SOS Notes Session 12.pdf

S ONG OF S ONGS ‘98 – M IKE B ICKLE

SESSION 12: The Ravished Heart of The Heavenly

Bridegroom (4:9-5:1)

SONG 4:9-5:1

9. You have ravished My heart, My sister, My spouse; you have ravished My heart with one

look of your eyes, with one link of your necklace.

10. How fair is your love, My sister, My spouse! How much better than wine is your love, and

the scent of your perfumes than all spices!

11. Your lips, O My spouse, Drip as the honeycomb; honey and milk are under your tongue;

and the fragrance of your garments is like t he fragrance of Lebanon.

12. A garden enclosed is My sister, My spouse, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

13. Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates with pleasant fruits, fragrant henna with

spikenard,

14. Spikenard and saffron, Calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense, myrrh and

aloes, with all the chief spices--

15. A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon

16. Awake, O north wind, and come, O south! Blow upon my garden, that its spices may flow

out. Let my B eloved come to His garden and eat its pleasant fruits.

5:1 I have come to My garden, My sister, My spouse; I have gathered My myrrh with My

spice; I have eaten My honeycomb with My honey; I have drunk My wine with My milk.

Eat, O friends! Drink, yes, drink deeply, O beloved ones!

OVERVIEW OF SONG 4:9-5:1

Jesus romances His bride. Jesus invited the young Bride to bridal partnership as He commanded

her to come with Him to the mountains.” (2:10). She responded in 4:6 with the intent to obey.

Now He reveals His passion for her. He reveals how He enjoys and desires her (4:9-10). Then

He affirms her as a flourishing garden, which speaks of her godly life and her fruitful ministry

(4:11-15). Finally she prays for His intervention (4:16).

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Verse by verse study of the SONG 4:9 -5:1

INTRODUCING THE RAVISHED HEART OF GOD

You have ravished My heart, My sister, My spouse; You have ravished My heart with

one look of your eyes, with one link of your necklace (4:9).

The "ravished heart of God" romances her in this strategic season in her journey.

This revelation equips her for 100- fold obedience. She made the decision for

radical obedience in SONG 4:6 and then she walked it out in SONG 5:2-8. In

SONG 4, He is preparing the young Bride for the heart-rending test of SONG 5.

If I had to pick one phrase to title the Song of Solomon, I would choose ‘the

Ravished Heart of God’. This one verse summarizes the whole book.

A working definition of the ravished heart of God

Ravish (Webster's 9th New Collegiate Dictionary) To overcome with

emotions of joy or delight. Unusually attractive, pleasing or striking.

Ravish (Webster's 2nd and 3rd Editions) To transport with joy or delight.

Causing great joy or delight; entrancing, ecstasy .

Ravish synonyms (Webster's New World Thesaurus) Delight, enchant,

captivate, attract. Enthrall, mesmerize, magnetize, hypnotize, charm,

and fascinate.

A summary of the Hebrew definition and its English equivalent of the

word "ravished" is to overwhelm with emotions of delight because of one

who is unusually beautiful, attractive, pleasing, or striking.

Jesus' heart is filled with extravagant passion for His people. It is fantastic that

God is filled with emotion. God describes His own heart as overcome with

emotions of delight with people He finds unusually attractive. He feels these

emotions even toward immature believers. People find it difficult to grasp this

truth of the passionate grace of God. The Holy Spirit will reveal this divine

romance (Romans 5:5).

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Paul encouraged the church to break strongholds of the mind (2 Cor. 10:4-5). A

stronghold in the mind is a collection of thoughts that are in agreement with the

devil, and not in agreement with God. Wrong ideas that exalt themselves against

the truth of who God is and who we are to God. We destroy strongholds by

agreeing with how God thinks and feels about us. False ideas about the

knowledge of God damage our intimacy with God. This knowledge about God’s

heart enables us to be passionate toward Him, with extravagant love and gratitude.

At the Last Supper (Jn.13-17), Jesus was preparing His disciple’s to fervently love

God under the pressures of immanent disappointment, persecution, temptation

and service. On this occasion, He repeatedly spoke of God's loving desire for

them. However, He also told them that they would all deny Him that very night

(Mt.26:31). In other words, these affirmations of His love were spoken to weak,

yet sincere believers, not just to mature believers. At the Last Supper, Jesus

emphasized that the measure of God's loving desire for them was no less than the

measure of love that the Father has for the Son:

The "measure of the Father's loving affection and enjoyment" of Jesus is

the standard of the Son's affection for us . Jesus declared, "as the Father

loved Me, I also have love you" (Jn.15:9a).

Also, the "measure of the Father's loving affection and enjoyment" of

Jesus is equal to the Father's affection for us . Jesus prayed, "that the

world might know that the Father loves the church as He have loved

Jesus” (Jn.17:23d).

Also, the "measure of the Father's loving affection and enjoyment" of

Jesus will be the quality of affection imparted to the church to love

Him back. Jesus prayed, “that the love with which the Father loved Him

may be in the church" (Jn.17:26c).

God's ravished heart is central to the end time church

The glory of God's kingdom is the person of Jesus Christ Himself. The

knowledge of His emotional makeup is vital to a strong foundation in

grace. The glory of the gospel flourishes with the understanding of the

extravagant passions in God's personality. It is not enough to know what

He has done for us on the cross nor is it enough to know what He will do

in the coming revival or even eternity. The Holy Spirit wants us to know

how He feels, and what He desires deep within His heart.

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This gives us insight into why He does the things He does. When we

know how He feels, then we better understand the cross, the coming

revival, and our eternal glory in heaven.

The Holy Spirit will reveal God’s extravagant passions to us in a fresh

way, in the generation that the Lord returns.

The Song of Solomon focuses on these divine passions and reveals them

to us. The understanding of these passions becomes a source of grace for

our personal growth in holy passion. It is very worthwhile to diligently

studying the passions in God's personality.

II.

THE CHRISTIAN PARADIGM OF GOD- A GOD WITH DEEP FEELINGS.

The New Testament paradigm of God as a loving Father was a new idea in

religious history. It began to be emphasized in the days of Jesus.

To the Jewish tradition, the primary idea of God emphasized the fact that

He was holy in the sense that He was totally separate from sin. They also,

understood His holiness in that He was totally different from everything

that existed . The Old Testament scripture makes it clear that the

traditional Jewish mindset did not understand God in the way that God

revealed Himself to them. For example, the scribe in the Old Testament,

in no sense thought of a holy God as sharing our human experience.

Actually, they thought of God as being incapable of sharing it just because

He was God. In their understanding He was in every sense above sharing

the human dilemma by the very definition of being God.

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The Greek philosophers had an even more erroneous view of God. They

saw Him as One who was emotionally distant from all others. The most

prominent Greek thinkers were the Stoics. They saw the primary attribute

of God as being apatheia , by which they meant God's essential inability to

feel anything at all. When we speak of a stoic, we think of a very non-

emotional person. The logic was as follows, if God felt something then

He would be influenced by the thing He felt, then He could possibly be

controlled by it. The stoics argued that those who felt sorrow or joy were

vulnerable to being hurt and thus controlled by those they had feelings for.

Therefore, the one who brought joy or pain must, at least for that moment,

be greater than the one they impacted. If you feel for someone then you

might possibly be hurt by them. Therefore, in that limited sense they

control us.

a. The stoic believed that no person was able to affect God's emotion for

that would make him greater than God. They reasoned that by the

definition of who God is. He can’t be controlled; therefore He can’t be

impacted emotionally. Therefore, He could not have feelings. They

had a God completely beyond all feeling.

b. To them a God that could be sad or glad by what humans did, was a

God that for that moment of time was controlled. So they came up

with this idea of apathy, in other words, a God with no ability to feel at

all. He must be completely indifferent in order to be God who controls

all.

c. A well- respected Greek philosopher named Plutarch, preached that it

was blasphemous to think of God as lowering Himself to be concerned

and impacted by the affairs of this lower world.

Another Greek school was called the Epicureans. They believed that the

gods lived in eternal joy and bliss. They lived in the intermediate world or

in the spaces between the worlds. Thus, the gods were not aware of the

events going on in the world below. They were totally detached from

human affairs as they lived in great happiness and glory. They imagined

gods that were completely detached from humans.

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