God’s first man was what we would call a superman, a man who lived in the supernatural realm; not necessarily all the time, but whenever supernatural ability was necessary, he could draw on it.
The old covenant began with the superman, Abraham. At ninety-nine years of age, Abraham had his youth renewed, and Sarah had her youth renewed at ninety years of age.
In every generation of Israel’s history, as far as we know, there were men who at times entered into the supernatural realm, men who dared to obey the voice of an angel.
In the deliverance of Israel, Moses exercised supernatural gifts, such as the opening of the Red Sea and the mighty miracles in the desert. Perhaps the greatest miracle was that when Moses died at the age of one hundred and twenty years, his natural forces were not abated. He did not die of disease. He had finished his work and Jehovah took him.
Joshua was a supernatural man at times. His crossing of the Jordan, the fall of the walls of Jericho, and the sun standing still were all acts of a faith transcending the natural.
Samuel, Elijah, Elisha, Daniel, and the three Hebrew children were all supermen. They were common men in exterior; they lived as common men until some great demand was made upon them. Then they rose to the lofty height of faith that dominated circumstances and people around them.
Jesus was a superman. From His baptism until His Resurrection, He lived above natural laws. He ruled them at His will. He walked upon the sea, He hushed the storms and the winds, and He controlled the fish at will. He fed the multitude with five loaves and two little fish. He healed the sick, He raised the dead, and He caused maimed limbs to become whole once more. He was the absolute master of all the laws of nature.
Perhaps the most staggering miracle of His ministry was the raising of Lazarus, whose body had begun to decay. For four days that body had been in the tomb, and as simply as I would ask you to pass me a book, Jesus said, “Lazarus, come forth” (John 11:43).
He was the absolute master of death.
The most significant thing about the ministry of Jesus from this angle was what He said about those who were to believe on Him.
Matthew 19:26 says, “With God all things are possible.” Here, the God of all flesh, with whom all things are possible, is brought into contact with humanity in the person of Jesus. This all-powerful God is the one with whom we deal.
Jesus said, “Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him” (John 17:1–2).
Jesus had authority over all flesh. Jesus and the Father were one in their mighty purposes and ministry.
In Matthew 17:20, when Jesus was speaking to the disciples, He said, “And nothing shall be impossible unto you.” Jesus was either speaking carelessly, or He was declaring a great truth. We believe He spoke a great truth.
Something was going to happen to them that was going to bring them into the class with God.
“With God all things are possible,” and “nothing shall be impossible unto you.”
Mark 9:23 says, “All things are possible to him that believeth.” That word believeth is the same word that we get in Mark 16:17: “And these signs shall follow them that believe.”
It really means a believing one, one who has accepted Christ as Savior and Lord, who has been recreated and come into the family of God.
And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. (Mark 16:17–18)
Jesus promised that in His name, the disciples should be supermen.
There is no escaping this. No matter what the churches teach today, here is the fact:
So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. (Mark 16:19–20)
Some today will tell you that the day of miracles has passed. It has passed to the largest part of the sense knowledge-ruled church, but it has not passed to anyone who believes the Word and dares to do the things that Jesus has commanded us to do in His Word.
Here we see the utter limitlessness of belief in Him and His name:
He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. (John 14:12–14)
Jesus is not talking about prayer; He is talking about the thing He mentions in Mark 16:17: “In my name shall they cast out devils.”
He says, “Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do.”
Standing at the beautiful temple gate when the crippled man held out his hands for help, Peter said, “Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk” (Acts 3:6). The man was perfectly healed. It was faith in that name that made him well.
The name of Jesus on the lips of an uneducated man like Peter made that man whole.
He was greater than disease. He had the authority over disease. He had the ability to change that helpless man whose legs had never sustained his body, so they became normal, so that the man ran, leaping and praising God, into the temple.
He had performed a prodigy. He had made that cripple a new man. That ability has never been withdrawn from the church. It belongs to the church now, in the name of Jesus.
Whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. (John 15:16)
And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. (John 16:23)
If language means anything, this means that there is limitless ability in the name of Jesus, and that limitless ability is given to the man who believes in Jesus Christ.
All it requires is that we act on that name, that we honor God enough to acknowledge the truthfulness of what Jesus said.
If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. (Matthew 18:19–20)
This is another promise of supernatural ability. It is given to two; if one fails and hasn’t ability to take the thing alone, he can get someone else to join with him.
“One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee” (Isaiah 30:17). This is the promise that was given to the old covenant people.
In the new covenant, there are limitless privileges given to the individual believer that were utterly unknown to those of the old covenant.
What is necessary in order for us to enjoy the abilities of this supernatural life?
I want to call your attention to several things. They are the same abilities that mark and characterize the ordinary child of God today, because he never uses them and does not bring discredit upon his privileges.
First, we must be free from Satan’s dominion. There is no ground for faith as long as one is conscious of slavery. Faith can only grow in the realm of freedom.
The first thing that Jesus had to do to lay the foundation for a supernatural life was to conquer Satan.
Jesus identified Himself with the human race in order that we, by accepting His great substitutionary work, might be identified with His deliverance.
He became a man, that as a man, He might conquer Satan. Then He permitted Himself to be nailed to the cross, and God laid our sin nature, our weakness, our bondage, and our fear, yes, laid us upon Him.
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. (2 Corinthians 5:21)
No man who is in bondage can enjoy the righteousness of God. The very thought of righteousness means deliverance. It means that Satan’s dominion has been annulled, abolished, and destroyed.
In the great revelation of Jesus that Paul gives us in his epistles, he shows us that when Christ was nailed to that cross, we were identified with Him. It was for us that He was nailed there.
We were crucified with Him, we died with Him, we were buried with Him, and we actually went to the place of suffering with Him. He was our substitute; He was taking our place. It was as though we were there. His suffering was our suffering.
Then, after He had paid the penalty of our transgressions and made provision for our justification, He was justified, declared righteous. When He was justified and declared righteous, it was our emancipation.
He was recreated. “In the flesh he was put to death but he came to life in the Spirit” (1 Peter 3:18 MOFF). That was when we were made alive in spirit and became new creations in the mind of justice.
Before He was raised from the dead, He met Satan in his own throne room, stripped him of the authority that Adam had given to him in the garden.
The victory that Jesus celebrated over the adversary, when He “despoiled the principalities and the powers” (Colossians 2:15 ASV), was our victory.
If Jesus conquered the devil, you conquered the devil. It was your victory, not His. He had no reason to fight that battle.
When Jesus conquered Satan and stripped him of his authority, He arose from the dead and shouted to the disciples, “All hail!” Redemption morn had come to the human.
The instant you take Jesus Christ as your Savior and confess Him as your Lord, everything that Jesus wrought in those days and nights of suffering, and of triumph and victory, belongs to you.
Then this fact stands out clearly: we are absolutely delivered from the dominion of Satan. As far as we are concerned, Satan has been dethroned, his dominion has been broken.
First Corinthians 2:6 calls them “the dethroned Powers who rule this world” (MOFF).
That is a very remarkable expression. They were the ones who crucified our Lord. He dethroned them.
Let this become absolutely clear, workable knowledge in your mind. You have been delivered from Satan’s dominion. Satan has no right to reign over you.
A second great fact is this: I must be able to stand in God’s presence free from condemnation, without fear, without the sense of guilt or inferiority.
As long as there is a sense of condemnation, there will be no sense of freedom, no place for faith to develop.
The moment a man knows that he has a legal right to stand in the Father’s presence, just as freely as Jesus, that moment Satan’s dominion over him ends.
Then Colossians 1:13–14 becomes a reality: “Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.”
The instant you know that you have become the righteousness of God in Him, that moment, Satan’s dominion over you ends.
It is this sense of guilt and sin that robs man of his initiative, robs him of his ability to stand uncondemned in God’s presence. If one is condemned in God’s presence, he stands condemned and belittled in the presence of sickness, disease, and poverty. He is whipped by them.
But if he knows that, on the ground of the finished work of Christ, he can become a new creation created in Christ Jesus, and the moment he accepts Jesus Christ, God gives to him His own nature. He becomes the righteousness of God in Christ and receives eternal life. Then it is not a problem of feeling or sense knowledge, but a problem of the absolute accuracy and truthfulness of the Word of God.
He knows that he is what God says he is: the righteousness of God in Christ. He is not afraid to walk into the Father’s presence. He is not afraid of disease and sickness, of poverty and want. He knows that he is a master.
A third fact is this: he must become a new creation created in Christ Jesus.
I have shown you that there is a redemption and a righteousness provided. They become realities when he becomes a new creation.
Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation. (2 Corinthians 5:17–18)
That new creation is a son of God.
First John 3:2 says, “Beloved, now are we the sons of God.” That new creation is an heir of God and a joint heir with Jesus Christ. That new creation has received eternal life.
These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life. (1 John 5:13)
When one receives eternal life, the nature of God, he becomes a member of the body of Christ. He utterly becomes one with Christ, so that John 15:1–8 becomes a reality in his mind.
“I am the vine, ye are the branches” (verse 5). That believing one is a member of the body of Christ. He is just as near to Christ as the branch is to the vine. He is just as much a part of God as Jesus was a part of God, just as much a part of God as the branch is a part of the vine.
You are tied up with the ability of God. You are tied up with the Omnipotent.
God says, “My thoughts are not your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8). God’s mind is above ours.
In Paul’s revelation, he says, “We have the mind of Christ” (1 Corinthians 2:16).
This new creation is really in the realm of God. The new creation recognizes only one Lord, Jesus Christ.
The new creation has a legal right to all the privileges that were wrought in Christ for man. Everything that Jesus did, and all that Jesus is today, belongs to the new creation, because the new creation is a part of Christ.
In 1 Corinthians 12:12, we are called the Christ: “For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.”
In 2 Corinthians 6:15, the church is called the Christ: “And what concord hath Christ with Belial?” The unregenerate man is called Belial; the recreated man is called Christ.
“I am the vine, ye are the branches” (John 15:5). The branch is a part of the vine.
A fourth fact is this: this new creation must know his legal rights and standing in Christ.
The Bible is made up of two legal documents, an old covenant and a new covenant. A covenant is a contract, an agreement.
The first contract was between Abraham and God; the second contract was between Christ, the body of Christ—that is, the church—and God.
Jesus’s death was a legal death. Substitution was a legal act. The demands of justice had to be met. Jesus met the demands of justice; the supreme court of the universe accepted the sacrifice of Jesus Christ as having met the demands of justice against any man who would take Jesus Christ as Savior and accept His lordship over his life.
This legally born child of God has a legal right to use the name of Jesus. He has a legal right to the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit. He has a legal right to his place in the family of God and to his share of the inheritance of the saints in light.
He has a legal right to the ability of God.
All that Jesus was and is legally belongs to the believer. All that Jesus did and is doing now belongs to the child of God legally.
The child of God has a legal right to the Father’s protection and care. He has a legal right to food, raiment, and a home. He has a legal right to fellowship and happiness with the brethren. He has a legal right to reign over Satan and demons, to reign over poverty.
Romans 5:17 states, “For if by the offence of the one death reigned by the one” (DBY).
That is spiritual death. Satan seized the supremacy over the human race, seized the sovereignty that Adam had in the garden.
Adam had dominion over all the work of God’s hands. Satan took that away from man. Jesus came and restored that dominion to man.
Much more shall those who receive the overflowing grace and free gift of righteousness reign in life through One, through Jesus Christ. (Romans 5:17 MOFF)
How much grace have we received? Jesus was God’s grace. Grace is love in action, blessing the human race. Great grace was upon the disciples, great divine acts in healing the sick, in performing miracles.
We have received the abundance of His ability to help humanity. We have received the gift of righteousness, the ability to stand in the Father’s presence without the sense of inferiority or fear, the ability to stand in the presence of Satan as a master, to stand in the presence of disease and sickness as a deliverer.
We have received that abundance of grace and this gift of righteousness. What is the result? We reign as kings in the realm of life through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
It has made masters of us. We, who have been slaves, have now become the rulers.
Common people are entering into the throne room and joining forces with King Emmanuel.
We are dealing with the actual things that belong to the Christian, but have been ignored by the church.
Today, any man who confesses these things is considered to be a fanatic. Jesus died as a fanatic. Paul died as a fanatic. John, Peter, and all of the rest of the apostles died as fanatics.
People said Paul “turned the world upside down” (Acts 17:6). This message will turn the world upside down if men will believe it and act upon it.
The Holy Spirit is ours. As soon as you are born again, your body is the home of God.
Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. (1 Corinthians 6:19–20)
Glorify Him now by laying hands on the sick, by letting your tongue become the pulpit of God through which He will speak His mighty words.
Jesus said, “The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63).
The Word becomes spirit and life in the man who has yielded to the lordship of Jesus, and in whom the Spirit has absolute sway and rule.
This is a marvelous fact of grace.
Philippians 2:13 says, “For it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure” (ASV).
You have become the throne room of God, so to speak. Your body has become the pulpit out of which this inside God is ruling.
Oh, that the church might become God-inside minded. They are weakness minded, they are sickness minded, they are inferiority-
complex minded, they are trouble and poverty minded, but they are not God minded.
If you become God minded, then the mind of Christ will become yours. God will think through your mind and speak through your lips. God will heal the sick with your words and the touch of your hands. You will pass out of the realm of the inferior into the realm of the supernatural.
First John 4:4 says, “Ye are of God.” I am of God. If I am of God, you may expect me to act like God, to speak like God. You may expect me to dominate and rule demons as God did.
The rest of this verse tells us, “Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.”
Who is in the world opposing God? Satan is, through men and women. It is not the men and women who are opposing God; it is the demon power that has gained the ascendancy over their minds. We are going to dethrone him.
Jesus dethroned him and Satan knows it, but he is still holding on to these world-minded men.
How are we going to dethrone him? The truth is going to set men free. We are going to unveil the Word so simply, so clearly, and the power of God is going to be so mightily upon it that men and women are going to get their deliverance.
Supernatural men will be dressed as common men, but they will have the ability, the strength, and the wisdom of God in them.
A fifth characteristic of the superman is that they will love men.
They are begotten of love. God is love. They have received God’s nature. They are lovers. They are no longer seeking their own. They live and work as Jesus did.
No matter what their daily tasks, no matter what their station in life may be, these men who are the sons of God are going to love as He would love. They are not seeking their own, they count not the things that are theirs to be theirs, but they act as trustees of them. (See Acts 2:44–45.)
Jesus is unveiled to the heart of man through the lives of these men.
It is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me. (Galatians 2:20 ASV)
Do you think that the lover, Jesus, would live in a man and that man could be selfish and bitter?
The superman is going to be a lover. The most outstanding feature of the superman is love. It is the Jesus kind of love. It is agape set on fire by grace that is reaching through men’s lips and men’s acts after lost men.
He is not only the super lover, but he is the Son of God, and God is not only a love God, but He is also a faith God.
Hebrews 11:1 says, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
Faith is giving substance to a thing that is not yet real. As long as you hope for it, it is not real. You never hope when you have reality. Hope is always in the future. Faith is now. Faith is changing the base metal into the purest gold.
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. (Hebrews 11:3)
The universe was brought into being by the Word of God.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. (John 1:1–2)
Turn back to the first chapter of Genesis and notice that all God said was, “Let there be,” and things came into being. A universe came into being by the Word of God. The vegetable world came into being and the animal world came into being by His Word.
We are the sons and daughters of a faith God. Our words are to be faith words. We are to take His words as Peter did when he said to the man at the temple gate, “In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk” (Acts 3:6). He was taking the words from the lips of the Master.
You bring health and strength where weakness has held control. You bring success where failure has dominated. You bring plenty where poverty has run riot. The days of poverty and weakness are over. We have the strength of God.
Philippians 4:19 says, “My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”
The end of want has arrived because we know how to change the baser metals into the purest in Jesus Christ.
This new creation must learn the secret, joy, and blessing of using the name of Jesus as you would use a wrench to tighten a nut on a bolt, or as you would use a knife to cut a piece of meat.
You dare to use the name of Jesus to bring healing and deliverance. You dare to step out of the realm of the senses into the realm of the Spirit and begin to act as the sons and daughters of God Almighty should act.
E. W. Kenyon, The Hidden Man: The Secret to Living in the Spirit Realm (New Kensington, PA: Whitaker House, 2025).