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S ONG OF S ONGS ‘98 – M IKE B ICKLE
SESSION 19: The Bridal Seal Of Mature Love (8:5–7)
SONG 8:5-7
5. Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning upon her Beloved? I awakened you
under the apple tree. There your mother brought you forth; there she who bore you
brought you forth.
6. Set Me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is as strong as death,
jealousy as cruel as the grave; its flames are flames of fire, a most vehement flame.
7. Many waters cannot quench love, nor can the floods drown it. If a man would give for
love all the wealth of his house, it would be utterly despised.
I.
OVERVIEW OF SONG 8:5-7
A.
The Holy Spirit is preparing a bride that has a loving and leaning heart. This is
one of the key truths of the SONG, and the main purpose of her journey, which
culminates in these three verses. She comes forth leaning and loving at the end of
history.
B.
The Holy Spirit’s prophetic declaration of the Bride's victory (8:5a,b). Jesus
reminds her of her past journey (8:5c,d,e), then manifests Himself as our bridal
seal (8:6a). Jesus is the divine source (8:6e,f) and the great reward (8:7c,d,e) of
the bridal seal.
Verse By Verse Study of SONG 8:5–7
II.
THE HOLY SPIRIT’S PROPHETIC DECLARATION
WHO IS THIS coming up from the wilderness? Leaning upon her Beloved? (8:5)
A.
The Holy Spirit gives a prophetic proclamation of the Bride’s final victory.
1.
As the Holy Spirit looks over human history, He asks the rhetorical
question: “Who is this who has persevered through tribulation unto a
mature Bride?”
2.
The Holy Spirit knows how she persevered through trials and tribulation
during each season of the progression of holy passion.
3.
He is prophesying her inevitable victory. He can see a mature Bride at the
end of history.
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B.
Enduring the pressures of a fallen world.
Who is this coming up FROM THE WILDERNESS? Leaning upon her
Beloved? (8:5)
1.
The wilderness, in a personal sense, speaks of our testing, temptations and
difficulties in this life as God trains us in righteousness.
2.
The wilderness, in a general sense, speaks of the fallen world that is filled
with sinful human beings and under the influence of Satan.
C.
The Bride's victory over all obstacles.
WHO IS THIS COMING UP from the wilderness? Leaning upon her Beloved?
(8:5)
1.
The Lord sees the people of God come up in victory through the
wilderness. She comes up. She is not descending, rather she is ascending.
She did not quit in the wilderness.
a. “Coming up” speaks of her victory in the midst of testing, temptations
and difficulties that purified her in this life.
b. “Coming up” also speaks of ascending at the Second Coming or in the
resurrection from this fallen world to enter the eternal city.
2.
In SONG 2:8-10, the Bride was urged by Jesus to rise up to go with Him
to the mountains. In fear she refused, and experienced purification in the
following chapters. She now ascends in full love and victory, joyfully
meeting her Beloved on the mountain of spices (SONG 8:14).
Make haste, my Beloved…on the mountains of spices. (SONG 8:14)
3.
In SONG 3:6 the Holy Spirit asked this same question, “ Who is this
coming up from the wilderness ?” He was describing the Lord Jesus
coming up after the cross and in the resurrection from the wilderness of
this fallen world as He ascended to the right hand of the Father. Now in
SONG 8:5 the Bride comes up from the wilderness in His embrace
(SONG 8:4).
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D.
The Bride is motivated and empowered by love and gratitude.
Who is this coming up from the wilderness? Leaning upon HER BELOVED?
(8:5)
1.
Jesus is the “lover of her soul,” her Beloved. The ascending Bride so
loves Him. She calls Him Beloved as she leans on Him. She comes up
victorious in love.
I saw…a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who have the victory
over the beast…standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God. (Rev.
15:2)
2.
Divine love revealed and imparted is the only way that we will not quit in
the wilderness.
a. Anybody can quit except a person in love.
b. When we are tempted to quit, the big obstacle in our path is that we
really love God. Her gratitude and love for Jesus is the motivation
behind her diligent life of obedience not religious motivation of
shame, fear and guilt.
E.
She fully embraces weakness as she acknowledges Jesus as her only life goal and
life source.
Who is this coming up from the wilderness? LEANING UPON her beloved?
(8:5)
1.
This speaks of apostolic weakness that Paul embraced. This is a voluntary
weakness, which is a rare and yet essential dynamic of spiritual maturity.
And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the
revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan
to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure. Concerning this thing I
pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. And He
said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, FOR MY STRENGTH IS
MADE PERFECT IN WEAKNESS." THEREFORE MOST GLADLY I
WILL RATHER BOAST IN MY INFIRMITIES, THAT THE POWER
OF CHRIST MAY REST UPON ME. (2 Cor. 12:7-9)
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2.
She is leaning as one who is fully dependent on Him. He Himself is now
her life goal and her source of supply. She is saying, “You are the Reason
I live and You are the Source from which I live.”
3.
She is resting in the Lord’s embraced (SONG 8:3) as she embraces
voluntary weaknesses.
F.
John the apostle leaned on Jesus’ breast as a prophetic picture of the church
fulfilling SONG 8:5.
Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved.
(Jn.13:23)
1.
Mary of Bethany poured her life out in love for Jesus and is a picture of a
woman in the New Testament leaning and loving Jesus.
2.
The Holy Spirit has prepared a bride with a loving and a leaning heart.
This is one of the key truths of the whole SONG.
3.
She has an experience likened unto Jacob. She has wrestled and is now
limping. She is leaning, limping, and loving. Our trouble increases when
our agenda and His agenda are different. Our agenda is to be happy on the
earth and His agenda is that we would come up leaning on the One we
love with a heart of love.
4.
The Lord’s strategy is to produce in her an attitude of total dependenc y on
Him (Jer. 9:23; 1Cor. 1:31). Paul said that he has no confidence in his
flesh, but he glories in Christ Jesus (Phil. 3:3). Paul spoke of leaning upon
Jesus alone for wisdom, for provision and for sanctifying influences etc.
(1 Cor. 1:30).
5.
The Lord promises His Son a Bride with a leaning heart of loyal love that
does not stray in seasons of prosperity or adversity.
a. The history of God’s people reveals that we don’t often lean and love
in the midst of blessing. Eventually, we stand in our own strength,
becoming our own source. We often use the blessing of God to further
our own ends.
b. The heart of fallen man is not prone to lean. Our hearts are prone to
self-assertion and a spirit of independence.
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6.
All through history when God prospers a people, they often end up not
leaning or loving at the end of the journey.
a. A fact of redemptive history is that many that start out anointed end up
snared in sin and pride. The kings of Israel did not lean upon the Lord
in the seasons of blessing. This is what distinguished king David.
They ended up drunk with power.
b. In the history of revivals, the anointed person starts off crying out for
God's blessing and holiness. Then when the blessing of God rested on
them, they eventually become intoxicated with the ir importance. They
begin to falsely think that the Lord needed them because so many
thousands were responding to them. They think they are indispensable
to God's Kingdom. The most common problem in the history of
revival is that the main leaders became carnal when they prosper.
Often such leaders lose their sense of dependency.
c. The Lord wants to anoint His people in a way that leads them to lean
and love even in times of blessing
G.
She has a deep revelation of her inadequacies and weaknesses. The Holy Spirit
has revealed these to her in a way that has created a dependency in her heart.
1.
In the wilderness season of testing the Lord revealed her pride to her. He
revealed to her the weakness of her flesh. Walking in the knowledge of
our weakness is a great sign of maturity. I’m not referring to morbid
introspection.
2.
She comes up with an understanding of who she is in the flesh, as well as,
who she is in the Holy Spirit. Her first confession in SONG 1:5 was “ I
am dark, but lovely .” She has come to mature understanding in both
issues. She holds them in proper balance.
3.
Even at the end of his life, Paul the apostle said, “, I am a chief sinner .”
This does not mean that he sinned more than others. Paul meant that he
had more revelation of his sin than anybody around him.
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