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S ONG OF S ONGS ‘98 – M IKE B ICKLE
SESSION 13: The Ultimate 2–Fold Test Of Maturity (5:2–8)
SONG 5:2-8
2. I sleep, but my heart is awake; it is the voice of my beloved! He knocks, saying, "Open for
me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one; for my head is covered with dew, my locks
with the drops of the night."
3. I have taken off my robe; how can I put it on again? I have washed my feet; how can I
defile them?
4. My beloved put his hand by the latch of the door, and my heart yearned for him.
5. I arose to open for my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid
myrrh, on the handles of the lock.
6. I opened for my beloved, but my beloved had turned away and was gone. My heart leaped
up when he spoke. I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no
answer.
7. The watchmen who went about the city found me. They struck me, they wounded me; the
keepers of the walls took my veil away from me.
8. I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am
lovesick!
OVERVIEW OF SONG 5:2-8
Jesus reveals Himself as one who suffered alone in the garden of Gethsemane. This sixth
revelation of Jesus begins the second 4 chapters of the 8 chapter SONG. The first 4 chapters
focus on the Bride's inheritance in Jesus. The second 4 chapters emphasize Jesus’ inheritance in
the Bride. The reality that she belongs to Him preoccupies her heart. Our spiritual foundation
includes both emphasizes. What grips her heart is the fact she belongs to Jesus. 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.
She is being invited to join Jesus in the fellowship of His sufferings. She responds in instant
obedience (5:3-5). First, Jesus tests her faith by withdrawing His manifest presence from her
heart (5:6). Second, Jesus tests her faith by allowing the spiritual authorities in the church to
wound her unjustly. This results in her place of function and fellowship in the church being
temporarily taken from her (5:7). She responds in love and humility (5:8).
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Verse By Verse Study of SONG 5:2–8
I.
JESUS CALLS HER TO THE FELLOWSHIP OF SUFFERING
I sleep, but my heart is awake; it is the voice of my Beloved! He knocks, saying, "Open
for Me, My sister, My love, My dove, My perfect one; For My head is covered with dew,
My locks with the drops of the night" (5:2).
A.
Jesus comes to her as One from the garden of Gethsemane.
He knocks, saying, "Open for Me…My perfect one; For My head is covered
with dew, My locks with the drops of the night" (5:2).
1.
His head is covered with dew, which speaks of being outside all night. He
comes with His head drenched with the dew of the night. His locks speak
of His hair. His hair is covered with the drops of the night, which speak of
the dewdrops that fall on those who stay outside throughout the night.
Jesus experienced another type of “drops in the night,” He sweat "drops of
blood" due to His anticipation of the cross (Lk. 22:44).
a. How does one get dew on their hair? By staying outside all night as
Jesus did in Gethsemane.
b. He calls her to Himself in the intimacy of the fellowship of suffering.
2.
Catholic contemplatives in the Middle Ages spoke of the "dark night of
the soul" referring to times of divine testing in seasons of seeming
spiritual darkness. The “dark night of the soul” is not a Biblical term. It is
a practical term referring to times of spiritual testing when nothing makes
sense. St. John of the Cross originated this phrase in the 16th century. We
make a "covenant of trust" toward God to hold on to in such seasons.
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B.
Jesus calls her to open her heart to new depths in the Holy Spirit.
"Open for Me…My love…My perfect one" (5:2d,e)—
1.
Jesus' purpose in knocking is to draw our hearts into a new opening for
Him, rather than new opening of circumstances.
a. He wants us to open to Him that our hearts would grow in love. To
endure hardship is a sweet and powerful reality.
b. To open to Him may end up with fewer people responding in a
positive way to us but it is for Him.
2.
Because of what He has invested in us, He wants all of us. He wants us to
open to another facet of His life as the Jesus who endured the Garden of
Gethsemane.
C.
She experiences the "rest of faith".
"I sleep, but my heart is a I sleep, but my heart is awake; it is the voice of my
Beloved! (5:2a).
1.
"I sleep" speaks of being in a place of rest with confidence in the Lord.
She is sleeping in the sense of being completely at peace, because she
believes that Jesus is a safe God. How blessed to be "awake" without
need of being revived from spiritual dullness (Eph. 5:14). Paul exhorts us
to be awake in spiritual things (1 Thes. 5:6; Rom. 13:11). Jesus knew the
"rest of faith" as He slept in the in the storm (Mt. 8:23-27). She has
confidence that includes the negative dimensions of the cost of bearing the
cross in her life.
2.
Her heart is fully awake to spiritual things. In 4:6 she prayed, “I will go to
the mountain of myrrh.” In 4:16 she prayed, “Blow O north winds!” In
these prayers she commits herself to a life of embracing the cross. She
says, “The north winds can touch me but I trust Him.” In that sense she is
asleep but her heart is full awake. She is walking in obedience without
any conscious area of compromise.
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D.
A sovereign intervention calling her to new depths in the Holy Spirit
"I sleep, but my heart is awake; it is the voice of my Beloved! He knocks,
saying, "Open for Me…(5:2).
1.
She is sensitive to the voice of Jesus or the inward promptings of the Holy
Spirit. It is His voice again as in 2:8. The voice of Jesus is drawing her to
come to a new season, a new place in the grace of God.
2.
Jesus is to reveal Himself again as her Beloved".
E.
The initiative of God
"He knocks, saying" (5:2c)
1.
He knocks on the door of her heart in answer to her prayer for the north
winds (4:16). The knock refers to the initiative God takes to bring us
forward in new dimensions of the Spirit. He knocks when He desires to
bring us through a new door in the Spirit.
I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have
a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name (Rev.
3:8).
"Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and
opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.
(Rev. 3:20)
2.
The knock of Rev. 3:20-21 brings us to the communion table. He knocked
that we would come to feast at His table. This is also His knock to send
the bitter north wind.
3.
He knocks and we open the door which speaks of entering a new door or a
new sphere in God.
a. God's knock sometimes may be gentle and quiet, yet on other
occasions it is forceful and loud.
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b. However, in the final analysis God's knock is a demonstration of His
care and desire to bring us forward the Spirit. His knock sometimes
brings us into hardship but it is a still a good knock. It ultimately
brings us into deeper communion in the Holy Spirit.
F.
The Divine motivation
He knocks, saying, "Open for Me, My sister, My love, My dove, My perfect one;
For My head is covered with dew…" (5:2).
1.
The message is “Open for Me,” and then the 4 titles communicate His
Divine affirmation. He wants to empower her with confidence of the love
of God so that she can open to the Jesus of Gethsemane.
2.
The greatest motivation He can use to sway us is to make known to us that
it is "for Him." He is taking her for Himself as in 5:1. He asks her, "Will
you embrace the full sufferings of Christ. In other words, will she
embrace the north winds that she prayed for? She is just coming out of an
intense season of prophetic affirmation (4:1-15). In other words, she is not
compromising. He sees her radical obedience. SONG 4 is an intense
affirmation. She rises up in holy abandonment. Jesus called His holy
apostles to bear some of the suffering of the counter attack. The counter
attack of Satan is a part of the work in the Gospel in this evil age.
“That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the
fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, (Phil. 3:10)
3.
Jesus uses the pronoun "My" 4 times. He describes her in 4 different
ways. He calls her “My sister, My love, My dove, My perfect one”.
a. Jesus gives her the title of “My sister" to signify His identification
with her humanity (Heb. 2:16-18).
b. "My love" reminds her of His extravagant love for her. ‘Grace
motivation’ is when one is being motivated by love and gratitude,
instead of fear and judgment.
c. My dove" speaks of her gentle, guileless nature. Dove's eyes speak of
singleness of mind that is focused on Him (4:1). In 5:2, He says, "you
are My dove, My perfect one." She is in full submission to God.
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