For many years, churches have come under scrutiny for the tax status they receive by being nothing more than a church. While many places of worship take advantage of the tax-exempt status, Tennessee Pastor Greg Locke, who has made some rather interesting statements in the past, recently announced that he dropped the tax status after a group alerted the Internal Revenue Service to investigate what they claimed were political sermons.
For those who might not be familiar with the pastor, according to several sites, he has a net worth of around $129 million. On top of that, as can be seen in the video below, Locke declared that a person can not be a Democrat and a Christian at the same time. “If you vote Democrat, I don’t even want you around this church. You can get out. You can get out, you demon. You cannot be a Christian and vote Democrat in this nation. I don’t care how mad that makes you. You can get as pissed off as you want to. You cannot be a Christian and vote Democrat in this nation…. You cannot be a Democrat and a Christian. You cannot. Somebody say, ‘Amen.’ The rest of you get out! Get out!”
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That wasn’t all as Locke charged on, “I ain’t playin’ your stupid games…. I’m sick of it. Everyone wanna talk about the insurrection? Mmmm. Let me tell you something: You ain’t seen the insurrection yet. You keep on pushing our buttons, you low-down, sorry compromisers, you God-hating communists, maybe you’ll find out what an insurrection is.”
While the video might be a glimpse into the world of Pastor Locke, it should be noted he has made other claims that included not to get vaccinated, Vice President Kamala Harris was controlling a sex trafficking ring, and how demons told him the names of witches currently in his church.
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The group that alerted the IRS was the Americans United For Separation of Church and State (AUSCS). They warned, “Though Locke stated he was not a ‘full-fledged Republican,’ he clearly told his congregants to vote against the Democrats, from the pulpit of his church.”
President of the group, Rachel Laser added, “Now, when our democracy is threatened by white Christian nationalism like never before, the IRS must investigate blatant Johnson Amendment violations like Locke’s remarks and enforce the federal law that protects the integrity of both our elections and our houses of worship by ensuring nonprofits don’t engage in partisan politics.”
Responding to the accusations, Locke stated he had done away with his tax status. “Guess what I did this week. I got an attorney and I dissolved our stinking 501c3 in this church because the Government ain’t gonna tell me what I can and what I can’t say. So, IRS we don’t need your stupid tax-exempt status. You can put it in a bag and burn it in your front yard for all we care. I renounced 501c3 communism in this church.”
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I Can’t argue with the man’s doctrine. It’s high time real truth is preached from American pulpits and Americans are confronted with their compromises. We are in the shape we’re in because good people went along to get along. Let the idols fall! Preach on, Pastor Locke!
Now i’m not sure if this is a fact however i have been saying this for sometime and i go about with basic math definitions: a square, by definition, can be called a rectangle but a rectangle, by definition, cannot be considered a square. A square is 4 sides with 4 right angles but with equal sides, a rectangle is just 4 right angles with a base times length.
The same goes with someone’s walk: a Christian can be a republican/independent (but it doesn’t mean they are b/c they are of some political affiliation). However a Christian cannot be a democrat for all they stand for and do.
Great analysis.
I love Pastor Locke
D**M Pastor locke
Preachers before the Revolution and during preached political sermons. 5013c is a tool to control speech.
What took you so long, pastor?
I would ask that too w 129 million dollars
But funny how all the left wing churches can tell you to vote for Dems though.
Yeah, & the pope can tell you to take the clot shot😡
“While the video might be a glimpse into the world of Pastor Locke, it should be noted he has made other claims that included not to get vaccinated, Vice President Kamala Harris was controlling a sex trafficking ring, and how demons told him the names of witches currently in his church.”
Are you trying to say that these things discredit him? Bc all they do is prove he’s the real deal. We need more pastors like Greg Locke to stand up and be unafraid to say what needs to be said. People need to wake up!
I don’t spirits to tell me how evil a democrat is. We’re going to become a third world nation with the dead lining the sidewalks before the smell gets so bad that no one will tolerate them, history proved that.
He’s right. You can’t be a DEMONcrat and a Christian. Christians don’t kill babies.
Generally RVM is for everything Pastor Greg has stood for and is saying. I’m surprised by the slant this article is written. Churches, of which I have attended for 30+ years, are compromised by the 501c3 status and yes, it does dictate how and what churches can act and say. Case in point, mask wearing, they all went along with it “to keep the doors open and not be offensive to those who were scared”.
Pastor Locke is spot on! More pastors should stand up and speak the truth like he does. I am disappointed in this article written about Locke. Seems like the author is trying to make Pastor out to be some sort of crazy wack job. Locke is right. Zach Heilman needs to educate himself.
The man is telling it like it is,putting his cards on the table. He is espousing what the rest of Conservatives both in the church AND the political ring as well as everyday people. Demonicrats ARE a party of destruction and of the devil. The democrats will become the”walkers” of Greg Nicoterro’s THE WALKING DEAD. After 11 amazing seasons, I’m prepared to kick some ZOMBIE ASS!!!!!!!
Whatever-else-this-pastor-may-be,he-speaks-the-truth.
Hallelujah Finally a Pastor Standing firm God bless everyone praying for all of us
Mary, this is why I’m not IN a church now. I want to attend one with a strong, God-fearing, Bible preaching pastor who’s willing to be another black robe brigade man of God. They are few and far between in this day and age. The only one I know of in Omaha is in a church that realllllly pushes speaking in tongues, ALMOST to the point of “you’re not saved if you don’t.” It’s so frustrating trying to find a true church of Believers with courage.
I also totally agree with Pastoer Locke that they haven’t seen an insurrection-yet!
Don’t go for the young thing as if your truly saved ( born again ) you already have the Holy spirit in you . I been through that same thing God is in you already !
NOW.. may other Churches RISE AND SHINE.. and SOUND THE ALARM. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH !!
Get-out-of-this-country
FIX-THIS-WEBSITE!
I like that he does not mince his words. His anger is totally justified. Though there are sane and moral Democrats, their party has been taken over by the minions of Soros, Bill Gates, and Klaus Schwab, transhumanists and NWO globalists. So, voting Democratic is not a good idea.
Amen!
any church that thinks God needs a discount on taxes has no faith
Do people not know that love of the world is war against YHVH the Father? If you do not stand for what the scriptures say, you have been misled why the words of men.
1 John 2:15-16
15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world–the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life–is not of the Father but is of the world.
“Now, when our democracy is threatened by white Christian nationalism like never before, the IRS must address blatant Johnson Amendment violations like Locke’s remarks and enforce the federal law that protects our integrity of both our elections and our houses of worship by ensuring nonprofits don’t engage in partisan politics.”
That’s rich. Do I not recall during the last Presidential elections the Demoncrats entering black churches to politic and tell parishioners to vote for Biden? Oh, right. It was okay then. Rules for what predominantly white churches can do but they can use and manipulate predominantly black churches and that’s perfectly alright. Got it.
What do you expect Blacks are their base also let’s face it but most blacks can be manipulated a lot easier than whites .
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Amen! Pastor Greg! The most passionate pastor I have ever listened to! He definitely has built himself an empire and has gone from rags to riches , his new wife does love shopping though, not befitting of a holy man’s wife. But he is very generous with his fortune! He constantly helps other churches with their missions for God and the ministry. Always helping others not so fortunate. I’ve been listening to him for over 15+ years, he is true to the Bible with everything he speaks! Oh but yes he gets fired up, and it shows his love of God and country!
He is correct. The Democrat party’s platform is anti-God.
I’m in full agreement with this pastor and it sounds like some “democrat” heard a sermon and complained to the “authorities”. I’m also encouraged by the comments I see here. A lot of people seem awakened (not WOKE) to the leftist’s in big gub’ment and their ravenous hunger for control.
Pastor Locke’s re-invigorating the National Black Robe Regiment ; http://nationalblackroberegiment.com/history-of-the-black-robe-regiment/ ; Quote: . . . It is strange to today’s generation to think that the rights listed in the Declaration of Independence were nothing more than a listing of sermon topics that had been preached from the pulpit in the two decades leading up to the American Revolution, but such was the case.
But it was not just the British who saw the American pulpit as largely responsible for American independence and government, our own leaders agreed. For example, John Adams rejoiced that The Pulpits have Thundered upon signing our Declaration of Independence and specifically identified several ministers as being among the characters the most conspicuous, the most ardent, and influential in the awakening and a revival of American principles and feelings that led to American independence.
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The National Black Robe Regiment were faithful exponents of the fullness of God’s Word, applying its principles to every aspect of life, thus shaping America’s institutes and culture. They were also at the forefront of proclaiming liberty, resisting tyranny, and opposing any encroachments on God-given rights and freedoms.
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But the National Black Robe Regiment ministers during the Revolutionary period were not necessarily unique; they were simply continuing what ministers had been doing to shape American government and culture in the century and a half preceding the Revolution.
He’s passionate and very vocal about it and 100% correct. That is exactly what’s happening in our country and everyone does need to wake up.
Well it’s good to see and hear someone who stands up for the word of God! Democrats go to churches to campaign why is that ok and it’s not ok for a preacher to preach the Bible. I remember when obama went in churches during his campaign so did senator warnock in Georgia use the pulpit to spout his lies. The constitution only says the government can’t declare one state churches. Then a letter answering a question to a president has been used to influence this topic it’s not in the constitution. In other words you as a government cannot have a declared church that everyone must attend that’s one reason America was founded because England was telling people how to worship and that’s not your call!
All I can say is this guy speaks the truth. Just look at Pelosi and Biden who both proclaim to be “DEVOUT” catholics. They’re about as devout as those pedophile priests , baby killers both of them. Both are going to hell.
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I’ll grant you Pastor Locke is passionate, but, at the same time, is he nonetheless complicit in baby butchering?
He is if, in any way, he supports the biblically seditious Constitution* as the law of the land. So is everyone else who does the same.
The constitutional framers’ sins were of both commission and omission. The framers’ sins of commission are evidenced in that there’s hardly an Article or Amendment that’s not antithetical, if not seditious, to Yahweh’s sovereignty and morality.
Their sins of commission aside, the framers’ sins of omission—that is, their failure to establish government and society based upon Yahweh’s commandments, statutes, and judgments—alone sent America to the precipice of moral depravity and destruction she presently teeters on.
Ask the millions of infants slaughtered in their mothers’ wombs if the constitutional framers’ failure to establish government on Exodus 21:22-23 and Deuteronomy 27:25 didn’t lead to their annihilation?
There’s not one national problem in America today—government-financed in utero infanticide, sodomite “marriages,” Synagogues, Mosques, and Temples devoted to false gods dotting America’s landscape, international entanglements, crooked and inept civil “leaders,” America’s crumbling economy, runaway debt, and taxes on nearly everything,15 etc.—that cannot be traced back to the framers’ sins of omission.
“For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.” (Jeremiah 2:13)
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I admire his courage for speaking the truth. I will support him financially if he needs it for giving up his charity status. I admire him so much. So many so called religious men and women are big wimps. About time someone told Pelosi she was excommunicated from her Church. Everything today is whitewashed. We all need to get a backbone. Greg Locke has one!
Amen!!🙏❤️
Pastor comes “unglued” for telling the truth? It’s more like you’re “full of shit” for using that terminology as a lead in headline.
This Pastor is correct, the 501c3 is nothing but a government tool to bypass the 1st Amendment and censor the religious people of the USA. Leading up to the ‘American War of Independence’, King George III and his generals tried to do the same thing to the American colonists’ churches, and force them not to speak against the King, the UK Parliament, and the unfair forced taxes without representation (Tea Tax). As we all know, King George III and his generals failed at that attempt, and the American colonists’ churches inspired 30% of the American colonist to take up arms against the Crown and fight for a new and independent country, consisting of the original 13 colonies, and known today as the USA.
No tax exemptions for churches who promote politics and political speech in their sermons was a law proposed and written by US Senator Johnson of Texas, and was passed into law by the Democrat Party, who controlled both Houses of the US Congress, for even back then the Democrats were anti-God and anti-religion, but it was not an Amendment, and had nothing to do with the US Constitution, except that in reality it violates the religious people’s 1st Amendment rights, which makes it really an unconstitutional law, and should be knocked down by the US Supreme Court if anyone decides to make an official complaint about it in a federal court.
It’s HIGH TIME OUR PASTORS STEP UP TO THE DOOR OF HELL THAT THEY HAVE ALLOWED TO STAY OPEN and TAKE THAT DOOR AND SLAM IT SHUT! I wont WALK in a church where there is some man or woman preaching that believes in sitting on there hands with these biowepon vaccines and telling us to all get the shot or even NOT saying anything about it. I also wont stand for the MAN OF GOD HIMSELF NOT STANDING UP FOR BABIES OUR BABIES GETTING KILLED USING THEM IN THERE SATANIC VACCINES. ALL OF THE VACCINES HAVE DEAD BABIES IN THEM. Don’t TRUST ME LOOK IT UP FOR YOURSELF AND SEE WHAT THOSE NUMBERS AND LETTERS MEAN.
This maybe the only church I’d walk though the doors and talk to him about all of this. WHERE ARE OUR PROPHETS like in the bible, today where do they stand? and if yours doesn’t stand up to the killing of babies expect that there are many of us not going to church for the same reason we see day in day out that our preachers sitting on there hands letting the 501(c)(3) RULING OVER THEM. Don’t walk in those devil buildings RUN FROM THEM. TALK TO GOD, God will lead you in the right directing ask for discernment.
It’s my understanding that if they cancel their tax exemptions they have to pay back all the interest they didn’t have to pay while being a government church. Albeit this pastor is a loose cannon I respect the fact that he is speaking out rather than curling up in a ball to save his tax status. I go to no church that has the tax exemption
He shouldn’t have given up the tax exempt status. It would have been better to sue the IRS over this unconstitutional law enacted by President Johnson. It would never pass a First Amendment challenge.