Stay Vigilant! Stay in the Fight! | Greg Locke prophetic word for #2025

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This year in 25, you're gonna see not just numerical growth,

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but spiritual growth.

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We're gonna see leaders rise up that we never imagined

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were going to be the anointed leaders that they really are.

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Get off Facebook and put your face in the book.

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It is time to spend massive amounts of time

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in the presence of God and with your family.

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The danger is millions of Christians

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are gonna go back to sleep and they can't.

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We cannot go back to sleep this time.

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We have gotta stay awake.

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We have gotta stay vigilant.

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We've gotta stay in the fight.

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I'm not interested in building up the White House.

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I'm interested in building up God's house.

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Pastor Greg Locke, it's great to have you here

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back on Charisma.

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It's been a while because we've had so many things going on,

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but you've been traveling a lot

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in and out of different countries.

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You moved from the tent into a permanent building.

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Praise the Lord for that.

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So now you've got heating and air conditioning

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for what God wants to do there.

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And I guess somebody else could be blessed with that tent

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or I don't know, maybe we can talk about that in a second.

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But we do wanna talk about what God is saying to you

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about the year 2025 and what we can be looking forward to.

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Pastor, give us what it is that God is saying

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for this next year and how we can prepare,

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but what we need to do about this as well.

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So welcome.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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And thank you, Brother John, for having me.

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We love Charisma and we love the Charisma family

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and the whole audience.

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And so we appreciate everybody tuning in.

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You know, it's interesting that we're in a real,

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we're in a real rest space right now in our church.

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And I feel like that's what the Lord's doing

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in this season with a lot of people.

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You know, we've been building and battling

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and building and battling, and it's been a lot in the tent.

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And I think the thing that our people are most excited about

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are no portagons.

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And we actually have bathrooms now.

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And so people like come and use the bathroom

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when they don't even have to use the bathroom.

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But what it showed me the last month gearing up,

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you know, coming out of 24 into 25,

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is I think God gave us a month to kind of catch our breath

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because going into 25, I believe it is going to be

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a great building season,

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but I think it's gonna be building more with rest,

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if that makes sense, more than in the battles.

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Man, we have been in the trenches.

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I mean, not only did the, you know,

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the church and the house get shot up,

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I feel like our people have been shot up.

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I feel like the body of Christ has been shot up.

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Man, we've seen so much exposure this past year.

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Churches have suffered, you know, financial instability,

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you know, economically, things have been horrid.

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You know, then we had that nail biting election night,

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all of that.

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And so I feel like people are wore out.

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I feel like people are just utterly tired.

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They don't wanna quit, they don't wanna give up.

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And so I feel like for global vision

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and for the body of Christ as a whole,

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that we're moving into a season where our seed

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is crying out of the ground, right?

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I mean, what we've been putting in,

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we've been sowing, we've been giving,

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we've been crying and fasting and praying

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and just really pressing in.

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And I think God's saying, you know, now this year in 25,

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you're gonna see not just numerical growth,

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but spiritual growth, real deepening of a maturity

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in the body of Christ.

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And so I think there's gonna be a lot of building.

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I think it's gonna be a building season, a prophetic season.

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I think it's gonna be an apostolic season.

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We're gonna see leaders rise up that we never imagined

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we're going to be the anointed leaders that they really are.

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I think God's gonna call fresh new eyes and vision

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into the ministry.

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And I think even ministries, not just churches,

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but ministries like Charisma,

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they're gonna see a bump in readership

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and in people, you know, stepping to the forefront,

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wanting to be authors,

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wanting to step out into their calling and the equipping

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and the anointing that the Lord has given us.

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So I think 25 is gonna be a year of rest.

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It's not that we're not gonna be fighting and battling

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and, you know, fighting principalities and powers

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and spiritual wickedness in high places,

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but I feel like the building that we're going to be doing

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is really gonna be the benefits and the blessing

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of the battles and the war that we've just come through,

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because it has been, it's been hard.

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It's been very difficult.

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I have seen more pastors step away from ministry,

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have to take, you know, sabbaticals,

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some just completely out of the ministry altogether.

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You know, marriages are hurting.

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You know, there's more prodigals out there

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than we've probably ever seen before.

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Church giving is down across the board.

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It just seems like pastors are discouraged.

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I get calls like every single day

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of people that are just absolutely defeated.

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And so I think the Lord's gonna raise us up

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and put us in a season of rest

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and just kind of rebuild some things.

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And I don't think he's gonna build it

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the way that he used to build it

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or the way that he used to do it.

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You know, I think the days of just pressing

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for church growth and more people in the seats,

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I think that's done.

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I think we wanna get the right people in the seats.

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And I think God's gonna rebuild

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and structures are gonna change

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and vision is gonna change.

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And I know that's a long way around the barn,

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but I just feel like people need to go in 25

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into a season of knowing that God's not gonna stop.

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He's gonna accelerate his work.

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But I think he's gonna let us get a little more sleep

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and a little more rest and a little more relaxation.

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And I tell our folks,

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sometimes the most spiritual thing you can do

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is take a nap.

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You know, sometimes as a preacher,

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if you take a nap or if you sleep in

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and you feel guilty about it,

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then the problem is the church has become your idol.

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The ministry has become your idol.

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And I think sometimes we're gonna have to be still.

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We're gonna have to step back and just let God

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do what he wants to do.

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So we fought the battles

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and here we are now on the forefront.

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And I think God's gonna start raising some things up

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and saying, I'm gonna let the vision come to pass,

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but I'm gonna let you have a little bit of peace

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while it's transpired.

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Does that make sense?

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That makes perfect sense, brother.

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And I wanna actually,

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I had a mental picture as you were talking about that.

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I wanna submit this to you to see if this kind of connects

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with what you're feeling the Lord saying.

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It's kind of like whenever you are building a house

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and you are pouring the foundation,

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that concrete needs to rest.

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You've poured the foundation,

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the concrete needs to rest before you can build on it.

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Otherwise you're dealing with a soupy mess

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and it's not gonna settle right.

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And a foundation that is not properly cured or rested

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is going to get cracks.

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It's going to have issues.

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And if you try to build on it,

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you're gonna have to go back and restore that

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or repair that foundation again.

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Is that kind of a good description

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of what you were talking about too?

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I think so, I think we've spent a lot of time

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building superstructures without foundations.

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And like you said, I think sometimes

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we didn't let the foundation cure real well.

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Oh, we got a foundation and boom, just start building it.

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And God said, no, I'm gonna slow things down.

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I'm gonna tear a few things down

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so that we can rebuild correctly, right?

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It's not that we built in sinfulness or rebellion.

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I think sometimes the body of Christ just builds too quick.

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People all the time, don't get behind, don't get behind.

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Don't make God have to pull you along.

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And I'll be honest, that's never my temptation.

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The devil knows that I'm not somebody

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that's gonna drag my feet.

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So the biggest temptation that the devil gives me

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is not to drag behind, but to get ahead of God,

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to get out front, to push me too fast.

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And so I think sometimes, I know in my own life

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and at Global Vision as a leader there,

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I think sometimes I've pushed maybe a little too quick.

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And I think in 25, God's gonna pull some things back,

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deconstruct some things, let the foundation cure,

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as you said, right?

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And build the superstructure in a different way.

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So Pastor Greg, how is it

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that people can actually practically rest?

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That is something, especially in American culture,

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we have such a difficult time with that.

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And especially, we're not saved from our good works,

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we're saved to do good works.

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And sometimes people look at that and say,

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well, I'm not saved unless I do those good works.

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And we exhaust ourselves

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because we become very good Christian doers

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as opposed to Christian beings.

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And so human beings, human doers as opposed to human beings.

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And so give us some practicality of that

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and how have you found rest in your life?

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And I think we have twisted it up.

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And we've made Christianity about do this, do this, do this,

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when really it's about, you need to be this.

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Because if you'll be right, you'll do right.

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It's just, you'll know them by their fruits.

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It's natural.

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You don't have to beg an apple tree to produce apples.

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It just automatically does

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because it's what's inside of it.

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And the reason people have bad fruit

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is because they have a bad root.

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And so we gotta get to the root of the issue.

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And I think the root of the issue with a lot of people

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is we do spiritually exhaust ourselves for no reason.

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And we don't do it because we're trying to please God,

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we're doing it because we're trying to please people.

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Because the fear of man brings a snare.

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We don't wanna look lazy.

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But I'm telling you, we've got to take vacation time.

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We gotta take Sabbath time, if you will.

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We've gotta rest.

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There's gotta be times when we just pull back and say,

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you know what, I'm gonna spend time with my family.

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I'm gonna spend time with the Lord.

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And I think the Christmas season, New Year's, all of that,

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people do that and we accentuate it.

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But I think it's something

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that we ought to do on a regular basis.

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Don't spend time with your kids once a year

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just because Santa Claus is coming to town.

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Don't spend time with your kids on a regular basis

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because they're dying for that, right?

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And we need to bring back family time.

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We need to bring back family altar time,

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family worship, family prayer time.

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I saw this video somebody sent me the other day

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and it was extraordinarily convicting.

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They had all these parents, all these adults in these rooms

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around these big tables, kinda like this.

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And they were interviewing them and they asked them,

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if you could have a meal with anybody on the planet,

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living or dead, who would it be?

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The moms and dads are like Tom Cruise

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and Justin Timberlake or whatever.

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They're talking about all these famous movie stars.

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Every one of them, hands down without fail,

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they were even arguing back and forth.

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All of them said that these famous people,

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either they'd like to resurrect and have a meal with

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or somebody that's alive today that they'd like to talk to.

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And so then they took all of them out of the room

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and put them behind a big glass

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and brought all of their kids in.

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And they asked their kids the same question.

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And all their kids were like,

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I'd like to have a meal with my parents.

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I'd like to have a meal with my siblings.

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I just wanna sit down and have dinner with my family.

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And I was like, holy smokes, that's a reality right there.

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What a gut check, what a heart check.

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And sometimes we just gotta slow down

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and have a meal with our family.

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As a pastor, I don't keep my phone on all night long anymore.

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I just don't, I'm not going to,

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because what's gonna happen is,

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I used to think to myself,

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if I don't answer the phone at two o'clock in the morning,

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then so-and-so is gonna get mad and leave the church.

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Well, guess what?

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I ended up answering my phone at two o'clock in the morning,

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didn't get any sleep.

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And three years later,

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they left the church over something else.

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What difference does it make?

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And so what we've done is we've made an idol

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out of our calling.

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And I think sometimes we can fall more in love

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with what God's called us to do

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than the God that actually called us to do it.

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And sometimes we just have to slow down.

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And this past year for me has been learning that,

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especially in this Bible reading marathon that I've been in,

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just going through the Word of God.

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I've had to slow down and recognize

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the world's not gonna fall apart

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and global vision's not gonna implode or explode

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just because Greg Locke's not there.

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The world doesn't revolve around me.

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The world revolves around the presence of the Holy Spirit.

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And we've gotta rest.

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We've gotta, men, you need to date your wife.

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I'm telling you, take your wife on a date.

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I don't care if you walk in a public park,

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feed ducks and eat baloney.

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I don't care if it's a five-star restaurant.

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It doesn't matter.

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You need to date your wife.

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It's so valuable.

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It's so important.

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And so now I'm dating my wife every week.

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I'm taking my kids out and going to the movies with them.

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We're going roller skating, whatever.

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And I'm not feeling guilty about it anymore.

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People need to relax.

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People need to rest.

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And I'm gonna say to any pastor that's watching this,

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quit running your family to death

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and making the church the golden idol

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and the golden calf of your house.

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Your wife needs you.

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Your kids need you.

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In my case, and in some of your cases,

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your grandkids need you.

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It's time to slow down.

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The church is not going to explode

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if you're not there for one Wednesday or one Sunday.

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And by the way, if it does, it probably needs to, right?

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Because I told our folks a while back,

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we have a one generational problem at our church.

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Meaning by that, we've created a church

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that has one generation in it.

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If I get clipped by a train on my mountain bike,

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God forbid, the church has like six weeks left in it.

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And I'm like, why are we not raising up

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next level leadership?

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That church should be able to go on without Greg Locke.

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If it's really a God's body, God's family,

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if it's really a church of the Lord Jesus Christ,

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then it shouldn't matter whether I'm there or not.

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I get it, apostles and pastors and prophets and all of that.

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And I know we have to be figureheads

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and we're held to a higher level of accountability.

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But I'm at a place now where I'm just like, you know what?

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I'm gonna back off and I'm gonna let God do his work.

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I'm not forcing myself or the Lord's work on anybody.

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And so again, there's so much in me right now

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coming out of 24 into 25.

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I just want people to know this is a season of rest,

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not a season of stopping, a season of being still.

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You can be still without being stopped.

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You can keep doing what you know

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the Holy Spirit wants you to do,

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but you don't have to run yourself to death.

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You've got one body, you've got one life, you've got one mind.

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It's time to get in the gym,

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not just because it's a New Year's resolution.

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I'm so tired of New Year's resolution.

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We need some New Year's repentance is what we need.

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We need to take care of our bodies.

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We need to eat right, we need to sleep well.

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We need to love our families.

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We need to get our nose out of the newspaper,

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stick it in the word of God.

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I tell people, get off Facebook

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and put your face in the book.

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It is time to spend massive amounts of time

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in the presence of God and with your family.

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And when you do that,

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God's gonna take care of his ministry

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because it's his work, it's his church, it's his body.

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And so all of that to say,

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sometimes we just need to stand back

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and let God do his work and quit pretending

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like we gotta be the hero of the hour.

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Amen, amen.

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We don't need to be the hero of the hour.

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We just gotta let God do his thing and trust in him.

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I mean, what the word says,

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trust in the Lord with all your heart

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and lean not on your own understanding

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in all your ways acknowledge him

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and he will make your path straight.

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But trusting in the Lord

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and leaning not in your own understanding.

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If you lean on your own understanding,

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you're gonna fall on that.

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It's like you're leaning on a cane

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and that's not a very good foundation there.

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Pastor Greg, what is it that you feel

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the Lord is saying to your church?

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What are you gonna be preaching at the turn of this year?

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What is the word that God's given you?

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Obviously rest is a big part of that,

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but where in the Bible are you gonna be preaching from

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about this message?

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Yeah, it's interesting.

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The other night in our Christmas Eve service,

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I almost preached the message

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that I'm going to actually be preaching this weekend.

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The Holy Spirit said, no,

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I want you to say a few other things

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and talk about some things.

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And then this weekend I'm gonna be preaching on

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how to have the greatest year ever.

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How to absolutely have the greatest year you've ever had.

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And I have these 10 principles, they all begin with F.

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But a lot of them have to do with,

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at least for the context of our church.

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I told our people,

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there's some things that we've had to leave

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in the gravel parking lot at old Leaven and Dirt Road.

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There's some stuff when the tent came down,

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it had to go with it.

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There's some stuff that can't transition.

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There's some people that didn't make the transition.

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They didn't make the leap.

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Doesn't make them bad people, that's fine.

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Good people, lead good churches.

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I tell them, if you're a good person

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that leaves a good church, just stay good.

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Just stay good.

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And so, not everybody made the leap and that's fine.

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I didn't need everybody to make the leap.

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There was a time I thought,

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oh, we gotta have this packed house

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and you're gonna have deliverance services all the time

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and you're gonna have thousands of people showing up.

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And the Lord said, you know what?

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I didn't need that with Gideon

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and I don't need that with you.

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I'm gonna pull some things back,

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I'm gonna scale some things back

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and I'm gonna sharpen your vision.

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I'm gonna give you a laser focus

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on what I've called you to do.

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And so this weekend, I'm gonna preach on the 10 ways

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you can have the best year that you've ever had.

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And for example, very practical things.

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Like point number one is,

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forgive the people that will never ask you to.

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We're good at forgiving people sometimes.

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I say good, we should be good

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at forgiving people that ask us.

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But sometimes you're gonna have to forgive people

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that will never ask you, right?

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People that did blow your face off,

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people that hurt you, people that harmed you,

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people that caused great deals of trauma

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and drama in your life.

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And there's just some very practical things

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that we're gonna have to do.

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There's some stuff we gotta leave behind.

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Paul said, forgetting those things which are behind.

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The body of Christ is horrible

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about carrying baggage with us everywhere that we go.

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And we pull it out and we show it off.

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It's like show and tell, oh, look what so and so did.

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Look what so and so said.

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And God says, would you get rid of that mess?

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Would you bury that thing?

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Would you not take that on the 12 mile journey

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from Mount Juliet to Lebanon, Tennessee?

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And so I told our folks, look,

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there's some things we just cannot bring here.

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Now, from a very practical standpoint,

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this past weekend, and I don't know if you or others

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have seen it, people watching our live stream now,

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it looks so good in the building.

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But this past weekend, I was letting our folks know

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one of the major goals I have this year,

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it's very audacious goal.

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It's a huge supernatural feat of amazement

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that happens and I believe it's going to.

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We wanna take 500 people from our church this year.

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And I wanna put 500 people on the mission field

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this year in 25.

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Now, I'm talking about short-terms mission.

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Now, some of them will end up going maybe

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for the rest of their life,

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but I wanna get 500 people in third world countries

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preaching and teaching and working with people.

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Because if we're a church that's called global vision,

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we have a local vision,

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but we better really have a global vision.

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And it's one thing for the pastor to jet set

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all over the world and preach.

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I wanna get our people on the mission field

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and not just Israel.

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And everybody knows my heart for Israel

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and our political work there and our spiritual work there,

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but I wanna get people on the mission field.

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And so one of the goals we have this year

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is to get 500 people out of their comfort zone

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in our congregation and plant their feet

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on a mission field somewhere around the world.

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And I believe that will radically change them,

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which in turn will radically change our church.

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I love that vision.

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I wholeheartedly stand with you for that

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because I was a missionary for eight years myself.

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A lot of short-term trips and training up people

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to take them with me.

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Those eight years in Youth of the Mission

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were foundational for my life.

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And so I know what a short-term mission trip

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can do for somebody

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where you're getting out of your comfort zone,

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you're doing something that you might never thought

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that you would do it,

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and you're making an impact in somebody's life

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around the world for the gospel.

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And in turn, you get affected as well.

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And I know that that's gonna cause great fruit

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at Global Vision.

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And I would encourage everybody that's watching,

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if you have the opportunity to go on a mission trip,

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either just do it or make an opportunity to go do that.

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Your life will be changed for sure.

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Pastor Greg, I wanna ask you this question.

519
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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.