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October 8 - Speed Of Love 2026 · Abide In Me

• 0:03
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus says, I am the vine, you are the branches.
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_01: If you abide in me, and I in you, you will bear much fruit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to season two of Pillar's Abide in Me podcast.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_01: I am Christian.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm Trish.
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  SPEAKER_00: This week we continue Speed of Love.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: We're borrowing from a Japanese theologian and his essay titled Three Mile an Hour God.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: God walks slowly because he is love.
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  SPEAKER_00: If he is not love, he would have gone much faster.
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  SPEAKER_00: Love has its speed.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is an inner speed, it is a spiritual speed.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is a different kind of speed from the technological speed to which we are accustomed.
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  SPEAKER_00: It goes on in the depth of our life, whether we notice or not, at three miles an hour.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_00: It is the speed we walk, and therefore the speed the love of God walks.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: Love has a speed.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_01: In a display of God's power, Exodus 14 opens with the hardening of Pharaoh's heart so that he would reconsider his decision to let the Israelites go free.
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  SPEAKER_01: Pharaoh sets out with his army to locate and reclaim them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hear these words from the book we love.
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  SPEAKER_01: As Pharaoh drew near, the Israelites looked back, and there were the Egyptians advancing on them.
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  SPEAKER_01: In great fear, the Israelites cried out to the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: They said to Moses, Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness?
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  SPEAKER_01: What have you done to us, bringing us out of Egypt?
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  SPEAKER_01: Is this not the very thing we told you in Egypt?
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  SPEAKER_01: Let us alone so that we can serve the Egyptians?
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  SPEAKER_01: For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.
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  SPEAKER_01: But Moses said to the people, Do not be afraid, stand firm and see the deliverance that the Lord will accomplish for you today.
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  SPEAKER_01: For the Egyptians, whom you see today you shall never see again.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to keep still.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then the Lord said to Moses, Why do you cry out to me?
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  SPEAKER_01: Tell the Israelites to go forward, but you lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the Israelites may go into the sea on dry ground.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, so that they will go in after them.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I will gain glory for myself over Pharaoh and all his army, his chariots, and his chariot drivers.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gained glory for myself over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his chariot drivers.
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  SPEAKER_01: The angel of God who was going before the Israelite army moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from in front of them and took its place behind them.
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  SPEAKER_01: It came between the army of Egypt and the army of Israel.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so the cloud was there with the darkness, and it lit up the night.
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  SPEAKER_01: One did not come near the other all night.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Lord drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night, and turned the sea into dry land, and the waters were divided.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Israelites went into the sea on dry ground, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Egyptians pursued and went into the sea after them, all of Pharaoh's horses, chariots, and chariot drivers.
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  SPEAKER_01: At the morning watch, the Lord, in the pillar of fire and cloud, looked down on the Egyptian army and threw the Egyptian army into a panic.
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  SPEAKER_01: He clogged their chariot wheels so that they turned with difficulty.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Egyptians said, Let us flee from the Israelites, for the Lord is fighting for them against Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then the Lord said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the sea, so that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots and chariot drivers.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea.
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  SPEAKER_01: And at dawn the sea returned to its normal depth.
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  SPEAKER_01: As the Egyptians fled before it, the Lord tossed the Egyptians into the sea.
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  SPEAKER_01: The waters returned and covered the chariots and the chariot drivers, the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, not one of them remained.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the Israelites walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
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  SPEAKER_01: Israel saw the great work that the Lord did against the Egyptians.
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  SPEAKER_01: So the people feared the Lord and believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses.
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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: You only have to be still.
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  SPEAKER_00: So slow down, breathe deep, keep still.
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  SPEAKER_00: Which doesn't mean stop, don't care, just take care of yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: It means trust, loosen the grip, believe.
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  SPEAKER_00: I find it ironic.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moses preaches this great sermon.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not be afraid, stand firm and see the deliverance the Lord will accomplish for you today.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be still.
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  SPEAKER_00: But then the Lord says to Moses, Tell the Israelites to go forward.
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  SPEAKER_00: Notice that Moses preaches this amazing sermon, preaching, be still, and then God says, go forward.
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  SPEAKER_00: This isn't a correction for an uncomfortable sermon application.
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  SPEAKER_00: The way to stillness is forward.
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  SPEAKER_00: The call is not to sit still and do nothing and live this complacent life while people around the world suffer.
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  SPEAKER_00: The call is to acknowledge God is God and God saves, so you go forward in the stillness of his life and death and purpose and mission.
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  SPEAKER_00: You go forward in stillness into the big week of decisions and pressures and challenges.
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  SPEAKER_00: You go forward in stillness with your kids needing that and demanding this and fighting you on all the stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: You go forward in stillness with your marriage pressures and family stuff and work ache.
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  SPEAKER_00: You go forward in stillness toward loving your neighbor and caring for the poor and serving the common good.
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  SPEAKER_00: You go forward in stillness as October looks to November and the political ads pile up in your mailbox and in your soul.
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  SPEAKER_00: You go forward in stillness as the stuff you don't want to talk about and we don't know about is feeling really real and hard for you in this moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Lord will fight for you and you have only to be still.
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  SPEAKER_00: So go forward.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do not be afraid, stand firm and see the deliverance the Lord will accomplish for you today.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Lord will fight for you, and all you have to do is be still.com.
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  SPEAKER_01: And if you're willing, receive this blessing.
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  SPEAKER_01: The grace of Christ attend you.
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  SPEAKER_01: The love of God surrounds you.
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  SPEAKER_01: The Holy Spirit keep you now and forevermore.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.