00:00:00.000Today on the Charlie Kirk show, Lance Wildnow, we talk about how churches are not stepping up and fighting right now and what we can do about it and the crisis in Christianity.
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00:01:44.000Because, you know, I think that the evangelical and perhaps even the pro-life community is realizing that as they were becoming awakened in Trump's populist movement, to what he represents, that there's actually another religion that they're running into.
00:02:02.000And it's become, and we didn't realize it, but the entire Black Lives Matter Corporation thing, the kneeling and the sports events, this is all religious symbiology that is closing in on the traditional Christian world.
00:02:18.000And we used to just like want a separation of church and state.
00:02:20.000That's what we would always hear when we would start preaching.
00:02:23.000We'd be told separation of church and state.
00:02:25.000Well, the state has now separated itself from boundaries and is assimilating the church.
00:02:31.000And the idea of separation of church and state, not even in our founding documents, written in a singular letter by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Convention, and also was an incorrect ruling by Hugo Black, a former KKK member.
00:02:46.000Can you talk about how, if we are even to take that at face value, how about we keep the state out of the church?
00:02:53.000And, you know, what was really telling for me was if you remember the conversation with Donald Trump, it really was the breakout moment when Donald Trump met with the evangelical community up at a Marriott Hotel in New York.
00:03:04.000It was fascinating to me that one of the first things that Donald Trump opened up with was repealing the Johnson Amendment so that you're free to be able to speak freely in your pulpits about whatever you want.
00:03:17.000And what was amazing is he paused thinking there would be this thunderous applause, and there was none.
00:03:22.000It was like in the old show Laugh In, where, you know, the joke was one person would applaud in the audience.
00:03:28.000And I sat there stunned because he's taking in the fact that, oh, evidently that's the pastors don't want to have that responsibility to have an opinion.
00:03:36.000They were hiding behind that theoretic separation issue.
00:03:40.000So he moved on to, he moves on to, well, what about they're going to take away your guns?
00:03:59.000And I do have to say, I have had the blessing of getting to know some phenomenal pastors through this entire process, but they're very, they're very few of them.
00:04:08.000Rob McCoy, Jack Hibbs, James Cadiz, Ken Graves.
00:04:13.000You know, we're networking with them as best as we can.
00:04:16.000But there's far too many Christians that are like, well, it's the Johnson Amendment.
00:05:30.000And they submit under a sloppy and I think incorrect theological reading of Romans 13, where in Romans 13, it says submit to all people and rulers of authority.
00:05:40.000What is not mentioned, though, is that in a constitutional republic, we're in charge.
00:06:13.000And then we're finding the waffling weakness that's in Republican legislators because they have no knowledge that the evangelical pro-life people that are making up 35 to 40% of their constituency actually want them to stand up and represent them because we haven't let our voice be heard.
00:06:28.000They're just discovering, oh, we exist locally as well.
00:06:34.000And the thing that bothers me, there's so many directions I want to take this, but let's just stay focused on kind of the Christian kind of aspect of this are these pastors, in particular, people like Andy Stanley and John Piper and the guy from New York, Tim Keller, who have been so, they all have their different flavors of handling this.
00:06:54.000John Piper went as far to say that he couldn't find a moral choice in this election.
00:07:53.000And Andy still hasn't committed to when he'll reopen his church.
00:07:56.000But imagine if Andy Stanley in Georgia, a state that as of the results are right now, if we're to accept all this nonsense and this fraud, continues, Trump did not win.
00:08:53.000You have to put your arms around people.
00:08:54.000They're kind of like, I can now kind of be a YouTube star.
00:08:57.000And we were never called to have a YouTube channel as a church.
00:09:03.000Epidemiologically, there's no reason for the church to be closed.
00:09:06.000As a matter of fact, it violates one verse these guys ought to be on, which is neglect not the assembling of yourselves together.
00:09:14.000The Christian community actually increases its power by its proximity to each other and gathering.
00:09:21.000And it could be argued that as long as they could find Zoom and web alternatives and people continue to give their offerings, they now can actually pair back on staff, building expenses, and their cash flow positive with less work.
00:09:36.000However, what they've done is they've forfeited their spiritual authority to lead the body of Christ.
00:09:41.000And I think a backlash is going to come and they're all going to pay a price.
00:09:49.000What bothers me, in addition to all that, is their apolitical nature as well.
00:09:54.000A lot of them have, they've said that the church doesn't, should not get involved in politics, that it's dirty for the church to get involved in the civic arena.
00:10:03.000And now you start to see the consequences of that.
00:10:06.000And these pastors are going to have to be held accountable.
00:10:14.000Yeah, so historically, you want to ask the question and say, so if you were alive during Lincoln's second election, which is probably the only thing I can think of that is like this Trump reelection, the nation, literally, its future, its cohesion will be determined by who's in the executive office.
00:10:31.000Would they have said that it's wrong in the North to be involved with politics when politics involved the abolition of slavery?
00:10:41.000To be congruent, they'd have to say, no, we would not be.
00:10:44.000By the way, there's an interesting thesis I read, which was from a PhD project on what was preached during the Civil War.
00:10:50.000In the South, pulpits preached about the tyranny of the North and the state's rights of churches not to be ruled by the federal government in Lincoln.
00:11:00.000In the North, they preached about the abolition of slavery.
00:11:04.000In the border states, they preached stay out of politics And focus on the kingdom of God, which tells you every one of these churches is a border state church.
00:11:17.000I mean, I'm telling you, I won't name any places, but I've been invited to some of these folks, and they'll tell me they always get nervous before they have me speak because they check me out a little more closely.
00:11:26.000And then they find out how incendiary I am in my broadcast.
00:11:31.000By the way, a lot of our people are really not, not everyone here is strong on Donald Trump.
00:11:36.000So if you could tone it down, I'm thinking, what are you telling me right now?
00:11:40.000You're telling me that you haven't been clear and congruent enough on the values issues, that your own people are aligned with how to vote values, that I can't even bring up Donald Trump, which by extension is the sanctity of marriage and the sanctity of life and the protection of your business and your right to protect.
00:11:57.000You haven't actually convinced your people that those are issues.
00:12:01.000They're telling me an awful lot when they get nervous when I come in.
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00:13:35.000We were talking about how a lot of these churches have decided not to engage in the civic arena.
00:13:43.000Some people say that it is not biblical.
00:13:46.000Can you make the biblical argument for why churches should be involved in politics?
00:13:51.000Yes, because the church is to be involved with all of life.
00:13:54.000Jesus said, go into all the world and preach the gospel.
00:13:57.000Make disciples of nations, not just of people groups.
00:14:01.000The church's mandate is actually to be a culture shaping influence.
00:14:07.000And if the only thing that you can address is how to have success in life and peace with God so that you can go to heaven when you die, you're only preaching one part of the gospel.
00:14:18.000If you had the apostolic generation, the centuries of martyrs, the reformers, listening to the definition of church by modern pastors, they would say it's an alien gospel.
00:14:30.000They weren't burned alive because they weren't upsetting people.
00:14:34.000They were burned alive and they were persecuted because they dared to take the message of the gospel into spheres that challenged the ruling elites of their day.
00:14:44.000And so today you have the same compromise in the face of ruling elites, where we have a lack of courage and conviction regarding our obligation to actually be salt and light in media, in law, in journalism, in academia, in government, in courts.
00:15:00.000Tell me an area where the gospel doesn't go, and I'll show you an area where the devil will go, and he will dictate terms so that the gospel gets shut down.
00:15:10.000And I want to build out that even further because Jesus at Caesarea Philippi said, on this rock, build my.
00:15:19.000And now the word we use is church, but there's a lot more nuance to that.
00:15:22.000It was ecclesia, which when Tyndale actually translated the Bible from Koigne Greek to English, the first to really go onto that journey to do so.
00:15:35.000There was actually people that said, wait a second, ecclesia?
00:15:38.000That's something a lot different than just a hierarchy of a Catholic church that might be headquartered in Rome.
00:15:43.000And there's a lot of Catholics that listen to my program.
00:15:45.000And, you know, I totally respect them.
00:15:47.000And this is not an anti-Catholic thing.
00:15:48.000I just have a theological complete disagreement with them in the sense that an ecclesia was actually a political gathering.
00:15:56.000It was a secular political gathering in Greece where they united around two Greek terms, eleutheria and isonomia, what are the Greek terms for freedom and equality.
00:16:05.000It was kind of like a city council meeting.
00:16:07.000That's what an ecclesia was, which is super interesting.
00:16:10.000And I know I want to just finish this because he didn't use the Greek term for synagogue or temple.
00:16:19.000I mean, first of all, think how radical Jesus was.
00:16:21.000He uses a Greek term that actually was popularized by Alexander the Great.
00:16:26.000And instead of referring to religious nomenclature, he said, I am calling out a people who are going to legislate on earth what heaven looks like.
00:16:35.000And so the word ecclesia, curiously, not only describes the word for church, but its use in the book of Acts is used in a secular context.
00:16:44.000When Paul's brought before a gathering in Ephesus and the rulers are there trying to determine what the problem is, the word used for the governing assembly in Acts that was dealing with Paul was the ecclesia.
00:16:58.000So the word literally means the legislator.
00:17:02.000And so is so when the church refused, so let's talk about the gates.
00:17:05.000Jesus said, I will build my church and the gates of hell.
00:17:07.000So about 20 years ago, I started, I came from a background in business, corporate business.
00:17:12.000Then I thought that the most responsible thing a Christian should do is be full-time dedicated to the gospel.
00:17:17.000So I began doing work in churches as a consultant to help churches grow.
00:17:22.000And while I was doing that, I came across this ecclesia thing.
00:17:25.000And I said, wait a second, the gates of hell that Jesus talked about are actually the gates of influence.
00:17:32.000The gates of influence are located over the courts.
00:17:35.000That's why the Supreme Court's a battle, over the presidency.
00:17:38.000That's why the presidency is about over finance and corporations, over arts and entertainment.
00:17:46.000There's seven domains that shape culture.
00:17:48.000At the top of each of those verticals are an elites that actually occupy the seats of governing influence, legislating, agreeing, and creating culture in that domain.
00:18:00.000If the church doesn't go up against those gates of hell, then those gates of hell get fortified against the church.
00:18:07.000And that's exactly what's happening right now in America from media to Hollywood.
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00:20:48.000But it goes back to a point you're making for those folks that are believers out there.
00:20:53.000But in the gospels, Mark's gospel says, go into all the world, like preach the gospel, and there'll be demonstrating of signs that will follow.
00:21:04.000I mean, believe me, there's hundreds of millions of charismatics and Pentecostals out there that just want to see a revival and they want to hear preaching.
00:21:11.000Matthew's gospel, Jesus' same commission, go into all the world and teach.
00:21:19.000And what I'm saying now is we focus so much on preaching for revival in America that the left did the teaching and discipled America.
00:21:29.000The America we were trying to preach to, they actually discipled and educated.
00:21:33.000Now you've got 50 million youth coming through the academic system having been discipled by false teachers, would be what the Bible says.
00:21:41.000And they're a weaponized people group that are moving on into culture and they move into all those elite positions because they just shuffle the deck from the university to corporate and to journalism, et cetera.
00:21:53.000We have to change the way we see our engagement.
00:21:56.000And if you can't see it in civic and political issues, you're absolutely irrelevant.
00:22:02.000Jesus told us to make disciples, not converts of all nations.
00:22:11.000And one of the reasons why we are seeing young Christians become so liberal is because the skinny gene-wearing youth group pastor people that I am a outspoken critic of, they have gone out of their way to either be socially liberal or agnostic completely on these issues.
00:22:29.000For example, a 14, 15, or 16-year-old will approach a youth group pastor at some of the biggest churches across the country and they'll say, hey, Pastor Jeff.
00:22:39.000And this pastor, by the way, is probably 27 or 28.
00:22:44.000If he did, then he's probably a communist or one of the other Midwestern theological schools that teach our kids to hate the country while wrapping it in a nicely tied bow of the gospel.
00:23:02.000Or yeah, BLM Incorporated is a great group because we're supposed to love all people.
00:23:06.000And so this 14, 15, and 16-year-old is being taught a false doctrine by their youth pastors.
00:23:12.000Or if they don't get that answer, that, oh, we don't do that around here because they're under orders from an elder board or from a senior pastor to be apolitical.
00:23:20.000Then all of a sudden, you know what that 14, 15, or 16 year old is going to do?
00:23:22.000They're going to go find the answer somewhere else.
00:23:24.000They're not going to stop asking the question.
00:23:26.000They're not going to be like, oh, the church told me that we don't take it.
00:23:28.000We don't take a stance on abortion, on marriage, on transgender, BLM Incorporated.
00:23:32.000What these youth pastors don't realize is these kids are inundated politically now from the age of 12.
00:24:11.000And the criteria for success is not, are you transforming lives according to what the Bible teaches and the Word of God teaches?
00:24:18.000The metric for success is how many are in your youth group.
00:24:22.000And they're only reflecting the values of the elder board and the senior pastor, which is the metrics of success in the American church is how many people are attending, how big is your budget, how large is your staff, and how many square feet of buildings do you occupy?
00:24:36.000To me, one of the singular signs that God is changing the way church is is when COVID hit, and I noticed that it hit everyone, including the churches.
00:24:46.000And the churches were categorized, curiously enough, as entertainment because the world sees them as a center for entertainment and categorized them with theaters and public sport events.
00:24:58.000That's how they see us because that's how we define ourselves.
00:25:03.000And you can't disagree at that assessment.
00:25:23.000No, they're not confused, hopefully, by what we're saying.
00:25:26.000They're confused on a certain very specific thing because they grew up in a church that has now been revealed as cowardly or as complicit.
00:25:34.000And they're wondering what they should do.
00:25:37.000I'm of the opinion to leave the church and do it so biblically and do so lovingly, but make sure you communicate in private to the elder board and the pastor why you're leaving.
00:25:46.000But I think people have to start voting with their feet.
00:26:11.000He's exposed the deep state in government.
00:26:14.000And now I believe the wrecking ball is hitting the church.
00:26:17.000And that wrecking ball is going to now, in a beautiful way, is going to break away those pastors and leaders who Isaiah would say are dumb dogs that have no bark, meaning the shepherd is supposed to warn you when the wolf is coming.
00:26:33.000If the shepherd doesn't warn you, they're like the sheepdog that doesn't bark when a wolf is approaching.
00:26:39.000We're going to begin to realize, and it's happening right now with these confused people and a lot of Christians, they're going to turn around and say, where has my church been on this?
00:26:55.000The moment that the people start to gather, all they got to do is go back to the first century model, gather in the house with people that are genuine seekers of Jesus, invite the presence because an ecclesia isn't necessarily a thousand people.
00:27:08.000An ecclesia is, in many cases, a small group with governing capacity and begin to come together and watch how quickly primitive Christianity grows when it's taken out of this corporate business model formula.
00:28:07.000The microphone will get taken over by fake news and media.
00:28:10.000And the cockpit will be loaded with radicals who are going to take you on a crash journey instead of where you thought you were going to go.
00:28:18.000The important thing is to keep the plane at the gates till you get the box cutters and the terrorists out of the out of the pilot seat.
00:28:39.000The process is you're going to wake up and discover that he isn't president.
00:28:42.000Over the course of a couple of days, the states he won are going to be reversed.
00:28:46.000And then we're going to end up in a crisis that will end up in courts having to make decisions regarding the illegality of what took place.
00:28:55.000And that is going to be the future of America.
00:29:15.000You mentioned Victor Orbin in an earlier broadcast.
00:29:17.000I think it's interesting that you're identifying certain nations, certain states, where the leaders are actually in alignment with Christian values, putting borders around the culture to preserve it from being invaded by progressive fundamentalism in Europe, as it's also spreading in Central America.
00:29:38.000But in those cases where these guys are vilified, what I predicted was that Donald Trump would be likened to Cyrus.
00:29:44.000And this, by the way, this is like 2005.
00:29:50.000Netanyahu comes to the White House and says, you know, 2,500 years ago, you know, we had Cyrus and you are like Cyrus because he moved the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
00:30:00.000And then Netanyahu said again, you're Cyrus when he got the Golan Heights deal with Trump.
00:30:05.000The point is, Cyrus rulers are secular rulers that God will raise up for praying Christians if the church will learn to work with them.
00:30:14.000They can work to actually protect their nation so that it doesn't become assimilated by globalists.
00:30:21.000And oddly enough, Jesus' final teaching, and nobody talks about it, when the Son of Man returns, he'll gather the nations before him and separate them as a shepherd separates sheep from goats.
00:30:32.000To me, what we're looking at is goat cities, goat states determine goat nations.
00:30:37.000And a goat nation is a nation that fundamentally is antagonistic to the Jewish people and Christians.
00:30:44.000Because Jesus said a sheep nation or a goat nation is defined by how you treat my brethren.
00:30:51.000And that would be the disciples of Jesus and the Jewish people.
00:30:54.000So this is a much bigger game we're in than just revival and souls.
00:31:26.000That's why the Apostle Paul said, you know, in one of his, I guess it was in Athens, and he spoke to them and he said, God has determined the times and boundaries of nations that happily they may seek after him that they find him.
00:31:40.000In other words, all of history is God defining nations and judging nations in their time.
00:31:47.000And if they seek him, there is an extension of grace and peace.
00:31:51.000There is an expansion of boundaries of prosperity.
00:31:54.000If they do not seek him, then they become part of what we look back at as history.
00:31:59.000And we can see the rise and fall of nations on this basis.
00:32:04.000What should the Christians' posture at this time be?
00:32:06.000What do you think the call to action is for Christians that feel like they're losing the country and with this election that's been put into chaos?
00:32:29.000I want you to contact your legislator and I want you to tell them they don't have a political future if they don't stand up for inspecting the integrity of the voting process and respect your vote.
00:32:40.000Let them know that they're not going to be getting your support as a legislator.
00:32:44.000And especially if you're in those states, call your legislator, tell them where you live and put the heat on them.
00:33:03.000And because Wilberforce put it this way, as a great Christian, if you want to overturn evil like slavery, the battle is a battle of public persuasion.
00:33:13.000We have to be able to move the public mind in the direction of the truth.
00:33:19.000And in this case, we have to have prayer without works is dead.
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00:34:38.000I love when you said that action is necessary.
00:34:42.000A lot of Christians are actually apathetic.
00:34:45.000I attribute this to a couple different things.
00:34:48.000The first of which I think that some people hide because they have an excuse in their eschatology.
00:34:54.000They think that the world is ending next Tuesday and they say the house is on fire.
00:35:30.000And fundamentally, you put your finger exactly on what it is.
00:35:34.000We created in the United States in the era of our peace and prosperity, we moved from the gospel of the kingdom, which is what Jesus referred to some 70 times in the gospels, to the gospel of salvation.
00:35:48.000We kind of shifted it around so that the goal of life was to become a Christian so you could go to heaven when you die.
00:35:54.000And then between now and then, it's how to live a happy life using Bible principles.
00:36:00.000With that false focus, and then what was worse was we had eschatology that would talk about the Antichrist of tribulation, but don't worry about it because you're going to be out of here.
00:36:10.000So then we have a rapture theology that basically exonerates any Christian from suffering in our generation because by the time it gets bad, you won't be here.
00:36:19.000So you double down on your fanatical withdrawal from culture to be as hyper-spiritual as you can be so you get to heaven when you die or don't miss that rapture.
00:36:27.000Both of those are erroneous focuses for the church.
00:36:32.000And I believe, I could believe in a rapture, but I believe the rapture is for an overcoming church, not a church that is hiding out for fear of having to go through something.
00:36:41.000So the proper courageous definition of Christianity is that we go into all the world as salt and light in the sphere that we're assigned to, and we're bringing the gospel of the kingdom.
00:36:54.000And that means that it's not just salvation.
00:36:56.000It's what would heaven look like if God was actually to materialize what it looks like on earth.
00:37:05.000In Wilberforce's case, overturning the power of slavery in England meant that he had to mobilize public opinion by working with the Christians that were in arts and the Christians that were in legislation and the Christians that were in the pulpit to create a conscience in the culture.
00:37:22.000What we have in America is the decay of conscience because gospel truth isn't preached.
00:37:27.000And you won't have people convicted of sin if sin doesn't exist.
00:37:31.000So if you continue to compromise on gender, on marriage, on life, on principles, you actually have no power to even speak to the heart and conscience of a man to let him know that he's not right.
00:37:44.000So the church has to recover the primitive reality that there is a biblical worldview and that that biblical worldview doesn't mean that you win by being popular or likable.
00:37:54.000Many times you win because you pierce the conscience.
00:37:59.000And part of the hyper focus on eschatology came after the creation of the state of Israel.
00:38:06.000Really, that's when a lot of the eschatological teachings increased.
00:38:10.000My pastor is a Calvary pastor, so he's pre-trib, pre-millennial.
00:38:18.000And my focus, again, I have some, it's one of my favorite stories to tell.
00:38:25.000I'm not going to say these pastors' names, but they were arguing lovingly, but very intensely over pan-trib, post-trib and pre-trib and eschatology and Christ's return.
00:38:36.000And I thought to myself, if only there was this much spirited debate over how we Christians could win school board races.
00:38:43.000I mean, they're just going after each other.
00:38:45.000And it's just kind of a coffee shop debate in some ways, right?
00:38:49.000Because you kind of just list the scriptures that show both ways and there's arguments for both.
00:38:54.000And then you have to wait which one has more.
00:38:56.000And again, I'm not saying I'm not a theologian.
00:39:00.000I just think that the heavy emphasis on it, though, has created a paralyzed church.
00:39:06.000And you can only do that, how Lindsay's late great planet Earth really kicked it off.
00:39:10.000You can only do that if you're in a culture that is so supremely insulated in peace and prosperity that you can focus on your end time theories.
00:39:19.000Now that's changing because we kind of feel like a little bit more like Bonhoeffer watching Chancellor Hitler just got into office.
00:39:27.000Those that are actually awakened realize that the world around them is becoming more dangerous, more menacing.
00:39:34.000So that your happy escapism theology may have to shift into how do we build a firewall to preserve ourselves from the coming storm that is there.
00:39:44.000And I believe most Christians are there and the churches aren't because, like I said, they built their audience off of a different message.
00:39:51.000And the way that you build is the way you keep.
00:39:54.000And so now you're going to see a groundswell of, I believe, an awakening is in our loins.
00:39:59.000I would predict that the populist movement is going to produce a backlash from now and it'll be manifest in 2022.
00:40:08.000And that the 35% or 40% of those voters that voted for Trump that are Christians, pro-life Catholics and evangelical Christians, they have an opportunity now to be a populist movement, rallies included, that are going to bring a fresh contrast between real biblical worldview and the collapse of culture and decay that's all around us.
00:40:32.000I'd encourage you to look at 1948, which is when we went through our period of revival after the Second World War.
00:40:38.000Look at what Billy Graham actually preached.
00:40:41.000Because what Billy Graham preached in his first 20 years was rabid anti-communist, anti-atheism warnings about the destruction and judgment on America if America didn't repent.
00:40:54.000What put people in Madison Square Garden wasn't what Billy Graham was preaching at the end of his life.
00:41:00.000It was what he was preaching in the crisp, cold reality of the Soviet Union having a nuclear bomb.
00:41:06.000And at any moment, when I grew up, I was doing drills going under my desk in case there was an atom bomb that went off in my neighborhood.
00:41:13.000And so there was fear and this sense of anxiety, the Cuban Missile Crisis.
00:41:17.000A lot of you guys that are younger don't realize that was the anxiety in which the revival that Billy Graham led took place.
00:41:25.000And after we had success and security and peace, we went into this eschatological escapism and just focused on getting saved and building churches.
00:41:43.000It's only going to be even more dramatic in the coming years.
00:41:49.000And I'm afraid that we're going to have to suffer a lot more before that kind of revival is going to be received because we've had it really, really good for a long time.
00:42:02.000Yeah, but I think that this message, as we see how culture becomes more aggressive against freedom of speech and freedom of worship and the right to assume, the more that the aggression gets targeted so that Christians feel that persecution, I think it's going to have the opposite effect in terms of what the culture expects.
00:42:22.000It's going to actually cause those that are serious about their faith to remobilize and they will not mobilize around the failed leadership of churches that were asleep at the switch when the problem happened.
00:42:34.000There's going to be new leaders arising, new awakening happening.
00:42:38.000Young Awakeners, but Whitfield, Wesley, these Awakeners were in their 20s, Charlie.
00:42:43.000So I believe the future belongs to the bold and the bold can seize this populist backlash and can make it a moment when there is extraordinary pushback on the compromised Republicans and the dangerous left.
00:43:05.000We have lancewallnow.com forward slash thrones.
00:43:10.000I want to give away a chapter in the book.
00:43:12.000because I talk about the global game of thrones that's going on right now from China to the World Economic Forum in Europe and the globalist corporations in the United States that want to redefine America, destroy the middle class, bring America down into its proper global role like Obama wanted.
00:43:29.000And I believe that the church needs to realize it's part of a global contest and our best days are going to start now.