Satan Has No Balls -- The Agony, Ecstacy, & Theological Necessity of the Battle for Covenant Love and the Sacrament of Unrestrained Communion -- Commandment # 7

The first thing that came to mind after the sermon was Paul’s words about covenant love and sexual communion in Ephesians 5 -- “The mystery is a profound one, and I am saying it refers to Christ and His church.”

 I’ve always marveled at covenant love for these reasons:

 #1 – It is absolutely, undeniably the most consequential, pivotal, foundational, Genesis to Revelation, substantive, can’t-over-emphasize-enough significant enlightening analogy/life experience that defines, explains, captures (to some extent) who Christ is, who we are, and the love relationship we share. From the Genesis creation story to Revelation’s MARRIAGE supper of the lamb -and tens of thousands of points in between - passionate, ecstatically sexualized, covenant love abides as the working analogy throughout the bible that explains (gonna repeat myself here) who Christ is, who we are, and the love relationship we share.

 # 2 – Covenant Love is an unprecedented, UNIQUE (unlike any other life experience) analogy for understanding faith, humanness, and intimacy because……….. Passionate, ecstatically sexualized, covenant love is THE ONLY life experience/metaphor, that existed PRIOR to the fall and is written into our very flesh which informs us about life in the kingdom of God.

 To summary – I marvel at covenant love because…

 #1 – It’s arguably – THE TOPIC AND POINT of OUR SACRED TEXTS – the scriptures.
 # 2 – It’s the only metaphor written (pre-fall) into our very flesh that informs us about life in the Kingdom of God.


(SIDE NOTE -- Do you need to experience covenant love then to understand the deep intimacies of life, faith, and communion with God?  I would say no.  Covenant love is the weaker, timid, shadow of  genuine intimacy with the divine.  Those who encounter the divine without a marriage partner have skipped/by-passed the mild comparison for the genuine experience.  Instead of staring at post cards of Everest (marriage), they are at base camp gathering heart, mind, and soul for the final assent (intimacy with God.) They are not practicing the metaphor of covenant love, the are living it.

Okay - back to the topic -- So, in my opinion, ecstatic covenant love is the premier working life experience/thought/theological construct/foundation for appreciating God’s person and our personhood.

Some examples:

 Example # 1 - Adam and Eve's rebellion – suddenly they're  ashamed. They hide. “I heard you in the garden. I was afraid, because I was naked.” – Genesis 3:10. Sin – rebellion – shame – hide their physical vulnerabilities.

SIDE NOTE: I know this is crass and vulgar. But if I had unlimited time and resources I’d unpack culture, Adam and Eve’s conspiratorial perversion of covenant love via the snake, and the bulk of many other scriptures to suggest that one of Satan’s motives for warring against God and warring against Adam and Eve’s naked and unashamed “fruitfulness” and one of Satan’s motives for warring against covenant love is that Satan has no balls.

I don’t have time or energy to devote to arguing this premise but simply put,
he hates God,
he hates ecstatic sexual communion, 
and he  hates covenant love BECAUSE THE DUDE'S GOT NO GAME and so he perverts out of venomous, hateful jealousy the creatures who can bask in the full light of their Father’s glory.

He wreaks his venomous jealousy on God's children by perverting both their communion with their bridge groom, the Son (crucified on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil) and by perverting their ecstatic communion with one another.   --- END OF SIDE NOTE. 


Example # 2 – In the prophets again and again ad nauseum – “Israel, you’re being a whore.” (Hiding with Eve. Too prideful to surrender her shame.)

 Example # 3 – Circumcision and the uncircumcised heart. (Romans 2) – Have you ever thought about this uncircumcised heart analogy?

 “You know what you’re problem is?”
 “You’re heart is messed up.”
“You’re heart is like unfeeling, sealed off, unsympathetic, invulnerable genitals.”

 Clearly – God and His peeps (no pun intended) wouldn’t be talking like that if covenant love and ecstatic, covenant communion wasn’t the premier, foundational working analogy/metaphor of who Christ is, who we are, and the love relationship we share.”

Example #4  Hosea 2 – God romancing his baby doll and speaking tenderly to her.

Example # 5 -  Revelation – constant whore talk and celebrating His glorious bride (washing His bride with His blood as He takes the curse for Her.) – HOLY ROMANCE!!!

 I could write for days but I summarize with this – nothing is more beautiful on this side of creation and on the other side - eternity - than Christ and His bride. I hope you found that to be true (as I did) while you listened to the sermon and I hope that if God writes a covenant partner into your story you’ll find that marriage and ecstatic communion and the fruit of that communion (children) reveal to you the beauty, the glory, and grace of the God.

 Ezekiel 16:6-8, 15, 60-63

 "And when I passed by you, and saw you weltering in your blood, I said to you in your blood, 'Live, and grow up like a plant of the field.' And you grew up and became tall and arrived at full maidenhood; your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare. "When I passed by you again and looked upon you, behold, you were at the age for love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness: yea, I plighted my troth to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord GOD, and you became mine. . . . But you trusted in your beauty, and played the harlot because of your renown, and lavished your harlotries on any passer-by. . . . yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish with you an everlasting covenant. Then you will remember your ways, and be ashamed when I take your sisters, both your elder and your younger, and give them to you as daughters, but not on account of the covenant with you. I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the LORD, that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I forgive you all that you have done, says the Lord GOD."