Reboot Camp North America Day 1 Evening Session, September 2026 by Apostle Emmanuel Iren: MP3 Download & Sermon Notes

For the first time in the history of this great ministry, our children will tell the stories. You will sit them down as custodians of the history that God wrote.

When others are writing faith stories, they will say by faith: CCI took Toronto for the gospel, took USA, took Canada, took Mexico for the gospel, and they will date it September 2026.

We announce this new move of God. It will hit the nooks and crannies of this territory. No single territory will be spared.

We will shout it on the mountaintops and in the valley low that Jesus Christ is Lord.

God knows you are here. Isaiah 45:19

That is our testimony in this camp meeting Ephesians 3:20

Seeing the One who sees you

Most if not all of the miracles of Jesus and miracles in the Bible were but a means to an end

Hagar is stranded in the wilderness thinking she and her son will die of thirst.

The angel of the Lord appears, points them to a brook and gives a prophetic word about the destiny of the son Ishmael Genesis 16:13

She needed a practical miracle. Many came trusting God for a miraculous intervention: healing, direction, marriage, a child

God is good. The God of the Bible is the same yesterday, today, forever. He works miracles. You are right to expect that.

There is a miracle in this place waiting for you and your name is on it

In the nick of time God shows up and she has a revelation of God, the God who sees me. But deeper, she says she has now seen the One who sees her

Meaning she is not just celebrating his ability to intervene. His intervention launched her into a deeper personal relationship with him, beyond what he can give her

A lot of people, especially in charismatic circles, have reduced church gatherings and camp meetings to the things God can do

The God you serve is not a genie in the bottle that you send on errands, updating your list of needs and telling him what to do.

He is a real person who desires a relationship with you

That is the chief end of man and the chief aim of every camp meeting, that you can come to a point where you say, I have seen the One who sees me

Thank God for the word of knowledge and everything that makes you feel seen in this place, even the curation of the sermons and how personal they seem.

But I dare you to put every one of your primary needs on the back burner and focus on Jesus

The man under the fig tree John 1:48 to John 1:51

A man had been praying under a fig tree. Jesus tells him in a prophetic manner information you could only have by the spirit, I saw you under the fig tree.

The young man is amazed

Jesus says you will see greater things. Thank God for spot-on prophetic gifts, maybe your name and address are mentioned. Those are great things. But there is a greater thing

You are surprised I saw you? Don't worry, something greater is going to happen. You will see me

The greatest experience you can have in a camp meeting is not just to feel that God saw you and met you at the point of your need, but that you saw him

Be curious to learn about God. Some topics immediately expose your priorities. If the title of the sermon is your next breakthrough, there is a kind of expectancy some people have

Jesus, the same yesterday, today and forever, still struggles with a multitude that has no problem receiving the bread that he gives, but is less receptive to the bread that he is

Your priority and focus must be on him. If we are talking about salvation foundationally, let your expectation be high.

As you look at the brazen serpent, your wounds will be drying up Numbers 21:9

The miracle is actually in focusing on Christ, his message and what he has to offer you. This is reboot camp

Salvation: two evils under the sun

Salvation is the simplest yet most controversial topic in the body of Christ

My argument is that we have minimized the true intent of Romans 10:9 to Romans 10:10.

I want to be as systematic as possible because there are some questions in the body of Christ that need to be answered

There is a sad reality in the church, an evil under the sun, with regard to how the people of God see salvation. There are two extremes:

• True believers who think they are false believers
• False believers who think they are true believers

The first evil: weak assurance

Someone I love and respect came to preach in our church and had an altar call. Some people had already stood up, but she knew some ought to be on their feet and were not

So she said, if you know that if Jesus came today you are not going to make it, stand up. Not only sinners who were reluctant stood up.

Some genuine believers with weak assurance got up

How do I know? From the word of God, a pastor can know Philippians 1:6

By observing your profession of faith and the fruits that accompany it, if I'm your pastor and close enough to you and have observed your manner of life, I can tell

On the strength of the word of God I could tell one of the women I saw standing up shouldn't have stood up. She was trying two-factor authentication.

I think I'm born again but just in case

If we ask many when they gave their heart to Christ, they can't tell. They have done it so many times, like a renewed subscription

1 John 5:13

So you can come to a point of knowledge. For the longest time in the body of Christ most of us thought we would only know for sure at the gate of heaven.

So we sang songs that exemplified our weak assurance

Here is the balance. Many want to beam the spotlight on the excesses of the grace message.

I ask respectfully: before the grace message, where did most people ever hear a balanced sermon on assurance of salvation?

Most of us never heard it. It was almost non-existent to hear a sermon just about Christ and what he has done. I'm not talking about evangelistic crusades preaching to sinners.

I'm talking about preaching to believers to know who they are in Christ

The father of the Protestant Reformation was a devoted Christian all his life and nobody explained it to him.

He went for confessions almost every week, confessing everything he could think of, because he loved God and wanted to do right by God

One day he was reading and saw that the just shall live by faith. It rocked his entire boat. How come no one told me I don't have to give penance?

I don't have to pay money. I don't have to do all those things regularly to feel justified. How come no one explained it to me as a gift of grace?

One of the things that fueled his revolution was that he himself had been a victim for so long.

A lot of us think God is constantly angry at us and we lack a proper discernment of how God sees us

What happened with Mary once for all time is the constant experience in our devotion. The angel saluted Mary and she was shocked Luke 1:28 to Luke 1:29

You can be great in the sight of God and not know. The angel salutes you and you are shocked because all your life you lacked discernment

So that's the first error. It means you can be confident Philippians 1:6

It is not arrogance to know. God wants you to know 1 John 4:18

Be confident enough not just to know but to cry Maranatha, come quickly. Only those who have assurance can ask him to come quickly 1 Corinthians 16:22

The second evil: the excesses of hyper grace

In the bid to eradicate the first excess, they have brought in a second.

You cheapen the requirements and lower the bar so much that a lot of imposters have crept in, mistaking the grace of God for lasciviousness Jude 1:4

These are things the word of God specifically warns about. You see some things and you know something is terribly wrong

A lady said on a podcast that the Holy Ghost asked her to open an OnlyFans account.

She puts content out there and said that as she was going about those activities she felt the presence of God. Make no mistake, this is a terrible extreme

We are trying to get people who are genuinely saved to be confident. We see confidence elsewhere. The audacity that believers lack, we are seeing unbelievers unhinged

Somebody released a record promoting violence and sexual promiscuity, wins a secular award for it and says, I want to dedicate it to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Be careful. And guess what?

It's our fault. We never explained it properly

My sermon will be a commentary on Romans 10:9 to Romans 10:10, because that is where one of the major errors has come in

Many inventions out of good intentions have produced false converts. We have made a funnel out of altar calls that it is not meant to be

In some services it doesn't matter what you teach on, relationship, business success, you do an altar call. So onto what were those people saved? What did they hear and believe?

Is it a new year resolution where you just come and promise God? What did they place their faith on?

A lot of people have never heard the gospel although they come to church regularly. The church is a mission field. There are many unreached people who attend church regularly

We have reduced belief in God to mental assent.

If you come to the point of knowing intellectually that Jesus is God, came in the flesh, died for you and rose again, then you are saved. It is deeper than that

Heart and mouth must agree

Romans 10:9 to Romans 10:10

Paul is not giving a strict protocol for justification and a separate protocol for salvation. Verse 10 shows he is not separating them

For true salvation to happen, your heart and your mouth must say the same thing. There must be agreement between your heart and your mouth.

When God X-rays your life, your heart must be saying what your mouth is saying

Paul's immediate audience would understand this because throughout the Bible you see God making this distinction

Matthew 15:8 to Matthew 15:9

Jesus is calling out people who draw near with their mouth while their heart is far away. Their worship is in vain.

The moment your heart and mouth are not saying the same thing, true conversion has not happened

Ezekiel 33:31

You are near with your mouth but far from your heart

Your heart must be involved and your mouth must be involved

• Heart involved but mouth not involved: you are a hypocrite
• Mouth involved but heart not involved: you are an imposter

If you believe in your heart but never voice it in the presence of witnesses, it is because you are hypocritical.

You are bothered about what people will think in a generation that looks down on people who fear God

You are like Pilate.

You know this man is innocent, but for the risk of losing your job, your role or even your life, you secretly wash your hands and hand him over Matthew 27:19, Matthew 27:24

Hypocrites are also part of the problem. Pilate contributed to the killing of Jesus. That you wash your hands does not mean you are clean. He knew, even his wife had a dream about it

Many people don't want to take a public stand. They hide their Bibles. They don't want to be seen carrying a Bible or praying fervently.

When people tease you and call you pastor, you say, I'm not a pastor

There is no secret service in salvation. You must believe in your heart and confess with your mouth. There must be public witness and acknowledgment. No room for hypocrites and no room for imposters

Imposters declare it with their lips. But come close, like that fig tree, and you discover it is just appearance, no fruits

Matthew 7:21

Jesus is calling out the imposters. Their talk and their heart are not in alignment. A lot of people have used this text to take assurance from genuine believers, but the context is clear

Matthew 7:15 to Matthew 7:20

It was a direct jab at false prophets and people who act like them. They get the appearance right, but the heart is different

False prophets make a living from deceiving genuine Christians. You can lie to a point you begin to believe your own lie.

So they find themselves in heaven in the presence of God and want to deceive God too

They say we cast out demons and did many mighty works in your name. And Jesus says, I never knew you. At no point was that genuine Matthew 7:22 to Matthew 7:23

That is not for genuine believers to be afraid. What if I serve God all my life and he says I never knew you? No, that is not what he is talking about.

Only if your heart and your mouth are lying

Confessing Jesus as Lord

The second thing to pay attention to in Romans 10:9, something that flies over most heads: confess what?

Ask an average believer what to do to be saved and he will say believe in Jesus, that he died and rose again the third day. But it does not end there

Philippians 2:5 to Philippians 2:10

It does not end with the resurrection. It ends with lordship

The resurrection has an implication. You cannot come to full conviction of the resurrection without embracing the lordship

When I believe that Jesus died for my sins, washed my sins with his blood and rose again the third day, I now trust in his lordship

The reason a lot of us missed this is the phraseology of the KJV. Newer translations like ESV and NIV got it right: if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord

If you confess the Lord Jesus, you will think he is saying confess Jesus who also happens to be Lord. The confession is not just Jesus who died and rose again.

The confession is Jesus who died, rose again and is Lord

That confession of lordship is part of believing

Someone didn't believe Jesus is risen from the dead. You walk them through it intellectually and they say, okay, I believe now. Are they saved?

They are only saved when they place their trust in him as Lord

Am I saying they must come to total obedience before they are saved? No. I'm talking about a faith demonstration

Illustration: the driver

Your friend learned to drive last month, went to a driving school and was awarded a certificate. Congratulations.

But when you need someone to drive your toddlers, you will check first 2 Peter 1:10. Drive small

You can believe in someone's ability intellectually and not trust the person. So it is at the point of trust that you are saved. That is what it means to believe

Belief is not mental assent. You come to a point where you are persuaded enough to trust

The reason we have a lot of issues in the church is that some never heard this explanation.

That is why someone says, I'm a Christian but I don't agree with some things in the Bible

I support the rights of women 100%, but you cannot be a feminist first. You must be a child of God first. You cannot be a Pan-Africanist first.

You must be a child of God first

To be a Christian is to subject every other thing to the lens of the lordship of Christ

Confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord. That means he has the final say. No ifs, no buts, no maybe

I trust him on all matters. He tells me what is right about marriage, about sex, about money. I have taken a biblical worldview

I cannot be in the heat of an argument and say the Bible says, and you say Bible aside. No, no. There is no Bible aside Hebrews 1:3

You say Bible aside, you want to crumble the world. Leave me out of your foolishness

Some highly opinionated, your truth my truth, kind of Christians. That is arrogance. You have not passed the narrow way. No one has explained it to you

Look at some people's social media pages and you see all kinds of worldly activities. That is not lordship

If he is Lord, he tells you how to dress. He tells you how to talk. He tells you who not to marry. He tells you to leave all that woke nonsense

Psalm 23:1 to Psalm 23:2

So he can make me do things. I can want to travel and he says no

My hot take: belief the way most people describe it in our day will not get you saved. It is not even a hot take, the Bible says it

James 2:19

Saving faith is deeper than mental assent, than acknowledgment. Even demons are not atheists

When you walk someone through intellectual apologetics and they come to acknowledgment, that still isn't salvation

Faith is emunah, not mental assent

One reason the church has not explained the protocol of salvation well is that we missed the example repeatedly given to us in the New Testament, the children of Israel

Whenever the Bible wants to teach us about salvation, especially what faith isn't, it uses the children of Israel. God used them to preach repeatedly

The wilderness generation Hebrews 3:15

The same word you are hearing, they heard too, but it was not mixed with faith Hebrews 4:2

Psalm 78

If you read that chapter and study it well, some of the arguments we are having about salvation will disappear in the church

Psalm 78:22

Believing and trusting go hand in hand

Psalm 78:36 to Psalm 78:37

Mouth and heart again. They did not trust, but their lips were full of flattery. See the correlation with Romans 10:9

The Hebrew word for steadfast

The Hebrew word is aman. It means firmness, reliability, faithfulness, trustworthiness and stability

Another word in the same family is emunah, spelled E M U N A H, with the same meaning

Exodus 17:12

The Amalekites came to fight Israel and Moses kept his hands steady. The word steady is emunah

Habakkuk 2:4

One of the most quoted Old Testament texts in the New Testament. Emunah is the word translated faith

So faith is not just intellectual agreement. It is steadfastness. It is reliability. You come to a point of self-abandonment where you trust God

That is why that is all God needs. God can see the heart. When you come to that point in your heart, like Abraham Genesis 15:6

When you get to that point, it is impossible for there not to be corresponding action

Illustration: the friend zone

A guy is checking you out and you are giving it a try. There are attributes you want in your man that you don't quite see in him, but you don't want an outright no.

He is doing all the right things. Maybe you have friend-zoned him

You enjoy all the benefits of relationship without commitment. Someone on the outside would think you are dating. He drives you around, gives you attention, and you accept all his offerings

The only barrier is when he says, will you marry me, and you still say no. You can have relationship without commitment. That is where a lot of people's walk with God ends

If your birthday passes and he doesn't buy you a gift, you're upset. You want the gift but you don't want to say yes

This is what the children of Israel were doing with God. They friend-zoned God

Exodus 14:31

As soon as God had parted the Red Sea, this is what the Bible said.

This belief is the type people practice today and call themselves saved. Later the Bible tells us they did not believe

Psalm 106:12

They sang his praises. As soon as they got to the other side they carried tambourines, Miriam and the rest

But this is where emunah comes in. When things get tough, what do you do when there is no water? Can God who parted the Red Sea give you water?

Can God who did all those wonders with the Egyptians give you food? These are the questions of emunah

Although the Bible says they believed, they did not emunah. They were not steadfast. Even a clock that is not working is correct twice a day

Psalm 78:22

Is there a contradiction? No, not when you understand what belief actually is

2 Timothy 1:12

This is the type of faith that brings salvation

Ephesians 1:13

So the matter of salvation is this: do you trust him? That is what it means

This must not be mistaken for lordship salvation, lordship theology, which looks for obedience. Obedience is a fruit, not a prerequisite for salvation. Never mistake it

But as part of your belief there will be a self-abandonment, like you trust him with your life. That is part of the requirements and there will be immediate implications

Even in relationship you come to a threshold in your heart where you say, I will marry this girl. That is the threshold I'm describing. That is what faith is.

For the rest of my life, I don't know any other god. This is the only way

It is not works. If you can stand at an altar and promise to love another human all the rest of your life, that is how altar calls are supposed to be. Steadfastness

You have looked at your future and said, it is not just that you died and rose again, Lazarus died and rose again. What is the implication?

He is Lord and I trust him with my life. That is it

Paul said, I know whom I believed. This is the confession of someone who has abandoned his life

It is not as if you have discovered you still have some frailties. That will be settled with discipleship. But there are some things we must see immediately

3 immediate implications of saving faith

1. No other god

   Exodus 20:3

   The moment you come to saving faith in Christ Jesus, no other god will be a consideration ever

   A friend of mine had been preaching to a Muslim and she said she understood and even started going to church.

   Until one day they came to the house and saw she still bowed in one corner. She was going to church and doing that. That is not salvation

   Someone came for an altar call and is still doing two-factor authentication. It is the same thing in relationship.

   The moment you pick who you will spend the rest of your life with, you shun other people immediately

   That is why God uses relationship and marriage as the metaphor of salvation. A faithful married person says, ain't nobody else I'm looking at. Ain't no God else I'm looking at.

   I've never even checked out what they have to offer

   I don't mean when it is convenient. A lot of people, when their back is against the wall, maybe you are sick and somebody says there's a man of God-ish place. No, thank you

   I would rather die poor than seek help from another god. I would rather die sick than seek help from another god

   Romans 8:35, Romans 8:37

   That is what Paul is saying. That is what salvation is. You place your faith in him in totality

   1 John 5:21

   He is not talking to unbelievers. He is talking to believers. Idolatry is not only standing in front of a statue to pay obeisance.

   Anything that has taken the place of God in your life is an idol

   Matthew 6:24

   Mammon can be an idol.

   Some people can sing a thousand songs and go for a million services, but when it comes to money the lines are blurred. There is nothing they cannot do

   Some will turn on Christ for an ideology or philosophy. Be patriotic, the Bible encourages it, but when you put patriotism above your faith there is a way you will start talking

   Let every other name fade away. Let every other ideology and philosophy be subject to the supremacy of Christ 2 Corinthians 10:5

   It is not too much to ask of anyone who claims to believe, let God have the final say

2. Commitment to the church and the brethren

   Exodus 20:8

   God wrote on tablets of stone. One of the ten things he wrote is about the Sabbath.

   A lot of people have taken this to the extreme and made it an argument of days. It is a spiritual ideology

   All he is saying is that there must be a day in the week. This is not saying you can't miss service. But don't get comfortable not going to church. It is not normal behavior

   The way God designed work, work was to be done in the presence of God. Adam's office was in the Garden of Eden. It wasn't just an office, it was a secret place Genesis 3:8

   God should be able to interrupt your work at least once a week

   You must belong to a church. You must love the brethren. You must come out of individualistic Christianity, my own way, my own thoughts

   Once upon a time if you were kicked out of a church there was a spiritual terminology for it, delivering the person to Satan 1 Corinthians 5:5.

   The general assumption in those days was that if you didn't belong to a local assembly you belonged to Satan

   One of the things God does in camp meetings is reorder our priorities. Maybe you have gotten carried away. These are the foundations of your faith

   Ephesians 1:15

   If you have faith in the Lord Jesus, there must be love for the saints

   The family is not just a family with a father. There are siblings. This might be a simple litmus test to tell if your salvation is genuine

   If you travel to a country where there are few people of your race, the moment you see somebody of your race, even a stranger, you are curious: what's your name, where are you from?

   In the same way there is a natural affinity to the people of God when you get saved

   You cannot claim to be born again and not enjoy fellowship. Who are your friends? Whose company do you enjoy? Why have you gotten so comfortable?

   Everybody is wearing their cloth to go to church and you cross your legs. Especially in this age of online streaming

   Thank God for online streaming. But you don't raise an army online. Some things technology will never replace

   Paul writes, say to Archippus Colossians 4:17. You are supposed to have interpersonal relationships. Don't normalize these things

   If Jesus is Lord, he will have no rival gods in your life, and you will commit yourself to lifelong learning and discipleship in his house

3. A different view of sin, instantly

   You grow in consecration, you learn discipleship and discipline. But the moment you place your faith in the lordship of Jesus Christ, the way you see sin must be different instantly

   A lot of people claim to subscribe to the lordship of Christ but have a secret opinion on premarital sex. A secret opinion on drunkenness.

   There are things in their mind they have still held and they give God the rest. That is not how to worship. That is not how to believe

   If you have a struggle, God has brought you here. It is reboot camp for a reason. You are leaving this place stronger than you came.

   Even if it is simple things like eating too much or sleeping too much, it is reboot for a reason Isaiah 40:31

   I'm talking first and foremost from an ideological level. If you are still excusing it in your mind, what do you think you are doing?

   It is one thing to cry to the Lord for help. It is another thing to hold a different ideology. You cannot do that if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord

   Illustration: run over by a truck

   I think it was Paul Washer who described this. You run a company and one of your staff is late. Resumption time is 8:00 a.m. It is 11:00 a.m. and he has not come.

   He tumbles in at noon

   You say, what happened? He says, I'm sorry I'm late, I was run over by a truck.

   I was crossing the road, I tripped and fell and a heavy-duty truck climbed on top of my head

   You look at him. His cloth is still neatly pressed. Did you go home and change? Are you from the hospital? No, I came straight. You are not going to believe him

   That is the same way people claim to encounter Christ without a definite change. If you encounter Christ there will be signs, immediate signs, a change in priorities instantly. That is part of faith

Altar call

If anyone has not placed his trust in Jesus, it is the best decision you will ever make. If you give God your lifetime, he will take care of you

There is very little to remember of my life before I gave my heart to Christ. You think you are seeing life until you are quickened by the life of God

There is a baptism to participate in, a joy in the Holy Ghost. We want you to comprehend with the saints the length, the breadth, the depth Ephesians 3:18

I'm not going to ask anybody to close their eyes, because when Jesus hung on the cross for you he did it publicly. Nobody closed their eyes. They drove nails through his wrist

We are not asking you to take a beating. We are asking you to make a public confession. If you want to make a decision for him, stand to your feet and walk down here

Take that bold step Hebrews 3:15

It is a new day for you from today

• Lord Jesus, I believe with all my heart that you are the Christ.
• Take your rightful place. Take all of me. I trust you as my savior. I trust you forever.
• Let your Holy Spirit come into my heart right now. Let every other name fade away.
• Thank you for taking the stony heart out of my flesh.
• Thank you because I'm born again in Jesus mighty matchless name.

Ezekiel 36:26

Paul said he knows whom he has believed and is fully persuaded 2 Timothy 1:12

If you think you understand the gravity of that statement, consider that he wrote it in prison. These convictions are proven in hardship. There might be things in my life I am trusting God for.

But I trust him

• Lord, I trust you with my future.
• I know whom I believed. He is able to keep that which I have committed to his hands.
• I trust you.

Romans 8:28

There is a couple here who literally had to force themselves to come.

As many children as you want to have, the Lord says, I will give you.

Trusting God has practical implications

Deuteronomy 1:32

When God told them to enter the promised land and they were afraid, he treated it as unbelief

Part of trusting God in salvation will have practical implications. If I trust him with my life and he says go, we step into that

In the New Testament God called that unbelief, to consider yourself small in your own eyes. It was the implication of wrong soteriology. Your life will never be the same again

There is great grace to believe that all things work together for good. To believe he will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able to bear 1 Corinthians 10:13

The fact that I am faced with this mountain means I am bigger than it 1 John 4:4

It is the faithfulness of God. You will never encounter a mountain bigger than the grace you carry. It is a conviction to have

This Joshua generation we talk about is a generation of remnants. Only two people. The level of audacity I'm talking about is rare. But God is raising in us an army

You will not fear what your generation fears. All that God has given you to take, you will take it.

We declare this camp meeting open in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.

This great grace has become your new identity from today.