Don’t Be Scared

Text:

Song of Solomon 2:16:

“My beloved is mine, and I am his….”

 

1John 4:18:

“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.”

 

Theme:

Don’t Be Scared

 

Introduction:

• The Song of Solomon has been questioned as to whether Solomon actually wrote it, but studies continually point to Solomon’s pen as the origin.
  • It is an allegorical poem setting forth the mutual love of Christ and the Church, under the emblem of the bridegroom and the bride.
  • The Song of Solomon is often avoided or overlooked by the traditional church because it touches on a sensitive subject within our “good Baptist” tradition – INTIMACY è Manifested in our relationships
    • Spiritual Relationships (with God)
    • Emotional Relationships (with God and/or people)
    • Physical Relationships (with people)
      • The struggle is HOW DO WE BRING TOGETHER THE THREE TO BE CONSISTENT THROUGHOUT ALL RELATIONSHIPS FROM GOD TO MAN?
      • Song of Solomon teaches us just that through its example and expression.
• Therefore, DON’T BE SCARED to explore and expose ourselves through studying this book.
  • Our other text confirms this theme when it says… “There is no fear in love”
    • The First Epistle of John is the fourth of the general epistles and was written by the Apostle John in his later years.
      • The purpose of the epistle is to declare the Word of Life to those to whom he writes, in order that they might be united in fellowship with the Father and his Son Jesus Christ.
      • He shows that the means of union with God are,
        • By Christ, through his atoning work and his advocacy
        • By man, through our holiness, obedience, purity, faith, and love
    • Through our text we are empowered through God’s LOVE and protected from Satan’s crippling FEAR!

Body:

• God’s Empowering Love
  • Jeremiah 24:7, “And have given to them a heart to know Me, For I am Jehovah, And they have been to Me for a people, And I am to them for God, For they turned back unto Me with all their heart.”
    • Three types of Love
      • Filios – Brother/Sister è Not enough to be the love in Song of Solomon
      • Eros – Sexual/Carnal è Too limited and shallow to be the love in Song of Solomon
      • Agape – God’s Unconditional Love è The full manifestation of the love in the Song of Solomon
    • God requires a love that is complete and not in part!
      • 1John 4:8, “He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.”
        • Money ain’t LOVE
        • Earthly friends aren’t LOVE
        • Physical gifts aren’t LOVE
        • Sex ain’t LOVE
        • Only GOD is LOVE and true love is of GOD è If God ain’t in it, it ain’t LOVE!!
    • The Song of Solomon exemplifies God’s love applied through ALL the types of LOVE
      • Brotherly/Sexual/Divine Love à We all should seek the same!
      • Don’t be scared to bring the sexual and the Divine together à God meant it this way
        • “My beloved is mine, and I am his” è Can we say this??
• The adversary to God’s empowering Love è Satan’s crippling FEAR
  • Revelation 2:10, “Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.”
  • There are a lot of things that Satan will bring about JUST TO MAKE US SCARED!!
    • Bills
    • Death
    • Tribulations
  • Galatians 5:19-21, “And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects, envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like….”
  • FEARS will arise in our life in spite of God’s Comfort because of sin!
    • Psalms 51:5, “Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.”
    • Romans 3:23, “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”
  • God’s sent Himself to get rid of the sin!
    • Our secondary text reveals that“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.”
      • God is Love and hath sent Himself to rid us of the FEAR that Satan inflicts on us and that we inflict upon ourselves. In this fear we cannot serve God!!!!

Conclusion:

• God’s LOVE has POWER
  • 2Timothy 1:7, “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
    • POWER, LOVE, and a SOUND MIND are a package deal with God! è Can’t truly have on without the others!
    • God’s LOVE has power build friendships
    • God’s LOVE has power established loving relationships
    • God’s LOVE has power to ordain marriage
    • God’s LOVE has power instill divine, completing intimacy in a marriage
    • God’s LOVE has power to make us ONE with our children
    • God’s LOVE has power to make us ONE with our mate
    • God’s LOVE has power to make us ONE with GOD Himself
      • John 17:21, “That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.”
      • That is how we can say è “My beloved is mine, and I am his….”
        • Don’t be like the woman who was accused to had several husbands when Jesus told her..
          • And the one you got now…ain’t yours!
        • Know for yourself that “My beloved is mine, and I am his…”

 

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