is thick in the air and when love can be blind and 140 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:45,120 when they are having feelings and compassion's for one 141 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:47,080 another. And then there's other sections 142 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:50,960 of the song of Solomon's sister Sheila that describes to us the 143 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:54,680 wedding day, whenever those valves are going to be taken and 144 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,640 that knot is going to be tied. And then there's others that 145 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:01,720 speak of later portions in life that's post marriage and the 146 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:05,160 love and the affections and maybe how they have grown cold 147 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:08,320 or maybe even a little bit indifferent on some aspects. 148 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:12,000 But of everything that can be said, you got to understand 149 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:15,840 Solomon himself was a tremendous writer of scripture. 150 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:20,040 We have several books of the Bible that have his penmanship 151 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:24,480 and his leanings in their for instance, like Ecclesiastes and 152 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:29,000 Proverbs where Solomon has put pin to page and spoke some 153 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:31,000 things concerning the word of God. 154 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,799 And Song of Solomon is just a a portion of those things that he 155 00:08:34,799 --> 00:08:38,039 had written about 8 chapters. A matter of fact, if you were to 156 00:08:38,039 --> 00:08:42,280 number the verses, there are about 117 verses in this small 157 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:44,600 book. But when we read in Scripture 158 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:48,160 and other places about the writings of of Solomon, he, he 159 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:52,080 was quite a poetic and a proverbial type of writer. 160 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:56,040 The Bible describes to us in one place that he had written about 161 00:08:56,040 --> 00:09:01,960 3000 Proverbs and in another that he had written about 1005 162 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:05,120 songs. And so you must understand how 163 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:09,080 near and dear this particular song is to his own heart because 164 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:13,960 out of 105 songs that Solomon has written, he calls this one 165 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:18,120 in the opening verse that this is the Song of Songs. 166 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:23,760 That among all of the 1005 songs that he had written, this is the 167 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:27,320 one that that sticks out and that is prominent in his mind 168 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:31,560 and his heart, the one that he turns to and reveres and lifts 169 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:33,720 up. It's the best of songs. 170 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:36,600 It's if we could say like this, it's the greatest of songs. 171 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:38,840 You know, we're always looking for the list of the greatest. 172 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:42,000 Well, this is the greatest of songs. 173 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:46,960 And it is the song about his true love, what many would would 174 00:09:46,960 --> 00:09:51,560 picture and posture as his his. First love, we, we really don't 175 00:09:51,560 --> 00:09:54,520 know who this, this woman that's called the Shulamite. 176 00:09:54,680 --> 00:09:58,840 We really don't know who she is. She might be called the 177 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:02,680 Shulamite because she is from the the region of Shunam or 178 00:10:02,680 --> 00:10:06,240 she's from that area, but nonetheless she is a Shulamite. 179 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:10,320 As a matter of fact, the word Shulamite in Hebrew, which the 180 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,960 Bible is translated from, it has what's called masculine and 181 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:17,400 feminine forms. Shulamite is actually the 182 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:20,080 feminine form of the name Solomon. 183 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:22,040 So in essence, we're just talking about. 184 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:25,520 Solomon and Missus Solomon, We're just talking about Solomon 185 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:29,400 and Missus Solomon. And the story that we have 186 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:32,920 written here in the Song of Solomon is interesting really 187 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:35,440 because we don't have this in many places in Scripture, 188 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:38,560 especially in the Old Testament. Because the Old Testament is a 189 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:43,840 is a very male centered type of society and that women usually 190 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:47,160 don't have much, much space to share their feelings or their 191 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:49,280 concerns. Not usually recorded in the 192 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:52,080 Scripture, but it is here in the Song of Solomon. 193 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:56,040 This is written greatly from the perspective of a woman. 194 00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:59,320 And what is she? She is feeling and observing and 195 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:01,720 looking at. And it's right here in this book 196 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:04,720 that it's. Placed And so within the Song of 197 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:10,280 Solomon, we see this woman's anticipations as a young girl 198 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:14,480 being courted, as a young girl falling in love, We see this 199 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:17,360 this young lady's expectations about. 200 00:11:17,520 --> 00:11:22,080 Her desires to be the wife of of this husband Solomon's. 201 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:26,320 Someday we we see sometimes her reflections as she looks back on 202 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:30,040 her shoulder later in life and thinks about that first love and 203 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:33,440 that first encounter that she had with him. 204 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:36,440 And so if I was going to preach to you this morning like I, I 205 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:39,120 thought I was going to, I was going to just be real. 206 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:42,640 Practical with you today. Because on the surface level, 207 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:45,040 it's about a man and a woman and their relationship. 208 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,000 And this is Valentine's Day week. 209 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:49,960 And I was going to be very practical with you today and I 210 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:53,400 was going to begin to talk to you about the script about how 211 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:56,920 this woman says here she is. This is chapter 1. 212 00:11:56,920 --> 00:11:59,920 She is awaiting. This is wedding day for her. 213 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:04,520 You know, she's about ready to to form that relationship with 214 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:08,520 her, her groom that she's going to live throughout her life. 215 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:10,920 And so she's on pins and needles. 216 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:14,200 The butterflies are there. You know, Ray, this this is the 217 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:17,280 day that I have awaited for. And if I was going to preach on 218 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:20,320 the practical means this morning, I tell you about how 219 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:25,080 she says, you know, let him kiss me verse #2 with kisses of his 220 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:26,920 mouth, for love is better than wine. 221 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:30,360 And in a real practical sense, I tell you how about how that 222 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:34,000 bride is looking forward to consummating their marriage. 223 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,520 And she wants to receive kisses from him. 224 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:39,320 And not just kisses, but she wants to be overwhelmed with 225 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:42,000 some kisses. She, she wants to receive love 226 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:45,960 from this gentleman because of the savour of his good 227 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:48,200 ointments. And she speaks about these 228 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:52,080 ointments and makes a comparison that these ointments are are 229 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:56,200 like his name and they are poured out brother Reese. 230 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:59,160 She she wants to get close enough to pick on up on the 231 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:01,840 aroma. A man of this mate. 232 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:06,640 But she switches and begins to talk about how his name is like 233 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:10,160 that ointment that is poured out ointment that's poured out. 234 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:13,760 It's aroma is able to pervade the space in the room. 235 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:17,720 She says your name is like that. And and please understand today 236 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:20,360 it's not that. It's just like when we were, 237 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:24,400 like, teenagers and someone mentioned your boyfriend or 238 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:26,920 girlfriend's name, You know, it's not like someone said 239 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:30,480 Solomon. She's like, you know, and she's 240 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:36,280 all giddy over, you know, just the name of the Solomon, you 241 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:38,680 know, being mentioned. You know how it was when you 242 00:13:38,680 --> 00:13:40,200 were just a kid. Amen. 243 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:41,920 And those things were spoken, little girls. 244 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:44,680 I was around something this weekend, went to a conference to 245 00:13:44,680 --> 00:13:47,200 Muncie on Friday and came back Saturday. 246 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:48,840 And there were some little girls up there. 247 00:13:48,840 --> 00:13:51,760 And some of them had some crush on boys and had them on their 248 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:53,880 wallpaper paper. And they were showing my, my 249 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:56,160 daughter Mariah. And I was looking at him and you 250 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:57,880 can say, well, what is their name? 251 00:13:57,880 --> 00:14:00,360 And you you'd say it back. And they're like, they cover 252 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:03,800 their face and turn in red. Well, whenever Shulamite is 253 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:07,480 speaking that his name is like poured out of Oinksmith, she's 254 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:09,600 not just talking about his just literal name. 255 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:12,160 She's talking about the characterization of Old 256 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:15,920 Testament, that whenever you spoke a person's name, you're 257 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:18,960 speaking about their character. You're speaking about the 258 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:21,920 totality of who they were and what they represented. 259 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:25,560 And she says if your good name is like a poured out ointment, 260 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:29,400 you, you, you have a good reputation among the community 261 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:32,080 and among the people. And whenever we speak your name, 262 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:35,800 all of those thoughts about who you are and how you live and how 263 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:38,560 you conduct yourself, all those things come to me. 264 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:41,640 And it's, it's just like precious ointment that is, that 265 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:44,760 is poured out. And she's speaking man. 266 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:48,600 She's just a woman in love. And I mean on a practical means, 267 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:51,640 we would start thinking about our own experiences with our 268 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:54,440 significant to others, you know, are you still, you know, 269 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:58,600 exhilarated by by hearing their name and what type of images and 270 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:01,400 things are conjured in your mind when you hear the name of your 271 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:04,880 spouse, you know, in a real practical means that that's 272 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:07,040 that's what I wanted to talk about you today. 273 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:09,720 But she goes on. Then she says that she's crying 274 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:13,280 out now she's crying out to that that man Solomon, this is 275 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:17,800 wedding day. She's saying, draw me, draw me. 276 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:20,960 I I've been close enough to to smell the ointment. 277 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:24,360 I've been close enough to you, but I'm asking you to draw me. 278 00:15:24,520 --> 00:15:27,880 And there's a third party in in all of this Solomon writing 279 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:30,960 that's called the daughters of Jerusalem or the daughters of 280 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:33,120 Zion. And you'll see them interject 281 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,600 every once in a while. And and she says draw me and the 282 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:40,320 daughters of Zion seem to say we will run after thee because we 283 00:15:40,320 --> 00:15:42,000 got a wedding party that's here there. 284 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:44,840 There's other maidens that's sitting around and there's other 285 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:50,200 maidens that know how good of a catch that that Solomon is. 286 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:54,080 And they're like, man, we'll run after thee because man, we're, 287 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:56,960 we're just ready to see this thing unfold and what this is 288 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:02,240 all about because we are even familiar with his name and his 289 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:04,960 character. We, we know, we know what type 290 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:08,320 of man that he is within the community and what his 291 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:11,440 reputation is. And we're going to be glad and 292 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:15,040 we're going to be rejoicing with you because of this day and 293 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:18,040 because of this union, because of what's happening. 294 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:20,920 And, and the Shulamite is saying back to her, honey, she's 295 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:23,400 saying, honey, all the upright love thee. 296 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:26,560 I, I mean, these people, they, they know who you are. 297 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:29,200 They know what you are. They know what you represent. 298 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:33,240 And everybody loves thee. And just as a woman, though, on 299 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:35,680 her wedding day, she knows she is love. 300 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:39,400 She knows she has affection by this man or anybody involved in 301 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:42,320 a relationship. Then she begins to have some 302 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:50,120 doubts in verse #5 and she's thinking about all this. 303 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:54,720 She, she's remembering his name. She's talking about how his love 304 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:57,440 is better to her than wine. You. 305 00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:59,080 You're the love that he has for me. 306 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:02,160 It's intoxicating and it's exhilarating. 307 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:06,440 And it's more long lasting than the intoxication of wine. 308 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:12,359 But she says in verse #5 she says, I am black but comely. 309 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:18,280 Everybody doing OK she's how I'm black but comely she says I'm 310 00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:21,560 comely I I I'm beautiful I'm I'm well ordered I'm put together 311 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:25,240 but there's there's some type of dark cloud that's overshadowing 312 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:28,640 this she says I'm comely but I'm black and when she says I'm 313 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:32,320 black she absolutely is not talking about her race you read 314 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:35,480 a little further she's talking about the fact that she has 315 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:38,320 worked in in in the outside area. 316 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:40,680 She has been a keeper of the vineyard. 317 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:44,480 That has been her role, her lot in life and as a result of that, 318 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:45,200 the. Sun. 319 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:50,200 Has beat down upon her and her skin has been exposed to the sun 320 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:53,800 and as a result of being in the sun her her skin has become 321 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:56,280 tanned. It's it's swarthy, if you will, 322 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,760 it's been tanned and. And she's thinking to herself, I 323 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:03,440 don't know, I don't know, in light of all of the beauty that 324 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:07,200 I might have, there's this cloud that I've been touched by the 325 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:12,400 sun and my skin is tanned and, and it's not even tan. 326 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:15,160 The word swarthy almost indicates it's kind of a 327 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:18,160 splotchy, kind of uneven type of tan. 328 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:21,480 I've been in the atmosphere and I've been impacted like this. 329 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:23,120 And I know this is our wedding day. 330 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:24,920 Just someone stay with me here for a moment. 331 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:28,360 But, but we're about ready to enter into a space where, where, 332 00:18:28,360 --> 00:18:31,520 where he, I am totally going to be revealed to him and exposed 333 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:34,200 to him. And I, I, I just hope that what 334 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:37,360 he fell in love with that he'll actually like whenever it's all 335 00:18:37,360 --> 00:18:41,080 said and done, because I, I've been, I've been outside and 336 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:44,240 ladies and gentlemen, that don't mean much to you because in our 337 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:48,520 day, and it changes with every generation of what is societally 338 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:51,440 acceptable. Amen are beautiful as a woman. 339 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:55,120 Everybody just hang with me a little bit this morning, because 340 00:18:55,120 --> 00:18:58,960 in that day, in that culture here it was the description of 341 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:02,440 beauty. She was to be a fair skinned, 342 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:06,440 pale woman. And I'd say this respectfully, 343 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:13,000 but she wasn't to be skinny. She had some weight with her 344 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:20,240 because doing so meant that she was a part of a household that 345 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:26,520 had some means that didn't require her to work or labor in 346 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:31,280 fields outside. So the, the sun didn't touch her 347 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:36,520 skin unless she wanted it to. And she was fair skinned. 348 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:41,360 They had enough food on the table to supply her once that 349 00:19:41,360 --> 00:19:44,520 she didn't have to go out there and work for her own food. 350 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:48,520 And so she's wondering, Bishop in in my society in which I 351 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:51,680 live, that this is what beauty is or this is the idea of the 352 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:53,880 concept of beauty. But but I'm black. 353 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:57,600 I I've been touched by the sun. And not only that, I'm not of 354 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,680 the same household as some of these other people in Jerusalem 355 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:03,840 and the surrounding areas are part of a household, She says. 356 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:07,000 I've not, I've not had the same family upbringing. 357 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:09,640 Come. On right, I've had the same 358 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:13,240 family upbringing as him and my my skin's been touched by the 359 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:15,360 sun. And I'm just wondering, I'm 360 00:20:15,360 --> 00:20:18,720 wondering if he's going to have the love Amen toward me. 361 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:20,720 Like I'm hoping that he has love. 362 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:23,720 She begins to describe ladies and gentlemen, she uses 363 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:27,120 analogies. She says I'm black as the tents 364 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:29,360 of Kadar. The tents of Kadar. 365 00:20:29,360 --> 00:20:33,560 The Kadar was a nomadic Bedouin people who would go from place 366 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:35,480 to place. They didn't have a permanent 367 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:38,400 dwelling, but they had their tent that they would tear down 368 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:41,480 and they would erect. And the tents of Kadar, the 369 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:46,480 outside of them were made-up of black goat's hair. 370 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:50,640 And that black goat's hair on that tent, It's rugged. 371 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:54,840 It's weather beaten and if you will, it's a little bit rough 372 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:57,520 around the edges, she says. That's how I'm feeling. 373 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:00,400 I, I, I'm feeling like I got this rough exterior. 374 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:03,200 I mean, who would look up on that and think that is lovely? 375 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:06,040 It's weather beaten. It's kind of rough around the 376 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:08,520 edges. I, I, I have this intuition 377 00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:12,080 inside of me, but no doubt I, I can't hide this part of my life. 378 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:16,200 This, this is what I appear and how I sing, no doubt to the one 379 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:18,640 that my soul is. I know we're right at wedding 380 00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:21,400 day, but I still got some insecurities. 381 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,400 I still got some insecurities about all these things. 382 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:28,040 And then she goes a step further. 383 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:30,880 She says I'm black as the curtains of Solomon. 384 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:34,480 The curtains of Solomon in the palace were of a dark color, a 385 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:38,400 dark purple type color. But with that, she seems to be 386 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:42,360 putting two things side by side. On one side I'm black, but on 387 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:45,320 the other side I'm comely. I'm beautiful because the 388 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:49,360 curtain of Solomon, although it's dark, it's been made with 389 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:52,280 exquisite thread. It's been fashioned and 390 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:55,000 interwoven just so. It's been arranged and put 391 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,960 together just nicely. And so she's a woman that's torn 392 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:03,520 and two ideas of herself and two ideas of the world in which she 393 00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:07,400 has lived and been brought up. I'm beautiful on one hand, like 394 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:10,480 the curtains of Solomon, but on the other hand I feel weather 395 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:12,600 beaten and rough around the edges. 396 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:18,080 And I'm just wondering which picture everybody doing all 397 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:22,360 right, which picture is going to take preeminence in the eyes. 398 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:26,280 Amen of my groom. And so she stakes quite 399 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,720 emphatically in verse number six. 400 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:32,240 She says, don't look upon me because I'm black because the 401 00:22:32,240 --> 00:22:35,160 sun has touched me. And no, it goes just a little 402 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:38,800 step further. She says my mother's children, 403 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:43,560 my mother's children were angry with me and they made me the 404 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:47,440 keeper of the vineyards. But my own vineyard I have. 405 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:57,520 Not Ted, she's saying. I was brought up in a. 406 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:03,720 Home where my mother's children we don't know for sure. 407 00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:05,600 We don't read in the whole story of the. 408 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:08,200 Song of Solomon. Where her dad's ever in the 409 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:14,280 picture, we don't know if that means that she was fatherless in 410 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:17,120 essence of he's absent, died early. 411 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,400 If there's someone else that came the picture because of her 412 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:25,120 mother's children she speaks of, but nonetheless, due to some 413 00:23:25,120 --> 00:23:31,720 type of dysfunction in her home or in her space, they made her 414 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:36,640 the keeper of the vineyard. You're going to go outside. 415 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,040 It's your skin that will be touched by the sun. 416 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:43,240 It's your fingers that's going to get the dirt in between it. 417 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,000 It's your hands that's going to become calloused. 418 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:49,560 You're the one that's going to be out there and you're going to 419 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:54,880 get the stigma of the surroundings in the world and 420 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:58,280 the upbringing of what you were born into. 421 00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,200 You're you're, this is going to be your situation. 422 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:03,160 This is going to be your household. 423 00:24:03,360 --> 00:24:05,880 Nobody else is going to have to go out there, but you're going 424 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,760 to have to do that. And then she makes a comparison, 425 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:11,960 Amen with the vineyard, Speaking of her own body and her own 426 00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:14,120 self. She says, I've been out there 427 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,160 tending and doing all of that. Amen to the vineyard. 428 00:24:17,360 --> 00:24:20,800 And the vineyard has done some things to me and the sun has 429 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,840 done some things to me and the environment has done some things 430 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,600 to me that I've left my own vineyard off. 431 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:30,120 I feel like I haven't been able to keep it Amen where the way 432 00:24:30,120 --> 00:24:33,240 that it needed to be kept. I feel like I've let it go. 433 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,600 I feel like I've let myself down. 434 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:39,720 I feel like me being there has been a choice to neglect me and 435 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:41,480 I. Haven't let my own tenure and so 436 00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:45,120 I'm coming on my wedding day and I'm wondering is he going to 437 00:24:45,120 --> 00:24:50,680 look at all of the baggage of my past, of how I was brought up, 438 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:56,720 or is he going to see me? No, no, no, no. 439 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:00,760 She's in a quandary here. There's a little fear that is in 440 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:03,720 her voice. Hey, man, she even states at one 441 00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,320 time. She says, now I've gone to the 442 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,040 King's chambers. It's quite interesting how the 443 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:12,720 Shulamite does this, because in essence, Ray, she is a country 444 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:17,080 girl. Yeah, that's her life. 445 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:22,560 She's a country girl. But she speaks this one whom she 446 00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:29,720 loves is both a king, and she describes him in the role of a 447 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:35,280 shepherd. He is a king, yet he is a 448 00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:39,160 shepherd. What's the story within the 449 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,840 story, Pastor McGee? It's a similar thing that we see 450 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:46,360 in Ephesians 5 when the apostle Paul, he's talking about 451 00:25:46,360 --> 00:25:50,520 husbands and he's talking about wives and he's talking about how 452 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,440 husbands ought to love their wives as Christ. 453 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,760 Loved the church. He talks to them about they 454 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:59,040 should submit to one another. He talks about how a husband 455 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:02,560 should love his wife as himself and that that wife should also 456 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:06,440 have reverence for her husband. He speaks in all types, these 457 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:10,760 ways and frames throughout Ephesians 5 and our mind starts 458 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:15,000 fasting upon the idea of this relationship of husband and wife 459 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,960 and of this relationship of love and this relationship of 460 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,480 respect. And then he's sums it really up 461 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:25,760 in verse #32 when he says this is a great mystery, he says, but 462 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:29,000 I speak concerning Christ and the church. 463 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,720 In other words, he a whole time I've been talking to you about 464 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:36,680 the husband wife relationship, I have really elevated that to 465 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,280 another level. It's not just been husband wife 466 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:41,800 relationship. I've been talking to you about 467 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:45,680 you being the bride of Christ and him being the groom. 468 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:50,240 Because when you are baptized into Christ, when you receive 469 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:54,480 the Spirit, the Bible says we are baptized by 1 spirit into 470 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:58,920 one body, and that body is the bride of Christ. 471 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:00,560 Now here's the interesting thing. 472 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,840 In the bride of Christ, there's neither male nor female. 473 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:07,440 There's neither bond nor free. There's neither Jew nor Gentile. 474 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,720 Because at that moment, no matter where you came from, no 475 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:12,600 matter what your past. Has been no. 476 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,720 Whatever, whatever your Rd. has been, when you become a part of 477 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:17,480 the body, you become a part of the. 478 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:23,320 Bride and honey, I wanted to talk to you on a very practical 479 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:27,440 level about all the things of a lady and a man in the Song of 480 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,520 Solomon. But I come to tell you today, we 481 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,360 got to step it up just a. Degree because we're not just 482 00:27:32,360 --> 00:27:36,080 talking about Solomon and the Solemite, a man and a woman in 483 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:40,000 the relationship. We're talking about a love and 484 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:44,440 the church's insecurity about whether or not their God, 485 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:48,120 whether or not their Savior, can love them. 486 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:59,840 Someone say man, Someone say man, back up just here for a 487 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:02,120 moment please. Because when we start reading 488 00:28:02,120 --> 00:28:05,400 with that type of perspective, we understand some things. 489 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:09,160 Whenever that woman was saying your love is better than me, 490 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:12,960 than to me than wine. There's scriptures in God's Word 491 00:28:13,120 --> 00:28:17,000 that starts cropping up in my mind concerning Christ and 492 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:21,120 concerning His church. Christ told His church in 493 00:28:21,120 --> 00:28:25,120 Ephesians chapter #5 He said don't be drunk with wine, 494 00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:29,840 wherein is excess He says, but be filled with the Spirit. 495 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:33,800 He says if you want to be intoxicated, be intoxicated by 496 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:37,040 my spirit, be exhilarated by my spirit. 497 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,840 I see her, I see us as the bride. 498 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,200 I see us as. The woman, Amen. 499 00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:46,440 All of us, yes, male and female, born into this family and 500 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:50,760 becoming the bride of Christ. I'm telling you, His love for me 501 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:54,640 is better than wine. His love for me, it is 502 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,320 exhilarating. It is intoxicating. 503 00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:59,560 I've been filled by him, his power. 504 00:28:59,920 --> 00:29:03,200 I've been filled by his spirit, love, divide. 505 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:09,240 Not only that, I go a step further. 506 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:13,560 Sister Sheila and I remember on in Acts 1 and 2 on the day of 507 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:17,200 Pentecost when they began to speak in other tongues and that 508 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:21,160 was noised abroad that the Bible says some begin to theorize, 509 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,960 Amen. Perhaps they are drunk and Peter 510 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:28,760 stood up and said they they're not drunk as ye supposed. 511 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:33,440 Yes, they're intoxicated. Yes, it's exhilarating, but it's 512 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:42,480 because of this relationship. So it's hey man, hear. 513 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:48,880 Me whenever I read about her talking about his name poured 514 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:52,600 forth and the fragrance and the aroma that's associated with 515 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:57,760 being close to the atmosphere of the character of his name. 516 00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:02,960 I remember how the Bible says in the Philippians 29 that 517 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:09,200 wherefore God has given him a name, He's highly exalted him 518 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:17,440 and given him a name which is above it's above every name. 519 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:24,120 No, no, no, no. It's above the name of Bell. 520 00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:27,120 It's above the name of Astra. It's above the name of 521 00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:29,320 Confucius. It's the bundle of the name of 522 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:32,320 Luther. It's above, it's above the name 523 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:34,600 of Milekta. It's above of those names. 524 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:38,720 But it's even above all of the titles and the compound names 525 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:41,400 that God was known of in the Old Testament. 526 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:45,760 They would say Jehovah Jireh, the Lord is my provider, but his 527 00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:47,840 name is higher than that name. Why? 528 00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:50,560 Because when you read all the compound names of the Old 529 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:55,280 Testament like Jehovah Nisi. The Lord our banner and Jehovah 530 00:30:55,280 --> 00:31:00,640 Shalom, the Lord our peace and Jehovah Shabbat the Lord our 531 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:05,760 host, and Jehovah Mackadesh the Lord our sanctifier, and Jehovah 532 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:10,400 Rohai the Lord our shepherd, and Jehovah Tiskanoo the Lord our 533 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:13,960 righteousness, and Jehovah Shamma the Lord is there. 534 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:16,760 And Jehovah Rapha the Lord heals you. 535 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,040 I'm not crying out to one single of those names. 536 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:25,240 I just cry out upon Jesus because he's my provider, He's 537 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:29,200 my healer, He's my righteousness, He's my star, 538 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,040 He's my deliverer. He is there. 539 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:35,360 His name is like precious ointment. 540 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:45,520 Yes, that's when I speak Jesus. Along with that comes all the 541 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:47,200 characterization of who and what He is. 542 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:52,040 That's right. I'm not going through my, I'm 543 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:54,200 not going through my phone book of names. 544 00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,360 When I need provision. So what was that? 545 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:00,400 Was that Jehovah hug? What was an easy Was it? 546 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:07,560 No, I cry out Jesus because all the fragrance of the ointment is 547 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:18,640 poured forth in that solitaire. She's contemplating these 548 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,720 things. The church contemplates these 549 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:28,800 things close enough to smell him and mine goes to James. 550 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:35,880 James four and eight, how Scripture mandates, urges draw a 551 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:41,240 nigh to God and he'll draw a nigh. 552 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:46,320 She's been close enough to get the fragrance and then just a 553 00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:50,560 little later, what she crying out to her Solomon lover. 554 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:58,080 Draw me. I've come close now. 555 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:02,960 Draw. Me everybody. 556 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:07,840 OK, I'm going to preach it before I get I'm named to my 557 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:12,000 sermon you MY12O clock sermon. I'm named to my 12O clock sermon 558 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:16,800 you. She got to the place. 559 00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:22,560 After all this scenario, she's like, tell me whom my soul 560 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:27,160 loveth? Where do you feed the flocks? 561 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:31,400 See, she's went from the king imagery now to the shepherd 562 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:35,160 imagery. Where do you feed your flocks at 563 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,840 noon? And she basically saying this, I 564 00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:44,840 don't want to be going around trying to look for you and to 565 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:48,800 seem to appear as a woman that is veiled. 566 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,600 This is important. This is important Jessica, 567 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:56,600 because in that day a veiled woman holds one of two things 568 00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:01,000 she's either considered as a harlot. 569 00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:05,440 All right, Jacob's own daughter-in-law tomorrow said by 570 00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,639 the way, heavily veiled. The Bible says to take advantage 571 00:34:08,639 --> 00:34:12,239 of her father-in-law, Jacob. What was the indication of 572 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:16,120 mourning? I don't want everybody that 573 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:26,560 knows us to think I'm searching for someone else because I know 574 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:31,280 your love toward me and I just want to know where you're at. 575 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,800 But sadly, but the reason the way it sometimes the ways of the 576 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:37,560 Lord to us sometimes are elusive. 577 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:44,199 The Bible says sometimes his ways are past finding out. 578 00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:50,080 Job, even in his dilemma, said I go forward, but he is not there. 579 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:55,360 Backward, but I cannot. Perceive him on the left hand. 580 00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:59,360 Where he does work, but I cannot behold him. 581 00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:03,880 He hideth on the right hand, and I cannot see him. 582 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:09,520 Verse 11 though, he says that Job says My foot have held his 583 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:12,560 steps. That's what Solomon told her. 584 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:16,200 If you want to find me, he said follow the footsteps of the 585 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:19,560 flock that I've been leading. He says because why? 586 00:35:19,720 --> 00:35:23,800 Let's put John in there, because my sheep know my voice, and a 587 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:25,360 stranger they will not. Follow. 588 00:35:25,720 --> 00:35:28,240 And if you'll follow wherever the footsteps of the flock are 589 00:35:28,240 --> 00:35:30,240 going, they're going to lead to me. 590 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:34,240 And you'll find out where I am and you'll find out that why I 591 00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:36,080 don't want where I where are you at at noon? 592 00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:41,200 Because at noon, in the height of the heat of the day, that's 593 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,960 when the shepherd is going to find a shady place for the sheep 594 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,360 and a time of repose for himself. 595 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:54,560 And the shooter might saying, I know you're a very busy man, but 596 00:35:54,560 --> 00:36:01,240 I also know there are times there are times when you don't 597 00:36:01,240 --> 00:36:03,960 have your attention diverted by anybody else. 598 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,160 And I'm wondering if I could just have your attention then? 599 00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:16,360 He says, so if you if you come in that moment, if you come at 600 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:22,520 that time, then very easily Amen, you could be found of me. 601 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:28,800 Someone say Amen, don't stare at me. 602 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,880 She says I got some scars from my past. 603 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,760 Every person that comes into a relationship literally and with 604 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,920 the Lord has some scars of the past. 605 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:52,120 Hers happens to be rooted in how she was raised feeling neglected 606 00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:58,120 looking after the vineyard. I really don't know except the 607 00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,000 few descriptors in the song of Psalm. 608 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:04,960 I really don't know what the shula my actually 100%. 609 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:09,400 I don't have a photographic description of the Sheila mine 610 00:37:10,040 --> 00:37:11,600 again various. Things are described about. 611 00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:15,120 Her, but I don't have some type of photographic description of 612 00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:18,240 her. But I'll tell you what I do 613 00:37:18,240 --> 00:37:25,040 know. Solomon thought she was drop 614 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:34,880 dead gorgeous, the scripture says. 615 00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:41,360 And verse 8, this is the first time we hear Solomon speak, 616 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:49,680 first time that he utters a word in this passage to this woman's 617 00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:53,280 that's been vacillating back and forth between her insecurities 618 00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,720 about she's going to be accepted by the love of this man she's 619 00:37:56,720 --> 00:38:01,400 supposed to marry. And his words, look at it with 620 00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:08,640 me in verse #8 are this verse #8 he says, If thou know not, she's 621 00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:10,080 asking the question, where? Where did I go? 622 00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:11,120 Where, where do you rest your flock to? 623 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:16,800 Where are you at at? Noon, he says, Lady, if thou 624 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:18,680 know not. Notice the next. 625 00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:26,200 Few words. Oh, thou fairest among women. 626 00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:30,320 Wait a minute. Wait a minute. 627 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:36,360 I am black. Wait a minute, the sun has 628 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,360 touched me because of my upbringing. 629 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,360 Wait a minute, I got dirt under my fingernails. 630 00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:47,520 Wait a minute, I'm rugged. Wait a minute, I'm spotted. 631 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,240 Wait a minute. I'm like weather beating goats 632 00:38:50,240 --> 00:38:51,280 hair. Wait, a come on. 633 00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:58,640 Life has marked me. Life has put a mark on me. 634 00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:03,040 Life has not been kind to me and I've allowed it to come in and 635 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:07,000 I've neglected myself and what I should be doing, where I should 636 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,000 be going, how I should be living. 637 00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,440 I've been marked by life. But he's crying out to a woman 638 00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,920 that didn't think she was fair and he's crying over her. 639 00:39:16,240 --> 00:39:26,160 Oh, thou fairest among. Somebody hear me Right now 640 00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:31,720 you're living, you're living in a spot of insecurity as being 641 00:39:31,720 --> 00:39:34,400 the bride of Christ, and the only thing your mind can 642 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:37,560 remember is how you were a tender of the vineyard. 643 00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:41,240 The only thing your mind can remember is how it treated you 644 00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:45,280 wrongly and you got some Nicks, if you will, in your skin as a 645 00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:48,040 result of your upbringing and where you've been. 646 00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:52,800 Life just told you, you have an uneven tan, you're splotchy, 647 00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:57,600 you're black, you're accepted He's placed his love on you, but 648 00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:00,920 you're questioning if he's still going to love you until the end. 649 00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:05,360 But I hear the voice of saying of heaven crying out over the 650 00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:09,080 congregation today with every individual of the insecurity 651 00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,440 about their placement in the body, about their placement in 652 00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:15,560 God. I hear heaven saying, Oh, thou 653 00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:27,200 fairest, you've been marked by your life, but you've been 654 00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,280 named. By his love. 655 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:37,600 I. Got to realize something Sister 656 00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:44,920 Missy, Melissa, you read all 8 chapters. 657 00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,920 Good homework. Go home, get caught right in the 658 00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:56,280 love triangle of God. The Shula might and Solomon get 659 00:40:56,280 --> 00:41:01,440 caught right in it and you're go see over 14 / 8 chapters that 660 00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:06,680 Solomon approximately 14 times either calls her the fairest of 661 00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:11,760 all women or fair within those 8 chapters. 662 00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:16,880 Why is he's doing that? He's combating the mentality of 663 00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:20,240 a woman that couldn't get over how she was brought up. 664 00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:29,200 So every now and then, he's just got to drop the fare card again 665 00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:32,360 because he knows the means of humanity. 666 00:41:34,240 --> 00:41:36,520 We'll entertain it, we'll have victory over it. 667 00:41:36,720 --> 00:41:40,480 We'll go on live celebratory, victorious life until a new 668 00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:41,920 thought is. Impregnated in our. 669 00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:43,800 Mind and we'll begin to circle it. 670 00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:49,760 And so Solomon, knowing the framework, Amen of his love. 671 00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:52,720 He says, I'm going to tell you in chapter 1, and you read of it 672 00:41:52,720 --> 00:41:57,080 again in chapter 2, him saying the same thing. 673 00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:01,960 You see it then in chapter #5 You see it in chapter #6 him 674 00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:04,560 saying, O thou fairest among women. 675 00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:09,000 You see it again in chapter #1 He says Behold, telling his his 676 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:12,920 should behold thou. Art fair, my love, Behold thou 677 00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:17,520 art fair, he says in chapter #2 my beloved, speak and said unto 678 00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:21,920 me, rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. 679 00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:23,840 I like that. You know what he's saying. 680 00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:26,160 It's time to come to make this marriage. 681 00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:30,760 It's time to get this. Arise, get up and come over here 682 00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:32,480 with me. You know what I really like? 683 00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:37,240 It's chapter #7 and verse number six or four and verse #7 really. 684 00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:40,440 The Bible says he says, thou art everybody say all. 685 00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,520 He says Thou art all fair, my love. 686 00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:51,560 There is no wait. There is no spot. 687 00:42:55,360 --> 00:42:59,840 I'm black. The sun has touched me. 688 00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:09,520 There is no spot. My history says I'm black. 689 00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:18,840 But the moment I met you, the moment I met you, all I've been 690 00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:23,600 hearing is thou art the fairest, and there is no spot you'll. 691 00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:36,120 Get a bow. His name has such a fragrance as 692 00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:43,200 all pulled out, poured out that when he and I hang, the aroma of 693 00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:45,800 his name is enough to cover both of us. 694 00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:48,560 Yeah. Thank you, Jesus. 695 00:43:49,920 --> 00:43:52,880 Thank you, Jesus. Have you ever stood by someone 696 00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:57,720 and they said, what is that? You got on and it wasn't you, 697 00:43:57,720 --> 00:43:59,120 but the one standing next to you. 698 00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:06,680 They had mistaken. Your aroma for what that person 699 00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:11,400 was emitting from themselves. Honey, when you're black, 700 00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:15,560 whenever you've been touched by the sun, you know if you will 701 00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:19,400 have a portfolio of your own. You just stand by somebody, 702 00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:23,760 stand by the king of glory, the shepherd of our soul that does. 703 00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:26,840 And here's aroma can become your aroma. 704 00:44:35,450 --> 00:44:48,770 Someone said thank you, Jesus. Oh yeah, she calls him King. 705 00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:53,920 The king has taken me into his, his chambers. 706 00:44:54,520 --> 00:45:00,440 Verse #4 In a real practical sense, Brother Fred. 707 00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:07,000 They also had terms of endearment, just like some of 708 00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,120 y'all call she's my Princess or my queen. 709 00:45:11,240 --> 00:45:19,560 He's my king, my Prince. But Solomon was actually a king, 710 00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:26,640 but again, to this country girl she also refers to him as a 711 00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:38,120 shepherd, because who would ever thought that a king like him 712 00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:42,280 would fall in love with a country girl like her? 713 00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:51,680 Well, let me tell you what your king does. 714 00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:55,160 He gets on levels you can relate to. 715 00:45:55,160 --> 00:46:01,520 Yes he does. And brother Tag the apostle said 716 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:06,080 even as we to adopt. But as he already showed us, he 717 00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:11,360 becomes all things to all men so that he might save some. 718 00:46:16,240 --> 00:46:20,280 And so pictured in the Song of Solomon is the king shepherd. 719 00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:25,040 That's great. Kings typically weren't 720 00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:28,280 shepherds. We have the rare, We have the 721 00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:34,040 rare example of David, who was a shepherd and become a king. 722 00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:37,440 But this is the story of a king that became a shepherd. 723 00:46:40,720 --> 00:46:45,800 Hallelujah, oh God of the lineage of David. 724 00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:53,160 Even the prophets prophesied. And so there'll be 1 that will 725 00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:58,320 be in the lineage of David. Who's going to be your king? 726 00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:09,240 Revelation says that that king would be both the root and the 727 00:47:09,240 --> 00:47:17,480 offspring of David. Now how can Jesus Christ, born 728 00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:27,840 in Bethlehem's Manger, be the root of a king that lived before 729 00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:34,520 him? Because as the writer said in 730 00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:45,240 2nd Corinthians 5, to win that God, what's in Christ, we get 731 00:47:45,240 --> 00:47:51,400 the King who can be both the root, the causation of David, 732 00:47:52,280 --> 00:48:02,880 and also the offspring, the vet. Someone say, man, I don't want 733 00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:08,600 to leave you there because he likewise is our king Shepherd. 734 00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:13,080 You read in John 10 and he is called. 735 00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:22,040 The Good Shepherd we read in the book of Peter chapter 5 and 736 00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:27,440 verse 4. He is called the Chief Shepherd. 737 00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:34,000 We read in Hebrews chapter 13 and verse 20 Jesus Christ the 738 00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:39,080 Great Shepherd. The Shulamite is talking in the 739 00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:44,800 Song of Solomon about this king shepherd, when in reality the 740 00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:50,160 bigger story within the story is pointing to Jesus Christ who is 741 00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:56,560 also our King so. What's am I doing? 742 00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:01,040 OK and 45. Oh God help me. 743 00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:03,400 Very glad I don't really have notes. 744 00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:11,920 Because I want to take you back to the imagery, Jeanette, the 745 00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:15,040 imagery that this woman speaks about her blackness and her 746 00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:17,920 loveliness. Look at it again, Tents of 747 00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:26,280 Kadar, tents of Kadar outside the environment that she knew, 748 00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:31,680 but she also says the curtains of Solomon. 749 00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:41,280 It's wedding day, folks. There's been courtship, there's 750 00:49:41,280 --> 00:49:47,040 been mingling talks, notes, conversation, picnics by the 751 00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:51,160 River of Galilee, maybe the Jordan River. 752 00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:57,200 Listen, the only way that she could give these two imageries 753 00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:02,120 with any application about herself is if she was familiar 754 00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:09,280 with both. What are you saying? 755 00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:14,240 It's wedding day and I've been familiar with the tense of the 756 00:50:14,240 --> 00:50:20,080 nomads, but I must remind myself I've also seen the curtains. 757 00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:29,360 I've also seen the curtains of Solomon daughters have desired. 758 00:50:29,720 --> 00:50:33,720 You can say a lot about what you know about my love, but you 759 00:50:33,720 --> 00:50:35,280 can't say you've seen his curtains. 760 00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:39,840 You go by God, you can't say it's eating his curtains. 761 00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:43,960 Because I've been in a position I've, I've been afforded the 762 00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:46,720 opportunity. I'm not just the life I've been 763 00:50:46,720 --> 00:50:49,360 brought up in, but the life that I can have. 764 00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:56,960 Staying with me, you good people. 765 00:51:05,310 --> 00:51:13,600 Staying here today in this amorous love weekend and I see 766 00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:19,960 every individual in front of me that could testify like she and 767 00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:26,080 says I've been marked by life. There may be some of you 768 00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:31,800 already, you know, until Rapture day. 769 00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:36,560 And we see him as he is and become as he is. 770 00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:40,320 We are in a holding pattern of being the bride. 771 00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:47,600 The wedding day hasn't occurred, but we stand some time, sister 772 00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:56,040 million with the butterflies and the goat feet, thinking I wonder 773 00:51:56,040 --> 00:52:02,680 once all limitations are set aside, if he's really going to 774 00:52:02,720 --> 00:52:08,640 love me. Because I know where I've been. 775 00:52:15,980 --> 00:52:17,540 And he's saying, oh, thou fairest. 776 00:52:18,700 --> 00:52:20,140 He's saying, I'm going to combat that. 777 00:52:21,180 --> 00:52:25,380 Oh thou fairest. Behold, my love, there is no 778 00:52:25,380 --> 00:52:31,220 spot through these eyes. I'm not asking you about your 779 00:52:31,220 --> 00:52:34,900 other daughters of Zion. Say what they will, but through 780 00:52:34,900 --> 00:52:41,420 these eyes there's no spot in you. 781 00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:47,720 Let's raise our hands right now, please, Jesus. 782 00:53:04,510 --> 00:53:14,310 Lord, we cut this woman in an infraction of the law, and Moses 783 00:53:14,310 --> 00:53:17,910 in the law says she should be stoned. 784 00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:25,960 But what do you say? They just asked love. 785 00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:32,400 They just asked grace. They just asked mercy. 786 00:53:33,240 --> 00:53:36,400 What do you say? And if I could put it in Old 787 00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:46,440 Testament vernacular, O thou fairest among women, where are 788 00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:49,600 your condemners? Does any man condemn me? 789 00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:54,840 Because all those who had sinned, who had the stones 790 00:53:54,840 --> 00:54:00,120 clutched in their fists, ready to throw him, he said you'd be 791 00:54:00,320 --> 00:54:03,200 without sin. He that is, let him cast the 792 00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:07,120 first stone. You hear the repetitive patterns 793 00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:09,400 of stones hitting the ground. Why? 794 00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:13,320 Because all of their. Lives have been marked in some 795 00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:17,160 way. I don't see anybody. 796 00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:19,320 Around Lord, I don't know 1 He says. 797 00:54:19,320 --> 00:54:21,120 Neither do I condemn thee. What you saying? 798 00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:25,720 Oh, thou fairest among women. I see no spot. 799 00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:42,600 I see no spot in you. Sermon today. 800 00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:48,200 Go on and pull your carcass into the sanctuary this morning. 801 00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:55,760 Go on and pull your rugged life, your worn and torn and weather 802 00:54:55,760 --> 00:55:00,120 battered life. Go on and pull your wrong 803 00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:09,560 decision, your indecision, your rejection in here and allow what 804 00:55:09,560 --> 00:55:15,600 life has helped mark you with. In a relationship with the 805 00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:20,720 Savior that's going to peer at you through love and say when 806 00:55:20,720 --> 00:55:25,880 you thought you weren't enough, I'm going to call you fair. 807 00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:30,000 Whenever you thought you didn't meet the measure of what was 808 00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:34,360 considered beautiful, he says. I'm going to see beauty. 809 00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:40,400 Why? Because you are my love, and I 810 00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:44,160 am your beloved. You know, there's another place 811 00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:45,880 there in the song of song. You need to read it, folks. 812 00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:47,120 You need to read it through this lens. 813 00:55:47,440 --> 00:55:50,320 There's a place that the Shulamite cries out and she says 814 00:55:50,320 --> 00:55:52,160 these words, and it's such a powerful thing. 815 00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:58,600 She says his desire is toward. Me. 816 00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:01,640 She's caught it. She's caught it. 817 00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:08,880 His desire, I'm sitting there and I'm not, I'm not wringing my 818 00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:13,200 hands and I'm not worrying and I'm not being suspect about life 819 00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:17,200 and I'm not looking over my shoulder and I'm no, no, no, no. 820 00:56:17,400 --> 00:56:19,560 She catches attack. She catches attack. 821 00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:21,920 She says he, he's telling me arise. 822 00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:24,000 He's having me coming to the chamber. 823 00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:29,200 His desire, folks, God's desire is toward you today. 824 00:56:34,280 --> 00:56:36,720 There is a current of God's Spirit in here right now. 825 00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:41,120 There is a presence of God. The ointments of His name are 826 00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:44,160 flowing in this place. I am honest you. 827 00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:48,720 I invite you to step into the aroma of the characterization of 828 00:56:48,720 --> 00:56:52,200 who He is this morning and allow His aroma to cover you. 829 00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:56,920 Allow His aroma to penetrate, encompass, and circle you. 830 00:56:57,240 --> 00:57:00,280 He's here today. Go on, bring that weather 831 00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:01,920 beaten. Bring that weather. 832 00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:04,560 Beaten South. Bring that down and out 833 00:57:04,560 --> 00:57:06,000 criticize. Self. 834 00:57:06,320 --> 00:57:09,240 Go on today, you go on and bring your past. 835 00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:11,360 You bring your dysfunctional life. 836 00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:15,000 You bring the dysfunctional family that you were brought up 837 00:57:15,080 --> 00:57:17,040 in. You bring your scars. 838 00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:20,280 You bring your torment. You bring your sorrow. 839 00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:21,800 You bring your. Pain. 840 00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:24,480 Come on, Sir. Ma'am. 841 00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:26,120 Church family. Come on. 842 00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:31,600 You've been marked. By life, but you've been named. 843 00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:34,080 By love. Come on, Sir. 844 00:57:34,080 --> 00:57:35,640 Come on, man. Come on, church family, Let's 845 00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:37,880 create a atmosphere. Let's maintain the atmosphere 846 00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:40,840 right now for God to do something in someone's life. 847 00:57:41,080 --> 00:57:43,640 Make a step forward tonight or this morning. 848 00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:45,680 Amen. To make it easier for somebody 849 00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:47,920 else, maybe that's never made a step to make a step. 850 00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:54,760 Come on, Sir. Come on, ma'am, you're 851 00:57:54,760 --> 00:57:56,680 bewildered. How could he love me? 852 00:57:57,280 --> 00:58:00,840 How could he be kind to me? How could he want eternity with 853 00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:02,800 me? How could he lavish love? 854 00:58:03,040 --> 00:58:05,760 Don't he see me? Don't he see where I've been? 855 00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:07,920 Don't he see what I've intermittent with? 856 00:58:08,600 --> 00:58:14,680 Oh, thou fairest. Oh thou fairest, Oh thou.