Ep 1241 | The 'Charlie Effect' Spreads Across the Country
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1 hour and 13 minutes
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172.25116
Summary
Charlie Kirk was a Christian, a pastor, a husband, a father, a son, a brother, and a husband. He was killed for standing up for the Gospel, for his faith, and for speaking out against the abortion and gender equality movement. God is not a God who comes in to clean up the mess later, he is not distant, He is not busy. He is in the business of doing a million things, and those things don t always make headlines.
Transcript
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The response to Charlie Kirk's assassination has been absolutely monumental.
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We are going to go through that response today.
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But I am also going to give some clarity on who did this assassination, what we should
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And I'm going to respond to some of the truly heinous responses that I've seen from some
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And I hope this gives you the encouragement and the clarity that you need today.
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Without further ado, here is today's episode of Relatable.
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Hope everyone had a restful weekend, a peaceful weekend, a weekend hopefully being refreshed
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and rejuvenated by the Word of God with your family, resting at church.
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I just want to remind you, as I so often do, especially on Mondays, but especially right
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now, that God's eternal plan of redemption is going off without a hitch.
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He's not looking down, wondering what's going to happen next or how the last thing happened.
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He is not a God who comes in to clean up the mess later.
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When God seems to be doing one thing, He is doing a million things.
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But Romans 8, 28 reminds us that He works all things, all things together for the good
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of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
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He is doing all things for His glory and the good of those who love Him.
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And it is so like Satan to try to discourage, to try to demoralize, to try to destroy, to
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take such a bold and strong fighter out of the battle and hope to make the rest of us
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And it is so like God to stack the odds against Himself just to tear them down, to show up when
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it seems darkest, when it seems most desperate.
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God, who is in the business of redemption, who is in the business of thwarting Satan's
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plans, who is in the business of bringing people to Himself, that's what God is up to right
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And we as Christians have the glorious privilege to be a part of it.
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As His vessels of truth and bearers of the righteousness that Christ gave us, we have this
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incredible, gracious opportunity to be a part of this moment in which people are searching
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and they're hungry and they're wondering, is there something better?
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We have been entrusted to steward the answer to all of life's questions.
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It's because we know the creator of the heavens and the earth.
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And because He created all of it, as Genesis 1, 1 says, He is the authority over all of it.
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He gets to say what is and what isn't, what's right and what's wrong, what's good and what's
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bad, what a woman is, what she's not, and when life begins.
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And all of these things are answered in the very first chapter of the first book of the
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You just got to read 27 verses before you get the answer to so many questions that our
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And because of the clarity that Charlie showed, not just on the gospel, first and foremost,
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but on all of these issues that are not primarily political or cultural, they're primarily biblical,
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For the same reason that Christians have been killed for thousands and thousands of years.
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And, you know, some people are trying to comfort themselves right now by telling themselves that
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He was killed for saying the wrong things with the wrong tone.
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So that won't happen to me if I'm just winsome enough, if my tone is just nice enough, if I
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say things differently, if I don't wade into the abortion issue or the gender issue or the
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And you are a fool because you don't see that all of those things are first and foremost
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Now, did he have political opinions that I'm sure people were angry about?
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But as we will talk about more today, he was killed because he said what was true about
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He said what was true about the gospel, about the existence and exclusive salvation that is
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Our responsibility, as was Charlie's responsibility, just as every Christian's responsibility is,
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is to do the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God.
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If you've been here for a while, you know that that is in addition to an Elizabeth Elliot
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It's kind of a combination of two quotes that I love by Elizabeth Elliot.
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And what she would say is the only thing I have to do today is the will of God.
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I remember the first time I heard that stopped me in my tracks.
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It's the only thing you have to do today, Christian, is the will of God.
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And she would also say, just do the next right thing, which a lot of people have said.
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But I kind of combined those two ideas and added on to them to say, if you don't know what the
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will of God is in this moment, it's simply to do the next right thing, the next right thing in faith
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And right now, even amidst this fear, even amidst this understandable anxiety, don't stop.
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Have courage and discipline in your everyday life to do what is right, to say what is true.
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So I just want to say, before we get into the rest of our episode, thank you to the pastors
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Having to navigate not only these very difficult cultural moments, but also to shepherd your flock,
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which is filled with all different kinds of people with backgrounds, with viewpoints,
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and make sure that you're pointing all of them with utmost clarity and courage to the word of God.
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It's way more difficult than my job, and I do not envy the role of pastors, but I'm thankful for those
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Those who met this moment, who gave both their new and old attendees what they needed.
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A reminder of the strength and the salvation of Jesus Christ.
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Many pastors, many of you are telling me, unfortunately, did not meet the moment.
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They skirted the subjects, or they did something way worse.
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They made some kind of horrible equivalence between Charlie Kirk and George Floyd,
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Like, whether you agreed with him on X, Y, Z, who cares?
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He was a brother in Christ who died saying things, who was murdered saying things that are biblically true.
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Whether it was the gospel itself or the reality of Genesis 127, that is a martyr.
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And I'm sorry, but there is no indication that George Floyd was a Christian,
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still an image bearer of God who matters a lot, but not a martyr in any sense of the word.
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And this addiction to both sides and everything, to avoiding the real issue.
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It is exactly why people tune into podcasts instead of listening to their pastors,
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So many pastors just don't answer their questions.
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You've got all of these curious, anxious hearts walking into a church,
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and they're not looking for their pastor to be a newscaster or a podcaster.
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The pastor is to faithfully preach the word of God and to shepherd and care for their people well.
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But sometimes, sometimes part of that is meeting the moment.
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But when a pastor doesn't tell their congregants what the word of God says about the chaos of our day,
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then you have people walking out of there feeling no less anxious than they did when they walked in.
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Sometimes the moment calls for a response from scripture.
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But I just remember taking so much comfort in so many of his sermons from 2020, 2021.
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But there were times when he would maybe get out of what he was typically planning to talk about
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or get out of a certain book of the Bible that they had been in for years to specifically address that moment.
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Because he felt, it seemed to me, I don't attend his church, but he felt that that's what his congregation needed.
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And to me, to me, just a lay person, that seems to be an important part of being a shepherd.
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Before we get into the rest of this episode, we've got some really encouraging things to talk about.
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I've got some, what I think is a tough and necessary message for some professing Christians
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that they've put out there towards the end of this.
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But before we get into all of that, I just want to say a couple things about Share the Arrows.
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If you're new here, Share the Arrows is our Christian Women's Conference.
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We had 4,000 women show up down in Dallas, Texas.
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We have the most solid female Christian speakers, teachers, apologists teach these women about
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What it means, whether you are a stay-at-home mom, whether you are a student, whether you
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are a grandmother, whether you are an employee, an entrepreneur, whatever stage of life you're
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in, the teachers who are there are equipping you to be bold for Christ in every sphere.
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And I just, you know, I was tired of a lot of these Christian Women's Conferences that
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focus on feelings and focus on self-help and all of this fluff.
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And a lot of you who came last year, planning to go this year, have asked me, like, is it
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And we are going to balance boldness with prudence.
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And there is going, there was already going to be a ton of security, guys.
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But there's going to be, like, unreal levels of security.
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And it is going to be, I think, even more necessary than ever, because I don't know about
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I just really feel right now, like, I want to be gathered with believers.
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Like, I couldn't wait to go to church yesterday.
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I couldn't wait to worship with the body of Christ.
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And this is going to be, now this year, it's going to be 5,000.
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We'll see, like, you know, what God's will is in that.
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But we're talking thousands and thousands of women from all over the country, probably
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all over the world, that are going to be there, listening to teaching from the Word of God,
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being challenged, being encouraged, making lifelong friendships and worshiping together.
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Y'all, let me just tell you, the set list that Francesca Battistelli and I agreed upon
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before Charlie Kirk was assassinated, before any of the evil events of last week, like,
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But God knew not only what was going to happen, but God knew what we needed.
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Like, I would not change a single song that was chosen, that was agreed upon between Francesca
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and me, because I just know that's exactly, the Word's exactly what we need.
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I want you to walk out like our attendees did last year when one said, I walked out with zero
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So it's been five days, five days since Charlie Kirk was assassinated, and the country is not
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It has been five days since I got a text while I was driving that said Charlie Kirk has been
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And I immediately called Charlie's and my mutual friend to confirm if this was true.
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I knew this person would know, and the response between just like cries of disbelief was yes.
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I turned around, and I went home, and my husband and I went straight to our closet, and we prayed,
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and we cried, and we prayed, please, Lord, save Charlie.
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And then I got a text that he's alive, that he's got a pulse, that he might be stable.
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And then 30 minutes later, the words pop up on my screen, he's gone.
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It's been five days since I opened X, and I saw my friend get shot in the neck for saying
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Five days of riding waves of denial and sadness and anger, of praying every minute for his incredibly
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brave wife, Erica, and their precious, precious children.
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I was reminded when I was seeing all of these pictures of Erica, which just broke my heart.
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I was reminded of JFK when he was assassinated in 1963.
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And Jackie Kennedy, she reportedly stayed in her blood-soaked clothes, that pink Chanel suit
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that she was wearing, all day, and everyone in the hospital, all the people who were serving
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her, they asked her repeatedly if she wanted to change.
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And she answered them, I want them to see what they have done to Jack.
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And I was reminded of that when Erica posted a video of herself at Charlie's casket.
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Golly, I don't know if I've ever seen anything more tragic than this.
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So we see his hands, we hear her telling him that she loves him.
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And I saw some of the comments questioning this decision.
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But I think she wants the world to see and remember what was done to her husband, the
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father of her two young children, who will never, never be held by their father again.
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But it's been five days of seeing the most reprehensible people on earth, politicians,
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teachers, doctors, soldiers, professing Christians, celebrate this or stay silent or caveat their
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response to Charlie's murder by listing all of their disagreements or all of the things
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Um, and there are a few people in particular I'm going to talk to specifically, uh, who
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all call themselves Christians at the end, uh, of this episode.
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It's been five days of seeing God do what he does, bring people to himself, stack the odds
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I've seen Charlie's martyred blood water, the seeds of revival, and I've seen those seeds
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Charlie's unflinching boldness for the gospel is not for naught.
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It has already ignited so much faith, so much hope and fierceness for the truth.
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It's brought people to their knees, to the pews, into their Bibles, many for the first time,
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I received a message, I received a lot of messages like this, but let me just read you
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Someone sent to me, I wanted to share with you that because of Charlie, I read my Bible
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She said, all of Matthew and I'm getting baptized.
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There's been a massive change in the spiritual world and we can all feel it.
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And then I saw this picture, or this is a comment actually on my tribute to Charlie on YouTube.
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And this person says, I think this has convinced me to go to church.
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And then this other incredible comment on my tribute to Charlie, which it's on my page.
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You can go watch it or listen to it if you haven't already.
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This person said, my six-year-old son decided to follow Jesus last night because of our conversations
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I asked him when he thought he should pray to repent and ask Jesus to save him.
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She says, father, thank you for Charlie Kirk's legacy.
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And then I saw this very interesting tweet from someone who posted a screenshot of her
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She said, my friend isn't religious, was not a Charlie Kirk follower.
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Nothing that you tell me at this point will make me doubt that God is real.
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I dreamed about him last night, which is weird.
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And it felt like someone I was friends with was murdered.
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And she said, I'm reading that it's happening to a bunch of people.
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I'd be really interested to hear more stories of that, if that is the case for you.
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So all over, I'm seeing these kinds of messages.
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I mean, no doubt churches were fuller yesterday than they were the previous Sunday.
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I heard from so many of you that your pews were fuller, that there were spontaneous baptisms
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at your church, that people walked down to the altar and gave their lives to Christ,
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that you've had atheist, agnostic, seeking friends reach out to you, asking to come to church
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Look at what God allowed your life and death to accomplish.
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Look at how many people God is bringing to him because you were obedient.
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And so it's probably just better to stay off of Acts and stay off of TikTok so you don't
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But this very normal looking woman, which is why it's more disturbing, on TikTok, she
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was celebrating his death and she said, Charlie Kirk is not martyr material and very few people
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I just I'm just going to play you back to back these vigils for Charlie around the world.
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It'd probably take 30 minutes even just to play the clips.
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Watch just a few of these vigils for Charlie around the world.
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We've got Sydney, Australia, Boise, Idaho, New York City, Dallas Cowboys game.
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I mean, there were so many more that I don't even have time to play you.
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And we've got a lot of people around the world now who resonate with you, that they will
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put aside the differences so bad, that they will unite.
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I knew that he had a lot of followers and he had a huge appeal.
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But the people I am seeing globally in every sector of society speaking up, it's it's
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Country concerts you kind of think are more conservative.
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But I thought it was cool that Coldplay did this.
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And so, with that in mind, for the final time, for a few years in London, let's raise
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our hands like this and send love anywhere you want to send it in the world.
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And there are so many places that might need it today.
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You can send this to your brother or your sister.
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You can send it to the families of people who've been going through terrible stuff.
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You can send it to people you disagree with, but you send them love anyway.
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You can send it to peaceful people in the Middle East, in Ukraine, in Russia, in Azerbaijan,
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in Sudan, in Somalia, anywhere that you think might need love from London.
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Last night, there was a vigil at the Kennedy Center in D.C.
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All these people lined up, all of these people waiting to go in.
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We'll put it up of all these people in the Kennedy Center worshiping, honoring Charlie,
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And then watch this happening at the Kennedy Center.
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To follow Jesus, no turning back, no turning back.
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I also thought that this, posted by Andrew Colvett, was really cool.
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This pilot, they, like, I guess created, he flew in a way that created a cross and a C and a K,
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The pilot paid his own tribute to Kirk this morning.
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Around 6.30 a.m., a flight tracking software shows the pilot flew in this pattern near Phoenix,
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It's been amazing to see how much worship this has inspired.
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I personally have witnessed the body of Christ come together in incredible ways.
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The number of people who have reached out to me just because I was his friend and because
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I say the same things that Charlie did has been incredibly humbling.
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People I haven't talked to in years, people I had no idea were remotely political telling
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me that they feel like it's like they lost a family member.
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I mean, they've offered prayers and encouragement and support.
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And I just want to say, because I know a lot of you are worried about me.
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But I also want you to take heart that God is taking care of me and taking care of us through
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I had someone reach out to me last week that I had not talked to in 15 years.
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And he offered security for us this weekend as we traveled for a speaking engagement to
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But my husband and this guy stepped up and they ensured that we were totally and completely
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You always have security, but even more than usual, every step of the way.
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And because of that, I was able to give everyone at that banquet the courage they needed.
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And I will share some of what I told them on Wednesday.
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Wednesday's episode is going to be super, super important, our theology episode, that
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the people in the audience on Friday, they were affected by the death of this person they
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They applauded and cheered as soon as I said Charlie's name.
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The sadness in that room, the need for courage, for hope was just palpable.
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You could have heard a pin drop for the entire 45 minutes of my speech.
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I just could feel the Holy Spirit who wanted these people to hear words of courage.
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There are so many tributes to Charlie, so many people sharing videos of him, sharing
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Your relationship with Christ is real and truer when you understand the stakes of the damn
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Is it Jesus loves you or is that God condemns you?
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So there's so much more in that clip that I didn't have time to play where he explains
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just the fullness of the gospel and what God is saving us from and to in Christ.
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Turning Point has seen an unbelievable surge in numbers.
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They have received over 32,000 chapter requests since Charlie's death.
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32,000 individuals from thousands of high schools and colleges have reached out to start a
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Um, I saw this left-wing outlet that said that Charlie Kirk's not going to become a martyr
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And while it's true that we're not all going to be crying the same amount in a couple weeks,
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besides, of course, his family and those who knew him very, very well, this misunderstands
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Um, every avalanche has a trigger, a skier, wind, a sudden shift in temperature.
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But after it starts, it's no longer the trigger that keeps it going.
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The snow, the slope, the perfect storm of factors that make an avalanche unstoppable.
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The trigger for the avalanche this time was Charlie's assassination.
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But even after we've shed all of our tears, the momentum will continue to accelerate.
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And I think Erica Kirk, Charlie's wife, made that really clear.
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She gave a very brave, very moving speech on Turning Point's YouTube channel.
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And she clarified that Turning Point is not going anywhere.
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Charlie, I promise I will never let your legacy die, baby.
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I promise I'll make Turning Point USA the biggest thing that this nation has ever seen.
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Rest in the arms of our Lord as he blankets you with the words, I know your heart always strives to hear.
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Ma'am, now if you're a progressive, you might scoff at that.
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But if you're smart, you might be a bit worried.
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Someone from your side, yes, every shred of evidence we have, that is the case, killed the most admired and best liked and most congenial and peaceable, agreeable person on the right.
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The person leading the way and trying to turn down the temperature with discussion and debate.
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I mean, Charlie was in so many ways the force that held back some of the worst people.
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And now you've got people who are having a different kind of discussion.
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They're having a different kind of suggestion for how we move forward.
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Stephen Miller is very good friends with Charlie Kirk.
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I think Stephen Miller is, like, the best at things like this, at just communicating the toughness that is necessary for perilous moments like this.
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And this, I'm not including him in extreme voices.
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I'm just letting you know that there is a conversation now that is very different than the one that was happening a week ago publicly.
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The last message that Charlie Kirk gave to me before he joined his creator in heaven was he said that we have to dismantle and take on the radical left organizations in this country that are fomenting violence.
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That was the last message that he sent me before that assassin stole him from all of us.
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And we are going to do that under President Trump's leadership.
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It could be a RICO charge, a conspiracy charge, conspiracy against the United States, insurrection.
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But we are going to do what it takes to dismantle the organizations and the entities that are fomenting riots, that are doxing, that are trying to inspire terrorism, that are committing acts of wanton violence.
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And my message is to all of the domestic terrorists in this country spreading this evil hate, you want us to live in fear?
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We will not live in fear, but you will live in exile.
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I'm just letting you know where we are, that these hotbeds of radicalization, Reddit, Discord, Tumblr, like they're going to be under intense scrutiny.
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Michael Knowles had a great post about the tightening guardrails of the marketplace of ideas, because in order to have liberty, you have to have order.
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That'll be up to policy wonks that are more learned on this than I am.
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And it'd be one thing if it was just a guy, if it was just one person.
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But I mean, just a couple days after Charlie Kirk was murdered, we have a Democratic congresswoman who is slandering him, calling him a racist.
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Charlie was someone who was willing to debate and downplay the death of George Floyd in the hands of Minneapolis police.
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Downplay slavery and what black people have gone through in this country.
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She goes on to call him all kinds of ists and phobes and names and all of that.
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Widowed after two kids are now going to grow up fatherless because someone who follows your same ideology shot him, killed him?
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I think people like her should be kept far as far away from power and influence as possible.
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I think people like that are dangerous, wicked people.
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There's a lot of people who disagree, but because they celebrate and you could say she's not celebrating there.
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But that is, I think, equivalent to excusing what happened to him.
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But let me lodge against them the worst possible insults to foment the same kind of hate that motivated his death.
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I just want to say that there have been some really strong statements.
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I thought Bernie Sanders put out a really strong statement better than a lot of pastors I saw, better than a lot of professing Christians.
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Gavin Newsom, it's hard for me to say, but he had a pretty strong statement.
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It doesn't mean I think that they're good people, but I respect their ability to put out strong condemnations of violence and extend sympathy to a family.
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A conservative on X is making an ongoing list of people who have unapologetically celebrated publicly Charlie Kirk's death.
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She has first names, last names, where they work.
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And they put their name on celebrating on TikTok, on social media, the death of this person and saying he deserved it.
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We're not just talking about people who disagreed with him.
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OK, most of these people on this list, teachers, professors, therapists and nurses.
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There's a whole analysis that we could give of that.
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But a lot of these people are now posting that they lost their jobs.
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Like if you are my employee, you're representing me, you're representing my business, you're representing my hospital and you have now hurt my reputation.
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And plus, I don't think that if you have that character that you should be around vulnerable people, that you should be around children.
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It's about saying you have proven that you do not have the character and ability to carry out this job so you can't do it anymore.
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And there have been, for example, Clemson University who have given very weak statements, have not fired the people that they should fire.
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And we should raise a respectful ruckus for that.
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And we should put respectful and peaceful pressure on those institutions to do the right thing.
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It should be socially unacceptable to celebrate the assassination of someone, of anyone, but someone just because you disagreed with him, because he said true things that hurt your feelings, you're going to celebrate a father of two being murdered publicly?
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No, no, there have to be a social consequences for that, period.
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And you see some of these videos and these horrid reactions and you think, okay, like, this is what I was saying yesterday.
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Like Noah's Ark, that whole thing that people are like, oh, how could God do that?
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Like the death of human depravity is jaw dropping.
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And how merciful is God actually to have wiped wicked people off the planet and then preserve Noah and his family and all of those animals?
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It was a lie, by the way, when you heard from the Biden administration that violence in this country is mostly because of white supremacists.
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Like, if that were the case, don't you think you'd hear about it?
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Whether it is the assault on pregnancy centers that happened after the Dobbs decision, whether it is the baseball field shooting of Steve Scalise,
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who shot and tried and almost killed Steve Scalise because of this left wing radical's beliefs about health care and what he thought about Republicans.
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The Covenant Christian school shooting, Annunciation, Catholic church shooting in Minnesota, Trump's attempted assassination, now the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
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In fact, a lot of these were by people who identified as transgender or in the case of Charlie's murder, was living with this romantic partner who called themselves trans, which, by the way, is confirmed.
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It was confirmed by Governor Spencer Cox of Utah via the FBI.
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His roommate was indeed a boyfriend who is transitioning from from male to female.
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That's that's information that the FBI had had mentioned yesterday.
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We can confirm that as well and that that that he is cooperating with with authorities as well.
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I just need to pause from going off on my rant and just talk about who this person was.
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I'm not going to say this person's name, but I want to dispel rumors here that this murderer was a Trump loving conservative.
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By the way, if he was a Trump loving conservative, I would have no problem condemning him, no problem condemning this violence just as fiercely as I am now, knowing that he is a left wing radical.
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The fact of the matter is he wasn't a conservative.
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He was raised by Republicans, apparently not hard to believe, considering the father did the noble thing of turning him in after seeing these pictures of the suspect.
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But according to The Guardian, according to CNN, according to The New York Times, he has no voting history.
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He said that Charlie Kirk was, quote, full of hate and spreading hate.
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This is now documented to far left Antifa online communities on Discord and Reddit.
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On his bulletin cases were things like, hey, fascist catch and Bella Chow, which are both mottos of anti-fascist groups online.
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Utah Governor Spencer Cox acknowledged that in the investigation, they have found that he was deeply indoctrinated with left wing ideology.
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And no doubt, living with someone who is transitioning, who has the wrong hormones being pumped into their body, played a part in this.
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Like, Charlie was shot right as he was answering a question about transviolence.
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And I just want to pause for a second and remind you that every time you use someone's preferred pronouns that don't match their biology,
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you are affirming and accelerating the gender ideology that is responsible for this violent and murderous insanity.
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The social affirmation, which leads to cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers and surgeries, are psychosis-inducing and demonic and leading to violence among this population.
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This is inherent in transgender activism and ideology.
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And because this is what Charlie was talking about when he was shot in the throat, pray for me.
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It's not possible to identify as anything other than what you biologically are.
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Because that is just as much a biblical reality as it is a biological one.
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And if you are too scared to say that clearly and publicly, then it's not politics you're ashamed of.
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You know, when people say that Charlie wasn't a martyr, he was just MAGA.
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That's not the same thing as dying for your Christian faith.
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I talked to his innermost circle this week who said he had been studying the Bible so fervently,
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especially for the past six months to get ready for this college tour, because that's what he wanted to do.
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He always told people about Jesus's love everywhere he went.
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Thank you guys for a respectful conversation, even though we see things very differently.
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And if you're engaged in the creation of that content, I think God has a better plan for you.
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I know that might sound preachy and not what you want to hear, but maybe you'll have an encounter with God,
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and Jesus loves all of you, and he can transform your life.
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And every day is a new day, and it's a hopeful, beautiful life ahead of you.
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I mean, you've definitely been the most respectful one that I've seen.
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It might sound cliche, but Jesus has gone to work on my life.
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I mean, how many of us, how many of his critics out there would have been that bold and that loving and that gentle?
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I'm, you know, I've avoided talking about Sharon says so for a while.
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And it's very obvious in how she talks, what she says, what she doesn't say.
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She says something, and then when she gets criticism for it, she says that she is then getting, like, the threats.
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And so that shuts down the rest of her criticism.
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Do not send a disrespectful or a mean message or comment to anyone.
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Don't ever be disrespectful or rude or threatening in any way.
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But that is also not a reason to shut down fair criticism, okay?
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She decided just two days after Charlie Kirk was murdered that she was going to list all of his most controversial quotes without context to clearly make the point that Charlie was a racist and to try to justify people who are like, oh, I can't honor Charlie Kirk because he was a racist and he said all of these things.
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And so she went through all these things that he apparently said, okay?
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And then it's, I've seen many comments to the effect of, Charlie was so kind to everyone.
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But then she said, but if you're black or LGBTQ or Muslim, Charlie Kirk was not a person who engaged in good faith.
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Here are some of his direct quotes, which I took the time to watch or read in full so as to understand them in context.
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So you don't need to watch them or understand them in context.
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If I see a black pilot, I'm going to be like, boy, I hope he's qualified.
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She says this casts suspicion on all black professionals.
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She quotes him saying if I'm dealing with somebody in customer service who's a moronic black woman, I wonder, is she there because of her excellence or is she there because of affirmative action?
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She also quotes him saying Islam is not compatible with Western civilization.
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Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.
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Okay, so these are the kinds of quotes that she uses to say that Charlie Kirk is a mean, bad racist and that that is why people cannot just honor him in death or just give condolences.
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Okay, so Julie Borowski, she took the time on X to put all of these quotes in context.
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And I just want to I'm not going to read them all in full to you.
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I will link this Twitter thread in the description of this episode, but I will do the best I can.
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Don't take it from me because this this is not called Ali says so.
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I hope that I'm a springboard for you, but go go watch all of his shows.
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But she did not give the context that is necessary.
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And this is so disgusting and dishonorable to a man who was just assassinated for saying what is true.
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So a lot of people also have quoted Second Amendment thing where he said, I think it's worth to have a cost of unfortunately some gun deaths.
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I don't think Sharon says so said this, but he said some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our God given rights.
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He says the Second Amendment is not about hunting.
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The Second Amendment is not about personal defense.
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It is about so you can defend yourself against a tyrannical government.
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If you think that that's radical, then read any of the literature of our founding fathers and the 20th century.
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Having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that is part of liberty.
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If you get rid of driving, you would have 50,000 fewer auto fatalities.
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But we as a society have decided that the benefit of driving, speed, accessibility, mobility is worth the cost of having 50,000 people dying on the road.
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Because we have armed guards outside of baseball games.
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He's not saying that he wants people to be shot.
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Every bit of liberty comes with a risk and comes with a cost.
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And I just want to say, by the way, and this, again, is outside of Sharon Says So, but if you are calling him a – he can't be a fascist and a Second Amendment advocate.
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Because fascists advocate for disarming the populace and making sure only the government has guns.
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People are also pointing out this empathy quote where he said, I can't stand the word empathy.
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He said, if I see a black pilot, I'm going to be like, boy, I hope he's qualified.
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Andrew Colvett says, but you wouldn't have said that before.
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And he said to Megyn Kelly, I was trying to be very vulnerable with the audience.
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That DEI invites this very unwholesome thinking.
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But DEI makes us the worst versions of ourselves.
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The point of what I'm trying to say is that now I look at everything through a hyper-racialized
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diversity quota lens because of their massive insistence to try to hit those ridiculous
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Of course, I believe anybody of any skin color can become a qualified pilot.
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When you have something like United Airlines saying we have to have 50% of all of our pilots
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be people of color and women, and you know that at best you've got 20% in all pilot schools
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that are women and people of color, you're kind of like, okay, the math is not, the math
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Now, when he talks about moronic black women, I'm sure he's also talked about moronic white
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Maybe you don't like what he said, but he's not saying all black people are dumb.
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He loved all people, but he was against affirmative action.
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He was against anything that was not merit-based.
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And some people, regardless of their skin color, are moronic.
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Like when he was talking about Joy Reid and Kamala Harris, like they have said some very
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Like he didn't say they're not made in the image of God and they shouldn't have rights,
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but he's saying they probably shouldn't be where they are because they didn't actually
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When he talks about Islam not being compatible on the whole with Western civilization, I
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The greatest terrorist attack on our nation was perpetrated by Islamists.
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He would say that all the time, but Islam inherently is violent-based.
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The American system was based originally on Christianity.
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The first major war America waged was against Muslims, the first Barbary War.
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Those Americans understood the future of Western civilization.
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They understood that it depended upon protecting their people from Islam.
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That is not a radical belief that has been known for a very long time.
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And you know, whether or not you agree with what he said, whether or not you think he's
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he had the right tone or the nice words, whatever, picking apart and decontextualizing everything
00:54:16.480
that someone said that you find offensive two days after they die is disgusting.
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It is an invitation for Charlie's dissenters to justify their callousness towards his assassination.
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I would never do that to my political enemies, period.
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Here's what I said when Ruth Bader Ginsburg was in the hospital in 2018.
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Serious respect for her toughness and praying for her recovery.
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So not difficult that even the person that all of these people think is so evil and so
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callous, like he gave a better and more respectful response to Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death than
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And I promise you, they were just as much enemies as you are, as liberals are with Charlie
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I just, you're telling me now for the first time.
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She was an amazing woman, whether you agreed or not, she was an amazing woman who led an
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I promise you, I disagree with RBG just as fiercely as progressive disagree with Charlie
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I think her ideas were deeply harmful, caused violence and death against babies in the womb.
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It is so not hard to be a decent person when someone passes.
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But unfortunately, some people just cannot muster that strength.
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Emmanuel Akko, he hosted that Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man.
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And I think he perpetuated all kinds of insanity, especially during 2020.
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Well, he has something to say a couple of days after Charlie Kirk was assassinated.
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Refer to Asian individuals by the C word, a word too violent for me to even utter.
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Refer to Michelle Obama and Ketanji Brown Jackson of the Supreme Court, both Harvard graduates,
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as not having the brain processing power to be taken seriously.
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Suggested that if seeing a Black pilot, would assume they were a DEI hire.
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To my white brothers and sisters, I'm genuinely asking, how would you like your minority friends
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Not to his death, but to the celebration of his life.
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Okay, can I just correct something for a second?
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So he plays this video of Charlie Kirk saying, I can't even say it because I'm like, now someone's
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going to like clip this out and they're going to say me saying it.
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That is someone's name that he is talking to in the audience.
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He is not saying a derogatory term for Chinese people.
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Okay, I think that's how you pronounce his last name.
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He is a left-wing guy from the Young Turks who has actually had like a pretty decent
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Emmanuel Laco, okay, you have no place to talk about what Christians should or shouldn't
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You have propelled the lies of white supremacy and white privilege.
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You have talked about the murder of babies in the womb like it's some nuanced, complicated
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issue, refusing to stand up for babies' right not to be murdered.
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And I just, I want you to ask yourself, I want you to ask yourself, before you go after
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a man days after he was assassinated, have you lived above reproach?
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Can you honestly say that you live in a way, in private and in public, that people after
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But I'm just saying, do you want your sins, real or perceived, to be aired out on social
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I, someone who thinks that what you have propagated over the past few years actually is dangerous
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because it affects policy that damages society, I would never do that to you.
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We went back and forth on Instagram after I said something about this video.
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Christ can give him the grace that he needs, but I was not about to do a kumbaya.
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Like, you don't need forgiveness from me on that, but I'm not going to back down on that.
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It was an awful thing to do, especially at this time.
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But he's gotten into a lot of arguments with conservatives, including me, over things like
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We don't see eye to eye on quite a few things, and I don't like how he has talked about many
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So I was not at all surprised by his statement.
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Many of you were, though, which is why you sent it to me.
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Zero desire to decontextualize anything he has to say.
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He said, since hearing the murder of Charlie Kirk and seeing such unjustifiable graphic
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He said he wasn't a fan or follower of Charlie.
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He said that he respects his humanity and right to dialogue, but he says, my critique
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I found Charlie's verbal attacks on black men, women, and their achievement reprehensible
01:01:35.200
His derogatory words were a form of violence and dehumanization.
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He routinely amplified stereotypes and platformed prejudice, giving license to masses with similar
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He did this while routinely proclaiming the name of Jesus.
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Charlie's record is reminiscent of an American Christianity that proclaimed freedom and hope
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in Christ while clamping fetters of iron, law and tradition, and practice on black Americans.
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Okay, so akin to people who own slaves, it is what abolitionist Frederick Douglass described
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when he lamented the distinction between Christianity of Christ and the Christianity of the land.
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Now he says, empathy compels me to understand the emotional outpouring of the millions who
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identified with his conviction, saw him as a son, brother, leader, and friend.
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I mourn with him, yet a faithful, honest recollection of his word cannot deny his errors,
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and their harmful impact, not only on fellow image bearers and their families, including
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I believe that he believes all of these things.
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And obviously he said some things that are true, but let me just be honest.
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I find this statement absolutely vile, cruel, callous, dehumanizing.
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Behind all of that nuance, there is such truly, I believe, an ugliness here that is really wicked.
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Number one, Charlie's words were violence, he says.
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Let us take that statement to its logical conclusion.
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If words are literally violence, are forms of violence, then killing someone for what they
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And, like, I just want you to know that this line of thinking is exactly what got Charlie
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That is very likely exactly what the person who murdered Charlie believed, that Charlie's
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belief in, for example, the existence of male and female was so radical that it amounted
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I see this all over from transgender activists, that people denying the ability to transition
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genders is the same as saying that trans people should all be murdered, so they're fighting
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Ben is, like them, whether he realizes it or not, saying words are violence.
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But this time, it's Charlie's words about race and DEI.
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If words and opinions are violence, Ben, then you are laying the groundwork for justifying
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an out-and-out civil war, something I know you and I both don't want.
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You have just added to the foundational justification for Charlie Kirk's assassination by saying that
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I still don't think it's a good time to do that.
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But instead, you said that his words were violence.
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If you listen to him as a whole, if you listen to him in context, you will see that he had
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But he did have a problem with how our system works when it comes to race.
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And that is a belief that millions and millions of completely non-hateful Americans hold.
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You lodged these insults at a dead man for his widow and his children to read one day.
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Number three, even if all of that were true, what Ben said, it is not the time.
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But to add them to commentary two days after a husband and father and brother in Christ dies, why?
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Number four, this is really important for us to remember.
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Really important for all of us to remember, okay?
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You have said your fair share of things that people may find rude, offensive, and untrue.
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Ben, if, God forbid, you are giving a speech, eloquently defending the dignity of unborn life like I've seen you do,
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and some left-wing, degenerate, evil, demonic person attacks you,
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leaving your wife widowed and your children without their daddy,
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What kind of pulse would you want your wife and your children to see one day?
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I would point to all the wonderful, true things that you've said about life and the gospel.
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I would think about what a huge loss is being felt by the people who love you,
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and I would do what I could to honor you and honor them.
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What I would not do, Ben, is bring up all of the times we've disagreed.
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I would not bring up the time that you made fun of a fellow Christian and pro-lifer Virgil Walker
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because you didn't like something he said about Charlie Dates.
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I wouldn't bring up the time you told me that I am idolatrous because I called Barack Obama evil
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Let me remind you that you have been in bad form many times on social media over the past five years.
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You have said things that are not becoming for a Christian.
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Your support of certain ideas and justice policies, I believe, are actually very damaging for society.
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Yet if you died, I would say nothing about any of those things.
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Because as wrong as I think you are, as much as I think you have lacked in some ways self-control in online debates,
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you are a person, presumably a brother in Christ,
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and you have a wife who adores you and children who admire you and people who love you,
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and they don't need to see accusations against your character right after you die because it helps nothing.
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If it had happened to you, Charlie would have come to your complete defense,
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defended your honor, reached out to your family to see what he could do.
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He would have highlighted that you and him shared the passion for the dignity of the unborn.
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He would have kept no account of your wrongs nor held them against you.
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But that's because Charlie was a really kind person, and he was filled with the Holy Spirit.
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And Ben, I don't know if you realize how much Charlie actually did for the unborn.
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I'm in a group text with Charlie and all these other pro-lifers,
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and during the election and during the first days of the administration,
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like we would advocate to Charlie, we'd be like, please tell Trump this.
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Make sure that this person is there in front of them.
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And y'all, that was one of Charlie's top priorities,
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to push and push and push the campaign and the administration toward life.
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Now, he was only one person, and Trump has a mind of his own.
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And so he did everything that he could to champion the cause of the unborn to this administration.
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So even if you took issue with the other things that he said,
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like, can we not just take a moment, I mean, maybe a week,
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to show him the dignity and the respect that he deserves as a brother of Christ
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Man, I was so—I wasn't surprised, but man, I was so disappointed in that.
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I know maybe some of you thought that it was fine.
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And I mean, I thought that it was absolutely vile, timing, horrible, horrible,
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I think that we should all be saying something,
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but, you know, some people who didn't have an opinion on it
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To call someone without citation, without evidence, a racist.
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And the mom has to stay on a work trip with Jesus days after that?
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There are so many videos I could play of people,
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All of these things from people who look all different kinds of ways,
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messages Charlie sent, opportunities he gave them.
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And Charlie did not care about the color of someone's skin.
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he fought really hard against some people on the fringes who believe that there
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is some DNA inherent difference between black and white people.
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And Charlie fought against that because he believed so strongly that all people
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but everyone should have to work the same amount for the opportunities that they get.
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Erica said in her speech that his favorite word was earn.
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and then I'll just play you this tribute that I found touching from actually the
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there are very few universities that are carrying on this legacy that not only
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but the founders carried on of critical thinking of civil debate of really
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understanding the constitution and our founding and how Christianity was
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Great place to start for your family to learn more about what this country is
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He actually played a big role in how I thought about politics and how I put
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It was probably like 2020 and I found him and I really just loved what he was
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I think her finding him helped her develop that sense of confidence.
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and we're going to be looking in scripture to see how we should be thinking,
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how we should be feeling and how we move forward.
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and so I'll see you guys back here then have a great rest of your week.