The Flux Capacitor

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Podcast Summary: The Wake-Up Call

Episode Title: The Flux Capacitor
Host: John David "J.D." Walt (with guests David Walt and others)
Date: March 16, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Wake-Up Call kicks off a new week by exploring the metaphor of the "flux capacitor," inspired by the film Back to the Future, to reimagine the inmost spiritual capacity of human beings made in the image of God. John David Walt encourages listeners to reflect on their created nature, the transformative power of God’s presence through the Holy Spirit, and the journey from spiritual lostness to foundness by Amazing Grace. The episode weaves together scripture, engaging metaphors, heartfelt singing, and practical reflection questions for listeners.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Opening and Community Engagement

• [00:04] J.D. greets listeners and encourages feedback, reviews, and community involvement.
• Expresses gratitude for long-term and new members of the Wake-Up Call community.

2. The "Flux Capacitor" Metaphor Explained

• [01:27] J.D. playfully shares he ordered a flux capacitor (reference from Back to the Future) as a prop and metaphor.
  • Quote: "At the core of who and what we are is a flux capacitor. It's metaphor. The Bible of course, doesn't call it this. The Bible calls it the inmost being." [03:59]
• Back to the Future reference explained: The flux capacitor is the device that makes time travel possible but requires nearly impossible energy.

3. Scripture and Theological Connection

• J.D. connects the flux capacitor to the biblical concept of the inmost being.
  • Psalm 139:13-14 cited: "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb..." [04:32]
  • Ephesians 3: Paul’s prayer for the strengthening of the spirit in the inmost being.
• Human beings as miracles, capable of divine capacity:
  • Quote: "I am an unbelievable, inconceivable, unrepeatable miracle of God." [06:20]

4. Human Potential and the Presence of God

• [06:40] J.D. draws the analogy further: the inmost being as a spiritual "flux capacitor" powered by the Holy Spirit—"the 1.21 gigawatts of heaven."
• The human body as a temple: "A temple is a place where heaven and earth overlap. At the core is the inmost being... It's the place made to interface with the Holy Spirit." [07:17]
• Encourages listeners to recognize their God-given capacities and wake up to their purpose and potential.

5. Journal Prompts and Reflection

• [09:30] J.D. urges reflection not just on "Who am I?" or "Whose am I?" but "What am I?" with the flux capacitor as a central concept.
• Prompts: What powers your inmost being? (Answer: The Holy Spirit.)
  • Quote: "What powers the flux capacitor of the inmost being? Hint: The third person of the Trinity." [10:28]

6. Human Brokenness, Redemption, and Regeneration

• [10:40] Acknowledges human brokenness from the Fall, and stresses the need for regeneration through Christ and the indwelling Holy Spirit.
• "It's not only the healing of the image of God. It's the regeneration of the reality of the power and the presence of God in our life where we become the temple..." [11:10]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Metaphor Set-Up: "At the core of who and what we are is a flux capacitor. It's metaphor. The Bible of course, doesn’t call it this... the inmost being." [03:59]
• Identity Affirmation: "I am an unbelievable, inconceivable, unrepeatable miracle of God." [06:20]
• Spiritual Power Source: "What powers the flux capacitor of the inmost being? Hint: The third person of the Trinity." [10:28]
• Redemptive Vision: "It's the regeneration of the reality of the power and the presence of God in our life..." [11:10]

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Key Segment Timestamps

• 0:04–1:27: Introduction, encouragement, and call for reviews/community engagement.
• 1:28–3:59: Introduction of the flux capacitor metaphor and Back to the Future explanation.
• 3:59–6:40: Scriptural/theological tie-in to the inmost being.
• 6:41–9:30: Spiritual application, connection to the Holy Spirit, encouragement to realize divine potential.
• 9:31–11:10: Reflection questions and deeper spiritual challenge.
• 11:11–14:09: Personal story about being lost, the meaning of being found, and tying it to "Amazing Grace."

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Musical and Reflection Segment

1. Singing "Amazing Grace"

• [11:34–17:10] The group sings all six verses of "Amazing Grace," weaving in personal stories of lostness and foundness.
  • "I once was lost but now I am found, Was blind but now I see." [13:28]
• [13:55] J.D. and guests share personal changes the grace of God has brought in their lives.
  • David: "As the grace of God—changed you? Changes me every day." [14:09]
  • "If you want to be changed, just say, God, help me to be better, to live better." [14:19]
• [17:12] Comparing a human lifetime (85 years) to eternity (10,000 years): "This life on this side is short... But life on the other side is forever, is eternal." [17:28]

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Invitation and Closing

• J.D. urges listeners to embrace "Amazing Grace" and put their faith in Jesus to bridge the shortness of life with the promise of eternity.
  • "To get from this side to the other side, you got to put your faith in Jesus Christ. And Jesus Christ, he is the way. He is the truth. He is the life." [17:38]

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Reflection Questions (End Segment, [09:30–10:29])

• What do you make of the Flux Capacitor concept?
• What powers the Flux Capacitor of your inmost being?
  • Hint: The Holy Spirit, third person of the Trinity.

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Summary

This episode creatively uses pop culture to illuminate profound Biblical truths about human identity, spiritual capacity, and the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit within. Through storytelling, scripture, and song, J.D. Walt inspires listeners to awaken to their miraculous nature, the necessity of regeneration, and the transforming power of God’s presence—inviting all to move from lostness to foundness through Amazing Grace.

Transcript

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Hey, good morning. It is Monday, March 16th in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ, 2026. I'm John David Walt and this is your wake up call. So are you ready to greet this new week? I hope you're not getting tired of me. I'm not getting tired of you, but for a lot of us, we've been waking up together a long time. Some of you are new. I love that and I'd love to know about your experience, how it's going. Maybe hit a reply to the email today and just let me know. Always open for comments, suggestions, critiques in five star reviews. I would say, you know, some of you are listening to this on the Apple podcast platform and it really helps us if you were to go on there and, you know, do five stars and leave a review. Doesn't have to be long, but it helps us to get broadcast into other realms as our ratings go up. We are, you know, well ranked and well rated. I've never, I don't really ever ask this kind of thing. I don't mind doing it and that's what I'm doing right now. So if you consider doing that, that would be a blessing to us. So are you ready to dive in this morning, this Monday, this new week? Let's start with consecration. All right, now consider this. The other day I did something I never imagined I would do. I went on Amazon.com and I ordered a flux capacitor. Yep, you read and heard that, right? A flux capacitor. Here it is. If you're watching on YouTube, I'm holding up my flux capacitor on the screen. It's, it's kind of a toy, of course, but just for kicks, there it is. For those of you perhaps too old or too young to get the reference, back in the late 1900s, a very popular series of movies came out called Back to the Future. At the center of the story was the age old quest of time travel and more specifically, the attempt to go back into the past and adjust something that happened in history in order to thereby change the future. A mad scientist of sorts named Doc Brown invented a device he called the flux capacitor, which he attached to the engine of a DeLorean automobile. The car had to reach a speed of 88 mph. At which point the flux capacitor was activated and the car would reach a velocity achieving time travel, taking its passengers back to the date selected on the dashboard of the car. Now, the flux capacitor had one major challenge. It took 1.21 gigawatts of electrical power to make it work. The only thing known to power it was the kind of impossible to acquire uranium required to generate nuclear power. So that's the setup to today's thought. Remember Saturday's question what are we? Remember the answer. We are an extraordinarily unusual type of created being made by God to be a phylum beneath the order of angelic beings possessing incomprehensible capacities and remarkable potential. We are made in the very image of the God of heaven and earth, bringing it all together. Now this is why I went on Amazon.com and ordered a flux capacitor. At the core of who and what we are is a flux capacitor. It's metaphor. The Bible of course, doesn't call it this. The Bible calls it the inmost being. Note how the Bible speaks of it. For you created my in inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. I know that full well. Now watch how it works. The flux capacitor. This is Ephesians 3, Paul's prayer. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his spirit in your inmost being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power to together with all the saints to grasp how high, how wide, how deep, how long is the love of Christ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Are you saying it yet? I'm going to deal with this more tomorrow, but say it with me again from Saturday. This time with feeling. I am an unbelievable, inconceivable, unrepeatable miracle of God. Yep, that's what you are at the core of your. At the core of this body that is actually a temple. A temple is a place where heaven and earth overlap. At the core is the inmost being. I'm calling it a flux capacitor. It's the. It's. It's the place made to interface with the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, the presence of God, the 1.21 gigawatts of heaven coming into your physical body and bringing divine power, love, goodness, miracle working potential capacities. Only God has to be exercised on earth as it is in heaven. You're getting it now. You're tracking more to come. Let's pray. Our Father, thank you for your Son Jesus and Lord Jesus. We Praise you because we are fearfully and wonderfully made in your image. We are unbelievable, inconceivable, unrepeatable miracles of God. Come, Holy Spirit, and lead us into the fullness of life in your image. In your name, Jesus. Amen. The journal prompts today. I want you to reflect on this. I want you to think on this. Not who am I? Not whose am I? What am I? So what do you make of the Flux Capacitor concept? Thanks for. Thanks for stretching with me today. And what powers the Flux Capacitor of the Inmost Being? Hint. The third person of the Trinity. Well, man, this has been fun engaging with you like this. I mean, just. It's just not everybody I can have this conversation with. It's a little out there. I know, but, guys, I'm convinced that we've gotten to a pretty low ceiling of understanding and consequently expectation for what a human being made in the image of God actually is. I don't think we take it seriously. I don't think we take it literally or seriously. It's just kind of a religious talk. And I'm like, no, the Bible's actually revealing something to us that is un. Believable. And we gotta wake up to this. This is what I'm saying. We gotta wake up. There's an inmost being in here. Okay. Because of the Fall. Right. We've gone through a lot in this series about the sickness that we have, the brokenness that we have, the corruption that we are born with. That's why we have to have the regenerative, transcendent entry of the presence of God by Jesus Christ, through the Holy Spirit, by his blood. It's. It's the. It's not only the healing of the image of God. It's the regeneration of the reality of the power and the presence of God in our life where we become the temple with others like Jesus. The place on earth where heaven flows. Okay, I'm going to stop. We're going to sing. Okay? This is enough to think about today, but I want you to think about it. Wake up. That's what we're doing. Let's sing. Anybody ready to sing on Monday?

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Yeah, let's do it.

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Dad's ready to sing. We're going to sing a great classic today. Tell them what we got.

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Amazing Grace.

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What's the number?

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5, 72.

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572. You probably know this one by heart. This would be the most popular hymn, at least in America. It's kind of.

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We're going to sing six verses, so you probably don't know all them.

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That's right. We're going to sing all six verses here. And we're walking to the cross gang. We're now into. I don't know. Is it the fourth week? Is it the fifth week? That's the nature of Lynch. You kind of can. Can get a little bit lost. That's wilderness. And sometimes it can be a kind of lostness that leads to being found. You wander out in the woods, and what seems familiar to you, what you thought was familiar, kind of can start to feel like. I'm not sure. I don't recognize where I. You ever been lost in the woods?

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I have. And it's a terrible feeling, but it's. And it's. You can't explain it.

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Do you remember that time when I got lost and it was way up in the night?

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Yeah.

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And nobody knew where I was, and I was terrified.

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How'd we get you?

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Who came? You came. You came out into the woods yelling my name with a flashlight. Because you knew about where I was. And of course, whenever I wasn't showing back up, you think the worst.

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I knew it.

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You're like, I'm gonna go find him dead out there.

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But we didn't.

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And that's why. And that's why you sing. I once was lost but now I am found but now I'm found Was blind but now I see that's amazing grace. And. Yep, that's true. And so in all of our lives, I once was. What I once was. A very angry and impatient person. One time in my life.

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But now you've calmed down.

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I'm not mad. And I'm not. I'm pretty patient. How about you?

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I am, too. I try to be.

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As the grace of God. Changed you.

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Changes me every day.

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Yeah.

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And if. If you'll let him. If you don't let him, he. You won't be changed. But if you want to be changed, just say, God, help me to be better, to live better. Help me to help other people.

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That's right.

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And as long as you're helping somebody else, you're going to be all right.

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That's good. That's good. Okay, we're going to sing all the verses. You ready?

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Amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me I once was lost but now I'm found Was blind but now I see Twas grace that shook my heart to fear and grace my fears relieved how precious in that grace Grace appear the hour I first believe through many dangers Toils and snares I have already come to grace and help me save us and grace will lead me home. The Lord has promised good to me his word my hope secures his will, my shield and portion be as long as life endures. Yea, when this flesh and heart shall fail and mortal life shall pace, life shall possess as in the veil, a life of joy and peace.

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Last verse.

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When We've been there 10,000 years bright shining as the sun We've no less days to sing God's praise Than when we first begun.

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Amen.

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10,000 years.

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How old are you?

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I am. Let's see.

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I am 80. 85.

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85.

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85. Okay, now think about comparing 85 to 10,000 years.

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There's no comparison.

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There's no comparison. This life on this side is short.

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Yep.

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But life on the other side is forever. Is forever, is eternal. And to get from this side to the other side, you got to put your faith in Jesus Christ. And Jesus Christ, he is the way. He is the truth. He is the life. He says, no one comes to the Father, except by him, the Son. And so today, this Monday, consider that your invitation to Amazing Grace.

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Amen.

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That there is even a way to get from 85 years to 10,000 years. It's Jesus. He is Amazing Grace. And we are so thankful for him.

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Amen. Amen.

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Because we get all this in heaven, too. All right. Well, for The Awakening, I'm J.D. walt.

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And I'm David.

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Walt.

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We'll see you on the field. On the field.

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Here they come, the seeds of awakening.