President of Loveworld Incorporated Rev Chris Oyakhilome has given his opinion on recommendations made by founder of Abel Damina Ministries International Abel Damina on dealing with addiction to pornography.
Damina made his submission while speaking on Comfort FM’s Righteous Invasion of Truth (RIOT) programme in Uyo in late February.
The clip of the sermon made the rounds on Thursday, where the pastor was asked how a person addicted to pornography could stop and get rid of it totally.
He advised porn addicts not to struggle to stop but should keep watching while listening to the word of God at the same time.
He said, “Don’t struggle to stop watching the porn. Don’t struggle at all. Just keep watching the porn. As you are watching the porn, spend more time hearing the ‘word’. If you watch porn for one hour, spend three to four hours hearing the word of God.
“Take not. Go get all my teachings on Christ. Just keep learning and learning. After a while, you will find out that your appetite for porn is dying, and the appetite for the word of God is growing. Before you know it, when you see porn, you will be irritated.
“Word of God will kill that appetite completely and give you a healthy appetite. That’s what to do. Don’t try to stop. In fact, keep watching, but spend more time studying God’s word, and you will find out that before you know it, your desire for porn would be gone.”
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Reacting to this, Oyakhilome quoted Habakkuk chapter 2 verse 15, noting that pornography is a sin that should be avoided completely, reports PUNCH on Saturday.
The founding pastor of Christ Embassy said God recognised nakedness as a feeling of shame because pornography is synonymous with prostitution as it draws from a Greek word ‘Pony’ meaning prostitute.
“The indication is that once nakedness is being made public, it is a shame when you’re not a child. As far as God is concerned, that is a shame.
“It started from Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden apple. Their eyes were open and they found that they were naked and then covered themselves with leaves and hid from God. Christians desist from it. Those who believe in Jesus should not do it,” Oyakhilome said.
