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October 6 - 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.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Trish.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm Christian.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_01: This week we continue Speed of Love.
• 0:26
  SPEAKER_01: We're borrowing from a Japanese theologian and his essay titled Three Mile an Hour God.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_01: God walks slowly because he is love.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_01: If he is not love, he would have gone much faster.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_01: Love has its speed.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_01: It is an inner speed.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_01: It is a spiritual speed.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_01: It is a different kind of speed from the technological speed to which we are accustomed.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_01: It goes on in the depth of our life, whether we notice it or not, at three miles an hour.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_01: It is the speed we walk, and therefore the speed the love of God walks.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_01: Love has a speed.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_00: 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.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_00: Pharaoh sets out with his army to locate and reclaim them.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: Hear these words from the book we love.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_00: Then the Lord said to Moses, Why do you cry out to me?
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: Tell the Israelites to go forward.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: 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.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: Then I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them, and so I will gain glory for myself over Pharaoh and all his army, his chariots and his chariot drivers.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_00: Then the Egyptians shall know that I am Lord, when I have gained glory for myself over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his chariot drivers.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_00: 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.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: It came between the army of Egypt and the army of Israel.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_00: And so the cloud was there with the darkness, and it lit up the night.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_00: One did not come near the other all night.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_00: 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.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: The Israelites went into the sea on dry ground, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_00: The Egyptians pursued and went into the sea after them, all of Pharaoh's horses, chariots, and chariot drivers.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: 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.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: He clogged their chariot wheels so that they turned with difficulty.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_00: The Egyptians said, Let us flee from the Israelites, for the Lord is fighting for them against Egypt.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: 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.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_00: So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at dawn the sea returned to its normal depth.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_00: As the Egyptians fled before it, the Lord tossed the Egyptians into the sea.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_00: The waters returned and covered the chariots and the chariot drivers, the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_00: Not one of them remained.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_00: But the Israelites walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_00: Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_00: Israel saw the great work that the Lord did against the Egyptians, so the people feared the Lord and believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_00: This is the word of the Lord.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks be to God.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_01: This story is meant to announce very clearly: God is God.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_01: This God is God.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_01: The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob is God.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_01: The God of the people of Israel, the God of the enslaved Israelites, the God of the oppressed people, God is God.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_01: The God of the people who have nothing is God.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_01: The God of the people who have no control, don't manage anything, aren't in the seats of power.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_01: That God is God.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_01: The God of those whose kids are getting picked on and pushed around and left behind.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_01: That God is God.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_01: The God of the young women who don't dare walk the streets at night.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_01: The God of the weak and the marginalized, the forgotten and the underfed.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_01: That God is God.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_01: Exodus 14 is the stunning announcement and a radical reversal that God is God.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_01: Suspend your own judgment for just a minute about how God goes about being God and acknowledge with me this story and this whole Exodus event is the announcement God is God.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_01: The people feared the Lord and believed in the Lord.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_01: Which maybe is a word for us now, a word for us today.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe the sort of pat on the back vibe and everybody is just fine impulse isn't really the biblical orientation to plurality of religions and expressions and opinions about the world and life and God.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe we would do well to remind ourselves so as to engage with grace.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_01: God is God, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, and Joseph and Moses and Miriam and Ruth and Esther and Mary, Theatokos, the mother of God, the God who became incarnate in Jesus, the God who walks among us, the God who comes down, who slows down, who walks with us and walks for us to the cross where he forgives and is buried in the grave to defeat sin and death, only to defeat the great enemy that haunts us all, death itself.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_01: That God is God.
• 6:45
  SPEAKER_01: The people feared the Lord and believed in the Lord.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_00: And for our part as a pillar community, we'd love to be praying for you.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_00: So feel free to reach out to us at Abide at PillarChurch.com.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_00: And if you're willing, receive this blessing.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_00: The grace of Christ attend you.
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_00: The love of God surround you.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_00: The Holy Spirit keep you now and forevermore.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.