1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,960 This year in 25, you're gonna see not just numerical growth, 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:04,960 but spiritual growth. 3 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:07,720 We're gonna see leaders rise up that we never imagined 4 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:10,200 were going to be the anointed leaders that they really are. 5 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:12,040 Get off Facebook and put your face in the book. 6 00:00:12,040 --> 00:00:16,280 It is time to spend massive amounts of time 7 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:18,480 in the presence of God and with your family. 8 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:20,320 The danger is millions of Christians 9 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:22,200 are gonna go back to sleep and they can't. 10 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:23,920 We cannot go back to sleep this time. 11 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:25,480 We have gotta stay awake. 12 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:27,000 We have gotta stay vigilant. 13 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:28,440 We've gotta stay in the fight. 14 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:30,400 I'm not interested in building up the White House. 15 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:32,760 I'm interested in building up God's house. 16 00:00:32,760 --> 00:00:34,800 Pastor Greg Locke, it's great to have you here 17 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:35,680 back on Charisma. 18 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:38,840 It's been a while because we've had so many things going on, 19 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:41,400 but you've been traveling a lot 20 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:43,040 in and out of different countries. 21 00:00:43,040 --> 00:00:46,400 You moved from the tent into a permanent building. 22 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:48,000 Praise the Lord for that. 23 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,840 So now you've got heating and air conditioning 24 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:52,680 for what God wants to do there. 25 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:55,040 And I guess somebody else could be blessed with that tent 26 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:57,720 or I don't know, maybe we can talk about that in a second. 27 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:01,640 But we do wanna talk about what God is saying to you 28 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:05,360 about the year 2025 and what we can be looking forward to. 29 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:08,440 Pastor, give us what it is that God is saying 30 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:11,640 for this next year and how we can prepare, 31 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:13,360 but what we need to do about this as well. 32 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:14,200 So welcome. 33 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:15,040 Yeah, absolutely. 34 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:16,400 And thank you, Brother John, for having me. 35 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,440 We love Charisma and we love the Charisma family 36 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:20,320 and the whole audience. 37 00:01:20,320 --> 00:01:22,360 And so we appreciate everybody tuning in. 38 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:24,600 You know, it's interesting that we're in a real, 39 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:27,400 we're in a real rest space right now in our church. 40 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:28,960 And I feel like that's what the Lord's doing 41 00:01:28,960 --> 00:01:30,920 in this season with a lot of people. 42 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:32,640 You know, we've been building and battling 43 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:35,840 and building and battling, and it's been a lot in the tent. 44 00:01:35,840 --> 00:01:39,440 And I think the thing that our people are most excited about 45 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:40,800 are no portagons. 46 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:42,360 And we actually have bathrooms now. 47 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:43,840 And so people like come and use the bathroom 48 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:45,400 when they don't even have to use the bathroom. 49 00:01:45,400 --> 00:01:48,800 But what it showed me the last month gearing up, 50 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,080 you know, coming out of 24 into 25, 51 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:54,960 is I think God gave us a month to kind of catch our breath 52 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:57,680 because going into 25, I believe it is going to be 53 00:01:57,680 --> 00:01:58,960 a great building season, 54 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:01,360 but I think it's gonna be building more with rest, 55 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:03,920 if that makes sense, more than in the battles. 56 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:05,720 Man, we have been in the trenches. 57 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:07,040 I mean, not only did the, you know, 58 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:08,640 the church and the house get shot up, 59 00:02:08,640 --> 00:02:10,680 I feel like our people have been shot up. 60 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:13,160 I feel like the body of Christ has been shot up. 61 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:16,480 Man, we've seen so much exposure this past year. 62 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:19,200 Churches have suffered, you know, financial instability, 63 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:21,880 you know, economically, things have been horrid. 64 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:25,280 You know, then we had that nail biting election night, 65 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:26,120 all of that. 66 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:29,000 And so I feel like people are wore out. 67 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,200 I feel like people are just utterly tired. 68 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:32,840 They don't wanna quit, they don't wanna give up. 69 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:34,840 And so I feel like for global vision 70 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:37,280 and for the body of Christ as a whole, 71 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:40,360 that we're moving into a season where our seed 72 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:42,120 is crying out of the ground, right? 73 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:43,600 I mean, what we've been putting in, 74 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:45,320 we've been sowing, we've been giving, 75 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:47,720 we've been crying and fasting and praying 76 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:49,400 and just really pressing in. 77 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:53,200 And I think God's saying, you know, now this year in 25, 78 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:55,800 you're gonna see not just numerical growth, 79 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:59,040 but spiritual growth, real deepening of a maturity 80 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:00,080 in the body of Christ. 81 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:01,720 And so I think there's gonna be a lot of building. 82 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:05,000 I think it's gonna be a building season, a prophetic season. 83 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:06,840 I think it's gonna be an apostolic season. 84 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:09,960 We're gonna see leaders rise up that we never imagined 85 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:12,680 we're going to be the anointed leaders that they really are. 86 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:15,400 I think God's gonna call fresh new eyes and vision 87 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:16,600 into the ministry. 88 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:18,600 And I think even ministries, not just churches, 89 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:20,120 but ministries like Charisma, 90 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:23,320 they're gonna see a bump in readership 91 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:25,120 and in people, you know, stepping to the forefront, 92 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:26,400 wanting to be authors, 93 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,760 wanting to step out into their calling and the equipping 94 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:30,440 and the anointing that the Lord has given us. 95 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:32,600 So I think 25 is gonna be a year of rest. 96 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:34,680 It's not that we're not gonna be fighting and battling 97 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:37,200 and, you know, fighting principalities and powers 98 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,240 and spiritual wickedness in high places, 99 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:42,800 but I feel like the building that we're going to be doing 100 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:46,880 is really gonna be the benefits and the blessing 101 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:49,960 of the battles and the war that we've just come through, 102 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:52,600 because it has been, it's been hard. 103 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:53,920 It's been very difficult. 104 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:56,760 I have seen more pastors step away from ministry, 105 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:58,480 have to take, you know, sabbaticals, 106 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,240 some just completely out of the ministry altogether. 107 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:02,920 You know, marriages are hurting. 108 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:04,640 You know, there's more prodigals out there 109 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:06,800 than we've probably ever seen before. 110 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:09,520 Church giving is down across the board. 111 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:11,400 It just seems like pastors are discouraged. 112 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:14,240 I get calls like every single day 113 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:16,240 of people that are just absolutely defeated. 114 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,320 And so I think the Lord's gonna raise us up 115 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:20,440 and put us in a season of rest 116 00:04:20,440 --> 00:04:22,240 and just kind of rebuild some things. 117 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:23,640 And I don't think he's gonna build it 118 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:25,360 the way that he used to build it 119 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:27,040 or the way that he used to do it. 120 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:29,440 You know, I think the days of just pressing 121 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:32,480 for church growth and more people in the seats, 122 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:33,360 I think that's done. 123 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:35,480 I think we wanna get the right people in the seats. 124 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:37,720 And I think God's gonna rebuild 125 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:39,480 and structures are gonna change 126 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:40,760 and vision is gonna change. 127 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:42,320 And I know that's a long way around the barn, 128 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:45,600 but I just feel like people need to go in 25 129 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:48,480 into a season of knowing that God's not gonna stop. 130 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:50,480 He's gonna accelerate his work. 131 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:52,760 But I think he's gonna let us get a little more sleep 132 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:55,440 and a little more rest and a little more relaxation. 133 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:56,280 And I tell our folks, 134 00:04:56,280 --> 00:04:58,200 sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do 135 00:04:58,200 --> 00:04:59,720 is take a nap. 136 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:01,480 You know, sometimes as a preacher, 137 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:05,400 if you take a nap or if you sleep in 138 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:07,040 and you feel guilty about it, 139 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:09,960 then the problem is the church has become your idol. 140 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:11,640 The ministry has become your idol. 141 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:14,080 And I think sometimes we're gonna have to be still. 142 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:16,360 We're gonna have to step back and just let God 143 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:17,280 do what he wants to do. 144 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:19,120 So we fought the battles 145 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:20,760 and here we are now on the forefront. 146 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:23,200 And I think God's gonna start raising some things up 147 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:25,760 and saying, I'm gonna let the vision come to pass, 148 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:27,680 but I'm gonna let you have a little bit of peace 149 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:28,640 while it's transpired. 150 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:29,720 Does that make sense? 151 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:31,080 That makes perfect sense, brother. 152 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:32,040 And I wanna actually, 153 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:34,160 I had a mental picture as you were talking about that. 154 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:36,520 I wanna submit this to you to see if this kind of connects 155 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:38,880 with what you're feeling the Lord saying. 156 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:41,400 It's kind of like whenever you are building a house 157 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:43,560 and you are pouring the foundation, 158 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:46,000 that concrete needs to rest. 159 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:47,200 You've poured the foundation, 160 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:50,360 the concrete needs to rest before you can build on it. 161 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,080 Otherwise you're dealing with a soupy mess 162 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:54,760 and it's not gonna settle right. 163 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:58,560 And a foundation that is not properly cured or rested 164 00:05:58,560 --> 00:05:59,760 is going to get cracks. 165 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:01,480 It's going to have issues. 166 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:02,720 And if you try to build on it, 167 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:04,960 you're gonna have to go back and restore that 168 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:08,120 or repair that foundation again. 169 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:09,800 Is that kind of a good description 170 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:11,840 of what you were talking about too? 171 00:06:11,840 --> 00:06:13,560 I think so, I think we've spent a lot of time 172 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:15,880 building superstructures without foundations. 173 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:17,400 And like you said, I think sometimes 174 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:19,360 we didn't let the foundation cure real well. 175 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:21,640 Oh, we got a foundation and boom, just start building it. 176 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:23,520 And God said, no, I'm gonna slow things down. 177 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:25,240 I'm gonna tear a few things down 178 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:27,760 so that we can rebuild correctly, right? 179 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:30,800 It's not that we built in sinfulness or rebellion. 180 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:33,960 I think sometimes the body of Christ just builds too quick. 181 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:36,720 People all the time, don't get behind, don't get behind. 182 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:38,440 Don't make God have to pull you along. 183 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:40,840 And I'll be honest, that's never my temptation. 184 00:06:40,840 --> 00:06:43,240 The devil knows that I'm not somebody 185 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:44,880 that's gonna drag my feet. 186 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,120 So the biggest temptation that the devil gives me 187 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:50,520 is not to drag behind, but to get ahead of God, 188 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:53,160 to get out front, to push me too fast. 189 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:55,400 And so I think sometimes, I know in my own life 190 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:57,400 and at Global Vision as a leader there, 191 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:00,600 I think sometimes I've pushed maybe a little too quick. 192 00:07:00,600 --> 00:07:03,640 And I think in 25, God's gonna pull some things back, 193 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:06,840 deconstruct some things, let the foundation cure, 194 00:07:06,840 --> 00:07:07,960 as you said, right? 195 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,320 And build the superstructure in a different way. 196 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:13,200 So Pastor Greg, how is it 197 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:17,080 that people can actually practically rest? 198 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,200 That is something, especially in American culture, 199 00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:21,120 we have such a difficult time with that. 200 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:25,480 And especially, we're not saved from our good works, 201 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:27,240 we're saved to do good works. 202 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:29,160 And sometimes people look at that and say, 203 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:32,040 well, I'm not saved unless I do those good works. 204 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:33,920 And we exhaust ourselves 205 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:37,280 because we become very good Christian doers 206 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:40,000 as opposed to Christian beings. 207 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:45,000 And so human beings, human doers as opposed to human beings. 208 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:49,280 And so give us some practicality of that 209 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:51,800 and how have you found rest in your life? 210 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:53,320 And I think we have twisted it up. 211 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:56,000 And we've made Christianity about do this, do this, do this, 212 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:57,960 when really it's about, you need to be this. 213 00:07:57,960 --> 00:07:59,880 Because if you'll be right, you'll do right. 214 00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:01,960 It's just, you'll know them by their fruits. 215 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:02,800 It's natural. 216 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:05,000 You don't have to beg an apple tree to produce apples. 217 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:06,560 It just automatically does 218 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:08,160 because it's what's inside of it. 219 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:09,800 And the reason people have bad fruit 220 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:11,240 is because they have a bad root. 221 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:13,320 And so we gotta get to the root of the issue. 222 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:15,320 And I think the root of the issue with a lot of people 223 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:18,360 is we do spiritually exhaust ourselves for no reason. 224 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:20,520 And we don't do it because we're trying to please God, 225 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:23,040 we're doing it because we're trying to please people. 226 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:24,560 Because the fear of man brings a snare. 227 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:26,040 We don't wanna look lazy. 228 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:28,680 But I'm telling you, we've got to take vacation time. 229 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,360 We gotta take Sabbath time, if you will. 230 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:32,240 We've gotta rest. 231 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:34,600 There's gotta be times when we just pull back and say, 232 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:36,680 you know what, I'm gonna spend time with my family. 233 00:08:36,680 --> 00:08:38,560 I'm gonna spend time with the Lord. 234 00:08:38,560 --> 00:08:41,800 And I think the Christmas season, New Year's, all of that, 235 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:44,320 people do that and we accentuate it. 236 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:45,160 But I think it's something 237 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:46,360 that we ought to do on a regular basis. 238 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:48,040 Don't spend time with your kids once a year 239 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:50,520 just because Santa Claus is coming to town. 240 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:52,600 Don't spend time with your kids on a regular basis 241 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:55,240 because they're dying for that, right? 242 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:57,480 And we need to bring back family time. 243 00:08:57,480 --> 00:08:59,760 We need to bring back family altar time, 244 00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:01,920 family worship, family prayer time. 245 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:03,960 I saw this video somebody sent me the other day 246 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:05,920 and it was extraordinarily convicting. 247 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:09,160 They had all these parents, all these adults in these rooms 248 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:10,760 around these big tables, kinda like this. 249 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:12,640 And they were interviewing them and they asked them, 250 00:09:12,640 --> 00:09:16,320 if you could have a meal with anybody on the planet, 251 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:19,400 living or dead, who would it be? 252 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:21,960 The moms and dads are like Tom Cruise 253 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:23,680 and Justin Timberlake or whatever. 254 00:09:23,680 --> 00:09:26,120 They're talking about all these famous movie stars. 255 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,400 Every one of them, hands down without fail, 256 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:30,240 they were even arguing back and forth. 257 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:32,600 All of them said that these famous people, 258 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:35,080 either they'd like to resurrect and have a meal with 259 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:37,680 or somebody that's alive today that they'd like to talk to. 260 00:09:37,680 --> 00:09:39,320 And so then they took all of them out of the room 261 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:40,840 and put them behind a big glass 262 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:42,720 and brought all of their kids in. 263 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:44,760 And they asked their kids the same question. 264 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:46,240 And all their kids were like, 265 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:48,080 I'd like to have a meal with my parents. 266 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:50,600 I'd like to have a meal with my siblings. 267 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:53,160 I just wanna sit down and have dinner with my family. 268 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:57,400 And I was like, holy smokes, that's a reality right there. 269 00:09:57,400 --> 00:09:59,840 What a gut check, what a heart check. 270 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:02,360 And sometimes we just gotta slow down 271 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:03,920 and have a meal with our family. 272 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:07,040 As a pastor, I don't keep my phone on all night long anymore. 273 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:08,640 I just don't, I'm not going to, 274 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:10,120 because what's gonna happen is, 275 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:11,360 I used to think to myself, 276 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:13,920 if I don't answer the phone at two o'clock in the morning, 277 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:16,400 then so-and-so is gonna get mad and leave the church. 278 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:17,240 Well, guess what? 279 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:19,160 I ended up answering my phone at two o'clock in the morning, 280 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:20,240 didn't get any sleep. 281 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:21,080 And three years later, 282 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:22,840 they left the church over something else. 283 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:24,280 What difference does it make? 284 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:26,960 And so what we've done is we've made an idol 285 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:28,600 out of our calling. 286 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:31,720 And I think sometimes we can fall more in love 287 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:33,920 with what God's called us to do 288 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:36,280 than the God that actually called us to do it. 289 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:38,080 And sometimes we just have to slow down. 290 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:40,200 And this past year for me has been learning that, 291 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:42,960 especially in this Bible reading marathon that I've been in, 292 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:43,960 just going through the Word of God. 293 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:46,840 I've had to slow down and recognize 294 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:48,560 the world's not gonna fall apart 295 00:10:48,560 --> 00:10:51,800 and global vision's not gonna implode or explode 296 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:53,600 just because Greg Locke's not there. 297 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:55,120 The world doesn't revolve around me. 298 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:57,920 The world revolves around the presence of the Holy Spirit. 299 00:10:57,920 --> 00:10:59,240 And we've gotta rest. 300 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:02,000 We've gotta, men, you need to date your wife. 301 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,960 I'm telling you, take your wife on a date. 302 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:07,280 I don't care if you walk in a public park, 303 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:08,680 feed ducks and eat baloney. 304 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:10,880 I don't care if it's a five-star restaurant. 305 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:11,720 It doesn't matter. 306 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:13,120 You need to date your wife. 307 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:14,480 It's so valuable. 308 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:15,640 It's so important. 309 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:17,760 And so now I'm dating my wife every week. 310 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:19,840 I'm taking my kids out and going to the movies with them. 311 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:22,400 We're going roller skating, whatever. 312 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:24,640 And I'm not feeling guilty about it anymore. 313 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:26,520 People need to relax. 314 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:27,600 People need to rest. 315 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:30,440 And I'm gonna say to any pastor that's watching this, 316 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:32,800 quit running your family to death 317 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:34,920 and making the church the golden idol 318 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:36,760 and the golden calf of your house. 319 00:11:36,760 --> 00:11:38,080 Your wife needs you. 320 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:39,320 Your kids need you. 321 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:40,760 In my case, and in some of your cases, 322 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:42,200 your grandkids need you. 323 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:43,680 It's time to slow down. 324 00:11:43,680 --> 00:11:46,800 The church is not going to explode 325 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:49,960 if you're not there for one Wednesday or one Sunday. 326 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:53,400 And by the way, if it does, it probably needs to, right? 327 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:55,440 Because I told our folks a while back, 328 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:58,000 we have a one generational problem at our church. 329 00:11:58,000 --> 00:11:59,880 Meaning by that, we've created a church 330 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:01,240 that has one generation in it. 331 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:03,640 If I get clipped by a train on my mountain bike, 332 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:06,680 God forbid, the church has like six weeks left in it. 333 00:12:06,680 --> 00:12:08,320 And I'm like, why are we not raising up 334 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:09,840 next level leadership? 335 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:12,560 That church should be able to go on without Greg Locke. 336 00:12:12,560 --> 00:12:15,840 If it's really a God's body, God's family, 337 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:18,840 if it's really a church of the Lord Jesus Christ, 338 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:20,360 then it shouldn't matter whether I'm there or not. 339 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:24,000 I get it, apostles and pastors and prophets and all of that. 340 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:25,680 And I know we have to be figureheads 341 00:12:25,680 --> 00:12:28,280 and we're held to a higher level of accountability. 342 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:30,600 But I'm at a place now where I'm just like, you know what? 343 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:33,800 I'm gonna back off and I'm gonna let God do his work. 344 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:37,760 I'm not forcing myself or the Lord's work on anybody. 345 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:40,840 And so again, there's so much in me right now 346 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:42,920 coming out of 24 into 25. 347 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:45,680 I just want people to know this is a season of rest, 348 00:12:45,680 --> 00:12:48,280 not a season of stopping, a season of being still. 349 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:50,160 You can be still without being stopped. 350 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:51,560 You can keep doing what you know 351 00:12:51,560 --> 00:12:53,120 the Holy Spirit wants you to do, 352 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:54,960 but you don't have to run yourself to death. 353 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:58,640 You've got one body, you've got one life, you've got one mind. 354 00:12:58,640 --> 00:13:00,000 It's time to get in the gym, 355 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,040 not just because it's a New Year's resolution. 356 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:03,640 I'm so tired of New Year's resolution. 357 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:05,360 We need some New Year's repentance is what we need. 358 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:06,760 We need to take care of our bodies. 359 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:08,840 We need to eat right, we need to sleep well. 360 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:10,000 We need to love our families. 361 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,160 We need to get our nose out of the newspaper, 362 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:13,680 stick it in the word of God. 363 00:13:13,680 --> 00:13:14,960 I tell people, get off Facebook 364 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:16,000 and put your face in the book. 365 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:20,240 It is time to spend massive amounts of time 366 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:22,360 in the presence of God and with your family. 367 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:23,760 And when you do that, 368 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:25,680 God's gonna take care of his ministry 369 00:13:25,680 --> 00:13:29,120 because it's his work, it's his church, it's his body. 370 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:31,440 And so all of that to say, 371 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:33,440 sometimes we just need to stand back 372 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:35,640 and let God do his work and quit pretending 373 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:38,280 like we gotta be the hero of the hour. 374 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:39,200 Amen, amen. 375 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:41,520 We don't need to be the hero of the hour. 376 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:45,400 We just gotta let God do his thing and trust in him. 377 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:48,120 I mean, what the word says, 378 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:49,560 trust in the Lord with all your heart 379 00:13:49,560 --> 00:13:51,680 and lean not on your own understanding 380 00:13:51,680 --> 00:13:53,040 in all your ways acknowledge him 381 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:54,720 and he will make your path straight. 382 00:13:54,720 --> 00:13:55,760 But trusting in the Lord 383 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:57,480 and leaning not in your own understanding. 384 00:13:57,480 --> 00:13:59,280 If you lean on your own understanding, 385 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:00,440 you're gonna fall on that. 386 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:02,160 It's like you're leaning on a cane 387 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:04,800 and that's not a very good foundation there. 388 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:08,040 Pastor Greg, what is it that you feel 389 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:10,760 the Lord is saying to your church? 390 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:14,400 What are you gonna be preaching at the turn of this year? 391 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:16,120 What is the word that God's given you? 392 00:14:16,120 --> 00:14:18,680 Obviously rest is a big part of that, 393 00:14:18,680 --> 00:14:21,240 but where in the Bible are you gonna be preaching from 394 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:22,920 about this message? 395 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:24,880 Yeah, it's interesting. 396 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:26,760 The other night in our Christmas Eve service, 397 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:28,800 I almost preached the message 398 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:30,960 that I'm going to actually be preaching this weekend. 399 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:31,880 The Holy Spirit said, no, 400 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:33,160 I want you to say a few other things 401 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:34,840 and talk about some things. 402 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:36,880 And then this weekend I'm gonna be preaching on 403 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:38,840 how to have the greatest year ever. 404 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:41,600 How to absolutely have the greatest year you've ever had. 405 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,040 And I have these 10 principles, they all begin with F. 406 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:46,120 But a lot of them have to do with, 407 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:48,680 at least for the context of our church. 408 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:49,520 I told our people, 409 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:51,760 there's some things that we've had to leave 410 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:55,080 in the gravel parking lot at old Leaven and Dirt Road. 411 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:56,840 There's some stuff when the tent came down, 412 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:58,240 it had to go with it. 413 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:00,040 There's some stuff that can't transition. 414 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:01,880 There's some people that didn't make the transition. 415 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:02,840 They didn't make the leap. 416 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:04,160 Doesn't make them bad people, that's fine. 417 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:06,040 Good people, lead good churches. 418 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:07,440 I tell them, if you're a good person 419 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:09,520 that leaves a good church, just stay good. 420 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:10,360 Just stay good. 421 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:13,400 And so, not everybody made the leap and that's fine. 422 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:15,520 I didn't need everybody to make the leap. 423 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:16,360 There was a time I thought, 424 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:18,240 oh, we gotta have this packed house 425 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:20,920 and you're gonna have deliverance services all the time 426 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:23,080 and you're gonna have thousands of people showing up. 427 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:24,640 And the Lord said, you know what? 428 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:26,160 I didn't need that with Gideon 429 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:27,560 and I don't need that with you. 430 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:29,140 I'm gonna pull some things back, 431 00:15:29,140 --> 00:15:30,560 I'm gonna scale some things back 432 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:32,440 and I'm gonna sharpen your vision. 433 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:34,360 I'm gonna give you a laser focus 434 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:36,080 on what I've called you to do. 435 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:38,440 And so this weekend, I'm gonna preach on the 10 ways 436 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:40,160 you can have the best year that you've ever had. 437 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:42,120 And for example, very practical things. 438 00:15:42,120 --> 00:15:43,040 Like point number one is, 439 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:46,000 forgive the people that will never ask you to. 440 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,080 We're good at forgiving people sometimes. 441 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:49,200 I say good, we should be good 442 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:50,640 at forgiving people that ask us. 443 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:52,200 But sometimes you're gonna have to forgive people 444 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:53,800 that will never ask you, right? 445 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:55,120 People that did blow your face off, 446 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:56,880 people that hurt you, people that harmed you, 447 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:58,480 people that caused great deals of trauma 448 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:00,000 and drama in your life. 449 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:01,640 And there's just some very practical things 450 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:02,760 that we're gonna have to do. 451 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:04,320 There's some stuff we gotta leave behind. 452 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:06,400 Paul said, forgetting those things which are behind. 453 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:07,960 The body of Christ is horrible 454 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:11,120 about carrying baggage with us everywhere that we go. 455 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:12,840 And we pull it out and we show it off. 456 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:15,160 It's like show and tell, oh, look what so and so did. 457 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:16,360 Look what so and so said. 458 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:18,360 And God says, would you get rid of that mess? 459 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:19,480 Would you bury that thing? 460 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:22,160 Would you not take that on the 12 mile journey 461 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:24,080 from Mount Juliet to Lebanon, Tennessee? 462 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:25,520 And so I told our folks, look, 463 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:28,000 there's some things we just cannot bring here. 464 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:30,240 Now, from a very practical standpoint, 465 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:32,760 this past weekend, and I don't know if you or others 466 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:34,800 have seen it, people watching our live stream now, 467 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:36,320 it looks so good in the building. 468 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:38,880 But this past weekend, I was letting our folks know 469 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:41,120 one of the major goals I have this year, 470 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:43,320 it's very audacious goal. 471 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:46,320 It's a huge supernatural feat of amazement 472 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:48,000 that happens and I believe it's going to. 473 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:51,920 We wanna take 500 people from our church this year. 474 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:55,600 And I wanna put 500 people on the mission field 475 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:56,920 this year in 25. 476 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:58,440 Now, I'm talking about short-terms mission. 477 00:16:58,440 --> 00:16:59,640 Now, some of them will end up going maybe 478 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:00,840 for the rest of their life, 479 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:04,080 but I wanna get 500 people in third world countries 480 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:06,560 preaching and teaching and working with people. 481 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:09,880 Because if we're a church that's called global vision, 482 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:10,920 we have a local vision, 483 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:12,840 but we better really have a global vision. 484 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:14,640 And it's one thing for the pastor to jet set 485 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:16,160 all over the world and preach. 486 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:17,920 I wanna get our people on the mission field 487 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:18,880 and not just Israel. 488 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:20,800 And everybody knows my heart for Israel 489 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:23,920 and our political work there and our spiritual work there, 490 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:25,640 but I wanna get people on the mission field. 491 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:27,520 And so one of the goals we have this year 492 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:31,560 is to get 500 people out of their comfort zone 493 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:33,840 in our congregation and plant their feet 494 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:36,520 on a mission field somewhere around the world. 495 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:39,120 And I believe that will radically change them, 496 00:17:39,120 --> 00:17:41,920 which in turn will radically change our church. 497 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:43,440 I love that vision. 498 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:46,200 I wholeheartedly stand with you for that 499 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:49,560 because I was a missionary for eight years myself. 500 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:52,760 A lot of short-term trips and training up people 501 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:54,560 to take them with me. 502 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:56,600 Those eight years in Youth of the Mission 503 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:59,120 were foundational for my life. 504 00:17:59,120 --> 00:18:02,120 And so I know what a short-term mission trip 505 00:18:02,120 --> 00:18:03,680 can do for somebody 506 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:05,600 where you're getting out of your comfort zone, 507 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:08,200 you're doing something that you might never thought 508 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:09,440 that you would do it, 509 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:11,800 and you're making an impact in somebody's life 510 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:13,600 around the world for the gospel. 511 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:17,000 And in turn, you get affected as well. 512 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,800 And I know that that's gonna cause great fruit 513 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:20,640 at Global Vision. 514 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:22,800 And I would encourage everybody that's watching, 515 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:25,000 if you have the opportunity to go on a mission trip, 516 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,920 either just do it or make an opportunity to go do that. 517 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:31,280 Your life will be changed for sure. 518 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:34,360 Pastor Greg, I wanna ask you this question. 519 00:18:34,360 --> 00:18:39,360 This is, you became more prominent several years ago 520 00:18:39,360 --> 00:18:41,280 because of your political stance. 521 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:45,120 And obviously you were very pro-Trump at that point. 522 00:18:45,120 --> 00:18:46,760 And then God convicted you 523 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:50,080 of basically making politics an idol. 524 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:51,880 You got things lined up, 525 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:56,320 and then deliverance became something you were known for. 526 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:58,320 You're seeing great revival. 527 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:02,000 But politically, we've now seen that shift 528 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,840 that you were crying for years ago, 529 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:07,160 and we've seen this now. 530 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:10,680 Tell me about your impressions with the political scene 531 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:12,280 in our country now, 532 00:19:12,280 --> 00:19:15,400 as opposed to when it was an idol for you. 533 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:19,680 And obviously you're happy with what has turned out. 534 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:24,680 Just give me an update on Greg Locke from 2020 to 2024. 535 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:26,400 It has been an interesting transition. 536 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:29,600 And I was very forceful politically, and I still am. 537 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:33,240 I'm very controversial when it comes to courage 538 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:34,280 and Trump and all of that. 539 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:36,560 But I am excited for the direction 540 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:37,400 I see us going. 541 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:38,560 I wasn't there for a long time. 542 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:40,840 Maybe that's why I was so strenuous 543 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:41,920 in the way that I dealt with things, 544 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:44,120 because I saw this demise coming, 545 00:19:44,120 --> 00:19:46,360 and I thought we have got to wake people up, right? 546 00:19:46,360 --> 00:19:47,920 And so I do believe that we're going 547 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:49,640 into what I call a space of grace. 548 00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:51,600 I think economically things are going to be better. 549 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:52,920 I think Americans are going to have more money 550 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:53,880 in their pocket. 551 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:55,200 I think things are going to look better 552 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:57,480 on the religious scene, on the spiritual scene, 553 00:19:57,480 --> 00:19:59,360 because obviously the Biden administration 554 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:00,840 and the Trump administration 555 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:03,680 have two very different ideas administratively 556 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:04,920 when it comes to the local church. 557 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:08,000 When it comes to 501C3s and things like that. 558 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:10,960 And so I'm excited for what can be. 559 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:13,920 I'm excited for our new partnership with Israel. 560 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:16,160 I think Mike Huckabee was the greatest pick 561 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:17,680 that could have possibly been imagined 562 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:19,000 for ambassador to Israel. 563 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:20,200 And so there's a lot of things 564 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:21,720 that I'm very excited about. 565 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:23,800 The one thing I'm not excited about, 566 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:26,000 the one thing that I think is a great danger 567 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,520 is now that we, if I can say it like this, 568 00:20:28,520 --> 00:20:31,880 now that we got our way, the danger is millions 569 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:33,480 of Christians are going to go back to sleep 570 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:34,320 and they can't. 571 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:35,960 We cannot go back to sleep this time. 572 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:37,520 We have got to stay awake. 573 00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:39,040 We have got to stay vigilant. 574 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:40,560 We've got to stay in the fight. 575 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:43,160 Just because we got the guy in the White House 576 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:46,440 that we're happy about, that we think is the right guy, 577 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:47,920 we got to keep building, right? 578 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:49,600 Just because we got our way, 579 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:51,880 it's not about the White House, it's about God's house. 580 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:53,280 Okay, we've got to build. 581 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:55,800 We got to build just like in Ezra's day. 582 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:57,680 The people were all excited politically, 583 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:00,160 but God said, yeah, but my house is lying in ruins. 584 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:01,680 My house is lying in waste. 585 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:04,400 And so it's not that we have to make politics 586 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:05,920 the main thing, okay? 587 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:08,000 Soul winning, reaching people, 588 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,840 loving souls with the gospel, the kingdom, 589 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:11,200 that's the main thing. 590 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:12,960 But politics is a big part of it. 591 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:15,680 I mean, let's be honest, it's a grave part of it. 592 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:19,120 And it's been a huge, huge condition as of late, 593 00:21:19,120 --> 00:21:21,920 whereas now we see God has done a beautiful thing. 594 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:23,600 He's done a supernatural miracle. 595 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:25,840 And the worst thing we could do is go back to sleep 596 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:27,280 and just kind of just, well, you know, 597 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:29,120 let's let it happen, what's going to happen? 598 00:21:29,120 --> 00:21:31,440 No, no, no, I think we need to jump into the forefront 599 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:34,800 like never before, because if we want four good years, 600 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:36,960 who's to say we can't have eight good years, 12 good years? 601 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:40,960 I mean, I really believe that God showed us His mercy 602 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:42,240 in a marvelous way. 603 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:43,520 So here's what I told our church. 604 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:44,560 Here's what I've been telling churches 605 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,560 all over the world since the election. 606 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:48,400 If we go back to sleep this time, 607 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:49,680 if we drop the ball this time, 608 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:51,600 if we don't unify as a body, 609 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:54,960 if we keep fussing about stupid stuff in the body of Christ 610 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,040 and we drop the ball again, we're done. 611 00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:58,880 We don't get another round, this is it. 612 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:00,480 This is the back burner. 613 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:01,680 This is plan B. 614 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:04,960 This is the final occasion and the final opportunity 615 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:06,720 we have to show the world 616 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:08,880 what the kingdom of God really looks like. 617 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:13,880 And so I'm gonna be loud and forceful and moving forward, 618 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,080 but I think in a different way, 619 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:19,040 because I'm not interested in building up the White House. 620 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:20,960 I'm interested in building up God's house, 621 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:23,440 because if we do not clean up the corruption 622 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:26,720 in the house of God, it doesn't matter who we vote in, 623 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:28,240 Democrat, Republican, Independent, 624 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:30,560 it makes absolutely no difference. 625 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,040 And so there has been a shift in me 626 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:36,720 and I am much more spiritually, I guess, oriented, 627 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:39,520 understanding that it's really not about the guy 628 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:40,640 that's sitting at the oval desk. 629 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:43,360 It's really about the people that are behind God's desk, 630 00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:44,960 the sacred desk, the pulpit. 631 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:46,640 And so pastors, men and women of God, 632 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:48,240 we've got to stand up, we've got to push back, 633 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:49,200 we've got to preach, 634 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:51,280 but we cannot let our people go back to sleep again. 635 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:52,120 We can't. 636 00:22:52,120 --> 00:22:54,800 We cannot let our people think, well, we got our way. 637 00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:56,480 And so let's just sit back and do nothing 638 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:57,360 for the next four years. 639 00:22:57,360 --> 00:22:59,360 No, I think we've got to stand up and do more 640 00:22:59,360 --> 00:23:01,840 in the next four years than we've ever done before. 641 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:03,760 Because now that I have grandkids, 642 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:07,200 I want to leave my grandson something to stand up for, right? 643 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:08,880 So it's not about the next four years. 644 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:10,960 For me, it's about the next 24 years. 645 00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:12,720 It's about the next 40 years. 646 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:16,240 So body of Christ, do not get lazy on God. 647 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:18,080 Don't get lazy on the kingdom. 648 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:19,920 Just because you got Trump in the office, 649 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:21,280 Trump's not the savior. 650 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:22,880 Jesus is the savior. 651 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:26,000 And when God raised up Cyrus, okay, 652 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:27,840 the people of God had to get busy. 653 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:30,080 The people of God still had to do something. 654 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,120 So we're in full blown building mode. 655 00:23:33,120 --> 00:23:34,960 And so let's just stay busy 656 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:37,040 and stay vigilant for the cause of Christ. 657 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:37,840 Amen. Amen. 658 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:40,000 So I guess you could say that you're, 659 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,720 if you can kind of summarize your word for this year 660 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:44,560 is rest, but don't sleep. 661 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:45,840 That's exactly right. 662 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:47,040 That's exactly right. 663 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:50,080 You need to rest, but don't you get too sleepy? 664 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:52,960 You know, rest well and then coffee up, right? 665 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:53,680 It's time to fight. 666 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:54,480 We still got to fight. 667 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:55,840 We still got to stay in the battle. 668 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:56,800 But we need to rest. 669 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:58,320 We need to fight about the right things. 670 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:00,720 I've learned through the years, especially politically, 671 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,040 I don't have to show up to every fight I'm invited to. 672 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,680 I'm gonna fight the right things in the right ways. 673 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:07,440 Because if you lose your focus in the fight, 674 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:08,960 you'll fight the wrong people 675 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:10,400 and you'll fight the wrong battles. 676 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:11,840 And I don't wanna fight the wrong people 677 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:12,640 or the wrong battles. 678 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:13,920 I wanna fight demons, right? 679 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:16,880 I'm gonna fight wickedness and ungodliness 680 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:18,640 and leftism and wokeism. 681 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:19,760 I wanna fight the right things. 682 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:22,720 And when you fight the right battles in the right way, 683 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:23,760 when you win the victory, 684 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:26,000 it means a whole lot more to you. 685 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,680 Amen and amen. 686 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,400 Pastor Greg Locke, thank you so much for sharing 687 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,600 what God has been doing and what he is speaking 688 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:36,240 about this next season as we're going into that. 689 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:38,400 Thank you so much for sharing that today. 690 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:39,220 Thank you, brother. 691 00:24:39,220 --> 00:24:54,480 Appreciate you.