BIG THOUGHT: God designed love to begin with attraction.
Song of Solomon 6:3a (ESV)- Others: “Return, return, O Shulammite, return, return, that we may look upon you…
1 Kings 3:1 (ESV) – Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharoah king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the LORD and the wall around Jerusalem.
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I. The seven character of attraction.
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Proverbs 22:1 (ESV) – A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.
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II. The to wait.
Hebrews 13:4 (ESV) – Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
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III. The between God and Us.
a. Why are we attracted to ?
i. It’s NOT because of His appearance.
Isaiah 53:2 (ESV) – For He grew up before Him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; He had no form or majesty that we should look at Him, and no beauty that we should desire Him.
ii. Jesus is the perfect .
b. What about us is attractive to Jesus?
i. We are made in God’s .
ii. God made us.
Psalm 139:13-16 (ESV) – For you formed my inward parts; You knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are Your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from You, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. You eyes saw my unformed substance; in Your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there were none of them.
iii. Who we in Him.
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