Divine Design: Discovering God’s Design for Family
Saddleback Church Weekend Messages
Saddleback Church
4.7 • 723 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
From the very beginning, God created men and women with equal value, distinct roles, and a shared purpose to reflect his image and bring blessing to the world. In this message, Pastor Andy Wood continues our series, Fight For Your Family, with a powerful reminder that God is the designer of marriage, family, and relationships. Walking through Scripture, he helped us replace common lies about identity, gender, and marriage with the truth of God’s Word, showing that his design brings order, unity, and blessing to our homes. When we live by God’s truth instead of the world’s lies, our families flourish as he intended. God’s way is always best, and when we align our lives with his design, we experience the beauty, peace, and purpose he planned from the very beginning.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, this is Andy Wood, and I'm the pastor here at Saddleback Church, and this is our podcast. |
| 0:07.9 | Be sure to subscribe so we can get you these new messages every week, and I hope you enjoy today's message. |
| 0:14.2 | Let's dive in. |
| 0:26.3 | It's so good to be together for church together weekend. |
| 0:31.9 | As you probably know, as you look around the room, our students are in the room with us today. |
| 0:34.3 | It's been so awesome to have you guys. |
| 0:37.2 | And I do want to say a couple words to you who are students. |
| 0:37.9 | First of all, I want to say how much words to you who are students. First of all, |
| 0:43.3 | I want to say how much I love you. Stacey and I, we pray for you so much. We pray that God would continue his work in your generation. And we want you to know as your bigger church family, |
| 0:49.2 | that we believe in you. We believe in what God is doing in your generation. You know, as we look at our country and our world, there's awakening, there are rumblings of |
| 0:58.2 | a movement of God in a generation, and it's coming from our students. |
| 1:02.4 | It's coming from young adults. |
| 1:04.3 | And you are impacting people all over the world because of your faith in Jesus. |
| 1:08.6 | The Bible says not to let anybody look down on you, but |
| 1:11.8 | set an example for others, your speech, your love, your conduct. And we welcome you as a vital |
| 1:18.1 | part of the family of God in this house. So can you, with me, honor all of our students, |
| 1:24.0 | our student workers, just let them know how much we love them. |
| 1:33.9 | Today we are in the fourth week of a message series called Fight for Your Family. |
| 1:37.3 | This message is a great weekend for students to be in the room. |
| 1:40.2 | Before I jump into the message, though, I do want to say one thing. |
| 1:44.0 | In two weeks from now, we're starting a brand new message series called, Hey God. |
| 1:48.9 | And I wonder if you can say that with me. Hey God. Let's try it. Ready? One, two, three. |
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