FollowUp 10-05-16

Message Title: Love and Wisdom
Series: Respect the Beard

Verses used: Song of Solomon 2:3-7,3:5, 8:4, Prov 5:1-23

Key verses:
Song of Solomon 2:7, Prov 5:18

Sermon Notes:

1. It is better to learn and live than live and learn.

2. Song of Solomon is a picture of pure marital love that speaks openly and joyfully of human sexuality.

3. Song of Solomon provides a model for how a husband and wife were to feel toward one another and how they could express their feelings.

The warning label of Song of Solomon is:
4. Do not awaken love until it’s time. (2:7; 3:5; 8:4)
5. God’s laws are not restrictive but protective!
6. God values our human sexuality
7. God protects our human sexuality in the confines of marriage
8. God tells us to protect our marriages.

Something to think about this week…

Martin Luther said of sexual temptation, “We can’t do anything about the birds flying over our head, but we can prevent them from building a nest in our hair.”