Sacred Garden | Week 5 | Sacred Intimacy
Song of Solomon 4:1-5:1 | Pastor Keoni Hughes
5 Bees of Making Love Great (Again)
Be Generous Verbally | v. 1-7
Be Gentle | v. 5
“We feasted on love; every mode of it, solemn and merry, romantic and realistic, sometimes as dramatic as a thunderstorm, sometimes comfortable and unemphatic as putting on your soft slippers. She was my pupil and my teacher, my subject and my sovereign, my trusty comrade, friends, shipmate, fellow-soldier. My mistress, but at the same time all that any man friend has ever been to me.” – C.S. Lewis
Be Sensitive | v. 5
Be Adventurous | v. 8
“In any relationship, the element of unpredictability can be both stimulating and alarming. Its absence may indicate that we have degenerated into a passive, boring amoeba-like existence.” – Tom Gledhill (Song of Songs)
Be Generous Physically | 4:9-5:1
Christ Connection | 5:1
“I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.” – Matthew 26:29
Discussion Questions
How does this portion point forward towards Christ?
Are there ways in which this poem is difficult to process?
What makes this subject so unapproachable?
How can we take what we learned and glean from this?