Sermon Series: “Sacred Romance” – 3 of 8
September 21, 2008
Pastor John Fanous
Re-Building a Foundation for Your Marriage:
A Guide for Husbands
She speaks:
2:8Listen! My lover! Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.
1. Am I ____________________ my wife?
“For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself will search for my sheep and look after them.” Ezekiel 34:11
2:9My lover is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look! There he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.
2. Am I showing ______________ and _______________________?
“Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.” Philippians 2:6-7
2:10My lover spoke and said to me, “Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come with me.
3. Am I carving out ____________ with my wife?
“At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?” Mark 5:30
2:11See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. 2:12Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land. 2:13The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me.”
For those who are single: God has a first-class ______________ for you this season.
“There is a time for everything, and everything on earth has its special season.” Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NCV)
He speaks:
2:14My 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.
2:15Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom.
4. Am I seeking Godly help for the tough ______________ in our marriage?
” Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name…” Philippians 2:9
She speaks:
2:16My lover is mine and I am his; he browses among the lilies. 2:17Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, turn, my lover, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the rugged hills.
3:1All night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves; I looked for him but did not find him. 3:2I will get up now and go about the city, through its streets and squares; I will search for the one my heart loves. So I looked for him but did not find him. 3:3The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city. “Have you seen the one my heart loves?” 3:4Scarcely had I passed them when I found the one my heart loves. I held him and would not let him go till I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the room of the one who conceived me.
3:5Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.