The pastor of a church in South Carolina is passionately defending the purchase of $200,000-plus Lamborghini for his wife, saying “not a nickel, not a penny” of donated money financed the fancy ride.

Pastor John Gray of the Relentless Church in Greenville defended buying the extravagant ride for his wife and fellow preacher, Aventer Gray, in an emotional 23-minute video posted last week after he was criticized for the eight-year wedding anniversary gift.

“First of it all, it wasn’t a pastor that bought the car,” Gray said in the video before removing the hood of his sweatshirt. “It was a husband that bought the car. Get that in your spirit, I’m a husband first — don’t confuse what I do with who I am. What I do is I pastor God’s people. Who I am is a husband and a father and I’ll do anything to honor them and I won’t ask permission from anybody to do it. No man should.”

Gray, who said he began preaching in 1994, said his father, uncles and cousins never “did right” by their wives, prompting him to pamper his wife with an elegant ceremony on Dec. 8 and the fancy imported SUV, which starts out at $200,000 and has a top speed of 190 mph. Gray’s wife is also recovering from having her thyroid removed, he said.

“I feel the weight of an entire family on me, so when I think about what my wife has sacrificed for me — she gave me two kids, she’s gone through a thyroidectomy, they had precancerous cells on there — people don’t know what we’ve gone through,” Gray said. “So it’s nothing to me to bless her.”

Gray emphatically denied that any church funds were used to buy the Lamborghini, saying it was instead financed on the success of his reality show on the Oprah Winfrey Network, “The Book of John Gray,” as well as his second book. Gray also has “other streams” of income and has been smart with his savings and investments, he said.

“I have created and been patient my whole life for this moment — I’m 45,” Gray continued. “I’m supposed to wait until I’m 70 to live my best life? And my best life is seeing my wife happy. It’s not like I’m sitting up trying to do something for me. I want my wife to be happy and every man should be able to do whatever is in his ability to do.”

Gray, who previously served as the associate pastor at Lakewood Church in Houston alongside preacher Joel Osteen, also thanked his wife for pushing him to achieve his dreams and said the SUV was merely a way of paying her back.

“I’ve covered her; she’s covered me,” Gray said. “But the truth is, I have a pure heart — my heart is pure but everybody doesn’t have a pure heart and they don’t care anyway because there are some people who are committed to misunderstanding you.”

Gray insisted that the criticism he’s received is unfair since he bought the SUV. He also said he took pride in knowing that he made his wife’s dreams come true with the SUV that goes from zero to 62 mph in less than 4 seconds.

“So I don’t really care what you think,” Gray said.