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Sower Nation Friends of Jesus, friends of mine. It is Friday, July 31st in the year of our Lord 2026. I'm John David Walt and this is your wake up call. We are finishing the Mark Pizza Challenge series today. Still don't have any details on the pizza party yet, but I'm authorizing you, if you ran this race, 16 chapters in 16 days to go for it, to get some pizza. Send me a picture, tell me the story. Just have fun today. Yeah. And I've already told you next week we got Lou Ann Riley coming and that's going to be an upgrade. You're going to love that. You're going to love her and I want you to learn about her. James study, women's Bible study. I'm hearing like men and women are doing it together in churches. So she's just a great Bible teacher and wonderful person. Got that to look forward to. Let's just get going today though in consecration. Let's just get this meeting with Jesus kicked off on this Friday. This Friday is only going to happen once. Let's make it count. Wake up, sleeper. Rise from the dead and Christ will shine on you. Jesus, I belong to you. I lift up my heart to you. I set my mind on you. I fix my eyes on you. I offer my body to you as a living sacrifice. Jesus, we belong to you. And we're praying in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Today's entry is entitled, without the resurrection we've got nothing. Our text from Mark, chapter 16. I want you to read the whole chapter. Finish it out here. Our verses we're going to focus on today. Verses 4 through 8. Hear now the word of the Lord. But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side. And. And they were alarmed. Don't be alarmed, he said. You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene who was crucified. He has risen. He is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go tell his disciples and Peter, he is going ahead of you into Galilee. They are there. You will see him. Just as he told you. Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone because they were afraid. The word of the Lord. Now consider this. Though the story of Jesus be anchored in human history, were Jesus not raised from the dead, we would probably have no idea he ever existed. Chances are he would not have even made the history books. Though his teachings resonated depths of truth unheard before by human ears, and though he performed astonishing miraculous signs, and though he died a cruel, unjust death at the hands of Jewish leaders and Roman authorities, the story of Jesus would be just that, another story among the now millions of stories in the annals of history. The historical account of Jesus life and death is now known to us only because of the Gospel or the good news of his resurrection from the dead. Why would Jesus matter more than any other historical figure who said and did amazing things otherwise? This cannot be overstated. Paul said it emphatically in his letter to the church at Corinth. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. That's 1 Corinthians 15:14. The resurrection of Jesus is the upending of death, which is the curse of sin, which is eternal alienation of the creature from the Creator, which is the fundamental inescapable problem of the human race. Here Paul again, 1 Corinthians 15:21, 23. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive, but each in turn Christ the first fruits. Then when he comes, those who belong to him. Jesus, life, his words, deeds, miracles, signs, suffering and death are all known to us because he is raised from the dead. This is why he is the way and the truth and the life and the exclusive Savior of the human race and the entire creation and the Lord of heaven and earth. No one else before or since, rose from the dead. Sure, history is littered with true stories of miraculous resuscitations, but there are no resurrections from the dead, save one. Everyone who has ever lived has died and in one form or another has been buried. Only one has died, been buried, and on the third day, raised from the dead. If you had cancer and a doctor told you there was only one known cure for your form of cancer, what would you do? Would you want to debate the injustice of this exclusive claim? No. You would, thank God. The terminal nature of your life could be extended beyond the terminal nature of your cancer. You would ask the doctor to treat you with the cure. So why is it that people bristle at the statement that Jesus Christ is the only known cure to the cancer of sin and the curse of death? He is not withholding this cure, I. E. Salvation, from anyone, but offering it freely to all who will receive it. What news could be better than this? Because of his resurrection from the Dead. Not only do we know Jesus can cure the cancer of sin, we know he has actually reversed its consequences. Death. In all of the history of the world and in all of eternity to come, nothing is more astonishing than this. This, my friends, is why men and women have given their lives to go to the ends of the earth for more than 2,000 years now to share this gospel with anyone who, who will hear and receive it. Without the resurrection, all we've got is at best another self help strategy. Tony Robbins on steroids. With the Resurrection, we have the whole gospel. Without the Resurrection, if we even happen to discover Jesus in the stacks of history's library, we may at best find some help so we can try harder to become better people. With the resurrection comes the power of the Holy Spirit to not only cleanse us from guilt and heal us from shame, but to supernaturally empower us to overcome sin which has lost its power. Without the resurrection, we would still have the Old Testament of the Bible, but we wouldn't have any real access to it. We wouldn't understand it as our story because after all, we are, most of us Gentiles. Our T shirts might say something like, we came, we saw, we died. With the resurrection, we have the whole counsel of God and the sure hope of our own resurrection because we have given our lives to the Risen One. And far more than a T shirt slogan, we have the proclamation which goes like this. He is risen. And of course you say, he is risen indeed. Amen.
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Thank you Jesus. Let's sing our prayer today. Remember, today's the day a lot of you been holding out on singing this. You're going to sing it with me. Come on.
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Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me.
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Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me. Melt me, mold me, fill me, use me.
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Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me.
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Amen. Journal prompts so where does all of this challenge your faith today? And where do you feel pushback again, friends? You know, it's not about believing the propositional truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It's leaning into it by faith. It's again, this is not just some sense of, well, Jesus raised from the dead, so when I die, I'm going to go to heaven. That's at least the truth. But it's the bear, the bear. Basic of it. You see, he wants to bring resurrection life into your life right now, today. He wants to bring us, he wants to stream into your life by the presence of the Holy Spirit, a power to live at the Level of love, of glory, of goodness, of power, friends, like Jesus is alive. He is right here, right now. He's where you and I are right now. And he's knocking. You hear that knock? He's knocking at the door. He's like, I want to come in. I got good news for you with the stuff you're dealing with right now. I'm here to help you with it. I'm here to level up your life at every point. It's not going to get easier. May even get harder. Will get harder at one point or another, but it's going to become better. It's going to become more alive, richer, full of grace, rightness.
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He is the solution to every struggle you got to every problem you're dealing with. But it's him. It's himself. He's like, come on, let's go. I could keep preaching, but I'm gonna just put the. Put the punctuation on it. And you know what it is? It's an exclamation point with a little line through the top. It's the. And Dad's here with me, and I think we're going to sing our way out today of this series. And we got a big one for us today. You're going to love it. You got to jump in. Here we go. Okay, Sower Nation, we have come to the end of Mark's gospel. 16 chapters, 16 days. I'm hoping that you're going to celebrate tonight with some pizza with me. We'll just have it, you know, Dutch, and in our own places, but let's celebrate. We've done it. And we have come through the cross now through the empty tomb. And dad is here to help us sing a great celebration song on this 31st day of July. What do we got?
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Low in the grave he lay, also known as up from the grave he arose.
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One of my favorite Easter hymns.
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Up from the grave. Hero.
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We got to go a little lower than that, but we're going to find our pitch. We're going to sing all three verses. What's the number on that one?
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This is 252.
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252. And, guys, let's sing it like we mean it. Okay? This is the victory lap. This is the victory lap song.
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Of Easter.
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And the thing about Easter is it's not just one day on the calendar. It's our whole reality.
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It's our whole life.
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It's our whole life. He is risen from the dead. He is dwelling in our lives. He's saving the world. He is the Lord of heaven and earth. He is the King of kings.
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But we've got to do our part. We've got to be witnesses for him. We got to go to church and Sunday school, choir practice. We do it all.
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And we gotta get out on the fields, right? And so the seeds of awakening. Okay, that's what's gonna take. It's gonna take a great awakening. And I like to say, start with me. Okay. Lo in the grave he lay Is that too low?
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As for lo in the grave he lay Jesus, my Savior Waiting the coming day Jesus my Lord up from the grave he arose he arose With a mighty triumph for his foe he arose, he arose A victor from the dark domain and he lives forever with his saints to reign he arose Heroes arose Heroes Hallelujah. Christ of rose burst too Vainly they watch his bed Jesus my Savior Vainly they seal the dead Jesus, my Lord, I Up from the grave he arose he arose With a mighty triumph o' er his foes he arose, he arose A victor from the dark domain and he lives forever with his saints to reign he arose he arose he arose he rose Hallelujah. Christ arose Last verse. Death cannot he prey Jesus my labor he tore thine barn away Jesus, my
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Up from the grave he arose he arose With a mighty triumph in gold he arose he arose A victor from the dark dome and he lives forever with his saints to reign he arose he arose he arose Hallelujah. Christ. Hey, we did it. I ran out of a rose.
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Praise God. Jesus is risen from the dead. Death has lost its sting.
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There's a store right across the street here from the seed house and it's closed. And every time makes dad sad to think about it not being open.
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I know it.
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Listen, I'm. Tomorrow, we got a Holy Spirit story. Those have been great. Monday, we've got a special guest on the wake up call. You remember who it is? Louann Riley. Louann Riley from Luverne, Alabama. She lives in the Woodlands, Texas. She's the pastor of discipleship at the Woodlands Methodist Church. He's a preacher, she's a teacher. She's a women's Bible study leader. I'm looking forward to it.
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Amen. She's a mom. She has twin boys, 16 years old. So it's going to be a treat. We're really looking forward to it. She's an author for Seedbed. I want you to get her book. She's going to be teaching next week on James, a little miniseries one week long. And she's done a Bible study for women. It's out now@cbed.com look at the links in the in the email today. Look at the banner up top. But it's called Growing Up Faith Lessons from the Book of James. She's becoming a new Bible study leader for women in the seedbed. You know, I don't know what you'd call the seedbed. It's the field. But anyway, I want women to be doing this study this fall. They're doing it in Gillette and they're loving it. So for the Awakening and for the Gospel of Mark, I'm J.D.
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Podcast Summary: The Wake-Up Call

Episode: Without the Resurrection, We've Got Nothing
Date: July 31, 2026
Host: John David Walt (with guest appearances by "Dad," David Walt)
Podcast: The Wake-Up Call (Seedbed)

Episode Overview

This episode marks the finale of the "Mark Pizza Challenge" series, celebrating the completion of 16 chapters of the Gospel of Mark in 16 days. John David Walt centers the discussion on the absolute centrality of the resurrection of Jesus Christ to the Christian faith. Drawing from Mark 16 and Paul's writings in 1 Corinthians, Walt emphasizes that without the resurrection, the story of Jesus—and indeed, all of Christianity—would be meaningless. The episode concludes with singing, reflection, practical journal prompts, and a look forward to next week's guest, Lou Ann Riley.

Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Mark Pizza Challenge Celebration

Opening Remarks & Celebration:
- Walt encourages listeners who completed the challenge to celebrate with pizza and share their stories.
- Teases next week’s upgrade: Bible teacher Lou Ann Riley and her James study. (00:04–02:00)

2. Centering on the Resurrection

Mark 16:4–8 Read Aloud (02:17–03:26)
- Walt reads the passage about the women discovering the empty tomb and the angel announcing Jesus' resurrection, setting the foundation for the episode.
Why the Resurrection Matters (03:27–06:18)
- Walt explores how Jesus’ story would likely be forgotten, despite his miracles and teachings, if not for the resurrection.
- “Though the story of Jesus be anchored in human history, were Jesus not raised from the dead, we would probably have no idea he ever existed…” (03:32)
- Draws on Paul: “And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith.” (1 Corinthians 15:14 quoted at 04:08)
- Explains the resurrection as the "upending of death," the solution to “the fundamental inescapable problem of the human race.” (04:32)

3. The Uniqueness of Christ’s Resurrection

Only One Resurrection (06:19–08:50)
- Walt distinguishes between miraculous resuscitations seen in history and the unique, once-for-all resurrection of Jesus.
- Offers an analogy: If there were only one cure for cancer, no one would complain about the exclusivity—rather, they’d seek the cure. “So why is it that people bristle at the statement that Jesus Christ is the only known cure to the cancer of sin and the curse of death?” (07:22)
Universal Offer of Salvation
- “He is not withholding this cure… but offering it freely to all who will receive it.” (07:43)
- Because of the resurrection, Jesus didn’t just offer a remedy—he reversed the consequences of sin: death itself.

4. The Resurrection’s Transformative Power

The Difference the Resurrection Makes (08:51–10:10)
- Without the resurrection, Christianity is “at best another self-help strategy. Tony Robbins on steroids.”
- With the resurrection: “We have the whole gospel… the power of the Holy Spirit to not only cleanse us from guilt and heal us from shame, but to supernaturally empower us to overcome sin, which has lost its power.” (09:23)
- Illustrates how resurrection gives Gentiles access to the Old Testament as their story, transforming “We came, we saw, we died” to the proclamation “He is risen—He is risen indeed!” (10:08)

5. Practical Implications and the Gospel’s Call

Journal Prompts & Real-Life Resurrection (12:00–14:08)
- Walt challenges listeners to examine where the resurrection challenges their faith or provokes pushback.
- Emphasizes: “He wants to bring resurrection life into your life right now, today… He wants to stream into your life by the presence of the Holy Spirit, a power to live at the level of love, of glory, of goodness, of power…” (13:05)
- Encourages engagement beyond intellectual belief: “It’s not about believing the propositional truth of the resurrection… It’s leaning into it by faith.” (12:20)

6. Celebratory Hymn & Closing

Singing “Spirit of the Living God” (11:16–11:58)
- Walt leads and encourages all listeners—especially those who hadn’t sung along before—to join in prayerful singing.
- Notable moment: “Come on—sing it with me…” (11:15)
Victory Hymn: “Up from the Grave He Arose” (15:29–19:28)
- Walt and his father, David Walt, sing three verses of this classic Easter hymn as a "victory lap" for the Mark Pizza Challenge.
- “This is the victory lap song. Of Easter. And the thing about Easter is it's not just one day on the calendar. It's our whole reality. It's our whole life.” (16:04–16:13)

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

On the Resurrection’s Centrality:
- “Without the resurrection, all we've got is at best another self-help strategy. Tony Robbins on steroids. With the resurrection, we have the whole gospel.” (09:00)
Analogy on Exclusivity:
- “If you had cancer and a doctor told you there was only one known cure... Would you want to debate the injustice of this exclusive claim? No... So why is it that people bristle at the statement that Jesus Christ is the only known cure to the cancer of sin and the curse of death?” (07:04–07:23)
On Present Reality:
- “He wants to bring resurrection life into your life right now, today.” (13:05)
- “Like—Jesus is alive. He is right here, right now. He's where you and I are right now. And he's knocking. You hear that knock?” (13:18)
Celebration of Easter as Life’s Ongoing Reality:
- “The thing about Easter is it's not just one day on the calendar. It's our whole reality. It's our whole life.” (16:07–16:14)
Proclamation:
- “He is risen!” — “He is risen indeed!” (conclusion of main reflection, 10:15)

Timestamps of Important Segments

Opening & Mark Pizza Challenge Celebration: 00:04–02:00
Scripture Reading (Mark 16:4–8): 02:17–03:26
Reflection on the Resurrection’s Necessity: 03:27–08:50
Analogy & Universal Offer: 06:55–08:05
Life-Changing Power of the Resurrection: 09:23–10:10
He is Risen Proclamation: 10:08–10:15
Prayerful Hymn – “Spirit of the Living God”: 11:16–11:58
Journal Prompts & Faith Challenge: 12:00–14:08
Easter Hymn – “Up From the Grave He Arose”: 15:29–19:28
Closing & Guest Announcement: 20:00–21:30

Episode Takeaways

The resurrection is not just a Christian doctrine but the linchpin of faith, hope, and the church’s historical impact.
Jesus’ resurrection uniquely solves humanity’s deepest problem: the curse of death and separation from God.
Belief in the resurrection is not only about future hope but empowers present living through the Holy Spirit.
The call is not to mere intellectual assent but to lean into the resurrection, allowing its power to transform real life—today.
Sharing the gospel is the natural response to the unparalleled hope found in Christ’s resurrection.

Looking Ahead

Next week’s Wake-Up Call will feature Lou Ann Riley with a miniseries on James.
Listeners are encouraged to check out her Bible study, "Growing Up Faith," and join in community study.

Hosts:

John David Walt (“J.D. Walt”)
David Walt (“Dad”)

Closing Benediction:

“He is risen!” — Let the proclamation reverberate as the community continues on.

For more information and community resources:
seedbed.com/wakeupcall

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Sower Nation Friends of Jesus, friends of mine. It is Friday, July 31st in the year of our Lord 2026. I'm John David Walt and this is your wake up call. We are finishing the Mark Pizza Challenge series today. Still don't have any details on the pizza party yet, but I'm authorizing you, if you ran this race, 16 chapters in 16 days to go for it, to get some pizza. Send me a picture, tell me the story. Just have fun today. Yeah. And I've already told you next week we got Lou Ann Riley coming and that's going to be an upgrade. You're going to love that. You're going to love her and I want you to learn about her. James study, women's Bible study. I'm hearing like men and women are doing it together in churches. So she's just a great Bible teacher and wonderful person. Got that to look forward to. Let's just get going today though in consecration. Let's just get this meeting with Jesus kicked off on this Friday. This Friday is only going to happen once. Let's make it count. Wake up, sleeper. Rise from the dead and Christ will shine on you. Jesus, I belong to you. I lift up my heart to you. I set my mind on you. I fix my eyes on you. I offer my body to you as a living sacrifice. Jesus, we belong to you. And we're praying in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Today's entry is entitled, without the resurrection we've got nothing. Our text from Mark, chapter 16. I want you to read the whole chapter. Finish it out here. Our verses we're going to focus on today. Verses 4 through 8. Hear now the word of the Lord. But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side. And. And they were alarmed. Don't be alarmed, he said. You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene who was crucified. He has risen. He is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go tell his disciples and Peter, he is going ahead of you into Galilee. They are there. You will see him. Just as he told you. Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone because they were afraid. The word of the Lord. Now consider this. Though the story of Jesus be anchored in human history, were Jesus not raised from the dead, we would probably have no idea he ever existed. Chances are he would not have even made the history books. Though his teachings resonated depths of truth unheard before by human ears, and though he performed astonishing miraculous signs, and though he died a cruel, unjust death at the hands of Jewish leaders and Roman authorities, the story of Jesus would be just that, another story among the now millions of stories in the annals of history. The historical account of Jesus life and death is now known to us only because of the Gospel or the good news of his resurrection from the dead. Why would Jesus matter more than any other historical figure who said and did amazing things otherwise? This cannot be overstated. Paul said it emphatically in his letter to the church at Corinth. And if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith. That's 1 Corinthians 15:14. The resurrection of Jesus is the upending of death, which is the curse of sin, which is eternal alienation of the creature from the Creator, which is the fundamental inescapable problem of the human race. Here Paul again, 1 Corinthians 15:21, 23. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive, but each in turn Christ the first fruits. Then when he comes, those who belong to him. Jesus, life, his words, deeds, miracles, signs, suffering and death are all known to us because he is raised from the dead. This is why he is the way and the truth and the life and the exclusive Savior of the human race and the entire creation and the Lord of heaven and earth. No one else before or since, rose from the dead. Sure, history is littered with true stories of miraculous resuscitations, but there are no resurrections from the dead, save one. Everyone who has ever lived has died and in one form or another has been buried. Only one has died, been buried, and on the third day, raised from the dead. If you had cancer and a doctor told you there was only one known cure for your form of cancer, what would you do? Would you want to debate the injustice of this exclusive claim? No. You would, thank God. The terminal nature of your life could be extended beyond the terminal nature of your cancer. You would ask the doctor to treat you with the cure. So why is it that people bristle at the statement that Jesus Christ is the only known cure to the cancer of sin and the curse of death? He is not withholding this cure, I. E. Salvation, from anyone, but offering it freely to all who will receive it. What news could be better than this? Because of his resurrection from the Dead. Not only do we know Jesus can cure the cancer of sin, we know he has actually reversed its consequences. Death. In all of the history of the world and in all of eternity to come, nothing is more astonishing than this. This, my friends, is why men and women have given their lives to go to the ends of the earth for more than 2,000 years now to share this gospel with anyone who, who will hear and receive it. Without the resurrection, all we've got is at best another self help strategy. Tony Robbins on steroids. With the Resurrection, we have the whole gospel. Without the Resurrection, if we even happen to discover Jesus in the stacks of history's library, we may at best find some help so we can try harder to become better people. With the resurrection comes the power of the Holy Spirit to not only cleanse us from guilt and heal us from shame, but to supernaturally empower us to overcome sin which has lost its power. Without the resurrection, we would still have the Old Testament of the Bible, but we wouldn't have any real access to it. We wouldn't understand it as our story because after all, we are, most of us Gentiles. Our T shirts might say something like, we came, we saw, we died. With the resurrection, we have the whole counsel of God and the sure hope of our own resurrection because we have given our lives to the Risen One. And far more than a T shirt slogan, we have the proclamation which goes like this. He is risen. And of course you say, he is risen indeed. Amen.
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Thank you Jesus. Let's sing our prayer today. Remember, today's the day a lot of you been holding out on singing this. You're going to sing it with me. Come on.
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Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me.
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Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me. Melt me, mold me, fill me, use me.
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Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me.
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Amen. Journal prompts so where does all of this challenge your faith today? And where do you feel pushback again, friends? You know, it's not about believing the propositional truth of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It's leaning into it by faith. It's again, this is not just some sense of, well, Jesus raised from the dead, so when I die, I'm going to go to heaven. That's at least the truth. But it's the bear, the bear. Basic of it. You see, he wants to bring resurrection life into your life right now, today. He wants to bring us, he wants to stream into your life by the presence of the Holy Spirit, a power to live at the Level of love, of glory, of goodness, of power, friends, like Jesus is alive. He is right here, right now. He's where you and I are right now. And he's knocking. You hear that knock? He's knocking at the door. He's like, I want to come in. I got good news for you with the stuff you're dealing with right now. I'm here to help you with it. I'm here to level up your life at every point. It's not going to get easier. May even get harder. Will get harder at one point or another, but it's going to become better. It's going to become more alive, richer, full of grace, rightness.
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He is the solution to every struggle you got to every problem you're dealing with. But it's him. It's himself. He's like, come on, let's go. I could keep preaching, but I'm gonna just put the. Put the punctuation on it. And you know what it is? It's an exclamation point with a little line through the top. It's the. And Dad's here with me, and I think we're going to sing our way out today of this series. And we got a big one for us today. You're going to love it. You got to jump in. Here we go. Okay, Sower Nation, we have come to the end of Mark's gospel. 16 chapters, 16 days. I'm hoping that you're going to celebrate tonight with some pizza with me. We'll just have it, you know, Dutch, and in our own places, but let's celebrate. We've done it. And we have come through the cross now through the empty tomb. And dad is here to help us sing a great celebration song on this 31st day of July. What do we got?
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Low in the grave he lay, also known as up from the grave he arose.
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One of my favorite Easter hymns.
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Up from the grave. Hero.
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We got to go a little lower than that, but we're going to find our pitch. We're going to sing all three verses. What's the number on that one?
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This is 252.
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252. And, guys, let's sing it like we mean it. Okay? This is the victory lap. This is the victory lap song.
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Amen.
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Of Easter.
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We're ahead.
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And the thing about Easter is it's not just one day on the calendar. It's our whole reality.
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It's our whole life.
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It's our whole life. He is risen from the dead. He is dwelling in our lives. He's saving the world. He is the Lord of heaven and earth. He is the King of kings.
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But we've got to do our part. We've got to be witnesses for him. We got to go to church and Sunday school, choir practice. We do it all.
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And we gotta get out on the fields, right? And so the seeds of awakening. Okay, that's what's gonna take. It's gonna take a great awakening. And I like to say, start with me. Okay. Lo in the grave he lay Is that too low?
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As for lo in the grave he lay Jesus, my Savior Waiting the coming day Jesus my Lord up from the grave he arose he arose With a mighty triumph for his foe he arose, he arose A victor from the dark domain and he lives forever with his saints to reign he arose Heroes arose Heroes Hallelujah. Christ of rose burst too Vainly they watch his bed Jesus my Savior Vainly they seal the dead Jesus, my Lord, I Up from the grave he arose he arose With a mighty triumph o' er his foes he arose, he arose A victor from the dark domain and he lives forever with his saints to reign he arose he arose he arose he rose Hallelujah. Christ arose Last verse. Death cannot he prey Jesus my labor he tore thine barn away Jesus, my
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Lord all you got now.
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Up from the grave he arose he arose With a mighty triumph in gold he arose he arose A victor from the dark dome and he lives forever with his saints to reign he arose he arose he arose Hallelujah. Christ. Hey, we did it. I ran out of a rose.
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I did it, Dad.
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I didn't even know we were both
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going to go for it there at the end.
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I know it.
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Praise God. Jesus is risen from the dead. Death has lost its sting.
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They heard it in that store and it's closed.
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There's a store right across the street here from the seed house and it's closed. And every time makes dad sad to think about it not being open.
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I know it.
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Me too. If you want to come open a store in Gillette, we got one that
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would be a good. It's ready to start.
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It was ready. We could use it here, guys. Okay.
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They need it.
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Listen, I'm. Tomorrow, we got a Holy Spirit story. Those have been great. Monday, we've got a special guest on the wake up call. You remember who it is? Louann Riley. Louann Riley from Luverne, Alabama. She lives in the Woodlands, Texas. She's the pastor of discipleship at the Woodlands Methodist Church. He's a preacher, she's a teacher. She's a women's Bible study leader. I'm looking forward to it.
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Above all, she's a Christian.
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Amen. She's a mom. She has twin boys, 16 years old. So it's going to be a treat. We're really looking forward to it. She's an author for Seedbed. I want you to get her book. She's going to be teaching next week on James, a little miniseries one week long. And she's done a Bible study for women. It's out now@cbed.com look at the links in the in the email today. Look at the banner up top. But it's called Growing Up Faith Lessons from the Book of James. She's becoming a new Bible study leader for women in the seedbed. You know, I don't know what you'd call the seedbed. It's the field. But anyway, I want women to be doing this study this fall. They're doing it in Gillette and they're loving it. So for the Awakening and for the Gospel of Mark, I'm J.D.
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walt. And I'm David Walt. We'll see you on the field.