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September 15 - Speed Of Love 2026 · Abide In Me

• 0:07
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus says, I am the vine, you are the branches.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_00: If you abide in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to season two of Pillar's Abide in Me podcast.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Trish.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm Christian.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_01: This fall we're moving at the speed of love.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_01: We're borrowing from a Japanese theologian who wrote an 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.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_01: Love has its speed.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_01: It's an inner speed.
• 0:50
  SPEAKER_01: It's a spiritual speed.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_01: It is a different kind of speed from the technological speed to which we are accustomed.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_01: It goes on in the depth of our life, whether we notice it or not, at three miles an hour.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_01: It is the speed we walk, and therefore the speed the love of God walks.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_01: It's the speed of love in a hurry-up world.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_01: The speed of love in a world hell-bent on efficiency.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_01: The speed of love in a world where too many people are passed by and run over or absolutely exhausted.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_01: Love has a speed.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: Now let's hear these words from the Book We Love.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: The Lord saw that the wickedness of humans was great in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: And the Lord was sorry that he had made humans on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_00: So the Lord said, I will blot out from the earth the humans I have created, people together with animals and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_00: But Noah found favor in the sight of the Lord.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_00: This is the word of the Lord.
• 2:10
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks be to God.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_01: Rest.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_01: Rest.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_01: Doesn't that sound nice?
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_01: Noah's name means rest.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_01: So even from the outset, you're given an indication this guy is different.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_01: As you read Genesis, every time you hear the word Noah, just replace it with the word rest.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_01: That's how they would have heard it.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_01: But rest found favor in the sight of the Lord.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_01: These are the descendants of rest.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_01: And God said to rest.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_01: It's almost like the story is making its promise right from the start.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_01: It could get bad, it's gonna get bad, but this is about rest.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_01: This story is about rest.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_01: That's what we were made for.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_01: We were made on day six of creation, and on day seven of creation, rest.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_01: So humanity's first experience of the world, rest.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_01: Creation's harmony gives way to wickedness and corruption and violence, and our lives don't seem any different.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_01: And some of us probably wish God hadn't placed that rainbow in the world, promising he wouldn't destroy it again.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_01: Creation's harmony gives way to the endless cycles of chaos that wreak havoc on us, and so right from the outset, rest.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, Jesus would borrow it and say, Come to me all you who are weary and carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_01: Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your soul.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_00: For our part as the Pillar Community, we'd love to be praying for you.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_00: So feel free to reach out to us at abide at pillarchurch.com.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_00: And if you're willing, receive this blessing.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_00: 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.