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September 29 - Speed Of Love 2026 · Abide In Me

• 0:14
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus says, I am the vine, you are the branches.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_01: If you abide in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to season two of Pillar's Abide in Me podcast.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_01: I'm Trish.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm Christian.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: This fall we're moving at the speed of love.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_00: We're borrowing from a Japanese theologian and his essay titled Three Mile an Hour God.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: God walks slowly because he is love.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_00: If he is not love, he would have gone much faster.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: Love has its speed.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is an inner speed.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: It is a spiritual speed.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: It is a different kind of speed from the technological speed to which we are accustomed.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: It goes on in the depth of our life.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: Whether we notice it or not, at three miles an hour.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_00: It is the speed we walk and therefore the speed the love of God walks.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_00: It's the speed of love in a hurry-up world.
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  SPEAKER_00: The speed of love in a world hell-bent on efficiency.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: The speed of love in a world where too many people are passed by and run over or absolutely exhausted.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: Love has a speed.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_01: Hear these words from the book we love.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_01: Now Joseph was taken down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_01: The Lord was with Joseph, and he became a successful man.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_01: He was in the house of his Egyptian master.
• 1:56
  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.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_01: So Joseph found favor in his sight and attended him.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_01: He made him overseer of his house and put him in charge of all that he had.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_01: And after a time his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, Lie with me.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_01: But he refused.
• 2:19
  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 me to lie with me and 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.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_01: When his master heard the words that his wife spoke to him, saying, This is the way your servant treated me, he became enraged.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_01: And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_01: He remained there in prison.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_01: But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him steadfast love.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_01: He gave him favor in the sight of the chief jailer.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_01: The chief jailer committed to Joseph's care all the prisoners who were in the prison, and whatever was done there, he was the one who did it.
• 3:14
  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.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_01: This is the word of the Lord.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks be to God.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_00: Joseph was taken down to Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what it says.
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  SPEAKER_00: Taken down.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_00: Now Joseph was taken down.
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  SPEAKER_00: Down.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_00: Taken down, brought down.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_00: There's a sense in which this story is a bit of a descent story.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was left for dead by his brothers, excommunicated by the only family he had, sold into servitude down in Egypt before he's thrown down into prison.
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  SPEAKER_00: Down, taken down, brought down.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_00: Now Joseph was taken down to Egypt, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_00: Joseph's master took him and put him into prison.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_00: Down, taken down, brought down.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_00: Does it ever feel like that?
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_00: Have you ever felt like that?
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_00: Down, taken down, brought down.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_00: To my estimation, there's this remarkably ironic justiposition in life.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_00: We are constantly trying to get up, to climb, to rise, to be more, and have more, but life brings this seemingly relentless effort to bring us down, keep us down, take us down.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_00: I know a few people who are just genuinely happy, but most people carry an ache, a sadness, an awareness.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_00: Things aren't the way they're supposed to be.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_00: Since the bite of the first fruit, things aren't the way they're supposed to be.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_00: Since Cain took down Abel and the rains came down to flood, and Babel's intentions got thrown down to confuse, we've been confused.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_00: It's not the way it's supposed to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: The medical people in our community confront it every day.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: The counselors and the therapists among us see it every hour.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you do too.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_00: It's not the way it's supposed to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: This isn't to try to make people feel bad.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_00: This is an opportunity to open us and awaken us to the power and grace and mercy and love of God in Jesus Christ, who is lower still, who descends farther, who takes on what we are so we can become like He is.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_01: For our part as a Pillar Community, we'd love to be praying for you.
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  SPEAKER_01: So feel free to reach out to us at abide at pillarchurch.com.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_01: And if you're willing, receive this blessing.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_01: May God Himself, God who makes everything holy and whole, make you holy and whole, put you together, spirit, soul, and body, and keep you fit for the coming of our Master, Jesus Christ.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_01: The one who called you is completely dependable.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_01: If he said it, he'll do it.