Beware of the Angry Watchmen - Part 2

5 and 6 she says stay me with flagons comfort me with apples for I'm sick of love or lovesick in other words his left hand is under my head and his right hand doth embrace me now she knew that his love to her was total it overwhelmed her when you first came to Christ does anybody here remember this I know I remember these days when I was just so aware of the love of God I was overwhelmed with the fact that God loved me in spite of all of my failures and all of the wrong things that I had done and all of the struggles that were still very much a part of my life as a new Christian I had was one thing I didn't ever doubt I knew he loved me and it was an overwhelming sense of God's love that was in my heart here's what she said his left hand is under my head David the psalmist said he's the glory and the lifter of my head his left hand is always there to lift my head and to say don't be ashamed of your struggle look into my eyes look look at me Paul says when we behold Christ that's where we are changed from image to image and glory to as we simply behold him as we look into his incredible and unspeakable grace and love that he has for his church and he she says his right hand doth embrace me now the right hand is always symbolic of strength and she remembered that he held me up in times when I needed strength he lifted my head with his left hand with his right hand he held me because none of us can walk this in our own strength none of us can change in our own strength and seven times we fall down but seven times the right hand of God reaches down and picks us up we must never forget this we must never let it elude us and she knew this this pride she knew he's the one that says look at me don't turn away from me because in me you're going to find your strength Paul says in him we live we move we we have our being in him everything he requires in me and he reaches down and picks her up when she is weak and verse 10 says verse 8 and 9 rather it says the voice of my beloved behold he comes leaping on the mountain skipping on the hills my beloved is like a row or a young heart behold he stands behind our wall he looks forth at the windows showing himself through the lattice you see this bride knew his voice and she loved his appearing she had an inner knowledge that Jesus Christ was delighted to be called the Lord of her life she knew it and he would appear to her and he would speak to her and she loved his appearing not afraid of what he was going to say because she knew that everything he did he did it for good all things work together for good to those who love God and are the called according to his purpose verse 10 says my beloved spake and he said to me rise up my love my fair one to come away and she heard him call and wanted to walk with him not just come away in time but come away for eternity elsewhere you'll find where he says come let's go out into the villages let's walk together let's let's be partners as it is for the rest of time and we'll one day walk right out you'll walk right out of the realm of time and with me into the realm of eternity let's walk together and she wanted to walk with him there was this yearning in her heart this precious bride of Jesus Christ chapter 3 tells us that one day she became aware that she was losing this intimacy or perhaps she'd even lost this intimacy this relationship that she'd once known of him listen to verses 1 & 2 she says by night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth I sought him but I found him not I will arise now and go about the city in the streets and in the broadways and I will seek him whom my soul loveth I sought him but I found him not what a strange thing to go so quickly from what I read to you in chapter 2 into chapter 3 and if you ever had a chapter 3 experience in God where all of a sudden now there's a lot of possibilities I'm speaking in the context of the bride of Christ some of the bride perhaps much in our generation possibly as the prodigal son she took this precious life of Christ and took a wrong turn in the road and she failed to let this life leader into that which God had for her many many people in our generation who knew Christ loved him walked with him but they took a wrong turn somewhere down the line and they said give me this inheritance and they went far away from the heart of God and they wasted this inheritance with self the word riotous and the King James means self-consumed living took this inheritance and said thank you Jesus oh this is incredible now I'm going to be richer and I'm going to be more influential more powerful she went far far away from that which is truly the heart and the work of God James 114 also tells us that she might have been led away by some unsurrendered inner lust something that she was not willing to yield to him something he spoke about maybe he promised I'll give you strength but she couldn't or wouldn't hear it and this inner lust perhaps to to be somebody and then her lust to achieve what she thought might make her happy failing to understand that walking with Christ is all that any of us will ever need she may also have followed for a season one of the very numerous religious deceptions that are all readily available especially in our generation this is an age of religious deception and she may have been snared captivated along the road called into one of these houses and where there's an imitation as it is of Christ and an imitation of the cross an imitation of his holiness and she may have been led in there and snared although she's the bride of Christ perhaps a sudden calamity makes her aware that she's no longer has the strength in Christ that she used to have I believe with all my heart that sudden calamity is not coming it's here and that many are going to wake up now many many many who are the bride of Christ hear me on this clearly I'm going to finally realize I'm in a place where I don't have the strength that I need I'm in a place I knew him I knew him maybe it was just an infancy maybe it was just for a month before this path came or this snare came her way but she says I knew him and I know that there's more strength in him than I have right now I know that what I'm hearing about him is not the Christ that I that I used to know and she gets up and decides to find him again we're coming to a time folks when many many people are going to get up and make the decision to go back and find him many are going to leave the prosperity movement just dead where it's going to be they're going to leave these false prophetic movements that have brought them far far away from the heart of God and they're going to get up because of calamity I believe in God they're going to start to come back like the prodigal son the prodigal son found himself in the calamity the famine came and he said it's better I my older brother his service is not very appealing but at least it's better than out here and he got up and started to head back and we're living in a generation when many perhaps thousands and thousands are going to get up they're going to get up they're going to leave false prophets high and dry and they're going to start going down the road trying to make their way back to God but these are times of great vulnerability for these precious saints chapter 5