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October 13 - Speed Of Love 2026 · Abide In Me

• 0:13
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus says, I am the vine, you are the branches.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_01: If you abide in me, and I in you, you will bear much fruit.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to season two of Pillar's Abide in Me podcast.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_01: I'm Trish.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm Christian.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_00: This week we continue Speed of Love.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_00: We're borrowing from a Japanese theologian and his essay titled Three Mile an Hour God.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: God walks slowly because he is love.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: If he is not love, he would have gone much faster.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_00: Love has its speed.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_00: It is an inner speed.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_00: It is a spiritual speed.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: It is a different kind of speed from the technological speed to which we're accustomed.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_00: It goes on in the depth of our life, whether we notice it or not, at three miles an hour.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: It is the speed we walk, and therefore the speed the love of God walks.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: Love has a speed.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_01: Hear these words from the book we love.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_01: Then God spoke all these words.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_01: You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me, but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_01: You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_01: Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_01: Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_01: You shall not do any work, you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_01: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_01: Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and consecrated it.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_01: Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_01: You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_01: You shall not covet your neighbor's house, you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, male or female, slave, ox, donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_01: This is the word of the Lord.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks be to God.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: Too often we misunderstand what is happening here with the giving of the Ten Commandments, and we misunderstand how God works in the Old Testament.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_00: We tend to think that the God of the Old Testament is a God of law and judgment, and that grace doesn't show up until the New Testament with Jesus.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_00: We see the Ten Commandments as a list of rules that God's people needed to follow in order to be saved.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_00: But it is crucial to notice that before God issues any command, there is first a declaration.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_00: This declaration of who God is and what God has already done for them turns the whole notion that Israel is saved by their good works on its head.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_00: We must not miss the order of how the Exodus story unfolds.
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_00: First, God rescues his people from slavery as an act of sheer grace.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_00: Then, God leads them to Sinai and gives them the law.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_00: Grace comes first.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_00: The Israelites are called to keep the commandments not in order to be saved, but because they have already been saved.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_00: Here's another way to say it.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_00: Obedience to God is always a grateful response to the grace of God.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_00: Not only does grace precede the giving of the law, but the giving of the law itself is an expression of grace.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_00: Think about it.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_00: True freedom comes not from jettisoning all rules and living however you want.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_00: That's just another form of bondage.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_00: True freedom comes with becoming who we're intended to be.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_00: Living fully into God's design and following God's way.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_01: For our part as a pillar community, we'd love to be praying for you.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_01: So feel free to reach out to us at abide at pillarchurch.com.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_01: And if you're willing, receive this blessing.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_01: May the grace of God, freely given through Christ our Lord, and sufficient for all our needs, and may the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, who testifies with our spirit that we are God's children, guide and sustain us this day and forever.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.