Mike Bickle explores the profound beauty of Jesus as depicted in Song of Solomon 5:10-16, emphasizing the bride's unwavering love for Him despite her trials and feelings of abandonment. He highlights that true love for Jesus transcends circumstances, focusing on His divine attributes and perfect leadership. The sermon encourages believers to declare the beauty of Jesus in their lives, especially during difficult times, and to recognize His compassion and unwavering presence. Bickle urges the congregation to internalize these truths, allowing them to shape their relationship with Christ and strengthen their faith.

Well, let's go ahead and get our notes out session 10, but a couple quick announcements before that first I had a great time in Bethel with Bill Johnson and I we've been good friends for years and we spent a lot of time together and I actually had meetings This is because this it was this good, but I had meetings 12 hours a day for seven straight days But it was fun because I taught their conference their church their ministry school their staff and all and they and I got to Interview them because I went there for relationship really but secondly I went there to learn from them Because they're doing so many good things and and I was happy to give a few little messages But that's not really why I went there I didn't go there so much to give a teaching but to connect with them and re Just learn some things from their heart, but I showed him the video the whole school with you guys saying BSSM we love you, and they screamed and hollered and yeah, we love different ones were yelling. I help you We love you, and you know that it was a lot of fun It was totally a lot of fun that part was second thing I want to share is that on Monday Tuesday Wednesday three days the global bridegroom fast Which is typically the first Monday to Wednesday of the month, but this time we're moving it back a week So it's going to be Monday October 30th Tuesday And then Wednesday this November 1st, but what we're doing we're moving the prayer room down to FCF And we're having a solemn assembly and in that we're just shutting down lots of things. We do this about once a year and All of our leadership team is committed to be there from 10 in the morning till 6 at night And we've done this where everybody's there literally for eight hours together crying out to the Lord together and so I'm You know I should know this But I think a lot of the classes are not going to be happening that week let your particular class teachers Tell you that but my pickle said that one class goes what? But I know a lot of them aren't and we want to encourage you to come and be a part of that But that Wednesday night November 1st That would be a chapel night, and we had our discussion about it I can't remember exactly because we talked about it for a half hour, but I was voting I said, let's not have the chapel it did we end up with that because I left the room Yeah, oh we think we are the Wednesday night after eight hours and three days in a row. Okay. Let them say it but uh There are not going to be classes during the solemn assembly week They will take place the following week, which would be the normal GVF So you would think as the president of the school. I should know that Well, you know I I got backs a Sunday at midnight What's that? Who doesn't have notes if you don't have your notes? Raise your hand up high and always get notes on the way in because it will have them every time So I got back midnight on Sunday night, and we had our leadership team The next afternoon I was you know the lights are on but nobody's home What'd you guys just say and so I'm a little bit wobbly on the details of it But I know that those three days from 10 in the morning till 6 at night Monday Tuesday Wednesday our whole leadership team is going to be involved a lot of our worship teams and lead and worship leaders We're gonna be there the whole time We're crying out to the Lord for a breakthrough in our nation a spirit of revival touch our city You know when we cry out for revival Some people pray for revival for the school or revival for I hop and I want to pray for revival for the city Because if it hits the city, it's gonna hit school You know I'm not thinking of a revival in a bit in one room in a building and everybody comes to that one room That's not my idea of revival my idea of revival is the Spirit of God sweeping across the geographic area Hitting a you know hundreds of congregations people getting saved walking down the street power of God in the marketplace So when I think revival, I'm not thinking of people coming to a room we pray for me They fall over and that's revival. I'm thinking of the first and second Great Awakening with the Spirit of God invaded literally the whole of the East Coast and Thousands of people were saved in the parks in the marketplace all not every church But many many congregations and denominations that there was a tenderness of God a conviction of the Holy Spirit That's what happened in the first and second Great Awakening And we're due for a third Great Awakening in our nation And there's a lot of prophetic activity that the Lord is saying to many different prophetic voices over the years. It's coming It's coming so that's the revival I'm really aiming for revival far bigger than one little group here or one little group there so we're crying out for that revival in these three days and Times like this really matter they shift things in the spirit and just things are troubling in our nation And the Lord says when things are troubling and my promises are before you cry out together Gather together, you know shut some things down gather together cry out to me and that's what we're doing so that Monday Tuesday Wednesday and about the chapel November First that Wednesday night it is whatever Brandon says it is. Okay, so that's what it will be I just remember I voted I go. I think we're all gonna be tired, but I was real tired that day It's just maybe I was a little bit carrying over. But okay there you have it. Okay, let's look at session 10 here Father we ask you in the name of Jesus Lord by the Holy Spirit Lord We love your we love Jesus and Holy Spirit. We ask you again stir us mark us Escort us into the deeper things of his heart and we thank you in Jesus name. Amen We're here in session 10. We're looking at Song of Solomon chapter 5 verse 10 to 16 now these seven verses this is one of the Strongest descriptions of the beauty of Jesus in one passage in the whole Bible I mean Revelation 1 would would even be stronger than this one, but this is one of the strongest ones Now the problem is the first time you read it. You're unfamiliar with it and it's in the language It's an agricultural language Of the bride the maiden here the Shulamite who the song is it's between King Solomon and his bride She was a farm girl. So there's language. There's agricultural language because she really understood that then there's the temple the Solomon temple language and the two are merged together and Once you get just a little bit familiar with it this Seven verses they it really alive, but I remember the first time I read it I went I mean, honestly, I went And I said, I don't know. I don't think this is gonna really be a big one for me But many years later it didn't take many years But I look back and this is one of my favorite passages and these are verses that I use About the beauty of Jesus when the enemy attacks me I say it is written This is who he is or when I feel discouraged I declare these truths back before the Lord over my heart back to the Lord So my prayer is that you wouldn't if you're brand new with this you wouldn't just like look at it once ago But because that's what I did, but you'd stay with it Which is what I did too and then you will get this into your language into your prayer life with God Then this passage will really really be important So let's look at the context in Song of Solomon chapter 5 What's happening is that the bride is? Enduring the most severe test of this eight chapter love song Song of Solomon is eight chapters And of course the Song of Solomon you can read it in the natural interpretation Which is King Solomon? Wooing his bride and the bride responding. That's the natural interpretation It describes the glory of married love and that's really what the song's about the glory of married love But that's not the limitation to the song the song is more than King Solomon Wooing his bride and her responding. It's King Jesus Wooing his bride and his bride responding. That's the spiritual interpretation So both of them are meaningful and valid and meant to be understood that way With the Holy Spirit's intention of course the way, we're looking at it obviously is King Jesus But what's happening here in Song of Solomon chapter 5? The bride is responding in the most severe test of her life What happened is that early in the song she made it clear. She said here's what I live for I Want to experience the presence of God, and I want to be used by God. I'm gonna partner with him I want him to use me in a way that is important and touches people's lives, so she had basically two Life goals to encounter God in his presence and to be used by God Partnering in him to change other people's lives those are the two things she wanted And what happens in chapter 5 is both of those are seemingly lost She's in a period where the presence of God seems to have lifted, and she can't encounter him She can't feel his presence, and she's really in pain over it And then on top of that the leaders in the body of Christ the watchman the guards of the city Which speaks of the leaders of the city in the body of Christ they strike her they persecute her they reject her and she? Loses her place of function so the two things she wanted to encounter him and be used to function in partnership with him both of them were seemingly lost and So now the daughters of Jerusalem, which is a company that throughout the song They're kind of interacting with her at key times in the song they come to her and say How do you feel now? That you're enduring this most severe twofold test the two things you wanted most Now you have least You can't feel his presence, and you've been rejected in the body, and there's no sense of usefulness how do you feel now and so that's where this song picks up and Here she gives one of the most Glorious answers and the reason I love this passage so much And the reason I want you to love it so much is because this is a holy spirit response in a time of tremendous trial and Confusion when everything seems lost this is how she responded by the Holy Spirit So verse 8 the daughters of Jerusalem They're watching her as she's being struck by the leaders of the body and kicked out in essence And they're going wow what how do you feel now about your beloved and she says in verse 8 Oh daughters of Jerusalem If you find him my king my beloved Here's my here's my story. Here's my confession. Tell him I'm not offended at all I'm lovesick. I love him. I love him for who he is Not for how well things are going in my life right now. I'm in it for love I love him in verse 9 the the daughters of Jerusalem they go Who is this king? What is your beloved? What do you know about him that we cannot see in him? What is your beloved? More than all the other beloveds like what do you find in him? That is so different than what we love because we have our beloveds But if our beloveds disappoint us, and they don't they don't you know things don't happen right we get rid of them move on but you You charge us to go help you find him because your love sick, and so that's what's going on She's pained in love for a closer relationship with the Lord and she wants Everything that's in the way of her and the Lord to be moved out of the way. I mean this is one of the most dramatic Statements that I could imagine Making in a time of trial and of course prophetically in the in the generation the Lord Returns I believe this will be the posture of the bride even in the greatest hour of persecution in history And the greatest revival in history The church will come forth in the greatest love ever seen in the body of Christ We confess Jesus. I'm in it for love. I'm in it for you. I mean I want the blessings I mean I love the blessings And I want them, but if they're not in if they're not happening in the way. I think they should be happening. I'm not Renegotiating whether I love him and that's what she's saying paragraph B. We love Jesus for who he is Not because he blesses us or not even because we feel his presence I mean, I love feeling his presence, but I'm in it beyond that I'm not just in it when I feel him and then when I don't feel him. I'm out He's a king. That's worthy of all of our love Regardless of our ministry I have found in 40 plus years of ministry Sometimes things are really on the upswing and momentum other times There's a decrease and every person I've ever known in ministry and leadership. They have the highs and other seasons There's the drawing back than the next season It goes up and and and in that we work that muscle in our heart over and over and we realign Ourself to love over and over and our love is actually purified in the up and down of the seasons Now the seasons don't change every month or every year, but you know every couple years there seems to be a shift Where some new breakthroughs or some new challenges, you know and sometimes both and the and when we go through those seasons and we Realign ourself with his heart and the beauty of who he is Something really grows strong in us And of course the Lord knows that so he's you know his leadership over our life He allows some things to happen where that love is exercised in a great way. I mean, I love favor on relationships I love favor on circumstance. I love favor on ministry. I love feeling his presence, but I'm gonna go all the way Regardless where those are at any given season That's the heart of the bride and that that's the fruit of interacting with the beauty of Jesus when we see who he is It's worth it when he is When he's there to bless us and he's not blessing us. Then we kind of renegotiate our loyalty to him when we don't feel blessed But he's bigger than that and we know that when we're happy But when we work that through when we're sad and disappointed something dynamic gets settled in our heart Okay, let's look at Roman numeral two The beauty of King Jesus We're gonna get a snapshot just an overview and the reason because again if this is a brand new passage to you And I'm assuming it is some of you. It's like I don't even get what's going on here. This is weird there's this agricultural language of the farm girl and there's the temple language of King Solomon because he's the one who built the temple and The temple was the most lavish building in the ancient world or one of the wonders of the ancient world I mean the temple was like, you know, you look across the street at that, you know, the shopping mall over there It was that big is bigger than that and it had elaborate It was big and elaborate and gold and all these things and so we see both the farm language and we see the temple language merged together and It's joined together in her talking about his physical beauty. She's really saying you're really good-looking and I like you That's the natural interpretation. But the spiritual one is Jesus you're beautiful in all that you do you're beautiful and we're tapping into the To this obviously the spiritual interpretation. So what's happening here? Is that she starts off with a Summary of who he is Look at paragraph B. She starts off with a general statement and the statement is your chief among 10,000 Then she develops ten specific attributes of his personality and his leadership and his deeds She goes and you do this and you do this and you do this and you do this But the enemy could whisper in her ear and say but he's not doing any of that for you right now So, what do you think now and she goes this is my confession you are chief among 10,000 which poetically means you're the infinitely superior one and So that's a poetic term. That means there's no one like you no one like you. So she gives a general statement of verse 10 Then she gives ten Characteristics of his personality and leadership Then she ends with a summary statement about him. So let's kind of read it through a bit here verse 10 paragraph B She goes my beloved the word is white, but the Hebrew word and it's translated in a number of translation He's radiant. He's glorious. He's dazzling So it's the word white but bright like the radiance of the face of an angel or the Sun even My beloved is radiant. He's beautiful He's chief among 10,000. There is none like him and the daughters of Jerusalem are going really Well, there's none like him. Why? Why is it seemingly where he's left you? You don't feel his presence and why seemingly have you lost favor in your ministry and in the body of Christ and everyone's rejecting you She goes, I don't know that but I know this his leadership is perfect that I'm positive on it Then she starts in verse 11 his head which means his leadership. It is finest gold Meaning there's no leadership superior to his His locks or his hair are wavy. His eyes are like doves His cheeks and the cheeks speak of emotions because you can tell someone's emotions by their cheeks You can tell they're mad glad or sad by one glance at a lot of people unless you're hiding it from you his lips his words Spoken to my heart from the word or by the spirit. They're pure. His words are beautiful and pure His hands his works of power. They're like rods of gold. They're valuable They're glorious the rare no one else can do what he does His body now the word body here, we'll find out in a few moments means his compassions, it's it's the word Used in the Old Testament the yearning the stirring of deep compassions His compassions are like carved ivory in other words rare and beautiful and none like it His legs are the moving forward of his purposes. They're stable. They're solid. They're like marble They're unmovable under pressure His countenance and the countenance when God's countenance shines on his people. That's what he imparts grace It's like the fragrance and the beauty of Lebanon which was a very famous area in the northern part of Israel the cedars of Lebanon were known for their beauty and their fragrance and And and and their value and when the Lord's countenance is on us his in his spirit stirs us Like David cried out Lord to let the light of your countenance touch our hearts Then she comes to the tenth one. She goes his mouth is most sweet Then she gives the summary statement. He is all together beautiful Everything about him is good and wonderful Now I assure you that the devil does not like this passage if this passage gets into your lips before God The enemy will not like this and though you don't have to say these terms, but once you get real familiar with them It's poetic, but God gets it and you get it and I say some of these terms just because the poetry It's the poetry the Holy Spirit gave and and once you get used to it It's easy just to say it right to the Lord now ladies. I wouldn't maybe use these on the guy that you're Dating you know this may be weird, but top of page 2 See chapter 4 is he's speaking to the bride And I tried those out on my wife one and they all went like your neck is like the Tower of David it bombed you know because she didn't know what I was talking about and If I remember right she slapped me and that she probably didn't really but it didn't go well Top of page 2 she didn't really slap me. That was a joke Paragraph a I've already said this, but I just want you to see it again as we become familiar with the truths We speak him back to Jesus to express our love We speak him to the devil when he lies to us that God has forgotten us right here was a premier time For the devil to gain a foothold in her heart I mean the things she wanted most the presence of God in favor of God under circumstances. They're all lifted Seemingly lost she doesn't know what's going to return and those of you that know the Song of Solomon and right after she makes this declaration Oh, the Lord gives the most powerful statement. He says oh my beloved You are as lovely and as beautiful as tears and Jerusalem He goes your eyes have overcome me your love is deeply touched me when we are true to the Lord in a time of testing Again, that's chapter 6. That's not for this session But the Lord is moved by the person who is moved by these truths It touches him when we actually believe him at this level We speak these words to ourself in a time of temptation or a time of discouragement We speak these truths, maybe not these terms Because if you speak up to another person to encourage him, they may not know what you're talking about You know, they say what but these truths we speak to others Well again, we'll go through it now paragraph B. She starts with the general statement My beloved he's radiant. He's dazzling. He's Incomparable, I'm not even thinking of Renegotiating my relationship and trusted him or my adoration. No, I'm in it for love. That is who he is to me When it says that he's he's white or radiant Many commentators will take this to talk about his deity because we're applying this spiritually to Jesus King Jesus The brilliance of the Jasper like glory of God that we found in Revelation chapter 4 when John saw the presence of God like Jasper like glory, that's that radiance and Then number two. She says you're ready Chief among 10,000 now ready is the word for red now. This is Solomon His father David was the one the scripture said he was ruddy He was of red complexion, but what this would mean in in spiritual Comparison to Jesus it speaks of his humanity that is not only the transcendent radiant God he's the One that is among us. He became a man He's ruddy heat, which is a reference to his humanity beloved. We have a high priest who can sympathize He goes I get it I'm human I went through what you're going through I know what you feel and I'm not writing you off when you're hurting and I might just tell you to get with it I'm actually feeling tender with you because I'm ruddy. I get it So she's saying to him in the spiritual language through the New Covenant You're the glorious God, but you're the sympathetic high priest who we draw near to because you understand us You're chief among 10,000 you're Incomparably superior. This is like the psalm 45, you know, he is fair Then all the sons of men there's no other man that compares to him She goes I love this verse number four. He's my beloved So she says he's the one I love and the daughters of Jerusalem are saying You ought to at least be thinking about being offended because he's certainly not intervening and he could She goes, I don't know why he's not she doesn't know that in the next chapter He intervenes powerfully, but she doesn't know that that's that's the beauty of love She trusts him before she sees the answer that moves him deeply So she goes he's my beloved when we can call Jesus our Beloved that means we're grasping his beauty a little bit Because in the presence of beauty we can't stay offended We can be offended for a few hours or a few days or maybe even a few weeks when we're struggling through But when we're interacting even a little bit with beauty and we're in interacting a little bit with real love beloved Offense dissipates it can't stay strong when you're interacting with this man When we see the truth, he is the beautiful one our beloved So she goes on now for the first characteristic his head His head is like finest gold this speaks of his sovereign leadership our Way to overcome offense it always begins here with confidence in his leadership The enemy wants to tell us he forgot you and his leadership is deficient We say his leadership is perfect His head is like finest gold. I love this because over the 18 years of IHOP some of the long-term errs You know, I'll interact with them and they'll be in a really hurting time and I'll say how you doing They'll say his head is like finest gold and I know that they know that I know that they know we go Yes, and the devil goes Don't go there get mad and threaten to leave him Don't declare his head is like finest gold now finest gold is the highest quality the highest excellence Finest gold has no mixture at all and the Hebrew here is it's the finest of the finest That's the that's the course, you know, the Old Testament's Hebrew. The New Testament is Greek His golden leadership has no impurity. There's nothing to add to it. There's no lack in it There's nothing to improve in his leadership when we understand it When we're in difficulty, we want to make our confession His head is finest gold. He's never too late. He's never too early and we declare this Again when we're in times of trouble and struggle we see the beauty of his leadership. Okay paragraph D the second characteristic his locks or his hair Now we interpret the symbolism of this poetry. We have the scripture interpret the scripture So we look at where in the scripture does hair what does it stand for? What's it used for in a pronounced way? Where because the scripture is strategically obviously Set forth and it's inspired by the Holy Spirit and the scriptures eternal I mean the scriptures gonna be there a billion years from now, you know a million years from now You'll still be reading the book of Acts a million years from now You'll be reading the book of Revelation a million years after acts and Revelation is behind you and there will still be levels of understanding there Well when we look at his hair it says this is his hair is wavy and black as a raven and So the hair locks her hair the NIV says hair in a number of translations actually just put hair instead of locks same thing two examples of hair in the scripture that it stick out that have a certain emphasis with them is the Nazarite vow and Specifically when a person made a Nazarite vow they couldn't cut their hair because their hair was a sign of their dedication to God and So that's where hair was introduced in an in an emphasized way in Context the idea of the hair. I mean to the Nazarite vow then in the New Testament Paul speaks of hair and Context is showing one's dedication to authority in first Corinthians 11 so we believe that hair speaks of his dedication now Jesus's dedication is to God and Jesus to the Father and Jesus's dedication is to his people and the idea is number one. It's wavy and black Now wavy and black hair speaks of the hair of a young man in the prime of life. That's the poetic meaning Meaning it's youthful. It's energetic. It's vigorous That's in contrast to an older man whose hair has lost its vitality and fullness etc The idea is Jesus's hair his dedication is vigorous His dedication is energetic it never wears out ever it never diminishes forever His hair is black and wavy like black like a raven It's vigorously young and up-to-date never diminished ever ever ever. That's the Spiritual takeaway from from from this passage that we look at him, and he's never in a bad mood We never have to be concerned if it's a good time to approach him Maybe he's weary you know running the earth like Jesus. I just really need a sympathetic ear well Come on. Get with it. I got a lot going on right now. He's never like that His hair his dedication to you is always Eternally strong and vigorous and youthful and energetic always his dedication to the father because you know he's a man forever When he became a man he will be human forever and the story of Israel is Even a lot of the good Kings were good for a while and after a certain time of prosperity they turned away in their dedication and Of course we know that Jesus won't but I just love to say you will be faithful to God forever with all power all authority all prosperity Billions of years your hair is wavy black as a raven. It's ever Dedicated to your father top of page 3 His eyes. Oh, this is well. They're all ooh This is a most important truth When we understand that his eyes are on us it changes everything Because what causes us to lose our way or for unbelief to set in we think he's kind of looking the other way And it doesn't matter and of what we do does not matter Then why are we gonna resist temptation if it doesn't matter Why are we gonna press in if he doesn't care? Why are we gonna bear sacrifice and persevere if it doesn't move him what difference does it make? But it does matter his eyes speak of his ability to see everything He sees all the movements of your heart. He sees all the Dedication of your heart he sees everything that's in your heart towards him. He sees it better than you do It says here that his eyes are like doves by rivers of water Washed with milk and fitly set now. There's no such thing as washing with milk. This is a this is poetic here But in number one eyes like doves, you know You hear that in some of the songs and you know I think it's some of the folks out about who don't know anything about song of Solomon Which I totally understand that I didn't for years and we'll say like you have doves eyes What are you talking about doves eyes and that's kind of weird, you know to have duds out unless you get the poetry and doves Have a number one here have amazing eyesight number one and doves mate for life That's one of the characteristics of a dove That they work together and they're monogamous. They stay loyal together their whole life and Doves are right next to each other. They mirror each other There's such a team that they work together so closely. That's why they're commonly called You know lovebirds doves are lovebirds because they're loyal. They're connected. They're closely working together by rivers of waters The doves are cleanest after the washing and the beaking of themselves by the rivers What this is saying in poetic language? Jesus his eyes are pure. Not only are they loyal and ever seeing but his eyes are clean His eyes are pure He interprets his knowledge through the cleanness of his eyes and heart That is a remarkable because you can have a person Observe what you did and if their heart is not right They will interpret your actions with bad motives and and let's say you had the best motives They won't get it. They'll say yeah, whatever you were doing it for da da da da da da and Jesus his eyes are Clean his eyes here are like doves by the river of water. You know a judge may hear the case That's presented before him. But if the judge doesn't have clear eyes, he's gonna misinterpret the information And that's one thing that's really easy for human beings for us to distort the information through our own lack of cleanliness of our own perception But Jesus interprets every he sees everything but he interprets Everything through purity and cleanness and loyalty. I love this about him paragraph 4 says in Hebrews 4 now that this I love this truth this truth makes Everything in our life important. It says nothing is hidden from him. Nothing Everything is naked and open to the eyes of him meaning there's no barriers no human barriers We can put in the way we can try We can put human barriers in the way of what we're doing so humans can't see us but the Lord says there's nothing you can raise up and Put in front that will cause me not to see clearly everything And I like that because if that's the real way it is well There's a camera on you every moment of every day There's a camera on you from heaven He sees everything and they're the point of that when we blow it we go. Oh, no, but he's merciful. He's very very tender He's ruddy. He's a human high priest. He gets it when we confess it He's so filled with tenderness and so we think of his eyes on us. Oh, no, but I'd rather go the other way I think his eyes on us. Oh, yes That means when I'm just wanting to yield to the flesh But I rise up and I obey and I serve and I give myself he goes I got it Mike. I saw it No one else saw it. No one else appreciated it. Nobody else recognized it, but he goes I got it. I'll never forget this This is what makes life powerful His eyes are beautiful because they see everything every good intention of your heart. He sees it Look at this in 1st Corinthians chapter 4 It says this that Paul says in 1st Corinthians 4 verse 5 he goes let's wait till the second coming Before we try to interpret everything in our life. He's talking about people judging people He's talking about people judging themselves or measuring themselves judging doesn't just mean negative. It means measuring ourselves He says let's wait till the second coming. Don't don't try to measure yourself You're not gonna get right if you do if you measure yourself You're gonna measure it too high and you're gonna be tempted with pride or you're gonna measure it too low You're gonna be tempted with condemnation Don't don't just focus on the Lord and set your heart to love him and let him measure you on the last day You know in my early days. I measured myself all the time And again, if I did good I kind of put my chest out and well, I'm doing good a minute later I was struggling in condemnation because I was doing bad then some many years ago I said, you know what forget this measuring thing. I'm gonna set my eyes on him. I'm gonna lock in to Loving him and receiving from him in the present tense And when I do bad, I'm pushed to lead when I do good I push to lead and I'm staying focused and he'll remember the good and forget the bad and he says just wait Wait until I come and I will give the measurement And so I don't want to get distracted if I'm doing good or bad I just want to stay locked in and when I stumble I want to rise back up push delete and go hard after him again Straight after his heart and I wanted to feel his love I don't always feel his love, but that's what I got Lord. I you love me. I love you. Therefore. I'm successful I'm in this thing till the end Look what the Lord look what Paul says he goes the Lord will bring to light the hidden things of darkness now Saying that in the human arena where there's been dark councils that have not been repented of he's talking about all the nations Everything he's not just talking about about a believer. We all read that and say oh no my sin. That's forgiven is not forgiven Everything that you genuinely confess and bring to the brain before the Lord. It will never be brought up in the conversation again That's the glory of the blood But this is bigger than because a lot of folks are twisting and manipulating even believers and they're not repenting of it matter of fact they're coming up with Bible verses to back up why it's okay to do it and And and my understanding is whatever you have confidence not to repent of Then you and the Lord will talk about it on the last day And if you like put that guy down and said well, I needed to put that guy down So we had to put him straight Lord says, okay, just bring it with you Just you want that one on the record in our conversation? Yes Lords, okay. We'll talk about that one then it doesn't kick you out of heaven But I you know, I say something just like Lord, you know what? Yeah, you know just let's get that one off the record I apologize Let's get that one off and and if you've got confidence to bring That little sexual thing and keep it going or that little slander thing or that little lying thing or that little manipulative thing If you want to bring it with you with the Lord, he says, okay We'll talk about it on the last day, but we're not gonna trick him on anything And so I look at this and I say, you know what? I want to have I want to be clean I don't want to bring anything with me. Sometimes the Holy Spirit will remind me of something 20 years ago, and I'm not panicked about this I asked him to do this and I'll just remember something I did or so I go, you know, Lord I can't remember if I repent of it But I just want to say I renounce that in the name of Jesus And anytime he brings anything to mind I just say I renounce it that if I know if I'm unsure about it But here's the good part. He also brings to light the counsels of your heart now This is a positive thing Meaning you set your heart to seek him you set your heart to love you set your heart to serve And it didn't go so good But man, you were in it for real and it didn't go as good as you wanted it And the Lord says I saw the plan of your heart. I really did and it's in the conversation. I caught that I really saw that and so Paul says it kind of shocks you He says that when the Lord brings to light the hidden things in the council of your heart Look at the next phrase then God will praise you Because you would think then then you'll be put in place It's the opposite then now doesn't mean God's gonna praise you like worship you but it means he will affirm you He will say I saw the counsel of your heart You really really wanted to do good with the money with the time with the blessing with the serving You wanted to rise up and press in and this way and that way and I saw it I saw it. It says it and then on the last day the Lord will he will Give you affirmation of praise. I think that is so beautiful Then this other passage here. I'm not going to read this. I've read it a time or two It's where the Lord talks about the immorality in Jezebel and the Lord says I see it I tell you one of the great cures of immorality is believing that God sees and he cares And it's not just that he cares and says you're in trouble because you do it We're only in trouble because he wants to free us from it Like when he says here, I'm gonna go after her and what he really means is I'm gonna wake her up Because once if she dies in this condition, she can't repent, but I'm gonna hammer in wake her up So she'll repent because I love her. So when he talks about You know the negativity related to continuing and sin and that is it is a negative passage It's because he's saying I want to wake up my beloved While they have a chance to get it off the record and to get it straight before because people Go to their grave in a pattern of disobedience, you know, I don't know how all that works I just don't want anything to do with that. And so the Lord in his kindness This is actually a passage of kindness when he says I'm gonna talk to Jeze and all of the people following her because she was A teacher in the church and she was telling old people that her immorality was okay It wasn't a big deal and and he says I'm gonna wake her up and everyone participating in her her deeds and the idea is that my eyes are on all of it and When I know his eyes are on good and bad it just changes the entire equation I go, you know what just there's a camera on you all the time and we can get anything deleted we want through repentance in the blood of Jesus and Everything that's even a good intention we can bring with us forever and forever Well, that's his eyes. The next one is his cheeks now again I mentioned this earlier his cheeks speak of his emotional makeup Because our emotions are expressed through our cheeks when somebody's mad or glad or sad You can see it in their cheeks and that's what it's it's windows into our emotions Jesus's emotional life is like a king's garden bed I mean a king's garden is so Has so much diversity and he has the best of the best the most cultivated the most rare costly beautiful fragrances and they're saying that his Emotions are like a bed of spices There's no limit to his emotions there's a vast amount of beautiful banks of scented herbs is what his emotions are so sweet and beautiful if he is known and So when we understand this we run to him and we don't run from him I mean, there's never been a man kinder sweeter more tender with more goodwill Towards you his heart his emotions are like a bed of fragrant spices Banks, I mean banks me lots of them of the most fragrant herbs the diversity and the volume and the and the the Expense and the beauty of his emotional life Anyway, there's a whole lot to that. We've looked at a little bit of his emotions in one of our other classes here Classes and his emotions are so beautiful The enemy does not want you tapping in to the emotion of Jesus Because you get tapped into his emotion even a little bit Which you already have obviously, but you get it a little bit a little bit more a little bit more. It will give you confidence Not just confidence to run to him when you're weak, but it will give you desire. Who doesn't want to be around a kind Tender person who sees the best who's your cheerleader? I mean we like people who like us, you know I got a real weakness for people who like me. But anyway That's just how we're built top of page four Paragraph G His lips His lips here are like lilies dripping with liquid myrrh now there's no such thing as liquid myrrh just so you you know, and But his lips so this is poetic are like lilies this lips speak of his words These are the words that are written in the Bible. These are the words the rainbow words spoken to us by the Spirit directly Whenever he speaks his lips are like lilies. They're pure is the idea Lilies are pure lilies are sweet and lilies are beautiful when the Lord's Speaking to us even though he may speak a strong word There's always beauty in his intention and where he's trying to take our heart He's always bringing us back to love every time he talks to us His lips are like lilies if it's the Word of God Written or the Spirit speaking the written word or just even a subjective prophetic word to you You know that he's calling you back to love. He's calling you to love He's convincing you about love his lips his word is counsel is always like lilies Now this phrase it's like liquid myrrh myrrh was a Was a fragrant burial spice, you know when when they would bury somebody often a particular wealthy person They would bury them with myrrh It was a it was a burial spice so often myrrh throughout the Song of Solomon speaks of death death to self And so often when the Lord speaks to us He will speak to us and included in his love is words that will call us to death to ourself Meaning we'll get a friend and our friend will affirm our wrong decisions You know you can you find a Christian friend that can pat you on the back and just comfort you in your immorality So well just keep going God understand just keep they comfort you in your lies. They comfort you in your deception They can comfort you and your manipulation. There's always a friend that will pat you on the back and say it's God Jesus said no, I'm really your friend I'm gonna tell you stuff that I want you to let go of because that's gonna free you If you get if you get true counsel, it will always liberate you So sometimes I will tell you no, and I will tell you let go But it's only because I'm liberating you what I'm doing it so his words are lilies But there's a myrrh dimension to his words his words aren't always You're good, and you're right sometimes It's let go of the thing that's holding you back Because I love you and don't believe that other guy who's patting you on the back and happy to counsel you right into darkness and bondage Listen to my word my words are like lilies dripping with liquid myrrh his hands paragraph F They speak of his works his leadership and creation his his his leadership over history his leadership over your life It's the it's his his His power can accomplish anything rods of gold speak of the divine character of his power His power is not just human obviously. He's divine. That's because gold often speaks of Divinity thus we have no need for fear our Victory is certain because he is already victorious, and he has all power and we're connected to him We are his beloved forever and so though the victory may be delayed and the breakthrough may be delayed you can be sure The power is set in the powers his it's like rods of gold set with burl with Meaning when he displays his power it will have jewels all over it We will see the sparkling beauty of his power when we look back in retrospect We will see he's never too late He's never too early and what he does is beautiful it when seen in its fullness His hands are like rods of gold here and set with jewels Okay, paragraph I his body again his body here. I mentioned it already It's the same word. That's actually used in chapter 5 here earlier, and we're in chapter 5 right now verse 14 go back to chapter 5 verse 4 the exact same Hebrew word is translated the yearning heart a heart that yearned and it's translated in other passages as compassion and And I think that's we're talking about deep emotion, but related to yearning compassion I mean, this is like his emotions, but but it's particularly related to compassion It's like carved ivory now carved ivory is very rare It takes a very skillful artisan to make to carve ivory ivory is rare But the carving of it the ability to do that's rare and I'll inlay it with sapphires. I mean, that's a very Skillful Worker that can carve ivory and put jewels in it and make it beautiful And they're saying that the Lord he can manifest his compassion in such a rare costly Beautiful way that only he knows the way to deliver you and to encircle you with his compassion And so when the devil comes and tells us that the Lord has forgotten us we can say no his heart It's like carved ivory inlaid with sapphires or jewels or you know any manner of jewels It's beautiful the way that he shows his compassion paragraph J his legs Refer to his walk the way he unfolds his purposes. They're stable They're like pillars of marble his walk doesn't his purposes don't cave in under pressure They don't fall apart over time. They don't decompose There's no decay there's nothing that falls apart, it's sturdy it's permanent it's reliable It's solid and that is what his purposes are. They're strong and orderly and permanent like like pillars of marble paragraph K his countenance That's the shining of his light upon the heart the impartation of his glory It says in Revelation 1 his face is like the Countess countenance is like the shining of the Sun and David says in Psalm 4 verse 6 Lord shine the countenance your countenance on us in other words impart your spirit to us He shines on the hungry heart. He does not ignore us He's with us his eyes are on us, but he's not just watching us. He wants to impart to us as well Paragraph L his mouth now his mouth in the song of Solomon is It's introduced in chapter 1 verse 2 and it's in context intimacy to the kisses of the mouth and in the spiritual sense It's we call it the kisses of his word our heart of intimacy So his mouth here is different than his lips his lips speak of his word We looked at that a few moments ago, but his mouth speaks of that renewed intimacy with God that Mary of Bethlehem Lifestyle the message here his mouth Intimacy with God is most sweet. There is nothing that compares in the human experience Than the kisses of his word when our heart interacts with his heart We feel his presence and though at this time. She's not feeling his presence. She goes I Remember, I remember well, and I know that interacting with him intimacy with God is the most sweet And then she breaks out and this final summary statement in paragraph M. She goes yes Yes He's all together lovely his leadership is perfect his eyes his lips his compassion his hands his legs His heart his mouth Everything is beautiful. This is my confession. This is where I stand He is my beloved. I love him That's where I stand and he is my friend, there's no one like him in other words, it's worth it It's worth it. There's no one like him Beloved he's not just our God he became human and he's our friend He's our partner forever. He took on humanity and joined us to him. The humility of that is Remarkable. Well, amen and amen. I want you to love these seven verses I want you get familiar with them where just flows out of your heart Will you talk to God and again different folks will get to know these and some of these phrases you'll use and it means a Volume when you say it to one another anyway, let's stand before the Lord for a few moments here I want to ask the Lord to touch you