1.

CANTARES 1;1
2. Introduction to the Song
3.
4.King Solomon is the
author of this eight-
chapter love song in
approximately 900 BC. It
was probably written
before his spiritual
decline (1 Kgs. 11:3-4).

5. 1. FIRST FOUR
CHAPTERS FOCUS ON
THE BRIDE’S
 INHERITENCE IN
CHRIST
6.The first four chapters of
the Song focus on the
Bride understanding and
enjoying her inheritance
in Christ.
7. These chapters
emphasize how God views
and desires her.
8. The revelation—the
stunning revelation—that
God desires us even in our
weakness is a revelation
that is unfamiliar when
you look through the
records of Church history.

9. SECOND FOUR
CHAPTERS FOCUS ON
JESUS’ INHERITENCE
IN THE BRIDE
10. The last four chapters
focus on Jesus’
inheritance in the Bride.
11. We seek something
from Him, but He also
seeks something from us.
12. chapters one to four,
He is giving us His heart,
and He gave us His life. In
13. chapters five through
eight, we give ourselves
back to Him because we
are overwhelmed in the
love of God.
14. He wants us to love
Him with all our heart
(Mt. 22:37).
15. The focus of the book
completely shifts in the
middle (4:16-5:1).
16. THE LORD WILL
RELEASE GRACE TO
WALK IN SONG OF
SOLOMON 8:6-7
17. The Lord said that He
would release grace to
walk in Song 8:6-7 across
the Body of Christ
worldwide and that I was
to focus on this theme
throughout my ministry.
18. I encountered Jesus
the Bridegroom and felt
the power of His love.
19. in our progression, the
progression in our own soul in
growing in holy passion with
the Lord.
20. I opened Song 8:6, and I
began to ask the Lord, “Lord,
be the seal of fire on my
heart.”
21. I just turned it into a
prayer.

22. THE SAME LOVE

THE FATHER HAS
FOR THE SON WILL
BE IN US
23. I began to pray my
favorite verse in the Bible, my
life theme, which you can
make it yours if you want.
24. I have had this verse for
years, John 17:26, when Jesus
prayed, “Father, I have
declared to them Your
name”—here it is—“so that
the way that You love Me,
God, will be imparted to them
supernaturally”
25. The Lord is raising
up men and women in
whom the message of
 the Song of Solomon—
both parts of it.

26. WORLDWIDE BODY

OF CHRIST IS GOING
TO FEEL THE HEART
OF JESUS
27. The first part of it
being God’s passion for
us and our inheritance
in Him,
28. and then the second
part being our passion
for God, and His
inheritance in us. It is
 not a one-sided
message. It is both
sides.
29. ” It was all about
flowers and perfume.

30. THE LORD WINS

OUR WRESTLING
MATCHES
31. Well, I decided that the
Lord was going to win this
wrestling match, and I know
His heart in this sense that
whatever God tells you, it is
good.
32. Whatever God commands
you to do, it might be hard,
but it is always good
33. I felt tremendous pleasure
and delight in this book
because it was not the book, it
was in my encounter with the
Lord understanding His heart
in a whole new way.

34. THE SONG

REVEALS THE
PATTERN OF HOLY
PASSION
35. This Song reveals God’s
pattern for how we grow
in passion for Jesus.
36. It touches the
significant principles and
practical realities needed
to develop mature love for
God.
37. In John 17, Jesus is
saying, “I have declared Your
name to them, Father.”
38. He is praying to the
Father. He says, “I told them
about You,” and here is why:
“
39. When I tell them about
You, what You are like, the
love that You have for Me is
supernaturally imparted into
them

40. UNDERSTANDING
THIS SONG HELPS
IDENTIFY ISSUES IN
OUR HEART
41. This eight-chapter love
song is a revelation of God’s
pattern, its principles, and its
seasons in our life as we grow
in passion for Jesus
42. Sometimes I have the
blessing, and sometimes the
testing of the Song of
Solomon. Sometimes I find
myself in two different
seasons at the same time.

43. Spiritual
interpretation:
44. This is a symbolic
interpretation to reveal
spiritual truths in our
45. relationship with Jesus
behind the natural love
story.
46. This is the approach I
will use in this study
course.
47. We study the Song to
gain deeper
understanding of our
relationship with Jesus.
48. This is the most
common interpretation
over the last 3,000 years
(since Solomon wrote this
Song).
49. 1. Jesus is exalted in
the Song. He spoke of
 Himself from all the
Scriptures to the disciples
50. on the Emmaus road.
He went through all 39
books of the OT to speak
of Himself.
51. He expounded…in all
the Scriptures the things
concerning Himself. (Lk.
24:27)
52. 2. The Spirit inspired
all Scripture (2 Tim. 3:16)
and exalts Jesus in all that
He does.
53. 14“He will glorify Me,
for He will take of what is
Mine and declare it to
you.” (Jn. 16:14)
54. 3. The Spirit has deep
friendship with Jesus and
a fierce loyalty to fill
people with love for
55. Jesus.
56. They have been
together from eternity
past.
57. Thus, it is
inconceivable that the
Spirit would inspire a
 book in the Bible without
Jesus being the
predominant theme.

58. THE SPIRITUAL

INTERPRETATION:
THREE COMMON
APPROACHES
59. A. First, the
relationship between
Jesus and the individual
believer.
60. This approach gives
spiritual principles that
 aid us in our progression
of holy passion.
61. This is the way we
approach this study.
62. B. Second, the
relationship between
Jesus and His corporate
Church throughout
history.
63. C. Third, the
relationship between God
as the Bridegroom and
ethnic Israel as His Bride
(Jer. 2:2;
64. Hos. 2:16-20; Ezek.
16:8-14, 20-21, 32, 38;
Isa. 54:5-6).
65. This was the primary
approach of the scribes in
OT times, and is the
approach of Jewish rabbis
today.
66. D. We bless different
interpretations as long as
they exhort others to
grow in love for Jesus.
67. ALL BELIEVERS
ARE INCLUDED IN
THE BRIDE
68. A. Theologically, all
believers on earth are
betrothed (engaged) to
Jesus.
69. In Hebrew tradition,
an engaged couple was
legally married and
needed to be divorced if
they broke their
engagement.
70. 2 For I have
betrothed you to one
 husband, that I may
present you as a chaste
virgin to Christ. (2 Cor.
11:2)

71. THE
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF
CHRIST IS GREATER
THAN SIN
72. The righteousness of
Christ is bigger than any sin
you could ever commit, and
we are presented before Jesus
on the last day as a pure virgin
because of the power of the
 gift of righteousness that He
secured for us in His own
death and resurrection.
73. The point I want to make
here is that Paul says that we
are “betrothed” in 2
Corinthians 11:2. We are
engaged. One translation says,
“espoused.” It is the same
idea. Engaged is the word we
use in our culture
74.
75. B. The
consummation of the
marriage relationship
 occurs in the age to
come
76. (Rev. 19:7). 7 “Let
us be glad and rejoice
and give Him glory, for
the marriage of the
Lamb has come, and His
wife has made herself
ready.” (Rev. 19:7)

77. THE BRIDE ARE

ALL THOSE WHO ARE
MATURE IN LOVE
78. C. A working
definition of the Bride
 is one that includes all
those who are mature
in love.
79. Like even in the
eight-chapter love song,
she starts off as a
maiden,
80. as a young maiden,
immature, and she
matures in love through
the book, so I often
refer to her in the first
four chapters, I do not
know that you have to
do this, as a maiden
 who is awakening to
love.
81. She is growing—by
my definition of the
Bride—as one who is
walking in mature love
and mature partnership
with the Lord.
82. So from that point of
view the whole Body of
Christ in heaven, in the
resurrection with a
resurrected body,
everybody is mature in
love that is a believer,
 Old and New Testament
believers, because God
will bring His work to
full completion in the
resurrection.
83. D. I believe that the
Bride of Christ is the
entire Church from
history, filled with
mature love.
84. In the resurrection,
the Spirit will bring
God’s work to
completion in the whole
Church. In other words,
 every believer will
experience a mature
bridal relationship with
Jesus.

85. THE MATURITY OF

THE BRIDE IS
ULTIMATELY THE
FRUIT OF THE CROSS
86. E. First, the maturity
of the Bride is
ultimately the fruit of
Jesus’ work on the
cross.
87. 31If God is for us,
who can be against us?
32He who did not spare
His own Son, but
delivered Him up for us
all, how shall He not
with Him also freely
give us all things?
(Rom. 8:31-32)

88. IN HEAVEN THERE

IS ONE UNIFIED
PEOPLE
89. F. Second, in heaven
there will be only one
 unified people, rather
than two classes of
believers.
90. Jesus prayed that His
people would be unified
like the Father and the
Son.
91. 21. “…that they all
may be one, as You,
Father, are in Me, and I
in You…” (Jn. 17:21)

92. WE WILL BE LIKE

JESUS WHEN WE SEE
HIM IN GLORY
93. G. Third, we will be
like Jesus when we see
Him in glory. The
impact of seeing God
will release great
power that will
transform all believers
in the age to come.
94. 2 When He is
revealed, we shall be
like Him, for we shall
see Him as He is. (1 Jn.
3:2)
95. THE BRIDE’S
IDENTITY IS
ENSURED BY GOD’S
RAVISHED HEART
FOR HER
96. H. Fourth, the
Bride’s destiny is
ensured by God’s
ravished heart for her.
97. His heart is ravished
for all of His people.
98. God’s heart is
ravished for all the
redeemed, not just for
 those who are
spiritually mature
during their brief time
on the earth. Jesus is
not more ravished for
one group in the Church
than He is for another
group.
99. 9 You have ravished
my heart, my sister, my
spouse… (Song 4:9).
100. I. Summary: The
maturity of the Bride is
based primarily upon
Jesus’ work on the
cross, His intercession,
the revelation of His
glory, and His ravished
heart for us

101. THE THREE MAIN

CHARACTERS OF THE
BOOK
102. A. King Solomon: In
the spiritual
interpretation, he is a
picture of the triumphant,
resurrected Jesus Christ
who is King of kings.
103. B. Shulamite maiden:
In the spiritual
interpretation, she is a
picture of the Bride of
Christ.
104. She is introduced as
a young maiden who
grows up to become a
Bride in mature
partnership with King
Jesus.
105. The Shulamite is
mentioned once by name
(6:13). She lived in
 Shunam (north of
Jezreel).
106. C. Daughters of
Jerusalem: In the spiritual
interpretation, they speak
of sincere, yet spiritually
107. immature, believers.
They look to the
Shulamite for answers on
how to grow close to the
King.
108. They are not an
actual group that we can
identify in history (they
 personify immature
believers).
109. 1. They related the
book of Proverbs to the
outer court of
Solomon’s temple.
110. 2. They related the
book of Ecclesiastes to
the inner court of
Solomon’s temple.
111. 3. They related the
Song to the Holy of
Holies in Solomon’s
temple.
112. ECLESIASTES
TEACHES LIFE IS
FULL WHEN OUR
PASSION IS TO LOVE
AND KNOW JESUS
113. In Ecclesiastes, he
wrote, “Vanity of vanities,
all is vanity.”
114. This book proclaims
that life without
obedience to God is
vanity.
115.Therefore, it is
impossible to be satisfied
 with even the most
desirable circumstances.
116. This book speaks of
man’s endless wanderings
until he finds rest in God.
117. We can have
everything, but if we lack
reality with God, we
actually have nothing.
118. C. In the Song of
Solomon, Solomon shows
forth the joy of life that
can be attained without
regard to how our
circumstances are going.
119. In this book, the Holy
Spirit is calling us to
make intimacy with God
the goal of our life.
120. The Song highlights
how full our life is when
our consuming passion is
to love and know Jesus.
Even with hard
circumstances, our spirit
can be alive in God.
121.D. Ecclesiastes teaches
us that no matter how
great our
accomplishments are in
 man’s eyes, theywill not
ultimately have any value
if they are not pleasing to
God.
122. When Ecclesiastes is
understood it awakens us
to the fervency that
begins the journey in
Song 1:5. Thus,
Ecclesiastes prepares us
to understand the Song of
Solomon.
123. E. The philosophy in
Ecclesiastes tells us to
“assert ourselves to gain
 more worldly experience
as the way to enjoy life.”
Song of Solomon speaks of
entering fulfillment
through humility,
obedience, and the
impartation of God’s love
124. F. Ecclesiastes
speaks of the vanity of
pursuing the best things
found in earthly life,
while Song of Solomon
speaks of the spiritual
pleasure of pursuing the
 best things found in
heavenly life.
125.