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My Spouse

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Song 4:8 Call of the Bridegroom
Song 4:9 Charm of the Bride
Song 4:10 Comeliness of the Bride
Song 4:11 Caress of the Bride
Song 4:12 Chastity of the Bride
Song 5:1 Consummation in Wedding

Lebanon in the Songs

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The word "Lebanon" occurs seven times in six verses in the Song of Solomon.  A northern border to Israel, an abundant, fertile standard of earthly glory.  Lebanon is the source of fine wood for Israel and a paradise in the Hebrew imagination.  Here elevated heights, which reach up to ten thousand feet, give Lebanon majesty and glory and the reputation as being the "utmost heights". The elevation is responsible for a heavy rainfall, which falls on the heights in winter as snow.  In places, the snow lasts all year.  The high precipitation and the slow melting snows, coupled with porous aquifers, ensure year-round fertility.  This word "Lebanon" means whiteness, it speaks of the majesty and glory of Christ as the perfect Man.  Only Him is good enough to be the Saviour of the world.

Song 3:9 Freedom of Christ
Song 4:8 Fellowship of Christ
Song 4:11 Fragrance of Christ
Song 4:15 Freshness of Christ
Song 5:15 Features of Christ
Song 7:4 Fortress for Christ

My Beloved

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"My Beloved is mine, and I am His" Song 2:16

My Beloved - Precious Possession (1 Pet 2:7, Ps 73:25)
is - Present Possession (Ps 16:5, Heb 13:6)
mine - Personal Possession (Luke 1:47, John 20:28)
I - Prized Possession (Isa 43:4, Eph 5:25)
am  - Permanent Possession (John 6:39, 10:28)
His - Purchased Possession (1 Cor 6:20, Titus 2:14)

David Ward

A Wedding Sermon

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"Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned." Song 8:6-7

Place of Love - Set me as a seal upon thine heart
Protection of Love - as a seal upon thine arm
Power of Love - for love is strong as death
Persistence of Love - jealousy is cruel as the grave
Passion of Love - the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame
Proof of Love - Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it
Preciousness of Love - if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned

Commission, Care and Counsel

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Evangelist - The Commission
"Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages." Song 7:11

Pastor - The Care
"Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves." Song 7:12

Teacher - The Counsel
"The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved." Song 7:13