HIS HEART SONG…Part 4 - Razor Planet



HIS HEART SONG…Part 4

“Arise and Come…out of your comfort zone”

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• When we left our bride last week, she was lavishing praise back on her Beloved about their house and how incredible it was…how strong and rot-resistant and how safe and secure she felt….let’s pick up I Chapter 2, where the Bride continues on by saying…

Song of Solomon 2:1 “I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.”

• Now hang on here a minute….at first glance this may sound like the Bride is saying something good about herself….but if you do a little research…you find that she is reverting back to her old way of thinking….

• A ROSE OF SHARON and a LILY OF THE VALLEY are both very, very COMMON flowers. Thousands of these flowers bloomed in the valleys….Sharon is a “plain”. These types of flowers are actually not looked upon as much at all in Judea…very ordinary and common

• She is questioning His love for her because she is seeing herself as just a common, ordinary girl…why in the world would He love her so much?

• Paul even felt this same way….1 Corinthians 9-10 “For I am the least of the apostles, that am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am…!”

• SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo many believers see themselves as common, worthless….not able to really accomplish much for God…but this is crazy talk….HE LOVES US with ALL-CONSUMING LOVE!!!!

• But our Bridegroom continues to pour out love on her…

Song of Solomon 2:2 “Like a lily among thorns is my darling among the maidens.”

• We are His lily in the midst of this cursed earth…in the midst of the thorns…the thorn represents the “curse” brought on by Adam and Eve

• He has transformed us from the lilies of the field a thorn to a lily and HE LOVES THAT ABOUT US!...it’s like He is saying…”Don’t ever think of yourself as common again!...no more doubts or discouragement…! I love you, I love you, I love you!”

• Look what he even said about the lilies of the valley back on the Sermon on the Mount…Matthew 6:28-29 ”Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”………………….isn’t that soooooooo cool……………….we think we are pathetic….and here is the Creator Himself saying that we are INCREDIBLE!!!!

• We are JOINT-HEIRS with Jesus! We are the bride of Christ! We are a holy, royal priesthood! We have been given authority to rule!....We are SOMEBODY….IN HIM!

• Yes, I know that Romans 12:3 says that we are “…not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think.”….that verse means for us not to think that we are “all that” own our OWN……it’s not talking about what we are IN CHRIST!

• Don’t let the enemy crush your spirit with DISCOURAGEMENT!!!!! Get your eyes back on HIM…remember ..DOVES EYES…focuses on Him and Him alone…..all that other mess that people are saying doesn’t matter….FOCUS on HIM!!!

• THORNS have the potential to choke the life out of you….but if you keep your focus on Him…they will have NO EFFECT on YOU!

• We are HIS LILIES…LILIES symbolize purity, chastity and fertility….the most incredible thing about a LILY is its FRAGRANCE!!! LILIES multiply readily…as we should as HIS lily

• The Bride replies….

• Song of Solomon 2:3 “Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.”

• This is the Bride comparing her King to all the others….

• She said He is like an APPLE TREE…in the original Hebrew language “apple” is “bergamot orange”…it is an EVERGREEN plant that does not shed its leaves in winter….it kinda looks like a pomegranate but it tastes like an orange and lemon smushed together

• He is like an “APPLE TREE among the trees of the forest”…Her Beloved can BEAR FRUIT to feed her and…He is an EVERGREEN meaning He provides shade all the time…He is soooooooooooooooooooooo WAY better than all else! He stands out above all the other trees in the forest…they do not compare!

• What makes her DELIGHT to sit in His shade???....It’s shelter…it’s protection…

• Psalm 91:1 “He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will REST in the shadow of the Almighty.”

• There is REST and PEACE sitting in His shade….and then there is HIS FRUITS!!!! WOO! WOO!

• Those fruits that He provides are everything we need…fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control

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• SO….she has followed Him…she has found His shelter/shade/shadow….she feels secure and safe and she is being fed…His shade is protecting her from the noontime heat…which is when Satan would try to wear you down…but you are at rest under the Apple Tree….just as we are when we SIT under His shade…when we READ HIS Word….SIT and READ and PRAISE and PRAY and that’s where the power you need will come from!

• He protects and nurtures us!

• In the shade…is our time of intimacy with Him…just US and Him….no one else…but now its time for Him to show the world how He feels about us…

Song of Solomon 2:4 “He brought me to the banqueting table, and his banner over me is love.”

• A BANQUET means that there are others involved….other lilies!...He wants to show you off to everyone!

• In fact…in Revelation 19:7-9 …it’s all about a MASSIVE BANQUET…”Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready…..blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!”

• DO YOU SEE HOW IMPORTANT YOU ARE TO HIM!!!!! ALL THIS TO-DO is ABOUT YOU!!!!

• The Hebrew word translated “banquet” is literally the word for “wine”……which is JOY…..He brings us into the House of Wine in order to give us JOY

• HIS BANNER OVER ME IS LOVE….love, love, love…everything relates to love…everything He does is based on love

• The flying of a banner symbolizes POSSESSION

Song of Solomon 2:5 “Strengthen (Uphold/Stay) me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.”

• There is a measure as to what our earthly bodies can handle!....We have to ask God to give us STRENGTH so that we can enjoy even more of Him!

• Just like in 1 Kings 8:10-11 “And when the priests came out of the Holy Place, a cloud filled the house of the LORD, so that the priests COULD NOT STAND to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD.”

• The bride is LOVESICK….she asks to be strengthened with raisin cakes that are called flagons and apples that would, of course, remind her of Him….

• BUT…this lovesickness can’t be cured by those things!.....our thirst for Him can never be satisfied…not even by His gifts….We long for HIM and HIM ALONE!!!!

• Have you ever noticed how exhausted you are after a SPIRITUAL HIGH? Sunday morning church just totally wears Pastor Donny out….he is in much need of food and a good, long nap after church…as he sleeps…he is resting in the arms of his Bridegroom….it’s a peaceful rest…just like our bride in this story…

• Sometimes when we go on retreats…or to church camp…things like that…we are on “spiritual highs”….then we return back to the reality of daily living…in the “midst of a crooked and perverse generation”…where maybe our spouses haven’t experienced the same “high” that we did…and they are not nearly as excited…our our friends…etc…

• We end up feeling LOVESICK and in MUCH NEED of God His care…that’s why the bride called out for sustenance…for the spiritual foods that she called raisins and apples!

• She is weak…but He is strong….and that is just what He provides for her…STRONG ARMS…

Song of Solomon 2:6 “His left hand is under my head, and his right hand does embrace me.”

• Psalm 18:35 “You give me your shield of victory, and your RIGHT HAND sustains ,me…”

• Jesus represents the right hand of God…everything in Jesus right hand is OURS!

• Ephesians 1:3 “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has BLESSED us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.”

• So………………I looked up some verses that deal with His RIGHT HAND…and the LEFT one too….

• PLEASURES…Psalm 16:11 “You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with ETERNAL PLEASURES at your RIGHT hand.”

• SALVATION AND DELIVERANCE… Psalm 17:7 “Show the wonder of your great love, you who save by your RIGHT hand those who take refuge in you from their foes.”

• LONG LIFE… Proverbs 3:13-16 “Happy is the man who finds wisdom, And the man who gains understanding; For her proceeds are better than the profits of silver, And her gain than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies, And all the things you may desire cannot compare with her. LENGTH OF DAYS is in her RIGHT hand…”

• SUPPORT … Psalm 18:35 “You give me your shield of victory, and your RIGHT hand sustains me; you stoop down to make me great.”

• SHOUTS OF JOY AND VICTORY AND MIGHTY THINGS…Psalm 118:15-16 “Shouts of joy and victory resound in the tents of the righteous: "The LORD's RIGHT hand has done mighty things!”

• The Left Hand…RICHES and HONOR Proverbs 3:16 “Long life is in her right hand; in her LEFT hand are riches and honor.”

• All we have to do is to ask for what already belongs to you….you ask in love and faith….don’t rob Him of the JOY of giving to you!!!!

• He has His LEFT hand under head so she can look at Him and He at her…then it is only natural for your RIGHT arm to embrace…to protect and shield….it’s a pose of intimacy….He is wrapping her in His REST!

• Check out who is around her while she is in this deep rest….it’s the daughters of Jerusalem…..but the Bridegroom wants to make sure that she is not disturbed and that she gets plenty of spiritual rest…

• Hebrews 4:10 “For all who have entered into God's rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world.”

• God’s rest is not only for the next life…but for THIS life too!...

• Matthew 11:28-30…”Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you REST. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find REST for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."

• Do you see how awesome what He is doing for His bride is…same thing for us…IF we will let Him….if we have FAITH and we TRUST in Him…He is giving her rest from the burden of simply LIVING in this broken world by our OWN RESOURCES…..He can handle our load because He is STRONG…He wants to give us REST…Rest from the weight of sin, from care and worry, from the load of daily anxiety…. The rest that arrives from handing over all worries to Christ and receiving from Christ all we need. 

• He says…

Song of Solomon 2:7 “I charge you, O you daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that you do not arouse or awaken love until it(she) so desires.”

• HINDS (DEER) and ROES ( GAZELLES)…are swift-footed animals…..they are animals that are easily stirred up

• It is not a nice thing at all to wake someone up when they are peacefully sleeping!...we are to REST IN HIM….the daughters of Jerusalem kinda like to meddle in things…they love excitement….so the Beloved is using the IMPERATIVE COMMAND for them to leave her alone…

• Stirring up love…using coercion or even “scare tactics” like some people use in their “witnessing techniques” are not good things at all!.....you can always tell who has come to Christ because they have TRULY had an ENCOUNTER with Him…from those who feel “pressured” to come…cause when trials come…and they will….those people seem to IMMEDIATELY turn their back on God because they never had a REAL love for Him anyway….

• Our love for God has to be REAL….it has to be a BRIDAL type of love…

• It’s our job to LIVE like Jesus would…loving on others…our lives…our fragrance will cause them to start searching as GOD DRAWS THEM…

• So…here is our Bride…peacefully resting…

• Habakkuk 2:20 “But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep SILENCE before him.”

• Zephaniah 3:17 “The LORD your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save;  He will rejoice over you with gladness,  He will QUIET you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.”

• SURELY….our little Bride….so full and satisfied….so peacefully asleep in the rest of her Beloved…SURELY she will respond ever so SWIFTLY to anything He could possibly ask of her…SURELY there is NOTHING that could INTERFERE or MESS up this blissful relationship….after all…..He has revealed the most GLORIOUS things about Himself to her….and it’s only the tip of what He wants to reveal to her…..SURELY………..SURELY she is going to respond to Him the right way

• SO FAR….she has seen that Christ is for her…..but she hasn’t been through any tests to see if she is REALLY for Christ….o right now…she SAYS she is…but as we all know…sometimes we say things that we don’t really, really mean (we may not REALIZE that we don’t mean them at this point…but when the “rubber hits the road”…we find that we didn’t mean what we said at all (

• SO FAR….she still doesn’t really realize the importance of OBEDIENCE….this has been a time of FIRST REVELATION for her….it’s her first SPIRITUAL HIGH, so to speak…..it has all been so smooth and easy for her….BUT…we ALL know that things don’t stay that way….

• Will she REALLY stick to Him and hide under the shade of His Apple Tree…will she really continue to have DOVE’S EYES for Him…will she remember all the REVELATION He has given her…will she remember how she longed for the KISSES of His mouth…will she remember His BANQUETING TABLE or the HOUSE they share…….can she be really delivered from her UNSURRENDERED WILL…can she be delivered from her SELF???????

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• When we last left our fair maiden…she was peacefully sleeping after her “spiritual high”…she is about to find out just how much He really does love and desires her

• While she has been asleep…He has not just been sitting around…He has been out and about ministering, saving, healing, and delivering others….but He can’t WAIT to see her!!!! O how He wants for her to love what He loves and to go out ministering with Him….look how He arrives…

Song of Solomon 2:8 “The voice of my Beloved! Behold He comes LEAPING upon the mountains, SKIPPING upon the hills.”

• You’ve gotta get that picture in your head…He is SUPER EXCITED ABOUT SEEING HER!!!!!

• WOO! WOO! Time for ADVENTURE!!!! Time for life ABUNDANT!!!

• John 10:10 “…I have come to give life and to give life more ABUNDANT!”

• He is about to ask her to do something of major importance…He is about to ask her to MOVE OUT OF HER COMFORT ZONE…….but….will she do it?????

• You know….when God starts asking us to change our habits and our lifestyle….do we do it QUICKLY….?

• MOUNTAINS and HILLS symbolize difficulties and barriers…..and OUR BRIDEGROOM comes leaping and skipping over them!!!!!.....

• 2 Corinthians 2:14 “Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.”

• We TRIUMPH over irritation, tiredness, family issues, sickness, sin, poverty, disease, lack……..we ALWAYS triumph over these things!!!

• NOTHING is too big for Him to handle…everything that would try to come against us is UNDER HIS FEET!......

• EVEN DEATH is under His feet….he even triumphed over the HILL called CALVARY!!!!!! WOO! WOO!.....our Bridegroom is AMAZING!!!...HE LEAPED and SKIPPED OVER IT!!!!!....you’ve gotta GET THAT!!!!!!

• Romans 16:20 “The God of peace will soon crush Satan underneath your feet.”

• But apparently, sometimes we just don’t seem to BELIVE this…otherwise, when He asked us to do something…or to change something…we would do it INSTANTLY…

• This is where we find our maiden…

• Song of Solomon 2:9 “My beloved is like a roe (gazelle) or a young hart (deer or stag)…”

• Check out what she REALIZES about her beloved…she knows He is pretty INTENSE when it comes to His love for her…

• Like a roe or young hart…..those animals are SWIFT and super fast!....She KNOWS these things about Him…..but it’s one thing to KNOW about Jesus…and a total other thing to ACT upon your knowledge…..

• James 2:19 “You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that--and shudder.”

Song of Solomon 2:9 “…behold, he STANDS behind OUR wall, there he stands behind the wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.”

• WHAT THE HECK!!!!!!???????.....He is STANDING BEHIND a wall…looking in…..

• What has come in between them that has caused a wall and a lattice to come between them…..weren’t they just in sweet intimate fellowship a few verses ago????

• Why isn’t she totally sold out to Him anymore?????....O, she still loves Him…just not WHOLLY apparently….or else there wouldn’t be a wall and lattice between them…

• Notice also that He is STANDING…He is ready for action…ready to take her away with Him…but she is just looking at Him…not moving…just looking at Him….WHERE IS THE OBEDIENCE!!!!!?????....we find out what the deal is in the next couple of verses…

• So…He speaks to her…

• Song of Solomon 2:10-13 “My beloved spoke, and said to me, “Rise up, my love, my fair (beautiful) one, and come away. For the winter has past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the DOVE is heard in OUR land; the fig tree has ripe figs, and the vines are in blossom, they give forth their fragrance. ARISE, My love, My fair one, and COME AWAY.”

• The Hebrew word for LAND is “erets”…..here it means the believer’s sphere of influence…the GARDEN that we are supposed to be tending and taking care of…in this book, it is the woman who takes care of the upkeep of the gardens that exist solely for the enjoyment of the king…

• WINTER….a time of uninvolvement…..it’s OVER NOW…time to get busy!

• Listen to how He talks to her….so lovingly….why in the world wouldn’t she get herself up and go with Him!!!??????

• He has already leaped and skipped over all the mountains and hills…He has already taken care of every difficulty that there could be…it shouldn’t matter that He hasn’t told us where we might be going…He has already been there and conquered it…we should TRUST Him enough to just GO!!!!

• He knows the beginning from the end!!!!

• So……….we know she LOVES him….but does she TRUST him?????? Has she REALLY surrendered her mind, will, and emotions to Him??????

• He’s trying to lead her from “glory to glory” as 2 Corinthians 3:18 says…”But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD”…….BUT…..will she let him??? Will WE let him????

• What does He mean “come away”?.....Why can’t she just stay where she is, behind her wall….after all, she is safe there…she is loving just it being her and Him…..BUT….that is not how it is supposed to be…remember…if we love Him…we are supposed to SHOW that love to the world!!!!

• He tells her “winter is past, the rain is over and gone…” THE DEVIL HAS BEEN DEFEATED…..

• SURELY….she will jump up from behind that wall and go with Him….SURELY!!!!!!!!???????

• He even goes on to say that FLOWERS are appearing…..flowers are a symbol of NEW LIFE ….of a RESURRECTED LIFE……

• Then He says the COOING or the VOICE of the DOVE is heard…..that’s the voice of the HOLY SPIRIT…..His VOICE will be with you all the way through this land…if you will just ARISE, and COME!!!!!....He’s not asking you to go ALONE!!!!!

• COME ON…GET UP….GO……..BE A LIVING SACRIFICE….Romans 12:1-2 “Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies (in other words….ARISE AND GO!) as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”

• He is telling her all of this as He stands on the other side of the lattice work…..maybe He is even pausing after every plea….looking for some kind of response from her….but there is none…WHY IS SHE HESITATING?????....WHAT IS HER PROBLEM????

• But, nope….she doesn’t budge….

• James 2:20 “…faith without works is dead.”

• It is not enough for her to SAY she loves Him and believes in Him….She HAS GOT TO ACT ON IT!....ARISE, COME!!!!!

• So…He waits…..all He needs of for her to take the first step….step out in FAITH and He will do the rest…..so he waits…..NO RESPONSE

• According to Romans 8:29 God has “predestined you to be conformed into the image of His Son”…..but this can’t happen if you WON’T LET IT!!!!

• He tries again….”the vines with the tender grapes give a good smell…”

• There is already FRUIT being produced in her life….He wants her to produce even more fruit in her life…..BUT…she wants Him on HER TERMS…she wants Him all to herself….she didn’t want to leave the SECURITY of those walls….

• EX: Like when we go minister at the Apartments…do you go and let the fragrance of Jesus pour off of you….OR…does it intimidate you….would you rather not leave from the four walls of the safety of the church?

• He never, never, never asks us to go out alone…..He said in Hebrews 13:5 “I will NEVER leave you nor forsake you.”

• We are SHOCKED at how the Bride doesn’t respond…..After ALL that He has done already for her…the strings around her neck, the crown on her head, the super strong, never rotting house, the green bed, the sharing at the table, the fragrance,…..alll this…..and she doesn’t respond…..

• WELL……think about us…..He has given us forgiveness, new life, salvation, deliverance, healing, a hope and a future……..and yet…we DON’T RESPOND EITHER….Can we see OURSELVES in her?????...unfortunately…we can (

• 1 Corinthians 2:9-10 “…Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him. But God has revealed them unto us by His Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, yes, even the deep things of God.”

• We don’t want to get out of our COMFORT ZONE…..out of your SLEF…all the while, Jesus is lovingly calling us to ARISE and COME……

• So….He gives her a little time to think about what He has asked of her…when He comes back…He finds her “in the clefts of the rock”….

Song of Solomon 2:14 “O my dove, you are in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs (steep place), let me see your countenance, let me hear your voice; for sweet is your voice, and your countenance is lovely.”

• Why would He have to ask to see your face if you were already turned toward Him????...He wouldn’t….so apparently our Bride is not facing Him as before

• He is calling ever so gently…but forcibly at the same time…He has reassured you that you are lovely and your voice is sweet to Him…He is desperately trying to pull you OUT OF YOUR SELF….it’s time to live FOR HIM….not for OURSELVES anymore…

• She is wanting to stay in the “clefts” in the “Secret places”….where it was just Him and her…but He is wanting her to come deeper…and to come deeper…she MUST ARISE and go out into the world…..

• After all….isn’t that what He told His disciples…??? He told them to wait for the POWER of the Holy Spirit….then to GO into all the world….

• Here is our little bride…she has the power…the sound of the dove is heard in the land…now she needs to get up and GO….

• What would have happened if the disciples had just stayed in Jerusalem after receiving the Holy Spirit and had kept it all to themselves??????.....that would have been MAJOR DISOBEDIENCE and SELFISHNESS….but….how often is that EXACTLY what we do….we like our “spiritual highs” and we don’t want to leave and GO OUT…..

• Notice that He says “let me see…” and “let me hear…”…..meaning that she, WE, have to make a move before he can go any further with us…ACTIONS….ACTIONS…ACTIONS…..we MUST ACT…

• But ….we don’t….and He remains patient and longsuffering with us…look at what He asks of her…

Song of Solomon 2:15 “Catch us the little foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines, for our vines have tender grapes.”

• LITTLE FOXES: foxes are crafty and devious,….that’s where we get the phrase “sly as a fox”….notice that these foxes are LITTLE…little foxes are cute and they may even look innocent at first glance….you know what those things are…watching a “little bit bad” movie, staying home from church cause you just don’t want to get out, reading book s that you really shouldn’t be reading, after all….what harm could come from doing something that’s just a :little bit” wrong????....

• OR WHAT ABOUT THIS…

• Could “little foxes” be self-pity when you’re going through a trial or difficulty….could it be looking for someone to recognize you when you are doing some type of good Christian work, instead of doing it as unto the Lord…could it be self-indulgence when it comes to your spare time…it’s all gotta be about you, you, you……could it be sensitivity, touchiness, or resentment and self-defense when you are hurt or corrected by others…could it be worry of fear…..there are no laws against these things…

• In fact, in a book I have called “Respectable Sins” by Jeff Bridges…which has NOTHING to do with the Song of Solomon….he said that “many believers would consider these things as HARMLESS….our friends would not shun us for committing them, and in many instances, no one ever knows that we failed the Lord. However the sins of self-centeredness: pride, fear, worry, anger, anxiety, discontentment, pride, etc. steal our joy in God and inhibit the Holy Spirit from blessing our work for his kingdom. Instead of a sweetness of spirit, we minister to others a hardness of heart and an emptiness of soul. These “little” sins keep us from enjoying the continual on-going presence of the Holy Spirit: the Lord cannot bless us with his constant, conscious presence because our attitude does not honor his character or his Word. Our failure causes our Christian lives to feel empty and our ministries to lack power and authority.”

• Soon….you get used to the little foxes….you get used to not going to church on Sunday’s or Wednesday’s,…you get used to watching that TV show that has sex scenes in it…these things become HABITS….and they are slowly but surely destroying our spiritual life…

• 2 Timothy 2:16-17 “But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness. And their message will spread like cancer….”

• 1 Corinthians 5:6 “…Know you not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.”

• Do the “little foxes” matter????....O YES, MORE THAN YOU KNOW!

• And Jesus wants us to rid ourselves of those LITTLE things….He knows the danger of those things

• Sin is so, so, so deceitful…..little compromises here and there…and the FRUITFULNESS of the WHOLE VINE is at stake…

• We can’t deal with the “little foxes” alone….and He can’t take them away from us on His own….it requires COOPERATION on our part…..so when He convicts…when He reveals the LITTLE THINGS….DEAL WITH THEM….or BIG TIME destruction is on the way….

• Solomon figured that out….check out what he wrote in Ecclesiastes

• Ecclesiastes 9:18-19:1 "Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good. Dead flies make the perfumer's ointment give off an evil odor; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor."

• Next week we will watch the so sad response of the Bride….instead of turning to FACE Him like He has asked her to do… her response is SELFISH….she actually TURNS HIM AWAY…..

• OMG….foolish little bride…..but, o so like us…

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