The Hope You Need
Saddleback Church Weekend Messages
Saddleback Church
4.7 • 723 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
What is hope? For some, it’s a wish or a state of mind. But how do we hold onto hope when we lose a loved one, when a marriage falls apart, or when our health fails? In this Easter message, Pastor Andy Wood walks through John 11 and the story of Jesus raising Lazarus. In their grief, Mary and Martha ask where Jesus was and why He didn’t come sooner. In response, Jesus reveals who He is. He is the resurrection and the life, greater than any circumstance we face. He is the God who cares, meeting us in our pain and reminding us we are not alone. He is the God who keeps His promises, calling Lazarus out of the grave and showing His power and faithfulness. This Easter, we’re invited to lift our hope above our circumstances and place it in Jesus, who offers new life, real peace, and a hope we can hold onto.
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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. |
| 0:24.9 | Today is a great day of celebration. |
| 0:26.7 | Easter is a day of hope. |
| 0:32.7 | It's a day that we discover the hope beyond circumstance, beyond difficulty, beyond pain. |
| 0:39.1 | And my message today is titled, the hope that you need, the hope that you need. But before we jump in, |
| 0:43.9 | I want to call your attention very quick to this card. You heard about it just a moment ago, |
| 0:50.1 | and if everybody could locate it, it says, my response to God's offer this Easter. So if you just have that handy, at the end of our time together together we're going to walk through that every easter |
| 0:54.6 | we do a survey to discover how we can better serve you in your journey spiritually where you are |
| 1:00.9 | in this moment so i'm going to walk you through that at the end of our time together you'll also |
| 1:05.4 | discover that there are some message notes and you can locate those notes and we're going to walk |
| 1:10.8 | through the |
| 1:11.3 | question of hope. How do we live with hope today in our lives? And I like to begin with a little |
| 1:17.3 | bit of a question. This question really is a defining question for the subject of hope. What is |
| 1:23.3 | hope? So if I were to ask you, what is hope, I wonder what you would say. So what would your |
| 1:27.5 | response be if I ask you what is hope? Now maybe for some of us, we think of areas of our life |
| 1:33.4 | that we hope will be different, things that we hope will happen. Like I hope the University of |
| 1:39.3 | Michigan wins the national championship. That's my hope for basketball. So there might be a hope that you have, |
| 1:45.5 | hope the angels will be a little bit better this year, or maybe that the Dodgers would win another |
| 1:49.8 | world series. That hope oftentimes is something that we will use as a word to kind of wishfully |
| 1:56.0 | say, this is what I'm anticipating. Sometimes that hope also is a circumstantial looking into the future of |
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