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I will get me to the mountain,
I will get me to the hill;
In Thy death and resurrection,
Jesus, take me deeper still.
I will get me to the hill;
In Thy death and resurrection,
Jesus, take me deeper still.
I will get me to the mountain,
Willingly would get me there.
All my self fore’er forsaking,
One with Thee, O Lord,
Thy death to share.
Willingly would get me there.
All my self fore’er forsaking,
One with Thee, O Lord,
Thy death to share.
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Still at times I sense the shadows
Of my nature, untransformed;
Lord, I’ll go unto the mountain,
To Thy death to be conformed.
Of my nature, untransformed;
Lord, I’ll go unto the mountain,
To Thy death to be conformed.
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On the mountain till the daybreak,
Linger I, Lord, thus with Thee,
May Thy all-transforming Spirit
Saturate me thoroughly.
Linger I, Lord, thus with Thee,
May Thy all-transforming Spirit
Saturate me thoroughly.
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Mingled with Thee on the mountain,
Soon my sun begins to shine;
Death has worked her deep impression,
Now my nature’s one with Thine.
Soon my sun begins to shine;
Death has worked her deep impression,
Now my nature’s one with Thine.
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Correction: The loving seeker was willing to enter into the next stage of her pursuit at the end of 3:5 (... until she pleases), not 3:9.
Then from 3:6 on, she lives in union with Christ in His death (myrrh), resurrection (frankincense), and ascension (4:8, mountains of Lebanon). She becomes His sister (4:10, one in nature), and an enclosed garden and orchard (4:12, 6:11), growling fresh green things for her Beloved's private enjoyment (4:16). She becomes transformed into an overcomer (4:13, shoots in an orchard). She then becomes His co-worker, sojourning in the churches throughout the entire world, caring for others' growth and maturity in life out of her first love for Him (7:11-13), for the building up of the Body of Christ. Finally she hopes to be raptured to meet Him face to face (8:2-4), upon the mountains of spices of all our experiences of Him for Him to establish His kingdom on earth.
United States
Thank you Daniel for the detailed explanation from Song of Songs!
In Chapter 2:8-14 of the Song of Songs, the seeker was not one who remains in the death of Christ to live in resurrection (Galatians 2:20). Her Beloved reveals Himself to her as the resurrected One who, like the gazelle, leaps over the mountains and the hills (v. 8-9), that is, over the clefts of the rock and the covert of the precipice (v. 14), signifying the cross of Christ. Here He was only speaking to her behind a separating wall through the windows and the lattices (v. 9), and she was not yet willing.
However, under her Beloved's calling (2:14), she was pleased to enter (3:9) into the next stage in her pursuit of the union with Christ in His death and resurrection. By 4:6, she was willing to get herself to go to the mountain of the spices of myrrh (death of Christ), and of frankincense (resurrection of Christ), as God's new creation. She wants to remain there until the day dawns and the shadows flee away (4:6), that is, until Christ returns. She is now living in ascension on the mountains of Lebanon, over the power of Satan (lion's den and leopard's mountains - 4:8).
By lingering on the mountain of myrrh and on the hill of frankincense, she gains an abundance (mountain) of experiences and enjoyment of her Beloved, who will return to her at the mountain of spices (8:14), because she is now the same as he is in life and in nature (not in the Godhead) to match Him (Solomon) as the Shulammite (6:13).
The Spirit of Christ always leads us to live a crucified life, conforming us to the death of Christ. In Philippians 3:10 Paul said that He desired to know Christ, the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death. The wonderful Spirit works to conform us to the death of Christ.
The cross of Christ is applied to us by the Spirit (Rom. 8:13b). In the Spirit, there is the killing element of the cross. When we live by the Spirit, the Spirit within us will kill all the negative things, such as sin, Satan, the world, me, the old man, and all the differences due to ordinances. We need to apply the cross of Christ to our flesh with the passions and the lusts through the cooperation with the Spirit (Gal. 5:24).
The experience of the cross of Christ issues in the abundance of the Spirit of life. According to Galatians 2:20, the more we experience the cross of Christ, the more Christ lives in us. John 12:24 shows that the Lord’s death as a grain of wheat issued in much fruit. When we experience the death of Christ, the issue is the multiplication of life. Furthermore, we boast in the cross of Christ (Gal. 6:14a). The cross was really an abasement, but the Apostle Paul made it his boast.
The Spirit brings us to the cross. If we take the cross, the cross will issue in more of the Spirit. Before Christ went to the cross, the Spirit was always leading Him. This leading Spirit always led Him to the cross. The entire life of Christ was a life led by the Spirit to the cross. Christ lived a crucified life, a life under the cross for thirty-three and a half years. Every day of His life, He was being crucified by the Holy Spirit. Even when He went to the physical cross for six hours, He went there by the eternal Spirit of God and offered Himself to God through this Spirit (Heb. 9:14). Therefore, the Spirit comes first and then the cross. When we were saved, the first thing we received was the Spirit. Then from that time onward, this Spirit leads us to the cross. We have to undergo the process of being crossed out all the time by allowing the Spirit to bring us to the cross, so that the cross can issue in more of the Spirit.
- The Spirit. ch. 12
Chicago, Illinois, United States
In our early revelation of Christ as seen in the Song of Songs, we see Him as one moving upon the mountains and the hills (2:8). We only see with appreciation, but have so little experience. There comes a point when we need to be with Him, in His experiences. Who He is and what He has done is no longer something distant, but we enter until every shadow in our life disappears (4:6). The negative shadows or the positive ones flee away and we have Him with His death and His resurrection! We begin to match Him!