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Song of Solomon, chapter 1, verses 15 and 16. Look, you are beautiful, my beloved. Look,

you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves. Look, you are beautiful, my beloved. Truly pleasant.

All right, how are we going to pray according to God's Word to us in the song of Solomon?

There's so much we could talk about with this book and so much that is a little more challenging

to talk about when I think about some moms and dads riding with their kids in the car who

listen to pray the Word and want to keep this appropriate for all ages knowing. So the picture we

have in the book of Song of Solomon is a picture of love between a husband and a wife between

two people made in the image of God, male and female and created to enjoy one another in

sexual relationship with one another. And that's if you're one of those parents, that's about as far

as we're going to try to go in these pray the Word episodes. But this book is really important

because it's a powerful, beautiful picture of God's good design for marriage going all the way back

to Genesis chapter 2 when a man and woman come together in one flesh marriage. And then the way

that points us to Ephesians chapter 5 and the reality that God designed marriage this way to be a

picture of Jesus' love for the church and the church's love for Jesus. So I would not be of the

understanding that Song of Solomon is an allegory that's intended to just depict in all these

specific ways the relationship between Christ and his church. But marriage absolutely is a

picture of the relationship between Christ and his church and in this way the book of Song of

Solomon as it reflects the beauty of marriage is absolutely a picture of Christ's love for the

church in ways that every person who's listening to this who is married or will be married in the

future wants our marriages to reflect the love of Christ. And so we come to a verse like this,

Song of Solomon 1 15 and 16 look you're beautiful my beloved look you're beautiful your eyes

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