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S ONG OF S ONGS – M IKE B ICKLE
Session 14: The Bride's Response To The 2-fold Test (5:9–6:5)
SONG 5:9- 6:5
9. What is your Beloved more than another Beloved, O fairest among women? What is your
Beloved more than another Beloved, that you so charge us?
10. My Beloved is white and ruddy, chief among ten thousand.
11. His head is like the finest gold; His locks are wavy, and black as a raven.
12. His eyes are like doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.
13. His cheeks are like a bed of spices, banks of scented herbs. His lips are lilies, Dripping
liquid myrrh.
14. His hands are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is carved ivory Inlaid with sapphires.
15. His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of fine gold. His countenance is like Lebanon,
excellent as the cedars.
16. His mouth is most sweet, yes, He is altogether lovely. This is my Beloved, and this is my
friend, O daughters of Jerusalem!
1. Where has your Beloved gone, O fairest among women? Where has your Beloved turned
aside, that we may seek Him with you?
2. My beloved has gone to His garden, to the beds of spices, to feed His flock in the gardens,
and to gather lilies.
3. I am my Beloved's, and my Beloved is mine. He feeds His flock among the lilies.
4. O my love, you are as beautiful as Tirzah, lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as an army with
banners!
5. Turn your eyes away from Me, for they have overcome Me. Your hair is like a flock of
goats going down from Gilead.
I.
OVERVIEW OF SONG 5:9-6:5
A.
The 2-fold test that produces a heart response of lovesickness as seen in SONG
5:10-16 is a necessary part of the progression of holy passion. Divine testing
reveals our deepest motives and desires. This test reveals that her motive for
service was to please Him. Such tests may occur several times in our life. The
daughters of Jerusalem ask the bride 2 questions (5:9; 6:1). The questions are
“Why do you love Him so much?”, and “How can we know Him intimately like
you do?” Her first answer focuses on the beauty of Jesus (5:10–16), her second
answer teaches the daughters how to grow in intimacy with Jesus. After the 2
questions by the daughters and the 2 answers by the Bride, Jesus breaks His
silence giving her His evaluation of her struggle.
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B.
In the midst of severe testing the Bride gives one of the most extravagant human
love responses in the Scripture. After Jesus breaks the silence, He gives one of
the most extravagant Divine love responses in the Scripture.
C.
She responds in perfect obedience with the heart cry, "Jesus is dazzling and chief
among 10,000!" Instead of being offended with God, she responds as a lovesick
bride as she describes the majestic splendor of Christ Jesus (5:10-16).
1.
His head – His sovereign leadership over all
2.
His locks – His dedication to God and the Church
3.
His eyes – His infinite knowledge, wisdom, understanding, discernment
4.
His cheeks – His diverse emotional makeup
5.
His lips – His word
6.
His hands – His divine activity
7.
His body – His tender compassion
8.
His legs – His walk and administration of His purposes
9.
His countenance – His impartation to His people
10.
His mouth – Intimacy with Him
11.
He is altogether lovely – His comprehensive beauty
12.
"...my Beloved...my Friend”
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Verse By Verse Study of SONG 5:9-6:5
II.
THE DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM ASK THE BRIDE THE FIRST QUESTION
What is your Beloved more than another beloved, O fairest (most beautiful) among
women? What is your Beloved more than another Beloved, that you so charge us?
(5:9)
A.
The daughters of Jerusalem ask the Bride the first question.
"What is your Beloved?" (5:9a,d)
1.
The spiritually dull, passive daughters of Jerusalem ask the mature bride
another question. They have asked her several questions throughout the
SONG. The issue that provoked the daughters was the Bride's deep love
for Jesus, more than her wisdom or her giftedness. It was the passion of
her heart that captivated them. The daughters ask her because she just
said, “Tell Him I'm lovesick. Help me find Him.” They didn’t say, “You
are so wise and so anointed.”
2.
What they saw was the lovesick heart that adorned her and made her
beautiful. It says in Rev. 21:2 that the Father is going to adorn the city of
the Bride of Christ for her Husband. The Father adorns us for Jesus. The
way He does it is by putting His love in our heart for Jesus. We are
adorned and made beautiful by love, even more than by wisdom or power.
Wisdom and power are helpful, but the lovesickness is what they saw in
her that made her beautiful. They inquire with the question, “What is your
beloved more than another ?” They are a little taken back by her
earnestness.
3.
They saw Jesus as the One she loved insatiably. The daughters are
perplexed and amazed by her response of being lovesick (5:8). They saw
her affections for Jesus and concluded she must know something that they
don’t know. They can't imagine such passion for Jesus, even such passion
for His church, because most people who are hurt write the church off.
She goes to the immature members to be taught by them. Most people like
the church at the beginning, but later despise the church when they are
hurt by those that are within the body. This is not so with the Bride.
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4.
The essence of this question is, "How can you be so devoted to Him when
He has seemingly treated you so harshly?” They say, "Tell us your secret.
We follow Him, but not the way you do. He withheld His manifest
Presence from you. He allowed you to be kicked out of the church. Why
are you so tenaciously loyal ? What do you know about Him, that we don't
know, that has led you to joyfully give all for Him?” (Phil 3:7) These
daughters of Jerusalem do not understand this kind of dedication. They
can't grasp it. They say, “What is your beloved?”
5.
Note: this question is repeated twice in v.9a,d for added emphasis. The
repetition expresses an earnest desire on their part to know the answer to
this question. They really want to know the answer. They say, “We have
to know what is motivating you! What do you know that we don’t know?”
It was not a casual question, but one that truly concerned them. This
question is the beginning of fervency being awakened in the daughters, as
they see spiritual reality in the fervent bride. We can see the sincerity of
their question because in 6:1, they ask the follow up question of how they
can know the Lord like she does.
6.
The question of the hour is always the one that Jesus asked His disciples,
"Who do you say that I am?" (Mt. 16:15). This is always the most
significant question in the foundation of the victorious church (Mt. 16:18-
19). Ex. 5:2, Pharaoh asked Moses this question, "Who is the Lord that I
should obey Him?" Much of the church lacks a deep experiential
knowledge of God, which impacts the way we endure such tests as 5:6-7.
We can easily be offended at the Lord when we do not see His
indescribable beauty. (Oh for those whose lives would be filled with such
relentless agreement with God that they would provoke this question from
those around them and would then also be equipped to answer the question
by unfolding the beauty of God!)
7.
"What is your beloved" - They did not ask, "who" is your beloved,
because they already knew His name. Jesus was to them a way to get to
heaven. Many believers know Jesus enough to be saved, but His majestic
splendor is unknown to them.
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B.
The daughters had "other beloveds" before the Lord Jesus.
"What is your Beloved more than another beloved" (5:9b,e)
1.
The daughters had "other beloveds" in their lives ahead of the Lord Jesus;
such things as money, pleasure, prominence and the comfort zone. They
actually loved these things more than they loved the Lord, though they
were sincerely saved. They are saying, “What is He more than all the
other loves of life that He has so gripped you?” The “beloveds” that have
gripped the Body of Christ more than Jesus are numerous. We mature as
He becomes the first Beloved of our soul. Our goal is to make Jesus the
prominent Beloved in our life, not necessarily the only one. The Lord
doesn’t mind that we love other people and things. He wants to be first.
He wants the first commandment to be in first place.
2.
The Bride is not gripped by the things that grip the daughters. Paul taught
of denying acceptable privileges and pleasures for the sake of deeper
fervency, undistracted devotion and service to the Lord (1 Cor. 7:29-31).
3.
People often love the privileges of this world more than Christ Himself.
This is only because they have not clearly seen the truth of who He is and
what He has done.
C.
The deep respect the daughters have for the Bride
"O fairest among women" (5:9b)
1.
Fairest is often translated as "most beautiful."—We see the deep respect
the daughters have for the Bride. They see her as the most beautiful.
They describe her as the "most beautiful" of all the people on the earth.
They see her as beautiful in her devotion, godliness, and purity. This is in
stark contrast to how the leaders (the watchmen) view the Bride. These
Saul-type watchmen cannot see beauty in those who have the heart of
David.
2.
The fragrant aroma of the knowledge of God was emanating from the
Bride to create hunger from one group (the daughters) and offense in the
other group (the watchmen) 2Cor.2:15-16.
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