Abounding Love Podcast with Former ”Tex” Watson

Spiritualities #3: This message emphasizes that believers must first understand their identity as new creations in Christ before they can operate in Spiritual gifts and minister in God's ability. Also, we must not be conformed to the world, but be transformed by renewing of our minds through the Word of God to discern God's acceptable and perfect will [Romans 12:1-2]. Through Christ's death, burial and resurrection, we are delivere...

Spiritualities #2: This message focuses on teaching "new creation realities" and the vital importance of believers coming into the spiritual knowledge of who they are in Christ. I warn that believers are often defeated and held back simply due to a lack of spiritual knowledge [Hosea 4:6]. To counteract this, I review verses from the book of Ephesians, emphasizing that believers are blessed [1:3], chosen [1:4], predestinated [1:5], ...

Spiritualities #1: This message focuses on helping believers recognize their true spiritual identity, authority and position in Christ as a necessary foundation before they can effectively operate in spiritual gifts. Drawing from Ephesians, I explain that believers are saved by grace through faith [Ephesians 2:8], redeemed through the blood of Jesus [Ephesians 1:7], and chosen before the foundation of the world to be holy concentra...

118 How to Receive the Overflow

How to Receive the Overflow: This episode emphasizes that while salvation represents a believer being filled with the Holy Spirit -- comparable to a glass filled with water -- the baptism of the Holy Spirit is an additional immersion where the glass is dropped into a pitcher of water, completely submerged and overflowing. This baptism provides believers with the Spiritual power necessary to fulfill t...

The Holy Spirit #7: This message emphasizes that praying in the Spirit or the speaking in tongues, is a vital tool for the believer to be "Spiritually emerged" and empowered to act as Jesus in the world today [1 John 4:17]. Drawing on Biblical examples as Jesus, Mary, the Samaritans in Acts chapter 8, and the Gentiles in Acts chapter 10, I argue that the baptism of the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues are essential for today. Ac...

The Holy Spirit #6: This message emphasizes the transformative power of the Holy Spirit, specifically distinguishing between the initial experience of being born again and the subsequent baptism of the Holy Spirit. Drawing from John 7:37-38, I explain that for those who "thirst" and believe, "rivers of living water" will flow from within them, representing the Holy Spirit's presence. I describe this baptism as being totally immerse...

The Holy Spirit #5: I emphasize that that believers are commissioned by Jesus to walk in the same authority and power as He did, being "sent" just as His Father sent Him [John 20:21]. Central to this mission is the recognition that Jesus came to destroy the works of the Devil [1 John 3:8] and that believers, as "sons of God," are now empowered to carry out this same operation in the world. Just as Jesus was led and empowered by the...

The Holy Spirit #4: In this episode, I emphasize that the Holy Spirit provides the "power from on high" necessary to witness and confirm the living presence of Jesus Christ to the world. Throughout history, God has utilized the power of the spoken Word as the primary vehicle for delivering His people from bondage, a pattern established when Aaron served as a mouthpiece for Moses in Exodus, chapters 3 and 4. The same Word of power w...

The Holy Spirit #3. This episode emphasizes the distinction between being born again, where the Spirit dwells within the believer like water in a glass, and being baptized in the Holy Spirit, which is described as being completely overwhelmed and surrounded by God's presence -- likened to that glass of water being submerged in a large pitcher.

This outpouring at Pentecost is presented as the fulfillment of a "new covenant" [Acts 2:...

Holy Spirit #2: This message emphasizes that the Holy Spirit is the source of power for the believer, providing the necessary ability to minister and represent the Kingdom of God from within. Drawing a contrast between the Old and New Testaments, I explain that while the Law brought condemnation and death, the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus makes believers free [Romans 8:2]. A critical distinction is made between being b...

The Holy Spirit #1: In this episode, I emphasize that the Holy Spirit's primary manifestation is through the action of love. Although the word "love" is absent from the Book of Acts, the Spirit is mentioned 52 times because the apostle's deeds were inherently "love actions". To possess true Spiritual power, one must walk in love, as God is love, and His eternal purpose is to maintain a love relationship with His children. This tran...

A New Desire! Our New Nature has an inbred desire to serve God, doing what is right [1 John 2:29; 3:3; Psalm 51:10-12]. The writer of Hebrews says, ". . . the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God . . . in all things desiring to live honorably" (Hebrews 9:14; 13:18). John gives us insight into the nature of our new Spirit ...

A New Life: Man is a triune being consisting of spirit, soul [mind, will and emotions] and body. When a person is born again, a miraculous transformation occurs within their spirit through the planting of an incorruptible seed, which is the Word of God [1 Peter 1:23]. This experience involves receiving a new Spirit and a new heart as prophesied in Ezekiel 36:26, resulting in the human spirit becoming 100% aligned with God's divine ...

A New Gift explores the "new creation" by first defining the tripartite nature of man in Greek as spirit [pneuma], soul [psuche] and body [soma], where the "heart" [kardia] represents the non-material inner man of spirit and soul. Because mankind is born into a state of "flesh" [sarx] -- the unregenerate, weaker element of human nature -- all are inherently sinners and cannot save themselves from the penalty of death (Romans 5:12; ...

A New Nature is the foundation of the Christian life built solely upon the person and work of Jesus Christ, a Spiritual structure laid in the heart through the power of the Holy Spirit [1 Corinthians 3:11]. Man is a three-part being consisting of spirit, soul and body [1 Thessalonians 5:23]; while the body remains the same at conversion, the spirit undergoes a radical transformation known as the "born again" experience [John 3:3-6]...

The inner man is defined as the non-material part of a human being, which the Bible often refers to as the heart. It is composed of two distinct parts: the spirit and the soul, while the physical body serves as the "house" or temple for this internal reality. A critical distinction is made between the two: the spirit is regenerated 100% at the moment of the new birth, becoming a perfect new creation. This process is described as a ...

The inner man, or the heart, is defined as the non-material part of a human being, comprised of both the spirit and the soul, while the physical body serves merely as a house for this inward reality. According to 2 Corinthians 4:16, although the outward mam perishes, the inward man is renewed daily through a process that begins with regeneration of the spirit at the new birth. While the spirit is fully regenerated when a person is ...

The Heart of Man episode defines the Inner Man as the non-material part of a person, which the Bible often identifies as the "heart". While the outward man consists of the physical body [Greek: soma] and its senses, the inward man is comprised of both the Spirit [Greek: pneuma] and soul [Greek: psyche]. A crucial distinction is made between these two (2) internal components: the Spirit is the part of the heart [core] that must be r...

The Three Parts of Man consists of the spirit, the soul and the body [1 Thessalonians 5:23]. The spirit and soul together form the inner man or the "heart". The spirit is the part of the heart [inner man] that is regenerated at the new birth. This Spiritual rebirth is necessary because human beings are "shapen in iniquity" and "conceived in sin" (Psalm 51:5). When we are born again, like Jesus shared with Nicodemus in John 3:3-7, o...