Dallas Willard - Living the Eternal Life Now 6 -The Role of the Body in Spiritual & Unspiritual Life

About this sermon

Keeping continuity from session five, Dallas spends the first ten minutes of this session highlighting the strongholds of thought, feeling, and desire, and the alternative, ideal conditions expressed as fruit of the Spirit. He then moves into a study of the body as the place where our character, feelings and thoughts settle into our personality. He explains how we live from the desires and feelings that are embedded in our body, and how that runs our life - thus, we must put our body to “death.” Dallas very practically helps us understand why and how we must replace the bad habits and responses engrained in our body with habits of goodness. If you’ve ever wondered about Peter’s denial of Jesus, what, exactly, Paul means by “mortifying” the members in your body…or how you are already “dead” - this is the session for you! He addresses how we can and should deal with temptation – and even differentiates between thought, temptation, and sin, ending his teaching by inviting and encouraging each of us to quite literally offer our bodies to God as a living sacrifice. The session concludes with 20 minutes of Dallas responding to questions, including questions on feelings - particularly in worship, addiction being rooted in an impoverished life, and how God IS love and has emotions. Listen to this same teaching session on The Dallas Willard Podcast, episode 59. FOLLOW ALONG WITH YOUR CHOICE OF THESE DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES: Notes for this video session: https://dwillard.s3.amazonaws.com/Living_the_Eternal_Life_6_Notes.pdf Dallas's slides: https://dwillard.s3.amazonaws.com/Living_the_Eternal_Life_6_Slides.pdf Full conference handout: https://dwillard.s3.amazonaws.com/2010-DallasWillard-Living-the-Eternal-Life-Now-Handouts.pdf To study the topics in sessions 4, 5 and 6 more deeply, see Dallas's book, "Renovation of the Heart" (https://dwillard.org/resources/books/renovation-of-the-heart) and the video series "Healing the Heart and Life by Walking with Jesus Daily" (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ7tmLfYg7S-5nGWD7jlyJK22pbJTaAOu). #EternalLife #HumanBody #willardwednesday

Topics

• Heaven & Eternity