Jesus and Compassion
Saddleback Church Weekend Messages
Saddleback Church
4.7 • 723 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
What if God isn’t distant from your pain, but actually drawn to it? In Week 4 of Jesus on the Move, Pastor Stacie walks through Mark 1:40–45, where Jesus meets a man no one else would touch. Instead of stepping back, Jesus moves toward him with compassion, reaches out, and changes his life completely. This message shows us the heart of Jesus. He sees the broken, the isolated, and the overlooked, and He moves closer, not away. His compassion is not passive. It is active, personal, and powerful enough to make the unclean clean. And it doesn’t stop with Him. The same compassion we receive is the compassion we’re invited to live out. If you’ve ever wondered how God feels about you, or what it looks like to love people in a real way, this message is for you. Watch now and discover a compassion that moves toward you and through you.
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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. |
| 0:08.1 | 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. |
| 0:27.4 | Today we're in week four of this message series that we've been in called Jesus on the Move, |
| 0:30.7 | and we're working our way through the gospel of Mark. |
| 0:34.2 | It's week four, and we're still in chapter one. |
| 0:40.9 | So at this rate, we're going to be wrapping up the series about 2029. So hang with us. |
| 0:46.9 | It's going to be a good one. Andy told me, he said, I intended to move faster, but there's just so much good stuff in chapter one. I couldn't skip it. And so here we are today. And, you know, |
| 0:52.5 | the life of Jesus is so captivating. It's so compelling. |
| 0:57.2 | And people, when he was alive, people to this day are drawn to him because of the wisdom of his |
| 1:03.4 | teaching and his miracles and the authority that he had. It's just so compelling. There's no one like |
| 1:10.5 | Jesus. And so we get There's no one like Jesus. |
| 1:11.9 | And so we get to look at his life today. |
| 1:14.6 | Now, if you're new to church, if you're exploring faith, maybe you're new to reading the Bible. |
| 1:20.4 | Could I just encourage you to start by reading the life and teaching of Jesus? |
| 1:25.9 | There are four books in the Bible that specifically focused on that. |
| 1:29.3 | They're called the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. |
| 1:32.9 | And in this series, we're walking through the book of Mark. |
| 1:36.1 | Today, we're going to look at a story from chapter 1, of course, verses 40 through 45. |
| 1:42.6 | And it's just six verses, which is probably why we're still in the book, chapter one. |
| 1:48.3 | Because you've got to move a little faster. |
| 1:50.3 | But just six verses, we're going to see that a person's life is completely and supernaturally changed forever. |
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