Please note, the Justice League Animated Series is rated TV-Y7. Previously, we saw Gorilla Grodd working like the evil one and poking at the Justice League members' frustrations with each other until the group went their separate ways. In the very next episode, Grodd uses the League's break up to take them all out one by one. Fortunately, J'onn J'onzz, the Martian Manhunter, is able to escape and free the other League members. They then take down Grodd and his Secret Society together. Not all of the League is ready to get back together. As Wonder Woman states, "A lot of things were said." Green Lantern John Stewart has the best response: All we can say is sorry and move on. What Stewart is calling the League to do is to forgive. It doesn't mean that what they did or said wasn't wrong. It just means that they are choosing to acknowledge the hurt they've caused and accepting their desire to continue to work side-by-side doing what they are meant to be doing: helping others. Forgiveness is what we are called to do by our Lord Jesus Christ. It doesn't mean that we are not hurt or that it ever comes easily. What it means is that we try to move forward so that we can continue to do the work God has given us to do, just like John Stewart did with the Justice League.
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Please note, the Justice League Animated Series is rated TV-Y7. Previously, through the Injustice Gang, we saw how a house divided will fall, and fall the Injustice Gang did. The Gang did, with the majority of its members, get picked up by a Wonder Woman foe for a couple of episodes, but failed due to their new leader's own machinations. After that, the Injustice Gang was no more. At this moment, Gorilla Grodd, a hyper-intelligent, telepathic gorilla steps in. Grodd starts a new group, the Secret Society, to take down the Justice League. Grodd is, in many ways, like the evil one. He loves to tempt others with what they want in order to use them for his own goals. Like a crafty demon, Grodd also knows how to sow division to instigate the fall of another group: the Justice League. On one side, Grodd attacks the League with his carefully orchestrated battle plan and Secret Society. At the same time, Grodd undetectably uses his powers to push each member of the League. He brings out the frustrations that the members already have with each other to the point that they can no longer contain their anger. As a result, the Justice League is no more. We have to be careful for those subtle attacks on us in our lives. These assaults, known as Spiritual Warfare, can tear us away from each other and even, if we let them, from God. The Justice League does recover from their falling out, and we can too. We just have to be open to listen to what God is trying to tell us. Please note, the Justice League Animated Series is rated TV-Y7. In Mark 3:25, Jesus says that famous line: If a house is divided against itself, it will not be able to stand. Jesus goes on to say in Mark 3:26 that "if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but his end has come." The Justice League animated series of the early 2000s has an episode that reminds me of these words. In "Injustice for All", Lex Luthor is finally outed as a super-villain and seeks revenge against the Justice League by forming his own team: the Injustice Gang. After a rocky start, they recruit Joker who helps them capture one of the original League members: Batman. However, throughout their short-lived tenure, the Injustice Gang has struggled to work together. Each has their own agenda. Batman takes advantage of this, pitting the villains against each other and even making deals that allow him to escape and contact the rest of the Justice League. This isn't the end of the Injustice Gang, although it is the last time they come under Lex Luthor's leadership. In fact, they are so unsuccessful that they fall apart after two story arcs, making way for the future Secret Society to take over the super-villain gang spot. It turns out that a house divided does fall, especially when that house is composed of self-interested egotistical maniacs. Jesus realized that back in His day. We would do well to see this truth in our own age. |
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