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 a long
time of silence on the issue.
According to Daily Post, Oyakhilome described the allegations leveled against him as “crazy”
and “stupid” and urged his church members to pray for his estranged wife while speaking on Sunday evening during the monthly global communion service of the church.
Pastor Oyakhilome, who appeared 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.
“I heard that some media houses – especially in Nigeria,are writing some things against me. All
sorts of frivolous charges, that’s crazy.
“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 female members
