Book Of Song Of Songs

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And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.

Psalm number 122. I was glad when they said to me, let us go into the house of the Lord. Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together, where the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, to the testimony of Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord. For thrones are set there for judgment, the thrones of the house of David. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

May they prosper who love you. Peace be within your walls, prosperity within your palaces. For the sake of my brethren and companions, I will now say, peace be within you.

Because of the house of the Lord our God, I will seek your good, and all glory be to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, forever and ever. Amen. Please be seated.

Well, a very good evening to everyone. How are we? How are we? I know you're probably wondering, what was that? That's good, very good. You're probably wondering, saying, wow, the bishop looks different this time.

We thank the Lord always, and for every situation and everything. We pray that this prosthetic eye is going to be the real eye in the near future. With your prayers, the Lord will intervene, and he will show his glory, and tell the whole world there is only one God, and that is Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

Amen. But for the time being, a prosthetic eye doesn't look that bad, does it? So we're going to go, not downtown, we're going to go uptown, brother, and celebrate for the bishop. He's good looking, brother.

Before, I used to say, my name is Bishop Murray. I am single and available. I am hot, you're not.

So this time, you're hot, I'm not. God bless you. Thank you very much for coming.

I shall see you next Friday. Okay. How does the bishop look? Not bad, eh? It's a prosthetic eye, but I need you to pray for me, for the Lord to change it into a real eye.

Amen. The Lord is capable. He is God, and that is Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

He is God, and he can do anything and everything, and I trust in him, no matter what. No matter what, I trust in him. Very soon, the same spot I'll be standing, and I'll say to you, it's no longer prosthetic.

It's a real eye this time. All right. We thank the Lord Jesus.

Amen. We love him. We adore him.

Even if we are upset, crying, we're angry, we're feeling down, we're feeling miserable, we love the Lord Jesus. Amen? Can't hear you. Come on.

That's it, brother. Amen to that. Now, if anybody was falling asleep, I'm sure now they're fully alert and awake.

I need your attention. Okay. Today, as we promised earlier, we were going to have a commentary on a chapter of the Holy Bible, and more so the Old Testament, and that is the book of the Song of Songs, or it's referred to as the Song of Solomon.

The Song of Solomon or Song of Songs. Both titles are used. Song of Songs or Song of Solomon.

We'll be reading from chapter one, verses one to two, but by the looks of things, we'll be only doing one verse today, but we'll be reading verse one and two, chapter one. Here we go. The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's, let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for your love is better than wine, and all glory be to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, forever and ever.

Amen. Somebody asks you, what are the poetic books? And if there are poetic books in the Holy Bible, what are they and where do I find them? There are five poetic books in the Holy Bible, and all five are in the Old Testament, are all in the Old Testament. We begin with the book of Job, followed by the book of Psalms, King David, followed by the book of Proverbs, followed by the book of Ecclesiastes, and finally the book of Song of Songs, or Song of Solomon, which is our topic for this evening.

Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs, or Song of Solomon. These five books are all found in the Old Testament branch of the Holy Bible, and they are referred to as the poetic books. When we come to these five books, and they are placed in this specific order, in this chronological order as we actually quoted them, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, then Song of Solomon.

When we come to the book of Job, what does the book of Job teach us? Perseverance. Perseverance in hardships. When we face trials, when we face obstacles, when we are heavy burdened, how do we learn on how to persevere against the currents of the world and everything that comes with it? So the book of Job teaches you how to persevere.

Book of Psalms teaches you on how to praise God, i.e. thank God always at all times, good and bad, beautiful and ugly. So the book of Psalms teaches you on how to praise and thank God at all times, always. Then the book of Proverbs teaches you on how to gain wisdom for this earth, teaches you on how to gain wisdom in order to live wise on earth.

So the book of Proverbs gives you wisdom for this realm, not the next. And then book of Ecclesiastes teaches you on how to live a life of repentance all of your life, from the day you're born till the day we depart. Ecclesiastes teaches you on how to live a life of repentance always.

So repentance is not once forever, repentance is every single moment of our life on earth. For as long as we live in the flesh we need to learn how to be a repentant soul always. And then the last one, song of Solomon or song of songs teaches you on how to enter a relationship based on divine love.

Song of Solomon teaches you on how to enter and live a relationship based on divine love, God's love for every human soul, God's love for every human soul. Now when we look at these five books, Perseverance, book of Job, when we learn on how to persevere in hardships, hang in there, when it's going tough, as they say there was a commercial on tv, when the going gets tough that tough gets going. It was a commercial about some outfit, like one of those heavy duty miners and builders, you know heavy duty outfit, when the going gets tough that tough gets going.

So when you are persevering and you're learning on how to persevere the Lord will elevate you to the second level which is the book of Psalms where you will be praising him all the time. You see when I went through the dark tunnels in my life, when I went through the hardships and the tribulations throughout my life's journey and at the end I made it fully intact without a scratch, without a blemish, what is left for me to do for God? Nothing but to thank him always and to praise his holy name and I will say forever and ever if it wasn't for the Lord Jesus I would have perished from the word go. It was the Lord's hand that held me steadfast and made me reach the shores of peace alive.

So what shall I give the Lord back? I can't pay him back for what he has done for me on Calvary. I can't pay back what that blood has done for me. All I can say to this mighty Jesus Christ of Nazareth, thank you, thank you, thank you forever and ever and ever and evermore.

Amen. This is the book of Psalms, thanking the Lord at all times, good and bad, light, darkness, sickness and in health. It is a matrimonial bond.

I thank you. And when you begin to thank God, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, always at all times he'll take you to that third level. Proverbs, he will give you wisdom no one can stand.

Do not be afraid when they take you to the court and to be judged. My father will give you, we will talk through you where no one can answer back. Because wisdom is given by God, not by universities.

You don't gain wisdom by getting a PhD in theology. You don't gain wisdom by getting a PhD in philosophy. You gain knowledge but wisdom is God's given gift only.

And it takes wisdom to manage life. And you probably have heard us say this before, and I'm not directing this at any profession in particular, but I always speak about doctors, and please do forgive me doctors, I love you very much and I pray for you. So nothing against you, my beloved, the Lord bless you always.

And I pray you always work in honesty and integrity. But for example, this man is a doctor and he's a very successful doctor, but he's a failure as a husband and a father at home. See because all the knowledge he gained through the medical field made him a very professional, a very successful doctor, but that knowledge is not enough to manage the house and the life of that family.

It takes God's wisdom to manage that family. It takes God. So when I persevere in the book of Job and then I go, the Lord elevates me, I'll start praising him for everything he's done for me.

Then when I thank him always, he will give me the book of Proverbs wisdom on how to live wise on earth. When you enter the fourth level, which is Ecclesiastes repentance, it takes wisdom for a human to learn on how to be a repentant soul before the almighty Jesus Christ of Nazareth. It takes wisdom to say, Lord, I'm sorry.

It takes wisdom to come and bow before him and say, I'm a sinner. Forgive me, Lord. It takes wisdom, my beloved.

Because unless God touches the heart, no one can ever teach you on how to come and ask for forgiveness. Only God teaches you that. Rest assured.

So when you come wholeheartedly begging the Lord for mercy and forgiveness, rest assured God's wisdom has entered your life. When you live a life of repentance all the time, not just one day, saved once, always saved, doesn't work. You need to do it every single day.

Lord, I'm a sinner. Have mercy on me. Protect me.

Guide me. Deliver me from the snares of the enemy, whether it be visible or invisible. You do that every day.

When you live this life of repentance, it is then and then only the Lord will bring you into the final frontier. The Song of Solomon, Song of Songs. He will bring you into his divine love.

He will bring you into his divine love. And that divine love from God to humanity is called the Song of Songs. Because this book is quite misunderstood by Christians and non-Christians alike.

Why? Because we will come to those words being used in this book. Some say, how could you say this is the Holy Bible when the words are inappropriate to be placed in this Holy Bible? Well, my dear friend, with love and respect, you need to learn how to understand and interpret the Holy Bible. That's why we chose this topic today.

Who hasn't heard of the Song of Songs before? First time you hear about it, about. Show of hands. You've never heard about it? Good.

Very good. I gather the rest have all heard about it. Amazing.

So you've been reading the Holy Bible. I hope so. I hope so.

Okay, here we go. Now let's come. King Solomon happens to be the son of King David.

King Solomon is the son of King David. He took over from his dad. He became the next king after David.

King Solomon has written three books, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs. These three books are referred to Solomon being the author. Song of Songs is the depth of divine love for the human soul.

And when I say the human soul, I say more so the baptized soul in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. The Christian soul, this is the depth of that divine love for that baptized Christian soul. The Song of Songs speaks of three parties or it is a dialect between three parties.

Number one, it is a dialect between the bride and that bride being the baptized soul, the Christian, the church. So it is the bride, the baptized soul, the church. It is the groom, the heavenly groom, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, and the daughters of Jerusalem, the third party.

The daughters of Jerusalem, the angelic hosts, the angels of heaven are the daughters of Jerusalem. So it's the dialect between three parties, the bride, Christian baptized soul, the church, the heavenly groom, Jesus Christ, and the daughters of Jerusalem, the angels of heaven. Dialect between the three of them.

Let's come and look at verse one. The first verse says, the Song of Songs which is Solomon's. The Song of Songs which is Solomon's.

Today we'll see the spiritual meanings in these words and the depth of divine love in these words. The Song of Songs which is Solomon's, well he has mentioned his name to say that he is the author of this book. He put his name there to say, I am the one who wrote this book.

That's why the Song of Songs is of Solomon's. I am the author, meaning I am responsible for the entire content of this book, for every word that is written in that book. Since I'm the author, I'm responsible for everything I have stated in this book, and also it's a copyright.

You cannot change it unless you go back to the Of course, the ultimate author is the Holy Spirit, God himself, but God wrote it through King Solomon like he did with Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and the rest of the apostles. So I am the author to say that this book has an owner. If you've got a problem, refer to the author.

That's one. Since this book is about the depth of divine love for the human soul, the baptized soul, well in love there are different levels. In love we see there are different levels.

Example, my love for my brother is different than my love for my friend. My love for my brother is different than my love for my friend. These different levels of love are connected by the blood bond that is between them.

So the blood bond determines how close, how distant that relationship is, or that love is. So my love for my brother is supposed to be stronger than my love for my friend. Why? Because brother, the blood, is much closer to my brother than my blood to my friend.

Therefore, the closer the blood bond is, the greater the love is. The more distant the love, the blood bond is, the lesser the love is. And isn't it so? You love the most those who are the closest to you, isn't it? You love everyone, but you don't love them the same because it is all dependent on the blood bond.

So now my brother I should love more than my friend. This is the right way. However, if my love is now to my friend greater than to my brother, we've got a problem.

That's when issues start happening and friction start happening where I remix the order and I start loving my friend more than my brother. That should never be the case. So the love for brother is greater than the love for a friend.

And the love for parents is greater than the love for brothers. I need to love my parents more than my brothers. And I need to love my brothers more than my friends.

Because now the bond, the blood bond is getting closer and closer. When it comes to parents, now I'm getting closer. The relationship, the bond is much stronger.

Therefore, my love for my parents needs to be greater than my love for my siblings. But the ultimate of all, and I don't know if there is a good news or a shocker of a new news it is, I'm not sure, but the matrimonial bond or love, the marital love surpasses all. The marital love is greater than all parents, brothers, friends.

Now why? Because in marriage, the two become one. The two become one. There is no greater closeness than marital bond.

My parents and I are two different beings, but in marriage, the two become one. So the closest blood bond to you is your partner in marriage, husband and wife. So mother-in-law, you missed out this time baby.

So the mother will go to her son, of course behind the scenes, and especially like Middle Eastern mother, who is the mother-in-law to that bride. So she will come to her son, she will say this, my son, remember my son, who raised you for 34 years my son? I am your mother, poor mother. I cried for you.

I sacrificed for you. I killed myself for you. And that girl, she came ready, ready.

She came ready, ready overnight, took you and go with you. Listen my son, whatever she says, don't do. Listen to mama.

Mama's food much nicer than your wife. She can't even cook. Mama's love is much better.

Who loves you more than mama? You listen to this girl. She came the other day. You love her more than me.

I will kill you son. Don't do that. No, sorry.

Husbands, you need to be wise. Don't upset mom. Don't upset dad.

But don't, don't bring those parents above your wife. Don't do that. You're going to cause a lot of marital issues in your marriage.

100%. Love them. Keep them at bay.

Treat them well. With love and respect. They are our parents.

You need to respect them. But when you come home, whatever mama has filled your ease with, with nuclear weapons, don't let them explode at home. If the, if the wife says, how was your mom? My mom, the entire two hours I was there, honey, she was talking about you.

She loves you so much. She can't get you out of her head. So tell all the good news.

All right? So the marital love surpasses all love because the two are one. There is no one closer to you than your partner and marriage. Now let's come to the Lord Jesus himself, who is all love, who is all love.

The Lord Jesus came to choose out of the entire Israelite nation. He chose 12 apostles. He loves the entire Israelite nation, but even though he loves them all, yet he still chose 12 out of the entire nation.

Those 12 were closer to the Lord than the entire nation. Why? Because these 12 spend time with the Lord more than the rest of the Israelite nation. They were closer.

And then look at the Lord. Out of the 12, he chose three, Simon, Peter, James, and John, the sons of Zebedee. He chose three.

These three were closer to the Lord than the other apostles out of the 12. And wherever the Lord was, most of the time, the three were with him more than the other nine. At the Mount of Tabor transfiguration, he took Simon, Peter, James, and John.

And when he entered the house of Jairus, he took the three with him. Those three more closer than the other. And out of the three, he chose one and one only that was able to put his head on the Lord's chest and hear the Lord's heartbeats.

John the Beloved. Wow. Out of the Israelite nation, 12.

Out of the 12, three. Out of the three, one. The closest ever who heard the heartbeats of the Lord Jesus himself, John the Beloved.

If we were to ask John the Beloved, when you put your head on the Lord's chest and heard his heartbeats, what were they saying? What were those heartbeats saying? He would answer and say the following. Every heartbeat said to me, I, John the Beloved, read the song of songs. For all these words written in the song of songs are my heartbeats for every human soul and more so the baptized soul.

So what is the song of songs? The heartbeat of the Lord Jesus. All love for every single one of us. Amazing.

I'll give you a lully very soon. The song of songs. It's like we say the king of kings, the Lord of lords.

King Solomon wrote many songs, but he says out of all the songs that I've written, this one is the song of all songs that I've written because this one is the illustration of the depth of God's love for you, my beloved and every human being. So this book is the song of all the songs I've written because all the other songs I've written do not go anywhere near this book when it comes to illustrating and reveal the divine love for the human race and the baptized soul. That's why I called it the song of all songs.

Just like Jesus Christ is the king of all kings and the Lord of all lords and there is none like him. So as the song of songs, there is no other song that surpasses this one when it comes to revealing divine love for every human being. Verse one, the song of songs which is Solomon's.

Solomon as we said is the author. Verse, actually we will read verse two, but we want the finishing verse two. Verse two is the beginning of this chapter of this book.

It's the beginning to it. So like the song of songs which is of Solomon's, that's their intro. That's the title of the book.

Now when you look at the title, then you need to open the book and you start reading it. The beginning of this book is verse two. It says, let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth.

That's where things go sour and some people attack Christianity and say how could you refer to these words as part of the holy bible. Look at the words, they are inappropriate to be part of the holy bible. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth.

Too much information. Very private. It can't be God talking this way.

Relax. You see when we remain, when we remain earthly, we will think earthly. And when we think earthly, what we're going to lead to the filth, the mud, the dirt, because that's what the earth is all about.

What is the earth? Either clay or dirt or filth. But when you elevate yourself out of the earthly realm and into the spiritual divine realm, you'll understand the depth in these particular verses. You will see a much more higher and elevated matrimonial bond based on holiness and purity of mind, soul and spirit.

No longer earthly. Dirty. No longer earthly.

This is holy. We need to learn how to live in holiness for the Lord Jesus. We need to learn.

Everything in life is a learning curve. Now, let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. Sweet.

Sweeter than honey. In verse two, who is actually starting the dialect? We said the song of songs is a dialect between three parties. The bride, the groom and the daughters of Jerusalem.

Bride, Christian, baptized soul, the church, the heavenly groom, the Lord Jesus and the daughters of Jerusalem, the angels of heaven. So who is starting the dialect in verse two? The one who is starting the dialect is the bride, not the groom. Normally, it's supposed to be Jesus Christ.

He's always first. But in this particular book, it is the soul, the Christian soul beginning the conversation, not Jesus Christ of Nazareth. It is us.

Now, why is the bride starting the conversation, not the Lord Jesus? Because my beloveds, humans, us Christians, we need to start first, then the Lord will come. We need to start first. In order for the Lord to come, we need to begin the journey.

I'll give you an example. At the tomb of Lazarus, the Lord Jesus came where Lazarus was buried and it was four days had gone by since the Lord came to that tomb. The Lord Jesus said to the disciples, to the apostles, remove the stone.

So it was the human intervention first. Humanity began, then the Lord Jesus came and stood before the tomb and said, Lazarus come forth. For Lazarus to be resurrected from the dead, it took human intervention first to remove the stone in order for Christ to raise Lazarus from the dead.

So for the Lord to come and show his glory, we need to open the door. He knocks, we open the door. If he knocks and we don't open the door, there is no resurrection, there is no change, there is no life, there is no light, there is nothing.

So that's why we need to begin when it comes to that love. God put that love in us and expecting us to give it back. So in this book, I'm giving that love back to him and the bride is saying, let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth.

She begins the dialect with the heavenly groom. The first step humans must take, then God shows his glory and his power in your life. Saint Augustine, who was a saint in the fourth century, in the fourth century, Saint Augustine says, God who has created you without you cannot save you without you.

God who has created you without you cannot save you without you. When God came to create, he didn't ask for our permission. We were not in existence.

He brought us into existence without us. Now when he came to save us, he couldn't do it without us. We need to make the effort in opening the door in order for God to raise us from the dead.

Amen. We need to open the door in order for the Lord to enter. Revelation 3 20.

In the book of Revelations 3 20. Behold, the Lord is speaking here, the Lord Jesus. Behold, I stand at the door and knock.

See, I came to knock. I won't open. My job is not to open the door.

My job is to knock only. It is your job to open the door. It is your job to start the conversation.

I knock for you to talk. I didn't talk. I just knocked.

So one day I was asleep. I woke up. Something inside of me changed and I, as if like a voice saying to me, you need to go to church.

What have you done with that? Did you get up and walk and go to the church? That voice is a at the door of your heart. The voice said enough. You need to repent.

The voice said enough. You need to pray. The voice said enough.

You need to come back to the Lord Jesus. Until when are you going to walk in those dark alleys? That's a knock of the Lord. The conscience is giving me trouble because of my wrongdoings.

I can't find peace. I can't find rest. I'm trying but there's always void and emptiness from within.

So the voice is saying you want this void to be filled? Come back to the Lord. Stop giving him your back. Give him your face.

Give the world your back and face Christ for he is the light of the world. So my beloved, he says, behold I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him and he with me.

If you don't open the door, I won't come in because I will not force myself into your life. You need to allow me to enter freely. When you open the door, you're saying to me you're welcome.

But if you don't, if I force myself, then I'm a thief and Jesus Christ cannot be a thief for he is the owner when you let him to be. In my first coming, I gave you the choice to choose. You either make me the owner freely or when I come back again, I will be the owner whether you like it or not forcefully.

But in my first coming, I'm not going to force it because I'm coming with mercy. But my second coming, I'm coming with fire before me, judgment. I'll be the judge.

In my first coming, I was the lamb. In my second coming, I will be the roaring lion, the king. In my first coming, I came as the priest.

In my second coming, I am the ruler, the owner, the king of all kings. I came and I was seen weak in my first coming. In my second coming, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that I am the king of all kings and the lord of all lords whether they like it or not.

Those who are against me, those who love me, those who hated me, all will bow in my second coming because in the second coming, you have no choice but in the first, you have. In the first, I'm knocking. If you open the door, I'll enter.

If you don't, I'll go to the next door. Don't let that knock pass you by. Open the door, my beloved.

Open the door because it may not come again. There is no guarantee. Grab it while you can.

You see, this is why the bride started the conversation. We need to call him to come. Why? Because we need him.

You see, God does not need anything or anyone because God is perfect. God is holy. God suffices within himself.

He doesn't need me but the need of God for me is based on love not out of lack. You see, we need because we lack a lot of things. I need this one's help and I need that one's help.

When the car breaks down, even if I'm a professor at Sydney University, I need a mechanic. All my PhDs can't fix the car. Why? Because I'm not perfect.

I'm not self-sufficient but God is. So his need is only based on love. He can do things without no one being involved but he chose to do it through us.

Why? Because he is daddy and daddy loves us all but we need him. I'm a sinner. I need the savior.

I'm weak. I need the strong one. I am lost.

I need the good shepherd. I am hungry. I need the manna that descended from heaven.

I am thirsty. I need the living waters that quenches my thirst forever. I am dead.

I need the one who is the life and the resurrection. I am living in darkness. I need the son of righteousness and healings in its wings and I need the son, the son of God to make me the son of God out of slavery into freedom, out of bondage into the kingdom of God and the heir and the inheritor of the entire kingdom.

I need him. Verse two, let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. Where did this kiss come from? Do you know who came up with this kind of a kiss? The Egyptians, the pharaohs.

They were the first who invented it. What is the symbol of kiss? A kiss is a sign of satisfaction. In other words, it's a sign of acceptance.

When you're satisfied with someone, when you're accepting that someone, you give them a kiss. So the kiss is the symbolic sign of acceptance and satisfaction. Pharaohs invented it as a sign which had to do with food.

They invented it which was a sign to do with food. Please bear with me. When you eat food, where do you put it through? You put it through your mouth.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. So the food comes through the mouth. When the food comes through the mouth, what do you do to the food? You contain the food inside of you.

The food enters your mouth. Food is contained inside of you. Why was food contained through the mouth? Because you were satisfied with the food, thus accepted it.

You will never eat something you're not happy with, satisfied with. You with me? So the kiss was invented by the pharaohs because it had to do something with the food. Meaning, I only eat the things I am satisfied with and since I'm satisfied, I accept that food to enter me and be contained in me.

In general, the sign of kiss is satisfaction, acceptance of a thing, embracing of the thing. Satisfaction, acceptance, and embracing. Now, when food enters through your mouth, what happens to it? It becomes one with you and one in you.

The food dissolves and it becomes you. You cannot separate the food from you anymore. Becomes one, becomes one with you.

This is what I'm trying to get you to. The sign of the kiss is you are one in me. There are three kind of kisses and what a topic.

Do you love me? Do you? Do you? Do you want me? Do you? Do you? That's Middle Eastern style. A little joke. It's not a joke.

It's a real, it was a real thing. There was this festival happening. It was a multicultural festival.

There was a lot of musical bands from different nationalities, different colors and backgrounds. So, there was a band from representing Australia and a band representing the Assyrian people. Now, Middle East, if you are not aware about music, normal Western style or normal music, it goes by half a tone.

But Middle Eastern is half the half, quarter tone. So, when you change the key into a quarter tone, when you look at a piano, you see black keys and white keys. The black key and the white key.

The quarter tone is between the black and the white. It doesn't exist in other words. So, that's why when you turn it into a quarter tone, it goes yeah.

So, like this one. The Aussie band just finished performing and stepped down. The Assyrian band went on the stage.

One of the keyboard, one of the band members is a keyboard player. So, he is just, you know, warming up, you know, and then he's checking the keys and everything's okay. So, he turned, apparently the song was quarter tone because Middle Easterns are all like that.

So, anyway, it was a quarter tone. So, he was playing a little bit. The Aussie keyboard player shouted, hey mate, there's something wrong with your keyboard.

Oh, I think you gotta check it out mate. It's wrecked. It's wrecked.

He said, nah mate, this is Middle Eastern style. So, there are three kinds of kisses. There is the fatherly kiss, there is the friendly kiss, and there is the kiss of the mouth.

Three kisses, the fatherly kiss, the friendly kiss, and the kiss of the mouth. When a father comes to kiss his child, son or daughter, no difference, all beautiful, but nothing in between. When the father comes and kisses his child, the fatherly kiss, the father would grab the head of that child and kiss the child from the forehead, from the forehead, from the forehead.

Now, what did we say the sign of the kiss is? To contain something in your mouth. It was the pharaohs who invented it, right? So, when you contain that food, means you are happy with the food, you're satisfied with it, therefore you accept it. So, the sign of the kiss is acceptance, satisfaction.

Now, when a father kisses the child, they kiss the child from the forehead. Why? Because the father says to his son or daughter, I am so happy with you, I am so satisfied with you, I'll kiss you from the forehead because the forehead represents your brain, your intellect. I'm happy with the way you think, with the way you behave, with the way you live, I'm happy with your head, it is beautiful the way you think my child, that's why I accept the way you think.

Friendship, the kisses, one on the right cheek and one on the left cheek, this is how friends kiss, right and left. What does that say? That person comes and kisses you on both sides of the cheeks. He says, I am your friend on the right in good times and I am your friend on the left in bad times.

I am your friend when you're strong and I am your friend when you're weak. I am your friend when you're healthy and I am your friend when you're sick. I am your friend when you're close and I am your friend when you are distant from me.

I will come because true friendship is always there for you, no matter what. That's why the kiss is on the cheeks, right strength, left cheek weakness. I am your friend at all times.

Revelation 1.9, John the Beloved says, I join both your brother and companion in the tribulation. Wow, so who is a true friend? It's the one when you are having a good time and it's the one when you are having troublesome time as well and the true friend is more seen when I am in trouble and in need of help and that hand stretches out and says, give me your hand my friend, I'm here for you. Now that is a true friend.

Not when you fall, everybody disappears. Not when you were paying for their food and wherever you went, you were paying for everything and the moment you fell and you went bankrupt, all disappeared. You call them, they don't answer your call but before they used to call you a million times a day.

Those kind of people be away from but the true friend is when you cannot do anything for them yet they come and do things for you. Now that's what you hold on to and call a true friend. When you are desperate of help and they reach out to you, that's the true friend.

Two cheeks, a kiss of the mouth, let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. Kisses of the mouth symbolizes matrimonial bond, matrimonial bond, husband and wife. In the song of songs, the bride is the church, the groom is Christ, is Christ.

He is the man and we are his bride. The entire church is one single bride. The entire church is not churches, it's one.

The Lord has one church, not churches. We have divided the body of Christ. We became the reason for the division and we called each faction a name.

So you can call yourself a catholic and you can call yourself an orthodox and you can call yourself a protestant but the Lord Jesus says my bride is one. I don't have brides, I only have one wife because God created Adam and out of Adam he brought Eve, not eaves. So we don't have more than one wife, you can only have one wife my dear friend and not many.

It's not God's, it's not God's law. The heart can only love one, can't love many. Can't love many, can only love one.

The kiss of the mouth, matrimonial bond, marriage, husband and wife. The kiss of the mouth, what do we say the kiss is? To contain. When you contain something mean you are satisfied, you are accepting that thing.

The kiss of the mouth is they are no longer two but they are one. They contained each other into one another and became, the two became one. That's where the kiss of the mouth is permissible in marriage because in marriage the two become one.

Father and son, two. Mother and daughter, two. Brother and sister, two.

Friends, cousins, two. The only place the two are one, marriage. Therefore the song of songs is the matrimonial bond between Christ the heavenly groom and the bride being the church.

It's a divine love, it's a pure, holy, innocent, clean, intimate relationship. Don't leave your intellect in the gutter. Come out of that gutter and think purely my dear friend.

Think purely. They are no longer two but one. Beginning of the song of songs is matrimonial bond, the very beginning.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. It is I am the bride, Christ is my man, my heavenly groom. The very beginning she's saying we are one.

We are one. Shall I continue? Are you sure? Looks like we may be able to finish him. Well maybe not.

Bride says let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. Why? Well the baptized soul is saying Lord, heavenly groom, please make me one with you. That's why I am asking you.

I am beginning the dialect by saying please my heavenly groom, kiss me with the kisses of your mouth. Meaning make me one in you. I want to be one with you, inseparable.

I want this relationship to be so close where the two become one. Neither you can separate yourself from me nor I from you. Please make me that.

Please make me that. So that wherever you go I'm with you and wherever I go you're with me. Accept me, contain me in you, make me one in you.

Look at the gospel of according to Saint John 17 21. The Lord is speaking, the Lord Jesus. That they all may be one as you father are one are in me and I in you.

That they also may be one in us. Just like father I am in you and you are in me. Meaning we are one daddy.

You and I, I and you father are one. Just like we are one. Please I'm asking you dad.

I want them all to be one in us. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. Make me one in you Lord Jesus.

This is what it means. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. Saint Paul says this to the Ephesians.

Church is the body of Christ and Christ is the head to this body. In his epistle to the Ephesians chapter 5 Saint Paul says that the church, the baptized soul, the Christian, the bride. The bride is the body and Christ is the head.

Now can the head go without the body? Can the body go without the head? So let me tell you this. When the husband leaves home alone by himself, not with his wife, he may think he's going alone. Therefore he is now free.

The wife is not nag nag nag on top of him. No my dear husband. When you're leaving the house, you are the head attached to the body.

The head cannot go out on its own. Wherever the head goes, the body is with it. Therefore when the husband leaves alone, the wife is already with him whether she is physically or not.

He needs to know this. Wherever he goes, he is not free. The wife is his body and the same goes to the wife.

When she leaves as the body, she needs to realize she is leaving with the head. So when she goes alone and the husband is not there, she needs to understand she is with her husband 24 7 because the head and the body are inseparable always. So some men will say okay we're going downtown brother.

The wives are not with us. Let's have fun. No.

No. Or the wife goes and she says finally. It's of my case.

I can breathe and I can be free. You're not my daughter. You're not.

You're not. The head is with you wherever you go. We the bride, we are the body.

Christ the heavenly groom is the head. We become one in him. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth.

Let him make me one in him. I am your body. You are my head Christ.

That way we are together always and forevermore. What is the bride wishes to be one in him? Why? Why is she begging him make me one in you Lord? Because the continuation of the verse 2. For your love is better than wine. Why do I want to be one in the Lord? Why do I want to be one in him and with him? For your love is better than wine.

For your love is better than wine. When we look at verse 2 in a form of a grammar, we will see it is incorrectly written. When we approach it in a way of a grammar, we will see it written incorrectly.

Why? Because she begins by saying let him kiss me. Let him. Who is him? Someone who is absent not there with her.

Let him kiss me. But then she continues and says for your love. Your means someone who is present with her right there and then.

So let him someone absent for your someone present. What's going on? The right way should have been let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth for his love is better than wine. That's the way it should have been for his love.

But she says let him kiss me for your love. Why? Here she says the bride is she's talking about someone who is absent him and someone who's present your. Who is him? God the father.

And who is your? God the son. Who is the one absent that I can never see? The father. Who did I see? The son.

I didn't see the father nor the holy spirit. I can only see the son because it was the son who put on the flesh and became man like us. The father didn't.

The holy spirit didn't. It was the son who put on the flesh. So the bride is saying I can only refer to the present person is when it's when I can see that person with my own eyes.

I saw Jesus Christ of Nazareth. I saw the son. But the love came from the father.

So that's why the love is initiated by the father whom I cannot see. That's why I said let him let the father kiss me with the kisses because of his mouth because your love for your son who became man and I saw. I saw and I tasted his love tangibly.

For your love the son is better than the wine. And the wine refers to the work of the holy spirit. We see in this verse the holy trinity.

Let him God the father. For your love God the son better than wine. Holy spirit father son.

Holy spirit love us all and came to make us one in them. Now you're getting an idea how to interpret the holy bible. Yes.

Yes. Nice. That's nice.

That's nice. Okay. Is it cold? It's cold.

Can we make it slightly warmer? Now we see the holy trinity vividly clear in verse two. Let him kiss me. God the father.

For your love God the son better than wine. The holy spirit. God the holy spirit.

The love you have shown me on the cross. Why is your love better than wine? Why does she say your love? She's referring to the son. Why is your love better than wine? Because the love you showed me on the cross surpasses all love.

The love you've shown me on the cross surpasses all kind of love. Surpasses it all. Now why is it better than wine? Your love the son is better than wine.

Why wine? Question. Why do people drink? To escape their problems. You see when I drink I relax.

The brain relaxes. And if I drink more and more and more I may be drunk. And when I'm drunk prior to being sober I was the most horrible looking, terrible feeling, broken, shattered, hating it, depressed, anxious, crying, angry, bashing things.

I drank a couple of glasses of wine. I became so nice, cool and relaxed. Started saying hello to everyone.

I want to hug everyone and kiss everyone. I forgot about my problems. Drinking is the reason for our escape from our terrible reality that we are living in at the time.

But when you wake up the following day after having a very long night of drinks. You wake up the following day. You are the most miserable, terrible person ever.

And the problems have actually multiplied, increased and escalated. And you feel even worse than yesterday. So that drinking didn't solve nothing.

In fact, it caused more dilemmas for you. But it gave you a small relief for a moment like a local anesthetic. But the moment the anesthetic faded away, the pain is much more severe than prior to taking that anesthetic.

What is this wine? What is this wine? In this world, there are so many deceptive ways. These deceptive ways are like the wine that put me to calmness and sleep for a moment only. You see, the world gives you temporal relief, never fixes the problem.

It increases your problem if you chase the world. Never fixes it. You see, somebody might say, when I become rich, I won't have any more issues.

They become rich and they are the most miserable ever before. You see, wealth doesn't give you happiness and peace. Health doesn't give you happiness and peace.

Strength doesn't give you happiness and peace. It takes God on the cross to give you that happiness and peace. My child, it takes God.

For your love is better than wine. So in this world, there are so many deceptive ways. There are so many professions.

Some doctors deceive you by giving you the wrong medications deliberately. Some mechanics fix your car in the wrong way deliberately so you keep on going back to them and getting money out of you. There is a lot of deception in this world, but the most horrible of all deceptions when I tell a lie and end up believing in it.

This is the most horrible deception of all when I am capable of lying to myself and believing myself that I said the truth. So what is that lie? I've got a problem, whatever that problem is, marital, social, economical, whatever it is. So what do I do? I escape somewhere.

And my escape could be a bag of white powder, could be drinking, could be gambling, could be whatever. And I say to myself, this is the way I have to do it. Otherwise, I'm going to kill myself, I'm going to die.

Unless I do this, I will not be able to continue. And I believed in what I said. If you've got a problem, you need to come to Jesus Christ, my beloved.

He's the only one who's going to be able to solve your problem. Not the deception of the world. The deception of the world will increase your problem and make it worse.

I go out with friends and we hang around Mecca till 3 a.m. And then what? You're going to come back and face that problem even worse. But you need to come back to Christ and put everything at His feet and say, Lord, I cannot do it anymore. You take over.

You take over, Lord. You take over, Lord. When a person drinks wine and get drunk, they say to themselves, everything is okay now.

That's the biggest deception. Everything is okay now, brother. What? Okay, you just got drunk.

The problem is still there waiting for you tomorrow. And the wife is sharpening the knife. I gave you the money to go and buy some groceries and milk for the kids.

You go and blow it up in Marconi. This Assyrian family, I remember I just mentioned Marconi. Don't go there.

Don't play the pokies. In the Assyrian language, the word Mar is referred to, it's an honorary sort of title for a saint. Like Mar, Mari.

So Mar is not my name, that's my title. Mar is the title. My name is Mari, which is the name of the saint of the first century, one of the 70 apostles of the Lord Jesus.

So this poor mother from Iraq sent her son to Australia, to Sydney, to flee the country and escape the war and being killed. So after a few months, she's missing her son. He's staying at his relative's house here in Sydney.

So she calls the relatives, asking about her son. The son had gone already to Marconi. He was playing the pokies, right? So the relative said, she said, where's my son? Is he home? I really miss him.

I want to hear his voice. They said, sorry mom, your son went to Marconi. She said, may Marconi bless him.

Because she thought, because she thought Coni is the name of a saint being Mar. So Marconi. So she said, may Marconi bless him being a saint.

What a saint. What a saint brother. What a saint.

He'll strip you naked. He'll wipe you. He'll clean you right out.

And you will come out of there like a Thomas the tank. Thomas the tank. Now that's what you call a saint brother.

Marconi. There you go. Just to make you laugh a bit.

So may Marconi bless you. That's, we're in deep trouble now. When you drink and you become drunk, it is not a solution, nor an answer to your problem.

Instead, you need to go and be drunk in the love of Christ. Be drunk in the love of Christ. For your love is better than wine.

Just like the wine, the earthly wine makes me drunk. Your love, when I am filled by it, I am drunk spiritually, no longer physically. I am flying high in the heaven of all heavens, where you are seated at the right hand of your heavenly father.

I'm drunk in you, Lord. No longer Satan and the filth of this world. I'm drunk in you, Lord.

In you. For your love, the son of God, who died on the cross in the flesh, for my sake, I the sinner. For your love is better than wine.

When you fill me with your love, I'm drunk in you, Lord. I'm drunk spiritually in you. Because this love, the love of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, for this love has no deception, has no lies, has no hypocrisy.

It's genuine. You take it as it is, for he is the truth. There's no falsification, twisting.

What you see is what you get. When Jesus Christ stands before you and says, I love you, my son. I love you, my daughter.

Rest assured, there is no other love as genuine as Jesus Christ is. For when he speaks, he speaks the truth, and the truth never changes. So when he says, I love you, I love you when you're close to me, and I love you when you are distant from me.

When the Lord Jesus spoke in the gospel of John, and he said as a promise, promise, he said, I am with you all the days of your life, and until the end of all ages. What does that mean? I am with you all the days of your life. You see, all the days of our life, we are not always with him.

There are some days we are with him, and other days we are not. But the Lord says, I am with you all the days of your life, when you are with me, and when you are distant from me. For when I said, I love you, I am genuine.

My love is pure, is perfect, is holy. There is no hypocrisy in it, no falsification, no twisting. It is the truth.

When I say, I love you, I love you no matter what. I love you no matter what. I love you no matter what.

His love is the truth, straightforward. Kiss me with the kisses of your mouth. Make me one with you, and to be drunk in your love that has no deception.

Looks like we're finishing. Thank God. For you, not for me.

I'll be crying when you leave. Christ showed me this love with deeds, not just with words. The world gives you plenty of noise pollution words, no action.

They promise you the world deliver nothing. The prime minister, the president, except Donald Trump, the prime minister and the presidents, when it's election time, they go on their campaign, they promise you the world. The moment they step into that office, kiss it goodbye brother.

Except Trump, whatever he promised, he delivered. He said he was going to build the wall and Mexico will pay for it. He did.

You don't need a politician to lead a nation. You need a leader. Politicians cannot lead themselves, let alone the whole nation.

You need someone that feels the people, for the people. We lack this very much so both in the secular world and in the religious sector. Not every father is a father, and not every leader is a leader, and not every teacher is a teacher, and not every doctor is a doctor.

Unless you do it from the heart, you cannot do nothing, nothing good, nothing good. Christ showed me this love with deeds, not just words. He said, I love you and I'm willing to die for you, and he did it.

He not only said it, but he did it on Calvary on the cross. He did die literally for all of us. He cannot get any more genuineness than this.

Honesty, integrity, a man of character, Jesus of Nazareth is. You know what a man of character is? The word character means when he is with you and behind your back, he's the same. When he says I love you in your face, rest assured Jesus will say it behind your back as well, the same way because he's a man of character.

He never changes what he says, no matter where it is and how it is said. So many times we say things before people's faces, but we are totally different behind their backs. Christ never lies.

He's always the same, and when he says you're a sinner, he will say it in your face and behind your back at the same time. He never changes. We say things we don't do.

Christ, everything he said, he did. He never lies, falsifies, never deceives. Everything he says and does is the truth based on love or through love.

Lord Jesus, let me be one in you to be drunk in your love, which is better than wine of deceit, better than the wine of this world, which is full of deception. Let me be drunk in your love, for it is the truth that never lies to me. The book of Acts chapter 2, when the Holy Spirit descended on those 120 people sitting in the upper room, they came out, they started talking in different languages.

The people of that country, they said, look, these people, they're acting as if they are drunk. They're behaving like drunk. Yes, they were drunk, but not an earthly wine full of deception.

They were drunk with the wine of the Holy Spirit, the love of Christ for the human soul, my beloved. When they were filled by the Holy Spirit, they were seen to the world as if they were drunk. But they were the sober ones, and the whole world was drunk in deception and lies.

They were filled by the Holy Spirit. Others said they are drunk crazy. Faithfuls in the eyes of the world are crazy.

Those who love the Lord Jesus are despised by the world, hated by the world, ridiculed by the world. Aren't they? You speak the truth, they will stone you. They will reject you.

They will attack you. It's always the case. What has changed? Nothing.

I always say this, from the time of the Lord till now, nothing has changed except one thing, technology. The means of transportation was a camel, a horse, or a donkey. Now you've got Mercedes Benz, Lamborghini, airplanes, motorbikes, bicycles, and tricycles.

Computers. What has changed? Technology. It's the same human nature.

Nothing has changed. The Lord spoke the truth, they crucified him. They killed him for speaking the truth.

The world never had, never will have the truth. Why? Because the one who rules over the world is the father of all lies, Satan. Satan hates truth.

So don't ever expect the world will give you truth. And more so now in our time and age. Mainstream media, why are you listening to them? It's a waste of time.

Waste. You want the truth? Read the holy bible. There's only one source of the truth, and that is Christ Jesus.

Read his word. That's the only truth. And this is the only true love.

And he came to give us that love in a matrimonial bond. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth. Marital bond.

The two become one. In holiness, in purity, and in awesomeness and perfection. I close the folder.

Enough talking. I don't like it. Do you love me? Okay, you say, do you, do you.

Okay, do you love me? Louder. Do you love me? Somebody was not happy. Okay, may the Lord Jesus bless you.

May the Lord Jesus guide you and protect you always. I hope we have gained something today that we can implement in our life. Not just listen and hear and gain knowledge, but we need to ask the Lord to help us to implement what we have learned and what we have gained today.

Would you like us to continue with the song of songs? Yeah, do you want to show of hands? Anything, anything. All right. Is it, is it a topic of interest for you guys? Because you know what, let me tell you, we go deeper, it's going to get more interesting.

And you'll find some words there that you will never have an idea what they really mean. We'll come to understand what they really mean. All right.

Some people have mentioned to me, we never finished the book of Revelation. I know. We were at the beginning of chapter 19.

It's 22 chapters. So maybe, maybe I'll see how we go. We'll see what the Lord wants.

But maybe in between the song of songs, we might go back to the book of Revelation and continue it. Is that okay with you? Well, anyway, tough luck. Anyway, I'll be doing it.

Even though it's prosthetic, but it's still tears. Tears up. And we need to remind ourselves always that no matter what you go through, my beloved son and daughter, remember there is someone who is going through something much greater than your issue and much more difficult than your situation.

And I guess sometimes we need to experience certain tragedies, certain difficulties, certain dark tunnels in our life to appreciate what God has given us from the very beginning, much more than what we have been doing till this moment. We may complain about the house we live in. We may complain about the financial situation.

We may complain about some health issues. We may complain about relational issues. We may complain about whatever the issue is, but there are also so many good things God has given us that we have forsaken, taken for granted, because our focus has been on one particular aspect which made us lose track of all the other aspects which so many of them are absolutely beautiful and great, God-given gift to the human race.

And we need to see the good side, not only the negative one, because if the negative will attract more negative, but we need to see the positive in order to have the hope to come out of that negative and be in the positive. So I tell you, you have two eyes, what are you complaining about? Let me tell you this, you don't want to have one or none. I can assure you, I can assure you, you don't want to be in that position.

What we go through sometimes is a learning process. God, through His infinite wisdom and infinite love and mercy and grace, He allows us to go through those moments of trials in order to teach us something other situations cannot. And I've said it before and I'll say it again, it takes hell to appreciate heaven and it takes loneliness to appreciate people around you no matter how painful they may be.

We said earlier, a book of Proverbs teaches you wisdom for this earth. We need wisdom to discern the indifferent, to discern the indifferent. And instead of criticizing, we start to appreciating things.

I'll leave you with this joke. This husband and wife, the wife, she used to nag him 24-7 every day of the week, non-stop. One day after so many years of marriage, he begged his wife, he said, honey, my darling, I beg you, I beg you, can you out of the 7 days give me one rusted day off? Just give me a break, give me one day off.

She said, okay, I'll give you Monday off. He wakes up, he wakes up on Monday, the house is quiet. He tries to get the wax out of his ears, making sure that it's not blocked.

There is no noise, there is no nagging, there is nothing. He washes his face, changes, comes down the stairs, quiet. He looks at the table, there is breakfast prepared, the wife sitting at the table, quiet.

He comes thinking that this is a dream. He sits at the table, he pinches himself, he says, no, no, I'm awake and I'm fully awake and I really exist, it's not a dream. And then he's trying to eat but he can't, he can't believe that the wife is absolutely heaven.

And then he couldn't help himself, he had to ruin it for himself. He said, honey, do you see how beautiful life is when it's so quiet like this, so peaceful? Look at this, it's amazing, this is an oasis, this is paradise. Honey, I love you, man, you're stunning, you're amazing.

She said, don't worry, I'll fix you up tomorrow. So he sat all Monday on his RDO, thinking of tomorrow coming, he will be ruined. So she ruined Monday as well.

There you go. Let's stand for the finale prayer, please. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one God, Amen.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon.

Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light.

Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console. To be understood as to understand.

To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

It is in dying that we are born again to eternal life. Amen. May the Lord Jesus bless you, guide you, and protect you all the days of your life, now and forevermore.

Amen. Go in peace. The peace of Christ be with you always, my beloved.