Pastor G. Craige Lewis Allegations - Love Lessons

Ladies and gentlemen, Tony Gaskins here. Now, I keep forgetting to touch on this, and quite a few of y'all sent this to me, and I may have to pause this here in a little bit cuz one of my pro athlete mentees reached out to me for a conversation, and it's supposed to be in 46 minutes, but I let him know I was free. So, I have to see. But, I Some of y'all sent this here to me, and I don't know much about the brother other than the way they spell Craig is wrong. So, I don't know if his name is Craige, or if that's Craig. But, you know, I've always pronounced it G. Craig Lewis, but I don't know the brother. I have not listened to his sermons or anything of the of the like. Um all I listened to All I heard was years ago years ago he said, "You cannot mix the sacred with the profane." And the allegations is saying that he mixed the sacred with the profane. And I And I heard that one message from that brother when he was talking about Essentially, he was saying like gospel artists and stuff can't be out here using secular beats and all of that. This This one mentee, so I'll be right back, and I'll take some notes on what I was saying. Hey, hey, Tony Gaskins here. I'm back. Now, I know it sound weird for you cuz you didn't know I paused, but one of my pro athletes had a uh money question, investing question, and so had been talking to him for the last hour almost or however long. But, ain't got long. We got 24 minutes till my next coaching call, y'all. So, we going to finish this up and I'll probably have to do a part two or go live and talk about it. We get more of the details. And basically over here, we just studying human behavior and learning the lessons. I'm going to do a video on the young lady who pretended to be a PA student at the University of Duke School of Medicine or what have you. Supposed to be the number one PA school in the country. And I got a few clients who are physician assistant. And they you know, make good money, too, and doing well for themselves. And I don't I don't I don't know if they went to the Duke school, but young lady got out there faking. But, back to the brother G. Craig Lewis. I found out about him when he just like everybody else when he was standing on business. Going after the rappers and all of that about their messaging and the stuff that they do and they talk about. And I really just from a distance because he was talking so adamantly against that secular music and stuff. I'm like, well, you hey, well, if you coming like that, nah. You really living right. I'd never seen what the brother looked like. Like, I didn't know he looked the way he look. Now, how had I seen him as a man, I would have read him differently. And so, I can tell how a man is based on how he looks because how we look determines how the world treats us. So, based on how a man look, I can tell if he's ever had real emotion. And if he's ever been him. And if he has not he's going to face a lot of struggles in his life when he comes into fame and notoriety. So, it's a lot of women that I talked to that are beautiful and they will all tell you I don't come at them sideways and I don't try them. And the reason why they will tell you that is because although they beautiful to me they basic. They regular because I didn't been out there and I didn't had the pick. So it doesn't tempt me the way if I hadn't been out there. Had I not been out there flipping and tossing and doing everything I was doing then I would be intrigued and I would be like, "Whoa, this woman texting me? Whoa, this woman is my client? Whoa." She got this booty, this bread, this smile, this hair, this hair. But to me it's just like, "Okay, I I recognize she's a beautiful woman." But G Cred Louis he kind of look like a light-skinned milk dud. And you know, it's kind of like a Down syndrome mutant ninja turtle. And so when you have that kind of look you're going to struggle. Like you're not really going to have the pick of the litter. And I'm not picking on them. Just kind of describing how he look. And he have that little hump on his head. And when you got that head butt-able head and like that right there, these women know to try you. They know to try you cuz they know you're not like that. They know you don't look like that. They know that you really ain't before you became a pastor, before you got on, they know you weren't flipping and tossing in no real way. And even if you was, they know you still battling a lot of insecurity. So, they come they going to come shake a tail feather, and they going to shake a tail feather, and that's what I try to tell you men. You can't just prepare for tomorrow. You got to prepare prepare for next week. You can't prepare for what's right in front of you. You got to prepare for what's down the street and around the corner. You have to And this what I try to tell y'all. Like the level that I'm that I'm preparing for, I literally am prepared to be hired by Beyoncé one day. I'm 42. I'm prepared by the age of 55 to be hired by Beyoncé. And her just being in a place to where she feel like she the richest black woman and she want the most desirable black man. She want the only black man who is a celebrity who has no scandal and who has not fallen, who all his past is behind him. His flipping and tossing is behind him, and that she want to pull a Alicia Keys. How she got Swiss Beatz from Mashonda. And I'm prepared to get hired, get put on an NDA, got to meet in a luxury resort suite and got to get up and go to the bathroom and come out the bathroom and she in the bed butt naked. You see how far-fetched that is? But that's what I think about. That's what I'm prepared for. And I literally and this has been 5 10 years. And you know who you know who helped me do that? My wife. Because I would jokingly say one time, man, girl, I ain't I wouldn't cheat on you with nobody but Oprah and Beyoncé cuz they got them bees behind their name. She said, don't say that. Because you might meet them one day. She like, you might get the chance to cheat with them one day. And at that point for a while I was like, hey girl, you see me like that? I'm on that don't happen. Like, girl, you see me like that? Like she was serious. My wife don't joke around like on that kind of stuff. But I was like, damn, you see me like that? But see, at the time I had been getting hired by celebrities. So the public the public knowledge was K Michelle Evelyn from you know, the R&B singer went on her show. A lot of people recognize me from that show still to this day when I be out and about. And then Evelyn Lozada the from Basketball Wives and and that was and then Tiffany Cambridge from The Game you know mother of his children. So well, some of his children cuz Evelyn daughter and I got child from him. And so that was public knowledge. The my celebrity clients right there who I went on their shows. So my wife was looking at like, man but it's 2010 and you getting hired by celebrities and then there was a another like mega mega celebrity couple that I had to sign a NDA on, so I can't say their name. And I got flew out and had to meet and and I had to meet the young lady, the the the wife, and her her assistant was with her. But I had to meet them in a hotel room. And they had booked the room for me, but I wasn't going to stay in the room, so I gave it back to them, so they they had it. And had to meet in a hotel room. Now, she had the assistant with her and I. But imagine if she would have told her assistant, "Hey, leave leave." And then she would have gotten the bed naked. Pop P, wanted to pop P. I'd have been I'd have been caught. And so I'd have had a decision to make. And that's what these men don't be thinking about. Like you really have to if you see it in your mind, when you see it in real life, you going to know how to pass the test. So anytime I meet a woman that I feel is beautiful and could be a temptress, like could be somebody that I could fall for, because I almost fell in my past when I started my career, and I got some close calls to where it was like, "Woo woo, boy." Man, could have said the wrong thing, could have went the wrong way. That could That could have went bad, boy. And so I learn each time I learn I learn I learn I learn, but God hadn't elevated me. God hadn't pushed me into purpose, so I was saved. That's where I call grace. Then that's why I tell people all the time, you're going to be graced. So, G Craige Lewis was out there knock- knocking some stuff off and God graced him. Cuz God knows man. After David did what he did with Bathsheba, God ain't surprised by nothing. After God seen the darn apple of my eye then went out here and then stole this man's woman, then put this man on the front line to get killed, and then stole this man's woman. God ain't surprised by nothing we do. He already knows us. He knows our flaws. He knows our weaknesses. He knows that. And so, that's why he called us to certain things. A lot of times people wonder like "Tony, why you talk to women? Why you do?" It's because God knows he could trust me. And it's on me to fumble. It's on me to mess that up. And so, God called me to this. And it's another thing that I love about the Lord. That he don't move you too fast. If you notice, all the frauds got more followers than me. That's cuz I'm called by God. So, he don't let me grow really fast. I grow because I'm talking sense and it's going to do what it do, but I don't grow as fast as the frauds because my steps are ordered by God. And that's what these guys don't understand like And now, yes, this from a long time ago what they're trying to say, but they're saying G Craige Lewis stuff was in 2016 or something like that. 20 2011, 2012 2016. I heard Fred Price Jr. say he went to him in 2020 or 2016, something he said. And it was like, "Hey, this what you being accused of. And tried to have that conversation and basically G Craige Lewis was just arrogant about it. And and that somebody else wrote him, somebody named Seiko wrote him and said this what I got on you. I'm demanding that you sit down from preaching. And or I'm coming out with this stuff and he said come on out with it. So he knows he's invincible. And I saw him on a video G Craige Lewis addressing the allegations to the church look like and he was saying that he went through this stuff a long time ago and that's probably why he never really blew up and ain't hear nothing else from cuz he was going through these scandals. And he said he he apologized, repented to his wife in front of the church and in front of his children and after the service his children hugged him for 30 minutes crying telling him how much they love him. And that's just the grace that we have as men like that's just what we God has graced us like that to where we can do stupid stuff and nobody turn their back on us. Grandmas and mamas will bail their son and grand- grandson out of jail 50 million times. If they could bail them out the grave they would. Like we men get so many excuses and so much grace it's ridiculous. And we try to cry file and you know cry like a baby and play the victim but G Craige Lewis was up there talking to a church full of people. And he ain't got it didn't look like no mega church but it it looked like a couple hundred or it could have been three or four hundred, depending on how far back it went, but he was standing up there and and to me it sound like he was talking out the side of side of his neck. It didn't sound like he was repentant. It sound like he was lying. Now, I'm going to be honest with you as a man, men know men. It sound like he was lying. And it sound like he wasn't repentant and it sound like he was making excuses. And it sound like this is how he makes a living now as a pastor. He make a living from being a pastor. I do believe people people are so nosy that people will still go to your church just to hear what you're saying because you're entertainment now. So, people will disconnect from God and not even getting a a channel or a connection to God from the church service. They just there to be nosy. They there to record every message on their phone. So, if he slip up and say something arrogant or contradicting, they going straight to the gossip page to to sell that sell that video. And people will be in there, but what's going to go down is the tides are going to go down. The tides and offering going to go down. And then he going to have to start twisting their arm to come on out. And the one video I seen look like he was telling a lady to turn around and to do some Marilyn Monroe effect with her dress. And I thought I heard her say, I was doing something else. I wasn't listening all the way, but I thought I heard her say, "Back then, I would have did that, but now, no." And it was kind of like what I what I kind of heard, I could have heard it wrong. I'm like, "Ma'am, is you on here trying to have class? Cuz your butt just was standing up twirling in that dress. And you know this man married with kids. So, don't sit your butt down trying to act like you got class. Go on show that monkey. Cuz you on the camera standing up with that dress. So, you might as well go on flash monkey. Because you already trying to be a temptress cuz you already doing the most. Talking standing up talking what you want me to do? Why you want me to do that? What you want me to do? Child, shut up and get off that Zoom. Zoom staff said the Zoom knew about this before we knew about it. Zoom or Skype that the staff sitting over there eating tacos with the pastor. He was talking about Jay-Z. Ooh, that look good. Ooh, what she showing? And that just the video of her now. We now I'mma tell you you had some stanky legs that probably stripped down to that thong and went to twerking on that camera. G Crede Lewis could have been getting all kind of activity, all kind of shows. And so he had a lot going on allegedly. And I'mma tell you what, I believe every bit of it. I believe every bit of it because this what I keep trying to tell y'all. When you open your mouth, you introduce spiritual warfare to your life. And everybody's spiritual warfare going to look different. And I go through mine. I go through mine. For me, it mine be more so mental. It don't really be a physical thing for me. It for me, it more so be mental. I be in my head. I be overthinking. And so for me, I have to just I got to find out like that that's why y'all going to see me on here talking even more. Like and when the devil go to try me, I say, "Okay. You want to try me? You want to try to get me in my head and all that? I'm finna put my foot on your neck. Punk. And I'mma be I'mma do a video every hour of the day. I'm finna go live. I'm finna be with the Purpose Pusher community doing the class every day. Since since you want to try me, I'm going to show you you can't you can't break me. I'm powered by God. And I take on the challenge. I take on the challenge and I get down with it. Like I'm not feeling to lay down. You're not feeling to have you're not feeling to punk me. And this and this is the thing is you can't introduce somebody else to your sin. Like if you weak beyond measure and you have to watch you some corn or you got to look at a nasty magazine or you looking at a open Buddha hole on Instagram, you'll be better off doing that where it's just between you and God. And you got to repent to God. But when you bring a third party into your sin and no I'm not condoning that. We just talking about the lesser of two evils. And we just being realistic because a lot of people expect everybody to be able to be perfect or everybody to have the strength that they need. Now everybody can have it because God will grant it if you ask him and that's what I do. Lord, grant me the strength. But everybody don't believe that they can be granted the strength. And this is where y'all boys go wrong. You invite a third party into your sin. So it's already you and God. God see everything you doing. Then you go and you invite a man, woman, or child into your sin. And that's when it's over for you. Cuz somebody going to tell. And the child might not tell while they a child, but they going to tell when they become an adult. I seen one boy on there and he you know, he was a gay he like and look like, but he was talking about his pastor and what his pastor used to do to him when he was a a teenager or a 12-year-old or something like that. I said, "Well, the pastor thought he got away." He didn't get no way. That boy That boy got old enough to tell his story, and so now you got to pay. And so that's the thing, it's like I got to pass. And it might be one day somebody come out and say, "Yeah, Tony Gaskins slept with me. Yeah, he slept with me at this point in time." By then, they might have their dates wrong. And that might they might be trying to say, "Oh, it was 2026." And I I I'll just let them have it, to be honest with you. I I'll go and tell them and say, "Child, that was 2002. You trying to be relevant." Cuz why your butt ain't Show Where Where Where your screenshots at then? Where your text messages at? Where all that at? Child, I was in college. Child, I was a hot mess. Child, you already in my book. I know I already wrote about you. I went on Oprah and talked about you. And so it's you just never know. But one thing I do know is we are graced. We are given grace. And so I never forget. Young lady, dealt with her. And was young and dumb. Felt like I shouldn't have dealt with her. And then after I changed my life and I got on she reached back She reached back out to me. "Hey, Tony. How you doing?" I was going somewhere for a speaking engagement, and she lived there. She was like, "I live in such and such." And I wrote her back. "Hey, thank you very much. Oh, okay, that's cool. Nice to know." What she was doing was trying to see if I was still the same person. She was trying to see if I was still the same person. She She wanted to see if I was the Tony of old who would flip and toss on a dime. And she wanted to see, okay, now he married, he faithful, he a speaker, he a teacher, he a leader. Let me see if he like every other man. And God illuminated it to me. He showed me. I got a coaching 2 minutes, y'all, so I got to go. And so I was able to sidestep that right there temptation. Like the Bible say, wherever there is temptation, there will be a way of escape. And so G. Craige Lewis went out there and got into that right there. Y'all forgive me, my wife is texting me. And And it came out And here's the thing, this what I try to tell y'all, too. The devil know the work that you're doing. So G. Craige Lewis had probably hundreds of thousands of people give up secular music. He probably had so many people stop going to concerts, give up secular music. And he probably put a little dent. It could have been 1%. 1% dent, which could turn into hundreds of millions of dollars. And he he could have cost the industry some money. And cost people some fans. And so you know what the devil say? I'm finna set him up. I'm finna hit him where he weak. And I'mma let him keep talking, keep building. I'mma let him get tens of thousands of Christians to believe in him and all of that. I'mma let him get to the mountain top, and then I'mma put my side 12 in his back. And I'mma kick him off the mountain top and let everybody watch him fall to his proverbial death. That's how Satan works. He wants you to get comfortable. He wants you to get complacent. He won't let you get caught. He won't expose you right away because he wants you to get complacent. He wants you to take God's grace for granted. And as soon as he know you're taking God's grace for granted, that's when he expose you. Or you think you didn't got away, that's when he expose you. So, and then you got to put things in into context. So, he did all this while he was a pastor. And like actively on, actively a pastor, actively him, actively that guy, people looking up to him. And that's when you got to pay a price. Had he did it like when he was in seminary school or before he became a pastor, before he, you know, the beginning first year of marriage or fatherhood and just young and dumb, people probably be like, oh, okay, all right. You know, it was a stupid mistake. Every man make the stupid mistake. It is what it is. And and just went from there. But the fact that he was on and he was of age and he was old enough and you know better and you're doing it, they probably like, no, can't have that now. But hey, God bless you. Let me see if my client pick up the phone. If so, I got to go. Y'all make sure get your free 7 days in the Purpose Pushers Community. The link in the description. Join us. We got a call tonight at 8:00 p.m. Q&A. Hop on on and we'll see you soon. God bless you. Talk soon.