Life-Study of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs

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Life-study of Proverbs
An introductory word    _msg.1
The principles for man to live a proper human life    _msg.2

I. Revering God
A. Fearing God
B. Trusting in God
C. Honoring God
II. Needing wisdom
A. The one who finds wisdom being blessed
B. Not letting wisdom depart from our sight
C. The wise inheriting honor
D. Getting wisdom and not forsaking her
E. Saying that wisdom is our sister
F. Wisdom having built her house
G. The personified wisdom of God
1. Jehovah by wisdom founding the earth
2. Jehovah possessing wisdom in the beginning of His way
3. Wisdom dwelling with prudence
4. The personified wisdom of God being Christ as its reality
III. Honoring one's parents
A. Hearing the instruction of our father
B. Receiving our father's words and treasuring up his commandments within us
C. Not forgetting our father's instruction
D. Hearing and receiving our father's words
E. Listening to our father
F. A wise son making a father glad
G. The mocking eye being plucked out by ravens
IV. Holding marriage in honor
A. Man's faithfulness being the base
B. Woman's virtues being the building up

The detailed precepts for man to live a proper human life (1) _msg.3

A. A contrast between doing righteousness in wisdom and doing wickedness in folly
1. Wisdom versus folly
2. Righteousness versus wickedness
3. Diligence versus slothfulness
4. Integrity versus crookedness
5. Love versus hatred
6. Restrained lips versus many words
7. Humility versus pride
8. The worthy woman versus the foolish woman
9. Mercifulness versus cruelty
10. Perfection versus perverseness
11. Almsgiving versus stinginess
12. Love for correction versus hatred for reproof
13. Practicalness versus vainness
14. Listening to counsel versus being self-righteous
15. Holding back anger versus being prone to anger
16. Truthfulness (or Faithfulness) versus Falsehood
17. Pretending to be poor versus pretending to be rich
18. Wealth obtained by diligent labor versus wealth obtained by vanity
19. Early chastening versus rod-sparing
20. Being cautious versus believing easily
21. Graciousness to the needy versus oppression of the poor
22. Softness versus grievousness
23. Poverty with love versus wealth with hatred
24. A soothing tongue versus a perverse mouth
25. Hating of bribes versus being greedy for gain
26. Taking the Lord as the only friend versus making many friends
27. The paths of life versus the ways of death
a. The paths of life
1) Fearing the Lord
2) Trusting in the Lord
3) Taking refuge in the name of the Lord
b. The ways of death

Touching the Word of God by our new man _msg.4

Living a life of putting off the old man and putting on the new man
Studying the Bible by the old man and by the new man
Pray-reading the Word of God
Reading the Bible prayerfully
Pray-reading by exercising our spirit
The Bible being God's breathing
Coming to the Word of God not to become perfect by cultivating the self but to receive nourishment and enlightenment by praying in spirit

The detailed precepts for man to live a proper human life (2) _msg.5
Coming to proverbs to cultivate our regenerated new man _msg.6

Five matters revealed in the Bible
God
The Word
The Word becoming flesh
The life-giving Spirit
The Spirit being the word
Five factors which are now mingled with the regenerated human spirit
The book of Proverbs not being the Word directly from God
The Word becoming spirit and life to us through the exercise of our spirit
Our need to have the proper, spiritual proverbs for the cultivation of our regenerated new man
Our resurrected humanity
The crucified "I" and the regenerated "I"
Coming to Proverbs to cultivate our new man

The detailed precepts for man to live a proper human life (3) _msg.7

Using proverbs for building up the new man _msg.8

The position of proverbs, ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs in the arrangement of the books of the Bible
Wisdom, vanity, and satisfaction
Our need to know the proper way to take the book of Proverbs
God's redemption being a great part of His economy
The need for redemption
God's way to carry out His redemption
Terminating the fallen old man
Rescuing the humanity created by God
Uplifting the redeemed part of created man
God's redemption being according to His economy
Sealed with the Spirit until the day of redemption
God being patient with us and doing things slowly
The outer man decaying and the inner man being renewed day by day
The place of the book of Proverbs in God's economy

Life-study of Ecclesiastes
Vanity of vanities (1) _msg.1

I. An introductory word
A. The title
B. The writer
C. The time
D. The place
E. The contents
F. The central thought
II. The book itself
A. The opening word
1. The writer
2. The theme
a. All the works of man under the sun being done in cycle
b. All remaining the same
c. All being wearisome
B. The writer's experiments
1. In wisdom and knowledge
2. In pleasure
3. In being a wise man or a fool
a. To be a wise man being better than to be a fool
b. Solomon, as a man who labored, leaving the issue of his labor to one who had not labored
c. Solomon recognizing what is from the hand of God
4. In fate under God's sovereignty
a. There being a season for everything
b. The reasons why God appointed a season for everything
1) God having given the children of men to travail
2) God having put eternity in man's heart
3) There being nothing better for man than to rejoice and do good in his lifetime
4) God having appointed all things which are in the present and which will be in the future
5. In ranks and classes in human society
a. The judgment of God bringing the righteous down
b. God proving that men are but beasts
c. The oppressed being in tears and the oppressors having power
d. All labor and all skill in work causing man's jealousy for his neighbor
e. One who is alone and without a second
f. A poor but wise youth being better than an old and foolish king

Vanity of vanities (2) _msg.2

6. In contacting God
a. In the view of caution
b. Guarding our steps when we go to the house of God
c. Drawing near to listen
d. Not being rash with our mouth
e. Not delaying in paying our vow to God
f. Fearing God
7. In sundry illustrations
a. A poor man being oppressed under the wresting of justice and righteousness
b. The ones who love silver not being satisfied
c. The rich man keeping his riches to his hurt
d. An evil that is heavy upon man
e. A man whose soul is not filled with good
f. Man laboring for his mouth, yet his soul not being filled
g. There being many things which will increase vanity
8. Solomon encouraging the fallen men to enjoy what God has given them
C. The writer's searching and testing
1. Searching and testing all things of the fallen human life
2. All things being vanity of vanities
3. Proverbs, words of wisdom, being produced out of the writer's searching and testing
4. What God is to man
a. God creating man
b. All things concerning man being in the hand of God
c. God judging man in everything
d. God giving man a portion in human life for him to enjoy and exist
5. What man should be to God
a. Fearing God
b. Repenting to God
c. Enjoying God's provision
6. Advice to young Men
a. Young men endeavoring to enjoy the human life in their youth
b. Remembering their Creator while they are young
7. The sad portrait of man's old age
D. The concluding word
1. The writer's intention
2. God judging men in this age and at His great white throne

Life-study of Song of Songs
An introductory word and drawn to pursue Christ for satisfaction (1) _msg.1

An introductory word
1. A particular book
2. A poem of the history of love in an excellent marriage
a. A history of King Solomon with the Shulammite
b. A portrait of the love of Christ in His union with His individual believers
1) God loving His elect Israel as a Husband loving His wife
2) Christ loving His church as a Husband loving His wife
3) The believers having been betrothed to Christ as pure virgins
3. The contents
4. The sections
I. Attracted to pursue after Christ
A. The lover's yearning
1. Yearning to be kissed by Christ
2. Because of His cheering love and charming name, all the chaste believers loving Him
B. The lover's pursuing
II. Fellowshipping with Christ resulting in entering into the church life
A. The Beloved bringing her into her spirit as the Holiest of all for fellowship
1. She and her companions extolling His love with joy and rejoicing
2. Seeing her self that she is sinful in Adam but justified in Christ
3. She being instructed by Him in the way to enter into the church life
a. Persecuted by her denominational brothers
b. He telling her to follow Him on the footsteps of the church
B. It being wonderful that the fellowship of the lover with Christ results in the church life

Drawn to pursue Christ for satisfaction (2) _msg.2

III. Transformed by the remaking of the Spirit
A. The lover of Christ being transformed from a strong natural person into a person who trusts in Him and looks to Him with a single eye
B. The Beloved appreciating her loveliness in submission to Him
C. The transforming Spirit and her companions adorning her with the constitution of the life of God by the redeeming work of Christ
D. At the table where Christ is feasting with His lover, her love toward Him spreading forth its fragrance
E. She enjoying Him privately in His death in her embracing love and faith
F. He appreciating her beauty in her looking to Him with a single eye by the Spirit
G. She appreciating His beauty in His pleasantness
H. She humbly realizing that she is a small person
I. He appreciating her as His love who lives a pure and trusting life
J. She appreciating Him as the source of rich provision who supplies her in a timely way
IV. Satisfied with the rest and enjoyment in Christ
A. She being satisfied
1. With her rest in His feeding life as the resting place in the night in His embracing and in His death and His resurrection as the shelter
2. With her delighting in resting under Him as an overshadowing canopy in the day and her tasting of Him as the sweet, timely supply
3. With triumphant love spread over her in the enjoyable church life
B. He taking care of her rest in Him
1. Considering her one easily stirred up
2. Solemnly charging the meddling believers
3. Not to awaken her from her experience of Christ in resting in Him
4. Until she feels pleasant in her second pursuit after Him

Called to be delivered from the self through the oneness with the cross _msg.3

I. By Christ's resurrection power through His fellowship
A. Coming, leaping upon the mountains and skipping upon the hills
B. Being like a gazelle or a young hart
C. Standing behind "our wall"
D. Looking through the windows and glancing through the lattice
II. Entreated to respond and encouraged with the passing away of the winter and the coming of the spring of resurrection in its flourishing riches
A. The lover of Christ failing to respond to Him in His fellowship
B. She being down in her situation
C. Christ wanting her to come out of her down situation to be with Him
D. The time of dormancy and trials being over
E. The flourishing riches of Christ's resurrection
F. Christ's eagerness in asking His lover to get away from her introspection of the self to be with Him
III. Called to be in oneness with the cross
A. Christ wanting to see His lover's lovely countenance and hear her sweet voice in her oneness with the cross
B. Christ charging His lover to be aware of her peculiarities, habits, and introspections which ruin the resurrection for His lover
IV. The lover's rejection and failure
A. Realizing that Christ belongs to her and she to Christ, yet he not being with her
B. Rejecting Him by asking Him to wait until her down situation is over
C. In her introspection she seeking her beloved but failing to find him
V. The lover's waking up and recovery
A. She rising up to seek her beloved in the ways and in the methods of the heavenly Jerusalem
B. The ones who watch over God's people in the ways of the heavenly Jerusalem finding her
C. Finding her beloved and holding him
VI. Christ charging the meddling daughters not to awaken her

Called to live in ascension as the new creation in resurrection _msg.4

I. The new creation
A. By the lover’s complete union with Christ
1. She coming from Egypt like persons in the unshakable power of the Spirit
2. She being the victory of the victorious Christ
3. She being a palanquin as a carriage of Christ
4. The Spirit bidding the overcoming believers to look away from themselves unto Christ in His humanity
B. The beauty of the lover, the bride, as the new creation
1. The beauty in her singleness and insight by the Spirit
2. The beauty in her receiving the divine food
3. The beauty in her speaking with Christ’s redemption and His authority
4. The beauty in her submissive will to Christ
5. The beauty in her tender faith and love
C. Her deeper pursuit
II. Called to live in ascension
A. His calling
1. Appraising her beauty and perfection
2. Asking her as His bride to look with Him from His ascension
B. Her silent answer
C. His private enjoyment of her
1. Enjoying her beautiful love
2. Enjoying her word as fresh honey and the fragrance of her conduct
3. Considering her an enclosed garden, a shut up spring, and a sealed fountain
a. An enclosed garden that grows all kinds of plants in different colors
b. A sealed fountain with a shut up spring in gardens that flows as a well of the living water
III. Living a life of love
A. The answer of the bride
B. The answer of the Beloved

Living in ascension by discerning the spirit from the soul _msg.5

The call to live in ascension
The Lord expressing His appreciation of His lover
The call to come with him from Lebanon
Looking from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon
Looking from the lions’ dens and from the leopards’ mountains
Our need to discern the spirit from the soul
God’s economy in saving us
Saved persons having two men
Living by the new man
Living in ascension by living in our spirit
The need for practice

Called more strongly to live within the veil through the cross after resurrection (1) _msg.6

I. The stronger calling of the cross after resurrection and her failure
A. The Beloved’s calling
B. Her refusal
C. Her opening of the door
1. Her beloved showing His pierced hand through her narrow opening
2. Rising up to open the door to her Beloved
D. The beloved’s hiding
E. Her being wounded
F. Her seeking help from the common believers
G. The first question of the ones whom she asks
H. Her impression of her Beloved
1. Her beloved being pure
3. His expression of sentiment
4. His countenance being beautiful and sweet
5. His works being full of the divine binding power and being stable for the carrying out of God’s will
6. His standing and supporting strength being of the righteous standing based on God’s divine nature
7. His taste of divine things being sweet
8. The impression of the Beloved realized by the lover
I. The second question of the ones whom she asks
J. Her reply
1. Realizing that her Beloved is within her as his garden
2. Telling them that she belongs to her Beloved

Called more strongly to live within the veil through the cross after resurrection (1) _msg.7

II. A life within the veil
A. The Beloved’s praise
1. Her Beloved, treasuring her as His love, praising her that she is beautiful as the heavenly sanctuary and lovely as the heavenly Jerusalem
2. She being terrible as an army with banners
3. The lover’s becoming the heavenly sanctuary and the heavenly Jerusalem being due to her victory over the enemies
4. An indication of her maturity in life for God’s building
5. The Lord’s word of seeming rejection
6. Her hair being like a flock of goats
7. Her teeth being like a flock of ewes
8. Her cheeks being like a piece of pomegranate
9. Her Beloved being loved by many different believers
10. Her Beloved praising her as the dawn
11. Terrible as an army with banners
B. The lover’s work
C. The lover’s progress and victory
1. She not being aware that she is progressing swiftly
2. Those who are attracted by her asking her to come back

Sharing in the work of the Lord _msg.8

I. Equipped as a worker in the work of the Lord
A. The Spirit’s review of the virtues of the lover
1. The Spirit reviewing her beauty
a. Her beauty in the gospel preaching and in her standing power
b. Her beauty in her inward parts
c. Her beauty in her active ability to feed others in a living way
d. Her beauty in her submissive will, in the expression of her heart, and in her spiritual sense of high and sharp discernment
e. Her beauty in her thoughts and intentions and in her submission and obedience for her consecration
2. The Spirit’s review presenting all the believers a beautiful portrait of the lovely lover of Christ
B. The Beloved’s inserted words
1. The Beloved, considering her His love, praising her
2. The Beloved enjoying her mature stature of Christ and sharing it with the members of His Body
II. Working together with her Beloved
A. Wishing that others would enjoy smoothly what she could be
B. Confessing that she belongs to her Beloved for His desire
C. Wanting to carry out with her Beloved the work that is for the entire world
D. She and her Beloved working diligently not for herself but in the churches
E. In her working together with her Beloved there being a mutual love giving forth its fragrance between them

Hoping to be raptured _msg.9

I. Groaning for her flesh
II. Hoping to be saved from her groaning for the flesh
A. Hoping that she and her Beloved could meet in the heavenly Jerusalem
B. Her Beloved charging the meddling believers not to awaken her from her proper hope of rapture
III. Before the rapture
A. The Spirit speaking through a third person
B. Christ answering that she is a sinner who has repented and has been saved by grace
C. The lover admitting that by herself she is not able to stand and live in her Beloved until her rapture
D. Being concerned for the younger lovers of Christ
E. She with her Beloved perfecting one who is a wall and one who is a door
F. Testifying that she is a separating wall with two towers of faith and love
G. In the work of Christ he being the Lord of all the works, and the lover of Christ participating in one part of the work
H. The lover of her Beloved asking Him to let her hear His voice
I. The lover of her Beloved praying that he would make haste to come back in the power of His resurrection to set up His sweet and beautiful kingdom
A concluding word

The four stages of spiritual experience in Song of Songs _msg.10

The first stage — attracted by Christ and drawn by Him to pursue after Him for full satisfaction
The second stage — called to be delivered from the self through the oneness with the cross
The third stage — called by Christ to live in ascension as the new creation of God in the resurrection of Christ
The fourth stage — called by Christ more strongly to live within the veil through His cross after the experience of His resurrection

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