The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has spoken on the rape allegation rocking the Global Senior Pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, Biodun Fatoyinbo.
Though Adeboye did not directly mention Fatoyinbo’s name when he spoke from Friday night till Saturday morning at this month’s Holy Ghost Service at the Redemption Camp on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, he advised high profile Nigerians on what to do to avoid temptation.
Fatoyinbo had been accused of rape by Busola Dakolo, wife of soul singer, Timi Dakolo.
Another ex-staff of Fatoyinbo equally said the clergyman raped her somewhere outside the country.
Speaking on the recent cases of immorality involving high-profile people without mentioning names, Adeboye said there is nothing hidden that cannot come to the open and that sooner or later “your sins will find you out”.
He advised those affected by such sins to “free yourself from every form of evil” and when the devil comes face to face to fight you, fight back, but when it comes to temptation, don’t wait to fight back, flee.”
He said: “When you find yourself facing youthful lust, flee.
“Don’t say you’re highly anointed or something.
“When a woman accuses you of something, nobody will listen to you whether you’re right or wrong.
“Be wise!
“You may say I’m old fashioned, I agree.
“I’ll never have a private secretary who’s a woman.
“I’m old fashioned, but I’m still surviving since I was ordained.
“It’s better to be old fashioned and live than modern and die.”
The revered man of God also warned that the continued shedding of innocent blood in the country could lead to an epidemic or plague.
During his sermon with the theme: “Swimming in Glory,” and subtitled: “Born to be great,” the pastor devoted some time to national issues.
He said too much shedding of innocent blood in a country is likely to lead to a plague and urged the church to continue praying for bloodshed to stop.
Citing the 2014 to 2015 examples in Liberia and Sierra Leone, he attributed the outbreak of the Ebola disease that killed thousands of people in the region to prolonged indiscriminate bloodshed.
Explaining the spiritual connection between bloodshed and plagues, Adeboye said when innocent blood is shed, it goes into the ground and too much of it makes the ground respond in the form of plagues.
He said: “Blood is powerful, blood has a voice and it speaks.
“When the ground is saturated with the blood of innocent people, the ground speaks.”
He revealed that when Patrick Oliver Sawyer, a Liberian-American lawyer, brought the Ebola disease to Nigeria as an index case, the church was alarmed because of its Annual Convention, which draws a large number of people from across the world.
Worried, he said he consulted God in prayers and he was assured that “God would stop Ebola in Nigeria because Nigeria’s cup was not yet full.”
The General Overseer wants Nigerians to pray for the killings to stop before the blood-soaked ground responds.
He promptly led the congregation in prayers to stop the killings
More than 11,000 people died during the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the vast majority in three West African nations, according to the latest numbers from the World Health Organization.
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