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September 17 - Speed Of Love 2026 · Abide In Me

• 0:04
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus says, I am the vine, you are the branches.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_01: If you abide in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to Pillar's Abide in Me podcast.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_01: I'm Christian.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm Trish.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_00: This fall, we're moving at the speed of love.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: We're borrowing from a Japanese theologian who wrote an essay titled Three Mile an Hour God.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: God walks slowly because he is love.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: If he is not love, he would have gone much faster.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_00: Love has its speed.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: It is an inner speed.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: It is a spiritual speed.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_00: It is a different kind of speed from the technological speed to which we are accustomed.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_00: It goes on in the depth of our life, whether we notice or not, at three miles an hour.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: It is the speed we walk, and therefore the speed the love of God walks.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: It's the speed of love in a hurry-up world, the speed of love in a world hell-bent on efficiency, the speed of love in a world where too many people are passed by and run over or absolutely exhausted.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_00: Love has a speed.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_01: And God said to Noah, I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence because of them.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_01: Now I am going to destroy them along with the earth.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_01: Make yourself an ark of cypress wood, make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_01: This is how you are to make it.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_01: For my part I'm going to bring a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh, in which is the breath of life.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_01: Everything that is on the earth shall die.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_01: But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_01: And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_01: They shall be male and female, of the birds according to their kinds, and of the animals according to their kinds, of every creeping thing of the ground according to its kind.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_01: Two of every kind shall come into you to keep them alive.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_01: Also take with you every kind of food that is eaten, and store it up, and it shall serve as food for you and for them.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_01: Noah did this.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_00: I am going to bring a flood of waters on the earth to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: Everything that is on the earth shall die.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_00: But what does it say?
• 4:03
  SPEAKER_00: God saw the wickedness of humankind was great on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually, and the Lord was sorry, and it grieved him to his heart.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_00: It grieved him to his heart, it broke his heart.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_00: The wickedness and the violence and the corruption, it grieved his heart.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_00: If you're gonna take on face value, the devastation of Genesis 6, I suppose you have to take on face value, the agitation.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_00: It grieved God's heart.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_00: God was sad.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_00: This is not how God wants it to be.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_00: This is not how God intends it to be.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_00: This is not the way God made it to be.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_00: This Genesis 6 story ought to leave us aching for something different.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_00: What if this story points to the different kind of God who one day would walk with us at the speed of love in Jesus Christ to save us and restore us and redeem us?
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_00: God's grieving heart and ours with him meets Jesus Christ.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus who comes to us, Jesus who draws near to us, Jesus who walks with us.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_01: For our part as a pillar community, we love to be praying for you.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_01: So feel free to reach out to us at abide at pillarchurch.com and if you're willing, receive this blessing.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_01: May the grace of Christ, which daily renews us, and the love of God, which enables us to love all, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, which unites us in one body, make us eager to obey the will of God until we meet again through Jesus Christ our Lord.