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3-20-2022 Weekly Messages

Meditation of the Week: Psalm 91:1-16

Text: Song of Solomon 5:9-6:1

Sermon Title:  Song of praise from Christians who know Jesus Christ deeply

        Just as the heaven  is made of three layers, when God created man, He also made him in the form of three layers. The first layer is the atmosphere, the second one is outer space, and the third one is the heaven where the throne of God is located. Likewise, the human body lives in the first layer that is atmosphere and, the soul can ascend to the second layer through salvation, and the spirit can ascend to the third heaven, where the throne of God is.

         When man lives not knowing God, only the physical body exists on the earth, the soul cannot be saved, and the spirit is dead, so it is impossible to see the living God. It is truly flesh that is no different from animal.

        However, when the soul is saved by believing in the gospel of Christ (1 Peter 1:9), it leaves the atmosphere and ascends toward the spiritual universe. Finally, when man is born again by the Holy Ghost, the spirit reaches the third heaven, where the throne of God is.

          When Apostle Paul wrote to the saved Ephesian church members, he testified of  the spiritual position of those who are born again of the Holy Ghost:

“Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:” (Ephesians 2:5-6).

           The spiritual position is also shown through the tabernacle that God commanded Moses to build on the earth. Those who are not saved could not enter the tabernacle, and those that entered the tabernacle, but staying in the courtyard believed in Jesus Christ and were forgiven their sins, but because they are not born again, they not entered the sanctuary to receive illumination by the Holy Ghost to receive the word of God. It is the image of carnal Christians who do not understand this. Spiritual Christians  pray at the altar of golden incense in front of the Most Holy to enter the Holy of Holies, have fellowship with God, and see His glory.

        However, even spiritual Christians who have fellowship with Christ may be drawn to the lusts of the flesh for a moment to be spiritually lazy, stop praying and stop fellowshipping with the Lord. When the Shulamite woman who appeared in the song of Solomon turned away from Solomon whom he loved so much, she saw him leave and suffered tremendous spiritual pain.

        Because of this, she was unable to get help from anyone. Her watchmen, the guards of the wall, and the daughters of Jerusalem , but she was rather badly wounded. Likewise, when Christians lose fellowship with the Lord, they cannot receive help even from pastors, elders, or other members of the church.

       Carnal Christians, daughters of Jerusalem who had never had fellowship with the Lord, finally, unable to understand the Shulamite woman, said, “What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us? (Sol 5:9) asked.

        We need to meditate spiritually on the kind of person the Shulamite woman only loves Solomon and the one that others love.

        Solomon is spiritually the Christ, and the Sulamite woman is a Christian who believes in  Christ and became his Bride.

         Jesus Christ, like Solomon, no longer exists in the flesh. The only way to meet Christ is through the Bible, the Word of God, written by the inspiration of God and testifying of Jesus Christ. In other words, the Word of the Bible is God. Jesus Christ is the Word made flesh (John 1:14), and He is no longer in the flesh, but in the Word. The only way to meet Him is through the Bible.

        Unfortunately, there are hundreds of Bibles translated into English. Modern Christians love to read their preferred translations. However, all translations are from the Holy Bible, which was first translated into English, the so-called King James Bible, which was translated in 1611 during the reign of King James of England. The most preferred translation today is the NIV Bible. However, the NIV Bible cannot even be called the Bible because it is the most corrupted Bible that has been made with over 38,000 revisions, additions, or subtractions from the King James Bible.  

          Just as today, like the Shulamite woman, she was being teased by the daughters of Jerusalem because she loved only Solomon . Christians who believe in the Bible are also being teased by carnal Christians. They are saying, “What better than the NIV Bibles you love?” “If there is no problem in being saved from other version of Bibles, why are you so trouble making?”

          Neither the daughters of Jerusalem nor the Shulamite woman could understand each other. The Shulamite woman is the only woman to become Solomon’s bride and know him intimately while having fellowship in one bed, but the daughters of Jerusalem, who have never met or communed with Solomon, are people who can’t even imagine who Solomon is. Today, carnal Christians who are not born again and cannot fellowship with Christ not searching the Scriptures do not know who Christ is as revealed in the King James Bible and that they cannot have fellowship with Him.

        Jesus made it clear to the unsaved hypocrites:

” Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.

….. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” (John 5:39; 17:3).

         At last the Shulamite woman had learned of King Solomon in her deep fellowship, and she praised him as she witnessed to the daughters of Jerusalem. This is also the confession of true Christians today who are born again and are in deep communion with Christ:

” My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.

11 His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.

12 His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.

13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.

14 His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.

15 His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

16 His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem..” (Sol 5:10-16)

         The Sulamite woman testifies in great detail about Solomon, who had a deep fellowship with him. Even today, Christians who have been born again and are in deep fellowship with Christ in the Word are testifying of Him. Witnessing Christ to the carnal Christians. She actually evangelized unto the daughters of Jerusalem.

       As Jesus ministered to the Jews all the time outside, his face was tanned to be red (ruddy) so that when he spoke, he would have exposed his white teeth. The Bible testifies that in the old days when Samuel called David to anoint him, his face was ruddy:

“…Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.… “(1 Samuel 16:12)

        The head of Jesus was like the finest gold, and had many hairs as black as crow, and when they put a crown of thorns on his head, and mocked Him, and struck Him on the head with a reed, and his head and hair were dyed red with blood.

     His eyes were properly set as if washed with milk, and  looked beautiful. When the Lord turned and looked at Peter, who had been following him from a distance when Jesus was arrested and  Peter saw the beautiful eyes of Jesus and wept bitterly (Luke 22:61-62).

         Jesus’ cheeks and lips were like fragrant lilies dripping myrrh, always giving off the fragant of life.

        The Jews savagely nailed His hands like gold rings encrusted with chrysanthemums, and slashed His belly like shiny ivory covered with sapphires with whips, tearing His flesh to pieces and bleeding profusely.

         His legs were like marble pillars, and He had such a strong and beautiful appearance that all sinners could lay down everything on Him and trust on Him.

          He was lovely because from his mouth flowed words sweeter than honey,  purer than milk.

        After hearing all these things, the daughters of Jerusalem finally knew who He was, and they praised the Shulamite woman as the prettiest of all women saying that they would seek him with the Shulamite woman (Sol 6:1).

        That’s right. When Christians know the Lord deeply and testify of His beauty in detail, and preach the word, even carnal Christians who are not born again and do not know the Lord well begin to know Christ by searching the Bible searching for him, and finally finding him. hey also finally  receive eternal life.

Amen! Hallelujah!