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April 16 - Eastertide 2026 · Abide In Me

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  SPEAKER_01: Jesus says, I am the vine, you are the branches.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you abide in me, and I in you, you will bear much fruit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to Pillar's Abide in Me podcast, a weekly opportunity to abide in Christ through weekly pillar sermon and worship reflections.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_01: I'm Christian.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm Trish.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: Hear these words from the book we love.
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  SPEAKER_00: When she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary and told her privately, The teacher is here and is calling for you.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: And when she heard it, she got up quickly and went to him.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: Now Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Jews who were with her in the house consoling her saw Mary get up quickly and go out.
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  SPEAKER_00: They followed her because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep there.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said, Where have you laid him?
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  SPEAKER_00: They said to him, Lord, come and see.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus began to weep.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the Jews said, See how he loved him?
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  SPEAKER_00: But some of them said, Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus said, Take away the stone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, Lord, already there is a stench, because he has been dead four days.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus said to her, Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?
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  SPEAKER_00: So they took away the stone, and Jesus looked upward and said, Father, I thank you for having heard me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me.
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  SPEAKER_00: When he had said this, he cried out with a loud voice, Lazarus, come out.
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  SPEAKER_00: The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth and his face wrapped in a cloth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus said to them, Unbind him and let him go.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the word of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks be to God.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_01: When Jesus saw Mary weeping, and when he saw the Jews with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in his spirit and deeply moved.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus knows what he's about to do to Lazarus, but he is not some messianic robot.
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  SPEAKER_01: He lets himself feel.
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  SPEAKER_01: That Jesus is intimately present with us in our pain and grief.
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  SPEAKER_01: But if that's as far as it goes, it's not enough to give us hope.
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  SPEAKER_01: Isn't that what Saint Paul instructs us in 1 Thessalonians?
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  SPEAKER_01: To go ahead and grieve.
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  SPEAKER_01: But to grieve with hope, how do you do that?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's only possible if we have a God and a savior whose love goes beyond compassion and empathy, goes beyond being with us in our struggle.
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  SPEAKER_01: Jesus weeps with us.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the end, we need a God and Savior who can do something about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: A God and Savior who can change our situation and rescue us from heartache, who turns our weeping into shouts of joy.
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  SPEAKER_00: For our part as a pillar community, we love to be praying for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So feel free to reach out to us at abide at pillarchurch.com.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_00: Let us pray.
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  SPEAKER_00: God of our salvation, you have restored us to life.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have brought us back again into your love by the triumphant death and resurrection of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: Continue to heal us as we go to live and work in the power of your spirit to your praise and glory.
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  SPEAKER_00: Amen.