HIS HEART SONG…Part 10
“His Ravished Heart”
Song of Songs 4:8 “Come with Me from Lebanon, My spouse, Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.”
· This is the very first time in the entire Song of Solomon where He calls her HIS SPOUSE…HIS BRIDE…
· She is finally beginning to actually function as His Bride!
· Here is an all new invitation to “come away”….but now that her will has been crucified…she will go COMPLETELY WILLINGLY!
· He asks her to come out from Lebanon…Lebanon is a beautiful country…but not so godly…
· 2 Corinthians 6:17 says “…come out from among them, and be ye separate.”
· COME OUT…means there has to be ACTION on your part…and when you take that FIRST STEP FORWARD…then He is right by your side to help you the rest of the way!
· Let Him take you out of the places that are not so godly…the places where there might be COMPROMISE in your life…
· Not only will He lead you out of those places…but He will lead you up to MOUNT AMANA
· AMANA comes from a Hebrew root word that means “CONFIRM, BELIEVE, ESTABLISH, SUPPORT, FAITHFUL, TRUST and TRUTH”…what an awesome mountain THAT is!!!
· Notice that you are gonna “LOOK FROM THE TOP”…from HIS point of view! We have to see things from an ETERNAL point of view…not from a natural one…when we look from the top of Amana…we are looking from the viewpoint of TRUTH!!!
· How would we ever win a battle in spiritual warfare if the only view point we ever had was the viewpoint of the NATURAL WORLD around us…???
· HISTORY FACT: Solomon built a summer house in the forests of Lebanon, and it is referred to by the name Lebanon. This house was built for a place to take his bride….In the natural, this was a place for Solomon to find refuge.
· MORE FACTS: In Arabic, Mt. HERMON means “Mountain of the Chief” “mountain of victory”….It was called Senir by the Amorites…it is a mountain with two names…it was one of the borders of the Promised Land…Mt. Hermon is also the possible sight of the transfiguration…..
· SENIR means “armor”….this mountain, according to Historical Notes, was so FRUITFUL that it could not even all be harvested
· MORE FACTS: Israel defeated two Kings of the Amorites (in Deut. 3:1-11)…Og the king of Bashan, and Sihon, King of Heshbon…the Amorite Kings had to be conquered before Israel could CLIMB THE MOUNTAIN….this is just a picture for us (cause God knows we learn through pictures!)…
· Another interesting fact…the name AMORITE means “fame-seeker and self-exaltation”
· So since….all this part of our FLESH (our fame-seeking and self-exaltation) has been defeated …..defeated cause we went up the Mountain of Suffering (Myrrh)… we can now ascend Mr. Hermon since we are cleared from all those “shadows”…
· This is to be our viewpoint for SPIRITUAL WARFARE…we are to view things from a HEAVENLY viewpoint…the view of VICTORY, of ARMOR, and of TRUTH
· But walking on the Mountaintops and checking everything out from that view will INEVITABLY bring us into the very places where the “lions’ dens and leopards’ mountains”…..
· He never said it would be all “hunky-dorey” when we ascend….actually when we are hanging out on the peaks is where the lions and leopards are closest of all…
· The “lions dens and leopards” speaks of those things and principalities that would try to consume believers….
· 1 Peter 5:8 “Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.”
· Ephesians 6:10-12 “Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms”
· THIS IS A PICTURE of Spiritual warfare!....not only is she taking her place as the lover of God…but she is also talking her place as a WARRIOR
· Now……………woah………..it’s about to get hot and heavy here…..we are about to hear about the RAVISHED HEART of our Beloved Bridegroom….
Song of Songs 4:9 “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.”
· RAVISH…means to overcome with emotions of joy or delight, unusually attractive, pleasing or striking…causing great joy or delight; entrancing, ecstasy
· The Hebrew definition of RAVISHED is “to be deeply moved with emotions of delight because of one who is unusually beautiful, attractive, pleasing, or striking
· Does that not just blow you away!!!!????...are you amazed at how incredibly IN LOVE God is with YOU!!!??????.....He is RAVISHED with you!!!
· We almost can’t believe it….we almost can’t even comprehend it…..and it’s all because of the brides WILLINGNESS to go with Him to the Mountains!!!
· Psalm 139:16-18 “Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your bookbefore one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand…”
· He is so RAVISHED and OVERWHELMED by her…that she has His full attention…it’s like He can’t seem to think of anything else but HER!
· What is it in her that He sees?.....He sees HIS HOLINESS rising up in her! She is surrendered totally to Him and the beauty that is coming up in her is the BEAUTY OF HOLINESS!!!!....woah!!!!!
· Doesn’t this just make you want to throw yourself down at His feet!!!!????? In WONDER and AMAZEMENT that THIS is how He feels about YOU!
· Notice that He called her MY SISTER before He called her MY SPOUSE….this is because He first had to become one of us (like us)…a human being….He had to become our KINSMAN REDEEMER…we had to first be OF THE SAME FAMILY
· Ruth 4:6 “At this, the kinsman-redeemer said, "Then I cannot redeem it because I might endanger my own estate. You redeem it yourself. I cannot do it."
· In Hebrew, KINSMAN and REDEEMER are the exact same words…..He came to REDEEM us …to buy us back
· He had to become HUMAN before He could become our SPOUSE…..THAT knowledge should give a whole new meaning to “My sister, My spouse”
· Hebrews 2:11-17 “He is not ashamed to call them BROTHERS…have partaken of FLESH and BLOOD, He Himself likewise SHARED THE SAME…For indeed He does not give aid to angels, but He does give air to the SEED OF ABRAHAM. Therefore, in all things He had to be made LIKE HIS BROTHERS, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God…”
· He HAD to do this so He could impart His NATURE into us…He is not ashamed of us…..we don’t really completely understand everything He had to leave in heaven in order to do this for us….I mean, my goodness…He left a place where He was worshipped non-stop to come down here to a world that most of us reject Him in….and if we don’t reject Him…we seem to mostly reject the way He FEELS about us…
· If you don’t come into agreement with the way that God feels about you…what you are doing is actually creating strongholds in your mind that are FALSE….these false strongholds create walls that keep you from becoming intimate with Him
· He doesn’t just feel this way about MATURE believers…He feels this way about us in our IMMATURITY….
· We HAVE TO GET THIS!!!!!...it isn’t enough just to “know” what He did for us on the cross or even to “know” what He will do when He returns….He apparently really wants us to KNOW how He feels about us HERE and NOW….it must be very important that we do……could it be that in the trials that may come, that if we KNOW how He feels about us…that knowledge will help us to be OVECOMERS in a hostile world.????
· We have a God with very intense…very deep feelings for us!...He is RAVISHED by her HEART
“…with one glance of your eyes…”
· Think about what it does to you when the ones you love look at you…sometimes a LOOK can say way more than words could ever say…sometimes Adi (2yrs) or Cohen (1yr) give me a look that just melts me…it’s one of total LOVE
· Check out this example from Scripture of what happened when Jesus just LOOKED at Peter…
· Luke 22:61 “At that moment the Lord turned and looked at Peter. Suddenly, the Lord's words flashed through Peter's mind: "Before the rooster crows tomorrow morning, you will deny three times that you even know me."
· Your eyes are the lamp of your body according to Matthew 6:22-23
· HISTORY FACT: Girls in parts of Asia have been known to veil their faces…when they wanted to flirt with someone that they are interested in, they would lower their veil just a fraction, showing one eye
· Nobody loves us like God loves us!....Just a GLANCE from us…from the ones that are REDEEMED by His blood…just a glance in His direction and He is FLOORED!
· WHY???....because we RAVISH His heart
· So…..think about it….if just one GLANCE moves His heart THIS MUCH….what does it do to Him when we FIX OUR GAZE on Him!!!!??????
“….with one chain (link) of your neck (necklace)…”
· Remember that her NECK speaks of her SUBMITTED WILL
· IT’s not even the WHOLE necklace…just ONE LINK!...every single little bitty move she makes toward Him in OBEDIENCE completely bowls Him over!
· Hebrews 6:10 “For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name…”
· Matthew 10:42 “And whosoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water because he is My disciple, assuredly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward.”
· Do you remember what was bound around her neck way back in 1:11???...
· Proverbs 3:3 “Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.”
· He is totally ravished by the LOVE and FAITHFULNESS that she has for Him
· One translation I read of what the word RAVISHED means said there is no way to translate that Hebrew word into English…it would actually read something like “My love for you drove Me out of My mind”…..now THAT’s some intense love He has for us!!!
Song of Songs 4:10 “How fair (beautiful) is your love, My sister, My spouse! How much better is your love than wine! And the smell of your ointments than all spices!”
· Here He goes again…lavishing He love onto her…she is just irresistible to Him …she was willing for her selfish WILL to be crucified on the Mountain of Suffering…we was willing to devote herself to prayer and holiness on the Hill of Frankincense…she is totally fully separated to Him
· “…how much better is your love than wine!”
· This is the same thing that SHE said about HIM way back in Song of Solomon 1:2 “Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth--for your love is more delightful than wine.”
· Remember that WINE represents JOY….our love to Him is better than JOY!!!!...and just take a minute to think about all the things that He created that give Him joy…the entire universe…the angels that constantly cry out to Him “holy, holy, holy..”…but all those things cannot compare to YOU!!!
· “…the smell (scent) of your ointments (perfumes) than all spices”
· PERFUME is a fragrance that is invisible…but it is readily known by others…you can tell when someone has on perfume…it fills the room….remember way back in chapter one when she spent time with the King at His table, how her perfume filled the place…its super difficult to use words to explain a fragrance…but isn’t it so true that others are so touched by what emanates from believers…you can’t really describe it with WORDS…it’s what happens when you are living in total submission to the Holy Spirit
· The SCENT…is a divine aroma that is released from her to God
· 2 Corinthians 2:14-16 “But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him. For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life.”
Song of Solomon 4:11 “Your lips, O My spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.”
· Remember that her lips earlier in this chapter had been described as SCARLET…with REDEEMED SPEECH…they were prepared and ready…now her lips are FILLED
· Her REDEEMED SPEECH…her words…are as sweet as honey to God and to others…He must apparently notice EVERY SINGLE WORD that comes from his brides mouth….woah….every single word…think about that for a moment…
· Notice that her words DRIP…not GUSH….not excessive words…but balanced, wise speech…
· Proverbs 15:2 “The tongue of the wise makes knowledge appealing, but the mouth of a fool belches out foolishness.”
· Colossians 4:6 “Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone”
· HONEY AND MILK …the Promised Land…it was a land flowing “with milk and honey” these things were to be used to NOURISH and FEED….which just so happens to be a theme that has been running through this book….we show our love for Him by NOURISHING and FEEDING the young ones in Christ