{"id":1871,"date":"2010-07-03T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2010-07-04T10:30:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T18:30:47","slug":"my-sister-my-spouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2010\/07\/03\/my-sister-my-spouse\/","title":{"rendered":"My Sister, My Spouse&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Charles Haddon Spurgeon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From <strong>Song of Solomon 4:12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Observe the sweet titles with which the heavenly Solomon with intense affection addresses His bride the church. &#8216;My <em>sister<\/em>, one near to me by ties of nature, partaker of the same sympathies. My <em>spouse<\/em>, nearest and dearest, united to me by the tenderest bands of love; my sweet companion, part of my own self. My <em>sister<\/em>, by my Incarnation, which makes me bone of thy bone and flesh of thy flesh; my <em>spouse<\/em>, by heavenly betrothal, in which I have espoused thee unto myself in righteousness. My <em>sister<\/em>, whom I knew of old, and over whom I watched from her earliest infancy; my <em>spouse<\/em>, taken from among the daughters, embraced by arms of love, and affianced unto me for ever. <\/p>\n<p>See how true it is that our royal Kinsman is not ashamed of us, for He dwells with manifest delight upon this two-fold relationship. We have the word &#8216;my&#8217; twice in our version; as if Christ dwelt with rapture on His possession of His Church. &#8216;His delights were with the sons of men,&#8217; because those sons of men were His own chosen ones. He, the Shepherd, sought the sheep, because they were <em>His<\/em> sheep; He has gone about &#8216;to seek and to save that which was lost,&#8217; because that which was lost was <em>His<\/em> long before it was lost to itself or lost to Him. The church is the exclusive portion of her Lord; none else may claim a partnership, or pretend to share her love. Jesus, thy church delights to have it so! <\/p>\n<p>Let every believing soul drink solace out of these wells. Soul! Christ is near to thee in ties of relationship; Christ is dear to thee in bonds of marriage union, and thou art dear to Him; behold He grasps both of thy hands with both His own, saying, &#8216;<em>My<\/em> sister, <em>my<\/em> spouse.&#8217; Mark the two sacred holdfasts by which thy Lord gets such a double hold of thee that He neither can nor will ever let thee go. Be not, O beloved, slow to return the hallowed flame of His love.<\/p>\n<p>1.7p<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Charles Haddon Spurgeon From Song of Solomon 4:12 Observe the sweet titles with which the heavenly Solomon with intense affection addresses His bride the church. &#8216;My sister, one near to me by ties of nature, partaker of the same sympathies. My spouse, nearest and dearest, united to me by the tenderest bands of love; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spurgeon-saturday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1873,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions\/1873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}