IT IS AN INSULT TO GOD FOR YOU TO BE AFRAID OF THE DEVIL WHEN GOD IS WITH YOU
- Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo at Coza Sunday
- The Certificate of Ownership (C of O) of the earth is no longer with the devil, It is with God. God wants to settle the issue of ownership before He hands it over to you.
- Satan is an illegal occupant on the earth, himself and those who serve him, they are all illegal occupants on the earth.
- If you don’t settle the issue of ownership with God, you will struggle in life
- The things that bounce you off your track are simply because you have not received the revelation that you are not your own
We have been having interesting times in COZA recently, the Lord has spoken to us that we are above only and not beneath. If the Lord says He’s going to make us the head and not the tail, that’s good enough but He says to us, we will be above only. In Galatians 3: 13, Christ died so that the blessing in Deuteronomy 28: 13 might come upon you, an Ekiti man, an Igbira man, an Igbo man, who is in Christ Jesus. From verse 29 of that same chapter, we can see that we are not just claiming it, this is who we are.
The word head is the Hebrew word, ‘roshe’, it means ‘the first’. It means the first that will spearhead that particular thing. No pilot sits at the back, they sit at the head of the plane. Praise God! If you sit at the head of the plane, your treatment is different from when you sit at the tail of the plane. And, you see what interests me is that you could be the head and God will say let others sit there, there is space for everybody.
Let me show you something in Psalm 24: 1, “The earth is the LORD’s”. This ‘LORD’ talks about ‘owner’, it belongs to the owner. This is a very popular scripture, except you don’t have a grandmother, she would have read this to you. The C of O of the earth is with the Lord. Jesus did not come for those who were lost, He came for that which was lost. The reason why man was lost was because something was given to him that was lost, it’s the C of O of the earth. When you look at the book of Revelation, God said, ‘I wept because nobody could open the seal’, and the Bible says ‘an angel held him and said, weep not for the Lion of the tribe of Judah has prevailed to open the seal’. ChurchGist. In other words, He has been qualified to open the scroll and loose the seven seals, these seals are the C of O of the earth, that was what the devil took from Adam in Genesis 3, and he became naked that is, he was stripped of his glory. He took it to hell and said, ‘Nobody can get this again’. God cannot go to hell because it’s only a sinner that can go to hell, that was why God had to be born as a man, and the sin of the world had to be placed upon him on Calvary so that God had to judge him and take him to hell, that way, he could take back that which the devil had stolen.
Mathew 28: 18-19. All power in heaven and on earth, he obtained it in hell and came out with it. The C of O of the earth is no longer with the devil, It’s now with God. If you get on my land of which I have the C of O, and you built a house, I’ll tell you to take your house, the land belongs to me. Go anywhere, once I have the C of O, build anything, it belongs to me. Guys, Satan is an illegal occupant on the earth, himself, his cohorts, his children, those who serve him, they are illegal occupants on the earth. God is quiet, He’s just laughing because He has the C of O in his hand.
From Genesis 3 to Mathew 28, the devil was in operations, but after Mathew 28, the earth belongs to your Father, every single thing on this earth belongs to your Father, nobody is on the throne outside God. So, what is going on now? God wants to settle the issue of ownership before He hands it over to you. ChurchGist. The issue of ownership must be settled before you enter into the fullness. Don’t think that the world system, that those worshipping the devil have more advantage than us. No, the way the devil gives it to his children is different from the way God gives it. God settles the issue of ownership.
To enter into your inheritance, into your destiny, you need to enter in the word. Principles are hidden there that you must understand and begin to follow. Did you notice what happened? Jericho wasn’t The Promise Land, it was the gateway to The Promised Land. God said to them, ‘We need to settle ownership, we need to settle who owns this thing you are about to go into, are you the one that owns it or am I the one that owns it? They said ‘You are the one that owns it’. He said, ‘Okay, burn the first city, burn everything for me, don’t take anything’, so, God gave them the victory, they burnt everything, but there was a guy who kept some things back, the next day, they were defeated by a small city. God said, ‘I’m not with you in this battle because we’ve not settled the ownership’. ChurchGist. If God gave Adam the entire garden and did not allow one tree to be there that He told him not to touch, before long, Adam would have thought he was the owner. What was it about that tree? What was there in having knowledge of good and evil? God put it there to let him know, ‘As long as you obey this, you know you are not the owner’. God always wants to settle the issue of ownership before He launches us into the vista of new horizon. If there is anything God is trying to let you get, it is this issue of ownership.
Oikonomos is the Greek word for stewardship. Oikos means to build, nomos is the word from which we have ‘name’. To name the builder is ‘oikonomos’, it means a steward, a caretaker, somebody that they entrusted something in his hand. Your breath, your brain, your ideas, your life, your strength, your age, your intellectual prowess, every single thing about you was given to you. ‘Alas master, for it was borrowed’, it was borrowed. Everybody running after you, clapping for you is only because the owner placed some things in you. In this Kingdom, there is no achievement, there is only receive-ment.
Listen, there are lots of things in your life that comes natural with you, that others marvel about, everything you have was given to you. If you don’t settle the issue of ownership, you will struggle. David said, ‘The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places’. It means when God gave me a portion, the measurement fell into a good place.
Dr Myles Munroe of blessed memory was a blessing to our church, one of the graces we have enjoyed in this church is Dr Myles Munroe’s, and one of the things that launched him to the world was a phrase ‘die empty’. The first time he met me, he told me, ‘Biodun, make sure you die empty’. I thought it was an insult until he began to explain to me. He said, ‘The most prosperous place is the graveyard. ChurchGist. There were lots of books that were not written, lots of ideas that were not fructified, lots of things that were supposed to be done, but people died with’. The best of us don’t even tap into up to 10% of the giftings of God on our inside and the problem is the issue of ownership.
I don’t own COZA, that is why nobody can sink COZA. If I owned it, all they need to do is to sink me and COZA will sink, but the one that cannot be sunk owns this place, and if you are close to leadership, you will see that I don’t coordinate myself like the owner of COZA, once I drop the microphone, I’m a very gentle person. Sometimes, when I come to church, I’m looking for the program, we’ve structured it, they tell me when to come upstage. There is nothing on this earth that is not in the hand of your Father.
This Scripture purchased this land for us. We were at the Metro plaza trying to raise funds for this land. I prayed, I almost died, I fasted, I gave, until one day I saw this scripture and the Holy Ghost just reminded me of this Scripture in Yoruba language – “Ti Oluwa ni ile ati ekun re”, the translation is “The Lord owns the land and the things in the land”. I stopped, I said, ‘If God owns COZA, and He owns land and can’t He give His church land, why am I worrying?’. I came to church and I shared it, I stopped worrying, they said, ‘Why?’ I answered, ‘Because I saw Psalm 24: 1 in Yoruba language’. That was the last day I spoke about it. You must settle the issue of ownership.
1Corinthians 6: 19. That’s why, when Kirk Franklin came with G.P, he shook the world. G.P means “God’s Property”. The news you are now The Ark of the Covenant, you are now The Temple of the Holy Ghost and you are not your own. ChurchGist. The things that bounce you off your track are simply because you have not received the revelation that you are not your own. How many of you have children? Do you know there are things your kids don’t think about? You think it for them, you plan it for them. If your father being evil knows how to give good things to you, how much more your heavenly Father? However, If you are your own, you will need to protect yourself.
Verse 20 says ‘You were bought with a price’. Can I blow your mind? You don’t pay for a product twice, so, you have no other price to pay apart from self-discipline, you owe the devil nothing. If I dash you a television and I gave you the receipt, do you go back and say, ‘I was given this television, I want to pay for it again’. No, you don’t pay for a product twice, it has been given to you, the gift of righteousness has been given to us and that’s it. In the middle of sin, is ‘I’, when you worry, you ask, ‘When will I…? How will I…?’, that’s where you start sinning. God says 366 times in the Bible, ‘Fear Not!’. It’s an insult to God for you to be afraid of the devil, when God is with you. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for thou art with me. I’m not my own, settle the issue of ownership.
He that has helped you on several occasions, it is not now that He will abandon you.
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