The Song Of Solomon - Chapter 5 – The Bride Searches For Her Beloved Series

V.5:1 - “I came to my garden, my sister, my bride, I gathered my myrrh with my spice, I ate my honeycomb with my honey, I drank my wine with my milk.

Others

Eat, friends, drink, and be drunk with love!

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2 I slept, but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking. “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.”

3 I had put off my garment; how could I put it on? I had bathed my feet; how could I soil them?

4 My beloved put his hand to the latch, and my heart was thrilled within me.

5 I arose to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh,

on the handles of the bolt.

6 I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone. My soul failed me when he spoke.

I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he gave no answer.

7 The watchmen found me as they went about in the city; they beat me, they bruised me, they took away my veil, those watchmen of the walls.

8 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love.

Others

9What is your beloved more than another beloved, O most beautiful among women?

What is your beloved more than another beloved, that you thus adjure us? V.5:10-16

The Bride Praises Her Beloved

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10 My beloved is radiant and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand.

11 His head is the finest gold; his locks are wavy, black as a raven.

12 His eyes are like doves beside streams of water, bathed in milk, sitting beside a full pool.

13 His cheeks are like beds of spices, mounds of sweet-smelling herbs. His lips are lilies, dripping liquid myrrh.

14 His arms are rods of gold, set with jewels. His body is polished ivory, bedecked with sapphires

15 His legs are alabaster columns, set on bases of gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, choice as the cedars.

16 His mouth is most sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This is my beloved and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

V.5:1 – “I came to my garden, my sister, my bride”

A. The full ownership of the Beloved starts now.

B. This is the turning point in her progression of maturity in this love song. The Beloved is greatly enjoying His Bride. He begins to enjoy His inheritance. The Bride’s inheritance in the Beloved is the first four chapters. The second four chapters are His Inheritance in the Bride.

C. This is a season of the nearness of God for her. This is the opposite of her experience in V.3:1-3

D. The Beloved answers her prayer from V.4:16, where she asks Him to come and eat. In V. 5, He sends the north wind to take full possession of her life as His inheritance. He is going to prove His full ownership of her.

1. Nine times, the Beloved is depicting His ownership of her life. He says "My," depicting His ownership of her life and ministry: My garden, My sister, My spouse, My myrrh, My spice, My honeycomb, My honey; My wine, My milk.

V.5:1b -"I gathered my myrrh with my spice"

A. "myrrh" - speaks of embracing the Cross.

B. “spice” speaks of the grace of God experienced in her life. The blessings from His garden that the Beloved gathers for Himself.

V.5:1c - "I ate my honeycomb with my honey"

A. This honey speaks of delightful food that the Beloved may feast on from her life.

V.5:1d – “I drank my wine with my milk”

A. Wine is for celebration, and milk is for strength. The Beloved celebrates her maturity and is delighted by it. He is celebrating the love that the Bride has for Him.

1. The Beloved wants the church to enjoy the fruitfulness of mature Christians.

V.5:1e,f,g - "Eat, friends, drink, and be drunk with love!

A. "Eat"-We deeply lack a dimension of grace until we eat and drink of it from other Christians.

B. "Friends!” - These beloved friends are other Christians.

C. "Drink” - We strengthen and nourish one another with the grace God gives us as individual members.

Summary—The five different activities that the Beloved does in 5:1: He gathers the myrrh, eats the honeycomb, and drinks, and then invites them to join Him, but He suffered alone in the Garden of Gethsemane. This sixth revelation of Jesus begins the second four chapters of eight. The first four chapters focus on the Bride's inheritance in the Beloved.

The second four chapters emphasize the Beloved’s inheritance in the Bride. The reality that she belongs to Him preoccupies her heart. Our spiritual foundation includes both emphases. What grips her heart is the fact that she belongs to Him. She begins to view her life through the lens of the pleasure she brings Him. Her pleasure is enhanced in living for His pleasure. Her greatest pleasure is found in doing all the will of God.