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00:02:48.000You know that I've been wrestling with this idea of what do we do right now.
00:02:53.000And we've been exploring different options.
00:02:56.000And it kind of hit me the other day that one of the biggest problem that we're facing right now in the country is not one that is so obvious.
00:03:08.000We have to repeat it and we have to understand it.
00:04:01.000You see, the fun thing about being from Illinois is we have term limits in Illinois.
00:04:06.000It's one term in office, one term in jail.
00:04:10.000It's a little bit different than most states.
00:04:14.000Went to a Bible-believing church there, gave my life to Jesus when I was in fifth grade.
00:04:20.000And if there's any seekers here tonight, hopefully I'll be able to make the case that that's the ultimate purpose of why we're here tonight.
00:04:28.000And once you start drinking from the streams of liberty, you're going to want to find its source.
00:05:46.000You have a wonderful pastor here who speaks with boldness and courage.
00:05:52.000And as I started to speak at these churches, I realized more and more that the Christian community or the body of Christ in America was not nearly as active as it needed to be in these types of issues.
00:06:11.000And there's a lot of different reasons for that.
00:06:14.000And again, my day job is to try to communicate and explain messy political and cultural issues to all people through a biblical lens and through a lens that of God-granted natural rights and natural rights doctrine.
00:06:28.000And I found when I started to speak at churches, and I'm feeling this right now, that you're not just listening to what I'm telling you.
00:06:35.000You're actually waiting for me to tell you what to do.
00:06:39.000And that's an important distinction, right?
00:06:41.000Sometimes when I go speak at some of these Lincoln-Reagan Day Republican dinners, they're like, okay, put on a show, right?
00:06:47.000For you tonight, you guys want deployment plans.
00:06:50.000And I found myself, I said, wow, that's really interesting.
00:08:51.000And like the biggest difference imaginable, right?
00:08:54.000And so the woke pastors, the ones that seem to try and glean earthly approval, and again, in Romans 12, it says very clearly, do not conform to the ways of the world very clearly.
00:10:20.000You're seeing that happen, but I'm telling you right now that wokeism, for lack of a better term, and I don't love the term, but I can tell you where it comes from.
00:10:46.000And this kind of goes back to what I opened up with, which is more than anything else, the problem we're facing in our country is a problem of the distribution of information.
00:11:15.000I'm going to give you a piece of action that no one else is going to give you.
00:11:19.000You have to become your own social network.
00:11:22.000So every single person has lots of contacts in your phone, people in your own network.
00:11:27.000You now must go and create a physical Facebook.
00:11:30.000Go do what you did in the 1820s, basically, where you must now bypass the guardians and the gatekeepers and the distribution of information.
00:11:39.000And you must find whatsoever is true, as it says in Philippians, and spread it amongst your friends.
00:11:45.000Because the truth, once spoken into the world, will spread.
00:11:50.000And all it takes is one sentence of truth to deflate a lifetime of lies.
00:11:55.000And so the other part of this, which is less applicable to you, is we have to start building our own stuff, our own servers, our own social networks, and all that.
00:12:02.000But for those of you that say, I'm not going to be able to do that, that's 99.9% of all the people, then what are you doing to spread the truth?
00:12:11.000And here's the answer that many of you will give.
00:12:15.000I can't because I'm going to get fired.
00:12:18.000I can't because I'm going to lose friends.
00:12:21.000Or I can't because I'm going to lose a source of income.
00:16:13.000When the horrible shooting happened here in Vegas, Amandalay Bay, going into there to save people when you don't know if you're going to survive, that's courage.
00:16:21.000Now, I'm not asking you to do any of those things, actually.
00:16:38.000Well, first of all, you need to have someone, anyone in your life, that you know or that you can point to that you can emulate when it comes to courage.
00:16:49.000One of the major reasons we are lacking in courage is that people are not able to list people who are courageous.
00:18:58.000I mean, Western civilization, we have more religious liberty than any other place on the planet.
00:19:02.000If America were to wither into 90 different micro-countries and factions, do you think the gospel, just talking geopolitically, would be more accepted or less accepted across the planet?
00:19:12.000We all know the answer to that question.
00:19:17.000I mean, the answer is because this country was actually founded by Christians, something we don't talk about enough.
00:19:23.000Black Robe Regiment, Roger Williams, Jonathan Edwards, George Whitfield, activist pastors that founded the United States of America because they believed that rights came from God, not King George.
00:19:36.000And Thomas Jefferson, who some people would call a deist, I think that's unfair, even said himself that the scriptures and the Bible are the greatest piece of literature and document ever written.
00:19:47.000Out of the signers of the Declaration of Independence that we know of, 72 of 75 or 76 that signed it were regular church-attending Bible-believing Christians.
00:19:56.000They prayed before every single meeting and the ratification of the Declaration.
00:19:59.000God is mentioned four times in the Declaration of Independence, and it says clearly that so laws of nature and nature is God.
00:20:07.000It's a pretty amazing statement when you think about it.
00:20:10.000They're basically saying, King George, you're not in control.
00:21:25.000Is that if you're going to become a physicist and you're pursuing truth in the natural world, you're also pursuing whatsoever is true, as Paul says in the scriptures.
00:21:34.000And so I never say anything, at least I try not to, that is untrue or not factual.
00:21:40.000And I think that we as Christians need to understand that our biblical commandment is to be salt and light in every single arena and every single place of influence, including government and including politics.
00:21:51.000And I reject a form of Christianity that we're just going to kind of close the doors and hope they eat us last.
00:21:57.000That is not what I believe we're supposed to do.
00:23:57.000In fact, you know, we saw our own president censored and blocked out of these major social media platforms.
00:24:04.000And now I've got Calvary Chapel pastor friends who are being banned out of YouTube.
00:24:11.000And I already told the congregation, we're on YouTube, and I told them it's just a matter of time before they ban us, just probably from you being here.
00:25:22.000We were building bigger buildings, churches, bigger budgets, and focused on baptisms, the three B's of American Christianity.
00:25:29.000Whereas the religion of the left, and it is a religion, and I could tell you exactly who their church is, who their pope is, they have beliefs, the whole thing, was basically, no, we're going to go build the channels of communication to dominate an entire country, what they can say and when they want to say it.
00:25:48.000The trouble is that we either underestimated it or we used dogma as a reason not to act.
00:25:55.000And so I think one of the greatest failures of Republicans in Congress, of which I begrudgingly call myself someone who votes Republican, I even, it's like, whatever that is, right?
00:26:05.000I mean, I'm sure a lot of you feel the same way.
00:26:08.000Lesser of two evils in most places, and there are some good people that are there, is that you're more focused on cutting corporate tax rates than making sure that people that have truth be able to speak online.
00:26:18.000And so here's the argument: if you're not able to speak your mind on digital or social media, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, then I believe it's a direct violation of the First Amendment.
00:26:28.000And they say, well, these are private companies.
00:26:31.000And I think that you probably lose that argument in my mind once you have 100 million users.
00:26:36.000You become no different than a highway.
00:26:39.000And so those of you from Chicago, you know the Chicago Skyway, right?
00:26:43.000You've probably driven from Gary, Indiana to downtown Chicago.
00:27:26.000If you have over 50 million users, then you must have people prove their identity.
00:27:31.000You get rid of a lot of these anonymous accounts.
00:27:34.000All of a sudden, people are going to have to own what they have to say.
00:27:36.000And if they're going to say something nasty, then so be it.
00:27:39.000And so I think it's really troubling when my pastor, Rob McCoy, Calvary Chapel Thousand Oaks, he just gets kicked off YouTube one day almost instantaneously for violating community guidelines.
00:27:51.000I always laugh around the community guidelines thing, too.
00:27:54.000It's their way to try to discriminate.
00:27:56.000Could you imagine if someone would say, like, oh, we don't allow you into our restaurant based on the color of your skin because those are our community guidelines?
00:29:02.000And they put them in their place and reminded them that, hey, they get tax exemptions for the fact that they are a public commodity, but they shouldn't have those anymore.
00:29:14.000And then all of a sudden, we don't talk about it anymore, which shows how broken our government is.
00:29:20.000I mean, and we live in an extra-constitutional moment in our country, which is really creepy.
00:29:41.000Yes, you could still give people water when they want to vote, as if voting's like dehydration, like you're going through the Navy SEALs exercise, ridiculous.
00:29:50.000And all it does is it requires you to have proof of identity when you send in an absentee ballot.
00:29:54.000That's the big thing they're upset about.
00:30:53.000And they want the COVID passport to identify everyone, but they don't want the ID.
00:30:56.000And again, this is not even requiring identification.
00:30:59.000It's requiring you to prove who you are when you send an absentee ballot.
00:31:03.000There's still no ID requirement when you go and vote in person in Georgia, of which it's a month long.
00:31:07.000So what's the deeper point here is that we live in this extra constitutional moment where we're actually dealing with punishment that's outside of the apparatus of government.
00:31:19.000And you have a president, Joe Biden, who's basically waging economic warfare on the people of Georgia.
00:32:02.000Why not cancel the other 82 major league baseball games that are happening in Georgia?
00:32:07.000They know it's, they're only trying to do this symbolically.
00:32:09.000They're trying to make it hurt so that they can go accomplish a political aim.
00:32:14.000And then you have James Quincy, the head of Coca-Cola, coming around and he says, this doesn't reflect our values.
00:32:19.000He says like four times in the interview.
00:32:21.000He's like reading a script that some guy in the HR department handed to him.
00:32:25.000And so what we have to realize is that there's this whole new superstructure of corporate actors that are all of a sudden acting like Democrat political super PACs.
00:32:52.000It's not about trying to effectuate political change, right?
00:32:55.000And by the way, before they start lecturing about, eh, we're the greatest company ever, like how many people have died of heart disease by drinking Coca-Cola?
00:33:02.000You don't reflect my values, James Quincy, man.
00:33:16.000It's because they've actually been apolitical.
00:33:18.000And they're going to realize that, hey, in these massive companies where you live on 15% margins, when you alienate 75 million people, it's not exactly going to end well.
00:33:28.000And I don't love the idea of boycotts.
00:33:30.000I think it's inherently a leftist tactic.
00:33:32.000But I'm not going to go out of my way to go buy Coca-Cola now, right?
00:33:36.000I'm not going to, and I'm not going to go out of my way to go fly Delta Airlines.
00:33:39.000And so, and I think that you should purchase your values in alignment with them, especially when they start to do things as egregious as that.
00:33:46.000And this is a whole new development that I hope you're all watching in real time that's new.
00:34:09.000But the bigger point is this: understand that the confluence of who's actually trying to crush this country is more than just a specific political party and people in government.
00:34:20.000It's in all sorts of different institutions, both private and public.
00:34:24.000I mean, ultimately, it's a spiritual problem.
00:34:31.000People think spiritual warfare, and sadly, you know, there are many Christians who go around thinking that spiritual warfare means you got to cast demons out of every corner of the room.
00:34:40.000And, you know, I see you over there, you bad demon.
00:35:32.000I don't think it's effective, really, because most people won't give up their Coke.
00:35:36.000I was telling my wife, you know, if her dad would quit drinking Diet Coke for breakfast, it would break Coke overnight.
00:35:41.000He drinks so much Coke, you know, and he loves his Diet Coke, you know, but the bottom line is there's a big difference between saying, hey, I won't do business with that company versus cancel culture, which is what the left uses.
00:36:04.000It's like you guys are trying to cancel Major League Baseball, and then you get mad when all of a sudden we're like, no, we're not going to go voluntarily go buy Coca-Cola.
00:36:26.000When I go to a college campus and people come in and pull fire alarms to try to prevent me from speaking, I'm not saying we should go shut down Coca-Cola.
00:36:33.000I'm not saying that we should go all of a sudden and say they don't have a right to exist.
00:36:36.000I'm going to say, I'm going to keep on walking by.
00:36:38.000For example, I wouldn't say anyone's trying to do cancel culture when I go to a college campus.
00:36:42.000They say, oh, Charlie Kirk's speaking, and they keep on walking.
00:36:46.000As soon as they come in and they try to pull a fire alarm or smash a window or try to disrupt my speech, that's when you get into that idea that we find so detestable.
00:36:55.000They're intentionally trying to blur those two things together and conflate them.
00:37:17.000I think we're still trying to figure out some of the specifics of it, which we've had a lot of success on college campuses, organizing young people.
00:37:24.000And I encourage you to come tomorrow night.
00:37:26.000You're going to see a ton of young people that are really pursuing truth.
00:37:29.000It's at Ahern, I think, at 7 o'clock tomorrow.
00:37:35.000So as I started to speak at these churches, as I mentioned last year, over 50 of them, from Bangor, Maine to Albuquerque with my friend Steve Smotherman, amongst others, I realized that there are so many courageous pastors that are not properly equipped to speak out on these issues.
00:37:53.000Either they feel like they're alone, they need encouragement, they need some resources, they might need, you know, a quick, easy-to-print sermon on HR5 or HR1, and with the biblical reasons why that might be wrong.
00:38:05.000And so I said, well, if we're able to organize college campuses, are we able to do anything in the churches?
00:38:20.000Let me put it that's one of the great ironies of any self-described trait.
00:38:23.000I hope I have humility to be able to get into this and be able to handle this, where I think that we need a thousand Dietrich Bonhoeffers in our country and we need them quickly.
00:38:34.000I want you to imagine a thousand churches like this.
00:38:37.000The country would look a lot different.
00:38:39.000And all of a sudden, some of these things that we consider to be unthinkable in public policy will start to change.
00:38:45.000And so it says in Jeremiah to pray for the welfare of which the city you are in, to care about the city you are in.
00:38:52.000In 1 Timothy, it says very clearly to pray for the leaders by names that you might live quiet and peaceable lives.
00:38:58.000Are we living quiet and peaceable lives now?
00:39:00.000Well, we're charged to do that amongst many other things.
00:39:03.000And so it's my current focus to try and get as many pastors the resources and the encouragements that they might speak out biblically on these issues.
00:39:15.000They feel that they're not alone, to organize the churches, to form cultural impact teams.
00:39:32.000You have all these different ministries, but all of a sudden you don't have a ministry that speaks clearly into civics or the news cycle, then you're missing a huge gap here.
00:39:41.000And all of a sudden, people want to know, like, I get these questions.
00:39:43.000Charlie, what does the Bible say about immigration?
00:40:32.000If it wasn't for sin, we'd all be, well, I'd be out of work, but, you know, also, I'm only here because of you bunch of sinners.
00:40:39.000You actually strike a really important point, which is where the church should be weighing in on this, is that if you ask a group of young people, I'm not going to ask this question because it would, I don't want to put anyone on the spot, do you think people are basically good or basically bad?
00:40:53.000Most young people say they're basically good.
00:40:56.000Which anyone who opens up their Bible, we know that's not true.
00:41:00.000They're basically bad, broken by nature, in need of Jesus Christ for eternal life, right?
00:41:07.000But if you think people are basically good, this is a very important point.
00:41:10.000Well, then you must explain all the evil.
00:41:56.000We're going to do something called the Freedom Square that we're starting at my friend, the Barnett's Church in Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona.
00:42:02.000We're going to blast it out once a month and then hopefully once a week where we're going to offer biblical clarity into the news cycle.
00:42:08.000And I just want to raise the conversation, the energy.
00:42:11.000I want to raise the excitement, the engagement that people have on these issues.
00:42:15.000I want to change our posture as a church.
00:42:17.000People say, what does success look like in Turning Point Faith?
00:42:20.000I want to go from a passive posture or an uncertain posture to an active posture.
00:42:24.000Yes, I'm going to run for a school board.
00:42:26.000Yes, I'm going to get involved in my kids' education.
00:42:28.000Yes, I'm going to actually see what they're learning when it comes to politics.
00:42:31.000Yes, I'm going to watch the news differently.
00:42:33.000And so I want people to go from a passive posture to an active posture.
00:42:37.000If I can even do that a little bit, I think that project will be a success.
00:42:50.000Ultimately, Turning Point Faith will be very effective and useful for pastors.
00:42:55.000And it should be that the pastors influence the church.
00:43:00.000However, a lot of pastors are influenced by their congregation.
00:43:02.000Is there any part of Turning Point Faith that has a view to reaching the congregation?
00:43:06.000Yeah, and so that's why we'll have the mass media side of it and bring guest speakers because I want all of you, and if this is not your home church, I hope you're moved to go back to your pastor and lovingly say, hey, why aren't we doing this?
00:44:30.000There's no reason why every church shouldn't be doing this.
00:44:33.000And so I want to also encourage and put my arm around these pastors and say, hey, if you need help, call us.
00:44:42.000If you do not know how to properly explain critical race theory, free market economics, the invisible hand, socialism, immigration, globalism, any of these things, right?
00:46:28.000Malcolm X said, only a fool would send his children to have his enemy educate them.
00:46:38.000My question is, as long as 80 to 85% of Christians hand their children over to the humanist government system to educate them, how do we have a future?
00:46:53.000And do you think there's a connection that 80 to 85 percent of Christians leave the faith?
00:47:19.000And I'm not saying that if you're going to college, you're making the wrong choice.
00:47:22.000I'm going to come from the default position that you don't need it unless you can prove to me you need it.
00:47:28.000We need more plumbers, electricians, HVAC entrepreneurs, police officers, firefighters, people that work with their hands.
00:47:34.000I'm venturing a guess that plumbers in Vegas are earning more than people that studied North African lesbian poetry, like just or South American non-binary underwater whatever.
00:47:50.000So, and look, I'm a big believer, and this is the way that I'm able to, our audience is different than just your traditional show: is that I try to speak for the muscular class in this country.
00:48:02.000I speak for the people that are kind of looked down upon.
00:48:15.000I've visited over 150 colleges, and I represent an organization in a lot of colleges, so I happen to know a lot about it, but you're right.
00:48:22.000But I can tell you that there is a serious problem in this country, and I will aggressively defend every single one of you that didn't go to college that looked down on all of you.
00:50:50.000If your son or daughter decides not to go to college and you're walking through the grocery store line and you see a neighbor and they say, hey, how's your son doing?
00:50:58.000And you're afraid to say that your son or daughter is not going to college, you're the problem.
00:51:35.000But the one thing that I would say on top of that is don't think that all of a sudden getting a degree is a bad idea.
00:51:45.000First of all, the question is, what are you going to do with it?
00:51:48.000And if you're going to use it for the kingdom, there are those who are getting medical degrees and law degrees for the sake of the kingdom, for the sake of doing ministry, to do work that they couldn't do otherwise.
00:52:01.000There are those, you cannot go work for Wycliffe Bible translators unless you've got an advanced degree in linguistics and Bible translation.
00:52:19.000And I will say this: as we look at our campuses across the country, and I'm blessed that guys like Charlie are on the campuses because very, very few of the professors are actually conservatives that believe in conservative values, a very small minority.
00:52:35.000But I would say that's the church's fault.
00:52:37.000If you're going to get a degree, why wouldn't you go become a professor and stand up for righteousness on campus?
00:52:44.000You know, I mean, there are a few out there, but why are the schools taking over?
00:52:49.000Because the devil has strategized for years to take over our kids, and we stayed asleep and let it happen.
00:52:56.000And so, shame on us, shame on the church for not saying, honey, you're going to grow up and get a degree in English, and everybody's going to think you're really stupid for getting a degree in English.
00:53:41.000It's past the House of Representatives.
00:53:44.000It's rather stunning how radical it is and how silent the church has been on it, quite honestly, not this church, the general church.
00:53:53.000You know, I mean, it expands the Civil Rights Act to apply to people who think they're something different than their biological sex or gender.
00:54:03.000And so it would destroy women's sports as we know it, and that's already happening in real time in our country.
00:54:10.000It also expands the fact that anyone that holds a biblical view of marriage would be in violation of the Civil Rights Act, including potentially faith-based adoption centers and private schools.
00:54:20.000It would put a preference on teaching abortion in schools across the country.
00:54:45.000Okay, so HR1 is also passed the House.
00:54:48.000It would nationalize elections, mandate mail-in, absentee balloting.
00:54:53.000It would register every person automatically to vote in the prison system and who has a driver's license, including foreign nationals.
00:55:00.000It would repeal many of the state-based reforms that have happened that allow 27 states that allow voter ID and allow these sort of reforms.
00:55:18.000I don't think it's going to pass, but it's something that we have to be very concerned about.
00:55:21.000And HR5 is probably more applicable to the church, and a lot of churches are just kind of silent on it, which tells you almost everything you need to know on that.
00:56:19.000It's not just something that we should put under the rug because I believe supernatural intervention is a real thing that could happen at this moment, where you just pray for two people by name, Kirsten Sinema and Joe Manchin.
00:56:30.000Pray that they will hold the line and not repeal the filibuster.
00:56:32.000And so, because I'm not getting too technical, that's really where this debate is going to come up into.
00:56:37.000So, it's a consequence of losing elections.
00:56:40.000And that's what I can get into why that happened and how that happened.
00:56:44.000There's all sorts of different, yeah, it's probably a better way to word it.
00:56:48.000It's a consequence of them being in power.
00:57:41.000Although I've seen, I've been researching trade schools.
00:57:44.000It looks like they're going more the direction college has.
00:57:47.000What do you think is a good alternative to that?
00:57:49.000Yeah, it's a really, really good question.
00:57:50.000It kind of piggybacks off my earlier comments.
00:57:53.000And I don't want to contradict what you said, which is really important, which is if you have a specific purpose to go to college and get a skill, then you should go.
00:58:02.000I think that young men in particular should take a gap year.
00:58:07.000We're doing everything backwards when it comes to education.
00:58:09.000And it's been written for the wrong reasons.
00:58:13.000When you're 18, you have the most aspiration, hopefully, most energy, and the most idealism.
00:58:18.000So we do the exact opposite of what we should do.
00:58:20.000We go put you in an environment that suffocates that aspiration, that energy, and that idealism, and basically says, we're going to go teach you evangelistic nihilism.
00:58:31.000So the right answer might be, go find something you're really good at.
00:58:36.000Go find someone who's succeeded at that and go ask them to go work for them.
00:58:41.000This idea that you need a college degree to get a job is a mythology.
01:00:50.000If you are pathological about how hard you work, you could succeed at anything.
01:00:56.000It's the hardest attribute I could find in the world.
01:00:59.000You know, I think along the line of what he was saying about taking a year off, not taking a year off to sleep in.
01:01:06.000Really, I mean, kids nowadays, they think that somehow they need to sleep till 11 and then maybe get a shower and then go play games for a while.
01:01:15.000And then I'm going to look online to see if I can find a job.
01:01:18.000I mean, if you're not seriously pursuing it, it's not going to come to you sitting on the couch playing Nintendo or whatever kids play nowadays.
01:01:27.000So it's really, if you're going to take the year off, be serious about it and really start researching what you're good at.
01:01:36.000I mean, we have more information at our fingertips than ever in history.
01:01:40.000When I was in high school, I didn't have the internet to go to.
01:04:10.000I wrote a whole book about it if all of a sudden these things all get passed into law and he didn't do like any public displays of support.
01:04:31.000And a lot of people are probably saying that too.
01:04:33.000So, and let me also say this: if the church decides, as it traditionally does, to take the next election off and then get active in 2024, we're done.
01:05:25.000Charlie, first, I wanted to thank you so much for the encouragement that you gave the entire nation right after the election when it was stolen.
01:06:52.000I got to know this stuff really well for no other reason than if people are trusting me with a platform, then I have to become a subject matter expert on it.
01:06:59.000So two hours a day, no phone, I learn.
01:07:21.000For some people, maybe that's stimulating.
01:07:22.000And so I tell people, you're not going to be able to probably do two hours because that's literally my job, right?
01:07:26.000I factor it in because then I'm able to do radio shows and podcasts that hopefully are able to be action-oriented and true.
01:07:33.000I think that if every single person watching this and here right now and listening to the podcast, because we're going to, with your permission, repost this as a podcast.
01:08:47.000Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is absolutely terrific.
01:08:50.000Anything by the Federalist Papers, anything written by Jefferson and Madison in particular, and then understanding the ideas that went into the Declaration.
01:09:01.000And then, if I had to just say the one, if you said, Charlie, a magic wand, if every politician could know this, if every politician could just know the laws of economics, our country would be in a phenomenally better place.
01:10:37.000So it's no different than when you see someone at the top of their game, I'm not saying at the top of the game, in athletics, all of a sudden do something with precision.
01:10:50.000It came with 40,000 hours of practice.
01:10:53.000So I do two hours of radio, two hours of learning a day.
01:10:57.000I've done that for nine, about five and a half years, really seriously.
01:11:39.000It's actually I've had to repress my nature and retrain myself, which is to have the lower heart rate than the person you're communicating with.
01:11:57.000So, but they're rarer and rare, and hopefully I'll be able to eliminate them where I realize that style can matter a lot more than substance.
01:12:05.000That people are going to be won over whether or not you're able to stay in control, stay factual, stay precise, and not scream and yell and do all these different things.
01:12:14.000You might be saying things that are 100% true, but you're just making a whole scene out of it, and you might lose.
01:12:19.000But I appreciate the compliment, but I want to just tell you anyone can have that sort of whatever self-control that you might believe is communicated.
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01:12:55.000And if you don't know, you're like, how do we do that?
01:13:32.000How can we, as a multiracial band that's touring the U.S., trying to bring this nation back under God, get woke people to wake up, and can we become ambassadors of Turning Point Faith?
01:15:32.000And we were told that if you care about people's skin color, you're the racist.
01:15:37.000Now we're told that if you don't care about people's skin color, that you're somehow the racist.
01:15:41.000And the high school I went to, actually, things really worked.
01:15:45.000And I'm not saying that anyone for any moment, that there's not hatred and there's not division, all these sorts of things.
01:15:51.000I actually think there's a supply and demand problem with racism in our country.
01:15:54.000I think that there's such a low supply of racists and such a high demand that anytime you find when it makes national news, I think we're the least racist country ever to exist in the history of the world.
01:16:06.000I think that we are so decent to each other that we don't give ourselves credit considering the backgrounds and the races that people come from.
01:16:12.000So the advice I have for you is live out the gospel every single day, no matter what people call you with love and compassion and grace and mercy.
01:17:24.000I think what they're trying to say is, and again, I'm just conjecturing here because there was a whole New York Times piece on this the other day, is Christians that try to merge their belief in God and the gospel with their love of their country.
01:17:40.000And I love America because I love my God.
01:17:45.000And I'm a Christian first, then I'm a patriot in American, then a conservative in that order, and it's always that order.
01:17:52.000And America's a unique country because we have a trinity just like the Christian trinity.
01:17:58.000It's liberty in God we trust, and e pluribus unum.
01:18:01.000All three of those are biblical values and virtues.
01:18:04.000We have Moses staring at the speaker of the house.
01:18:09.000If you go into the House of Representatives, the administer of the law.
01:18:13.000The idea of the three branches of government comes directly out of Isaiah.
01:18:17.000And so I'm not going to apologize for being an American patriot.
01:18:20.000I'm not saying that my love for my country in any way usurps my love of Jesus by any means.
01:18:27.000But I also, I'm not going to apologize for a nation that's been a moral good inspired by the teachings of the Bible and has been more benevolent, more generous, more creative, more productive, more forward-thinking, and more open-minded than any other nation ever to exist in the history of the world.
01:18:43.000And insofar that I see the mission to bring people to Jesus and eternal life, I actually think it's made possible and easier thanks to open societies like the United States of America.
01:18:57.000So I think I would just need someone to define it because I think that it's kind of a fear-mongering tactic where no one actually is like, yeah, I'm a Christian nationalist.
01:19:09.000Like I'm just trying to build out what I think they're trying to.
01:19:12.000And I think what they're trying to say is this: there's a dangerous trend of pastors that are speaking out morally, and that might be a threat to our power.
01:20:03.000We're called to submit to authorities as long as they're not calling us to disobey the Lord.
01:20:10.000But at the same time, Jesus said, go and make disciples of Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost parts of the earth.
01:20:18.000And the problem is the church has lost sight of the mission we've been given.
01:20:24.000And that is, hey, while we are to give our all to our nation as good citizens, we're not to neglect our greater call.
01:20:31.000And so anything you call nationalist, I get concerned about because now you're saying, hey, let's make an ism out of it.
01:20:37.000And the second you start making an ism out of it, we have a problem.
01:20:40.000Yeah, and let me say one other thing, which is the most important thing you can give your life is your life to Jesus Christ.
01:20:45.000The second most important thing is to make sure you could do the first thing.
01:20:49.000And that's why I'm also involved in this fight, which is when you shut down the church, you allow abortion factories to stay open, and most of the rest of the world right now is getting less religiously tolerant, not more religiously tolerant.
01:21:03.000I'm going to care about the second thing or else we're going to be sharing the gospel from prison.
01:21:07.000And that's the pattern of despots, tyrants, and dictators.
01:21:10.000And so I completely agree that if you make it into kind of an idol or something, that it's a problem.
01:21:16.000But I also think it's kind of a fear-mongering tactic by the left to try to suppress political involvement on behalf of Christians for sure.
01:21:41.000That being said, you know, you mentioned the Bible and scripture a lot, which I love.
01:21:47.000But do you believe that with your influence and Turning Point USA that you should push forward the idea of traditional marriage, restrictions on the access of pornography for minors, and a whole host of other social issues that the Bible is very clear on?
01:22:05.000So I wanted to hear your position on these issues and whether or not you believe we should elect representatives that will act in favor of absolutely, yeah.
01:23:02.000But yeah, look, I think that we as Christians must be clear that what's happening in our country right now with young people in particular is that they are being told this lie of self-indulgence and almost nihilism.
01:23:18.000And it really is nihilism at its core.
01:23:22.000And we have the truth, and it's actually this amazing, it's contrary to what people might think, and I tell this to youth pastors all the time, which is what's in the hall of the Harvard Law School.
01:23:33.000It is the greatest, most, on its face, contradicting statement, but biblically true statement.
01:23:39.000The law are the wise restraints that keep you free.
01:24:37.000And I'm also part of a prayer ministry where I send on a long prayer to a bunch of people.
01:24:43.000And the lady who heads it up said, when I told her, I was come to see you today.
01:24:46.000She goes, ask him what he wants us to pray for.
01:24:48.000You've already hit up on a couple things.
01:24:51.000And then the guy in front of me staged me up and asked you to pray.
01:24:54.000But is there anything else that you can tell us that you think we need to be praying for?
01:25:01.000We need to pray for courage for believers.
01:25:05.000And we also need to pray for wisdom, as I keep on using that word because we're lacking it so sorely right now, so miserably, I should say.
01:25:14.000And so those are the things we should be praying for.
01:25:16.000And then pray for a supernatural event because I believe we do serve a supernatural God.
01:25:21.000And we could use a miracle or two right now.
01:25:41.000So, first of all, usually if you get, let me actually tell you my position on the death penalty, which is a little more nuanced than it used to be.
01:25:49.000First of all, if you're getting the death penalty, you probably did something convicted by the jury of your peers, a little bit different than someone who's in the womb that's all of a sudden getting a punishment that they didn't deserve.
01:26:03.000But I actually tend to not be in favor of the death penalty for a different reason, just because of how many innocent people have been killed by using the death penalty.
01:26:36.000And he's very pro-death penalty, very.
01:26:39.000And he said, Charlie, if on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, a dictator came out and said, if you kill on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, you don't get the death penalty.
01:26:50.000Do you think there'd be more murders on those days?
01:27:09.000That's the best argument against the death penalty.
01:27:11.000I also, though, will push back categorically, though, that all of a sudden we have to have these swan song sympathies for rapists and mass murderers in our country, and we can't have the same sympathy for a baby who's in the womb.
01:27:22.000Like, you have these massive, well-funded organizations that go and like advocate for the Boston bomber to stay alive.
01:27:28.000Like, sort of indifferent about that, to be honest with you.
01:27:35.000I'm actually going to go contest for actual innocence.
01:27:38.000This idea that we have to have a moral equivalency between a child in the womb that has done nothing wrong, literally no agency upon themselves, upon themselves, that is the ultimate of like non-agency human being because they're completely stationary and dependent on their mother versus someone who just like Eric Rudolph, who did the Centennial Park bombing.
01:27:57.000Like, sort of a moral difference there, right?
01:28:00.000And so, I get the spirit of the question.
01:28:02.000I get it asked all the time, and I just kind of tell people, just think a little bit logically about why someone could support one, not the other.
01:28:09.000I happen to be someone who's opposed to the death penalty just because I've done the research and we've executed 33 innocent people in the last couple decades in our country.
01:28:24.000It's a practical claim that if we even get one wrong, that's enough for us to take a pause, right?
01:28:29.000Where all of a sudden we're like, we're bringing a man or a woman who didn't actually do it to a punishment they didn't deserve.
01:28:34.000That for me is like, okay, if we can't even figure it out, absent admission, right?
01:28:40.000Then, like, Charles Manson actually ended up not getting the death penalty.
01:28:43.000And I'll just close and reiterate a point.
01:28:45.000It's so telling that the energy on the left is trying to always sue and put forth court filings on the scum of the earth, and I don't use that lightly, that do absolute evil, and they're indifferent and yet supportive of the massacring of the innocent.
01:29:04.000I just think that's a very telling point.
01:29:16.000Just a basic, simple, broad question, but I think a lot of people may be curious about it too: is based upon what you've learned from the Lord, your own insight, your own foresight, where do you see the United States 10 to 15 years from now, depending upon all that's going on with the nation and so forth?
01:30:09.000Americans are always late to the game.
01:30:12.000Once we get involved, it's a great quote from Winston Churchill, who, by the way, if you want a young person to emulate somebody, have them emulate Winston Churchill.
01:32:34.000Adam Smith wrote a book in 1776: Three Things Were Written 1776: Common Sense by Thomas Paine, Declaration, Inquiry into the Cause of Wealth of Nations.
01:32:42.000You should read all three and know them well.
01:32:48.000And they are, they really understand God-given natural rights, all three of them in different ways.
01:32:53.000And they kind of operate as kind of a triangle.
01:32:55.000Adam Smith went out and he realized, oh my goodness, there's pressures, there's movements that are happening as if there was a hand that was conducting all of it in the marketplace.
01:33:10.000Milton Friedman used to do this illustration.
01:33:12.000There's a person responsible for chopping the wood, transporting the wood, milling the wood, making the metallic end of it, making the eraser, stocking it in the store shelf, making sure you can buy it, checking you at the counter.
01:33:22.000Millions of people interacted to make one pencil.
01:33:24.000That's the invisible hand all coming together.
01:33:27.000And it's pretty amazing because none of these people know each other.
01:35:14.000I'm a highly rational, reasonable person.
01:35:16.000The more you dive into the historic aspect of the resurrection, the more you realize it's a real thing that actually happened, corroborated by real witnesses and real people, with people that had nothing to gain that died at the stake to advocate for his death, burial, and resurrection.
01:35:34.000So it's a gift for everyone to accept.
01:35:36.000I'm sure I'm literally speaking to the choir, but sometimes it's helpful to hear.
01:35:39.000But I'm sure if only one person hears it tonight that needs to hear it, it's worth the repetition.
01:35:43.000If I piqued your interest at all and you say, Charlie, I want to do something.