Song of Solomon 2:6 AMPC

The Bride speaking:

6 [I can feel] [a]his left hand under my head and his right hand embraces me!

Footnotes

• Song of Solomon 2:6 Do I have a constant sense of my Shepherd’s presence, regardless of my surroundings?

Song of Songs 8:5-6 TPT

The Bridegroom-King speaking: 

Who is this one? She arises out of her desert, clinging to her beloved. [up from the wilderness leaning upon her beloved. (AMPC)] When I awakened you under the apple tree, as you were feasting upon me, I awakened your innermost being with the travail of birth as you longed for more of me. Fasten me upon your heart as a seal of fire forevermore. This living, consuming flame will seal you as my prisoner of love.

It’s a brand new reality being indwelt by Christ when we are first born again and made one with our Creator. The truth that explains things and sets us free from slavery to our inherited adamic sin nature plus a frustrated existence of ever reacting to the circumstances of the disorder around us vs. the abiding union with the Spirit ever working to bring order out of chaos and redeem and restore all from the fall in the garden is 1 Cor. 6:17 by way of the sine qua non of Gal. 2:20.

1 Corinthians 6:16-17

Expanded Bible

16 Don’t you know that anyone who joins with a prostitute [C in a sexual relationship] becomes one body with the prostitute? For it is written in the Scriptures, “The two will become one ·body [flesh; Gen. 2:24].” 17 But the one who joins with the Lord [C in spiritual union] is one spirit with the Lord.

Note the picture in the natural of the one spirit, “nothing can ever separate us from His love” position, is sex. Pleasure. Held in embrace close to God’s heart. Enfolded in our Creator’s arms and accepted. We have become His landing place: the very temple of the Holy Spirit. A jar of clay we are with the greatest treasure imaginable inside us: the Lord Almighty up close and personal. 

Romans 8:38-39 TPT So now I live with the confidence that there is nothing in the universe with the power to separate us from God’s love. I’m convinced that his love will triumph over death, life’s troubles, fallen angels, or dark rulers in the heavens. There is nothing in our present or future circumstances that can weaken his love. There is no power above us or beneath us—no power that could ever be found in the universe that can distance us from God’s passionate love, which is lavished upon us through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One! 

1 Cor. 6:19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is within you, whom you have [received as a gift] from God, and that you are not your own [property]?

2 Cor. 4:6-7 AMPCFor God Who said, Let light shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts so as [to beam forth] the Light for the illumination of the knowledge of the majesty and glory of God [as it is manifest in the Person and is revealed] in the face of Jesus Christ (the Messiah). 7 However, we possess this precious treasure [the divine Light of the Gospel] in [frail, human] vessels of earth, that the grandeur and exceeding greatness of the power may be shown to be from God and not from ourselves.

2 Cor. 9:14-15 and they also long for you while they pray on your behalf, because of the surpassing measure of God’s grace [His undeserved favor, mercy, and blessing which is revealed] in you. 15 Now thanks be to God for His indescribable gift [which is precious beyond words].

Let’s look further at just how loved and secure we can be 24/7 as we understand this new union spirit to Spirit or beloved to Beloved we are to live from. We are now ONE with the God of the cosmos with John 17 in sight. May we experience awe at this rescue. May we know wonder at this high rank given us in the real scheme of things. May we go deep in this new identity of marriage to God. 

As needed and admitted to in terms of utmost desire, we can avail ourselves of all the nurture and cherishing we crave as we surrender to being His! Inside. Out of the Kingdom within. (See Luke 17:21.) Knowing and being known with no shame is ours at the most transparent levels on into eternity and via the stream of eternal life or living water. God as Vine to us as branches aka the Edenic tree of life, our source of all again. We are grafted in. 

Easy English Bible Eph 5:30-32

We are like the parts of Christ’s body. 31 The Bible says this: ‘When a man marries, he leaves his father and his mother. Instead, God joins the man and his wife together. The two people become like one body.’[a] 32 This is God’s secret and it is difficult to understand. But I am saying that it teaches us about Christ and the church.

The Message Eph. 5:29-33

29-33 No one abuses his own body, does he? No, he feeds and pampers it. That’s how Christ treats us, the church, since we are part of his body. And this is why a man leaves father and mother and cherishes his wife. No longer two, they become “one flesh.” This is a huge mystery, and I don’t pretend to understand it all. What is clearest to me is the way Christ treats the church. And this provides a good picture of how each husband is to treat his wife, loving himself in loving her, and how each wife is to honor her husband. [Deeper in the Hebraic understanding of marriage coming in later posts.]

Eph. 5:29 

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

Eph. 5:28-33

Men ought to give their wives the love they naturally have for their own bodies. The love a man gives his wife is the extending of his love for himself to enfold her. Nobody ever hates or neglects his own body; he feeds and looks after it. And that is what Christ does for his body, the Church. And we are all members of that body, we are his flesh and blood! ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’. The marriage relationship is doubtless a great mystery, but I am speaking of something deeper still—the marriage of Christ and his Church. In practice, what I have said amounts to this: let every one of you who is a husband love his wife as he loves himself; let the wife reverence her husband.

Note the physicality of God’s care for our bodies: His very temple and His home within us. The Lord is truly the Great Physician and Lover of our souls and bodies. Doctor Jesus. As we practice the bonded position, now our default place as we walk among humankind, let us know and enjoy Jesus tending to us with spiritual touch. Once born again, the Holy Spirit works with us in the recovery and development of our spiritual senses. Re: this said palpable  touch, 1 John 1:1 in the Passion contains a rich note. The verse reads: “We saw Him with our very own eyes. We gazed upon Him and heard Him speak. Our hands actually touched Him, (d) the one who was from the beginning, the Living Expression of God.” (d) The word for touch is poetic. It comes from a sensory verb meaning “to pluck the strings of an instrument.” It can also be translated “to feel” (see Acts 17:27). It is as though John is saying, “We have plucked the chords of his being and felt what motivated Him, His melody within.”

Truly, through the spiritual union or bonded position of 1 Cor. 6:17, we know the Lord more intimately than when the disciples walked and talked with Him in Gospel days. Jesus said back then, “Soon you won’t see me any longer, but then, after a little while, you will see me in a new way.” (f) “Because I go to my Father,” note (f) adds. (John 16:16 TPT) Oh the love and companionship of God as LOVER! Oh the security of this bonded place. 

Another word for this bonded to God union is the cleaving position. Again, a marriage term. Cleaving equates to sex. Genesis 2:24 says, “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall become united and cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” And in Deut. 11:22-24, the Almighty explicitly uses “cleave” to call forth the great and fruitful bond of His people to Himself. Union yields it all in terms of conquest of the bountiful land, just as our cleaving or staying bonded to Yeshua // Jesus brings soul prosperity and healing. [The husbandman as Savior in a sense.] Note 3 John 2: “Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in every way and [that your body] may keep well, even as [I know] your soul keeps well and prospers.” (AMPC) [Note Eph. 5 in The Message how the husbandman brings forth his radiant, glorious wife or soul mate.]

We have referenced the Song of Songs embrace. We have looked at the marriage of Christ and the church. Let’s consider one more picture—that of the disciple whom Jesus loved. John the Beloved. At the final supper before the cross, John reclined right next to the heart of Jesus Christ. He dared to come close. He came boldly before the throne of grace, as it were, in knowing and being known, just like we are invited to do. John leaned his head on Jesus’ breast—the bonded position. Thus, we can picture ourselves in any place, at any time, leaning our heads on the torso of the Lord for stability and strength and to hear His words clearly from the close place of embrace. Never separate; never alone. Our identity settled: “I am the disciple Jesus dearly loves.” (John 13:23 TPT) When needed we receive the more, “You give me all I can drink of you until my cup overflows.” (Psalm 23:5 TPT) 

“Yahweh is my best friend and Shepherd,” our position. (Psalm 23:1 TPT)

“I love you, Yahweh , and I’m bonded to you, my strength!” our cry. (Psalm 18:1 TPT)

Recall that the bonded position is how Jesus, our Pattern Son and elder brother, walked the earth:

John 1:18 AMPC

18 No man has ever seen God at any time; the only unique Son, or the only begotten God, Who is in the bosom [in the intimate presence] of the Father, He has declared Him [He has revealed Him and brought Him out where He can be seen; He has interpreted Him and He has made Him known].

John 1:18 AMP 

No one has seen God [His essence, His divine nature] at any time; the [One and] only begotten God [that is, the unique Son] who is in the intimate presence of the Father, He has explained Him [and interpreted and revealed the awesome wonder of the Father].

John 1:18 EXB

No one has ever seen God [God the Father, who is pure spirit; 4:24]. But ·God the only Son [God the one and only; the only Son who is himself God;  God the only begotten] is ·very close to [by the side of; close to the heart of; in the bosom of] the Father, and he has ·shown us what God is like [made him known].

PHILLIPS

So the word of God became a human being and lived among us. We saw his splendour (the splendour as of a father’s only son), full of grace and truth. And it was about him that John stood up and testified, exclaiming: “Here is the one I was speaking about when I said that although he would come after me he would always be in front of me; for he existed before I was born!” Indeed, every one of us has shared in his riches—there is a grace in our lives because of his grace. For while the Law was given by Moses, love and truth came through Jesus Christ. It is true that no one has ever seen God at any time. Yet the divine and only Son, who lives in the closest intimacy with the Father, has made him known.

Final: Let’s not forget the great potency of the bonded position with its connection to the Almighty as source. The place we come to know in the Father. Dependence on the tree of life vs. the independence of our own self as our well with the issue of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Prayer:

Thank You, Abba, for access and the invitation to power in prayer and deed, by way of our bond.  Thank You for John 3:16-17 all different versions.

“The person who follows me in faith, believing in me, will do the same mighty miracles that I do—even greater miracles than these because I go to be with my Father! For I will do whatever you ask me to do when you ask me in my name. [I will be your bondslave. (My add.)] And that is how the Son will show what the Father is really like and bring glory to Him. Ask me anything in my name, and I will do it for you!” (John 14:12-14 TPT)

See Shame Being Known and Loved by Esther Liu on logos.com books. (Don’t miss this gem.)

See the YouTube videos on the YADA relationship with God.

See John Crowder’s Cosmos Reborn.

See Greater Works by Smith Wigglesworth.

See Michael Fickess’ Restoring the Apostolic Gospel An Invitation to Encounter the Glorified Christ and Rediscover our Full Inheritance in Him. 

See Crisis in Masculinity by Leanne Payne.

Note immanuelapproach.com by Dr. Karl Lehman and the related school, facetofacenetwork.org. See also James Wilder and the other Christian neurotheologians.

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