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November 5 - Speed Of Love 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 season two of Pillar's Abide in Me podcast.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm Christian.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'm Trish.
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SPEAKER_00: This week we continue Speed of Love.
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SPEAKER_00: We're borrowing from a Japanese theologian and his essay titled Three Mile an Hour God.
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SPEAKER_00: God walks slowly because he is love.
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SPEAKER_00: If he is not love, he would have gone much faster.
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SPEAKER_00: Love has its speed.
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SPEAKER_00: It is an inner speed.
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SPEAKER_00: It is a spiritual speed.
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SPEAKER_00: It is a different kind of speed from the technological speed to which we are accustomed.
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SPEAKER_00: It goes on in the depth of our life, whether we notice or not, at three miles an hour.
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SPEAKER_00: It is the speed we walk, and therefore the speed the love of God walks.
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SPEAKER_00: Love has a speed.
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SPEAKER_01: Hear these words from the Book We Love.
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SPEAKER_01: Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
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SPEAKER_01: He took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her into the city of David, until he had finished building his own house in the house of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.
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SPEAKER_01: The people were sacrificing at the high places, however, because no house had yet been built for the name of the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and offered incense at the high places.
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SPEAKER_01: The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the principal high place.
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SPEAKER_01: Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
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SPEAKER_01: At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, Ask what I should give you.
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SPEAKER_01: And Solomon said, You have shown great and steadfast love to your servant, my father David, because he walked before you in faithfulness, in righteousness, and in an uprightness of heart toward you.
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SPEAKER_01: And you have kept for him this great and steadfast love, and have given him a son to sit on his throne today.
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SPEAKER_01: And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David, although I am only a little child.
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SPEAKER_01: I do not know how to go out or come in, and your servant is in the midst of the people whom you have chosen.
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SPEAKER_01: A great people so numerous they cannot be numbered or counted.
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SPEAKER_01: Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, able to discern between good and evil, for who can govern this great people of yours?
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SPEAKER_01: It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this.
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SPEAKER_01: God said to him, Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches, or for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right, I now do according to your word.
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SPEAKER_01: Indeed, I give you a wise and discerning mind.
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SPEAKER_01: No one like you has been before you, and no one like you shall arise after you.
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SPEAKER_01: I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor all your life.
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SPEAKER_01: No other king shall compare with you.
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SPEAKER_01: If you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your life.
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SPEAKER_01: Then Solomon awoke.
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SPEAKER_01: It had been a dream.
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SPEAKER_01: He came to Jerusalem, where he stood before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: He offered up burnt offerings and offerings of well-being, and provided a feast for all his servants.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the word of the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: Thanks be to God.
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SPEAKER_00: What's so stunning about this story is not the moral brilliance of Solomon or his heroic accomplishments as if somehow he's just better, and if only we could be better too.
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SPEAKER_00: What stands out is the way Solomon's prayer begins.
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SPEAKER_00: You have shown your great and steadfast love.
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SPEAKER_00: You have kept for David this great and steadfast love.
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SPEAKER_00: The Lord kept it, he kept his great and steadfast love.
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SPEAKER_00: The Lord preserved it, protected it, took care of it, cherished it, didn't let our duplicities destroy it, didn't let our alliances eliminate it.
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SPEAKER_00: You kept for David this great and steadfast love.
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SPEAKER_00: He keeps it for us too.
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SPEAKER_00: He loves so much, he loves, dare I say, too much.
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SPEAKER_00: Paul says how high and deep and long and high is the love of Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: Romans says, nothing will separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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SPEAKER_00: And how does Jesus put it?
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SPEAKER_00: As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you.
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SPEAKER_00: He loves so much.
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SPEAKER_00: He keeps his great and steadfast love for us so that nothing, no one thing or many things or any things are capable of excluding us from the grace and love of God revealed in Jesus Christ, who suffered and died on the cross to forgive, and rose from the dead to redeem so that we can be forgiven.
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SPEAKER_00: Duplicity is done, grace alive, love in the flesh.
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SPEAKER_00: The Lord kept for David this great and steadfast love.
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SPEAKER_00: He keeps it for you too, protects it, preserves it, cherishes it until it's fulfilled in Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: For our part as a pillar community, we love to be praying for you.
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SPEAKER_01: So feel free to reach out to us at abide at pillarchurch.com, and if you're willing, receive this blessing.
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SPEAKER_01: The grace of Christ attend you, the love of God surrounds you.
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SPEAKER_01: The Holy Spirit keep you now and forevermore.
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SPEAKER_01: Amen.