Beautifully and logical and spiritually discussed. This is the best argument against polygamy I have ever heard. The fact that God ALLOWED doesn't mean He APPROVED.

Pastor Mensah is the best message I have ever heard on polygamy in my 39 years in Faith. THE BEST MATURE MESSAGE.

I agree totally God richly Bless Papa Mensah Otabil for putting this global debate to rest. Indeed this Man of God is deep

Why we all need to study the bible. Dr otabil taught this like teaching a toddler.. very clear❤

POLYGAMY is present but not preferred. Deep!!!! It is present but not approved. What more can one say? Jesus said so indeed. I do AGREE ENTIRELY.

That’s why I call him Father, thanks Dr Mensah Otabil. When I grow up I want to be sound biblically like you

Dr Mensah You have answered all. God bless you

Dr Otabil, great teacher. He taught it well.

Dr. Otabil intelligently present his understanding of the bible and pointed out the truth on the matter of marriage and polygamy *WITHOUT MENTIONING NAMES OR CALLING ANYONE FALSE OR FAKE. NEITHER DID HE WARN US OF ANY MAN OF GOD WHOSE VIEW MAY BE DIFFERENT FROM HIS.* Something you should learn!

A ‚great’Teacher of the Gospel has well bisected the scriptures👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙌🏾❤❤

It's funny how we ask questions about God's will but direct the question to a fallible man. Christians need to know God for themselves and hear from Him first hand so that what you know is not anchored on a man's exegesis but on God's revelation of His word. Today it is an easy question, tomorrow it may be a controversial question. Learn to hear from God yourself on every matter regarding His will.

May the oil of God on HIS servant Dr. Otabil never run dry, that's biblical teaching indeed

Pastor otabil is a genius ….God bless this man more

God bless you Dr Mensah Otabil Sound teaching

We thank God that we have Pastor like Dr Otabil who stand for truth

Interesting. I think this is the first time someone is actually making a meaningful Bible based argument in favour of monogamy. Thank you for sharing. God continue to bless Dr. Otabil with more wisdom and insight.

God bless you Pastor Gideon and God bless Papa Otabil...you are genius

We should always look at the OT in the light of the New Testament. The law came through Moses but grace and truth came Jesus Christ. Christ is the end of the law righteousness for those who believe the gospel of reconciliation redemption and peace. Glory to Jesus Christ, the only credible mediator between God and all generations. 1Ti. 2:5-7

This is the best teacher ever follow Gods foundational pattern and not just a verse.

God bless Dr Otabil sir. Let me also add that even the animals had one partner each... Men had always gone against God's will to please their flesh.

Dr. Otabil THANK YOU very much for teaching and correcting the error. May God preserve us always from heresies steming from the pulpits.

Polygamy is present but not preferred. Man of thank you for always blessing us

Sound, simple to understand topical teaching. God continue to bless Dr. Otabil.

As usual, Pastor Otabil comes through for me with his straight and inspired words. May God increase the kind of teachers in the mould of Dr. Otabil. Thank you sir

Wow this is loud and clear🙌🏻👌💪

You said it all @11:24, He didn't have polygamy in mind but acted circonstancially. Exactly, no man has ever had polygamy in their mind but the circumstances, such as disrespectfulness, lack of few things or changes of the wife) that pushes man to start looking around for what lacks from the first wife. I cannot blame this speaker, he's only speaking of what he thinks which has not Biblical Scripture....

Wao! So straight forward and understanding. All of us will have to take our bible lessons seriously so that we are not misled. May the Holy spirit guide us. God bless you, Ps. Mensah Otabil for the insightful teaching❤

This man Dr. Otabil, has always been a seasoned teacher of the word rightly dividing it and has never deviated either to the right or left. God bless him

Powerful teachings ❤

This is exactly my view too Polygamy is a response to man'will and not God's will God bless pastor Otabil

My Heart💔 Excuse my words. Take it or leave it. Jesus is Polygamous. His perfect marriage is polygamous. His wives are United as one. Please, monogamy is also not the standard of Marriage. And our bible strongly supports Polygamy. Never against it. Not even one scripture is against it or makes it look less important. It’s all about your Heart and choice

Wisdom from the man of God, Pastor Dr Otabil🎉

indeed a matured man of God teaching

When he reached where the big men were polygamous, he takes his time to be a lawyer for them. If God is the one that give children, then why do you some children are troublesome so, they are not from God. Did God ever spoke against it?

Thank you so much Dr Mensah for the exposition. This is a teaching that should go viral for all and sundry, not only to hear but to learn.

Thanks. Dr Otabil. That was the correct exposition of God's word and God's mind. God bless 🙏

The words fornication does not mean sex before marriage. It rather means all forms of sexual immoralities; adultery, bestiality, sleeping with a woman in her menses, sodomy and incest. Adultery is not understood by many. In israel, if a man has a consensual sex with an UNMARRIED woman, it wasn't adultery even if the man is MARRIED. The man was suppose to go ahead and marry the woman as per the custom. He will pay 50 shekels(this was a fixed price) for all virgins. But if the father refuses, the man will still pay the fix price but the woman will remain in her father's house. Because her virginity was taken, no man will marry her, so she will be taken as a concubine by another man. This is why concubines were not part of the marital covenenants because they had already shed their hymenal blood on another man. But if a married or unmarried man sleeps with a Married woman. He has committed adultery and will be stoned to death because the woman belonged to another man. Adultery then was not based on the man but on the woman. This is why we often read "adulterous woman" in the scriptures more often. A married man only commits adultery when she sleeps with a married woman. But once a woman is married, no matter who she sleeps with, she has commited adultery. Now, there are other forms of uncleanness that are not necessarily adultery. 1. A man who sleeps with unmarried multiple women and does not marry them intentionally or take them for concubines. 2. A man who sleeps with prostitutes. 3. A woman who was a prostitute. By the way,God forbade temple prostitution because it was linked to gods and idols of the other nations but allowed regular prostitution in Israel. There is a difference bet6temple prostitution and regular prostitution. These were all unclean but were not classified as adultery .

What i gather is that there is no instruction from God against marrying more than one wife. Also Abraham is said to have married Hagar in Genesis 16:3. So after Abram had been living in Canaan ten years, Sarai his wife took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to her husband to be his wife. Lastly even in the New Testament there is no explicit command against polygamy except that someone in a leadership role should be a man of one wife. Now as Christians we should base our understanding on scripture and what God says, not patterns that we see. I’m not advocating polygamy, I’m saying we shouldn’t add to the Bible what is not there.

God bless you Dr. Olabil . Very powerful teaching.🥰

Bless the Lord for Pastor Otabil, well explained ❤

Hmmm 🥰 Different understanding & interpretations ! God neither discouraged nor encouraged polygamy o ! Dis is very educating & inspiring ! More Grace sirs ❤

Excellent explanation, love it. Very clear, very understandable.

Clear and deep teaching God bless you Dr. Otabil

Thank you sir. You set the record straight. I don't know where these pastors from the pit of hell got their own idea of Polygamy as an accepted code in the christiandom. Pastor Mensah. Thank you and Thank you all over again

Very clear. God bless Pastor Otabil. Polygamy is never Godly and biblical. Stick to you one spouse and have your peace of mind.

Teachers are teaching am blessed thanks to dr . And pastor Gideon

What a great teacher Pastor Otabil is. God bless you man of God

we bless God for His word

True Man of God be bless Pastor.

GOD bless you OSOFO Otabil ! You have said it all, GODLY submission!!

Pastor Mensah Otabil is truely annointed this message is a gift from God. I don't attend ICGC but their fruit ye shall know them. God bless you Papa for this devine message and explanation

This is deep knowledge. God bless😊

It couldn't have been presented better and clearer. Dr. Otabil did so well in the explanation. That people made wrong choices and decisions doesn't mean they are biblically correct. Their errors are meant to teach us.

Thank God for a wonderful man of God papa pastor Otabil for the classification of the marriage issues more anointing sir ITNJ

Men of God who condone polygamy struggle with lust

Yes I agree with Ps Otabil❤

Lets not get the fact wrong. God instituted Adam and Eve from creation but God wasn't against polygamy

Pastor Otabil you are sprit filed . The word of God richly dwells in you . Thank you God bless you

Powerful teaching by Pst Mensal

This is like going back to the ABC of the Bible crystal clear understanding of the doctrine of polygamy, thank you pastor Otabil

He never quoted any scripture that says polygamy is sinful or evil Our foundation must and should always be the scriptures not opinions God bless u

Sound biblical teaching. God bless you Pastor Otabil

Love you Pastor Otabil So awesome, plain and clear

Sarah died in Genesis 23 Gen 23:2 And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. Keturah was married in Genesis 25:1 Hagar was in the picture because of Sarah's idea. Father Abraham didn't have more kids apart from Ishmael. Abraham was not a polygamist.

Great analytical message on polygamy by the elderly pastor. We are living in a world of misery. I use to think about the many women in the world compared to their less populated male counterparts, alarming ratio of 10 women to 1 man. Polygamy isn't biblical but how do we care and protect the surplus women in the world today? Is there a science that could stop humanity from giving birth to more female children but more males in order to equalize the ratio of men to women? Many of us supported pastor Mensah hypocritically, we're not being sincere. Polygamy is a sin but we're right in there with the surplus women around, we still admire the beautiful girls down the street and even in our offices. What's that called? Have you ever researched why men behave the way they do? Why did God wired men to be so sexually attracted to women they see appealed to them? It's a bit painful seeing our surplus women in the world die of loneliness, depression, and sometimes childlessness. Should the surplus women be individually deprived of their right of getting a soul mate since all men are taken? What will be the future consequences of having too many women compared to men in a society? Is it okay for the surplus women to be alone?

I agree with the great and insightful teacher Dr Mensah Otabil . Polygamy through the scriptures was never God's will.

This man of God said it all😊😊. May God bless grant all his heart‘s desires, Amen 🙏🏽.

Dr Otabil is a great teacher. Meet him at one the TREM , Lagos annual conferences.

Some men are monogamous including some pastors yet they have side chicks and that's pure evil.

God bless Dr Otabil, very incisive and profound biblical analysis: "Polygamy is present but it is not preferred."

Powerful message

Very clear message! The fact that something was done in bible days doesn’t mean we’re to copy everything. Thank God for revelation

This is the first time I have seen Dr. Otabil struggle with a subject, I believe we all must study the bible for ourselves... The truth can not be bend

Very clear teaching. Thank you Pastor Mensah

Thanks alot Dr Mensah Otabil. I have been struggling with this, but I am now enlightened.

If God says that i hate divorce and never say that i hate polygamy. who are we to condem polygamy? Ps. Mensah said many things about this matter that is not biblical. read more on these and you shall know the truth. Gen 16;3, 2samuel 12;8, Number 12;1-10, Gen 4;23

It was a Q&A time he had in CCC Kumasi where someone asked a question about polygamy and christianity. So this is his response and I was glad to be there. We need to study well.

I like the way this Pastor have explained.❤

This is an eye opening teaching

A lot of people should leave the pulpit. They are sending people to sin against God

The 1st Pastor lost and missed it all. The fact that the great men in the married more than one wife doesn't mean it was right and that God accepted. Because it is recorded in the Bible doesn't make it right. Why didn't God create 2 women for Adam? Why didn't Noah marry 2? They should study very well. Kudos to Pastor Otabil

You are indeed the greatest Ministerial father with sound doctrine for all time Shalom Peace to you

Thank you so much Pastor Mensa Otabil

Dr. Otabil jumped Seth and Enoch 😂. They were also great and monogamous

I'm a paentocostal christian, but even I will admit that some of our believes come from colonial fobia. God can speak for himself. If God didnt condemn it then who are we to do so?

God bless this man of God who's knows the truth that in the beginning God created man and woman not women's

Awesome as always

Thank God for this clear and Biblically-sound teaching on Polygamy by Pastor Otabil. May all who may have been misled or confused by the erroneous message Dag gave on the subject, find the needed correction from it. Ministers of the gospel, like all humans, make mistakes in their teachings and conduct, and when they do, we must lovingly, but firmly, call them out, not make excuses for them or try to defend the indefensible out of sheer loyalty to them. Our first and highest loyalty must always be to God, His Word and His kingdom, not to any man, no matter his position or role in our lives.

I agree 1000000000000 percent

I totally agree with him I am very clear now and I wonder where this man of God gets his wisdom and knowledge from. May God continue to protect and preserve his life

This teaching is a blessing to me and those around me ❤

Curse be upon Otabil for calling Abraham adulterer.Genesis 25v1-3

Pastor Mensa Otabil still remains my favorite Pastor in the whole World..His teachings are always deep..God bless U Dr Mensa Otabil

Few corrections ABRAHAM: He didn't practice adultery with Hagar. Hagar was a concubine and concubines could engage in sexual affair with their masters butbwere not part of the marital covenant. JACOB: It's clear that Jacob had no problem with polygamy because he still went ahead slept with his two concubines after he had Leah and Rachel because of the need for children. MOSES: He had two wives and not one. Ziporrah was his first wife with whom he had two children with, Gershom and Eliezer. And the Cushite woman he married in Numbers 12:1. POLYGAMY is not ideal but it surely wasn't something God hated. He gave room for that. The father of faith(Abraham)-- sex with Sarah and Hagar The prophet of the law(Moses)- Ziporrah and the Cushite woman. The picture of king of Judah(David)-- Multiple wives. The picture of knowledge, wisdom and understanding (Solomon) - multiple wives and concubines. And many more and not once was any rebuked by God for engaging in multiple wives. Solomon was only rebuked because she married from other nations and David rebuked because she slept with another man's wife which is adultery.

The teaching is quite apt and instructive. I'm quite glad with most of the teachings of Dr Otabil, though, not all.

Well explained, thank you

So if every man marry one lady, who will marry the rest of the ladies ?

I belt if there was another woman on earth at the time of Adam & Eve, Adam would have married that woman in addition. Pastor Otabil forgot that they were only 2 of them on earth. Also, when Sara gave Hagar to Abraham, he accepted the fact that he needed a next of kin so he lay with Hagar and conceived. Why God didn’t tell Abraham that he has sin? Let’s not forget that there’re two sides of every thing and I think we can differentiate “good and bad”.

Wow! Powerful and mature explanation by Pastor Mensa.

Yes, I have learned and also understand very well. Thank you pastor