(vs 4:16 - 6:3) David wrote his songs (Psalms), and Solomon wrote his (SoS). It's allegorical about his relationship with his wife, and is how Christ and His Church (bride) relate to each other.

The setting is a marriage relationship riveted with physical affection. If you read with the wrong eyes it arouses the wrong thing in you.

* INTIMACY - Physical and Spiritual (personal & corporate). The purpose of sex is intimacy (to be fully known and fully accepted) - the product is LIFE!

SoS is broken up into several acts, like a play.

Vs 5:1 - The end of the third act of SoS - Christ and His bride had experienced intimacy.

* The beginning of the Fourth Act - going back to when their love was first born. She has a dream:

Vs 5:2 - Her husband had come to the door and gently entreated her - He was pursuing her.

Vs 5:3 - She 1) wasn't ready and 2) unwilling to surrender to Him.

Vs 5:4 - He was longing for her. She was "moved" when she realized he was pursuing her.

Vs 5:5 - She was finally ready to respond to His pursuit. Everything inside of her was now ready for Him - she put her perfume on.

Vs 5:6 - Christ had departed. She waited too long. The words of Isaiah 55:6 are so true - "Seek Me while I may be found."

* Christ doesn't accept half-hearted commitment. She then went looking for Him - she now was pursuing Him.

Vs 5:7 - Well intentioned spiritual leaders with ill delivered methods. They misjudged her and left her exposed.

Vs 5:8 - She couldn't trust the watchmen, so she makes an announcement to everyone - "I want Jesus!"

Vs 5:9 - They respond - "How is He different than any other god?"

Vs 5:10-16 - She responds - "Let me tell you about my Jesus!"

* He was a TENDER WARRIOR, like the two-sides of King David - a lover and a fighter. He was both Truth & Love!

Vs 6:1 - They respond - "If He's all that, then we want Him too!"

Vs 6:2 - She finally found Him - He had gone down from His palace to His garden, in the 1) quiet and 2) secret place.

* If she wanted to find Him, she had to be alone.

Vs 6:3 - The two came back together again and were now in a position of intimacy once again. They were each other's - He was hers and she was His.

** UGLY - SoS 7 - she was a pot-bellied girl with a long neck, beady eyes, and a massive shnoz. She didn't walk places, she waddled. She was an ugly duckling, but He dug her in a crazy passionate way because she was His girl!

This is where the church needs to be today, but it starts with each one of us going through these steps above personally with Jesus.