My beloved calls to me, “Arise, my darling. Come away with me, my beautiful one.My beloved spoke, and said to me, “Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
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And Father, we thank you for your word. We thank you that we're here, we've gathered, we're here to hear from you. So Lord, would you speak? Would you open our eyes, open our ears, open our hearts? Would our hearts be soft to you speaking to us, that the seeds of your truth would go down deep into our hearts, changing us from the inside out. And we're expectant today for what you have for us. And we love you, Lord. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Okay, good. Just making sure you're still awake. This couple, I love this passage. This couple is giddy. They love each other. They are each blossoming. Over the past couple of weeks, we've seen them grow individually, but their relationship is blooming and growing together. She's lighting up at the sound of his voice and he's running to her and speaking tenderly to her. And as we look at what a godly engagement looks like, we see that their relationship has, number one, maturity. …
and be our guest. Open our hearts, our minds, our wills to the God who enlivens us through you. Amen. Please be seated. While it's always exciting for me to be back at Duke Chapel, it's especially exciting today on Dean Powery's first Sunday as chaplain to Duke University. If there's anything better than preaching on your first Sunday, it's listening to a guest preacher who was already on the schedule. so that you can catch your breath. As for those of you who might have hoped you would be hearing him today, take heart, for lo, I am with you but this little while, and he shall be with you always. Plus, James is the real preacher today, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. All I really have to do is stay out of his way. I wonder all the time about how Christianity would have shaped up if James had been half the letter writer Paul had been. If you put all the letters of James and Peter and John together, those who knew Jesus in the flesh, their combined witness is shorter than Paul's two letters to the Corinthians. …
prayer will often depend upon our obedience to the precept—you cannot have the promise torn away from the precept. That would be like cutting a living child in two. And, lastly, I am sure that this reply of Samuel's foretold that he would have happier calls afterwards. He who was called to hear a servile or menial message in the dead of night and yet said, "Here I am," should afterwards be called to lead the Lord's chosen people, to speak powerfully to them in Jehovah's name and to anoint Saul to reign over them when they clamored for a king! O, dear Brother or Sister in Christ, the Lord Jesus has called and you have answered, "Here I am!" He has called for you to suffer and you have said, "Here I am!" He has called you, my Sister, to give up your husband and your children and you have yielded to His will and answered, "Here I am!" So let me tell you what He will do, by-and-by. When the pitcher is broken at the fountain and the wheel is broken at the cistern, He will say to you, "Rise up, My love, My fair one, and come away." And that message will be so welcome to you that you will gladly answer, "Lord, here I am." Have I not seen many Christians propped up in their bed with their pillows, speaking joyously to all around and telling them that the chariot had come to bear them to their Beloved? Have I not seen them step into that chariot to be borne away to dwell at God's right hand forever? That was their way of saying to the Lord, "Here I am!" Their bodies slumber in the dust, as yours and mine shall do before long unless the Lord shall first come— and one of these days, when we are lying beneath the sod, and the daisies are blooming above us, there will come the sound of the archangel's trumpet! And the Lord's voice will be in it and He will call, "Samuel! Samuel!" and you will recognize His voice, and know your own name, and you will answer, "Here I am!" And your very dust shall rise again to be re-animated in a nobler image and made like unto your Lord! Then will come the Judgment and the Great White Throne shall be set and the books shall be opened—and the King will say to those upon His right hand, "Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." What a joy it will be to each one of His saints then to answer, "Here I am, Lord! By Your Sovereign Grace I am at Your right hand, numbered among Your sheep and welcomed with them to Glory everlasting!" …
… there's a verse, I think, that depicts this time. chapter 2 verse 10 my beloved spake and said unto me rise up my love my fair one and come away won't that be something when jesus says to me when he says to you when he says to his church rise up my love my fair one and come away there's a man named stephen covey he's written some best-selling books many of you have read them i certainly don't agree with all of his theology But in those writings, he has an incredible story. And I want you to listen to it. Listen very carefully. He said that a professor came into his classroom, and the professor had a big wide-mouthed jar. And in that jar, he put some big rocks. And those rocks filled the jar to the top. And then he asked his students, now is the jar full? Some of the students said, yes, the jar is full. Well, he said, no, the jar is not full. …
hearts. How sweetly does, "My Master," sound! "My Master." Why, if nothing else might bestir us to get up and run to meet Him, it should be the sound of that blessed word, "The Master is here: the Master has come." But Martha added—and it is a very weighty addition (may the Holy Spirit make application of it to your heart)— "and calls for you." "But is that true?" asks one, "does He call for me?" Dear Brother, dear Sister, I know that if I say He does, I shall not speak without His guarantee, for when He comes into a congregation, He calls for all His own! He speaks, and He says to all whom He loves, "Rise up, my Love, my Fair One, and come away." I know He does because love always delights in fellowship with the object that is loved! Jesus loved you before the earth was! His delights were with the sons of men from old eternity! He loved you so well that He could not stay in Heaven without you, so He came here to seek you and to save you! And now it gives His heart joy to be near you. He says, "Let Me hear your voice. Let Me see your face, for sweet is your voice and your countenance is comely." I tell you it is Christ's Heaven to hear the voices of His people! It is that for which He left Heaven—that He might give them voices with which to praise Him. Do you think He loved you so and will live without you? No, He calls for you! …