![]() ![]() Mehta's tweet sparked reactions from Christians as well. Locke's account about his recent encounter with demons and the revelations they made about the witches in his church went viral after atheist activist Hemant Mehta shared a clip from the sermon on Twitter Sunday night. They're calling me everything but a man at this point." We have never had so many curses and hexes and vexes and nonsense," he said. "We have never had so many attacks on our church. Locke said that since his church began their series on deliverance, which has generated several headlines in the press, it's like "we have stirred a hornet's nest." "We got all six of their names, all six of them." And you know who you are, and we going to ask you to get out, or I'll expose you in front of everybody," he threatened. Two of you in my wife's ladies' Bible study. Listen! Some of you been sick because you befriended that witch!. You were sent to this church to cast a spell. You were sent to this church to lure us in. "You were sent to this church to destroy us. "You so much as cough wrong, and I'll expose you in front of everybody in this tent, you stinking witch," Locke said during the sermon. He said he wrote down the witches' names, then asked them on Sunday to leave his church in an animated and forceful fashion. In a now-viral sermon on Sunday, Locke swore that a demon revealed to him the identity of six witches in his congregation during a deliverance session with a young girl in his office last week. You shine light on the darkness so that the darkness is dispelled." But when you take away the invisibility, you take away its power because what you do with darkness is not just be quiet in the darkness. He would just assume that it remains invisible because that's where its power is. "We've taken an invisible kingdom and we've brought it to light, and the devil doesn't like it. "As we've been doing this series on deliverance and this series on demons and sorcery and witchcraft and things that we have always been up against, but we just got numb to it," Locke said. He argued that many believers have "just got numb" to the fact the Bible states in Ephesians 6 that Christians "wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." But like nothing else, it also exposes the lukewarm condition of the Church in America," Locke said during the Wednesday night service. "The message of deliverance is dangerous because it exposes the enemy for who he is. 17, 2022 Facebook/ Pastor Greg LockeĬontroversial Global Vision Bible Church leader Greg Locke defended the deliverance ministry of his Tennessee congregation, calling Christian critics challenging his decision to chase six suspected witches from his congregation "lukewarm" enablers of spiritual wickedness. Locke said that both he and his wife were present at the time.Pastor Greg Locke speaks at Global Vision Bible Church in Tennessee on Feb. Locke then shared a story about a woman who is new to the church and recently came into the church office while possessed by a demon. So when I tell you the things that I’ve seen-hand to God-in the name of Jesus…If I’m lying, if I’m over exaggerating what I’m trying to tell these people for the purpose of clicks and likes, may I drop dead preaching on this platform having blasphemed the power of the Holy Ghost in front of everybody. “There is no reason for me at all to ever have to extrapolate and exaggerate what I am telling you,” Locke said, emphasizing that what he shares is not made up or inflated to make better stories. The couple adopted two children after they married. Locke later married his church assistant, who was the center of rumors of an extramarital affair-rumors that both adamantly denied. Telling stories about his children desiring to mimic their father, Locke referred to his family as “demon killers in the name of Jesus.” Locke divorced his first wife after 21 years of marriage in 2017. ![]()
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