The Power of Neighboring
Saddleback Church Weekend Messages
Saddleback Church
4.7 • 723 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Pastor Andy Wood teaches us that God gives extraordinary power to ordinary people to accomplish his will. Looking at the story of Peter and John in Acts 4, we learn how God equips and empowers us to step out in faith. When we rely on his power, incredible change can happen. In this message, learn what God can do through the power of your testimony, his Word, his Spirit, and the Resurrection of Jesus.
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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. |
| 0:23.8 | I want to welcome all of our campuses. |
| 0:25.5 | Those of you are joining us online. |
| 0:30.7 | Today we are in the third week of a message series called The Art of Neighboring. |
| 0:37.1 | And we've been looking at Jesus' invitation and his call for us to love our neighbor the way we love ourselves. So in the first week, we talked about the invitation that Jesus gives to us to prioritize neighboring. He said, this is the most important thing. Love God, with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and love your neighbor as yourself. And all the law and prophets hang on these two commandments. So we talked about prioritizing. Then last week we talked about practicing. |
| 0:55.2 | So if you weren't here, I want to encourage you to go listen to those messages. |
| 0:59.0 | Today we're going to talk about the power available to us for neighboring. |
| 1:03.8 | The power for neighboring. |
| 1:05.6 | And I want to start with a very important information, |
| 1:09.5 | a very important announcement from the Wood family. |
| 1:12.6 | We're coming up on the one year anniversary of our 2011 Honda Odyssey going home to be with the Lord. |
| 1:22.6 | And some people asked me, you know, after last service, were you surprised? Did you see it coming? |
| 1:29.3 | Or was it like, you know, one of those things that was like all of a sudden? And I'll just say, you know, we saw signs she was weakening over the course of time. |
| 1:37.3 | Like she was getting tired. She was getting slower. And things started to happen. Like there were lights that were coming on in the dashboard. |
| 1:46.5 | And those lights would say things like, pull over, this car is going to blow up. |
| 1:51.2 | And so every once in a while when this light would come on, this was kind of the end. |
| 1:55.4 | This is how we knew, like this was very close to the end. |
| 1:58.3 | So the light would come on, and you had about three miles once that |
| 2:01.9 | light came on before the car would just completely shut off. And it didn't matter where you were. |
| 2:06.7 | It didn't matter like how fast you were going. It was done. But this was if you didn't get |
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