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Message Nine

Becoming a Garden to Christ

Scripture Reading: S.S. 4:12-5:1; 6:2-3

  1. Through her living in Christ’s ascension as the new creation in resurrection, the lover of Christ becomes mature in the riches of the life of Christ so that she becomes a garden to Christ—4:12-15:
    1. Enclosed with a spring shut up and a fountain sealed for Christ’s private enjoyment—v. 12.
    2. Full of the choicest fruit and the chief spices with their beauty and fragrance—vv. 13-14.
    3. Having a fountain and a well of living water, which are streams from the resurrection and ascension life—v. 15.
    4. She expects the cold north wind to awake and the hot south wind to come blowing upon her garden that her spices may flow forth—v. 16a.
    5. She wants her Beloved to come into His garden and eat His choicest fruit—v. 16b.
  2. The Beloved has come into His garden, which is His sister and bride—5:1; 6:2:
    1. He has gathered His myrrh with His spice—5:1a.
    2. He has eaten His honeycomb with His honey and drunk His wine with His milk—5:1b.
    3. He invites His beloved friends, the Triune God, to eat and drink deeply with Him—5:1c.
    4. He has gone down to the beds of spices to feed in the gardens (referring to the lover and other lovers of Christ) and gather lilies—6:2.
  3. She realizes:
    1. That she is Christ’s and that Christ is hers.
    2. That Christ pastures His churches among His seekers as lilies—6:3.

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