26. The Kind of Person That God Speaks to in Fullness (1993)

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Mar 10, 2025

Dallas Willard, a renowned philosopher and Christian teacher, shares profound insights on how God communicates through His Word. He discusses the importance of being a receptive channel for divine truths, drawing on examples like the faith of the centurion. Willard emphasizes living with God's Word as a transformative reality, revealing its power to impact communities and individuals. He urges listeners to train in discipleship, embodying authority and faith that extends beyond personal concern to bless others.

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INSIGHT

Law Of Spiritual Transmission

God works by a law of transmission: spiritual realities flow through people into the world.
Whether God's gifts reach others depends on our openness to pass them on.

ANECDOTE

Centurion Mediates Healing

Dallas dissects the centurion story to show faith in the Word's authority opening a channel for healing.
The centurion mediates Jesus' authority and the servant is healed by Jesus' word to the centurion.

ADVICE

Listen Beyond Personal Needs

Listen for God's word with a vision beyond personal needs so it can flow through you to others.
Open your life to let the Word pass through you to bless the world, not just to receive private guidance.

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The Kind of Person That God Speaks to in Fullness

This is the sixth session from a 3-day conference hosted by African Enterprise with the theme “Hearing the Voice of God.”

Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

August 17, 1993

The kind of person that God speaks to in fullness is the kind of person that the word of God flows into, overruns, overwhelms, moves through and becomes a social and historical reality where they are.

You’ll see this in:

1. People whose belief in the substance and power of God’s word opens them up like a channel.

2. Disciples of Jesus who have learned to work with the power and authority of the word.

3. Those who live with God’s word so richly that it becomes a reality that is working in its own right.

Some of the realities of God’s word that are touched on in this episode are explained more deeply in session three of Dallas’s series, “The Parabolic Teaching About Christ’s Kingdom by Christ Himself.”

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