Living By Faith by Apostle Emmanuel Iren: MP3 Download & Sermon Notes

Born Again — Access to a Different Economy

Nicodemus came to Jesus at night, fascinated by the miracles. He had heard: water turned to wine, storms obeyed, the dead raised. He said: "You must be a great teacher from God." Jesus's response bypassed everything Nicodemus expected: "Unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

Jesus was not deflecting. He was explaining. The miracles were not exceptional in the kingdom of heaven — they were normal. The reason they are extraordinary to us is because of where we are. New birth is not just a spiritual transaction to avoid hell — it is an entry point into a different economy of reality.

If you go to space, you begin to float without effort. Levitation on earth would terrify people. The same phenomenon. Different context. Being born again gives you access to the context where those realities are normal.

The Holy Ghost Is Your Capital

Jesus looked at five loaves and 5,000 hungry people and said: "Feed them." God consistently talks as though the lack around you is irrelevant — because in the Spirit economy, the Holy Ghost is the capital, not your bank account.

2 Corinthians 4:6: "God commanded light to shine out of darkness." From that very place — the dark, void, formless, seemingly hopeless place — God speaks and light comes. The same Spirit that hovered over the formless deep in Genesis 1 now lives in you.

That means the question is not: how much do you have in your account? The question is: what can the Holy Ghost do through your life?

Three Concepts That Must Change

1. Your concept of capital must change — Moses's rod was enough. The widow's jar of oil was enough. When God sends you, He accounts for what you need. "I will bless the people in this ministry to fund it" — and that has been the testimony. You don't need a godfather when God is your sponsor.
2. Your concept of impossibility must change — Sarah received strength to conceive past age. God made sure all the patriarchs married women with biological limitations so that when He did it, nobody could say it was natural. He picks the most impossible situations to prove the most undeniable point. What has He told you that you have been calling impossible?
3. Your concept of time must change — "Can a nation be born in a day?" (Isaiah 66:8) As soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth. God does not need twenty years to accomplish what He has said. At the scent of water, the tree that seemed dead begins to bud (Job 14:7-9). Something is budding in this season.

What Will You Do?

The Bible tells us Jesus did everything He did by the Spirit. Before going to heaven, He gave you that same Spirit. Not an inferior version. Not a downgraded model. The same one that raised Him from the dead.

Did Jesus exaggerate when He said: "These signs shall follow them that believe"? Did He lie when He said: "He that believes in me, the works that I do shall he do also, and greater"?

If you get what is being taught here, wherever the Lord sends you, you will do it with ease. The refusal of an ordinary life — that is what He is calling you to.