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00:04:51.000And in the months that followed, and I was so blown away.
00:04:54.000And I believe Dream City was blessed for that obedience, blessed for the courage.
00:04:59.000And the months that followed, we had lunch, you know, not too far after when Luke had the horrible Boulder incident.
00:05:08.000And I remember, it's a different story for every time, but we had this amazing lunch, and Luke was like, Hey, Charlie, I feel really moved to try to do something for our local area.
00:05:19.000And it was just the perfect time to collaborate.
00:05:22.000I said, Hey, why don't we do a monthly gathering at the church on Tuesday nights where we open it up to the whole community and talk about what's happening in the city and in the nation around us?
00:05:34.000And so we started Freedom Night in America back in May of last year, not missing a month, and it has grown in attendance and influence.
00:05:41.000And now I'm proud to say we've done it at Steve Smotherman's Church, we're doing it at Troy Maxwell's Church, and we're expanding it across the country.
00:05:49.000And we'll dive more into what that actually means.
00:05:53.000So, for those of you that might not follow the work that we do or kind of have any understanding what I focus on, my day job is focused on the second most important thing a human being can focus on.
00:06:08.000So, whenever I say that, someone says, Well, what's the first thing?
00:06:10.000Okay, the first thing is the most important thing.
00:06:13.000The most important thing is winning souls for Jesus Christ, expanding the church, and spreading the gospel.
00:07:19.000But I think there is a moment that's happening in the American church where I know that the Holy Spirit is speaking to so many pastors and church leaders right now in this audience who are like, You know what?
00:07:33.000The difference between having a government that is run by citizens or one that is run by unaccountable rulers is the difference between Justin Trudeau or Ron DeSantis.
00:07:45.000And it directly impacts the American church.
00:07:47.000So, Archer Pavlovsky, who's a pastor in Canada, has now been arrested multiple times for opening his church.
00:07:55.000But it happens here in America as well.
00:07:57.000Of mine, Pastor Mike McClure, San Jose, California, is facing $6 million in fines and personal seizures of his own property for opening the church.
00:08:06.000You see, for years, we have done nothing as the church or done very little because we've believed the separation of church and state.
00:08:14.000Now, I could get into that at a different time if you guys want.
00:08:17.000It's actually not in the Constitution.
00:08:18.000It's nowhere in the founding documents.
00:08:20.000It's a single letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Convention.
00:08:26.000Let's just pretend for a second that is the law of the land and we should live under the separation of church and state.
00:08:32.000Well, then let's keep the state out of the church.
00:08:35.000What is it that a public health authority has the right to shut down a church?
00:08:40.000Why does a bureaucrat we didn't vote for all of a sudden say, you know what?
00:08:43.000You're not allowed to have Easter service.
00:08:48.000It pains me how many millions of Americans, especially in places like New York and Los Angeles and Chicago, have not been able to go physically in church the last two years.
00:08:58.000Now, some people say, well, Charlie, it's online.
00:09:00.000Look, watching online church is like watching a fireplace on your TV, okay?
00:09:48.000I'm not going to say one gap is better than the other.
00:09:50.000I'm going to say right from wrong because the scriptures tell us right from wrong.
00:09:54.000Now, some pastors will say, okay, Charlie, nowhere in the scriptures does it say we should care about that.
00:09:59.000Well, the Lord, not anyone, not Paul, not Peter, the Lord in Jeremiah 29, 7 said, demand the welfare of the nation that you are in because your welfare is tied to the nation's welfare.
00:10:42.000And then we actually get to a deeper, more revealing point, which is if you believe the scriptures are the inerrant perfect word of God, then all of a sudden that shouldn't be that big of an issue.
00:10:53.000But bad theology leads to bad politics.
00:10:57.000If you believe the scriptures are just kind of, it's a suggestion manual, like that's a good starting point.
00:12:08.000Well, if the house is on fire, why don't you put the fire out?
00:12:11.000If things around you are deteriorating, if we have truth and light, we should be advancing that where it matters most, not running away from the fights and the battles that are happening around us.
00:12:22.000Now, why do I mention the eschatology?
00:12:24.000Because so many churches now say there's nothing we can do.
00:12:28.000But instead, the scriptures tell us to fight for truth and righteousness and to expel the darkness from our land.
00:12:37.000And so when you have, for example, in the state of Oregon, a teenager can get sexual reassignment surgery paid for by the taxpayers without parental consent, and the church is like, yeah, we don't take a stance on this, then what exactly are you taking a stance on that is significant?
00:12:54.000Because without the church, who is going to call right from wrong?
00:13:01.000Without a belief in God, right and wrong is merely an opinion.
00:13:06.000Now you might say, well, Charlie, how can you say such a thing?
00:13:08.000I visit college campuses and you don't.
00:13:10.000When you don't believe in God, right and wrong is merely in an opinion.
00:13:14.000If you go to Columbia, Yale, Stanford, UCLA, and you try to talk about morality, they say, well, that's just your morality.
00:13:20.000My morality is I believe that I can do whatever I want, whatever I want to do it.
00:13:24.000Absent the laws of nature and nature is God, as articulated in the Declaration of Independence, absent a divine truth giver, you are going to descend into moral and societal chaos.
00:13:36.000And this is the struggle of the church right now because this is why I think so highly of Dream City and Troy and Steve Smotherman and Keith and so many people here because the easy way out in the last two years was to do what most American churches did.
00:13:54.000So there are three types of churches and pastors in America.
00:13:57.000First, I just want to reinforce the type that we should all want to be, the courageous church and pastor.
00:17:49.000I struggle when a church decides to be not confused, which I think we need to have loving encouragement and shepherd those people towards truth.
00:17:58.000I struggle, though, when the church is actively complicit in a lot of these things.
00:18:04.000Because you look at a lot of these different types of things.
00:18:06.000I listened to one of these sermons the other day where a pastor in New York City said that the American church is the number one communicator and purveyor of racism in America.
00:18:55.000Or like, yeah, I just read an article for Huffington Post, and I think we should get rid of all private property and universal health care, and there's no genders, open up the borders, take the guns, shred the Constitution.
00:19:05.000Thomas Jefferson's a racist, and I'm non-binary, and my pronouns are on it.
00:19:12.000You do not allow lies to go in your life without you confronting them.
00:19:18.000How many pastors that are in the woke crowd, how many pastors out there that were spewing this nonsense when people who love them let them continue to talk in a sea of lies?
00:19:29.000Now, maybe they'll keep on going that way, but we have a moral obligation to lovingly correct these people.
00:19:40.000I will say this: there's a lot of pastors that are privately seeking repentance for some of the stands they've took over the last couple years.
00:19:56.000And what a great opportunity for us to offer forgiveness, right?
00:19:59.000What a great opportunity for us to be like, I get it.
00:20:03.000I know you misstepped, and you are forgiven.
00:20:05.000And let's try to get you better educated so it doesn't happen again.
00:20:09.000Now, that's one thing, but there's other ones that just dig in more.
00:20:12.000And they just say, hey, you know what?
00:20:13.000This church, we are going to be the woke church.
00:20:16.000We are going to do all this sorts of things.
00:20:18.000In fact, I could go peace, I could go example by example by example, but let me give you one example of it's in secular society, but it's still one that people are surprisingly silent on.
00:20:29.000In the suburbs of Portland, they're opening up a new charter school in September, but only black kids are allowed to go to the charter school, right?
00:20:36.000But they say it's separate but equal, so it's all good, right?
00:20:40.000Now, you should, that should horrify you, right?
00:20:42.000After Brown versus the Board of Education got rid of separate but equal.
00:20:46.000Now, most of the churches in Portland wouldn't dare speak out against a black-only school because they say you're a racist if you dare hate the fact that we're using racism to try to get rid of the alleged racism that exists today.
00:21:13.000If the church does not stand up against the institutional racism that is CRT, this is going to take over the entire country.
00:21:20.000This is a moral obligation for us to stand up against the people that wish to put us back in the tribes, that wish to put us back into different corners and turn people against each other.
00:23:01.000If you are not Creating biblical citizens, creating and educating biblical citizens, I believe you are allowing Satan to continue to gain territory in our country.
00:23:13.000Learning about the documents, learning about the Federalist Papers, learning about the Ten Amendments, learning about the founding of our country, knowing about your rights and what you can do about it.
00:23:23.000Again, it doesn't have to be a political thing, but if you have someone in your church who's like, oh, yeah, I don't like the fact that we're going to be talking about the Constitution.
00:23:30.000I think at some point you've got to be willing to let a little bit go to go gain a lot.
00:23:35.000And so, what we are doing, and we have a table out here that I want to encourage all of you guys to go out to, our TPUSA table.
00:23:41.000I'm going to go, I'm actually going to go there after this speech to go speak with you guys and just, you know, meet you with you guys, is we're trying to create a buffet line in kind of a metaphorical buffet line in conjunction with a lot of people here, which is, hey, you want a go-to sermon on these 10 topics?
00:25:00.000You got to hear a direct call to Jesus and you got to hear kind of a sermon type message and then we can get into it.
00:25:06.000And all of a sudden, we have people giving their life to the Lord in record numbers.
00:25:08.000It's the opposite of what we were taught, right?
00:25:10.000We were taught if you take stances on these issues, you're going to turn people off.
00:25:14.000When in reality, like, oh, wow, there's 72 million people in this country that believe in liberty in one way or the other.
00:25:19.000What's the church doing to reach out to them every single day?
00:25:21.000What's the church doing to say, hey, at least we have something in common?
00:25:24.000We believe rights are naturally granted by God, not by government.
00:25:27.000How are we reaching out to those people to do the most important thing, which is bring them to Jesus?
00:25:32.000And what we're finding is churches that are taking these stands, they're expanding in such record numbers and amazing capacity and strengthening from the bottom up.
00:25:42.000And so we look at the scriptures, we look at Daniel, Jeremiah, Nehemiah, Esther, and Mordecai, all people that took stands for God in secular government.
00:25:53.000There are many more examples beyond that.
00:25:55.000But we must take a step back as the church and ask ourselves, why is it that we live and we still do live in the freest country on the planet?
00:26:38.000It was the church that founded America.
00:26:40.000Now, a lot of the secular historians that you might send your kids to college with will disagree with that.
00:26:45.000Jonathan Whitfield to Jonathan Edwards, George Whitfield, the Jonathan Edwards, the Jonathan Mayhew, were the American founding pastors that preached in the American colonies that laid the philosophical and moral foundation that led to the founding of this country.
00:27:01.000It was a great awakening that led to the American Revolution of people that were saying, I want liberty.
00:27:06.000I no longer want to live under King George.
00:27:09.000Now, that was the first moment in American history.
00:27:13.000The second, of course, was the church rose up in the 1820s when America was slipping a little bit.
00:28:07.000Billy Graham said that 500 times in 1953, 1954, and 1955.
00:28:13.000He said, I will not allow, as a Bible-believing, spirit-filled Christian to allow my kids and grandkids to live in a secular communist society while the word of God is under assault in the spiritual domain.
00:28:24.000If Billy Graham can talk about this, you could talk about this.
00:28:30.000Every time America falls, it is the church that brings it back into alignment.
00:28:36.000Now, some of you might say, I don't care.
00:29:35.000Now, some people say, well, Charlie, we can't challenge our government because in Romans 13, it says that we must submit to our government authorities.
00:29:44.000How many of you heard this argument at least 10 times in the last two years?
00:30:30.000What you have seen in the last couple years from the governor of New Mexico, still can't remember her name, to Governor Newsome or whatever, they're in violation of this.
00:30:40.000But so many churches were paralyzed, like we can't open because we want to be compliant with Romans 13.
00:30:45.000Read the first three words of the U.S. Constitution.
00:30:49.000It does not say we the bureaucrats, we the public health officials, we the rulers that are untouchable.
00:30:56.000It's we, the people, and when our rights are violated, then we have a moral obligation to push back.
00:31:49.000We know that the invisible is now impacting the visible.
00:31:53.000So if we know that, then the church must be willing to launch the most aggressive counterattack spiritually that we've ever seen in our nation's history.
00:32:13.000So, which is this: you are living through a massive political, governmental, economic, and spiritual realignment that will be one of the greatest moments in the history of humanity.
00:32:29.000You are seeing media companies that once seemed to be untouchable shatter into a million pieces in front of you.
00:32:34.000You are seeing tech companies that seem to be once untouchable be confused and disarray.
00:32:39.000It is the Genesis 11 moment of Tower of Babel.
00:32:43.000That which tries to build to challenge God, He will scatter into places of confusion.
00:32:56.000And the regime, as I call it, which is a kind of set of forces all together, is starting to crumble.
00:33:06.000And Europe, you might be a pastor right now and you might be on the fence, but here's what I could tell you: your congregants right now, they're fighting for their liberty every single day.
00:33:15.000I guarantee you, if you're hearing this and you have not yet spoken about this or you've not done it the way that you probably might, and I was like, I don't know.
00:33:21.000I guarantee you, your congregates are showing up to school board meetings.
00:33:24.000Your congregants are now deciding to homeschool and they are fighting for liberty.
00:33:45.000And you could this Sunday, next Sunday, next month, three months from now, be the spark plug that could give your congregants the reinforcement and the encouragement they need to be informed and active citizens.
00:33:58.000So the regime as we know it right now is falling apart and the citizen is rising.
00:34:05.000There's only a couple ways human beings can live under government.
00:34:11.000You can live as a serf, you can live as a subject, you can live as a slave, or you can live as a citizen.
00:35:23.000The message of the gospels is to set the captives free, free from the stranglehold of Satan, free from addiction, free from alcoholism, free from tyranny, free from bad politics and bad government, and to set the people free.
00:35:36.000And every single one of us have not just an opportunity, but dare I say, we have a commandment to do so.
00:35:44.000And it is a spiritual war raging around all of us.
00:35:46.000So all of you, most of you, you're focused on the first thing, and you should bring people to Jesus.
00:36:00.000But I'm going to keep on staying in the second most important thing.
00:36:03.000But here's my challenge to you: dedicate a little bit, a fraction, a minuscule, a decimal of your energy, your resources in the second thing.
00:36:13.000Because if there is no second thing, then there will be no first thing.
00:36:18.000And that's my challenge to all of you.