Founder of Believers Love World
Ministry aka Christ Embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, has finally spoken on the
divorce suit filed against him by his wife after days of silence on the issue. Oyakhilome
described the allegations levelled against him as “crazy” and “stupid” and
urged his church members to pray for his estranged wife while speaking on a Sunday
evening during the monthly global communion service of the church. Oyakhilome,
who appeared visibly disturbed during his first few minutes on stage,
acknowledged that divorce is un-Biblical but suggested he could consider the
option should his wife insist on it.
“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 thing 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’.
“That is the only kind of thing you
find about a man of God when he misses the message of God or he acts beyond
what God said. But a man of God settles himself in the fight against the world…
like those writing those stupid things about me, that I did this and I did
that.
“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”.
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.
“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’.
“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”, he
added.
At this point, one of the female
pastors sought to know why the names of wives of the men of God were not found
in the Bible.
Oyakhilome’s response was that she
should ask God whenever she finds him.
‘“Why? You ask God when you find
him. Ask God when you find him”, he exclaimed.
“So, they are little things; don’t
try to make something big out of them. So when journeying, doing the things
that God called us to do, Christians should not have a divorce; it shouldn’t
be, but you see, that doesn’t mean a Christian may not take the step.
“They may do it but they have to
make things right and we shouldn’t take one another to court.
But when it happens, not that we
don’t just want to go, it means someone is taking us there.
“That’s a problem, but be wise and
stay focused in the word of God and don’t let those who want to feast on things
like this, including Christians…
“There are Christians who like
things like this; they want to make something big out of this: ‘Yeah, yeah,
yeah, we said it’. You said what? Judge nothing before the time. Be wise. Glory
to God.
“So we are not working in sin and
living in sin and hoping that we can mix sin and righteousness together. We are
the manifestation of his righteousness. We walk in that light only, and that’s
the way it’s gonna be”.
In April 2014, Anita Oyakhilome
filed for divorce at Central Family Court, High Holborn, London, UK, citing her
husband’s “unreasonable behaviour” and inappropriate relationships with members
of staff, a euphemism for “adultery”.
The couple has meanwhile decided to
share custody of their children. Sharon, the eldest, prefers Pastor Chris,
while Charlene is presently with Anita.
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