Pastor Chris and Anita Oyakhilome
Founder
of the Believers’ Love World Incorporated, popularly known as Christ
Embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, has urged members of his congregation
to pray for his estranged wife, Anita.
Breaking
his silence on the allegations of adultery reportedly levelled against
him by her, he described them as “frivolous charges.”
Oyakhilome also lamented that the media had been writing all sorts of “stupid things” about him and his marriage.
Noting
that Jesus Christ was also accused of different allegations during his
lifetime, Oyakhilome asked Nigerians to refrain from unfairly
criticising him.
He was quoted by an online news portal, TheCable, as saying this while giving a sermon in his church on Sunday.
He
said, “You don’t know who a man of God is. I don’t go in that
direction. I wasn’t accused of the things you said, nor did I commit
those stupid things that you said and I don’t need to go into that level
in such discussions. Jesus Christ was accused by many – a lot of
frivolous charges. There will always be those who would like for it to
be true. But you know, in spite of the accusations against Jesus, it
didn’t change who he was. It didn’t change him.
“There
are preachers and there are men of God. I am not a preacher; I am a man
of God and I go in the way I’m asked to go. It may cause some troubles
with individuals but that’s not because I have done something wrong and
when it comes to Reverend Anita, what I will say to you is ‘pray for
her.’
TheCable added that Oyakhilome,
who appeared visibly disturbed during his first few minutes on stage,
acknowledged that divorce was unbiblical but suggested he could consider
the option should his wife insists on it.
He
recalled that Jesus passed through similar travails and eventually
overcame. He said that although so many people were making mockery of
him, he would remain steadfast and not lose focus.
The
cleric said, “Don’t act like those people. If you are married to a man
of God, it doesn’t make you automatically mature. You can make mistakes;
you can do something that is wrong. But some people expect the wife of a
minister to definitely be at the level of that minister and so they may
be looked upon and the expectation may be like that, but it’s a
positional thing.
“If a man of God is
married, it doesn’t automatically mean that the wife of a man of God is
therefore a woman of God. That’s not the way it is in the Bible. That’s
why you don’t really find the wives of men of God mentioned in the
Bible. How many of them? Who was Peter’s wife, did you ever know her
name? You never find that out. Who was John’s wife? Did you ever read
the name? What about all the other Apostles? How many of their names are
written in the Bible. You never find their names.
“You
have to understand something about a man of God. A man of God is not
just someone who worships God or preaches God. A man of God is
handpicked by God, set on course by God. If you study the scriptures,
you will not find one man of God go against God, sinning against God.
“The
only things you might find will be a man of God, maybe in two different
kinds of ways. Moses, for example; when he struck the rock twice, [he]
was provoked by the anger of the people. [It was] not because he wanted
to do something against the Lord.
“No
man of God does something against the Lord. Are you hearing me? A man
of God is set on a course; there is a type of life that he is given.
Then you have a young man, a young prophet; he wasn’t named; he was
deceived by another man of God and so he went in a direction that God
said ‘don’t go’.”
Culled from Punch Newspaper
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