Homerton Baptist Church
Morning Service (240421)

      • Song of Solomon 2:15ESV

  • Hymn 202 - You holy angels bright

      • Psalms 66.5-7NKJV

      • John 4:10NKJV

      • Romans 9:5NKJV

      • John 10:11NKJV

      • Colossians 1:18NKJV

      • Ephesians 5:23NKJV

      • Luke 1:76NKJV

      • John 14:26NKJV

      • Titus 2:13NKJV

      • Luke 1:69NKJV

      • 2 Corinthians 4:4NKJV

      • Romans 8:26–27NKJV

      • Matthew 1:21NKJV

      • Romans 6:23NKJV

      • John 14:26NKJV

      • Titus 2:13NKJV

      • Luke 1:69NKJV

      • 2 Corinthians 4:4NKJV

      • Romans 8:26NKJV

      • Romans 8:27NKJV

      • Romans 8:34NKJV

      • Matthew 1:21NKJV

      • Romans 6:23NKJV

  • Hymn 1189 - THE LORD’S MY SHEPHERD

      • Deuteronomy 1:1–6NKJV

      • Matthew 5:33–37NKJV

      • Exodus 20:1–17NKJV

  • Hymn 115 - Not to us be glory given

      • Song of Solomon 2:15ESV

      • Deuteronomy 7.1NKJV

      • Deuteronomy 7.2-3NKJV

      • Deuteronomy 7.4-5NKJV

      • Deuteronomy 7.6-7NKJV

      • Deuteronomy 7.8NKJV

      • Deuteronomy 7.9-10NKJV

      • Deuteronomy 7.11NKJV

  • Psalm 66:5–7 ESV
    5 Come and see what God has done: he is awesome in his deeds toward the children of man. 6 He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the river on foot. There did we rejoice in him, 7 who rules by his might forever, whose eyes keep watch on the nations— let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah
    Deuteronomy 7:1–11 ESV
    1 “When the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than you, 2 and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. 3 You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, 4 for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly. 5 But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and chop down their Asherim and burn their carved images with fire. 6 “For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, 10 and repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face. 11 You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.
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    Introduction
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    Song of Solomon 6:5–7 ESV
    5 Turn away your eyes from me, for they overwhelm me— Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead. 6 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes that have come up from the washing; all of them bear twins; not one among them has lost its young. 7 Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.
    Solomon finds the Shulamite to be overwhelming. Such is the beauty and power of the church that Christ finds it overwhelming.
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    1. The Look of Love v5a

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    Song of Solomon 6:5 (ESV)
    5 Turn away your eyes from me, for they overwhelm me
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    With these words, our Saviour seems to say, I cannot resist those eyes that look to me. I will forgive and forget all that is past. The Lord of Glory is overcome by his people when they look unto him! We look to him with sorrowful eyes in repentance. We look to him with hopeful eyes in faith. We look to him with sincere eyes in love. And he is overcome! He cannot resist the look of faith! Child of God, even when the Lord hides his face keep on looking to him. The eyes of repentance, love, and faith will soon prevail. He so loves us that he is willing to be overcome by us![1]
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    2. Outstanding Beauty v5b-7

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    Song of Solomon 6:5–7 (ESV)
    …your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead. 6 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes that have come up from the washing; all of them bear twins; not one among them has lost its young. 7 Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.
    Repetition of his expressions of love.
    Song of Solomon 4:1–3 ESV
    1 Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead. 2 Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes that have come up from the washing, all of which bear twins, and not one among them has lost its young. 3 Your lips are like a scarlet thread, and your mouth is lovely. Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.
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    Vision of the measuring of Jerusalem
    Zechariah 2:8 ESV
    8 For thus said the Lord of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:
    Deuteronomy 32:10 ESV
    10 “He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
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    a. A New Nature

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    1 Peter 3:3–4 ESV
    3 Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— 4 but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.
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    Isaiah 62:3–4 ESV
    3 You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. 4 You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be termed Desolate, but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her, and your land Married; for the Lord delights in you, and your land shall be married.
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    2 Corinthians 3:18 ESV
    18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
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    2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV
    17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

    b. God’s Chosen

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    Deuteronomy 7:6–8 ESV
    6 “For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
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    Ephesians 1:3–4 ESV
    3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
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    c. Righteousness

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    Isaiah 61:10 ESV
    10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
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    2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV
    21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
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    d. Holiness

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    Ephesians 5:25–27 ESV
    25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
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    Colossians 1:21–22 ESV
    21 And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, 22 he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him,
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    1 Peter 2:4–5 ESV
    4 As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, 5 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
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    3. Inheritance

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    Psalm 16:5–6 ESV
    5 The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot. 6 The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.
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    1 Peter 1:3–5 ESV
    3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5 who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
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    Colossians 1:12–14 “12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. 13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.”
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    John 14:1–3 ESV
    1 “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. 2 In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
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    Conclusion
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    1 Peter 2:9–10 ESV
    9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
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    [1]Fortner, D. S. (2007). Discovering Christ in the Song of Solomon (pp. 151–152). Danville, KY: Grace Baptist Church of Danville.
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      • Song of Solomon 6:5–7NKJV

      • Zechariah 2:8NKJV

      • 1 Peter 3:3–4NKJV

      • Isaiah 62:3–4NKJV

      • 2 Corinthians 3:18NKJV

      • Deuteronomy 7:6–8NKJV

      • Ephesians 1:3–4NKJV

      • Isaiah 61:10NKJV

      • 2 Corinthians 5:21NKJV

      • Ephesians 5:25–27NKJV

      • Colossians 1:21–22NKJV

      • 1 Peter 2:4–5NKJV

      • 1 Peter 1:3–5NKJV

  • Hymn 1278 - O CHURCH ARISE
  • Doxology 151 v1

      • 2 Peter 3:18ESV

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