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March 26 - Lent 2026 · Abide In Me

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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus says, I am the vine, you are the branches.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you abide in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Pillars Abide in Me podcast, a weekly opportunity to abide in Christ through weekly pillar sermon and worship reflections.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Christian.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm Trish.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hear these words from the Book We Love.
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  SPEAKER_01: After Jesus had spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and said, Father, the hour has come.
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  SPEAKER_01: Glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all people, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this is eternal life that they may know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
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  SPEAKER_01: I glorified you on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now they know that everything you have given me is from you.
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  SPEAKER_01: For the words that you gave me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I am asking on their behalf.
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  SPEAKER_01: I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours.
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  SPEAKER_01: All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I have been glorified in them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be as one as we are one.
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  SPEAKER_01: While I was with them, I protected them in your name that you have given me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I guarded them, and not one of them was lost except the one destined to be lost, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
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  SPEAKER_01: But now I am coming to you, and I speak these things in the world, so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm not asking you to take them out of the world, but I ask you to protect them from the evil one.
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  SPEAKER_01: They do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sanctify them in the truth.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your word is truth.
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  SPEAKER_01: As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world, and for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.
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  SPEAKER_01: I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their word, that they may all be one.
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  SPEAKER_01: As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
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  SPEAKER_01: The glory that you have given me, I have given them, so that they may be one as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me, and I have loved them even as you have loved me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Father, I desire that those also whom you have given me may be with me where I am, to see my glory which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
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  SPEAKER_01: Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.
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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: The prayer is winding, and Jesus is opening himself up to the Father, running to the Father.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are three commands that he prays, like imperatives.
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  SPEAKER_00: Glorify your Son, protect them, sanctify them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Three commands.
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  SPEAKER_00: Jesus speaks in the imperative, not demanding that the Father do something that he's otherwise uninclined to do, but to express in a way the desperation for the ones he loves.
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  SPEAKER_00: Protect them, sanctify them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the winding prayer with its demands are really just a desperate plea that we would be one.
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  SPEAKER_00: One in God, one with God, one in Christ, one with Christ, one with each other, that they may be one, as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, may they be in us.
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  SPEAKER_00: One, completely one, that the world may believe.
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  SPEAKER_00: He mostly prays for intimacy, presence, and connection.
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  SPEAKER_00: The prayer is laced with the language of relationship.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Jesus prays, As you, Father, are in me, and I in you, may they also be in us.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not something you manufacture, it's something you open yourself to.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not a feeling you muster, it's a reality you submit to.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not a strategic plan to accomplish, it's a life to inhabit.
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  SPEAKER_00: That they may be one as you, Father, are in me, and I in you may they be in us, so that the world may believe.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's something that you let happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something you let happen when you stop hiding, when you stop fighting, when you stop demanding and embrace the deeper reality of the truest true.
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  SPEAKER_00: To borrow from Augustine, you are more inward to me than my most inward part.
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  SPEAKER_00: As you, Father, are in me, and I in you, may they be in us, so that the world may believe.
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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 PillarCurch.com.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you're willing, receive this blessing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sisters and brothers, let us claim the freedom Christ gives us by his self-giving on the cross.
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  SPEAKER_01: May he enable us to serve together in faith, hope, and love.
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  SPEAKER_01: Go in peace and serve the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thanks be to God.
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  SPEAKER_01: May the God of love who shared his love strengthen us in our love for others.
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  SPEAKER_01: May the Son who shared his life grant us grace that we might share our life.
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  SPEAKER_01: And may the Holy Spirit dwelling in us empower us to be only and always for others.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.