So brothers and sisters, the voice of the beloved is calling us to come out of ourselves, even of our spiritual self, we think we are very spiritual, we think that we really love the Lord, we think we really know him even that we have to come out of it, until we move on to resurrection ground, that is to say, nothing but Christ his life, he is our life, he is our resurrection life, and only when we move on to resurrection ground you will find there is the espousal, the engagement, you remember the apostle Paul said to the church in Corinth, I am jealous with you with the jealousy of God because I have espoused you to one man, even Jesus Christ, as chaste virgins to that one man, and I am fearful that you may be enticed by the enemy like Eve was deceived oh brothers and sisters, we are his, and he is very jealous of us, we are espoused to him, his virgin, to that one man, our Lord Jesus, and if we are really espoused to him, then you have to move on resurrection ground because only on resurrection ground you are really one with him, on this side of resurrection is you, on that side of resurrection is he, so we have to move on into resurrection ground in order to be really espoused to him now how do we know that this was the time he was really engaged, because if you read chapter three, verse eleven, go forth daughters of Zion, and behold King Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousal, and in the day of the gladness of his heart when that virgin heard the voice of the beloved, and of willing to go out of herself and follow him, then you will find it was the time of espousal, and then following that in chapter four, you will find verse eight, it says come with me from Lebanon my spouse, with me from Lebanon now before that you will find the Lord never called the virgin my spouse, my love, but not my spouse, but after that you will find he called that virgin my spouse, there is an engagement, there is a deeper union with the Lord, because it is now on resurrection ground and being on resurrection ground, you begin to enter into the ascension ground, the victory that is in Christ Jesus, we cannot experience the victory in Christ Jesus until we are on resurrection ground, and there we experience his victory so here you will find that virgin after she experienced the victory that is in Christ Jesus, she felt that that must be the peak of everything, now that must be the end and here your chapter five verse two again, I slept, I was so satisfied now, I slept, but my heart was awake, the voice of my beloved, again you will find she heard the voice of the beloved, oh brothers and sisters how we need to hear the voice of the bridegroom and as we hear his voice, he is calling us, moving us on with him until we are really united with him in purpose so here you will find again, this virgin was resting, she felt that she has reached the peak of her spiritual life, she got the victory of Christ, now what else can you have, but fortunately even though she was asleep her heart was still awake now how can that be, all the mothers know how it can be, you know the mothers when they are sleeping, they are really sleeping, but their heart is awake, because when the baby utter a little noise, immediately the mother knows it, because the heart is awake so here you will find this virgin even though she was asleep, but her heart was awake, and she heard the voice of the beloved, she find that the beloved was no longer there, the beloved actually was outside and said open to me, my sister, for my head is filled with dew, my luck with the drops of the night brothers and sisters, that is a picture of the garden of Gethsemane, you will find that our Lord Jesus on that night, how he went into the garden of Gethsemane and there how he prayed and even his sweat came down as blood that is the picture, and the beloved is calling her betrothed, to join with him in the fellowship of his sufferings, not only to know the power of his resurrection, oh how great to know the power of his resurrection but brothers and sisters, that is just a preparation for what is going to follow, because here you will find the beloved is calling her to have fellowship with his sufferings, now of course we know the sufferings of the Lord, there is one aspect of his suffering that we can never share with him in other words, when our Lord Jesus suffered on the cross and shed his blood for the remission of our sins, he had to tread the winepress all by himself, because he is the one who bore our sins in his body, no one can share with that brothers and sisters, there is one aspect of the sufferings of Christ that we have absolutely no part in it, because of his atoning suffering, atoning death, we receive the good of it, we receive the remission of sin but you know the sufferings of Christ have other aspects, and in the other aspect he called us to share with his suffering, the fellowship of his sufferings, oh we find how our Lord Jesus suffered for righteousness sake, how our Lord Jesus suffered because of his sympathy towards the world how our Lord Jesus suffered because of the church, that the church may be born, how he prevailed until he find that seed to satisfy his heart, and many other areas, and here you will find the Lord Jesus calling us to share with his suffering you remember Paul in caution said, how he prevailed, how he feel of that which is lacking in the afflictions of Christ for the body which is the church, after the church is born, the church needs to grow, and for that how we need to share the sufferings of Christ if anyone is weak, Paul said, I am weak, oh how his heart is burdened with the people, how he toil and prevail in prayer for the Galatians, brothers and sisters, there is the fellowship of his suffering he is calling us to suffer together with him, that the church may be build, and you know at first the betrothed find she couldn't do it, she said I have already put off my tunic, how should I put it on, I have washed my feet, how should I pollute myself she didn't want to do it, but then she saw the hand of the beloved, that pierce it, nail pierce hand, and that move her to the very death, so she got up, she went out, she couldn't find him, and she suffer, and finally you find she found and it was in that stage, you read these words, in chapter 6 return return oh Shulamite, return return, that we may look upon thee, why should you look upon the Shulamite as it was the dance of two camels here we find the marriage, not only the engagement, but the marriage, here you find this virgin had become Shulamite, you know Shulamite is the feminine of Solomon, Solomon is the masculine, and Shulamite is the feminine in other words you find that the virgin being called by the beloved, and responded to the voice of the bridegroom, and she move on with the beloved, until she came to a point that she was really one with him, not only in life, but in purpose, and that union is a perfect marriage union Shulamite, one with Solomon, united with Solomon in one dear brothers and sisters, we know that our Lord Jesus is always calling us on, think that because you have known him a little bit, you have received something from him, you have enjoyed him to a certain degree, therefore you just are so contented, and you just stay put do you not hear the voice of the beloved, he is always calling you on and on, he is calling you to come out of yourself, and enter into him, until you are really joined with him in one purpose, and that is the marriage of the Lamb.