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5-1-2022 Weekly Message

Meditation of the Week: Psalm 91:1-16

Text: Song of Solomon 8:1-5

Sermon Title: Christian Who restored first love with God  

              The Shulamite woman who fell in love with King Solomon loved him so much that she said, ” His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.” (Sol 2:6). . However, as the years passed by, she became separated from Solomon, and her door was not opened to him. She coldly told Solomon asking to open the door from outside:

“I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? ” (Sol 5:3)

       The Shulamite woman, who finally saw Solomon pushing in with his hand, finally moved her heart. When she opened the door for him, she saw myrrh dripping from her hands and fragrant myrrh from her fingers on her doorknob, and when she looked for him he had already departed her.

        The moment she knew that  Solomon had left her, wandering her way, she sought him, but she could not find him. Finally, the daughters of Jerusalem together set out to find Solomon together with her, and when they found him, he  praised her as usual.

        Having restored her first love, the Sulamite woman made her new confession to Solomon:

” O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.

2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.” (Sol 8:1-2)

          Thus, the Shulamite woman, who had restored her first love, once again spoke of herself as she fell deeply in love with Solomon again:

”  His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.

4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.” (Sol 8:3-4). )

        The Shulamite woman, as she looked only into her eyes of Solomon, testifying of her renewed life, she made a decision that she would never let him go from now on, as she asked the daughters.

        We have to make a spiritual decision here by comparing the physical love between  man and  woman as well as the spiritual love between  Christian and Christ.

        Most of the time when  man and  woman fall in love, usually they do not love each other, but fall in love with the desire to take advantage of the other as their own. However, it is not uncommon to see them suffer greatly as they develop feelings for each other over the years and learn that they were not in love but had been emotionally and carnal for a while. When this happens, they divorce of each other or living with patience because of  their own children and finally falling in love with each other.

       Similarly, most Christians do not become Christians because they love God, but because they meet Christ who provides for their desperate needs, and they receive Him and become Christians. For example, when suffering from an incurable disease and miraculously healed by God’s grace,they believe in God and accept Jesus Christ.

        However, as time goes by, they forget the grace they received at the beginning. When they enjoy the blessings they have received, tend to be away from God gradually to lose their first love. The Shulamite woman had the same experience.

         Knowing our situation,  God allows suffering at this time and made us fall into a deep pit once again, remembering our first love once more and repenting thoroughly. Rather, it is to love God Himself and to restore the first love.

         At this time, the Shulamite woman confesses that she will kiss Solomon , and she truly loves Solomon, and she finally kisses him. Just as loved ones begin by holding hands and kissing each other when they find love, so Christians who truly love God will also kiss God in the midst of praying in the Holy Ghost.

         The Bible says that all people in the world should kiss the Son of God:

” Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.” (Psalm 2:12).

        But some people kiss Jesus, but not out of love, but in betrayal. An example is Judas Iscariot:

” Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.

49 And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him.

50 And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.” (Matthew 26:48-50).

       From then on, the head of the Roman church, who sold Jesus Christ to Satan and became a whore, kissed the land as soon as he got off the airplane trap wherever he goes. we see the lands of all the nations he kissed live in curse. We can see such nations already falling into Satan’s hands and living like slaves.

       God expects that He will come again to judge the sinful world to open  the kingdom of God, where there shall be no sin, no  death, and no curses, when not only men, but all other creations will kiss Him as the sons of God who kissed Jesus Christ. The Bible says::

“For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body..” (Romans 8:19-23)

        The Bible says that our enemy is death, and that after the Millennium ends, death will be destroyed forever:

” For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.

26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

…… And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.” (1 Corinthians 15:25-26, Rev. 20:14)

         King Solomon praises the Shulamite woman who kisses Solomon and lives in his bosom, saying, “Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.“

        That’s right! The Lord is speaking to Christians who repent and restore their first love, which was lost, as a woman coming up out of the wilderness leaning on her beloved. It is a commendation for Christians who trust completely in Him until the day of His appearing.

Amen! Hallelujah!