against him following the divorce case filed by his wife, Anita.
He spoke on Sunday evening during the global communion service of the
Church streamed from Canada.
The following is a transcript from the service
"I heard that some media houses - especially in Nigeria - are writing
some things against me. All sorts of frivolous charges, that's crazy,"
he said. "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'. "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 silly 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 silly 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'. "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." 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."
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