Reading: Song of Songs And Sex Slides

The man
1.What is he?
2.What does he want?

3.What does he fear?

The woman
1.What is she?
2.What does she want?

3.What does she fear?

The man
What is he?

1)Visual
Song 2:14 My dove in the clefts of the rock, in

the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face,

let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet,

and your face is lovely.

2)ADD
Song 4:16 Awake, north wind,

and come, south wind! Blow on my garden,

that its fragrance may spread everywhere.
Let my beloved come into his garden

and taste its choice fruits.

3)Hungry
Song 5:1 I have come into my garden, my

sister, my bride;
I have gathered my myrrh with my

spice.
I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey;

I have drunk my wine and my milk.

4)Builder
Song 3:9,10 King Solomon made for himself

the carriage;
he made it of wood from Lebanon.

10 Its posts he made of silver, its base of gold.

Its seat was upholstered with purple, its interior inlaid with love.

5)Part of a pack
Song 3:7 Look, it is Solomon's carriage, with

sixty of Israel's mightiest men surrounding it.”

The man
What does he want?
1)To know that he is the best.
Song 2:3 Like the finest apple tree in the

orchard
is my lover among other young men.

I sit in his delightful shade and taste his delicious fruit.

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Song 5:10-16 10 My lover is dark and dazzling, better than ten thousand others!

11 His head is finest gold,
his wavy hair is black as a raven.

12 His eyes sparkle like doves beside springs of water;

they are set like jewels washed in milk.

13 His cheeks are like gardens of spices giving off fragrance.

His lips are like lilies, perfumed with myrrh.

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14 His arms are like rounded bars of gold, set with beryl.

His body is like bright ivory, glowing with lapis lazuli.

15 His legs are like marble pillars set in sockets of finest gold.

His posture is stately,
like the noble cedars of Lebanon.

16 His mouth is sweetness itself; he is desirable in every way.

Such, O women of Jerusalem, is my lover, my friend.

2)To go places.
Song 2:13 Figs are beginning to ripen;

the air is fragrant with blossoming vines.

Come then, my love;
my darling, come with me.

3)Exclusive rights to his woman.
Song 4:12You are my private garden, my

treasure, my bride,
a secluded spring, a hidden fountain.

4)A little adventure.
Song 7:11 Come, my love, let us go out to the

fields
and spend the night among the

wildflowers.

5)To prize one woman.
Song 6:8.9 Even among sixty queens

and eighty concubines

and countless young women,
9 I would still choose my dove, my

perfect one--
the favorite of her mother,
dearly loved by the one who bore her.

The young women see her and praise her;

even queens and royal concubines sing her praises:

The man
What does he fear?

1)Rejection

Song 2:14 2 I slept, but my heart was awake, when I heard my lover knocking and calling:

"Open to me, my treasure, my darling, my dove, my perfect one.

My head is drenched with dew,
my hair with the dampness of the night.”

3 But I responded,
"I have taken off my robe.

Should I get dressed again? I have washed my feet.

Should I get them soiled?”

2)To be marginalized
Song 8:13 O my darling, lingering in the

gardens,
your companions are fortunate to hear

your voice.
Let me hear it, too!

3)The loss of manhood.
Song 4:8 Come with me from the Lebanon

Mountains, my bride;
come with me from Lebanon.

Come down from the top of Mount Amana,

from Mount Senir and Mount Hermon,

where the lions and leopards live. Before the dawn breezes blow

and the night shadows flee,
I will hurry to the mountain of myrrh

and to the hill of frankincense.

The woman
What is she?

1)Concerned about her looks.
Song 1:6 Don't look down on me because of my

color,
because the sun has tanned me.

My brothers were angry with me and made me work in the vineyard. I had no time to care for myself.

2)Attractive
Song 4:16 Wake up, North Wind.

South Wind, blow on my garden; fill the air with fragrance.

Let my lover come to his garden and eat the best of its fruits.

3)Social
Song 2:14 Most beautiful of women,

where has your lover gone?
Tell us which way your lover went,

so that we can help you find him.

4)Adventurous or likes flowers.
Song 7:11Come, my love, let us go out to the

fields
and spend the night among the

wildflowers.

The woman
What does she want?

1)Words of love from her man.
Song 1:15 How beautiful you are, my love;

how your eyes shine with love! *

Song 1:15 How beautiful you are, my love! How your eyes shine with love behind your veil. Your hair dances like a flock of goats bounding down the hills of Gilead. 2 Your teeth are as white as sheep that have just been shorn and washed. Not one of them is missing; they are all perfectly matched. 3 Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon; how lovely they are when you speak. Your cheeks glow behind your veil.

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4 Your neck is like the tower of David, round and smooth, with a necklace like a thousand shields hung around it. 5 Your breasts are like gazelles, twin deer feeding among lilies. 6 I will stay on the hill of myrrh, the hill of incense, until the morning breezes blow and the darkness disappears. 7 How beautiful you are, my love; how perfect you are!

2)To know she is the best.
Song 2:2 Like a lily among thorns

is my darling among women.
Song 2:4 He brought me to his banquet hall

and raised the banner of love over me. Song 6:8-9 Let the king have sixty queens,

eighty concubines,
young women without number!

9 But I love only one,
and she is as lovely as a dove.

She is her mother's only daughter, her mother's favorite child.

All women look at her and praise her; queens and concubines sing her praises.

3)To be pursued.
Song 2:8 I hear my lover's voice.

He comes running over the mountains, racing across the hills to me.

Song 7:10 I belong to my lover, and he desires me.

4)To be held
Song 2:6 His left hand is under my head,

and his right hand caresses me.

5)To have problems taken care of.
Song 2:15 Catch the foxes, the little foxes,

before they ruin our vineyard in bloom.

6)To have a joint, exclusive relationship. Song 2:16,17 My lover is mine, and I am his.

He feeds his flock among the lilies 17 until the morning breezes blow

and the darkness disappears. Return, my darling, like a gazelle,

like a stag on the mountains of Bether.

The woman
What does she fear?

1)Being abandoned.
Song 5:6 I opened the door for my lover,

but he had already gone.
How I wanted to hear his voice!
I looked for him, but couldn't find him;

I called to him, but heard no answer.

2)What people think.
Song8;1 I wish that you were my brother,

that my mother had nursed you at her breast. Then, if I met you in the street,

I could kiss you and no one would mind.

3)Not being desired.
Song 1:6 Don't look down on me because of my

color,
because the sun has tanned me.

My brothers were angry with me and made me work in the vineyard. I had no time to care for myself.

Where is God in this book?

Gen 1:26,27 Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground. ”So God created mankind in his own image,

in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

Gen 2:21-24 The LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh;

she shall be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man.” 24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.