Jesus and Authority
Saddleback Church Weekend Messages
Saddleback Church
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🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Pastor Andy continues our Jesus on the Move series by exploring the authority of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark. Many of us try to control our lives and circumstances, but underneath that struggle is a deeper question: who is really in charge of our lives? In Mark 1 and 2, Jesus teaches with authority and demonstrates it by confronting evil, healing the sick, and forgiving sins. Through these moments, we see that His authority brings freedom, healing, and forgiveness. Scripture reminds us that pride and rebellion place us outside of God’s authority, while humility and surrender open the door to His grace and peace. As we surrender our lives to Jesus and allow Him to lead, we begin to experience the peace that comes from trusting Him.
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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. |
| 0:27.8 | Today we're in the third week of our message series called Jesus on the move. Can we say that together? Jesus on the move. And we're looking at the Gospel of Mark. So the second of the |
| 0:34.2 | gospels. There's four of them, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in the New Testament. |
| 0:38.2 | Mark writes, from the perspective of Peter, many historians believe that Simon Peter, one of the early |
| 0:44.3 | followers of Jesus, would have given these teachings to Mark that he wrote down. It's the life, |
| 0:49.7 | it's the teachings, the miracles of Jesus, all culminating with Jesus, death on a cross and his resurrection. |
| 0:56.9 | And we're believing and looking and seeing that God, the same way he works in the Bible, is the same way that he works in our day. |
| 1:04.1 | So today, we're going to continue that journey. |
| 1:06.2 | My message title today is Jesus and Authority. |
| 1:09.7 | So I want to invite you, if you have your notes, you can |
| 1:11.5 | pull them out. And when you think about the word authority, maybe you come from a family where |
| 1:17.0 | you had a strong authority figure in your home, or maybe your parents were very permissive. But all of |
| 1:23.3 | this plays into our perspective of God. And one word that is very closely connected to authority |
| 1:29.1 | is the word control. How many of you know somebody that's controlling? Not a curiosity. Just raise |
| 1:35.0 | your hands up high. How many of you would be honest and say you struggle a little bit with control |
| 1:39.2 | issues? Okay. We're together, friends. So we're going to do a little test and we're going to find out |
| 1:43.9 | who is controlling in the room. |
| 1:46.2 | So here's what I want you to do. |
| 1:47.5 | I'm going to give you some categories, and as I go through, you might put a little check on your notes as we walk through of which of these describe you, |
| 1:55.6 | and at the end we'll tally them all up together. |
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