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November 3 - Speed Of Love 2026 · Abide In Me

• 0:13
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus says, I am the vine, you are the branches.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: If you abide in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to season two of Pillar's Abide in Me podcast.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Trish.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm Christian.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_01: This week we continue Speed of Love.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_01: We're borrowing from a Japanese theologian and his essay titled Three Mile an Hour God.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_01: God walks slowly because he is love.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_01: If he is not love, he would have gone much faster.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_01: Love has its speed.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_01: It is an inner speed.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_01: It is a spiritual speed.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_01: It is a different kind of speed from the technological speed to which we are accustomed.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_01: It goes on in the depth of our life, whether we notice or not, at three miles an hour.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_01: It is the speed we walk, and therefore the speed the love of God walks.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_01: Love has a speed.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh, king of Egypt.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_00: He took Pharaoh's daughter and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_00: The people were sacrificing at the high places, however, because no house had yet been built for the name of the Lord.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of his father David, except that he sacrificed and offered incense at the high places.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_00: The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the principal high place.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: Solomon used to offer a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_00: At Gibeon, the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, Ask what I should give you.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_00: 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 uprightness of heart toward you.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_00: And you have kept for him this great and steadfast love, and have given him a son to sit on his throne today.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_00: And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David, although I am only a child.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_00: 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, a great people, so numerous they cannot be numbered or counted.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_00: 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?
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_00: It pleased the Lord that Solomon had asked this.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: 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.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: I now do according to your word.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_00: Indeed, I give you a wise and discerning mind.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_00: No one like you has been before you, and no one like you shall arise after you.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_00: I give you also what you have not asked, both riches and honor all your life.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_00: No other king shall compare with you.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_00: If you will walk in my ways, keeping my statute and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your life.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_00: Then Solomon awoke.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: It had been a dream.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_00: He came to Jerusalem where he stood before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_00: He offered up burnt offerings and offerings of well-being and provided a feast for all of his servants.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_00: This is the word of the Lord.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks be to God.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_01: We need wisdom.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_01: Solomon asks for an understanding mind.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_01: Not only is Solomon asking for an understanding mind, but in the original Hebrew, he's asking for an understanding heart.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_01: He's not just talking about being smarter, acquiring more information, becoming more aware.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_01: How many of us would say we've become wiser the more news we watch, the more feeds we follow, the more spin we take in?
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_01: Aware?
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe of something, I guess.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_01: But wise and understanding heart?
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_01: He's not talking about being smarter.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_01: He's talking about love.
• 4:40
  SPEAKER_01: What does love look like?
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_01: What does love look like in a world divided and our hearts divided?
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_01: What does love look like amidst the culture wars?
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_01: What does love look like in partisan everything?
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_01: What does love look like as I'm trying to raise my kids in a world full of screens?
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_01: What does love look like in a world full of confusion?
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_01: Give your servant an understanding heart.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_01: What does love look like?
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_01: What does love look like in a world of spin, in a world of pressure, in a world of efficiency, in a world of violence and vengeance, in a world of anger and evil.
• 5:21
  SPEAKER_01: Give to your servant a listening heart.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_01: I wonder if wisdom requires a willingness to listen.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_01: I wonder if that's what love looks like.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_01: I heard someone say recently the most significant gift you could give to another person is not your time but your attention.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_01: I wonder if that's what love looks like.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_01: What does love look like?
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_01: Give to your servant a listening heart, a heart slowed down enough to be present with God, present with and patient for another person.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_01: We need wisdom, don't we?
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_01: Slow down, don't take the bait, don't get spun by the spin.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_01: Don't buy the lie.
• 6:10
  SPEAKER_01: Give to your servant a listening heart.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_00: For our part as a pillar community, we'd love to be praying for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So feel free to reach out to us at Abide at PillarChurch dot com.
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_00: And if you're willing, receive this blessing.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_00: The grace of Christ attend you, the love of God surround you, the Holy Spirit keep you now and forevermore.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.