Jet Tour Of Song Of Solomon (part 3)

It is great to be back to Bethlehem Bible Church, you know when you go out of town on vacation and visit other churches. You come back home thinking the church that I'm allowed the privilege to pastor is a wonderful church.

You forget how much you love it until you are gone. Kim and the kids will be back Wednesday flights and Lord willing. Thank you to Dave Steve Lewis Dan and the men who preached on Sunday night. I don't know if you know congregation that it is a rare thing to find a church that has so many people Who along with their spouses as support can preach the word faithfully from the pulpit?

I didn't worry that there was going to be an insurrection. I wasn't worried that it wasn't going to be biblical I wasn't concerned and just a couple times called home to check on everyone. And so thank you especially to the preachers.

Another quick note before we begin today for those of you that have been concerned are praying for my Health trials right now just with all the blood tests and the cat scan. Everything's come back negative.

I will live to see another day It looks like but in the midst of all that I thought to myself if this is the last day for me if I'm going To die today, you know, what would I change? Whitfield was asked that very question if you're going to die in one month What would you do.

And he handed out his day timer as it were and said this is what I would do. I'm already living like Christ will return soon. And I want you to know that after these bouts with near death and sharks and other things I Am committed to preaching the Bible With Clarity as God would give me that grace with conviction to teach it as sufficient Authoritative inerrant and good for you to grow in respect to knowing Christ Jesus your Lord and Substitute and I want you to know that as I visited other churches the last four weeks I am frankly tired of the man-centered worship that I find PowerPoint and drama and skits and fill in the blanks and preaching so you will feel good the congregation.

And we I think as a church Broadly Don't understand that when we come to worship. It's not about ourselves. It's about worshiping the triune God. Luther used to say that some people approach God as if he were a shoe clerks apprentice and People respond even as I've been out of town.

Well that sermon was good or That made me feel good. That message was just for me. Oh, I like the music and all those kind of discussions are just selfish ramblings of someone who needs to know that as Jonathan Edwards said the direct proportion of worship is to the proportion of God's majesty and holiness and awesomeness and we Only worship God because Jesus Christ was killed on our behalf.

It cost him his blood for us to worship God and as long as I'm alive and get to preach here I want to try to show you from God's Word that God is the king and we are not consumers. We are worshipers, and we have allowed have been allowed the privilege to worship.

It's his grace that allows us to come to him worship in the New Testament often was Going to a sovereign and kissing his hand indifference. It was also going down in front of someone Going down before them and putting your face to the dust because you knew he was so great.

And as you teach the Bible verse by verse and as you teach the Bible showing what God intends. It gives you that view doesn't it and so for as long as I live and that might just be till this afternoon I want to preach the Word of God in context to you, and then we all get to say isn't God great.

Not I felt good at worship, but isn't God good. He deserves my praise and my wonder and my awe and my honor and to come to the Word of God. That he has revealed to us. He didn't have to tell us anything and yet.

He has told us in his word. This is what I want you to know. Embrace it understand it and by my spirit's grace obey it. Well, let's turn our Bibles police to the Song of Solomon this morning part 3 of 3.

The Song of Solomon as Wisdom Literature and Marital Love

Lord willing the Song of Songs. The Song of Solomon, I don't know if you're new here. But we've been doing a three-part study of the Song of Solomon, and I am committed to teach all the Bible therefore I want to practice what I preach and teach one of the most difficult books in the Bible what a liberal theologian called eros without shame.

This is a book about God's endorsement of marital Sexual love and you have to ask yourself the question. Why would God put something like that in the Bible? Yet, I am convinced in my mind that this book is the pure milk of the Word.

Are you? Do you believe that in it you may grow with respect to salvation as you study it. Do you believe that Song of Solomon is God breathed and is profitable for teaching I? Do I look up some synonyms for the word profitable from 2nd Timothy 3 and these are some of those useful beneficial.

Advantageous helpful it lends a hand it is positive valuable of use. Constructive. Preaching Song of Solomon from the pulpit on Sunday morning is all those things it is not unhelpful. It is not negative.

It is not unvaluable. It is not destructive. It is not something like Jerome said unless you're 30. Don't read it. One man even had the gall to say this. Preaching on the Song of Solomon and most congregational settings is difficult.

The language is so frank and the theme so specialized that the messages would probably not minister effectively to the entire church younger children. Persons recently divorced older men and women who are single may find the love motifs either puzzling.

Embarrassing or painful. Not all of us may be married, but all of us need to know all of God's Word true. All of us can see here's a picture of what God has given. He has not only given us Jesus Christ as our substitutionary atonement.

He has confirmed raising him from the dead that that sacrifice pleased the father, but he's also given us every other good thing. I Find it odd that the evolutionists will say well romantic. Love is is a chemical feeling and feeling induced by chemicals.

No. If you're single and want to get married, I hope this song propels you to get married. If you are married and having difficulties I pray that you'll ask the Spirit of God to help you model a marriage like this in the Song of Songs.

If you're older and and widowed I hope you look back and say God you gave me that husband and I so thank you for that. And if you have the gift of singleness, this is the book for you to understand so that you might help other people.

I believe it's relevant and I believe if you look at this book like a Jew would in the old days you would say God it permeates every area of my life. Sexuality is a big part of my life. So would not God speak of that topic?

Of course he would and this is a great antidote to the licentious society we live in. Yes. If we are going to learn about romantic love erotic love marriage love, then are we going to go to? Hollywood.

Are we going to go to pornography? Are we going to go to society? No. God? Affirms and confirms in the Bible that he has created male and female. He's created them to be together. He has designed intimacy.

It is his idea and he speaks of it. Strangely in a poem in a love poem in a Near Eastern love poem found right in your Bibles. Outside of the last two times on preaching Song of Solomon who has ever heard a sermon a whole sermon Sunday morning from the Song Of Solomon.

Some have did you preach that by the way, okay? It isn't strange when you really think about it. God wants to address that and again if you say but I'm not married Friends I want to recall your your mind to what I just said earlier in my introduction that this sermon isn't necessarily for you.

It is Worshipping God as we hear the truth proclaimed and then the Spirit gives us understanding so we might even minister to others. This has been an amazing Study for myself, and if we'll just have a quick catch-up in Song of Songs chapter 1 verse 1 We'll see that the flow basically is courtship.

Wedding maturation and so far we've discussed discussed courtship and the wedding and the wedding procession. But not the maturation so we'll just quickly catch up from chapter 1 verse 1 through 5 1 and then off to the maturation this morning as we will see that mutual intimacy in the Sanctity of marriage is good and God has designed this to bring him glory.

Well chapter 1 verse 1 it says right there the Song of Songs which is Solomon's. This is a superlative if you were Jewish, and you were trying to say this is the best of the best. This is something. That's good.

This is wonderful. This is great. You would say something like the King of Kings the Lord of Lords the Holy of Holies out of the 1 ,000 and how many songs in Solomon right? 5 1005 this is the one that's in the canon here the wisest man ever to live outside of Christ.

Jesus wrote some love poems, and this is the one we get to study. I Can't believe in the last probably eight weeks of my life. I've got to study poetry. I've never liked poetry before. I Like this poetry.

It's amazing to see what God teaches us in the genre that we would in an overarching way called wisdom literature. This is an in wisdom literature that teaches us Why is living and it doesn't teach us the way we like to be taught three points in a poem?

It only gives us the poem. It gives us a picture of poetic love so that we might say oh. That would be good to copy. Oh, I understand that better see how these two people in love relate. And I think I should probably do that same.

It is not Thou shall love your wife thou shall do this you better not do that. It's just set up in a poem without any imperatives without any commands. But wise for us to pay attention and live. Like this psalm talks about especially for the married ones.

It's not an allegory. It's not a type. It's not a drama. It's not a collection of cult liturgies. It is a poem about marital love. Well, there's the court shift that happens in chapter 1 verse 2 and following as the Shulamite this lady from Shunem, we don't know her name.

It's a story about Solomon and the Shulamite. We just give her description from where she lives. It's daydreaming and she's thinking about her future husband. They're not yet married and it says in verse 2 may he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth.

For your love is better than wine and out of the gun bang. It starts with this talk about love and this isn't the word for overarching love. It's not the New Testament equivalent for agape love. This is erotic physical intimate love and she is longing for the day to be married.

May he kiss me with the kisses of his mouth for your love. Same word love translated in Proverbs 7 come let us drink our fill of love and more of love until morning and She is looking forward to that day to be with her husband.

It says in verse 3 your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is like purified oil therefore the maidens love you. It's not just physical his character his name who he is is also praised among the people.

And the attraction is mutual in verse 9. He says to her to me my darling. You're like a my mare among the chariots of Pharaoh. Remember what that was about you let a single mare loose with all the stallions in an army and what would happen?

Chaos, I even found this week that at the Battle of Kadesh in the reign of Pharaoh Thutmosis the third this actually happened here comes all the chariots of the male stallions. Let's let out a few fillies.

It's mutual. She says in verse 16 how handsome you are my beloved and so pleasant indeed our couch is luxuriant. She says in chapter 2 verse 1. I'm the rose of Sharon the lily of the valleys. Those aren't names for Christ those are named that that's what a lady is calling herself.

I'm just like a little meadow in the field a little flower in the meadow rather. But he says oh no. Compared to everybody else you're a lily, but they're thorns verse 2 like a lily among thorns. So is my darling among the maidens and Then off in the springtime they go to the country and just pour out their love language to each other.

The only kind of love language I like. That is to say there's a book about different love languages. It's like any other fad it comes and it goes. But this is real love language. She has a nightmare though in chapter 3 verse 1.

It might not all come to fruition and Then there's the bridal procession in chapter 3 verse 6 Who is this coming up from the wilderness. The text says what. But it really we ask ourself the question Who is it.

And it's Solomon can you imagine the king with all the pomp and the circumstance and the regality of it all? And then they Shut the curtain as it were the formal ceremonies are over. It's a private time now.

They're married and they can enjoy each other. And he basically starts talking about how she looks. And he describes her from the head and he works his way down and he says in verse 7 You're all together beautiful my darling and there is no blemish in you and that's just like the eyes of every lover.

You can't see some blemish in the one you love. She's been pure up to this time verse 12. He says to her a garden locked as my sister my bride a rock garden locked a spring sealed up. She has been inaccessible.

She has been pure and chaste holy and Then the center theologically of the book is chapter 4 verse 16 and 5 1 awake. Oh North wind. She says on their wedding night and come wind of the south make my garden breathe out fragrance.

Let it spices be wafted abroad. May my beloved come into his garden now called his garden and eat its choice fruit. And what's happening here is without a vulgarity without obscenity with language of metaphor.

There's language of parallelism. There's language like a veil that cloaks any kind of of language that would be wrong. God in a poem With metaphoric language shows us that here's the consummation and she says I am now yours you possess me fully and Then it says in chapter 5 verse 1.

Do you notice all the mice? Solomon says I have come into my garden my sister my bride. I've gathered my myrrh along with my balsam. I've eaten my honeycomb and my honey. I've drunk my wine and my milk and again decent words again, she is his fully and completely without reservation and he is very thankful for that and Then it sounds like we have words from the Singers the daughters of Jerusalem the virgins of Jerusalem or it could be of God even and I think it is.

Here's God's endorsement of sexual love and marriage. Eat friends. He says to them drink and imbibe deeply. Oh lovers God Doesn't stutter when he says I affirm and I adore endorse and I give approval to this because I created it.

Hebrews chapter 13 says marriage is to be held in honor among all and the marriage bed is to be what? Undefiled for fornicators and adulterers. God will judge. The marriage bed is to be undefiled. The cote is to be undefiled defiled cotas in Marriage coitus in marriage is to be undefiled.

He judges those who fornicate and who are adulterers. But on the flip side if he judges the impure sexual sin he blesses pure sexual activity and Now we move to the life of love now. We move to the maturation that the last 15 minutes was just a catch-up and now we move to chapter 5 verse 2.

We've seen courtship wedding and now we'll move to marriage and its maturation. As Socrates said by all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad wife. You'll become a philosopher.

What we're going to do as I proclaim this truth to you is we're going to give you some lessons. I will give you some lessons extracted from chapters 5 6 7 8. They're not explicitly in the text thou shalt do this, but just some good implicit pastoral Exhortations to help you and the first one is Difficulties in marriage are a given but they can help mature the marriage.

Difficulties are given and that's exactly what happens here early in chapter 5. There are difficulties in marriage. How many people here are married? How many people have never had a difficulty in marriage?

Steve raised his hand. Well, it's not on your account. I can tell you that and again, this is poetry. So it doesn't say Counting all joy my brethren when you experience various trials, but we'll just see that there is a difficulty here in the marriage.

But it doesn't have to kill the marriage it can mature it. Probably in a dreamlike state again. She says in Song of Solomon 5 2 and remember this is not some kind of narrative where everything Chronologically just has to work out perfectly and sometimes these ladies show up and and give the refrain and where did they come from?

And again, that's just poetic language and she says I was asleep, but my heart was awake. We don't know how much time has passed from chapter 5 verse 1 and the consummation to now but she was sleeping sleep state a Voice my beloved was knocking open to me my sister my darling my love my my my dove rather my perfect one.

I mean, he's just laying it on. For my head is drenched with dew my locks with the damp of night. Maybe he's been out working in the fields and he's coming home and there are amorous desires that he has Danny Aiken said in the ancient Near East.

It was a custom for a husband and wife to occupy separate separate bedrooms. But there's an excuse she's indifferent. Husbands have their problems as well this particular case. It's more about the Shulamite.

I have taken off my dress my undergarment. How can I put it on again? I've washed my feet. How can I get them dirty again? How can I dirty them again? As one commentator said one week excuse after another.

And I'll stop there just to remind you that there are difficulties in marriage when it comes to sex. Finances all kinds of other things. We are fallen people. I Think God's Word addresses. How we can resolve conflicts?

Well Dorothy Rosby in an article entitled. It's living together that makes marriage difficult. I told the story of a woman who shot her husband because he ate her chocolate. It is truly the little things that destroy relationships.

Margarine chocolate nylons on the towel rack here in the sink. I once heard about a couple who fought for more than four hours over a rubber band. He had it and she wanted it. You're laughing. Conflicts will be there.

They're ordained by God through the channels of a fallen world and sinful people, but it's not. The question of well, we never let our see our kids have a conflict. It is what happens when there is a conflict and how do we respond in a godly fashion?

God wants us to handle trials in a way that glorifies him true whether you eat or whether you drink whatever you do do all for the glory of God including your marriage difficulties. I Just give you a few little hints on the side if you have a conflict.

Number one don't bring up past resolved conflicts. When you're fighting fair when you're arguing when you're debating when you're whatever Sanctimoniously you call it when you disagree don't bring up past conflicts that have been resolved.

Proverbs 17 says. He who repeats a matter separates intimate friends. You don't even have to bring it up to this person. May I also say to you number two do not escalate the conflict by calling names.

You're just like your mother. Idiot slob dumb. Those would not be good ways to biblically resolve a conflict. Sarcasm or ridicule or insults or shut up would not be wise. Exaggeration. You always do that you never do that Would not be good.

Maybe you often are frequently are regularly do this. It is not good to mind read. Somehow attributing motives to someone that only God knows only the Lord weighs the hearts. It's not good to induce guilt.

Look how you've made me feel because of all this. It's not good to have revenge or punishment. I Read about one woman who grounded her husband in punishment. It's not good to have an argument over something that our preferences that you don't that the spouse doesn't know.

I I hate blue carpet. Well, if you've never told me that you hated a blue carpet, I can't know that. Instead we should be wise about the battles. We choose to fight. As brother Lewis said this morning rebuking is not a spiritual gift found in 1st Corinthians chapter 12.

Confrontations between spouses should be few and rare. And if you were the one who was always confronting your spouse May I say it is probably your own spiritual weakness and your own immaturity and your own impatience.

Over-confronting is not good. For love covers what a multitude of sins. I could ask you this question, which you should do is are you the peacemaker? Romans 12 says if possible so far it depends on you be at peace with all men.

Are you the one that gives in. Are you the one that stands at the end? Well, there's much to say about Conflict resolution, but we must move on. Let's go back to the passage here of Song of Solomon chapter 5 verse 5.

And she says now she's she's thought a little bit more about it and she knew that was wrong. I Rose to open my to my beloved and my hands dripped with myrrh. Matter of fact I know what he is coming for and I'm going to bring some Aphrodisiac myrrh and I'm going to put the myrrh on the handle of the bolt.

With and my fingers with liquid myrrh on the handles of the bolt. She says literally in chapter 5 verse 5 and He's going to get the suggestion. But I open verse 6 says to my beloved but my beloved had turned away and had gone.

It doesn't say she ran out, but it says my heart went out to him as he spoke. I searched for him and did not find him. I called on him, but he did not answer me again. Maybe all a dream the watchmen who make the rounds in the city found me.

They struck me and wounded me. I don't think they really did that. If they did they thought that she was a prostitute. Not dressed properly the guardman's of the wall took away my shawl from me. Maybe she's having a guilty conscience.

I Adjure you. Oh daughters of Jerusalem. She says verse 8 if you find my beloved as to what you will tell him for I'm lovesick. I need him. Can you help me find him? And Now with great poetry These ladies ask her why he's so great and then she gets to tell.

What kind of beloved is your beloved. Oh most beautiful among women. What kind of beloved is your beloved thus that thus you adjure us? Oh? Now she's gonna have this admiration song. Oh, yeah, I'll tell you how great he is.

Which gives us the second lesson extracted from these chapters. The first one is there are difficulties in marriage. But you can solve them to the glory of God number two if you are married. Speak well of your spouse in front of others.

Speak well of your spouse in front of others. It's one of the things that I can't stand is when I am around someone and they say something bad about their spouse. If it's Counseling and he does this or that that's one thing, but just unsolicited bad-mouthing your spouse.

You're bad-mouthing you especially if you're a man. You're one. We'll see. The shulamite just say wonderful things about her spouse in front of other people. I could ask you men and you women ones the last time you said something nice are Affirming are attractive about your spouse to someone else.

One of the reasons I don't like going out to lunch with Steve Cooley is it is inevitable. That whatever food we have if the food's not good He'll say it's not as good as Janet's and if the food is great. He'll say it's almost as good as Janet's.

I mean it over and over like Steve. I know you love Janet. I know you love her cooking. But this is me talking and he just he doesn't get it just one after another after another always talking about Janet this and Janet that.

That's a good thing. We're to speak well of God's gift to us to others. It's called Thanksgiving and she just lays it on. Look at how she says it chapter 5 verse 10. My beloved is dazzling and ruddy. Outstanding among 10 ,000 he is the chief.

He is conspicuous. It means the chief means he carries a standard and as you had carried a big banner or standard in the Middle East. It'd be obvious from far away. Everyone can tell. She goes from general to specific praise.

His head's like a gold pure gold. His locks are like clusters of dates and black as a raven. He's not bald. He doesn't have gray hair. He's young. Looks good to me. His eyes are like doves beside streams of water.

Bathe in milk and reposed in their setting his cheeks are like a bed of the psalm banks of sweet scented herbs. His lips are lilies dripping with liquid myrrh. She's going overboard. She's Irrevocably out of her mind for this guy.

And if you don't want to talk about your spouse and to others with reference to liquid myrrh, that's fine. But say something good. Show that you're thankful to God. His hands are rods of gold set with barrel.

His abdomen is carved ivory inlaid with sapphire. I mean she is staring at him like. Many years ago 20 some years ago, and I went to Florence Italy and stood in line to see Michelangelo's what? David and people are just standing there for so long you have to be shushed away.

And you know the line needs to be pushed along standing at Michelangelo's Masterpiece David and she just loves her husband. She's not afraid to tell to anyone either. His legs are pillars of alabaster set on petals of pure gold.

His appearance is like Lebanon choices cedars majesty beauty. Great stuff is Lebanon. It's not that the bad cheesy stuff. His mouth is full of sweetness and he is wholly desirable and look at how tender this is.

This is my beloved and This is my what? Best friend. Oh daughters of Jerusalem. His mouth literally palate. She's just anticipating that deep long kiss. He's wholly desirable. Friends talk well speak well of your spouse in front of others.

Why should they look for him? We just saw well where to look is now the question. Chapter 6 verse 1. Where has your beloved gone? Oh most beautiful among women. Where has your beloved turned that we may seek him with you if he's that great we have to look too.

We have to see we have to help. My beloved has gone down to his garden. He called her a garden. Metaphorically, but now he's got other gardens to as Solomon did he loved gardens as we know from Ecclesiastes.

To the beds of balsam to pasture his flock in the gardens and gather lilies. I Am my beloved's and my beloved is mine. He who pastures his flock among the lilies. Lesson number three for us this morning.

Number one. We've seen difficulties are certain. So respond to them biblically. Number two speak well of your spouse. Number three be quick to forgive. There's not a verse in here that says she forgave him.

I mean he forgave her but he doesn't have to because it's a glory to cover a what. Not just a sin, but a transgression. Don't cross that line. She crossed that line. He said I'll forgive that and just his countenance his attitude.

He just Loves her. You can just tell by the way, he responds. I like the story of Clara Barton the founder of the Red Cross in the United States. She was asked about something negative that happened in her life where someone hurt her.

She responded to the questioner this way. I distinctly remembering That I forgot that and that's exactly how he acts. I'm gonna hold this against you. I'm gonna treat you this way until you make it. All right, I'm gonna do this.

I'm gonna do that. They're just implied forgiveness here. Solomon says in verse 4 you are as beautiful as tears are my darling as lovely as Jerusalem as Awesome as an army with banners. You have a formidable Terrible influence over me in a good way.

Turn your eyes from me. They've confused me. Here's the king of Israel. It Confused me. They overpower me there and settle me. I'm weak at the knees. Don't even look at me. Don't give me that glance. Your hair is like a flock of goats that have descended from Gilead and.

There's some things that we saw earlier as he's praised her in earlier chapters. Your teeth are like a flock of ewes which have come up from their washing all bear twins. Not one of them has lost their young.

You got a full set of teeth. It looks good. Your temples are like a slice of pomegranate behind your veil. It's like the French poet in the 12th century said fountain of beauty perfect. Love you light up all the world and I for all of us wretches plead for mercy.

Now whether the next verse in chapter 6 verse 8 talks about David's concubines that Solomon inherited. Which wife is this and all these other discussions are for another time? But there's just one that he cares about here.

There are 60 Queens and 80 concubines and maids without number. Semicolon, but my dove my perfected one is unique. She's the one. She is her mother's only daughter. She may had other sisters, but she's the best of the best even with daughters.

She's a pure child of the one who bore her. The maiden saw her and called her blessed the Queens and the concubines also and they praised her saying even they are praising her. Who is that that grows like the dawn as beautiful as the full moon as pure as the Sun as Awesome as a army with banners as the light comes up over the horizon and you get a little glimpse of it.

You think the Sun in full display is gonna be awesome. I get a inkling of it now. But what about the full weight of the Sun rays and so here they say just a little bit makes me think this of you. What is she going to be in all her glory?

Who is this that grows like the dawn it says Shulamite says in verse 11. I went down to the orchard of nut trees. To see the blossoms of the valley to see whether the wine had budded or the pomegranates had bloomed again.

Do you notice he implied? Forgiveness there. He didn't say you did that. I remembered all the details. I'm so bitter and everything else just implied forgiveness and I can ask you the question pastor Ali.

Are you a forgiver? There's somebody you need to talk to to forgive them. I know sometimes in the church I find out people are mad at me and I don't even know they're mad at me. And if I've done something to offend you, I want to make that right.

But how do I make it right without you coming to me and it's no different when you're with your spouse. You've been treating your spouse a certain way for the last six months because you just can't get over that transgression then friends go.

For the glory of God. She gets kind of transported up into the man's chariot again with this poetry verse 12. Before I was aware my soul set me over the chariots of my noble people. Just kind of there.

And the daughters say verse 13 come back come back. Oh Shulamite come back come back that we may gaze at You. Why should you gaze at the Shulamite as at the dance of two companies? There's not a dance of these companies.

I don't know what this dance is or was that people reading it back then would know. They're staring. Which brings us to the fourth lesson? Difficulties in marriage are a given but you can solve them by the Spirit's power.

Number two speak well of your spouse number three be quick to forgive and number four. Your communication of affection. Marriages should increase your communication of affection should increase. We are going to see that even though he was ogling and googling and ogling His his wife with his words of communication in chapter 4.

They have increased now after they've been married. It's one thing to speak well of your spouse on your honeymoon. But how about later and that's what we're gonna see right here the maturation of these two.

And look at what he says now. He does reverse order instead of starting at the top and working his way down. He does the other way. How beautiful chapter 7 verse 1 are your feet in sandals. Oh Prince's daughter the curves of your hips Are like jewels.

The work of the hands of an artist. It's like a master craftsman has made you Regal. Your navel is like a round goblet, which never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is like a heap of wheat fenced about with lilies.

I said to myself. I don't want to laugh when I get to that one, but Wine. Wheat main source of food wheat main source of drink wine. You give me satisfaction. You nourish me. This was not back in the days where stomachs had to be Twiggy flat kind of thing.

It's a different culture. But this is praise. If your wife likes that kind of praise you give it to her if she doesn't pick something else men to each his own. But he's praising her. There's nothing you know the the modern-day audience.

We laugh. I laugh, but the audience back in those days wouldn't laugh because they would know that the language of the day. Verse three your breasts are like two fawns twins of a gazelle. There's symmetry and softness there.

Your neck is like a tower of ivory. Your eyes like pools of hesh bond by the gate of Bath. Rabin your nose is like the Tower of Lebanon. Which faces towards Damascus? I've read about 15 commentaries on Song of Solomon and I still can't get the nose is like the Tower of Lebanon and so he just loved it.

That's all I know. Your nose is like the Tower of Lebanon. For some your nose is like the Tower of Babel, but others. It's highly crafted the best stuff. Our communication towards our spouses should increase as we mature in our love.

You say well, I'm not good with poetry then just write something out start with writing if you can't communicate it verbally. I Have a secret you can't you can't say that I told you but I read in a Tommy Nelson book about how he wrote a love letter to his spouse.