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00:00:08.000Hey, everybody, I just gave a speech to a packed house at Calvary Chapochino Hills at Non-Essential.
00:00:14.000It is a quick, important speech about why we must elect President Trump and the stakes we are up against.
00:00:22.000It is a short summary, and I encourage you to send this to all of your friends, non-essential, my speech at Calvary Chapochino Hills, and it pertains to this election.
00:00:32.000Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:34.000Support our crusade as we go across the country to get President Trump elected.
00:00:41.000As you guys are listening to this episode, we're probably in a plane somewhere to Florida or to Arizona or to Minnesota, anywhere across the country.
00:01:08.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:16.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:41.000We have been in Florida, Maine, Minnesota, Georgia, Arizona, now here in California.
00:01:49.000And I got a call from my pastor, Rob McCoy, my dear friend, Kirk Cameron.
00:01:54.000And they said, Charlie, can you add a stop in Chino, California?
00:01:57.000I said, you know, there's a little bit going on in the country right now.
00:02:03.000But as soon as they said this is a gathering around the idea that church is essential, I said, when, where, I'll be there immediately because what we are seeing happening in our country, and all of you know this, is that the church founded this country, activist Christians that understood that our rights came from God, not from King George, that our rights came from God, not from government,
00:02:30.000and the first great awakening in our country founded the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world around two big ideas, freedom and equality.
00:02:40.000Now, where do those words come from in the Bible?
00:02:43.000There is freedom as mentioned many times.
00:02:45.000But Jesus Christ said something very interesting.
00:02:48.000And we didn't actually discover this until Tyndale started to translate the Bible from Latin to English.
00:02:54.000Now, understand that English was the peasant language, the common man's language.
00:03:00.000Prior, the common man was not able to read the Bible and dive into the living word of God.
00:03:05.000And Tyndale realized that when Jesus Christ said, on this rock, some people say, build my church, he said, ecclesia.
00:03:16.000He didn't say on this rock, build my synagogue or temple.
00:03:19.000When you dive into actually what an ecclesia was at the time, it was this.
00:03:24.000It was a gathering of people concerned about their community in a Greek city-state that were exchanging ideas because they said they had a duty and a responsibility to make the world around them better.
00:03:37.000Now, why would Jesus choose that term?
00:03:40.000Do you know the two words that in secular Greek times they used that were the most important words to describe an ecclesia?
00:03:51.000Jesus knew exactly what he was saying when he said, on this rock, build my ecclesia, because Jesus never wanted compartmentalized Christianity.
00:04:00.000He wanted comprehensive Christianity where we're going to be in politics, we're going to be in the arts, we're going to be in science, we are going to be in government, we are going to be in the streets, we're going to be in schools.
00:04:12.000And what we have seen right now, in the last six months, we've made the worst mistake in the history of our country.
00:04:21.000Locking down America will go down as one of the worst decisions ever made by the political elite to try to keep you down.
00:04:29.000Now, mind you, who benefited from the lockdowns?
00:04:34.000Some people say, oh, no, it's everyone paid an equal price.
00:04:40.000The average billionaire has seen their net worth increase by 20 to 30 percent.
00:04:44.000Jeff Bezos added $45 billion to his net worth.
00:04:47.000Amazon is more valuable than it ever has been, and America's billionaires are $675 billion richer.
00:04:53.000Yet most of you had to borrow money to pay medical debt, borrow money to keep just things together, maybe put things, borrow money from a friend for payroll.
00:05:02.000It's harder than ever to be a middle-class American, yet the ruling class in this country were able to have the luxury of surviving the lockdown.
00:05:11.000And people say we're divided in America.
00:05:16.000And this is where I think the election is headed.
00:05:19.000I think the election is headed between one side of the country that has the luxury to say they can survive another lockdown.
00:05:25.000I think the divide in this country is one side of the country that says, I'm part of the Zoom and Skype class, and I can roll out of bed and get on a Zoom call and be able to survive another draconian, one-size-fits-all government order.
00:05:40.000And then there's the muscular class, the 100 million people that wake up every single day.
00:05:45.000They have to wear a mask eight hours to drive an Uber, fulfill an Amazon order, work in our restaurants.
00:05:50.000They're the backbone of our country, by the way.
00:05:59.000They finally have a voice in an albeit unlikely spokesperson, billionaire from New York, who came down the golden escalator and he started to do something you are not supposed to do.
00:06:13.000He did something you're not supposed to do.
00:06:14.000He started to say, you've been lied to.
00:06:19.000And he went up against 16 Republicans, the Bush dynasty, the Clinton dynasty, the social media tech companies, the mainstream media, outspent 10 to 1, and he won.
00:06:28.000But once he won, and we all remember that night, he did something you're really not supposed to do.
00:06:56.000We then do our own thing when we go to D.C.
00:06:59.000And the president said, hold on a second.
00:07:02.000In business, if you don't do what you say you're going to do, you lose a contract.
00:07:05.000And it turns out that the person that they say is the most immoral person ever has operated with more integrity, fulfilling the promise of the people that voted for him than anyone that we sent to D.C. in the last 40 years.
00:07:20.000Gorsuch Kavanaugh, Amy Kony Barrett, most pro-life president in American history, most pro-Israel president, canceling the Iran deal, finally taking illegal immigration seriously before we lock down our country, the greatest economy in American history for blacks, Hispanics, Latinos, disabled, women, the lowest income brackets in our country, had the highest income gains, the largest middle-class tax cut in American history, finally taking child sex trafficking seriously.
00:07:43.000Peace between Israel and the United Era Emirates.
00:08:13.000One out of four of young people have contemplated suicide in the last 90 days.
00:08:17.000Alcoholism, drug use, social isolation, school closures, young adolescent depression, everything's on the way up.
00:08:23.000And despite all of that, despite everything they've thrown at this guy, leaking his tax returns, spying on the First Lady's private conversations, every single person in the White House that you could possibly find to throw a little bit of money for a nice lucrative book deal, because this is going to be the big one that's going to destroy Donald Trump, despite all of that.
00:09:12.000You feel like they've taken over all the institutions.
00:09:14.000But there's a reason why the founding fathers put three words at the beginning of the Constitution, because the one thing they haven't figured out how to control is you.
00:09:43.000Because the last six months we have endured lies about the lockdowns, lies about the virus, lies about the school closing, lies about businesses, lies about everything you could possibly imagine.
00:09:54.000And despite all of it, the one guy that they said shouldn't run, won't run, won't win, won't win the primary, won't win any of these states, still wins the presidency, fulfills his promises despite everything they've thrown at him 17 days out.
00:10:07.000Can you even imagine the type of individual that God has his hand on this man?
00:10:20.000We are so blessed to live in the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:10:25.000Because despite all that power consolidation, despite the nonsense they teach your kids in schools, despite the social media companies trying to prevent things from being heard, despite all of that, you still have the power to be able to express your voice.
00:10:40.000And here's what I believe is going to happen.
00:10:41.000If we do our job, and every person listening to this right now, they get 10 people to the polls.
00:11:05.000If Biden wins, it'll be because the church let it happen.
00:11:11.000If Biden wins, it'll be because the church decided to pander to BLM, not to fight for life.
00:11:17.000If Biden wins, it'll be because the church said, eh, embassy in Jerusalem doesn't mean anything, despite that being the place that our Savior Jesus Christ walked, taught, died, and rose again after three days.
00:11:49.000Who's going to make those compelling arguments?
00:11:53.000I'm traveling the country working harder than I ever have in anything in my entire life for this one election.
00:12:01.000And if I am able to go to college campuses and get young people excited about our country, the churches of this country can wake up and can rise up and can talk to their congregation around these incredibly important times.
00:12:18.000Benjamin Franklin was asked after the Constitutional Convention: so, what kind of country do we have?
00:12:24.000And Ben Franklin smiled and he said, We have a republic if you can keep it.
00:12:31.000And in a way that only God could possibly work.
00:12:35.000You have a man that everyone said shouldn't be president who's done more for the body of Christ, defending religious liberty, pro-life Israel.
00:12:54.000He's being absolutely massacred in the media.
00:12:57.000And the media decides that they don't want to cover the fact that the son of the opposition candidate handed over three of his laptops.
00:13:03.000And by the way, no weapon formed against shall stand, because I'll tell you, there is no other explanation for how the son of Joe Biden would just hand over his laptops and just decide to tell us that his entire family's been doing this.
00:13:20.000What kind of country do you want to live in and who's in charge?
00:13:24.000I'm dedicating my next 17 days of my life to sleep three hours a night, crisscrossing the country, red-eye flights, to speak anywhere that'll have me do two podcasts a day, two radio shows a day, because I truly believe that this election is the turning point election.
00:13:40.000It's the election that will determine the future of our country.
00:13:46.000People ask me all the time, they say, what's your political philosophy?