Jet Tour Of Song Of Solomon (part 4)

Please take your Bibles and turn to the first praise song that you find in Scripture. Turn your Bibles to the first song of praise found in your Old Testament,. I don't see you turning anywhere. Let's look this morning at the first time where someone burst out with as it were a song of praise.

The First Hymn in the Bible and Adam’s Praise

Turn your Bibles there, please. Genesis chapter 2 please before we get to song of Solomon. Genesis chapter 2 as you know. This is back in the creation account Moses inspired by God telling us What happened between Adam and Eve?

And even though it might not be an actual song it might not be a really a praise song. It has been called the first hymn in the Bible. Although the text says he said something, but it certainly was praise.

Genesis chapter 2 verse 21. Remember these familiar verses? So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man and he slept. Then he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which he had taken from the man and brought her to the man.

The man said verse 23 This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. And when I first read that I could say to myself man responded this way verse 23.

This is now bone of my bones flesh my flesh. She shall be called woman because she was taken from man. When Adam first sees Eve, how do you think he responded? Big yawn. Of course, God doesn't learn anything.

But what did God think? What was going through the mind of the triune God when he saw Adams response? To what he had made Adams response is pure joy. Pure praise and the praise isn't even directly to God.

It's indirectly to God as he praises God's great creation. And it says he said in verse 23, but I don't think he said it with ho hum yawn. I think it was with a shout of joy of glee of satisfaction all again before the fall.

Hebrew scholar Tremper Longman said quote when Adam first sees Eve he breaks out into song. He cannot contain his joy. He sings an erotic hymn. The first hymn is not overly directed to God. But is it indirect praise to God through proclaiming the anticipated joy of love?

Isn't that amazing the goodness and generosity and grace of God? Before the fall and yet we still have romantic marital love after the fall. And if you'll turn your Bibles to the Song of Solomon, we will see this very thing this morning part four of our Used to be the jet tour of Song of Solomon now, it's the triplane view of it.

Genesis 2 says in man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. And we come to another part of the Bible that God is not ashamed of the Song of Solomon. We might be embarrassed we might blush, but this is God's unblushing endorsement of marital physical love and he has it in the Bible for you to learn whether you are married.

Separated single whether you're a child or older. Maybe your loved one has already gone home to be with the Lord and you're a widow or a widower now. But this book in the Bible is for you to learn. Yes, and for you to see how good and generous God is to give us romance and marital love.

George Whitefield was writing a letter to a lady back in England that he wanted to marry Mid 18th century and he said this to her in his proposal. For I bless God. I am free from that foolish passion, which the world calls love.

She turned him down by the way. For most of us we are not free from that passion. God has made us in his own image and he has made us specifically into female and male and he's designed us to appreciate each other's beauty in intimate marriage and.

The Song of Solomon as Literal Love Poetry

And here if you see the Song of Solomon. Actually, we'll get to chapter 7 soon. But just to give you a cursory overview where we have been we've been trying to teach the Song of Solomon in all its context.

Chapters 1 through 7 is about where we ended last time. I won't give you all the arguments why this isn't an allegory. Why is it is not a type but you will see nowhere into this text. Does it tell you that you should make this a metaphor?

It does not intend for you to come to this text in any other way except in a plain natural literal normal way. And if you give this text to someone in Mars, they will read this not as an allegory of Christ's love for the church.

They will read this as a man's love for a woman more specifically. The woman talks more than the man a woman's love for man. This is not God's love for the church. Why would the church be doing all the talking?

This is? An endorsement of marital love from God's perspective found in an interesting genre in a poem. So this is not a how-to book. This is not a book that talks about medical terms. This is just Near Eastern love poetry.

That's inspired by God out of the thousand and five songs that Solomon wrote. This is the best one and this is the one that God chose in his infinite wisdom. For you to know and for you to know not so you say whatever they do I do the exact same thing, but that you would love and appreciate.

The joy of intimacy that you might say to yourself God you are good. And as you see these two praising each other, I believe it's a good reflection of how Adam when Eve was made he didn't say God. I praise you praise God from whom all blessings flow.

But that's what he was doing. Anyway, he was praising God's creature because he knew it was a gift from God. The Song of Solomon Chapter 1 verse 1 gives us an idea about the book and it's the superlative the song of songs out of all the songs.

This is the best one and it's Solomon's and again We just take this as a book that is straightforward love poetry. It gives us no signals or no clue. It doesn't give us any clues to say anything less and There are three main sections of the book to remember.

The first section is what? Courtship. The second section is the wedding procession and the wedding and then the final section is the maturation of the love so you've got courtship wedding and the maturation of Love and we saw last time in the courtship in chapter 1 verses 2 and following it all spins out of verse 2.

May he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth for your love and that is the erotic word for love is better than wine. And we certainly don't have a relationship with Jesus that uses these kind of terms.

This is for Solomon and for his wife-to-be and you'll see in this courtship time. Lots of mutual aberration lots of praise lots of romantic language, but you'll see the refrain of sexual Restraint and you will see Solomon even on the wedding night praising her for her purity and chastity.

If you go to chapter 3 verse 6 and following. There's the procession and you can imagine the king Solomon would have a grand wedding procession yes. All the stops would be pulled out and there would be pomp and circumstance and that's exactly what you find in verses 6 through 11.

The formal ceremonies are over as we move to chapter 4 the couple hours by themselves. They would spend the night together in the Near East and then the next six days. They would go back to the festival and celebrate the gift from God marriage but now they were alone in chapter 4 verse 1 and following and basically Solomon is with his words.

Praising her giving admiration to her. He is ravished with her beauty. She thinks she's kind of just a regular girl but he thinks she's much more than that and he starts with her head and works his way down and just Describes how beautiful she looks and you might say this is a weird book to be in the Bible.

Well, if you think about life and you think about Intimacy it is part of life. And why would God not talk to us about such an aspect of our lives? Would God be silent? Would God say I'd like you to figure out?

How a husband and wife should live and communicate and talk from Hollywood and we can drink from the fire hose of what the world sells. No in a way that is not a do-and-don't-do book, but in a way of literature.

He just explains here is a man and a woman loving each other. Verse 7 is The wonderful refrain in chapter 4 you are all together beautiful my darling and there is no blemish in you. He praises her purity and virginity.

He says in verse 12 a garden locked is my sister my bride. A rock garden locked. A spring sealed up. And if you remember from last time we moved to the theological Center of the book and that is chapter 4 verse 16 and 5 verse 1.

They are alone. They are together. God has invented sex. God has designed our bodies. God has given us all these things and here in the context of marriage. She says a Waco North wind verse 16 and come wind of the South make my garden breathe out fragrance.

Let its spices be wafted abroad. May my beloved come into his garden that used to be her garden and now it's his and eat its choice fruits. And again, this is the language of metaphor. This is veiled language.

This is not inappropriate for preaching. If you're a visitor today, you might be thinking what did I walk into today? What you walked into today is a proclamation of the Song of Solomon and we are committed at this church to teach every book of the Bible Genesis through Revelation and I preach everything in between those lines.

These are the lines that you run in pastor and you preach everything from Genesis to Revelation and you don't preach anything else. But you preach everything in there and it can help us as we learn proverbs and and you say well.

But I'm struggling today and I have health issues and all these other things. The wonderful part about being a pastor is God. The Holy Spirit is real. He's called the what the comforter. He knows what you need.

He understands you and he can minister to you. Even though the passage might be about marital love you say I might be single. How does this apply to me? Well, if you're single and you're old enough to be married, then it applies to you in a direct way men.

What would I say to you? Find a wife. That's right ladies. That was a pretty half-hearted find a wife. Ladies be a godly woman and pray that God would bring you that one bring you that husband. Sorry.

I almost said wife. I Heard last week. We have a widow in our congregation and she said I wish someone would have taught me that sermon when I first was Married would have saved me a lot of trouble and I said to her.

Thank you for that encouragement. Because that is basically an encouragement to teach the Bible, but as Titus 2 says the older women you can teach the younger women. What love is how do we do things? And so why am I teaching a book about God's endorsement in an unblushing way of marital sex?

It's because I'm commissioned by God to preach all of the Bible. And we'll be back in Matthew soon enough. Solomon has been invited to enjoy his wife and he says now in chapter 5 verse 1 after the consummation.

Again all in language that's completely appropriate. There's nothing graphic or pornographic in the scripture. It's veiled with metaphor and veiled with double entendre and veiled with just a language that makes it appropriate.

For my 13 year old my nine-year-old my seven-year-old my five-year-old for Peter for Paul and for Mary. It's for everyone right? It is appropriate because it is scripture and Nine times in the new American Standard you see the word my the possessive pronoun.

I've come into my garden my sister my bride. I have gathered my myrrh along with my balsam. I've eaten my honeycomb and my honey. I have drunk my wine and my milk and then either from the daughters or virgins of Jerusalem are from God himself.

We hear these words of endorsement. Eat friends drink and imbibe deeply. Oh lovers. She is his fully completely without reservation and God gives his stamp of approval on marital fidelity. He affirms it he even urges them on to more.

Reminds me of Genesis 26 8 where the King James Wonderfully says Isaac was sporting with his wife Rebecca gift from God and did you notice in a context back then of children Being important and certainly they're important today.

But where some would say there should be no physical union between husband or wife unless you thinking procreation is involved. There's not a hint here about children. There's not a hint here about procreation.

Augustine used to say if you just want to enjoy each other as husband and a wife and you don't think about having a Child that is a venial sin. We see nothing like that here. Augustine said some weird things.

He said some great things. He also said before the fall Husbands and wives did not have to get together physically to even have a child and whether it's pastor Abendroth preaching or Augustine you measure everything according to the scripture.

Yes Jerome used to say if you're 30 years old and Over you could read this book. But if you're under 30 don't read it and if he used to think any kind of thought that he should not he said. There are two areas of recourse for sexual temptation one throw yourself in the bushes where they've got all the Stickers and roll around in the briar patch as it were and the other one was learned the language Hebrew.

That's what he told you to do. I'm not kidding. How can I make it up? Here we have a book in the Bible a love poem a Near Eastern love poem a love poem that if you would study the Near Eastern love poems of of other non inspired writers could be crude could be crass of course not compared to our society today, but compared to this book certainly.

But here we just see this book where two people just love each other and the theme is as we've seen for many weeks that this Is a God-given gift. We've seen the courtship and the wedding and now let's move to the maturation the marriage in its maturation chapter 5 verses 2 and Following and here's what we did last week to remember.

There's not a verse in here that says thou shalt do this that I could preach from the pulpit. But I've just taken some lessons that I've learned some may be biblical some might be wisdom. Derived from the Bible that I could preach to you from that is to say there's not a verse in here that says Talk sweetly to your spouse, but as we see this Wisdom literature in the broad category this genre of its wise to study this well.

Why would it be wise to study this by this book so we can just look at it and say wow that's really neat. I already think wisdom would say I've really learned something. That's really neat and now by the grace of God I will apply that in my life.

Wisdom is applied. What? Knowledge you learn something so you can apply it and as you see things in here that are biblical you say Oh, that would be good for me to have in my life. Oh, I understand that and maybe by the grace of God I could do that and I would pray to that end.

So I'm going to give you some life lessons that are extracted from the text, but are not found by saying thou shall Remember those from last time the first one was that difficulties in marriage are a given.

But they can be used by God to strengthen your marriage. Remember chapter 5 verse 2 he he has some Amorous musings and he comes to the door and she won't open up the door and there's trouble. And then there's reconciliation and we said last week that there are going to be difficulties in your marriage.

I understand that Kim and I are the only ones that never have any difficulties, but for you I want to make sure I can preach. Now you first get married and the love of your life, and then all of a sudden especially for us men.

You get married, and you realize just how selfish you are. Certainly it applies to the ladies as well, but you realize God I've been praying for sanctification, and I just am going to be sanctified now.

I understand that. With a spouse I can see how I don't love God with all my heart soul mind and strength. I don't love my neighbor or my wife as myself. We have all kinds of difficulties. They did we do and last time I talked a little bit about how we could go about resolving conflicts to the glory of God.

If you notice in chapter 5 verse 9 the daughters of Jerusalem said what kind of beloved is your beloved? Oh most beautiful among women what kind of beloved is your beloved. Thus that thus you would adjure us and Solomon now crafts this poem in such a way where the ladies are saying What kind of person is this and now she gets to say?

Let me tell you about him and just wonderful poetry and admiration. We saw the second lesson last week not only our difficulties are given but they can help us. But number two we are to speak well of our spouse in front of other people.

Do you notice that's what happens here chapter 5 verse 10? My beloved is dazzling and ruddy outstanding among 10 000 and she just does that in front of all these ladies. His head's like gold pure gold his locks are like clusters of dates and black as a raven.

And we looked at all those in detail. She calls him in verse 16 my friend. And I charge you congregation i'll remind you again this week. Do you speak well of your spouse? We have this kind of cloaked thing.

We do we get together with a bunch of guys or we get together with the ladies and we say Uh, you don't know my situation and my husband is such a uh fill in the blank. He's such a dunce. He's such a dope.

He's such a blockhead. He's he's uh, he's a believer that acts like an unbeliever. He's an unbeliever who thinks he's a believer. He's an unbeliever. Who's really an unbeliever. He's a believer that I can't believe he's an unbeliever and and you say and I need prayer because of my spouse.

We don't talk about our spouse because our spouse is one. If you need prayer, then you say to your other man that you're accountable to or your other ladies. Uh, I would like you to pray for me because I just need to love.

Because i'm not loving like I ought to. Would you pray that I could be patient? And you don't have to go through this kind of sanctified thing. Where everybody can feel sorry for you and they can all think about your spouse and woe is me.

Quit slandering your spouses if you were apt to do that even in prayer meetings. Yes. We don't speak improperly of our spouses. I think kim's Good at this not speaking improperly of me. You would think that I never do anything wrong if you talk to her.

But she knows better. Generic requests for prayer are good. Could you please pray that I would have more wisdom? You don't need to say. Could you please pray that I have more wisdom because every time my husband comes home and says this and does that.

And he did that the other time and now over and around we go. You just say could you pray that I could have wisdom? Oh, certainly. Let's pray that you might have wisdom. Your words are to edify and you have forgotten have you if you slander your spouse that she's part of you.

That he's part of you. Make it generic. Now there are times maybe in couples discipleship or couples counseling that you can say some things. To a pastor or someone like that, but not not. Openly, well, you see chapter six.

Let's get back to the text. Verse one. Where is your beloved gone? Oh most beautiful among women. Why should we seek for him chapter five? Well now, where is he? We want to find him with you. Basically.

We'd like to catch a glimpse of him. She says well i'm his garden. Yes, but he has other gardens real gardens not metaphorical gardens. My beloved has gone down to his garden to the beds of bsalm to pasture his flock in the gardens and gather lilies.

The third lesson we saw last week was be quick to forgive. It is a general principle outside of marriage and within marriage too. You are been given a spouse by god. They will offend you they will sin against you.

They will transgress against you. They will commit iniquity against you. They will uh. Do all the different sins six hebrew words and six greek words for sins. They will probably do them all. And we are to be quick to forgive.

The text does not say Solomon was quicketh to forgive. But that's implied there in the text. I could go to other places to teach you to be quick to forgive but here. He didn't say I'm holding it against you.

I'm grounding you i'm going to make you for 29 days. Here's the burlap sackcloth and ashes. Sometimes you don't have to rebuke people you can just love them and act like it never happened. And he just says to her you're as beautiful as tersa.

My darling chapter 6 verse 4 as lovely as jerusalem as awesome as an army with banners. You are formidable. You are alarming. You are amazing. I'm unnerved and I have not Gotten over my love for you when we were courting and the marriage night and even now I still am head over heels in love for you.

Stunningly beautiful. We as a church need to be quick to forgive. There's a time to confront your spouse when you can't get over the transgression and you say I can't get out of my mind you said this or didn't do that and I've tried to just cover it and I can't and so I thought i'd go to you and say that that just was not appropriate.

It was sinful and your spouse says You know, you're right. Please forgive me, but we don't need to keep the lists. We don't need to use forgiveness as a weapon because we don't grant it. Certainly. That's not here in this wisdom literature.

The fourth lesson we saw extracted from chapters 5 6 7 and 8 and I keep saying extracted because. When I preach to you, I am trying to do many things. One is is i'm trying to teach you how to study the bible for yourself.

It's not found in there. Thou shalt not kill. But if you can see the theme coming out of the principle, then I want to say see that's a principle. I can't find these principles by by direct. Implicate.

Directly, but I can see them implied. So that's why I keep telling you ahead of time that these are just implied lessons extracted. And by the way, if you have not gotten enough song of solomon, dr. Danny Aiken will be here in october.

President of southeastern baptist theological seminary. And he has written a book on the song of solomon and he will be here to do a marriage. Couples retreat on the song of solomon. So for those of you that want more song of solomon or want to have marriages that would reflect this more than that will be this october.

And danny does the same thing he extracts principles number four the fourth principle your communication of affection should increase. We used to say how great our wives looked and then now we've won them.

Do we say the same thing? He says in chapter 7 verse 1 how beautiful your feet and sandals. Oh prince's daughter. The wedding night he started with her head down now. He starts with her feet up the curves of your hips are like jewels.

The work of a hands of an artist. You know i've noticed something about myself. If I say something good about someone or something good to someone. I can't say something bad at the same time. It's hard for me to say to kim that you're beautiful and at the same time.

Say to her I see you've prepared another burnt offering for my supper tonight. It is very difficult to do. And I have never said that to her. But I found it in a book and it was it worked. Why don't you ask your mother how to fix this meal the right way?

Can't you do anything, right? Instead of the harshness and the discourteousness and discourteousness and condescension and critical attitude. How about just lather on the praise? On your spouse not in a way that's flattery because you want something just because it's a good.

Principle derived from wisdom you used to think that way. In verse 6 of chapter 7 how beautiful and how delightful? You are my love with all your charms. You are a delightful woman. You are a daughter of delights.

Used of god in psalm 135 verse 3 sing praises unto his name for it is pleasant naomi. The jewish translation of song of solomon says. How fair are you. How beautiful. Oh love with all its rapture. Beautiful gratifying dear.

When's the last time you called your husband handsome or the last time you called your wife beautiful. I bet you used to. What are your kids here? Do your kids here? Do you think your spouse is beautiful or handsome?

Well verse 7 says. Fairly obvious terminology. Your stature is like a palm tree and your breasts are like its clusters. I will climb the palm tree take hold of its fruit stalks. He kind of basically is saying the talking's over me.

Your breasts be like clusters of the vine and fragrance of your breath like apples. The fragrance of your breath like apples. Many scholars think this refers to a nose kiss, which was a an affectionate gesture.

Nose kissing. I wrote down in my notes eskimo kiss, but it was probably different. But they would rub their faces together and smell each other's noses. Marriage is to be held in honor among all. And the marriage bed is undefiled.

Commentator snaith said it was a gesture of affection which is claimed to have been frequent in the ancient east. I love you with my words. I love you with my nose. Nose. We just need a little bit of comic relief every once in a while when we talk about this.

I'm, kind of glad this is my last day of song of solomon. Preaching. I just want to be very careful. I never want to offend people. I want you to understand the book and see just if it's a great gift from god that we have it in the canon.

Maybe you could go home with your spouse and wherever it says shulamite. You have the wife say these words and whatever it says solomon you have solomon say the words and wherever it says the the daughters of jerusalem.

Just skip those parts. I don't know just say them together. I don't know. And they love each other. Verse 9 your mouth is like the best wine. She starts the sentence. And he gives another sentence to finish the thought it goes down smoothly for my beloved flowing gently through the lips of those who fall asleep.

She rather interrupts him. Well. The fifth principle we saw last week again all in review pledge loyalty to each other often and you'll see that mutual refrain here. In the song of solomon pledging loyalty to each other often.

You see it in verse 10. Don't you I am my beloved's and his desire is for me. If you go back to chapter 6 verse 3, it's the same thing. I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine. And even in chapter 2 verse 16, my lover is mine and I am his complete abandonment and.

As we have a theme of sexual enjoyment in marriage. There is another theme and that theme that is central to this book is commitment husband and wife to the very end for better or for worse. And we I think we'll have a marriage here at the church very soon and when I say Do you promise to keep these vows by the grace of god before god and these witnesses?

That's exactly what I mean. I want you to mean what you said before god almighty. Well, this one is really a stretch this sixth principle, but I think i'm just going to say it. Anyway, this is pastoral wisdom.

And again is not a command from the text. Is in this kind of marriage counseling from the pulpit verse six if I mean Number six go away with each other as husband and wife. We have the daily grind we have the routine the busyness we tend to forget that our wives Are wise before mothers we tend to forget that our husbands are husbands before they are fathers.

And here for whatever reason I know the reason so do you verse 11? She says come my beloved. Let us go out into the country. Let us spend the night in the villages for obvious reasons. Let us rise early and go to the vineyards.

Let us see whether the vine has budded and its blossoms have opened and whether the pomegranates have bloomed. There I will give you my sexual embrace is the word i'll give you my love. The mandrakes have given forth fragrance and over our doors are all choice fruits both new and old.

Which I have saved up for you my beloved. Now when's the last time you got mandrakes? Mandrakes were interesting back. Then they were associated with fertility and they were associated with aphrodisiac type qualities.

The arabs called mandrakes servants of love. They also called them satan's apples. And here this word to the audience that it was written to originally would know the. The flavor even from genesis chapter 30 the flavor of the language is all Physical with mandrakes and so when I say to you if you can get away with your spouse for a weekend or a week.

Then I might just say to you on the side. Don't forget to pack the mandrakes. But what i'll be saying is get away with each other so you can just enjoy one another. The text doesn't say it but I am there are some couples here in the church and I don't say it to scold you.

I say it because I want to help you. You have never left your kid overnight ever. I will baby what you know, what we need is a bbc romance mandrakes co-op. Somebody will watch your kids and you go off for the weekend.

You know, you got to go more than one night because the first night you just talk about your kids all night. Then there's a second night you can talk about each other. And so we'll have some kind of mandrakes co-op where you can just get away.

You watch my kids. I watch yours. When I took him to rome for our 15th wedding anniversary I just saved up frequent flyers and and to karen. Ulo ended up knew somebody we got the free hotel there and everything.

It was great. Just great to spend time. We were down in kentucky for a couple nights just good to get away. Cj mahaney in his book sex romance and the glory of god said sometimes He will have the babysitters all set up and he'll just get a hotel room.

Down the street from the house just to get away from the dishes and the dirt and the grime just to get away. Again, the text doesn't say you must or you're in sin. But I think it's good wisdom if you talk to an older saint here that they would say just get away the two of you.

We'll watch the kids. You say well the husband needs to plan all that. I think that's probably true the husband should. But the woman's planning it here. It's the shulamite who's saying it. Well, we must move on chapter 8 verse 1.

She has a desire for intimacy a greater intimacy. And she says in chapter 8 verse 1. Oh that you were like a brother to me who nursed at my mother's breast. If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you. No one would despise me either.

And that's a good Verse for us to know that in different cultures They acted differently and you were not allowed to kiss your spouse openly in public. But you were allowed to kiss your brother because if you were kissing your brother They know would not be sexual and so she says basically in public.

I would like to kiss you. But I know i'm not supposed to but if you were a brother Like a brother to me would be acceptable an acceptable display of affection. Literally in chapter 8 verse 2 It says. I will lead you and bring you into the house of my mother who used to instruct me.

I will give you spiced wine to drink from the juice of my pomegranates. Let his left hand be under my head and his right hand embrace me. I want you to swear. Oh daughters of jerusalem. Do not arouse or awaken my love until she pleases.

And they say chapter 8 verse 5 who is this coming from the wilderness leaning on her beloved. Most likely solomon responds at the end of verse 5 beneath the apple tree. I was I wakened you there. Your mother was in labor with you there.

She was in labor and gave you birth. And we finally come to chapter 8 verses 6 and 7. We've seen love described in chapters 1 2 3 4 5 6 and 7 and now for the first time we learn a little bit about love.

Instead of by description, but here it is by Meaning what is love like if chapter 5 verse 1 was the the climax physically of the couple. Here is the climax of the definition of what love is in a poetic way.

A picture of love with words now, not just a description of solomon and the shulamite. And she says five things about love verse 6 of chapter 8. Put me like a seal over your heart. Like a seal on your arm.

You'd either have a seal ring or a seal around your neck and she said when seals mean possession and ownership and accessibility. You be my seal over your heart over your arm. Jealous love for love is as strong as death jealousy as severe as shiel.

Its flashes are the flashes of fire. Literally that could be translated the fire of god. Or it could just mean kind of a superlative where we might say, uh. Not in a negative way, but that is a god-awful heat.

Using the word god to be a superlative. That's most likely what it is some say this is the only place in song of solomon the word of god is mentioned. The word god is mentioned that is true, but it's a suffix here.

Many waters cannot quench love verse 7. Nor will rivers overflow it if a man were given to all riches of his house for love. It would be utterly despised. Water can't quench this heat of love. You try to buy love.

You're just stupid. And then she has a flashback it's very interesting flashing back how love began. Chapter 8 verses 8 to 12. I think the reason is because they'll have not lost their intense love even from back in the courtship days.