Peter Barnes | Song of Songs 1-2
SERMON NOTES
Purity and Passion
(Song of Songs 1-2)
G. K. Chesterton: ‘The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.’
1. A love song or a typological picture of Christ and the Church?
– like Ephesians 5:22-33? (Bernard of Clairvaux, Spurgeon, Hudson Taylor)
– this breaks down (e.g. 1:13); see Gen.1:28; Proverbs 5:15-20; Romans 1:26-27
2. The lover yearns to be with the beloved.
– 1:2-4, 7; 2:3-6, 10-13
– Gen.26:8-9
3. The lover sees the beloved as beautiful.
– 1:5-6, 8-11, 15; 2:1-2, 8-9
4. Love belongs where God placed it.
– 2:7; beware 2:15
– restraint until marriage is good; there are issues of maturity and purity