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October 27 - 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 Pillar's Abide in Me podcast.
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Trish.
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  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.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_01: God walks slowly because he is love.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_01: If he is not love, he would have gone much faster.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_01: Love has its speed.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is an inner speed.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is a spiritual speed.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is a different kind of speed from the technological speed to which we are accustomed.
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  SPEAKER_01: It goes on in the depth of our life, whether we notice it or not, at three miles an hour.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is the speed we walk, and therefore the speed the love of God walks.
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  SPEAKER_01: Love has a speed.
• 1:13
  SPEAKER_00: Hear these words from 2 Samuel 11.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab with his officers and all Israel with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: They ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah.
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  SPEAKER_00: But David remained at Jerusalem.
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  SPEAKER_00: It happened late one afternoon when David rose from his couch and was walking about on the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing.
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  SPEAKER_00: The woman was very beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_00: David sent someone to inquire about the woman.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was reported, This is Bathsheba, daughter of Aliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite.
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  SPEAKER_00: So David sent messengers to get her, and she came to him, and he lay with her.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now she was purifying herself after her period.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then she returned to her house.
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  SPEAKER_00: The woman conceived, and she sent and told David, I am pregnant.
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  SPEAKER_00: So David sent word to Joab, Send me Uriah the Hittite.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Joab sent Uriah to David.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and the people fared and how the war was going.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then David said to Uriah, Go down to your house and wash your feet.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uriah went out of the king's house, and there followed him a present from the king.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Uriah slept at the entrance of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_00: When they told David Uriah did not go down to his house, David said to Uriah, You have just come from a journey.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why did you not go down to your house?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uriah said to David, The Ark and Israel and Judah remain in booths, and my Lord Joab and the servants of my Lord are camping in the field.
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  SPEAKER_00: Shall I then go to my house and eat and drink, and to lie with my wife?
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  SPEAKER_00: As you live and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then David said to Uriah, Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the next day David invited him to eat and drink in his presence and made him drunk, and in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his Lord, but he did not go down to his house.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the letter he wrote, Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, so that he may be struck down and die.
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  SPEAKER_00: As Joab kept watch over the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant warriors.
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  SPEAKER_00: The men of the city came out and fought with Joab, and some of the servants of David among the people fell.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uriah the Hittite was killed as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Joab sent and told David all the news about the fighting, and he instructed the messenger.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?
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  SPEAKER_00: Who killed Abimelech, son of Jerubah?
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  SPEAKER_00: Did not a woman throw an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why did you go so near the wall?
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  SPEAKER_00: Then you shall say, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead too.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the messenger went and came and told David all that Joab had sent him to tell.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_00: The messenger said to David, The men gained an advantage over us and came out against us in the field.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then the archer shot at your servants from the wall.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some of the king's servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
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  SPEAKER_00: David said to the messenger, Thus you shall say to Joab, Do not let this matter trouble you, for the sword devours now one and now another.
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  SPEAKER_00: Press your attack on the city and overthrow it, and encourage him.
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  SPEAKER_00: When the wife of Uriah heard that her husband was dead, she made lamentation for him.
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  SPEAKER_00: When the morning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord, and the Lord sent Nathan to David.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks be to God.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_01: You may have noticed David is the primary driver of the action in 2 Samuel 11, with a bit of complicity from Joab, but mostly David.
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  SPEAKER_01: Eight times it says, David sent, David sent, David sent.
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  SPEAKER_01: In other words, David's in charge here.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is David's world here.
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  SPEAKER_01: David has all the power, and because he has all the power, he gets to and does do whatever he wants to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Doesn't really matter who gets hurt, not his concern.
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  SPEAKER_01: His concern is his concern.
• 6:28
  SPEAKER_01: David sent a messenger to get Betsheba.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like the first humans in the beginning, she took of its fruit and he ate.
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  SPEAKER_01: What is this story doing here?
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_01: Don't we come to the Bible to find out how it's supposed to be?
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't we read it to get some clue as to how we're supposed to be?
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  SPEAKER_01: Isn't it supposed to be good news?
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  SPEAKER_01: The opening lines, it's like a metaphor for what's about to happen.
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  SPEAKER_01: David sent Joab and his officers and all Israel with him, and they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it goes on to tell a different version of the same thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: David ravaged Bathsheba and besieged Uriah.
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  SPEAKER_01: What is this doing here?
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  SPEAKER_01: It may be fair to wonder, what if this wasn't here?
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  SPEAKER_01: What if we never told this story?
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  SPEAKER_01: What if her name was left out of our conscience?
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  SPEAKER_01: What if we didn't have to deal with it?
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  SPEAKER_01: What if we just left it out?
• 7:37
  SPEAKER_01: David ravaged Bathsheba and besieged Uriah.
• 7:42
  SPEAKER_01: Silence doesn't seem like the answer.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_01: Silence doesn't seem like the way to honor the pain.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_01: Silence doesn't seem like the way to acknowledge the pain caused and the pain done and the consequences they have.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe the Bible tells the story because it happened.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's actually what it says.
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  SPEAKER_01: It happened.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe 2 Samuel 11, among other things, is here because it happened and because it happens.
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  SPEAKER_01: Too many stories of violence go untold, quieted down, swept under the rug, ignored, forgotten, left out.
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  SPEAKER_01: People, especially too often women, left to suffer the consequences of someone else's appetite for power in silence, isolation, and shame.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it happened.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe this story is here because these stories are here.
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  SPEAKER_00: For our part as the 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.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you're willing, receive this blessing.
• 9:01
  SPEAKER_00: May our Lord Jesus Christ, the one who came with grace and truth, also fill your hearts with grace and truth as you serve Him in the days ahead.
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  SPEAKER_00: And may the joy of the Lord, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit be your strength.