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@Livingwater Happy new year..... B part of the Neglected or Abandoned vineyard.... I have discussed some point in the A part of the study....God bless you as you go through the remaining. 2 . THE DANGER WE FACE How very easy it is to serve the Lord zealously, to be on the job all the time, and yet to neglect our own inner life, our personal communion with the Lord Himself, our study of His Word and our fellowship in the secret place! How easily possible it is for the shoemaker’’s boy to be the poorest shod, and for the tailor’’s son to wear the shabbiest clothes! How sadly possible it is for the preacher to proclaim the unsearchable riches of Christ, but to fail to adorn the doctrine in his own personal and private life! –- look up Titus 2:10. This is the danger which is faced by every servant of the Lord. It is the possibility of neglecting the cultivation of one’’s own inner life of communion with the Lord Himself. We can never lift others above the level of our own spiritual

@Livingwater Study 3 THE NEGLECTED VINEYARD THE SONG OF SOLOMON Key-verse: ““They made me take care of the vineyards; my own vineyard I have neglected”” (Song of Songs 1:6) These haunting words are most challenging to all who are engaged in the service of the Lord, and they should be read in conjunction with Proverbs 24:30-31 – – “I went past the field of the sluggard, past the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment; thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins.”” The warning which comes to us in this study may be summed up in the statement, ““Beware of the barrenness of a busy life!”” Too often public profession and activity are accompanied by inward neglect and spiritual declension. The one who confesses her neglect in this passage was not neglectful of her duties. She had been made black by the sun as she had laboured among the vines in the heat of the day; she was the keeper of the vineyards –- but she had neglected her

@Livingwater Study 2 PERSONAL COMMUNION WITH THE LORD THE SONG OF SOLOMON by Francis Dixon Key-verse: ““Take me away with you –- let us hurry! Let the king bring me into his chambers. We rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine”” (Song of Songs 1:4) In this verse the bride (the believer) is speaking to her bridegroom (Christ) about her personal communion with him. What do we know of personal, day by day communion with the Lord? It is possible to know about Him and yet not to know Him; and it is also possible to know Him just a little or to know Him really well –- look up and compare John 14:9 and Philippians 3:10. This study emphasises the importance of these matters and leads us to consider the following points:- ” 1 . THE ONE WITH WHOM WE ENJOY COMMUNION IS THE KING See how the verse reads: ““Take me away with you: let the king bring me into his chambers…”…” Pause for a moment and think of the wonder of this. In this love story, Solomon is the kin

@Livingwater Study 1 THE BRIDEGROOM AND HIS BRIDE THE SONG OF SOLOMON Key-verse and Theme of the Book: “My lover is mine and I am his” (Song of Songs 2:16) In this book we have the best of the one thousand and five songs written by King Solomon (1 Kings 4:32), and it has been incorporated into our Bible –- look up 2 Timothy 3:16. There are difficulties in connection with this book; for example, the name of God is not mentioned and it is not quoted by our Lord or by any of the writers in the New Testament; also, sometimes the language is obscure and it is not always easy to be sure who the speaker is. However, it has been a source of endless delight to the saintliest men and women all down the ages. It is a beautiful love story presented in poetic form. All through the book the love of the bridegroom for his bride, and of the bride for her bridegroom, is emphasised, and this pictures the wonderful union which exists between Christ, the Heavenly Bridegroom, and His Church, the Brid