Abounding Love Podcast with Former ”Tex” Watson

Spiritual Gifts #11: In this message, I teach that Divine love is the essential motivating force behind the operation of Spiritual gifts, emphasizing that God desires to express Himself through believers. 1 Corinthians, chapter 13, confirms that Spiritual gifts must function through love to operate as God intended, mirroring Jesus Christ's ultimate demonstration of sacrifice. True Divine love sepa...

Spiritual Gifts #10: In this episode, I share how Spiritual gifts remain active today, but they must be motivated and operated exclusively through supernatural love rather than human pride or fleshly ambition. Rooted in the sacrifice of Calvary, believers are reborn of incorruptible seed through God's Word (1 Peter 1:23) into the very Divine love demonstrated when Christ died for sinners (Romans 5...

Spiritual Gifts #9: In this message, I emphasize that Divine love must be the governing motive for every Spiritual gift and Christian endeavor. Highlighting 1 Corinthians 13, which is set between chapters 12 & 13 on Spiritual gifts, this teaching warns that speaking in tongues, prophesying, understanding mysteries, having great faith or making sacrificial acts of charity without love profits n...

Spiritual Gifts #7: This message details how the nine (9) spiritual gifts listed in 1 Corinthians 12:8-10 -- including the word of wisdom, word of knowledge, faith, healings, miracles, prophesy, discerning of spirits, tongues and interpretation of tongues -- are imparted by the Holy Spirit to build up the unified body of Christ. Drawing from 1 Corinthians 12:31 and 14:1, I encourage believers to z...

Spiritual Offices #3: This message focuses on God's Divine plan to flow His love into believers and out into a lost world through Spiritual offices appointed to the Church. I highlight how the ascended Christ gave grace gifts [Gk: doma] in the form of specific ministry roles -- apostles, prophets, evangelists and pastor-teachers -- for the perfecting of the saints, the work of the ministry and the...

Spiritual Offices #1: This message introduces the study by establishing that believers must first understand their position and identity as sons and daughters of God in Christ before operating in spiritual offices. Drawing from the first three (3) chapters of Ephesians, I explain that believers are made righteous, blessed with all spiritual blessings, sealed with the Holy Spirit and resurrected in...

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, buria...

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],...

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 foundatio...

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 Spi...

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...

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 th...

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...

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, chapter...

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 fulfi...

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...

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 relati...

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...

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 becom...

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...

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 "...

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 creati...

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...

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...

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 sha...