{"id":3124,"date":"2010-12-19T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2010-12-19T08:00:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T13:00:14","slug":"a-love-that-has-vanquished-the-powers-of-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2010\/12\/19\/a-love-that-has-vanquished-the-powers-of-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"A Love that has Vanquished the Powers of Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The thunder and lightning gave voice to the night;<br \/>\nthe little lame child cried aloud in her fright.<\/p>\n<p>Hush, little baby, a story I&#8217;ll tell,<br \/>\nof a love that has vanquished the powers of hell.<br \/>\nAlleluia, the great storm is over, lift up your wings and fly!<br \/>\nAlleluia, the great storm is over, lift up your wings and fly!<\/p>\n<p>Sweetness in the air, and justice on the wind,<br \/>\nlaughter in the house where the mourners had been.<br \/>\nThe deaf shall have music, the blind have new eyes,<br \/>\nthe standards of death taken down by surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Alleluia, the great storm is over, lift up your wings and fly!<br \/>\nAlleluia, the great storm is over, lift up your wings and fly!<\/p>\n<p>Release for the captives, an end to the wars,<br \/>\nnew streams in the desert, new hope for the poor.<br \/>\nThe little lame children will dance as they sing,<br \/>\nand play with the bears and the lions in spring.<\/p>\n<p>Alleluia, the great storm is over, lift up your wings and fly!<br \/>\nAlleluia, the great storm is over, lift up your wings and fly!<\/p>\n<p>Hush little baby, let go of your fear:<br \/>\nthe Lord loves his own, and your mother is here.<br \/>\nThe child fell asleep as the lantern did burn.<br \/>\nThe mother sang on &#8217;till her Bridegroom&#8217;s return.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[ti_audio media=&#8221;2688&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This has been my Advent song this year. I can&#8217;t get past it. Jesus has already won. His love has vanquished the powers of Hell. The Greatest Storm is over, and sweet justice is breezing in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If Jesus is the Bridegroom, the Church is His Bride. We wait for His return &#8212; his second Advent. But in the meantime what do we, His Bride, do?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Fight? No, He&#8217;s done that. The Great Storm\/War is over. We may have small skirmishes, of course, because Satan&#8217;s still at work. But we already know that Jesus has done the real work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hide? No! Why? We&#8217;re His Beloved! Why should we cower?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Separate? . . . as if we can. If a finger separates from the rest of the Body, it&#8217;s dead and useless. The Body adapts and gets along without it. Separating makes no sense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">No, we comfort. We encourage. We sing about our Beloved and His Heroism. We rock that frightened child who was tormented in the night. We remind him that someday he&#8217;ll play with lions and bears, that our ever-lovin&#8217; Grandpa will leap and run, and that his sister will greet him with a celestial hug. We just keep the light burning until the Bridegroom returns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rod Rosenbladt gives those of us recovering from fundamentalism a terrific dose of just that encouragement. And in doing so, he gives us a little talking-to as well:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For most of us pastors, the link between Jesus and the church (a mother symbol) is so tight, so identical, that to be angry with mother church is the same as rejecting Jesus! It is not. But I\u2019m recommending, at least in conversation with \u201cthe angry\u201d\u2014that we, all of us\u2014identify with the anger of these people at the church, that we say, \u201cWell, of course you are angry! With what it did to you? It would be insane not to be angry at it!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/16714049\">Dr. Rod Rosenbladt on &#8220;The Gospel For Those Broken By The Church&#8221;<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/faithcapo\">Faith Lutheran Church<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus is the Bridegroom, and the Church is His Bride. The Mother figure was created to keep us and nurture us and love us until Daddy returns. She messes up a lot and falls way short. She forgets the comfort she should bring to a broken and sin-sick world. As Augustine says, &#8220;she&#8217;s a whore. But she&#8217;s my mother.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I ache for that righted world. If I close my eyes and inhale deeply, I can feel it. Will we have traffic lights in God&#8217;s new kingdom on earth? Toys? Guacamole? 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