Christensen, Svend: Studies In Song Of Solomon 03 ~ His Mouth Most Sweet

Song of Solomon chapter five, and we'll ask the bride what she thinks of her beloved. We've already sung it, haven't we? His name is wonderful. What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more than another beloved? that thou art so charged us. My beloved is white and ruddy, the cheapest among ten thousand. His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy in it, and black as the raven. His eyes as the eyes of dove by the rivers of waters washed with milk and bitterly death. His cheeks are as bellified as as sweet flowers. His lips like lilies dropping sweet smelling myrrh. His hands are as gold rings set with a barrel. His belly as white ivy all laid with sapphires. His legs are as pillars of marble set upon sockets of fine gold. His countenance as leavened Eclan at the seed is, his mouth is most sweet. Yea, he's altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. The Gospel of Matthew And I believe it's chapter six. Yeah, chapter six of Matthew. Verse twenty eight. And why take ye thought for women? Consider the lyrics of the field, how they grow. They toil not, neither do they spin. And yet I say unto you that even Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these. So think of that. His lips like lilies, dropping sweet. smelling mirror. Solomon, all his glory, was not a wade like one of these. That's how his words were. Beautiful beyond description. Falling from his lips, no wonder the bride could say his mouth is most sweet. And it certainly is. Well, tonight we want to talk a little bit about our Lord's mouth. We've been talking about his head, his lovely face, last night about his eyes, and tonight we want to say something about his mouth and his voice, the words that fell from those lips. First, I would start with his mouth as all powerful and life-giving. You know, it says in the word of God that he spake and it stood fast. In Psalm thirty-three verse nine, he just spake and it stood fast. How wonderful that is. In the book of Hebrews it says, he upholds all things by the word of his power. talk about a voice that's powerful. Revelation one, it says in verse fifteen, it voices at the sound of many waters. Not only in the sense that it has volume, but it has power behind it. A powerful voice, how he could just command and if so fast he speaks. and it was done. He commanded, and they were created, it says in Psalm hundred and forty-eight verse five, what a voice. The all-powerful, life-giving voice of our Lord. Remember, when He saith on earth, He likened His word to the seed, soul and fortress souls. We'll read about Matthew thirteen and the other two synopsis gospels. And how he said that seed fell into fortress and kinds of soil. And in any case that seed had life in itself and it grew. But where it fell into that good soil it produced. There's nothing wrong with the seed of the soil. on different cases that didn't produce. But the seed, the word of God, was that seed. The Lord Jesus interprets that himself. It's a life-giving word. He that hear it my word and believe it on him that sent me, have everlasting life. Life through that living written word. That word was just quick and powerful. How the Lord Jesus spoke those life-giving words. Power to ease the death. Remember he came into the various daughters' house. He had been interrupted on the way by the woman with issue of blood that stole off and touched him. And then when he finally came to the house, And he said to God, the little maid is only asleep. And they all laughed and just scorned. And he closed them up. And he just went in there with the father and the mother and the tree. Closed the disciples. And he spoke the word. Which means, and in terms I said to the maid of I. She arose. Power in his word. He met the funeral procession coming out of Maine in the book of Luke, chapter seven. And he said to that widow that was weeping as her only son was being carried out. And that funeral procession weeping out. And he came near to the buyer. And he said to the young men, I say unto the young men of I. And he said up. And again at the graveside of Lazarus, he spoke after he had lifted his eyes up to heaven as we spoke about last night. He spoke, Lazarus, come forth. There shall hear the voice of the Son of God. There shall hear they shall live, we all read in John, a powerful voice, a life-giving voice. And friend, isn't that true of anyone on that stage here tonight we heard his voice? And that voice quickened us, made us alive. And we are now a new creation in Christ Jesus. There's power in that voice, the words that fell from his lips. He says, the words that I speak unto you in John six and think that they are spirit and they're light, they're light giving. No one else has power in words like the Son of Man, the Son of God. And they have power after we're saved, as we spoke about too, to sanctify them through thy truth. Thy word is truth. The word of the Lord will cleanse us. Just a wonderful word that fell from his lips. And you know then, they're very instructive. It says he opened his mouth and he taught them in Matthew five, verse two. Many of us, we open our mouths, but we don't teach much. For the Lord, he opened his mouth and he taught them. And he taught them by parables and he taught them by illustrations. All the wonderful parables that he spoke. He said, I'll open my mouth in parables in Psalm seventy-eight two. And that's certainly what he fulfilled that when he was here. upon earth. How he spake these wonderful parables. Remember the parable of the two builders. He says, I liken these men that hear the word of God to a certain type of a man, he built his house upon the rock. Upon this firm foundation, the rock being Christ Jesus himself, and when all the flock descended the house on the rock it stood firm, And so everyone who has praised their faith and their trust in the Lord Jesus, they'll stand firm. But then he says, I like you, the man that hears my word, but he doesn't keep it, he doesn't pay any attention to it. Like a man that built his house upon the sand and the flood came down. What everyday illustration he used in these tales. Well, so we could understand it. And when the night There's two classes of people here in this audience. Those that have built their house upon the rock. Those that are trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ, they've built upon their rock. And then there are those that say, well, I'll go my own way. I know better. My own religion is good enough. And the Lord says, you're building upon sand, and when the flood will come, your foundation will be washed away. wonderful parables that fell from the mouth of the Lord Jesus. Wonderful story of the good shepherd. The shepherd that went out to seek the law, and he was that good shepherd, came all the way from his father's bosom, came into this wilderness wild, to seek and to save as it was long. Oh, one beautiful story, he told us. how he told the story of the good Samaritan. You can't find anything more beautiful anywhere than some of these fables the Lord Jesus told. How has this good Samaritan found this man that has gone from Jerusalem down to Jericho? A priest passed by and he went by on the other side. A Levite passed by and he passed by on the other side. But then by chance this Samaritan is good Samaritan. He came by and he saw him. He had compassion on him. He went near to him. He poured in the oil and the wine. He found up the wound. He sat upon him from his old feet. He took him to the inn. It was one of her words. He paid the innkeeper. He says, Now if I were there anything else and I come back, I'll pay it to you. And there you have the beautiful description of the good Samaritans. The Lord Jesus himself, like himself to, despised Samaritans, despised and rejected of men, the men of sorrow and equated with grief. And he came down to where we were, right down the lower, to the cross. He stooped even to the dead of the cross to lift us up. And then to bring us into the fellowship of the inn, the local church, where we should be looked after. And then we come back, he'll reward the undershepherds and others that have been looking after his land. It's all such beautiful illustrations. What gracious word preceded. out of his mouth. We can think of that incident in Luke fourteen, where he provided that wonderful feast. In Luke fourteen, verse sixteen, he said, A certain man made a great supper and bade many. And he sent the summertime to say to them that have been in common for all things already. Again the beautiful illustration of the gospel supper. And he sent out into the highways and byways to invite people. And they found and began to make excuses. One said, I bought some yoga box. And another fellow said, I bought some land. Another fellow, he gave another illustration. I married a wife and I can't come. What kind of a wife did he marry anyway? But it's these all so beautiful. They're so true to life. People make all kinds of silly excuses. And then he goes on to illustrate that all these with excuses, they'll miss out, they'll miss getting to that wonderful feast, and others will be invited and taken in. Beautiful. The words that fell from our blessed Lord's mouth. And then he tells us about the man that traveled into a far country, remember, in Luke And he left a certain responsibility with the different ones. And he gave each one of them a pound. And he said to them, Now I want you to occupy till I come, or trade till I come. And by the way, Christian, I think it has a wonderful application for all of us. The Lord has given to each of us one life. We're to give accountable stewardship. And he wants us to so exchange that light and make it count for him so when he comes again to be well pleased with it. The Lord has only given you so many days, so many years, one light. Dear Christian, are we living it for him? Are we trading? Are we willing to give all light? completely over to him, for him to use those lives so they'll accomplish the most for him in the little while we're here. Pebble after pebble fell from his lovely lips. Then he tells also the story of the returning bridegroom. You remember Matthew twenty-five? The story of the ten virgins? What a gospel application they found in that one? You remember at midnight the cry was heard at the bridegroom coming, or they'd already go to meet him? Five of those virgins had the oil in their laps. Five of them had no oil. It's a picture of people all professing to be Christians. Five genuine, they had the Holy Spirit, that's the oil. Five were not genuine, they had the professions, but no possessions. And when the bridegroom came, those that were ready, they went in with him, but those that had no iron in their lamps, they were on the outside. And when they returned, the door was shut. And the Lord Jesus, he drives home his voice, Be ye therefore ready, for you know not what hour the Lord will come. Are you ready tonight? Miley words that fell from his wonderful lifts. And we could go on. Then he gave illustrations. He said he was able. Spoke about Noah and the flood. As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of Solomon. Men be eating and drinking and so on. Living, living just for this world, living for pleasure, living for faith, and then suddenly. Judgment day. And then he warns them about the days of Lot again in Luke. He uses these illustrations. Warning would come. Here's a man like Lot. He's lived for this world. And my friend has been working for the New Testament. You'd never, never guessed that Lot was a believer. And he lost everything of his possessions. And he escaped out of there with two daughters, unmarried daughters. The cost of worldly living. Some people are afraid to pay the price to surrender themselves to Christ and really live for him. Thinking it's too expensive. It's too expensive not to. And then the Lord Jesus had to remember Lot's wife. She looked back. She became a pillow salt. Her heart was back there. Her feet were outside, but her heart was back there. She looked back. All the powerful illustrations the Lord gave him his word. See, the time moves on, and I must move on. Then there's something else about his wonderful lips that were not only powerful, light-giving, and instructive. But there was something that marked him that were absolutely undefiled. Clean. Very, very clean. You know, we read in Luke eleven and verse fifty-four about these people. The dead that were laying wait for him and seeking to catch something out of his mouth. That they might accuse him. They were laying in wait for him. They might accuse him. Could they accuse him? Another word. He could ask that which of you could convince me of sin. There's only one thing that could convince the girl, convict him, obviously. He called it himself the son of God. In Luke, verse seven, we'll read it. Then they said, what needs, we need further witness, for we ourselves have heard of his own mouth. What did he say? He was the son of God. Back in Isaiah fifty-three, verse nine we read, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Peter puts it this way, who didn't knew sin, neither was guile found in his mouth. He was absolutely pure. His lips were absolutely clean. The marvel of those gracious words that were seeded out of his mouth. And now that we have been redeemed by His grace and by His power, now that we have this new and divine nature, all this should be clean too. Before I was saved, and I shudder to think of it, I think of some of the awful words that proceeded out of my mouth. I think of some of the stories that came out of this mouth. But I'm thankful to God since that day he's taken it all away. Our lips should be clean. We should be speaking pure things. Things that are good. Things that are lovely. The things that Paul tells us about in Philippians four, verse eight, the thing he thinks of to think about. As a man think it in his heart so easy, it's out of the heart who stated all these things. And if we think upon the things that are lovely, the things that are good, the things that are pure, the things that are true and so on, then we'll speak these things. My meditation of him shall be sweet. And if I'm meditating about him and his word, then the same will proceed out of my mouth. The word of God says we're to put away all this foolishness and all this other stuff, you know. All language should be as become the gospel of Christ. Is Christ living in us? And he has to speak through us. Then his mouth was inviting. The seven S's I might just mention under this. One is salvation. Those of you that have heard that, come unto me. all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I'll give you rest, in Matthew eleven and twenty-eight. And then in John seven thirty-seven, come unto me a drink. Him that is at first, says the Lord Jesus, and come unto me and drink, and that of his inner being shall flow rivers of living water. Then speak ye of the Spirit. That's sanctification. The filling of the Spirit in the believer's life. And then there's the invitation to service. Remember he called his disciples in Mark chapter one, come and follow me. What a simple invitation. That's a full life occupation though, isn't it? Come follow me. Three words, for they'll keep you busy the rest of your life. wonderful Savior to follow. In John one thirty-nine, Andrew, and I think the other one was John the beloved apostle, they left John the Baptist, and they asked the Lord Jesus, Where dwelleth thou? Remember the Lord Jesus said, Come and see. Come and see for yourself. And that's when they got their eyes really open. That's when they really received their sight. And they left John and they thought of the Lord Jesus. And that's what John wanted anyway. And then in Mark six, twenty-three, come ye yourselves apart. And that's through solitude and separation. Come ye yourselves apart. Like someone said, if you don't come apart, you will come apart. And I have found that out only too late. Sometimes you think you can go on and on and on another, and you think these bodies are made of iron. But how we need to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, come yourselves apart and rest a while. That's how the Lord made it. I thought I could go day and night, year in and year out. But it just doesn't work that way. You pay the consequences. And then he says in John chapter twenty-one verse twelve, you met after the resurrection, as they were fishing. Peter said to his brethren, to some of his brethren, come, I go fishing. He said, we go too. And they saw somebody who was on the shore. And the voice called over across the water to them, children, have ye any meat? John, the one that was close to him, he said, that's the Lord. He knew his voice. Peter jumped in the water. He might put the fish and go on. He jumped in the water. And when they got there, remember the Lord said to them, Come and die. I got it all ready for you. Oh, what an invitation. Come and die. He is a table set. A table spread. Come and die. Peace and the good things of the Lord. But then there's an elephant in the case number seven, that's the suffering. He says, Come, take up your course and follow me. If any man will be my disciple, he says, he has to deny himself, take up his course and follow me. I call the suffering. Expect a fellow Christian in this world not to be popular. You never will be if you're a faithful Christian, but you will be respected. He will be respected. And then there's some wonderful promises that fell from his lips. First of eternal life. And I don't have to enlarge in that. All of you here tonight, I believe all of you know these promises. I give it to my sheep eternal life, he said. He that believed it on the sun does not perish but have everlasting life. The promise of eternal life. All through the gospel of John. But then he says in the second promise he gave, was in John fourteen to chapter sixteen, was the promise of the Holy Spirit. He says, now I'm going to go back to heaven. And when I go back to heaven, I'm going to stand and are the comforter, meaning one just like himself. And he's not only going to be with you, but he is going to be in you. Marvel of marvels, my friends, we have God dwelling in these bodies of us. No, he is not that your bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit. What a promise. And he kept it. On the day of Pentecost, when the day of Pentecost was fully come, the Spirit of God came down, and he baptized the believers into the one body, and he filled all those that were in the upper room. Solomon said, when he dedicated his temple in his dedication to his prayer, He said, shall God indeed dwell with men upon earth? Yes, indeed. He came and he dwelled right in the believer. He's going to be in you forever. Isn't that a grand truth? What a promise. And that promise was kept. And then he gave the promise of answered prayer. He said, if two or three of you shall agree concerning anything, it shall be. be done unto you. Ask and ye shall receive, in Matthew seven, seven. Speak and ye shall find, not, and it shall be opened unto you. In John fourteen, verse thirteen and fourteen, he says to him there too, we're to ask anything in his name, and he'll do it, and of course is conditioned in other scriptures according to his will. Oh, how he taught prayer so wonderfully. You remember the story about the friend who came at midnight? He came and woke up his friend, when did he land me three loaves? He said, I can't get up from bed with my children. That doesn't stop him. I can just see him rattling everything and banging the floor and shouting, get up, I need three loaves, blow me three loaves. And he kept on and on, he said, if I don't get up now, I won't get any sleep tonight. So he got up, gave him the three loaves. Now the Lord said, that's how you're going to pray. You keep on persistently asking until you receive. Promises of prayer. So you're going to ask your Heavenly Father. And then he promised victory. Victory in John, sixteen thirty-three. We should overcome. the world. Also he says in the first epistles of John, this is a victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. Let me read through that one in John sixteen thirty-three. These things have I spoken unto you, that in ye may have peace, in the world you shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. And the word of God says that he is in the world, so will we. Promise a victory. Are you a victorious Christian tonight? He promised victory. He had won the victory. All you have to do is claim it in and through him. We're more than conquerors to him that loved us at all. Sometimes you see Christians going around to long faith and so defeated looking, you know, and he discouraged looking so on. And the Lord will remind you, be a good tree. I've overcome the world. What are you downhearted about? What are you discouraged for? Satan has gotten the best of you. Claim your victory. This is the victory. Even those that believe in the Lord Jesus will victory through him. And then he has promised his blessing. When two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst. He says, go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature and so on, and lo, I'm with you even to the end of the age. Promise of his presence. If Jesus goes with me, I'll go anywhere. For with Jesus, there's his heaven there. Doesn't matter where it is. This promise of his presence. Paul I might say in second Corinthians chapter seven and verse one we read these verse by way of application having therefore these promises dearly beloved let us cleanse all cells from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit perfecting holiness in the sight of God having all these promises let's put them to practice he's saying in effect And then those wonderful lips from his lips tell wonderful words that are able to convert. Think of Nicodemus. Think of the woman at the well in John three and John four. Think of the words that he spoke to Saul at Tarsus on the road to Damascus. Saul, Saul, why worship you that thou me? And Paul, Saul, asked two questions. I think that's very significant. The first question is, who art thou Lord? And once that was established, then he said, what will thou have me to do? Once you know who he is, then we should be willing to say, like he did, what will thou have me to do? You're Lord. You're the master. I'm willing to do whatever you want me to do. There's many things I can't touch on tonight about his mouth, but as one I want to let me mention, and that was, that lovely mouth was silenced. You know, it says in the Word of God, in one place, he was trying to, I think it's in John, he has to come back to me now. You met the Pharaoh, asked him a question, Pilot. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Brother Bob. When thou thou? Verse nine. For Jesus gave him no answer. Now, this is the first aspect I want to mention. There comes a time when the Lord has no answer for a man. And that's the time for this man. The terrible thing when the Lord has no answer. When a man has sinned beyond a certain stage, and then I said, where heaven becomes glass, there's no answer. He had no answer for him. But then I think of it in a different aspect, in I say at fifty-three verse seven, where it speaks about he was oppressed and afflicted. Yet he opened not his mouth. He squatters a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shear is dumb, so he opened not his mouth. Here he is, silent in his subway. And now he's feeding his own king. He's completely given over to God and to men. there to undo those awful hours on Calvin. After that silence, we hear him break the silence with two words, I serve. What do they do? Pray in some nice cool water to refresh him. According to the prophetic scriptures in Psalm sixty-nine, they bring vinegar and wet his lips. Do you remember David? On one occasion, he was in great thirst. They were fighting the Philistines. And three of these great men heard him say, Oh, I wish I could have a little bit of that water from the spring in Bethlehem. to refresh my thirst. Do you remember that? And three of those men they broke through the ranks of the Philistines, they engaged in their lives, and they came back with that cool refreshing water for David. But he wouldn't drink it, he poured it out on the ground. And here's the greatest David, David's greatest son, hanging on the cross. He had chosen twelve followers. And not one of them had broken through the ranks to relieve him. For the enemies they gave him vinegar to drink. Think of it. Those lovely lips were parched as she hung there upon the cross. Silence and then parched dry. But I'm glad those same lips they also spoke. As we mentioned the other night, it is finished. The work that his father gave him to do was accomplished. He bowed his head. He rose again. But you know that same lips too while he was here on earth. He also speaks many words of warning. We haven't got time to go into detail now, but it's useful. And not many of you know it only too well. Matthew chapter twenty-three, think of how he exposed and how he warned the religious professors. What a indictment he gave to them there. How he warned people of living and dying in sin. Luke thirteen, I'll just read your verse or two. Jesus is in verse two. He says, Anson said unto them, support ye that the Galilee is with sinners above all the Galilee is, because they suffered such things. I tell your name, except ye repent, ye shall also likewise perish. The word of God tells us it's a true friend that warns. And the Lord Jesus, we see him truly warning. He tells him whom to fear. He says, don't you fear him that can kill the body, but fear him that can kill the soul. or cast that soul into hell. He warns of the terrible wrath to come. If you read the last part of the Gospel of Mark chapter nine, all the poem verses there, it's better for men to go into light maimed without a hand or foot and other things, rather be cast into hell, where the weeping and wailing and gnashing of touch, where the fire never quenched. We don't hear much preaching like that today. But the Lord was a faithful one to warn. And then think of these verses. In Revelation chapter one verse sixteen, it speaks about then that coming day out of his mouth went the sharp two-edged sword. He says in John, the words that I speak unto you, they shall judge you in that day. Revelation nineteen verse fifteen says, out of his mouth gored a sharp sword that with it he should smite the nations. Two sixteen says, I'll fight against it with a sword of my mouth. Revelation nineteen twenty one, the rest were slain with a sword of his mouth. There's a different picture altogether, a picture when he deals in judgment. But I don't want to finish on that note. In a song that Solomon began, she said his mouth is most sweet. In fact, his mouth was unique. They had to confess, never man spake like this man. You know, it's only to the believer that his mouth is most sweet. And that his word so sweeter than honey on the honeycomb. He said he delighted in his word as one that find it great spoil. And to the believer it will be so sweet when we're going to hear him coming. and saying in the words of the song of Solomon, chapter two, verse ten, my beloved spoke and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. Hello, the winter's past, and the rain is over, and it's gone. We spoke about that this morning, the coming of the Lord Jesus of the church. We will hear his voice saying, Come. You know, he says in John chapter ten and three different places in verse two, verse three and verse four, and verse twenty-seven, he's speaking about there that my sheep, they know my voice. They follow him, they know my voice. And you remember the morning of the resurrection? When Mary Magdalene thought he was a gardener, he spoke one word to her. Mary. And she said, Rabonai. She recognized his voice. My sheep hear my voice. One of these days we're going to hear his voice. We're going to know it when. We're going to say, come away, my love. And we're going to hear that sweet voice. And we're going to be taken up. All through all the eyes, since we've been saying, we've been feasting, on the word from the written word. That word is quick and powerful. And those words have become sweet to those dorset and honey. Those are the greatest treasure that we have, the word of God. Like Paul, when he was in prison, he said he wanted to get his clothes on, but he says, especially the parchments. The scriptures, they're the ones I want. But when he comes with that sweet voice that has come away, the winter's past, the rain is over, we're going to hear his real voice. Faith will give away this sight. And we're going to hear him speak like Mary did, calling us by name. Oh, what a wonderful moment would that be. to see his face, to hear his voice, to be in his presence. And you know what I want his voice to say to me? After he has called me by my name, I want him to say to me, well done, good and faithful servant. You want him to say that to you? Now we all want to hear that, I'm sure. But there's a price tag with it. We can't live the way we want to live and do what we want to do and go where we want to go and everything else like that. And then he, well done, good and faithful servants. They know my sheep, they know my voice, and they follow me. It as we follow him step by step, moment by moment, hour by hour, day by day, month by month, year by year, day in and day out, year in and year out, as we walk with him and talk with him, fellowshipping with him, then we'll hear, well done, good and faithful servant. I long to hear his voice, and it's going to be a wonderful moment for all of us, and I hope we'll also hear, well done, good and faithful servant. at Barnabas with a prayer. Oh, Father, we thank you that our Lord Jesus, He bears the sweetest name we know. He's the sweetest person we know. And we know when we really hear His real voice, we'll know it. His voice will be most sweet, calling us come away. Oh, Lord, how wonderful that will be. Help us all to live in fond anticipation of that moment when we shall see the face to face and hear thy voice, calling us by name. And, Lord, by thy grace, give us the desire and enable us to so live that we'll also hear thee say, Well done, good and faithful servant. Use thy words. Speak to all our hearts. May we live with eternity values in view. Help not our spiritual sight to be clouded by the things of the world and the riches and all the things around us. But may our eyes be upon him. Looking unto Jesus. Laying away every weight and sin that has easily set us. Running the weight that sets before us. Looking unto Jesus. We just commend ourselves to thee. We thank thee for his wonderful words to our ears and to our hearts. Help us now to appropriate them and obey them and to live them out. We ask in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.