Here in Chapter 7, it has been the Heavenly Bridegroom/King who has been speaking, in the first nine verses. Christ has been describing the Church’s beauty to her in ways which shows His great love for her. And in each phrase, He has given to us a picture of how He views His Church, spiritually, in terms of the beauty of what she has become by His grace. Now, here in verse 10, we have the response of the Bride to all that Christ has said to her. His descriptions of His love, and His admiration for her, have brought her to better realize all that she means to Him. The language of assurance comes forth from her lips. She speaks of the assurance which Christ Himself has caused her to have. She knows that she belongs to Him, and she knows of a certainty that His desire is towards her. I believe that this is not only a statement representing the Church as a whole, but it can, and it should be seen, as that which every believer in Christ can experience if you will think and act upon the love of Christ which has been shown to you. So, knowing that Christ’s desire is toward you, to build and strengthen your faith, and make you useful in service to Him, this should lead you to make request of Him, even as the Bride did in our text. Christ has expressed 3 desires for us here which are related to your intimate fellowship and communion with Him. I pray that as I preach this sermon to you that you will be asking Him to bring to you a deeper experience of His love, and thus you will be able to give yourself to Him in greater acts of loving obedience, and seek to bring others to know Christ, or to know Him better.
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...