The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything 32: Kyle Rittenhouse, Marxism and BLM, What If My Church Is Still Closed? Get the Grade or Challenge Your Leftist Teacher?

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00:00:08.000 Hey, everybody, it's Monday, so I am taking your questions.

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00:00:59.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:01:00.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

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00:01:09.000 I want to thank Charlie.

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00:01:20.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.

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00:01:31.000 We got so many questions today at freedom at charliekirk.com about what is happening in Kenosha, specifically with Kyle Rittenhouse.

00:01:40.000 So I want to talk about this.

00:01:41.000 This young man, 17 years old, went to Kenosha, Wisconsin last week in AR-15 in the evening and was walking around Kenosha.

00:01:50.000 He was chasing the streets right around 11.45 p.m.

00:01:53.000 It was a chaotic scene.

00:01:56.000 A couple witnesses told the Daily Caller Richard McInnis, who interviewed Rittenhouse, the complaint, which is the criminal complaint against Rittenhouse.

00:02:04.000 And if you watch the video, it's a lot more nuanced and a lot more complicated than the media might make you believe, where Kyle Rittenhouse, this young man, was being chased in the streets, was actually being beaten over the head, and he was brought down to the ground, turned around, and fired a couple shots, which resulted in two individuals dying.

00:02:25.000 So Kyle Rittenhouse faces charges of recklessly endangering the safety of two other victims, possessing a weapon under the age of 18, first degree homicide, two counts of first-degree homicide, and one count of attempted homicide.

00:02:41.000 Now, the statute for first-degree homicide is very hard to get to.

00:02:46.000 And as long as we're being fair and as long as we're trying to have equal application of the law, it's very hard for me to see why Kyle Rittenhouse being hunted down in the street, almost acting in self-defense, would be charged with first-degree homicide.

00:03:00.000 I'm not justifying all of his actions.

00:03:02.000 I'm not saying that he should have been there with an AR-15 walking the streets.

00:03:05.000 That was probably a foolish thing for a young man to do to drive up to Kenosha in the midst of chaos.

00:03:11.000 Probably shouldn't have been there.

00:03:12.000 But if the police were doing their job and were allowed to do their job and they had National Guard support, Kyle Rittenhouse would have been told to stay in the car and he never would have engaged in any of this.

00:03:22.000 I believe Kyle Rittenhouse is being overcharged.

00:03:25.000 I believe this is going to be thrown out and a disgrace and an absolute injustice.

00:03:30.000 There is so many crimes happening in our country right now that are not being prosecuted.

00:03:34.000 And the fact that Kyle Rittenhouse, the young man who was a lifeguard and actually was trying to get rid of graffiti in some of these cities, who again, I'm not defending him being there walking around with a long-range rifle.

00:03:44.000 I mean, at some point, as a 17 or 18-year-old, there's some fights you should just not get involved in, some things that you should just leave to the authorities.

00:03:50.000 He wasn't even a local.

00:03:51.000 He was coming up probably trying to think he was going to do a good thing and unfortunately fell backwards into something that really is unfortunate.

00:04:00.000 However, to charge him with first-degree homicide is outrageous.

00:04:03.000 Now, if you charge him with unlawfully possessing a firearm under 18, he's probably guilty of that, maybe recklessly endangering the safety of two other victims.

00:04:12.000 But I do not believe that he was acting in anything else except self-defense.

00:04:16.000 He did not have motive.

00:04:17.000 He did not have premeditation to go out and cause harm that evening.

00:04:21.000 We're going to be following this case very closely, but I got so many emails from all of you at freedom at charliekirk.com of your thoughts on Kyle Rittenhouse, what's going on in Kenosha.

00:04:28.000 President Trump will be there this week.

00:04:30.000 We'll be following it very closely.

00:04:31.000 So please keep emailing me your questions.

00:04:33.000 And now I want to get to some questions that I took from a live audience through my very busy and ambitious Sunday when I was traveling all throughout Southern California.

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00:05:04.000 Well, shall we do some talking?

00:05:06.000 Yeah, I talk for a living.

00:05:07.000 So happy to do that.

00:05:11.000 Well, I'm excited.

00:05:12.000 This is going to be a great time.

00:05:14.000 And we've been tackling lots of different subjects.

00:05:17.000 And there's a lot of things that we've been doing the first couple of services.

00:05:22.000 So I want to take a different approach.

00:05:24.000 I want to play a little game with Charlie.

00:05:25.000 We're going to start it right off the bat, okay?

00:05:28.000 I'm going to throw out a phrase or two, and then I'm going to ask Charlie to go for it, right?

00:05:33.000 By the way, how many of you listen to his podcast on a regular basis?

00:05:36.000 Okay, for those of you who don't, you need friendly company.

00:05:39.000 That's right.

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00:05:42.000 I deal with those people too.

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00:05:50.000 He's got a great show.

00:05:52.000 We love it.

00:05:53.000 And so we're going to do this drill.

00:05:55.000 All right.

00:05:55.000 So here we go.

00:05:57.000 You ready?

00:05:58.000 Let's go.

00:05:58.000 All right.

00:05:59.000 Can it?

00:05:59.000 Yes.

00:06:00.000 All right.

00:06:04.000 The church and racism.

00:06:06.000 Okay.

00:06:07.000 Well, look, racism is a sin.

00:06:09.000 And so what's been amazing is when I see these signs that say we need to end racism in America, I said, that sounds like a great idea.

00:06:15.000 We need to end sin in America.

00:06:16.000 And I mean, look, that's an earthly problem that we have a spiritual solution for.

00:06:20.000 I also think what's really interesting about this, let's take a step back, is that what we have happening in our country right now is a conversation around human nature.

00:06:28.000 And so we need to take a step back and ask ourselves, what does the Bible tell us about human beings in a state of nature?

00:06:34.000 So absent all of government, absent all this, if we just had human beings out in the wild, who are we?

00:06:40.000 And we know this.

00:06:41.000 It took us a couple, what, I mean, nine verses to screw it up, what God gave us.

00:06:47.000 Adam, the collusion of man.

00:06:48.000 In the state of nature, we rebelled against God, which is sin.

00:06:52.000 Sin is the constant rebellion from God.

00:06:54.000 So we know in the state of nature, we are broken and totally depraved by nature.

00:06:59.000 This is not an insignificant starting point, by the way.

00:07:01.000 It's actually one of the most important things you can build a civilization around.

00:07:05.000 And so if you come from the standpoint that sin is in our DNA and Christ liberates us from the bondage that you have in sin, then that's the Christian story.

00:07:15.000 That's the Christian ethic.

00:07:16.000 That's what we believe in.

00:07:18.000 However, there's a great disagreement here where a lot of people on the secular left in particular, they believe that human beings in the state of nature are generally good.

00:07:28.000 That human beings, if you put them in the wild, they won't be nasty, brutish, and short to each other, as Thomas Hobbes would say in the Leviathan, which I completely agree.

00:07:37.000 I think that we actually discount how awful we are as human beings.

00:07:40.000 I think that if you take away a lot of the civil society that binds us together, the common cause, a shared language, our Christian morals, we are so awful to each other, it's hard to even put it into words.

00:07:51.000 And that is completely consistent from the Bible because that idea comes from the Bible.

00:07:55.000 And so, and if you look no further, how awful we were to fellow human beings throughout the 20th century.

00:07:59.000 I mean, unspeakable horrors we did to people time and time again.

00:08:03.000 And so, this question of can people say they want to end anything, whether it be prejudice or racism or any sort of sin, I mean, I believe the best way to embark that is the best way to end any sort of sin is a passage to Jesus Christ.

00:08:16.000 However, how much confidence you must have in yourself that you think you can end something through civil or governmental ways.

00:08:22.000 I mean, and here's something we just don't give ourselves enough credit for.

00:08:25.000 And I think we have to talk about things on an individual basis and a systemical, a systemic, and an institutional basis.

00:08:30.000 Of course, there's individual sinners in this country and individual people that are racist, but we don't give ourselves credit as a country of how we're actually systemically unracist as a country.

00:08:39.000 We don't give ourselves credit for this.

00:08:40.000 We should actually take a pause.

00:08:42.000 We generally get along with each other really, really well.

00:08:45.000 We don't talk about it, it's actually a story of celebration, not a story of condemnation or a story of always completely saying everything we did wrong.

00:08:52.000 Of course, we made mistakes, we also have done a lot of things right.

00:08:55.000 You look at it, and you're actually, your family's part of this statistic, so I'm happy to include you in this.

00:09:00.000 But 2 million people from Africa legally immigrated since 1980, I think maybe a little bit prior, family prior to that, to this country.

00:09:09.000 It's really amazing.

00:09:10.000 In fact, we have, there's a waiting list from people of Southeast Asia, Central America, and Africa.

00:09:16.000 45 million people want to come to America.

00:09:18.000 They don't want to come here because it's awful.

00:09:19.000 And they want to come here because it's actually a place where you can play by the rules and succeed.

00:09:23.000 And I'm not discounting that there's people that harbor that kind of sin and they actually go out of their way to try to have prejudice in their life.

00:09:30.000 I actually think it's a lot more rare than we actually have a national conversation around it.

00:09:34.000 And I can prove this.

00:09:35.000 Think in your own life.

00:09:36.000 Are your dealings with somebody of the opposite race generally good or generally bad?

00:09:40.000 And usually the answer is generally good in this society we've created.

00:09:42.000 I mean, I went to a high school in the suburbs of Chicago that was 53% Hispanic.

00:09:46.000 I was a minority as a white person in the high school I went to, and minority in that community in that high school.

00:09:52.000 And it was really interesting.

00:09:54.000 I'm really troubled where our country is going because actually race was not an issue when I was growing up.

00:09:58.000 I mean, I think my parents' generation did a lot of things incorrectly, and I think they made a lot of political mistakes.

00:10:03.000 One thing I actually think we did right for if you're 26 years old and we went to high school, it's actually my parents challenged me to look at people on their character, not their skin color.

00:10:12.000 And that was a really healthy way to grow up.

00:10:14.000 My best friends were black and Hispanic and Asian and Polish and South African, but I never looked at them that way.

00:10:20.000 And now we're teaching our kids to look at race first.

00:10:22.000 And it's just a bitter and absolute lie where people say, well, all the black kids sit together at the cafeteria.

00:10:27.000 I'm like, that wasn't my high school.

00:10:28.000 I don't, maybe they do now because you're telling them that.

00:10:30.000 And that is kind of this new thing they're teaching.

00:10:32.000 And I actually think the idea around race is incredibly dangerous.

00:10:35.000 It's rooted in tribalism.

00:10:36.000 It's against the Christian ethic.

00:10:38.000 And it's also incredibly, in my opinion, it's also really disingenuous to the full breadth of the human experience.

00:10:43.000 I think race is really superfluous, to be honest with you.

00:10:46.000 I think that we're a lot more than just the melanin content in our skin, a lot more.

00:10:49.000 And I think that this hyperfixation on just your skin color is something that's extraordinarily dangerous to be focusing on.

00:10:55.000 And I'm not discounting at all that certain people in America are born with different privileges and challenges.

00:11:02.000 How it's not a skin color privilege at all.

00:11:04.000 It's a two-parent privilege, is what it is.

00:11:06.000 A black kid, no, it's not simple.

00:11:08.000 A black kid that is raised by a mother and father is far more likely to succeed than a white kid that's just raised by a single mother, far more likely to succeed.

00:11:13.000 That dispels a lot of the issues of institutional racism right there.

00:11:17.000 And so here's the big issue: people say, well, we're a systemically racist country.

00:11:20.000 What that means, that argument, is that every facet, every law, every piece of government, everything it touches is institutionally against people of color on behalf of white people.

00:11:30.000 This is a bitter lie.

00:11:31.000 In fact, it's one of the most dangerous lies that we allow to go unopposed.

00:11:34.000 First of all, there's twice as many white people that are living in poverty than black people.

00:11:37.000 Now, there's more white people than black people, but this idea that every white person in this country is doing wonderfully well is ridiculous and needs to be completely denounced.

00:11:45.000 Number two, if you just take all the blacks in this country, they're the 18th wealthiest country on the planet.

00:11:51.000 18th.

00:11:52.000 There's only one African country that is wealthier than all the blacks in this country combined through the wealth that they have.

00:11:58.000 So that's a pretty amazing story of wealth creation and middle-class aspiration, not discounting any of the tragedies that people might face with the church, though.

00:12:06.000 Here's what really bothers me: Paul said very clearly in Philippians: neither slave nor Greek nor Jew.

00:12:10.000 We are all made free in Jesus Christ.

00:12:12.000 You have to understand prior to Christ, things operated in tribes.

00:12:15.000 I mean, the nation of Israel is literally a tribe that became a nation, right?

00:12:18.000 And most tribes were on religious or skin color or ethnic lines.

00:12:22.000 Christ changed everything.

00:12:22.000 They just were.

00:12:23.000 It was the game changer of humanity.

00:12:25.000 It was also the game changer of how we viewed human beings.

00:12:27.000 This idea that you shouldn't own people, this idea that you shouldn't categorize people on skin color, is all because of Christianity.

00:12:33.000 No other religion can take credit for that.

00:12:35.000 It is simply because of Christianity.

00:12:36.000 They were all made in the image of God under his kingdom and his dominion, brought by Jesus Christ.

00:12:42.000 All of a sudden, you built a civilization around it, which is Western society, when all people can succeed.

00:12:46.000 And now we're actually retreating back to 5,000-year-old tribal lines.

00:12:49.000 And I'm telling you right now, this does not end well.

00:12:51.000 It is disgusting where this is going.

00:12:53.000 This will end in a way where we are judging people on the skin color where you have to apologize for something you didn't do.

00:12:59.000 You get special privileges for something you didn't earn, and you divide people on something they can't control.

00:13:03.000 Those are all things that we know are immoral.

00:13:06.000 We must push back against them.

00:13:08.000 Yeah, so I'm going to make a comment and then I'm going to ask you a few questions.

00:13:11.000 You can give them a hand, you guys.

00:13:12.000 That's important, right?

00:13:14.000 So I'll make a quick comment and I'm going to ask a few questions and then you'll answer them all at once.

00:13:21.000 Okay, so here we go.

00:13:23.000 So the comment that I'm going to make is, and I know I'm going to get in trouble saying this, but I really don't care.

00:13:28.000 There are a lot of pastors that are out there right now soliciting black people in this country and saying, I'm listening to you.

00:13:37.000 How should I act?

00:13:39.000 I'm hearing you.

00:13:41.000 How should I act during this time?

00:13:42.000 What should I say?

00:13:43.000 What should I do?

00:13:45.000 That's a problem.

00:13:47.000 Because what the pastor should be doing right now is going to the Holy Spirit and asking that question.

00:13:51.000 Great point.

00:13:52.000 Lord, what do you want me to say?

00:13:53.000 How do you want me to act in the midst of the issues that we're having?

00:13:53.000 What do you want me to do?

00:13:57.000 Okay.

00:13:58.000 Here's more of a rhetorical question, and then I'll ask the real question.

00:14:01.000 The rhetorical question is this.

00:14:04.000 All the movie stars that said that they were going to leave our country if Trump got voted into office, why haven't they left this country?

00:14:11.000 Let me take a step further.

00:14:13.000 Why is it in this country that we have to build a wall, unlike other countries?

00:14:19.000 Why do we have to build a wall not to retain people, but to keep people from breaking in?

00:14:26.000 Oh, that's a rhetorical question.

00:14:27.000 Okay, let's ask the actual question here.

00:14:30.000 How do you respond to a pastor that says Christians are responsible for bringing racism into this country in 1619?

00:14:38.000 So it's our responsibility to fix it.

00:14:41.000 You know, a pastor recently said that the church is the biggest culprit of advancing racism in this country.

00:14:49.000 And I guess to give a little bit of rope, I suppose I grew up in Illinois, right?

00:14:55.000 So I grew up in a place where the church led the abolitionist slavery movement, right?

00:14:59.000 Where the church was the one that was inspiring the union for the fight of the defense of slaves, where 600,000 people died for the eradication of slavery.

00:15:07.000 And it was the church that was the one that kept that spirit together.

00:15:10.000 Where in Ripon, Wisconsin, the Republican Party was founded as an anti-slavery party, but it was pastors in the pews that were saying, we need to eradicate slavery.

00:15:16.000 This is against every teaching of Jesus Christ.

00:15:18.000 It is disgusting and it is immoral.

00:15:19.000 So it was the church that was driving forth what was a human norm.

00:15:23.000 And let's not fool ourselves.

00:15:24.000 Slavery is still happening today around the world.

00:15:26.000 And slavery happened prior to Christ and it happened post-Christ.

00:15:29.000 The idea that human beings owning human beings is an unspeakable sin.

00:15:34.000 The Bible talks explicitly against it.

00:15:36.000 Anyone who used the Bible to have any form of ownership of human beings or any sort of sinfulness of racism was not speaking the gospel.

00:15:45.000 And that's more of a spiritual, theological problem than an institutional, oh, it's the church and just labeling it as that.

00:15:50.000 So it's the church and Christianity anywhere that has always been the ambassador of the liberation of the disadvantaged.

00:15:56.000 I'll give you a really interesting example that is different but is similar.

00:15:56.000 Always.

00:16:00.000 So let's just talk about people that have disabilities, specifically blind people.

00:16:03.000 So people that are blind in ancient Greece and ancient Rome were so beyond disregarded.

00:16:09.000 In the Darwinian view of the world, of which the Greeks and the Romans existed in, whether they liked it or not, blind people had no value.

00:16:15.000 They were discarded.

00:16:16.000 The girls were used as sex slaves.

00:16:17.000 The boys were used as fillers and they were discarded in the wilderness.

00:16:20.000 There was no value for them whatsoever.

00:16:22.000 Christ comes along, talks about the value that is, every person has value in the eyes of God.

00:16:26.000 By year 300, there was a clinic for the blind in Jerusalem built by Christians.

00:16:30.000 By year 1200, there were schools all across Europe built by Christians for the blind.

00:16:36.000 And we take this for granted, right?

00:16:37.000 We say, of course, we should take care of blind people.

00:16:39.000 That wasn't the case before Christianity.

00:16:41.000 It's the church that has always been on the cutting edge.

00:16:41.000 It wasn't.

00:16:44.000 Then it becomes institutional.

00:16:45.000 Everyone says, of course, that makes sense.

00:16:46.000 Like, no, it doesn't.

00:16:47.000 Your secular worldview would never take care of deaf, blind, people with Down syndrome, people, all that.

00:16:51.000 You would, in your Darwinian secular view of the world, you would cast them aside and you would eliminate them.

00:16:56.000 If you don't believe me, just look at abortions that are happening now based on any sort of abnormalities.

00:17:02.000 I can never pronounce that word.

00:17:03.000 I'm sorry.

00:17:04.000 We got it.

00:17:05.000 And because of that, if you do not have a Christian worldview, then all of a sudden you engage into Darwinism and it gets really brutal really quickly.

00:17:12.000 And so this idea that in America, the church has been the enemy of any sort of reconciliation or any sort of equity under the law is an absolute bitter lie.

00:17:21.000 It is pastors in the first great awakening, the second great awakening, the third great awakening, the fourth great awakening that have always been advocating for what we take for granted in a society, one nation under God, equality under justice, judging people on what?

00:17:33.000 On actions, not on skin color.

00:17:35.000 Martin Luther King Jr. said when he was preaching in the pulpits and when Martin Luther King Jr. gave that speech in the Washington on the March on Washington, he said, I am here to cash in a promissory note that was first written on the Declaration of Independence.

00:17:49.000 So Martin Luther King Jr. didn't rip up the Declaration of Independence.

00:17:52.000 Martin Luther King Jr. did say this country was racist, bitter, awful, backwards, all these things.

00:17:56.000 He said, this country has been amazing, but it has not filled the promise made to black people that was in this declaration.

00:18:02.000 Fulfill it.

00:18:03.000 And he was right.

00:18:04.000 And so he came to cash in a check that was written out to black Americans, fulfilling the promise that was made.

00:18:10.000 That's why he called a promissory note, completing the art.

00:18:13.000 Frederick Douglass, a black Republican from the 1800s, said the Constitution and Declaration of Independence did more to advance people's views of black people as human beings than any other document since the Bible.

00:18:25.000 He said it himself.

00:18:26.000 The founding documents actually created this conversation of we have civil government, live up to this idea of one nation under God, live up to this idea of all created equal.

00:18:35.000 Because we didn't live up to it immediately, but that kind of moonshot was created.

00:18:38.000 And it was the church that was the steady drumbeat throughout the Great Awakenings and throughout our country.

00:18:43.000 And so I push back tremendously people that are just impugning and indicting the American church.

00:18:49.000 And I suppose they have several examples in the deep south when the church taught false doctrine and they, I think, perverted the word of God to try to protect their sinful nature.

00:18:59.000 However, I think it comes really up against an equal amount, if not more churches that were advocating for the liberation of individuals that were slaves and for the righteous path of people from bondage.

00:19:10.000 And it's not as if perverse teaching is anything new.

00:19:12.000 In fact, 1 Peter tells us that's going to happen all the time.

00:19:15.000 The fact that a civilization had that many confident pastors to be able to spread this kind of goodness, you guys understand from 1776, the formation of our country when we, Declaration of Independence, our birth certificate to now, is such a short period of time in human standards.

00:19:28.000 And the fact that we have been able to eradicate slavery, give women the right to vote, care for the disabled, the blind, the deaf, be able to have millions and hundreds of millions of people break out of poverty, life expectancy increase, religious liberty, the kingdom of God.

00:19:41.000 We are living in a time where we have to take a step back.

00:19:43.000 This is not really normal at all.

00:19:45.000 The human path, the human path traditionally, is you live till you're 35, you go fight some other dictator's war.

00:19:51.000 You might get married if you're lucky, only have children so they can enlist in that dictator's war.

00:19:55.000 And if you're less lucky, you go work on a farm and you die when you're 28 of typhus or some sort of transmissible disease.

00:20:01.000 That was the human cause for thousands and thousands of years.

00:20:05.000 And yet I have to hear from these bitter, arrogant, deceitful activists that we live in an awful country and we have to tear it all down.

00:20:09.000 Like you have no idea what you're talking about.

00:20:11.000 You are bitter.

00:20:12.000 You are arrogant.

00:20:13.000 You are misinformed.

00:20:14.000 And you need to stop talking.

00:20:16.000 That's awesome.

00:20:16.000 Yeah, that's awesome.

00:20:18.000 I couldn't agree more.

00:20:20.000 Okay.

00:20:21.000 As we set up the microphone, I'm going to ask you one more question.

00:20:24.000 I'll make a statement.

00:20:25.000 That's a question.

00:20:26.000 And that's this.

00:20:27.000 I make no punches about it.

00:20:28.000 You guys know this.

00:20:29.000 I think President Trump is going to go down as probably one of the greatest presidents in U.S. history, if not thee.

00:20:34.000 We'll just leave that alone for a second.

00:20:36.000 Why is that such a polarizing statement?

00:20:38.000 I mean, people, Christians say, I'll never vote for him because he's an immoral man.

00:20:43.000 Well, I would say most Christians, I actually think, look at it correctly, where President Trump has a record amount of approval amongst Bible-believing Christians.

00:20:50.000 I think some of the Christian leadership, first of all, I don't think they understand the nuance of at all what he represents, what he's doing.

00:20:56.000 I also think there's a great, I think there's a really dangerous trend of moralization from the Christian leadership in America where it's like, I'm a better person than he is.

00:21:03.000 And okay, well, I get it that it might be a little hard to understand whether the three-times married, twice-divorced billionaire playboy from New York is doing more for Christianity than you are, but get over it, okay?

00:21:13.000 Because he is.

00:21:14.000 So God uses all people, sinful.

00:21:16.000 We're all sinful by nature.

00:21:17.000 And if you want to get in competition, like I'm a better person than Donald Trump, whoop, maybe you are, maybe you aren't.

00:21:21.000 I mean, we all fall short in the eyes of God, okay?

00:21:24.000 And this idea that I'm going to be able to say that I'm such a tremendous person versus him, what is he doing?

00:21:28.000 Moving the embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing Golan Heights, repealing the Iran deal, most pro-life president in American history, has an MHL.

00:21:35.000 Most what?

00:21:35.000 Stop.

00:21:36.000 Pro-life president in American history, which is phenomenal, right?

00:21:40.000 And so, again, I believe we are going to look back at abortion at some point and realize the kind of moral tragedy we did to this country.

00:21:47.000 64 million abortions since Roe versus Wade, a million abortions a year, 98.6% of abortions in this country are done for socioeconomic reasons, meaning that's just birth control.

00:21:57.000 It's just inconvenience.

00:21:58.000 It's not life, the mother, incest, or rape.

00:21:59.000 98.6% of all abortions are people like, oh, sorry, didn't mean to do that.

00:22:04.000 Now I'm going to go terminate an innocent life.

00:22:05.000 That's 63 million souls, birthdays, careers, aspirations, entrepreneurs.

00:22:12.000 It's unthinkable kind of the kind of population decimation we've done to ourselves since Roe versus Wade happened and was passed.

00:22:19.000 And by the way, we didn't even understand the science when Roe versus Wade was passed.

00:22:22.000 We didn't understand exactly what we were doing, any of that.

00:22:24.000 And I think because of Roe versus Wade, I think it is a sin in our country that affects a lot of other sins.

00:22:30.000 I think it's a tributary.

00:22:31.000 If you allow that to happen, then you see all this other immorality unfold around it.

00:22:36.000 If you tolerate a million abortions a year, what else do you tolerate?

00:22:38.000 And all of a sudden, you're starting to see exactly that.

00:22:40.000 Because if you don't get the basic stuff right, then you're not going to get the even more complicated or harder questions right.

00:22:46.000 And that's really one of the most basic things.

00:22:47.000 Yet it's the president.

00:22:48.000 Again, I understand this can be hard for an untrained eye who was formerly pro-choice and one time supported Planned Parenthood, been three times married, twice divorced, with on the cover of Playboy magazine, who's the most pro-life president in American history.

00:23:00.000 How did that happen?

00:23:01.000 Well, get over it.

00:23:01.000 God uses people in unusual ways.

00:23:03.000 Look at Samson, look at King David, look at Cyrus.

00:23:05.000 It's all throughout the Old Testament.

00:23:07.000 And the president has been unafraid in embracing evangelical leadership.

00:23:10.000 He's prayed over every single day.

00:23:12.000 He's invited more pastors, you have a lot of than any other president, including George W. Bush.

00:23:15.000 He's been unafraid to talk about the necessary parts of the gospel.

00:23:18.000 In his acceptance speech, of which I was there yesterday, he made five definitive mentions about the necessary connection that the American citizenry had to Heavenly Father and Almighty God.

00:23:28.000 He said, we worship God, not government.

00:23:29.000 This is transformational stuff for any political candidate.

00:23:31.000 Understand, prior to Trump, it was the Republican Party stance of Mitt Romney to stop talking about this stuff, to stop being a pro-life party, to stop talking about religion, to stop talking about churches, to get away from it.

00:23:41.000 President Trump said, This is a mistake.

00:23:42.000 Now, mind you, I get the inherent contradiction, but I think we can put that aside.

00:23:46.000 He did it, and he's doing it.

00:23:48.000 And again, God can use people in all sorts of amazing ways, and God is working in his life.

00:23:51.000 He has a tenderness towards pastors.

00:23:53.000 He talks regularly on the phone with some of the top evangelical leaders of James Dobson and Jack Hibbs and people all across the country that pray for him and care about him.

00:24:01.000 Whereas the other administration would not even take a phone call from a pastor, let alone platform them at the highest levels of government.

00:24:07.000 And so people say, I can't possibly support him because of his moral and grievances and all this.

00:24:12.000 Again, we all fall short in the eyes of God, but there is no question of what he has done for the kingdom and for faith and for people that actually go to church and care about the unborn and all of this.

00:24:21.000 He has been a fighter the likes of which we could never have anticipated in the Oval Office.

00:24:25.000 Amen.

00:24:26.000 Amen.

00:24:29.000 And I'll just say on a very, very personal note: my wife and I really desire to adopt children.

00:24:37.000 We've been trying for a while.

00:24:39.000 And I thank God that we have a president that's making that process easier for us because it's hundreds of times harder to do that than it is to kill a baby.

00:24:49.000 It's easier to abort than adopt.

00:24:51.000 And I want to also say this: to any woman that's in here right now that has done that, right?

00:24:56.000 You know, there's grace and love.

00:24:58.000 You know, you know that there's redemption and there's peace.

00:25:01.000 And God redeems us in those situations, right?

00:25:06.000 So we just want you to understand that, but we still have to stand up for the wickedness that's represented in it.

00:25:11.000 We want to save babies' lives.

00:25:13.000 Our president's done a great job with that.

00:25:15.000 So we're going to take some questions.

00:25:17.000 And when we do, here's the rule again: no statements.

00:25:21.000 If you make statements, we're going to cut you off.

00:25:23.000 And we want you to get right to the point, okay?

00:25:26.000 It's very, very important.

00:25:28.000 Because, yeah, the open mic is right there.

00:25:29.000 We also have a floating mic that's back in the foyer for those of you that are in the parking lot or those of you that are in the overflow.

00:25:37.000 You can go over there and we'll also take your question.

00:25:39.000 They'll signal me and let me know there's somebody there waiting to take a question.

00:25:42.000 So let's start taking questions.

00:25:44.000 You can walk right up to the mic and just remember the rules, okay?

00:25:47.000 Be respectful of the rules and we'll be all good.

00:25:50.000 See, a turning point.

00:25:51.000 Sure.

00:25:51.000 Anyway, go ahead.

00:25:53.000 Hi, I was recently threatened on social media with false allegations against for my personal beliefs, conservative beliefs.

00:25:59.000 My question is: how should I approach that situation?

00:26:01.000 So you were threatened because your political beliefs are falsely accused.

00:26:06.000 Happens all the time.

00:26:07.000 The Bible tells you, tells you, we'll be persecuted.

00:26:09.000 Matthew 5, 28, it's one of the greatest verses I could get.

00:26:13.000 Maybe it's 523, but it's on the Sermon on the Mount.

00:26:16.000 It's one of my favorite mic drop moments of the entire Bible, where Christ says, if you are lied about, persecuted, and ridiculed, feel it a blessing, dot, dot, dot, because of me.

00:26:26.000 It's like this beautiful, that verse alone, you could spend a whole year just doing a sermon, like just a whole series on that, where Christ says it's a blessing to get persecuted because of me.

00:26:38.000 That's the root of it.

00:26:39.000 And so consider it a blessing.

00:26:41.000 Paul talks about that all the time.

00:26:42.000 I mean, Paul was the ultimate happy warrior because he was nonstop persecuted at all times.

00:26:48.000 And how do you deal about it?

00:26:49.000 Now, this is very important.

00:26:51.000 While we anticipate persecution to be an inevitability, you should not have to tolerate it in the sense that do not allow lies to come across your radar screen without proclaiming truth.

00:26:59.000 If you are falsely maligned, stand up for yourself or have other people do it on your behalf.

00:27:04.000 And also, I don't know the nuance of your situation, but some fights are not worth having, in my opinion.

00:27:09.000 Some fights are they want to fight more than you do.

00:27:12.000 Now, if you feel it crosses the threshold where you have to defend your honor or defend your life, for example, I get lied about all the time, and most of it I just unaddress because I actually think that people are a lot smarter than I give them credit for.

00:27:25.000 And if I just continue to put positives in the world, but I will respond to certain ridiculous things when people compare me to the worst aspects of society.

00:27:33.000 I stand up for myself, but I don't respond to everything.

00:27:36.000 I actually don't think that's wise.

00:27:37.000 I don't think it's rooted in a prudent approach to false accusations.

00:27:41.000 Yeah, I would agree.

00:27:42.000 And I would also say this: when something like that happens and there's something that you really feel like you need to respond to, especially on social media, pray.

00:27:50.000 Ask God to give you wisdom and ask Him to give you the best, like most well-concise, intelligent, mic-dropping statement you can write and walk away from it.

00:28:02.000 Write at once and don't go back to it.

00:28:03.000 Don't respond.

00:28:04.000 Don't just let him do that.

00:28:05.000 That's what I'm going to do.

00:28:06.000 James 1:5 says, ask for wisdom for God, for he gives generously.

00:28:10.000 And I can tell you, it is a supernatural power.

00:28:13.000 It's one of the few things that God tells us through Paul that he will deliver to you every time you ask.

00:28:19.000 And I can tell you from someone who talks for a living in front of millions of people, it is one of the most true statements of the entire Bible: that if you ask for wisdom, you will be granted that wisdom.

00:28:28.000 And so I highly encourage you to do that.

00:28:31.000 And you can see it.

00:28:32.000 Can't you?

00:28:33.000 That's awesome.

00:28:34.000 All right.

00:28:34.000 Next question.

00:28:38.000 Hey, you got the turning point, Shirt.

00:28:39.000 Yeah.

00:28:40.000 How would you have a dialogue with a pastor that doesn't want to reopen the church?

00:28:44.000 Because I felt led to make the case to my pastor, hey, let's reopen the church.

00:28:48.000 Yeah.

00:28:49.000 Man, again, my position is every church should fully open right now completely.

00:28:56.000 Salvation is essential.

00:28:57.000 Thank you.

00:28:57.000 Church is essential.

00:28:58.000 And so let me make that case first of all.

00:29:02.000 In a time when we have depression, suicide, alcoholism, sexual domestic abuse, every sort of metric you have for a declining society going in the wrong direction, the churches need to be open now more than ever.

00:29:12.000 I run a podcast.

00:29:13.000 We have millions of listeners.

00:29:14.000 I get thousands of emails a week of young people that say, you've inspired me to go to church, but I can't.

00:29:18.000 And for the pastors out there that keep their churches closed, you are engaging in immorality and you are preventing people from coming to the kingdom of God.

00:29:25.000 It's more than a YouTube live stream.

00:29:26.000 It's ecclesia, the gathering of believers.

00:29:29.000 Jesus said that on this rock build my church, but the church was not actually a defined term.

00:29:34.000 It means ecclesia.

00:29:34.000 We have replaced it.

00:29:36.000 So we go back to what that means.

00:29:37.000 It means people gathering together, praising God, worshiping under a unified message and theology.

00:29:42.000 And so for pastors that keep their churches closed, the best question, again, I'm a big believer in asking questions.

00:29:49.000 I think you can actually root out truth by the Socratic method of asking out questions.

00:29:53.000 Christ did this really, really well.

00:29:55.000 And my opinion would be this: if you're not opening your church now, do you believe that you should just permanently close your church altogether?

00:30:02.000 And that's a legitimate question.

00:30:05.000 Do you think your church is irrelevant?

00:30:06.000 Because that's basically what people that haven't opened their church have made the argument for.

00:30:10.000 They also don't trust their congregation.

00:30:12.000 They don't.

00:30:13.000 They think they're smarter and they think they're better than their congregation and they're not.

00:30:17.000 If they say, well, people might get the spread of this and this, like, well, if they can have 70,000 people in the streets in Washington, D.C. this weekend for BLM Incorporated, you can open the church.

00:30:26.000 If you can have a cannabis dispensary open, you can open the church.

00:30:28.000 If you can have abortion clinics open, you can open the church.

00:30:31.000 If you can go to Loser Home Depot, you can open the church.

00:30:34.000 I mean, if you can do all these different, all these mass gatherings, you can open the church.

00:30:38.000 You can.

00:30:39.000 And so it is the pastors that have been complicit for it, I believe, will look back and have some of the greatest sorrows of regret, of lack of conviction ever.

00:30:47.000 I hope that they will right their wrong right now because the church is in more of a need right now in our country than ever before.

00:30:54.000 But I've publicly called for thousands of pastors to resign.

00:30:57.000 You don't have to comment on this.

00:30:59.000 But if your pastor has not opened your church or has pandered to BLM Incorporated or not speaking out against the moral tragedy, you should not be a pastor and you should resign.

00:31:10.000 All right.

00:31:12.000 That was a mic-dropping moment right there.

00:31:17.000 So I'm going in my senior year at UC Berkeley and I'm a Christian conservative.

00:31:21.000 Wow.

00:31:21.000 And I just wanted, thank you.

00:31:26.000 But like with that said, how do you, like for me, like I will get an F on my paper if I disagree with the teacher's opinion?

00:31:33.000 And like same with like applying to grad school.

00:31:35.000 How do you keep your morals, but also want to go far in life and like academics, getting a job?

00:31:41.000 Like I feel like I have to cheat myself and what I believe in if I'm going to go.

00:31:45.000 It's a really hard question.

00:31:48.000 So let me tell you where I disagree with the great Ben Shapiro.

00:31:52.000 So I've had Ben Ben has a big platform.

00:31:55.000 Ben went to Harvard.

00:31:56.000 I didn't.

00:31:58.000 And Ben said, I pandered and got a good grade because I just took the line of thinking of the professor and I moved on.

00:32:07.000 I disagree with this.

00:32:09.000 Now, I'm going to tell you what I would do.

00:32:10.000 I'm not going to tell you what you should do.

00:32:12.000 I want to be very clear, okay?

00:32:14.000 Because everyone has a different, and Ben's reasoning is not incorrect.

00:32:17.000 Ben's reasoning actually makes sense, but I disagree with it.

00:32:20.000 Ben's reasoning is: I wanted to get the highest grade so I could have the highest amount of credibility to further contest for truth in the future.

00:32:28.000 That was his reasoning, right?

00:32:29.000 I think that's perfectly reasonable, but I think there's a lot of problems with it.

00:32:34.000 Myself personally, I don't think that fighting for what is good is a light switch.

00:32:40.000 So I don't think it's something you can do in certain things and not other things.

00:32:43.000 Now, I fully recognize if you contest for Christ and for first principles, you will get a C or a D in most classes at UC Berkeley.

00:32:51.000 You will be downgraded and they will punish you for that.

00:32:54.000 The question for you, and only you know the answer to this, is: is it worth it?

00:32:58.000 Is it worth standing for truth and then probably having a less likelihood for a career?

00:33:02.000 Again, I'm not telling you what to do.

00:33:04.000 It's just your own decision.

00:33:06.000 For myself personally, again, I didn't go to college because I found that whole system so self-defeating in the sense of overly pandering to get good grades.

00:33:16.000 But when I was in high school, I would take the bad grade and that was it.

00:33:19.000 Again, that's not, I'm not suggesting or recommending it.

00:33:23.000 I think this is the problem with Ben's advice.

00:33:26.000 I think that if you're not going to fight for truth when you're in the den of lions of Berkeley, then will you fight for truth than when you're a partner at the law firm?

00:33:34.000 And maybe yes, maybe all of a sudden you can then get into it.

00:33:37.000 But I'm of the opinion it's like a muscle.

00:33:39.000 And metaphysically, we know muscles take muscle memory and you have to get stronger and tougher.

00:33:44.000 While you might get a C, maybe God's path was like you get a C and then you're going to become a partner somewhere else and then you go fight for something else.

00:33:49.000 And maybe getting the best grade wasn't necessarily the best path for you.

00:33:54.000 And so my opinion, the Bible tells us this, is that if you contest for truth, that is the right path.

00:34:00.000 And it might be C's or D's and all that.

00:34:02.000 Again, I'm not discounting Ben's argument.

00:34:04.000 I think that Ben's argument is fine.

00:34:07.000 I'm going to tell you myself personally: I know that if I indulge even slightly in not contesting for what is moral or good, I lose the muscle memory.

00:34:15.000 I might be less likely to do it in the future.

00:34:18.000 God bless you.

00:34:19.000 Thank you.

00:34:20.000 And what's your name?

00:34:22.000 Kate.

00:34:23.000 So, yeah, we're going to pray for you.

00:34:25.000 And honestly, we're going to put you on our prayer chain because you're rare and we love it.

00:34:31.000 But you are a growing minority.

00:34:33.000 And that's the good thing.

00:34:35.000 So we're going to pray for you.

00:34:36.000 Our prayer team is going to put you on our prayer chain and we're going to pray that God would just give you the strength to get through it.

00:34:41.000 So let's take a question in the lobby and then we'll take your question, okay?

00:34:45.000 Thank you, Charlie.

00:34:46.000 Thank you, Pastor.

00:34:48.000 My question is: Patrice, she's one of the leaders of BLM, and she's on record admitting that she and other BLM leaders are trained Marxists.

00:34:59.000 My question is: Does Marxism conflict or contradict Christianity?

00:35:06.000 Thank you.

00:35:07.000 Yes.

00:35:09.000 That's an easy one.

00:35:09.000 So let me tell you.

00:35:10.000 Let me tell you what Marxism is because I think we throw around that term a lot and we don't always recognize what it is.

00:35:15.000 It's really important.

00:35:15.000 Thank you for the question.

00:35:16.000 I can't see you.

00:35:17.000 It's a terrific question.

00:35:18.000 So Marxism, of course, is derived from the mid-1800 19th century thinker Karl Marx, who is originally from Germany and traveled all across Europe and wrote the Communist Manifesto, which was an observation of what he called the inequities and the injustices of the industrial revolution, the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

00:35:37.000 He was actually laughed at and scoffed at, and people didn't really take his writing seriously until someone by the name of Vladimir Lenin picked up the Communist Manifesto and was actually the first experiment in Marxism or communism.

00:35:48.000 So there's a lot of misinterpretations about Marxism and communism.

00:35:51.000 If you read the manifesto, actually the end result of the Communist Manifesto is what he calls a utopia, which actually means nowhere, if you go back to the actual meaning of the word.

00:36:00.000 But he believes in a couple things.

00:36:02.000 His opening shot, his opening argument, is derived from a belief of human nature, originally from Plato, the earliest person we can have that theorized this, then re-articulated by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and then by Karl Marx, which is that human beings are good by nature.

00:36:17.000 So Karl Marx thought that people were really good.

00:36:20.000 Remember, this is what it all comes down to right now.

00:36:21.000 And we have the answer to this.

00:36:22.000 I want to just reinforce this: what is happening in our country is debate on human nature.

00:36:26.000 This is why the church should be heavily involved in this moment, and they're missing an opportunity because this is one of the guiding principles of why we believe in Christ.

00:36:34.000 Why would we need Christ if we were good by nature?

00:36:36.000 It's really important.

00:36:36.000 Right?

00:36:37.000 If we were good, we wouldn't need Jesus.

00:36:38.000 So you can kind of reverse engineer our entire ethic by this leading belief.

00:36:42.000 That's literally why it's the first interaction that man has with God is us rebelling against it because it kind of sets the stage for the entire Bible.

00:36:49.000 Like, okay, we rebelled against God.

00:36:51.000 Here comes a book of sin.

00:36:52.000 It's like, okay, right?

00:36:53.000 That's the whole thing.

00:36:54.000 That's true.

00:36:55.000 It kind of sets the baseline.

00:36:56.000 It's not as if God was perfect and everything around us made us worse.

00:37:01.000 So Marx founded upon himself.

00:37:02.000 There's some things that Marx said were true, and some things he said that were completely pathologically false, and some things he recommended that have led to the death of 100 million people over the last hundred years.

00:37:12.000 Where some of the things that he argued for was that the workers own the means of production, right?

00:37:16.000 So that this is a fancy way of saying we should get rid of private property.

00:37:20.000 So private property is a biblical value.

00:37:22.000 We don't talk about it enough.

00:37:23.000 Abraham bought Hebron for the hall of the patriarchs to be able to bury himself and his wife and for his lineage.

00:37:28.000 The idea of owning property is something that is biblical, and it is actually against the Bible and against the teachings of the greatest book ever to exist in the history of the world to say that we should eradicate private property.

00:37:39.000 Now, some people say, well, Jesus said that.

00:37:41.000 No, he didn't.

00:37:42.000 He said to be generous.

00:37:43.000 He never said for the eradication of human beings to be able to capacity to own something.

00:37:48.000 That is a misinterpretation of the scriptures in the text.

00:37:50.000 He never, ever said that.

00:37:52.000 In fact, he said, for which you are given, you should multiply faithfully.

00:37:55.000 That's basically the parable of the talents.

00:37:57.000 And so as they're a trained Marxist, you have to understand that Marxism started as economic theory in the 1860s, mostly 1870s, 1880s.

00:38:06.000 And then Vladimir Lenin implements it in the Russian Revolution against the Tsars, wins the revolution, Bolsheviks versus the Mensheviks, and then creates what is known as the Soviet Union.

00:38:16.000 He dies, Stalin takes over.

00:38:17.000 Communism has been tried in every single continent, every single country, all across the world, the last hundred years.

00:38:23.000 It has never worked.

00:38:24.000 In fact, it's the opposite of worked.

00:38:25.000 It's ended in human tragedy everywhere it touches.

00:38:27.000 Why?

00:38:28.000 Because it's against human nature.

00:38:30.000 We have a biblical answer why Marxism doesn't work.

00:38:32.000 We need to talk about it more.

00:38:33.000 People say, well, it just doesn't work.

00:38:34.000 And it'll go a level deeper.

00:38:36.000 I understand the technical part of it.

00:38:37.000 But why?

00:38:38.000 It's because it's against how we are being programmed by our God.

00:38:42.000 It's because Marx was trying to fix a biblical problem with earthly solutions.

00:38:46.000 That's the whole point.

00:38:47.000 Everything BLM stands for.

00:38:49.000 We have to get rid of the police because people do bad things because of police officers.

00:38:53.000 That's their argument.

00:38:54.000 You're wrong.

00:38:55.000 We know that.

00:38:56.000 That's so contradictory to the teachings of the Bible.

00:38:59.000 And so then Karl Marx's ideology grew.

00:39:02.000 And then in the late 1920s, early 30s, a guy by the name of Antonio Gramsci created this idea of cultural Marxism, right?

00:39:09.000 This is very important, where Marxism became more than an economic theory.

00:39:13.000 It became a cultural identity.

00:39:15.000 Then, a series of thinkers in the 1960s by the name of Jean-Jacques Derrida and Michelle Foucault, two French thinkers, they came up with this idea of postmodernism, which was basically Marxism rebranded.

00:39:26.000 And every single one of your kids are learning this.

00:39:28.000 Okay?

00:39:28.000 So they took the economic teachings of Marx and branded into a cultural thing.

00:39:32.000 This is what the postmodernists believe.

00:39:34.000 There's no such thing as truth.

00:39:35.000 All there is is tribal groups.

00:39:37.000 All there is is power.

00:39:39.000 And the West is an experiment in exploiting. black, Hispanic, and Indigenous people on behalf of white people.

00:39:46.000 This is a core belief of the postmodernist left.

00:39:49.000 This is exactly what they believe.

00:39:50.000 And then as a byproduct of that analysis, which is false, but that's what they believe, tear everything down at all costs, no matter what it takes.

00:39:59.000 So their leading argument is that we are living in a patriarchal, white-dominant society, and it is so unspeakably evil what we are living through.

00:40:11.000 It goes back to the prince by Machiavelli 500 years ago.

00:40:14.000 The ends justify the means at all costs.

00:40:17.000 Lie, divide, burn, cheat, steal, infiltrate.

00:40:22.000 This is truly, because you go back to what Marx did.

00:40:24.000 He was at odds with the biblical doctrine of broken by original sin, light versus dark, everybody.

00:40:29.000 This is really what it is.

00:40:30.000 It is an idea of goodness versus evil as back to biblical times.

00:40:34.000 So yes, they're trained Marxists.

00:40:36.000 They've admitted that.

00:40:38.000 And it is, Marxism is at complete odds with the gospel of Jesus Christ because Marxism tries to say that we can create heaven on earth.

00:40:45.000 That is an opening argument that is so at odds with everything that Jesus Christ talked about and who he was and why we need him that anyone who says they're a Marxist Christian, I say, no.

00:40:55.000 Pick one.

00:40:56.000 That's right.

00:40:57.000 It's that simple.

00:40:58.000 Yeah, it's very, very important.

00:40:59.000 And now what your kids are learning more than ever now is this whole, there is no absolute truth.

00:41:04.000 No, I'm not saying that.

00:41:05.000 Catrice Cullers was her name, I think.

00:41:07.000 Yeah, it's garbage.

00:41:08.000 So that's a great answer.

00:41:10.000 Okay, next question.

00:41:12.000 Thank you, Charlie, for coming.

00:41:14.000 I stand on the promise of God, when God promised that he would bless any country that would bless Israel, that they would have a special blessing.

00:41:24.000 And this president has blessed Israel more than any country, I think, in the history of the world.

00:41:28.000 So I see great things coming.

00:41:30.000 What's your opinion about what you see coming as a blessing of that?

00:41:34.000 Yeah, I agree.

00:41:35.000 I don't know how God will bless the nation that blesses Israel.

00:41:39.000 And I pray that that will be in the re-election of the president this November.

00:41:43.000 I think it's not insignificant that he wins.

00:41:45.000 And I'm happy to build out the implications of that geopolitically and otherwise.

00:41:48.000 But understand that Israel and America have something in common.

00:41:52.000 They're the only two countries to be explicitly founded on Judeo-Christian principles.

00:41:56.000 No other country on the planet can say that.

00:41:58.000 Other countries may have derived enlightenment thinkers or copied some things.

00:42:01.000 No, no, no.

00:42:02.000 It's the only two countries.

00:42:03.000 That's why Israel and America are the two most hated countries on the planet.

00:42:05.000 Think about that.

00:42:06.000 So the two countries that produce more patents per capita, that have more medical innovations, that respect free speech, Israel, that allows all three monotheistic religions to have representation in the Knesset and on the Supreme Court, that allows the archaeological excavation for Christians and Jews and Muslims, if they so choose, that they can find anything that validates what they believe, which they won't.

00:42:28.000 And they just destroy.

00:42:29.000 That's what they've done.

00:42:30.000 They just did it on the Sermon Mount.

00:42:31.000 They'll never find an archaeological piece of evidence that confirms the Quran, unless it's the part that it's the overlap of the Bible.

00:42:37.000 Understand that there's never been an archaeological discovery that contradicts anything from the Bible.

00:42:41.000 The more we dig, the more we confirm.

00:42:42.000 The more we dig, the more we confirm.

00:42:44.000 I want you to understand that.

00:42:45.000 It's the only religion in the world where we actually want to search out more, because the more that we find, the more that actually confirms what we already believe.

00:42:52.000 Every other religion tries to prevent the discovery of historical artifacts because they're afraid that it might actually contradict what they believe.

00:42:59.000 This is why the Arabs destroyed all the Jewish and Christian archaeological evidence on the top of the Sermon on the Mount about 50 or 60 years ago.

00:43:06.000 Well documented.

00:43:07.000 They put it into a garbage heap and they said, go look for it.

00:43:09.000 I kid you not.

00:43:10.000 It's well documented.

00:43:11.000 And so the nation of Israel is not insignificant.

00:43:14.000 It's a country of 7 million people.

00:43:15.000 It's a sliver the size of New Jersey, surrounded by nothing but Arab totalitarian governments, differing forms of it, from Syria, which is basically controlled by Bashar al-Assad, or whether it be Lebanon, which is basically Hezbollah-controlled at this point, which is an Iranian proxy, Jordan, which is more of a moderate Muslim country, and Egypt, which they've made peace of some form, at least through the kind of giveaway of the Sinai Peninsula, not big of the issue.

00:43:37.000 But the biggest one is Iran.

00:43:39.000 But the point being is that Israel is surrounded by nothing but what you would call different types of opinion or enemies, as I would call them.

00:43:44.000 Here's one thing about Israel: if Israel laid down their guns, tomorrow they'd be eliminated.

00:43:49.000 If the Arabs laid down their guns, there'd be peace tomorrow in the Middle East.

00:43:52.000 It's that simple.

00:43:52.000 That's true.

00:43:53.000 If you've never been to Israel, it's the Bible in technicolor.

00:43:56.000 It's not insignificant.

00:43:57.000 I never allow someone to criticize Israel unless they've been there.

00:43:59.000 It's that simple.

00:44:00.000 If you have not walked where Jesus walked in Capernaum, if you have not been to Hebron, if you've not been to Judea and Samaria, been to Gaza, and see for yourself how the Jews are mistreated by the 1 billion Arabs around them, then don't even talk to me about Israel.

00:44:12.000 That's number one.

00:44:13.000 Number two, it's really important, which is that why is it that the 7 million-person country with almost no natural resources that has all the Jews, the only Jewish state, half the world's Jewry is in Israel, is the blunt of all the criticism in the Middle East.

00:44:28.000 It's not Iran that throws gay people off the top of roofs.

00:44:32.000 It's not China that is taking over the entire world through lying about a virus, the Belt and Road Initiative, or a million Muslims in concentration camps.

00:44:38.000 So, just so you understand, China has a million Muslims in concentration camps, yet more Arab nations care about the abolition of Israel than China.

00:44:44.000 That should tell you everything you need to know.

00:44:46.000 It is the destruction of Jews, the destruction of the law, the destruction of God's chosen people, and the destruction of the covenant that we know Christians have with that holy land.

00:44:54.000 That's what the Arab Muslims want.

00:44:55.000 And not all of them, but a lot of their totalitarian governments do it.

00:44:58.000 And I want to be very clear that the mullahs of in Iran, however, President Trump, billionaire from New York, negotiator, was able to do something that, quite honestly, any person in geopolitical strategy would have thought was impossible.

00:45:09.000 He negotiated a peace deal between the emir of the United Arab Emirates and Benjamin Netanyahu, the UAE in Israel.

00:45:16.000 This is so incredibly unprecedented.

00:45:19.000 Only President Trump could have done this.

00:45:21.000 Because UAE was the number one funder of boycott divestment sanctioned stuff alongside Iran and other actors across the Middle East.

00:45:28.000 The fact that the UAE is now having flights back and forth from Israel and they have normalized ties, it's incredible.

00:45:32.000 And you can thank President Trump for that.

00:45:33.000 So, as you can tell, I'm passionate about the Israel issue.

00:45:36.000 I think that we as Christians need to be continually engaged on it.

00:45:38.000 It's not an insignificant one.

00:45:40.000 And I think that it's important that we fight for the state of Israel.

00:45:43.000 And keep in mind, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zaid would never in a million years be able to agree to that treaty had he not got permission from the royal family of Saudi Arabia.

00:45:55.000 And one other thing to keep in mind: Ezekiel 38 says that those would be contesting nations when Israel gets attacked.

00:46:01.000 So this is amazing.

00:46:03.000 And I have a theory.

00:46:05.000 I think that some of these pastors that are in the president's ear are telling him about a lot of this stuff because he cares so much about our country.

00:46:13.000 He cares so much about the health of the United States of America and its people that he's willing to do anything that will put the United States at advantage, which means that's why he loves Christianity.

00:46:23.000 He loves the Bible so much.

00:46:25.000 And he has enough moral, I call it probably some of the most moral.

00:46:31.000 How about this?

00:46:32.000 The bare minimum will say ethically courageous man as it relates to what he's done with Israel.

00:46:37.000 How about we just say that?

00:46:38.000 Morally and ethically, I'll just say that.

00:46:40.000 It's incredible.

00:46:41.000 I mean, moving the embassy alone was something so incredible.

00:46:44.000 I mean, Jerusalem is mentioned well over 300 times in the Bible.

00:46:47.000 The city of Jerusalem, the place where Jesus Christ died, buried, and resurrected, the place where King David ruled, King Hezekiah, where most of the Bible was centered around the idea of creating, creating the city, the nation of Israel around Jerusalem.

00:47:02.000 The fact that we as the West haven't recognized Jerusalem as the rightful capital of Israel till President Trump should tell you a lot about the moral fraud that most of our leaders are.

00:47:10.000 And it makes me proud as a Christian, because I'll tell you this.

00:47:13.000 I have run into many Jews when they see me after Trump did what he did.

00:47:18.000 The only thing they could do is start crying.

00:47:21.000 This happened to me probably on three different occasions.

00:47:23.000 They just started crying and they just touched their heart like this and said, Yerushalaim, Yerushalaim.

00:47:30.000 Meaning Jerusalem.

00:47:30.000 That's how we say it in Hebrew.

00:47:33.000 Unbelievable.

00:47:34.000 And it makes me proud.

00:47:35.000 Makes me proud that he's my president.

00:47:37.000 And it makes me proud that God put him in office at such a time as this.

00:47:40.000 So next question.

00:47:41.000 Thank you so much.

00:47:43.000 Oh, let's take one from the lobby and then we'll take you next, okay?

00:47:47.000 You can still come up to the mic.

00:47:48.000 It's a kid here.

00:47:49.000 All right.

00:47:50.000 As a man who is pro-life, would your response be to people, specifically women who are liberal and who are pro-choice, who would say that as a man, you have no right to speak on the subject because you cannot relate because of gender.

00:48:05.000 Yeah, that's a good question.

00:48:06.000 That's a great question.

00:48:07.000 So I have a lot of conversations about abortion.

00:48:10.000 I have a lot of videos on it.

00:48:10.000 I encourage you to look at it.

00:48:11.000 Here's a couple pieces of thought on this.

00:48:15.000 If it is a piece of property and not a human being, isn't it half the man's?

00:48:20.000 No, seriously, isn't it half the man's?

00:48:21.000 And if they want to just say it's not a human life and it's just a piece of property, by DNA standards, it's just as much the man's as it is the woman.

00:48:28.000 So that's interesting to think about.

00:48:29.000 Number two, it's not even the woman's or the man's full DNA.

00:48:32.000 It's its own sentient life.

00:48:34.000 And if it's not your DNA, it's not your choice.

00:48:36.000 That's number two.

00:48:37.000 Number three, we've got to get our standards right.

00:48:39.000 And they have a lot of questions to answer on the pro-choice movement, which they can't answer.

00:48:43.000 We can answer these questions.

00:48:44.000 The most important of which, when does life begin?

00:48:46.000 I want to know a time, date, hour of when life begins.

00:48:48.000 Tell me.

00:48:49.000 Because I could tell you exactly when it begins.

00:48:51.000 You can't.

00:48:51.000 They all have different answers.

00:48:53.000 Heartbeat, breath, birth.

00:48:55.000 Hold on a second.

00:48:56.000 If you guys can't get your facts straight here and we can't decide when life begins, your entire argument has fallen apart completely.

00:49:02.000 Everything.

00:49:03.000 And here's the thing.

00:49:04.000 And so they say, well, it's not a human life.

00:49:06.000 It's a fetus.

00:49:07.000 Well, what species is it?

00:49:09.000 Because you've got to pick a species on the animal kingdom.

00:49:11.000 Now, if you're making some sort of very bizarre metamorphosis argument that it changes species as it develops, then we got a whole different biology class that I got to go to because that's not the case.

00:49:20.000 It doesn't change from an alligator to a human.

00:49:22.000 It's a human, right?

00:49:24.000 And they say, well, it's not alive.

00:49:25.000 Well, then how do you defend life?

00:49:26.000 Does DNA creation make life?

00:49:28.000 How about a heartbeat?

00:49:29.000 How about breath?

00:49:30.000 How about legs?

00:49:30.000 How about arms?

00:49:31.000 How about feeling?

00:49:31.000 How about hearing?

00:49:32.000 How about seeing?

00:49:32.000 How about touching and tasting?

00:49:34.000 How about recognizing mother's voice?

00:49:35.000 Those things mean a life?

00:49:37.000 And as soon as you start to get deeper and deeper in it, they say, well, you're not a woman and you can't talk about it.

00:49:42.000 Well, some of you women have the opportunity to interface on that issue better.

00:49:45.000 You say, the best answer is this, is something is true regardless of who says it.

00:49:50.000 It's a very important thing to say.

00:49:52.000 This idea of identity politics and only certain people can say certain things is one of the most destructive anti-speech things that have happened in our country.

00:49:58.000 You're not black, so you can't comment on this stuff.

00:50:00.000 Why?

00:50:02.000 Truth transcends skin color, doesn't it?

00:50:04.000 I mean, some people say, well, you're not a professor, so you don't know.

00:50:07.000 Well, if I say something such as there are three basic laws of Newtonian physics, do I need, if I say that, and a professor says, no, there isn't, the professor's wrong whether he's a press or not.

00:50:17.000 It's one of the first things I teach you in logic class, of which they don't teach in college anymore, of an argument from authority.

00:50:23.000 If you're trying to just use your incumbent title to try to make an argument, you're wrong.

00:50:27.000 Prove it to me.

00:50:28.000 Use Aristotelian logic.

00:50:30.000 Use the laws of nature, nature as God.

00:50:31.000 Use the laws of thermodynamics.

00:50:32.000 Prove it to me.

00:50:33.000 I can't.

00:50:34.000 The final thing I'll say about life, which is this, is, can you explain the moral inconsistencies here?

00:50:39.000 For example, if a pregnant woman is brutally murdered, which happens sometimes, counts as a double homicide.

00:50:46.000 Why?

00:50:48.000 Why do we call a celebration of a pregnancy a baby shower, not a fetish shower?

00:50:53.000 Why is it that a woman can have a baby shower and everyone can celebrate?

00:50:56.000 And they say, I can't wait to meet your kid.

00:50:58.000 And they take a picture next to the belly.

00:50:59.000 And legally, she could go right after that to Planned Parenthood.

00:51:01.000 And then it magically stops becoming a life and starts becoming an impending that you could dispose of.

00:51:06.000 That is a morally confused society.

00:51:08.000 Yeah.

00:51:09.000 Wow.

00:51:10.000 So, these are just some food for thought for that.

00:51:11.000 That's fantastic.

00:51:12.000 Great answer.

00:51:14.000 Okay, my question is: what advice can you give to public school teachers like me who will be forced in the future to implement the mandated 1619 project, Black Lives Matter project?

00:51:32.000 And I'm sure you're aware of all the things.

00:51:35.000 This is just the beginning.

00:51:37.000 What advice can you give to Christian conservative teachers who will be forced and watched by administration to make sure this is being implemented?

00:51:48.000 First of all, we're going to pray for you.

00:51:49.000 I mean, I don't, I mean, the one thing that I don't take lightly and that I'm thankful for is I can say everything that I believe every single day.

00:51:58.000 And the hardest things that I get, the hardest messages I get are exactly your question.

00:52:02.000 Charlie, I work for McKinsey and I can't speak my mind.

00:52:05.000 Charlie, I work for the Toronto Raptors and I can't speak my mind.

00:52:08.000 Charlie, I do this.

00:52:09.000 They feel as if they're in some sort of intellectual prison.

00:52:13.000 And that is a form of tyranny and a form of bondage that I find reprehensible, to be perfectly honest.

00:52:20.000 And I think I can't imagine, I personally would not be able to survive in that.

00:52:24.000 I wouldn't.

00:52:25.000 And that's just the way I'm coded.

00:52:26.000 I just, being able to say what is true for me is just what I value very high.

00:52:31.000 However, you have a calling to instruct.

00:52:34.000 That's why you got into education, right?

00:52:36.000 So it's hard for me to give advice because I know how this works.

00:52:39.000 They're going to send in the helicopter people that come in and they just kind of rove around to make sure you're teaching the explicit lie that America's racist, bigoted, and all these things.

00:52:48.000 Here's what I would recommend.

00:52:49.000 And you can just think and pray on this.

00:52:51.000 I know this from other public school teachers.

00:52:53.000 That is not the limit of all the things you can teach.

00:52:56.000 You can always add nuance.

00:52:57.000 You can add other things.

00:52:58.000 So I'd recommend strongly to teach the Hillsdale Constitutional Course as an adjunct or as an addendum to that, right?

00:53:07.000 And you might get in trouble.

00:53:09.000 You might get reprimanded, or maybe not.

00:53:12.000 Maybe God has a specific trial he wants to put you through at this point to fight and for contest for that.

00:53:18.000 But I want everyone, I'm going to speak more broadly now, less specifically.

00:53:21.000 I hope everyone heard clearly her question.

00:53:24.000 Your children are being taught to hate this country.

00:53:26.000 This is a teacher that's asking this.

00:53:26.000 Yes.

00:53:28.000 This is not me.

00:53:30.000 This is a teacher that's now being said that she's going to have to be forced with your tax dollars to teach your children to hate America, please.

00:53:36.000 Fourth grade teacher.

00:53:37.000 Fourth grade.

00:53:38.000 And this starts in kindergarten.

00:53:39.000 Yeah.

00:53:40.000 How do we as parents stop it?

00:53:42.000 So the question is: how do you as parents stop that?

00:53:44.000 So permission to make people a little uncomfortable here.

00:53:48.000 You have every permission.

00:53:50.000 But I just always like to preface it.

00:53:51.000 I don't intend to offend.

00:53:52.000 I don't.

00:53:53.000 So in 1 Timothy, it says to pray for your leaders by name that you might win quiet and peaceable lives.

00:53:58.000 By name.

00:53:59.000 How many people here can tell me, every school board member, what you pray for them for, the issues that they're dealing with?

00:54:03.000 Anyone?

00:54:05.000 Probably not.

00:54:06.000 I've never been able to have anyone tell me anywhere across the country at any church, any conservative gathering, anywhere.

00:54:06.000 Yeah.

00:54:12.000 That's why we've lost our country.

00:54:14.000 It's that simple.

00:54:15.000 Paul told us simply, by name, know what they're going through, what they're doing, quiet and peaceable lives.

00:54:20.000 We probably know your congressman, maybe know your president, but you don't even know the school board person that's making her teach that.

00:54:26.000 And so run for school board, know who it is.

00:54:28.000 If everyone here got involved in the school board race, you could take over your school board like that.

00:54:32.000 There are a couple hundred votes.

00:54:34.000 They're usually off.

00:54:35.000 They're usually in March or April and no one cares and the unions organized.

00:54:38.000 So I want to just make sure the call to action is very clear, is that we've let this happen.

00:54:43.000 I want you to be very clear.

00:54:44.000 This is not something they didn't take over anything.

00:54:46.000 We surrendered something.

00:54:47.000 You understand that?

00:54:48.000 And until we admit that this was not a battle, this was a, come on.

00:54:54.000 And I know we're busy.

00:54:55.000 I know that we have to, two incomes, jobs, all these sorts of things.

00:54:58.000 Now's the time they're like, maybe we should take back our school board.

00:55:00.000 I'm going to do auditing of textbooks.

00:55:01.000 And I'm going to say, right now, if you're a parent and you have any of the capacity to do so, pray on this.

00:55:06.000 Please homeschool your kids, please.

00:55:08.000 I'm telling you, we need to double our homeschooling population in this country.

00:55:12.000 I'm feeling personally called with what I'm doing at Turning Point to make it easier for homeschooling parents to get through what they're doing.

00:55:18.000 My podcast is not an insignificant contribution to it.

00:55:20.000 We get thousands of emails from homeschooling parents that require their kids to listen to my podcast three to four times a week.

00:55:26.000 I'm blessed by that because we do a lot of research, we do a lot of philosophy, a lot of history.

00:55:30.000 It's not just a regular radio show where it's like Republicans are good, Democrats bad.

00:55:33.000 There's a little bit of that, but you know, but it's a lot deeper than that, right?

00:55:37.000 It's how do we get here?

00:55:38.000 Who are we?

00:55:39.000 You know, where does this come from?

00:55:40.000 And I try to make someone learn something.

00:55:42.000 I hope you guys learn something today because that's always my intention, right?

00:55:47.000 And so, what you can do is get so incredibly involved locally that your local neighborhood is an expression of your worldview.

00:55:58.000 Yeah, and sign up for the action alerts that we have.

00:56:01.000 We've got that.

00:56:03.000 Recall Gavin Newsome.

00:56:05.000 You can sign the petition.

00:56:06.000 We have it here.

00:56:08.000 Get involved.

00:56:08.000 Get involved in those things.

00:56:10.000 And we, you know, our team, our true impact team, is the whole design of our ministry is to make you guys aware of the issues that are going on and then speak up to micro-tyranny.

00:56:22.000 Can I talk about that?

00:56:23.000 Yeah, please.

00:56:24.000 I'd love you to.

00:56:25.000 So, this is a really interesting point.

00:56:25.000 Please do it.

00:56:27.000 And I'm able to go a little bit longer if you want.

00:56:30.000 We can.

00:56:30.000 Okay, good.

00:56:31.000 Because I have more I have to say.

00:56:32.000 So traditionally, we teach children incorrectly the Soviet Union and 1930s Germany and Benito Mussolini and all this.

00:56:41.000 Because the way we teach it is that a dictator kind of swooped in and took advantage of the citizenry and they were able to be a dictator, a tyrant, if you will.

00:56:49.000 And a lot of people in California lived under Pol Pot or they lived under Mao Cedong, and you've heard these stories.

00:56:55.000 And we're so quick to forget the tyranny in Asia that happened in the last hundred years.

00:56:58.000 I don't think we include that enough.

00:57:00.000 Because what Mao Cedong did was arguably even more evil than what Joseph Stalin did.

00:57:03.000 He killed more people and we forget about it.

00:57:05.000 We don't even teach our children about it.

00:57:06.000 It's unbelievable.

00:57:07.000 Happened 50 years ago and it's still happening today in China.

00:57:10.000 But it's actually a lot more complicated than that.

00:57:12.000 And actually, I can, for the first time in my life, I can see exactly how this all happened and I put the pieces together, which is not a top-down thing.

00:57:19.000 It's actually a bottom-up thing.

00:57:20.000 It's actually, and I've coined this term and it spread like wildfire and you just mentioned it.

00:57:25.000 It's called micro-tyranny.

00:57:26.000 And so that's where I got it from.

00:57:28.000 Well, thank you.

00:57:29.000 And I don't need attribution.

00:57:30.000 It actually came to me when I was at a Starbucks about a month and a half ago, and I wasn't wearing my mask perfectly properly.

00:57:38.000 And this is actually not about masks.

00:57:39.000 I'm not trying to make it about that.

00:57:40.000 It's actually about what happened because I wasn't wearing the mask properly.

00:57:43.000 And I wasn't wearing the mask properly.

00:57:45.000 And someone came up to me.

00:57:46.000 I worked for Starbucks and just started admonishing me and screaming at me and telling me that I was going to proliferate the murder of the entire county.

00:57:54.000 And I fixed the mask and I was like, whatever, I'm not getting into this right now.

00:57:57.000 And I thought to myself, no one elected her.

00:57:59.000 No one voted for her.

00:58:00.000 And she has way too much power right now.

00:58:02.000 And she's happy she has that power.

00:58:04.000 This is such an incredibly indecent way to act towards any human being just because my mask is three inches off my face.

00:58:10.000 Like, stop it.

00:58:12.000 And I thought to myself, what we have done, Cicero says, more laws, less justice, right?

00:58:16.000 Cicero, one year Roman Council, right before Julius Caesar predicted the fall of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.

00:58:21.000 He was phenomenal.

00:58:22.000 You have all these edicts and all these orders.

00:58:22.000 And it's so true.

00:58:25.000 We know in social psychology, 15% of the American population is sociopathic.

00:58:29.000 We know that.

00:58:30.000 They actually make most of our prison population, by the way.

00:58:32.000 That's why you have so many prisoners.

00:58:34.000 Just the way it is.

00:58:35.000 There's other reasons why, but we can get into that at a different time.

00:58:37.000 However, the sociopaths that aren't in prison, they come after you and they see an opportunity to go be a tyrant.

00:58:45.000 So, for example, when Joseph Stalin took power, it wasn't that Stalin was incongruent with the Soviet Union.

00:58:52.000 When he took power, there were thousands of mini Joseph Stalins already existing as mayors, as teachers, as checkout clerks, because they allowed tyranny to exist on a micro level, right?

00:59:05.000 And it was unaddressed by decent people.

00:59:10.000 So when that happens, it actually comes from a bottom up.

00:59:13.000 It's much more, it's much less like a rainstorm and much more like old faithful at Yellowstone National Park, where it eventually explodes up, right?

00:59:20.000 So you guys see the imagery difference here?

00:59:23.000 Where tyranny is not something where someone sweeps in.

00:59:26.000 It's a citizenry that's already acting like it.

00:59:28.000 And that person is just the manifestation of how the country has already fallen.

00:59:33.000 And that's where we're headed.

00:59:35.000 Because the person at Starbucks, who of course is like a silly example, or the TSA agent that has far too much power or whatever, all of a sudden, that is going to either turn into people that are unwilling to fight back against those people.

00:59:47.000 So a macro tyrant can come into play.

00:59:49.000 And those mini tyrants will become the enforcement squad of that macro tyrant.

00:59:54.000 Because understand the other thing we don't teach, which is very interesting.

00:59:57.000 You think you're a great person?

00:59:58.000 Okay.

00:59:59.000 What would you do if Mao Sedong came to your family and said, I'm going to shoot you in the head, or you could be a Red Guard member?

01:00:03.000 What would you do?

01:00:04.000 You'd probably become a Red Guard member.

01:00:06.000 Stop acting like you're the greatest person in the world.

01:00:08.000 Seriously.

01:00:09.000 It's very quick that you all of a sudden enlist in the army of one of these dictators.

01:00:12.000 I'll feed your family.

01:00:13.000 You live a life of luxury.

01:00:14.000 You live in the best neighborhood.

01:00:15.000 You're protected.

01:00:16.000 Your kids are great.

01:00:16.000 All you got to do is walk around with a little red book and put a couple people in rail cars and it's all going to work fine for you and your family.

01:00:23.000 We can be really brutal really quickly as soon as you divulge into that.

01:00:27.000 How do you step against that?

01:00:27.000 However, how do you get against that?

01:00:28.000 That's why the church matters so much.

01:00:29.000 The church is the firewall, the tyranny.

01:00:31.000 That's why they need to shut down the church.

01:00:33.000 Because the church is a decentralized moral order that never actually can be silenced by some sort of government edict.

01:00:40.000 As soon as they shut down the church, they take over everything.

01:00:42.000 Because the church, whether we like it or not, the subconscious truth of the church is when you gather here, all of us have not said once that the government's the most important thing in our life.

01:00:50.000 And even if it was, I wasn't speaking here and he was just speaking the gospel, the truth of the gospel is that there's something that transcends the government order.

01:00:57.000 You shut down the church, pastors get weak, then tyranny can grow.

01:01:00.000 So what do you do about that?

01:01:02.000 This is the hard call to action.

01:01:04.000 And the micro-tyranny, think in your mind right now, who is the micro-tyrant in your life that needs to be confronted?

01:01:10.000 And all of a sudden people get really uncomfortable.

01:01:12.000 I see this like, oh my goodness, I don't know about that.

01:01:15.000 If you don't confront that person, then you are complicit in a macro tyranny being created.

01:01:19.000 What do I mean?

01:01:20.000 A neighbor, a teacher, a family member that is using their power to exploit the innocent or the weak.

01:01:26.000 How do you do that?

01:01:27.000 You get your words right.

01:01:28.000 You sit up straight with your shoulders back.

01:01:30.000 You look at them in the eyes with compassion and love and truth, and you tell them they're wrong and you tell them why.

01:01:35.000 It's that simple.

01:01:36.000 These people are counting on not being confronted.

01:01:39.000 When they're confronted with truth, like cowards and bullies, they will run to the hills.

01:01:43.000 If you don't confront them, they will grow into an insurmountable force.

01:01:46.000 And we're going to wonder what happened to our country 10 years from now when all of a sudden everything that we knew to be true had disappeared.

01:01:51.000 And it's important.

01:01:51.000 Yeah.

01:01:53.000 And it can be something as simple as hearing somebody make a statement and then confronting them with the fact and then seeing what they say.

01:02:00.000 I took a Q ⁇ A session at a church the other day that made the statement, law enforcement officers are hunting down black people.

01:02:07.000 And it's really simple.

01:02:08.000 You make a really simple statement.

01:02:10.000 2019, 385 million contacts were made with law enforcement officers.

01:02:14.000 Of the 385 million contacts, 1,000 ended up in a shooting of some sort.

01:02:18.000 Of the 1,040 were unarmed.

01:02:21.000 Of the 40, 19 were white.

01:02:22.000 And guess you got it?

01:02:24.000 By the way, by the admission of the Washington, I think it was the Washington Post.

01:02:24.000 Nine.

01:02:27.000 Yeah, Washington Post.

01:02:28.000 Nine were black.

01:02:30.000 And of the nine that were black, six, six of them, six, ready for this?

01:02:36.000 Went for the gun of the officer.

01:02:39.000 And of the six, there are three that are on video that document that fact.

01:02:44.000 And the ones that did it incorrectly, that truly acted improperly, they're all under indictment and conviction are going to jail.

01:02:51.000 Yep.

01:02:52.000 We're being hunted down.

01:02:54.000 What do you say to that?

01:02:56.000 They stop.

01:02:58.000 They stop.

01:02:59.000 Something as simple, you go into a grocery store, put on your mask, put on your mask.

01:03:03.000 Do what I do.

01:03:05.000 No.

01:03:07.000 Well, you got to leave.

01:03:08.000 If you don't put on your mask, you got to leave.

01:03:10.000 Oh, okay.

01:03:11.000 Well, I have a health reason for not putting on my mask.

01:03:13.000 So are you, I just want to know your name so that when I come back and kick and scream about the fact that you violated the American with Disabilities Act, I'll have your name for the lawsuit.

01:03:22.000 Okay, go ahead.

01:03:23.000 Whatever you want to get.

01:03:24.000 I mean, you got to stand.

01:03:27.000 You got to stand, right?

01:03:28.000 And I think that that's something important.

01:03:30.000 Next question.

01:03:33.000 Do you think that what we're seeing on the streets today is actually an attempted communist takeover?

01:03:40.000 And how likely do you think it will be?

01:03:42.000 It's interesting.

01:03:43.000 I mean, if you read the Communist Manifesto, you have to understand that how do you get control?

01:03:49.000 You can get control through a couple different ways or power.

01:03:51.000 We talked about the micro-tyranny, but a short-circuit way of doing that is through chaos.

01:03:56.000 Chaos is always the gateway to tyranny.

01:03:59.000 So I want you to think about that.

01:04:00.000 And so every time there is disorder, people then demand order.

01:04:04.000 It's just the human condition, right?

01:04:06.000 We as human beings are very bizarrely programmed.

01:04:09.000 Take it up with the Heavenly Father, right?

01:04:11.000 We have a need for certainty and uncertainty at the same time.

01:04:14.000 It's very strange.

01:04:15.000 It's like we want stability and instability because if we get too stable, you're in prison, right?

01:04:19.000 And you have no, if you get too unstable, you're in Portland.

01:04:22.000 You're like, I don't like that either, right?

01:04:23.000 So like Portland and prison are like the two things that you could be in America.

01:04:27.000 You're like, there's got to be something in the middle, right?

01:04:30.000 And we call that place Iowa, right?

01:04:32.000 It's just, you know, it's a little too, I'm from the Midwest.

01:04:37.000 I love you, Charlie.

01:04:38.000 I love you.

01:04:40.000 So the question is, what are we seeing in the streets?

01:04:43.000 Well, look, it's a provocative thing, right?

01:04:46.000 It's trying to get provocation is what it is, more than anything else.

01:04:49.000 They know that they're not going to be able to get this widespread, in my personal opinion.

01:04:53.000 They're trying to provoke a response, okay?

01:04:56.000 And they're getting close to it because people are only going to be pushed so far until in a country of 345 million people, someone is going to take up a firearm and say, I'm not taking this anymore.

01:05:07.000 And that's not good.

01:05:08.000 That's called vigilante justice.

01:05:09.000 Now, in defense of the young man in Kenosha, I think he has been way overcharged.

01:05:13.000 And I think it is disgusting what is happening to him.

01:05:16.000 And I think it's a moral outrage.

01:05:17.000 The guy's name is Kyle Rittenhouse.

01:05:19.000 He was hunted down in the streets.

01:05:21.000 He was with a legally owned firearm, smacked in the face with the intent to kill and charge a first-degree murder.

01:05:26.000 It's disgusting.

01:05:27.000 And the media is turning him to be something that he isn't.

01:05:30.000 He was a lifeguard.

01:05:32.000 He was cleaning up graffiti.

01:05:33.000 And if I'm missing something in the story, I'm happy to be corrected.

01:05:36.000 But I have done a lot of deep dive on this, and they're trying to turn him into a poster child.

01:05:40.000 You watch the video.

01:05:41.000 And if you haven't watched the video, please do.

01:05:44.000 Hunted down in the streets, being smacked in the face, pistol smacked.

01:05:48.000 And he was left with a choice of whether or not to use that firearm.

01:05:51.000 We used to call that self-defense.

01:05:52.000 Now they call it first-degree murder.

01:05:54.000 And so again, the question is, why was he there in the first place?

01:05:57.000 17-year-old, probably not a good decision to be there.

01:05:59.000 By the way, that's not a reason to put him in prison for the rest of his life.

01:06:01.000 If a kid goes somewhere, he shouldn't, okay?

01:06:03.000 That's probably the human condition.

01:06:05.000 The reason he was there is because the police did not have the capacity to have normalcy in the streets.

01:06:11.000 He never would have gotten in a car 45 minutes north of his home to go to Kenosha if the police would have calmed that down.

01:06:17.000 The National Guard was called.

01:06:18.000 The kid with the AR-15 would have been told a police officer, son, get back in your car.

01:06:22.000 This is not a place for you.

01:06:23.000 You got this under control.

01:06:24.000 Stop it.

01:06:24.000 Instead, he was allowed to roam the streets, which is what happens when you have disorder and discord and chaos.

01:06:30.000 This idea that it's going to be a participant sport is a spectator sport is ridiculous.

01:06:35.000 And you're going to have uncontrolled then bursts that come up, and then there will be variations in outrage on top of that.

01:06:42.000 And so remember, you have to go back to the scriptures.

01:06:44.000 1 Timothy, quiet and peaceable.

01:06:46.000 That's a really interesting two words that he used, right?

01:06:49.000 Because we take that for granted, because that's generally kind of what we've been used to.

01:06:52.000 And then when we see arson and tyranny and terror and all these things, we say, how do we get back to that?

01:06:57.000 Well, it's really not that complicated an answer.

01:06:59.000 Stop criminalizing law enforcement and saying you're going to defund it.

01:07:02.000 But what's happening here, and this is a very important point, is that there's now a precedent for what can be done.

01:07:07.000 And make no mistake, when crisis happens, trends, trends continue and they only accelerate.

01:07:14.000 So the poor people are only more poor now than they were before the shutdown, and rich people are now richer, right?

01:07:19.000 So that's only going to add more to the material Marxist revolution, right?

01:07:24.000 So the only, and this is another very interesting, again, I could talk forever about this stuff.

01:07:27.000 I literally do because I have the podcast.

01:07:29.000 But this is a really interesting point that we don't talk about enough, which is when you don't have a middle class anymore, this entire experiment ends.

01:07:36.000 And this is intentional.

01:07:37.000 So the Democrats have become the gatekeepers or the undertakers, if you will.

01:07:43.000 And that's not the right term.

01:07:45.000 The gatekeepers or the political masters of the permanent underclass.

01:07:51.000 So people that don't work for a living and just get government benefits and the 1% of the 1%.

01:07:54.000 It's a very bizarre political strategy that they want to represent like Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates and also people that are on welfare.

01:08:00.000 It's a very strange intersection, right?

01:08:03.000 Whereas the Republican Party, whether they liked it or not, and this is just really interesting, whether you like the Republicans or not, it's just true.

01:08:08.000 The Republicans stumbled backwards into being the middle class party.

01:08:11.000 It's really weird because Republicans were like, oh, we're never the country club party, like as they say at the country club at Torrey Pines.

01:08:17.000 Like, yeah, you are, okay?

01:08:18.000 So you were.

01:08:18.000 And not anymore.

01:08:19.000 Now the Republicans are like, wait, we represent carpenters, electricians, and pipe fitters.

01:08:22.000 Like, how do we do that?

01:08:23.000 Just listen to Trump.

01:08:24.000 He got it.

01:08:25.000 So, and what's really interesting, though, is if you don't have a middle class anymore, which is disappearing really quickly, then all of a sudden you will have anarchy.

01:08:25.000 Okay.

01:08:32.000 And so here's another interesting thought exercise for you to think about, which is young people are the ones that are doing this.

01:08:38.000 And we say it's all because they've been indoctrinated and all these sorts of things.

01:08:40.000 I completely agree with that.

01:08:42.000 However, if you went to Portland State University and you went $70,000 into debt and you're 28 and you're 29 and you're renting, you're not owning, very important.

01:08:52.000 Because I think that the renting dominance of young people has been the destruction of our country.

01:08:56.000 Because you don't own anything, why not burn everything down, right?

01:08:58.000 You don't have equity.

01:08:59.000 It's really an important point.

01:09:00.000 But I want for the adults in the room that are 40 plus, think about when you were 29, when you were 30.

01:09:07.000 When you worked hard, you probably saw your life get a little bit better every single year, right?

01:09:11.000 You probably, you had investment in this system.

01:09:14.000 Young people don't have that right now.

01:09:16.000 And they're not all to blame.

01:09:17.000 We just shut down their country for nine months.

01:09:20.000 They weren't able to go to work, go to sports.

01:09:22.000 Oh, go work harder.

01:09:23.000 You can't.

01:09:24.000 That's what we tell our young people right now.

01:09:26.000 Just go work harder.

01:09:27.000 The entire civilization's shut down.

01:09:27.000 I'm sorry.

01:09:29.000 You have money, we don't, is what young people are saying.

01:09:32.000 They go to their parents.

01:09:33.000 They're like, okay, we got it.

01:09:34.000 You have a home.

01:09:35.000 You have a mortgage.

01:09:36.000 You have some money in the bank account.

01:09:37.000 I'm 28 trying to get my life together.

01:09:38.000 By the way, I'm paying off $70,000 in student loan debt.

01:09:41.000 I have no skills because I went to some college that taught me to hate the country, right?

01:09:46.000 And so that's how you get outrage.

01:09:48.000 And then, by the way, it's just the beginning.

01:09:50.000 Like, no wonder why everyone wants everyone to do weed right now.

01:09:52.000 They want to keep a revolution from happening.

01:09:54.000 I mean, again, I don't support the legalization of marijuana at all, but I can see why the masters want you to do that.

01:09:59.000 It's like they want to prevent this entire system from being overthrown.

01:10:02.000 So what do we do about that?

01:10:04.000 Well, we're on pace this year to have 500,000 less children than last year.

01:10:06.000 We're on the verge of a population collapse.

01:10:08.000 No one's talking about this.

01:10:09.000 No one.

01:10:10.000 And if the only way we can solve this is we have to incentivize and, yes, even subsidize young people to get married and have kids and be able to build a steady life.

01:10:19.000 And we have to do it so quickly or else this entire experiment is over in a decade.

01:10:23.000 Yeah, it's so true.

01:10:24.000 So true.

01:10:25.000 Next question.

01:10:28.000 And I think we can take one more.

01:10:30.000 Yeah, you know, with all the push towards mail-in voting, I'm very concerned about the potential for massive voter fraud.

01:10:37.000 And I want to know what can we do about it?

01:10:39.000 Yeah, I get this question everywhere I go.

01:10:41.000 I mean, I'll travel the country, I get it everywhere.

01:10:43.000 Look, in California, you guys are in a tough situation because they're mailing ballots out all over the place from what I've heard and what I understand.

01:10:49.000 It's not good.

01:10:50.000 But you can become an election judge, and you want to talk a little about that?

01:10:53.000 I think it starts at the church.

01:10:53.000 Sure.

01:10:56.000 I think anybody who isn't going to our church, if whatever churches, assuming that they're open, you need to do what we're doing.

01:11:03.000 We'll be a polling place.

01:11:05.000 We're going to be doing ballot harvesting.

01:11:08.000 We have several people on our true impact team that are going to be trained to make sure that your votes are actually being counted.

01:11:16.000 And we're going to be very, very active about that.

01:11:20.000 Very, very active.

01:11:21.000 Voter registration.

01:11:22.000 I believe we start that either next week or the week after.

01:11:25.000 I think it's next week.

01:11:26.000 We're starting it.

01:11:28.000 Get people involved that way.

01:11:29.000 Because truth be told, when people get involved that way, it changes everything.

01:11:34.000 And when it starts at the church, when the church goes from, I don't want to be political anymore, to we have no choice but to get involved because we refuse to compartmentalize the Lord in our lives, then things begin to change and they change rapidly.

01:11:48.000 And it's really funny.

01:11:49.000 Isn't it interesting how many of the spiritual growths and awakenings that we've seen had a beginning in California?

01:11:58.000 I mean, think about that for a second.

01:12:00.000 Think about Billy Graham.

01:12:01.000 Think about what happened with Chuck Smith.

01:12:02.000 Think about all those.

01:12:04.000 I mean, why can't that happen again?

01:12:06.000 Church has to get involved for it to happen again.

01:12:08.000 Amen.

01:12:09.000 So, so it has been absolutely a great time.

01:12:15.000 Hasn't it been, guys?

01:12:16.000 Yes.

01:12:17.000 So I want to just encourage you.

01:12:19.000 Oh, go ahead, Charlie.

01:12:20.000 Go ahead.

01:12:21.000 Just one last thing.

01:12:23.000 And I want to thank you guys for having me.

01:12:25.000 Amazing three services.

01:12:26.000 Thank you.

01:12:27.000 If you missed the first two, they're on live stream and we talked about everything.

01:12:30.000 And everyone was different, I could say.

01:12:32.000 They were all just its own little piece and nugget.

01:12:35.000 And the final note I want to say is this, is that young people are really suffering right now.

01:12:38.000 We have a mental health crisis in our country.

01:12:40.000 We have to open this country right now.

01:12:42.000 And for all the adults in the room, find a young person and communicate to them the need for them to have meaning in life.

01:12:48.000 Because I'm telling you right now, we are on the cusp of losing a generation and the adults are doing next to nothing about it right now.

01:12:53.000 And it's a call to action because I get these emails.

01:12:55.000 And if you see what I see, you would be horrified.

01:12:58.000 So think a little bit more intergenerational in what's happening in our country right now because you are leaving our generation a mess right now.

01:13:05.000 And it's more than anything else, believe in a young person, platform them, give them a little bit of responsibility, challenge them a little bit, especially young men.

01:13:14.000 We have a crisis of masculinity in our country.

01:13:16.000 I could talk about it because there's something that really needs, there's something that has to really have a turning point right now.

01:13:22.000 And young people right now, I'm seeing something very concerning.

01:13:26.000 And the optimistic part is share the gospel with a young person every single day.

01:13:29.000 Please.

01:13:30.000 Someone that they are searching for it.

01:13:32.000 They're looking for the meaning.

01:13:33.000 And you guys that are adults that are 40 plus, 45 plus, that might have your life together a little bit, please look intergenerational because we have a whole different crisis right now that needs to be addressed.

01:13:42.000 Can you do us a favor?

01:13:43.000 I don't think anybody will mind.

01:13:44.000 And I know we're on a tight time schedule because we got to get you out of here.

01:13:47.000 But really quickly, the crisis in masculinity.

01:13:49.000 Can you do it in a few minutes?

01:13:50.000 Oh, yeah, of course.

01:13:51.000 Let's talk about that for a second and then we'll wrap it up.

01:13:53.000 I don't know what time.

01:13:54.000 I'll stay till 4 o'clock.

01:13:55.000 No, no, no, no.

01:13:56.000 We got to get you going here in a few minutes.

01:13:59.000 Again, so look, there's a crisis of masculinity in our country.

01:14:01.000 We've hyper-feminized our country.

01:14:03.000 A country, and what I mean by hyper-feminized is that you have the traits of the masculine and the feminine, and they play very well together, right?

01:14:10.000 And the Bible talks about this, and it's very important.

01:14:13.000 A country can become too masculine too, by the way.

01:14:15.000 I don't want to discount that.

01:14:16.000 Dictatorships like Benito Mussolini becomes too masculine, where you don't care for the disadvantaged and it's just always, it's top-down orders and all that.

01:14:24.000 So we become way too masculine.

01:14:25.000 However, we've become a hyper-feminized society.

01:14:28.000 Young men in particular are suffering in a way that is not sustainable for our civilization.

01:14:32.000 And they say, oh, you know, this entire system is rigged for men against women.

01:14:36.000 Women comprise the most college graduates, most master degrees, most doctorate degrees.

01:14:40.000 Men are 10 times more likely to commit suicide, die at work, declare bankruptcy, inflict themselves in self-harm, die in some sort of gang-related shooting or criminal activity.

01:14:48.000 Women are earning more until up into the age of 30.

01:14:50.000 Women are more likely, yes, even to get married than most men.

01:14:54.000 Go figure that one out.

01:14:55.000 I mean, there's more single men than single women in this country.

01:14:58.000 There just are.

01:14:59.000 And so there's a crisis happening right now with young men.

01:15:01.000 And we have done the exact opposite of what we should do.

01:15:03.000 Young men have different needs than young women.

01:15:06.000 Young women need belonging.

01:15:07.000 Young men need adventure.

01:15:09.000 Understand that.

01:15:10.000 So young women need to feel belonging.

01:15:11.000 That's exactly why social media bullying is so prevalent, mostly amongst young women, and why young men have a crisis of meaning.

01:15:17.000 Young men, if they're 16, 17, or 18, they need to be confronted by another man.

01:15:20.000 They need to be challenged.

01:15:22.000 They need to be pushed.

01:15:23.000 They need to be called into the wilderness.

01:15:24.000 And they need to be said, you need to get off your tail and do more with your life.

01:15:28.000 For some young women need to hear that, but most don't.

01:15:30.000 They don't.

01:15:31.000 Most young women actually have too much of that.

01:15:33.000 In fact, we've hyper-masculized a lot of our young women where they feel as if they now have to be the breadwinners and the earners.

01:15:38.000 And they're the ones that are actually have too much burden on themselves.

01:15:41.000 And they're getting married too late.

01:15:42.000 And they're actually being more young women are unhappy in this country at any other time because they're 30 and they have an incredibly successful corporate career, but they're miserable because there's something biological within them that says, no, actually, you need to go procreate right now.

01:15:54.000 And then the young man who's their equivalent, their brother, their neighbor, or their cousin, is in their basement.

01:15:58.000 They can't even get their life together because the entire society that we built is not designed for the man to be able to shoulder a burden.

01:16:04.000 So young men in particular, they need to sit up straight with their shoulders back, as Jordan Peterson would say, and they need to be challenged and say, you're a lot tougher than you think.

01:16:11.000 And just like Abraham, who was like 127 living with his father, you need to say, get out of your home and go into something that you don't know.

01:16:17.000 If you actually go back where, back into the wilderness, it was the men that went into the dark and hunted and the women that nurtured and protected.

01:16:24.000 And what we have done is we have kept the men literally in the basement where they're doing next to nothing productive.

01:16:30.000 And I'm telling you right now, you look at unemployment statistics, young men have much harder time getting jobs and all these sorts of things.

01:16:37.000 So what do we do about it?

01:16:39.000 First of all, stop demonizing young men that are 12, 13, 14, and 15.

01:16:43.000 You need to challenge them.

01:16:44.000 You need to teach them discipline and ethics.

01:16:45.000 You need to create very strict barriers for them and you need to push them.

01:16:48.000 Young men need to be pushed.

01:16:50.000 It's very important.

01:16:52.000 And I tell young people all the time, find something to be responsible for.

01:16:56.000 Find responsibility.

01:16:57.000 So you find meaning.

01:16:58.000 What is responsibility?

01:16:59.000 I have defined responsibility.

01:17:01.000 I didn't create this, but it's a little bit of a, it's a, it's an original skew on it.

01:17:05.000 If you didn't show up somewhere tomorrow on Monday morning and no one cared, you're not responsible for anything.

01:17:12.000 That's your test.

01:17:13.000 Think to yourself, boy, if I didn't show up to work, to school, or my family, and if someone didn't say, hey, where's Jeff?

01:17:19.000 Where's Carl?

01:17:21.000 If they don't say that, you're responsible for nothing and you're not living a meaningful life.

01:17:24.000 It's that simple.

01:17:25.000 But if you don't show up somewhere and things get harder for somebody else, then you're shouldering a burden that means something.

01:17:33.000 Yes.

01:17:33.000 And if you're trying to find what, what is that, Charlie?

01:17:36.000 Find something that transcends yourself, that is rooted in truth, and pursue that thing.

01:17:41.000 Marriage, church, you know, spreading the gospel, finding meaningful work, all those sorts of things.

01:17:47.000 And for young men, you need to be relentless in telling them that they can do better.

01:17:52.000 That young men in particular want to always be ascending, more competitive more than anything else.

01:17:58.000 And in a lot of different ways, we have a testosterone crisis and all this where we have 25-year-old men that end up getting married by the time they're 32, and they end up playing the feminine in the relationship of marriage.

01:18:07.000 And it is not sustainable.

01:18:08.000 It is happening all across the country.

01:18:10.000 And these young women have to be the primary breadwinners and the mother and the nurturer and the protector.

01:18:15.000 And these young men have no capacity to lead.

01:18:17.000 So I talk about this at length.

01:18:19.000 And look, I'm happy to talk about the crisis of it.

01:18:21.000 But if you're a young man out there and you're just like, I just can't get my life right.

01:18:25.000 I can't get these things together.

01:18:26.000 That's perfectly fine because the entire society is rigged against you.

01:18:29.000 You're not, don't be a victim about it, by the way.

01:18:31.000 So find something, get your aim right.

01:18:33.000 You will hit what you aim at.

01:18:34.000 That's very, that is a universal truth.

01:18:36.000 It's biblically true.

01:18:37.000 What you aim at, you will hit.

01:18:39.000 Find something that is good.

01:18:40.000 Do the self-authoring exercise.

01:18:41.000 Jordan Peterson talks about it.

01:18:43.000 It's a two-page paper where you say where you want your life to be materially in seven years from now.

01:18:47.000 Aim at that thing.

01:18:48.000 Do what is good, not as what is expedient.

01:18:50.000 And then actually restrict yourself from indulgence.

01:18:53.000 Young men have a problem of indulgence in this country like I've never seen before.

01:18:57.000 They have everything that makes them feel good and nothing that helps them do good.

01:19:00.000 That's right.

01:19:00.000 Right?

01:19:01.000 And so whether it be internet indulgences, drugs, alcohol, restrict all of that for 30 days and you will leave a more meaningful life.

01:19:07.000 Live a more meaningful life.

01:19:08.000 I guarantee it.

01:19:09.000 Actually, by restricting yourself, you can be more free.

01:19:12.000 That is a paradoxical truth that is found in the Bible.

01:19:16.000 Thanks so much for listening.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - August 31, 2020

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