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October 1 - Speed Of Love 2026 · Abide In Me

• 0:10
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus says, I am the vine, you are the branches.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_01: If you abide in me, and I in you, you will bear much fruit.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to season two of Pillar's Abide in Me podcast.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'm Christian.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm Trish.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: And this fall, we're moving at the speed of love.
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_00: We're borrowing from a Japanese theologian and his essay titled Three Mile an Hour God.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: God walks slowly because he is love.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_00: If he is not love, he would have gone much faster.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: Love has its speed.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is an inner speed.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: It's a spiritual speed.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: It is a different kind of speed from the technological speed to which we are accustomed.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: It goes on in the depth of our life, whether we notice or not, at three miles an hour.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: It is the speed we walk, and therefore the speed the love of God walks.
• 1:08
  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.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_00: Love has a speed.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_01: His master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord caused all that he did to prosper in his hands.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_01: So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_01: He made him overseer of his house and put him in charge of all that he had.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_01: And after a time his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, Lie with me.
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  SPEAKER_01: But he refused.
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  SPEAKER_01: When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled outside, she called out to the members of her household and said to them, See, my husband has brought among us a Hebrew to insult us.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_01: He came in to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_01: And when he heard me raise my voice and cry out, he left his garment beside me and fled outside.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_01: When his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, saying, This is the way your servant has treated me, he became enraged.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_01: And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_01: He remained there in prison.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_01: But the Lord was with Joseph, and showed him steadfast love.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_01: He gave him favor in the sight of the chief jailer.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_01: The chief jailer committed to Joseph's care all the prisoners who were put in the prison, and whatever was done there, he was the one who did it.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_01: The chief jailer paid no heed to anything that was in Joseph's care, because the Lord was with him, and whatever he did, the Lord made it prosper.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_01: This is the word of the Lord.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks be to God.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: Did you catch that staggering line after all of the down, taken down, brought down stuff?
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_00: The Lord was with Joseph.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: The Lord was with him.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_00: The Lord was there.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_00: In the down, taken down, brought down.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: The Lord was there in the pit and the prison.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: The Lord was with him when the garment, the promise, the hope was taken.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: The Lord was with him when everyone else had left him.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: Down, taken down, brought down, may describe the circumstances, but lower still describes our God.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_00: Christ was lower still.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_00: To borrow from Hans Erz von Balthasar, when Christ descended, he descended so far, even when we fall, we fall into him.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_00: Christ was lower still.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_00: The Lord was with Joseph.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_00: We tend with honesty to the ache not to wallow in some sadness, but as a way of attuning our eyes to the presence, to see more clearly, the Lord was with Joseph.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_00: Christ is lower still.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe we can all be a little less certain about knowing what someone is going through.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's important to be in tune with the notion that you just don't know.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody has some version of down, taken down, brought down.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_00: Christ is lower still.
• 5:11
  SPEAKER_00: Down, taken down, brought down.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_00: The Lord was with Joseph.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_01: For our part as a pillar community, we'd love to be praying for you.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_01: So feel free to reach out to us at abide at pillarchurch.com and if you're willing, receive this blessing.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_01: May God Himself, the God who makes everything holy and whole, make you holy and whole.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_01: Put you together, spirit, soul, and body, and keep you fit for the coming of our Master, Jesus Christ.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_01: The one who called you is completely dependable.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_01: If he said it, he'll do it.