The Charlie Kirk Show - March 22, 2021


Atheism On the Rise and How to Stop It


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Learn English with Charlie Kirk. In this speech, Pastor Steve Smotherman talks about what it means to be a courageous Christian in a time of crisis and how important it is to have a voice in the culture.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, here's a speech I gave in Albuquerque about atheism being the fastest growing religion in America.
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00:02:09.000 Would you please help me welcome Charlie Kirk to Legacy Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico?
00:02:15.000 Thank you.
00:02:16.000 Thank you guys.
00:02:17.000 See our Turning Point USA students here.
00:02:20.000 How are you guys doing?
00:02:21.000 It is great to be with you.
00:02:22.000 Now, I was warned about this service.
00:02:24.000 I'm told this is the highest energy service.
00:02:26.000 So could be.
00:02:29.000 You know, we've had some fun.
00:02:30.000 And the cool thing is, some of you might say, oh, I've heard this before.
00:02:34.000 I really do my best to try when I speak multiple times throughout a weekend to make every speech a little bit different and a lot different in certain ways.
00:02:43.000 But there are things I'm going to repeat because repetition is the soul of memory.
00:02:47.000 And there's some things we must commit to memory.
00:02:49.000 The first of which, how great is it to be in person with each other in a church?
00:02:58.000 You have a great pastor here and a great leader here.
00:03:02.000 Steve is passing the test of what it means to be a courageous Christian in a time of crisis.
00:03:11.000 If you're like me, you've been looking around the landscape and we have seen so many Christians and pastors in a passive position right now.
00:03:21.000 They have been slow to open, if at all, slow to challenge tyranny.
00:03:26.000 We're going to talk a lot about tyranny and what it means.
00:03:29.000 And what I've seen from afar, and this is why I saw Steve at a conference about a month ago, and he said, I know you're scheduled to come here in July, which I will be back in July.
00:03:39.000 And Steve said, I want to know if you can come here quicker.
00:03:45.000 And I said, absolutely.
00:03:47.000 So I sent the first available date that I had.
00:03:49.000 I said, I'll fly out to Albuquerque.
00:03:50.000 We'll have a lot of fun.
00:03:51.000 And that's why I'm here.
00:03:52.000 I'm here for a couple of reasons.
00:03:53.000 First of all, I want to give whatever voice God has given me and given turning point behind courageous people because courage is so rare.
00:04:02.000 And Steve Smotherman and the whole team around him, by the way, what an unbelievable staff.
00:04:06.000 And your church deserves to be supported right now, truly.
00:04:12.000 Moral courage is lacking right now in America.
00:04:16.000 And there's the protesters out there.
00:04:18.000 Do you notice how angry they are?
00:04:20.000 I thought they're in charge of everything.
00:04:22.000 They control the Senate, the House, the presidency, yet they're angrier than we are.
00:04:26.000 It's really amazing.
00:04:27.000 We'll get into there's actually a biblical reason for that.
00:04:30.000 But I could tell you from traveling the country and seeing how different churches have handled different circumstances, some people have totally failed the test.
00:04:41.000 Your pastor has passed the test.
00:04:42.000 But what is the test?
00:04:44.000 What is that test?
00:04:45.000 Well, the Bible speaks clearly about that.
00:04:48.000 You see, in Matthew and then in James and all throughout the New Testament, it talks about the promise of persecution.
00:04:57.000 So we don't talk about that a lot.
00:04:59.000 A lot of churches, they do the promise of eternal life, which we do.
00:05:03.000 We are promised that.
00:05:05.000 The promise of coming in a relationship with our Creator through Jesus.
00:05:10.000 But Jesus also talks about the promise of persecution.
00:05:13.000 It's not even a question.
00:05:15.000 It's not like this might happen.
00:05:18.000 If it happens, here's a how-to manual.
00:05:20.000 And do you know what we're supposed to do when we're persecuted?
00:05:24.000 We're supposed to celebrate.
00:05:25.000 We're also supposed to say, this is evidence that we're doing the right thing.
00:05:31.000 So when we have protesters outside, the public health officials, the governor coming after us, this is confirmation that we are right where God wants us.
00:05:46.000 And I have a rule.
00:05:48.000 If you are in the culture, if you are getting all the nice articles written in the New York Times, if you're getting all the A-list celebrities to say nice things about you, you're probably not doing something right in the church.
00:06:04.000 So I want to talk about this, and I didn't zero in on this in the previous services, but what is a church?
00:06:11.000 It's such a simple question, isn't it?
00:06:13.000 But an unbelievably complicated answer.
00:06:16.000 Is a church a TED Talk with a rock concert?
00:06:20.000 That's kind of what it feels like in most churches, right?
00:06:23.000 I'm going to give you five points on how to improve your life.
00:06:26.000 A lot of lights and music.
00:06:27.000 By the way, your worship here is incredible.
00:06:29.000 Your worship team is, and I don't say that lightly because I've been to a couple churches where it's like, whoa.
00:06:37.000 God bless you.
00:06:40.000 Intent did not materialize into the result, but God looks at the heart, so God bless them.
00:06:45.000 No, I mean that.
00:06:46.000 You guys have wonderful heart and amazing fruit.
00:06:48.000 I really mean that.
00:06:49.000 The music here is spectacular.
00:06:50.000 But is that what the church is?
00:06:52.000 It's a TED Talk with the rock concert?
00:06:56.000 Is the church about making you feel good?
00:07:01.000 Is that what a church is?
00:07:03.000 It's such a simple question, but in some ways, we can't answer it.
00:07:08.000 So let's go back to what the Bible says.
00:07:10.000 Jesus at Caesarea Philippi famously said, who do you say I am?
00:07:16.000 Later on, he asks, and he commands, on this rock, build my, and we use the English word for church.
00:07:23.000 It's not that simple.
00:07:25.000 So when Tyndale translated the Bible from Greek to English, everything changed.
00:07:33.000 So prior to that, the Bible was in Latin.
00:07:36.000 And I know that there's a lot of Catholic brothers and sisters here, and this is by no means a slight at the Catholic Church.
00:07:43.000 Some of my dearest friends are Catholic.
00:07:45.000 My mother was raised Catholic.
00:07:46.000 My grandmother was the most Catholic person, I think, in North America.
00:07:50.000 Seriously, it was EWTN.
00:07:53.000 It was mass every day, and she was a phenomenal person.
00:07:57.000 And I know that she accepted Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior.
00:08:00.000 I know there's a lot of Catholics in this area too.
00:08:03.000 And so I'm not going to get into the theological differences here, but I am going to pinpoint one thing that I think the Catholic Church was incorrect on theologically.
00:08:12.000 So the Catholic Church said the church is centered in Rome.
00:08:16.000 One leader, one hierarchy.
00:08:18.000 You must go through our infrastructure to get to the Creator.
00:08:23.000 I think that's a fair way to describe especially how it worked in the 14th and 1500s.
00:08:29.000 Tyndale changed everything. 0.67
00:08:30.000 This guy was a rabble-rouser. 0.97
00:08:32.000 It's like, yeah, what did the scriptures actually say? 0.99
00:08:36.000 Because, you know, Latin was not well, was what, not widespread.
00:08:40.000 Less than half of 1% of the population of Europe actually spoke Latin.
00:08:46.000 So you had a bunch of people that were unable to access the scriptures, the perfect word of God.
00:08:52.000 And so he wanted to democratize the Bible.
00:08:54.000 He wanted more people to read the Bible.
00:08:56.000 So he went and he did the very difficult scholarly work to translate the Bible from Greek, of which most of the scriptures are written, into English.
00:09:06.000 Now, we all speak English.
00:09:07.000 You're hearing me in English. 0.73
00:09:09.000 English was the language of the peasants.
00:09:11.000 It's the language of the common man.
00:09:13.000 Most people who spoke English in the Scottish Highlands, which are originally my people and our people, that's why we always love a good fight.
00:09:24.000 English was not a respected language.
00:09:25.000 So Tyndale goes in and he says, Whoa.
00:09:28.000 Jesus didn't say church to fill our word.
00:09:32.000 It was a Greek word called ecclesia.
00:09:35.000 What is that?
00:09:37.000 So ecclesia was actually something very, very specific.
00:09:40.000 Jesus said, on this rock, build my ecclesia.
00:09:43.000 So if you do a little bit of research on what that is, what is a church?
00:09:46.000 An ecclesia, the word that our scriptures tell us that Christ used.
00:09:50.000 He spoke Aramaic, it was translated to Greek, the best fit word.
00:09:53.000 It was not synagogue.
00:09:55.000 It's not temple.
00:09:57.000 He said it was this word ecclesia.
00:09:58.000 Ecclesia was a political gathering in ancient Greece.
00:10:02.000 And ecclesia was a place where citizens came and fasted and prayed, unified, and met about the welfare of the town and the city that they were in to try and strive for two words. 0.98
00:10:13.000 The more Greek that I learned, which is very little, the more I have appreciation for how brilliant our founders were for incorporating these words and what they meant and how foolish our current leaders are. 0.97
00:10:25.000 I really mean that.
00:10:26.000 And so around two words, ellautharia and isonomia, freedom and equality.
00:10:33.000 So Jesus said, on this rock, go build my ecclesia.
00:10:38.000 On this rock, go have a gathering of people that care about the welfare of the city that they're in, that is active, that is engaged, that is aware, that is loving, compassionate, but also that is taking terrain.
00:10:52.000 You see, in American Christianity, we have this false belief of compartmentalized Christianity.
00:10:59.000 Like our influence stops right here at the wall.
00:11:02.000 You know, at the walls, we can't really do too much.
00:11:04.000 Government is for other people.
00:11:06.000 We're just going to save people and then our responsibility stops.
00:11:09.000 That is not what Jesus said.
00:11:11.000 Jesus wanted comprehensive Christianity.
00:11:14.000 He wanted to send people in all spheres of influence, in media, and pop culture and arts, and yes, government, politics.
00:11:21.000 And yet we have been hypnotized in the broader American church where they say, we only talk about the gospel.
00:11:28.000 Well, so do we.
00:11:29.000 It's the good news.
00:11:30.000 The gospel is really simple.
00:11:32.000 God created you.
00:11:34.000 We rebelled.
00:11:35.000 We're broken.
00:11:36.000 We need Jesus.
00:11:37.000 We accept him.
00:11:38.000 We get eternal life.
00:11:39.000 Creation, fall, redemption, recreation.
00:11:42.000 It's pretty simple.
00:11:44.000 And yet, the good news needs to be spread in every single sphere of influence.
00:11:49.000 What's preventing that?
00:11:51.000 In the last 100 years, secular ideas have been more successful than Christian ideas.
00:12:00.000 It's very difficult to say and admit.
00:12:03.000 Secular activists are more evangelistic than most Christians.
00:12:12.000 It's tough to hear that, right? 1.00
00:12:14.000 It's true.
00:12:15.000 Atheism is the fastest growing religion in America, and atheism is a religion.
00:12:20.000 Atheism is a declaration that there is no God.
00:12:24.000 Now, there might be some atheists here.
00:12:26.000 God bless you for being here.
00:12:28.000 Get it?
00:12:30.000 I have a couple of comments on atheism.
00:12:32.000 And I mean this.
00:12:33.000 First of all, without God, there would be no atheists.
00:12:45.000 Secondly, I don't have enough faith to be an atheist.
00:12:48.000 My good friend Turek talks about this often.
00:12:50.000 He has a whole podcast around it.
00:12:52.000 I think it takes more faith to believe that everything we're living through is an act of randomness.
00:12:56.000 The more you study science and actual science, not the stuff that Dr. Anthony Fauci, who by the way, should be fired immediately.
00:13:05.000 Immediately.
00:13:08.000 Talks about. 0.59
00:13:10.000 Or your governor, and yes, I will get to her in a second.
00:13:14.000 I will.
00:13:15.000 I promise.
00:13:16.000 That's the only through line of every one of my speeches.
00:13:19.000 It's the tyrant running the state.
00:13:21.000 It's true. 1.00
00:13:23.000 Because her tyranny is worth challenging.
00:13:26.000 The more you study science, the more that you go into the inquiry of the natural world, the more you realize that there were laws that were set up called natural laws.
00:13:36.000 Where is natural laws mentioned?
00:13:38.000 In the Declaration of Independence.
00:13:39.000 Our founders knew this, the laws of nature and nature is God.
00:13:41.000 They knew that God set up nature in a certain way.
00:13:44.000 For example, the laws of gravity, the second law of thermodynamics, the inevitable law of decay.
00:13:48.000 Force equals mass times acceleration.
00:13:51.000 An object of rest will stay at rest.
00:13:52.000 Equal and opposite reaction.
00:13:54.000 We know those as Newtonian physics.
00:13:58.000 God set up those parameters.
00:14:00.000 And the Bible is consistent with the laws of nature.
00:14:03.000 The more that we go to discover the scientific world, the complexity of DNA, the more that we map the human genome, the more honest scientists are blown away by the splendor and the wonder that only an omniscient, omnipotent creator could have put that together.
00:14:21.000 Only.
00:14:23.000 If you believe that this was just a roll of dice, basically the right combination at the craps table, you have infinitely more faith than we Christians do.
00:14:34.000 Infinitely.
00:14:36.000 And I mean that.
00:14:36.000 That gap of faith where now science tells us the universe had a start, that there was a moment when it began.
00:14:45.000 Well, therefore, using Aristotelian logic, if something started, there must be a starter.
00:14:53.000 And that starter, we call the creator or God.
00:14:55.000 Therefore, I believe that, and I mean this lovingly to atheists that watch, and we have a lot of atheists that support our podcast, and I think that there are a lot of honest atheists.
00:15:02.000 My one piece of advice is call yourself an agnostic, not an atheist.
00:15:06.000 An atheist is you screaming up to the heavens saying you're not there.
00:15:11.000 An agnostic comes from the Greek word agnosis without knowledge, says, I don't know. 0.80
00:15:17.000 And saying, I don't know is okay. 0.81
00:15:18.000 In fact, that is the first step towards knowing God is saying, I don't know.
00:15:24.000 I want to learn. 0.90
00:15:25.000 Atheism is a wall. 1.00
00:15:27.000 It's a shield.
00:15:28.000 Saying, I got all the answers.
00:15:30.000 You see, I figured it out.
00:15:31.000 There's nothing up there.
00:15:33.000 It takes a lot of pride to believe in something like that.
00:15:36.000 So being an agnostic is perfectly understandable. 1.00
00:15:38.000 It's okay.
00:15:38.000 And we should reach out with tenderness to those people because there's a creator that wants to get to know them.
00:15:43.000 The third thing about atheism, and this all ties together, is the intention.
00:15:50.000 I ask this question frequently, and you should do this too, to the atheists in your life, which is, do you hope you're wrong?
00:15:59.000 Do you hope that there's a God?
00:16:01.000 And if the answer is no, I hope there's no God, what a depressing way to look at the world.
00:16:07.000 You don't see your loved ones.
00:16:09.000 You can never come in contact with a creator.
00:16:11.000 There is no ultimate justice.
00:16:13.000 There's no mercy.
00:16:14.000 We're just a bunch of cells.
00:16:14.000 There's no grace.
00:16:16.000 There's no beauty.
00:16:17.000 There's no truth.
00:16:18.000 There's no romance.
00:16:19.000 We're all just under this hypnotic trick of an act of randomness.
00:16:23.000 And when you die, it's dust.
00:16:26.000 What a depressing way to look at the world.
00:16:27.000 Wouldn't it be a better way to look at the world? 0.90
00:16:29.000 At least a more hopeful way to look at the world, which is why an atheist says, yes, I hope I'm wrong.
00:16:33.000 I have tons of respect for them.
00:16:34.000 At least they're on, they want to, they want to be proven that there's a creator.
00:16:39.000 Then I say, okay, good.
00:16:42.000 You actually do believe that certain music can speak to you.
00:16:46.000 Worship literally is the closest that you can come to the romance or to kissing your creator.
00:16:53.000 If it goes back to the actual word, worship.
00:16:56.000 That's why there's the longest book of the Bible is dedicated to songs, psalms.
00:17:01.000 It's how you can get best in touch with the supernatural at times.
00:17:05.000 When you look at beauty, what is beauty?
00:17:07.000 That which is perfected in being.
00:17:09.000 You go to Yosemite National Park, you're, wow, even an atheist is blown away.
00:17:13.000 There's something that speaks to your soul at that moment, right?
00:17:16.000 It's more than just logic and reason, of which I'm a huge fan of, don't get me wrong.
00:17:19.000 My whole movement is built on logic and reason.
00:17:22.000 But there's something deeper beyond just our ability to think rationally, which I think we don't do enough of in our society, where it speaks to everyone.
00:17:33.000 And music and beauty and art is how you communicate with them, which is why we have such miserable people in this country.
00:17:38.000 It's because the music that we're publishing and the art we're producing is so antithetical to what it actually means to pursue beauty.
00:17:48.000 Music that glorifies the distance from God, a lifestyle, a culture that is self-indulgent, not appreciating the creator.
00:17:57.000 It's why when you hear this worship music, you're all of a sudden saying, I'm not even understanding all the words, but it's speaking to me.
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00:18:57.000 And so how does this all tie together?
00:18:59.000 Atheism is the fastest growing religion in America.
00:19:02.000 What's the church of atheism?
00:19:04.000 We know our church.
00:19:05.000 We're in it.
00:19:06.000 Got a great church.
00:19:07.000 I asked you, what is a church?
00:19:09.000 You're sitting in it.
00:19:10.000 It's doing it right.
00:19:11.000 You're helping the community.
00:19:12.000 Community, you're feeding the hungry.
00:19:15.000 You're clothing the cold.
00:19:17.000 You're mentoring those that are broken.
00:19:19.000 And yes, you're taking strong moral stances.
00:19:21.000 What is the church of the atheist?
00:19:24.000 Because whether or not the atheist, well admit it or not, community, what you're doing right now, every human being needs.
00:19:31.000 See, the cool thing about what we believe in, and cool is a massive understatement, but I'll use that word, is that we have a God-sized hole in our heart that only Jesus can fill.
00:19:44.000 And so for atheists or the people that don't believe in a creator, you've got to fill it.
00:19:52.000 So how do they do that? 0.89
00:19:54.000 Earthly domination.
00:19:57.000 It's got to take over whatever we possibly can.
00:20:00.000 What's the tried and true way?
00:20:03.000 What are most villains in the Bible?
00:20:05.000 Most people that are portrayed in a negative light, what do they have in common?
00:20:11.000 Abusing governmental rule against the innocent.
00:20:15.000 It's a pretty interesting political truth that we don't talk about enough, right?
00:20:19.000 Pharaoh oppressing the Israelites. 0.84
00:20:23.000 Jesus almost being murdered because of an edict to kill firstborn children. 0.99
00:20:28.000 Wow.
00:20:30.000 So people in power trying to make themselves permanently and indefinitely important.
00:20:39.000 And so what's happening here in this country is a theological debate.
00:20:43.000 Most of the church doesn't realize it.
00:20:44.000 They're too busy doing TED Talks and talking about how God doesn't care about how you vote, which is just such an unbelievably unbiblical thing to say.
00:20:51.000 I'll get to that in a sec.
00:20:53.000 When in reality, here's the theological debate.
00:20:56.000 We believe that there is a God and you are not him.
00:21:02.000 Let me say that again.
00:21:03.000 To the governor of New Mexico, there is a God and you are not him.
00:21:16.000 That your existence, your thoughts, your choices, your actions, and yes, your rights come from that creator, a vertical relationship of being.
00:21:26.000 They don't believe that.
00:21:27.000 They believe that government is the sovereign.
00:21:32.000 How did we get here?
00:21:34.000 As America became more secular, became more leftist.
00:21:39.000 The secularization of America leads us to a place where no one questions lockdowns.
00:21:45.000 And the church is the mostly blame for this.
00:21:49.000 This, not this church, but the church in general, because this is the exception, and you know that.
00:21:54.000 This is the exception to the rule.
00:21:55.000 You have a rule for a reason and you have exceptions.
00:21:57.000 Most churches over the last 30, 40 years were indifferent to the most important, moral, and pressing issues of our time.
00:22:07.000 And especially after the Soviet Union crumbled, the wall fell before I was born.
00:22:14.000 We kind of took the 90s easy, didn't we?
00:22:17.000 The 90s, good time economically, peaceful time politically. 0.52
00:22:22.000 You can look back, you're like, wow, we had two genders, Dr. Seuss, Aunt Jemima, gone with the wind. 0.92
00:22:28.000 It's like, it was a great time to be alive, right? 0.98
00:22:35.000 And now we look, we see, you know, I'm going to constantly say something where I'm going to get canceled.
00:22:40.000 I'm going to get eliminated.
00:22:42.000 And so what happened in the 90s is we went to sleep and the left went to work.
00:22:47.000 They took over everything.
00:22:49.000 The civil service, the academies, the schools, the corporations, the education of your kids, the social media companies.
00:22:56.000 What did we do?
00:22:56.000 We kind of went to sleep.
00:22:57.000 Not to say that the church didn't flourish in the 90s.
00:22:59.000 Of course. 1.00
00:23:00.000 You had the saddleback movement.
00:23:02.000 You had the massive expansion of so many different movements.
00:23:05.000 You know, the Jesus Loves You movement.
00:23:06.000 All that stuff is great.
00:23:08.000 What was the result?
00:23:09.000 The result was we don't do politics.
00:23:12.000 Politics is for you guys.
00:23:14.000 We're just going to do the gospel. 1.00
00:23:15.000 What an unbelievably foolish decision that was. 0.97
00:23:19.000 Because when all of a sudden the church is like, we don't do politics. 0.99
00:23:21.000 You guys do what you want.
00:23:22.000 We don't do politics.
00:23:24.000 You guys can pass it as long as separation.
00:23:27.000 We believe in separation of church and state, which is unbiblical, unconstitutional, and it's not in the Constitution. 1.00
00:23:31.000 However, let's pretend that they're right. 0.99
00:23:33.000 How about we keep the state out of the church?
00:23:37.000 How about we keep the governor out of this place?
00:23:43.000 And so now we are living the 30-year results of the church being asleep and the left being at work.
00:23:51.000 See, we defeated communism without ever firing a bullet.
00:23:56.000 We had a great president, Ronald Reagan, who framed it properly.
00:24:01.000 You know how Reagan, and he never gets credit for this, and our children that don't study this.
00:24:05.000 I go to these universities and they have no idea about the Soviet Union, East and West Germany, East and West Berlin.
00:24:12.000 But if you ask them about the 1619 project, they could tell you all about it.
00:24:16.000 Get to that maybe in the next service.
00:24:19.000 Running out of time, as always. 0.84
00:24:21.000 And so we defeated the Soviet Union with ideas, with truth, with morals. 0.78
00:24:29.000 You know what Reagan called the Soviet Union? 0.69
00:24:31.000 The evil empire that is a godless government.
00:24:35.000 He declared a theological difference.
00:24:38.000 He said, We believe that God created us.
00:24:41.000 They believe Vladimir Lenin created them.
00:24:43.000 Let's see who wins.
00:24:45.000 What happened?
00:24:46.000 They crumbled.
00:24:50.000 And now many of those countries in Eastern Europe are actually more in pursuit of truth than our own country.
00:24:58.000 Poland, Hungary, not all the countries have their act together, plenty of corruption, but generally, they don't want to go back.
00:25:05.000 And now we're playing with a temptation from the devil. 0.50
00:25:08.000 And I don't say that lightly.
00:25:11.000 We are playing with this temptation.
00:25:13.000 You can create utopia here.
00:25:16.000 Just one more government act of universal health care.
00:25:19.000 Just one more act of $1.9 trillion, right?
00:25:24.000 Just one more.
00:25:25.000 We can do it.
00:25:26.000 When in reality, the conversation we should be having is: before we do another $1.9 trillion, are you acting the best that you can act?
00:25:36.000 Are you making the decisions best for you?
00:25:38.000 So the church has been asleep.
00:25:40.000 The Soviet Union fell because we had a president and a church in the 80s that was reawakened, more so than in the 90s, 90s fell asleep.
00:25:47.000 I was born in the early 2000s, and I was told that every church that I attended, no politics, It's unbiblical.
00:25:55.000 Esther, Mordecai, Daniel, Jeremiah, Nehemiah, Joseph, all contested for God's purpose in secular government.
00:26:02.000 They have to wrestle with the ecclesia thing that I say with.
00:26:05.000 But then also, some people say, Pastor Steve, you're in violation of Romans 13.
00:26:12.000 Romans 13, the most quoted and least understood piece of scripture in the Bible.
00:26:19.000 It's funny, the pastors that gallivan around Romans 13 are very shy to ever talk about any of the other political verses in the Bible.
00:26:31.000 But what does Romans 13 say?
00:26:33.000 And I'm paraphrasing: submit to rulers and authority.
00:26:38.000 Who's in charge?
00:26:40.000 In this country, God.
00:26:41.000 You're right.
00:26:43.000 Who's in charge even in our constitutional republic?
00:26:47.000 True, but who else?
00:26:49.000 You.
00:26:50.000 So who do we submit to in America?
00:26:52.000 We submit to the will of the people.
00:26:54.000 You don't submit to some governor that tramples on your first principles.
00:26:58.000 Under Romans 13, written as Paul wrote it, the minute that your God-granted rights are violated, they're violating Romans 13.
00:27:06.000 You aren't.
00:27:10.000 We're the sovereign.
00:27:12.000 So I'm your governor.
00:27:14.000 I don't remember her name because she doesn't have a name worth remembering.
00:27:18.000 I mean that.
00:27:19.000 No, seriously.
00:27:20.000 It's true.
00:27:23.000 In the Bible, names meant a lot.
00:27:25.000 Names were everything.
00:27:27.000 She has no name worth remembering. 1.00
00:27:29.000 She is a tyrant. 0.99
00:27:30.000 It's that simple. 1.00
00:27:31.000 And she is in the mold of a tyrant.
00:27:34.000 Remember this truth.
00:27:36.000 Scared people are easier to command.
00:27:39.000 Informed people are harder to control.
00:27:42.000 The more you learn, the harder you are to control. 1.00
00:27:46.000 And so, why the church?
00:27:51.000 Why not Planned Parenthood?
00:27:53.000 Why not BLM Inc.?
00:27:55.000 Why not cannabis dispensaries?
00:27:57.000 What is the hyper-fixation on the church?
00:28:01.000 Almost like a pathological obsession.
00:28:03.000 Protesters outside.
00:28:06.000 Government health people, fines, you name it.
00:28:09.000 And this church isn't alone.
00:28:10.000 My friend Mike LeClure, Calvary Chapel, San Jose, facing $2 million of fines for doing exactly what you're doing.
00:28:16.000 He's not backing down.
00:28:18.000 He's doing the right thing.
00:28:19.000 There's more pastors than you would believe that are doing this.
00:28:22.000 We're bringing them together.
00:28:24.000 Rob McCoy, Joe Pettic, James Cadiz, Cody Kuhl, Jack Hibbs, Jergen, Luke and Angel Barnett.
00:28:31.000 You know some of these names.
00:28:32.000 And they are standing.
00:28:33.000 We're going to bring them together.
00:28:35.000 But why the church?
00:28:37.000 It's the only thing they don't control.
00:28:40.000 That's it.
00:28:41.000 Show me one other place of terrain they don't control.
00:28:44.000 You see, they're not interested in building new.
00:28:48.000 They're interested in taking over, destroying, and destructing.
00:28:51.000 So they control the universities.
00:28:52.000 They control the civil service.
00:28:54.000 They control a lot of the military.
00:28:55.000 They control mass media.
00:28:56.000 They control your language, whether you realize it or not.
00:28:59.000 They control the tech companies.
00:29:00.000 They control the movies that your kids watch on Disney Plus, all the way up through Netflix.
00:29:04.000 They control everything.
00:29:06.000 But they're not satisfied.
00:29:07.000 They'll never be satisfied.
00:29:08.000 You know, that is the desire that they have.
00:29:14.000 Because there's something different about a church that bothers them.
00:29:20.000 Bothers them on a very personal level.
00:29:22.000 And who is them?
00:29:23.000 I'm talking about the people that want you shut down, locked down, government ordinances.
00:29:28.000 You can call them the left.
00:29:29.000 You can call them secularists, whatever.
00:29:31.000 These are all interchangeable terms, but you know exactly who I'm talking about.
00:29:34.000 And your governor is a perfect personification of it.
00:29:37.000 Them.
00:29:38.000 And all of the public health officials and all the intelligentsia that support her.
00:29:43.000 Why the church?
00:29:45.000 It's because they know the only thing that is in the way of their ultimate power grab is this place, is the church.
00:29:57.000 If you look at every successful revolution, they almost always go for the church first.
00:30:03.000 But even before that, they go for the disagreeable churches.
00:30:06.000 You see, Stalin didn't go for every church.
00:30:10.000 He killed thousands of pastors.
00:30:12.000 We don't teach our children this.
00:30:14.000 Thousands.
00:30:15.000 Didn't kill them all.
00:30:17.000 Why?
00:30:18.000 Because he knew that people, if they had no churches, they would revolt.
00:30:22.000 Instead, he kept the people in the Orthodox tradition that would toe the party line. 0.55
00:30:30.000 That would say that Stalin is anointed by God, which is considered in the Old Testament the worst commandment.
00:30:41.000 Now, we don't talk about this correctly.
00:30:43.000 People say taking God's name in vain is the worst commandment. 1.00
00:30:46.000 That is true. 1.00
00:30:48.000 You go back to the original Hebrew, it's not just saying God is an expletive, which no one should do.
00:30:53.000 It's different.
00:30:54.000 It's doing evil in the name of God.
00:30:56.000 That is the thing that is worse than anything else.
00:30:59.000 Doing that which is immoral and saying God is on your side.
00:31:02.000 Saying that God wants Planned Parenthood to remain open.
00:31:06.000 That is the worst thing you can do.
00:31:07.000 It's saying how God's purpose is somehow for an evil.
00:31:14.000 The church bothers them.
00:31:15.000 They need the churches closed because then they'll be in total control.
00:31:18.000 People say, well, Charlie, what do they want to do next?
00:31:20.000 They haven't thought that through.
00:31:21.000 They just want power.
00:31:22.000 They want power.
00:31:23.000 No different than Napoleon, no different than they just want terrain.
00:31:27.000 They want power.
00:31:29.000 We want freedom.
00:31:30.000 That's why we are not built for this, but we got to get trained.
00:31:33.000 And I see your eagerness.
00:31:34.000 Why are we not built for this?
00:31:36.000 Because for us, we kind of want government to be a second or third concern.
00:31:41.000 Our family, our church, our profession, and our hobbies should matter more than our governments.
00:31:47.000 Our government should remain where it's supposed to in a limited constitutional form so then we can live our life.
00:31:53.000 Their life is the government because it's their church.
00:31:58.000 Remember, every person needs community and connection.
00:32:03.000 Here you worship God.
00:32:05.000 In a different way and almost in a parallel way in the last year, they look to the state for all the answers.
00:32:13.000 Now, I'm by no means saying we should get rid of government.
00:32:16.000 Government should enforce our laws.
00:32:17.000 We should have judges.
00:32:18.000 We should have police, and we should thank our police officers for doing an amazing job.
00:32:23.000 But government has a very specific role.
00:32:27.000 In fact, it's the Bible that originally talked about what government should be.
00:32:34.000 But did you know, for decades, Israel had no standing army and no military and virtually no crime?
00:32:42.000 Why?
00:32:42.000 Because everyone knew the law.
00:32:44.000 And they were the self-enforcing police of the law.
00:32:46.000 And then what did they say, God, give us a king?
00:32:48.000 It said, be careful what you wish for.
00:32:51.000 And then it started to unravel and deteriorate from there.
00:32:54.000 And so we're in a theological debate in this country. 0.79
00:32:58.000 Very few Christians admit it. 0.81
00:33:00.000 And it's really a question of who's in charge. 0.98
00:33:03.000 Where do your rights come from?
00:33:05.000 And even a more basic and fundamental question, which is, who do you blame for your problems?
00:33:12.000 It's a really simple, this is, I talk about this with students all the time.
00:33:15.000 And if you are a student, my next speech will be all about young people, college, education, social media, completely tailored to the next generation.
00:33:25.000 And so if that interests you, please go to that because these kind of work in a little bit of like a chapter sequence.
00:33:31.000 But I'll touch on this right now. 0.91
00:33:33.000 We used to tell our young people in the 1950s and 60s, correctly, that you're pretty screwed up and America's awesome. 0.98
00:33:44.000 Now we tell our young people, you're wonderful and America's terrible. 0.97
00:33:50.000 We completely turned it on its head.
00:33:52.000 For parents out there, let me tell you one piece of biblical truth.
00:33:57.000 Self-control is infinitely more important to teach your kids than self-esteem.
00:34:07.000 The great Dennis Prager talks about this quite often.
00:34:09.000 You know who has a ton of self-esteem?
00:34:11.000 This is very provocative.
00:34:12.000 I can't wait for this to get written up.
00:34:13.000 Murderers.
00:34:14.000 They do.
00:34:16.000 Psychological analysis by independent studies, one after the other.
00:34:20.000 You must think highly of yourself to take another life.
00:34:22.000 That's not to say that you should just beat yourself up all the time.
00:34:24.000 That's not what I'm suggesting.
00:34:26.000 But the self-esteem movement has done such unbelievable damage and harm to my generation.
00:34:30.000 Unspeakable damage.
00:34:32.000 I remember walking through high school and there were these signs that said you're perfect the way you are.
00:34:37.000 And I remember turning to my teacher and then why the heck are we here?
00:34:41.000 Everything's done if I'm perfect the way I am.
00:34:44.000 Now the intention of the self-esteem movement might be good.
00:34:46.000 We're beating our kids up too much.
00:34:48.000 We got to lift them up.
00:34:49.000 Okay, there might be some adjustments that could have been made.
00:34:51.000 But to flip it on its head and say you could do anything you want when you want to do it, you're the most important thing in the world.
00:34:56.000 There is a gravitational pull around your existence with such an unbelievable disservice.
00:35:02.000 We have the most suicidal, depressed generation in American history, the most drug-addicted, device-addicted.
00:35:09.000 And again, my next speech will be specifically tailored to that.
00:35:14.000 Where we teach young people in college that the biggest problem in the world is America, is something existential.
00:35:22.000 And in reality, the biggest problem in the world is you.
00:35:24.000 It's your actions.
00:35:26.000 It's your relationship with your creator.
00:35:28.000 You got to get your act together.
00:35:30.000 Stop blaming other people.
00:35:32.000 Make better choices.
00:35:34.000 Stop doing drugs.
00:35:35.000 Tell the truth.
00:35:37.000 Wake up earlier.
00:35:38.000 Work harder.
00:35:41.000 It's easier to blame other people.
00:35:42.000 And I'm all for pointing out plenty of injustices.
00:35:46.000 And a great way to, a great example is in New Mexico here, is the governor has really unfairly gone after so many people that there's a legitimate claim that you could say that I have not been able to do something because of what the governor did.
00:36:03.000 And I'm not one to glorify victimhood.
00:36:06.000 But legitimately, if you're a small business owner in New Mexico, you are a victim.
00:36:09.000 And I don't say that lightly.
00:36:10.000 I reserve that label for when it is necessary.
00:36:14.000 When I go to a college campus and I see a black woman at Harvard and she says I'm oppressed, I say, you're not oppressed.
00:36:20.000 You're the luckiest black woman in the history of the world.
00:36:22.000 You're at Harvard.
00:36:23.000 Work hard.
00:36:24.000 You'll be ahead of a law firm.
00:36:25.000 Stop telling me how oppressed you are.
00:36:27.000 And first of all, you're lucky. 0.61
00:36:30.000 I'm oppressed because I'm a black woman at Harvard.
00:36:33.000 Give me a break. 0.74
00:36:36.000 This oppression Olympics nonsense has got to stop.
00:36:38.000 This competition of I'm the most oppressed person in the world.
00:36:41.000 None of you are oppressed even remotely as much as 99% of the rest of the world.
00:36:46.000 You live in America.
00:36:47.000 Make good choices, succeed, be thankful.
00:36:48.000 It's that simple.
00:36:57.000 Oh, they're going to love that one, Pastor Steve.
00:37:01.000 Now, while I'm on it, and I just say this, we're the least racist country in the history of the world.
00:37:05.000 One of the biggest lies, one of the most dangerous lies, and I'm going to try to fit this in with the six minutes I have remaining.
00:37:11.000 It's not easy.
00:37:12.000 Is, look, the devil seeks to divide.
00:37:14.000 We know that.
00:37:15.000 The gospel seeks to unite.
00:37:16.000 It is unifying gospel by definition.
00:37:18.000 Paul says clearly, neither slave nor master nor Greek nor Jew, we are all one in the body of Christ.
00:37:25.000 I think your skin color is completely irrelevant.
00:37:27.000 I don't care what you look like. 1.00
00:37:28.000 I care how you act.
00:37:29.000 I don't care about the melanin content in your skin.
00:37:31.000 It's irrelevant.
00:37:32.000 If you care about people's skin color, you're the racist, not me.
00:37:35.000 It's that simple.
00:37:40.000 Now, let me say, there are racists in America, no doubt.
00:37:45.000 But we have a supply and demand problem with racists in America.
00:37:49.000 There's such an unbelievably limited supply and this pent-up demand to find them.
00:37:54.000 We're actually more decent than we give ourselves credit for.
00:37:58.000 You know how the only way you could believe people are good is if you live in America where people are basically good.
00:38:04.000 You go to the rest of the country, the rest of the world.
00:38:08.000 It's not always the case.
00:38:09.000 We are the most generous country in the history of the planet, the most accepting, the most benevolent, the least likely to judge on race.
00:38:16.000 And yet I have to go through this non-stop narrative, which is designed to divide.
00:38:23.000 That there's someone lurking in the shadows that wants to hold you back based on your skin color.
00:38:28.000 Let me be very clear.
00:38:29.000 If there's a racist in the audience, you got work to do to repent and to communicate with your creator and ask for forgiveness.
00:38:35.000 I mean that.
00:38:36.000 It's a sin.
00:38:38.000 However, your mere existence as a white heterosexual male does not mean that you are currently participating or engaging in the sin of racism.
00:38:50.000 It doesn't.
00:38:51.000 And anything to the contrary is a lie.
00:38:53.000 In fact, it's a hyperfixation to try to keep people down, to convince them they can't succeed because there's a boogeyman around the corner.
00:38:59.000 When in reality, if you get married before you have kids, you graduate from high school and get a job, you're going to be just okay in this country, generally, and don't commit crimes.
00:39:10.000 It's a tough message, but it's true.
00:39:13.000 When in reality, it's easier.
00:39:14.000 You know how much easier my life would be, Steve, if I just went around and I had a list of people you could blame.
00:39:19.000 Seriously, your employer, your parents, which is another thing I'm going to talk about in the next thing.
00:39:24.000 I do want to mention it here.
00:39:25.000 It's a very important thing.
00:39:26.000 What's the first thing tyrants always do before they go after the church?
00:39:29.000 It's very important.
00:39:30.000 They turn their kids against their parents.
00:39:33.000 Mao did it.
00:39:34.000 Stalin did it too. 0.84
00:39:35.000 And you're seeing it now.
00:39:36.000 You're seeing these spoiled brats on TikTok, and I mean that, that are getting tons of praise from celebrities for talking about how awful their parents are.
00:39:46.000 Why did God put that in the Ten Commandments?
00:39:49.000 Honor your parents, not love, completely different word.
00:39:54.000 It's the only commandment with a promise, so that you may live long in the land of which you are in and prosper.
00:40:00.000 You don't do that, you don't prosper.
00:40:03.000 Now, I understand plenty of people have parents who have abused them and all of that.
00:40:09.000 I get it.
00:40:11.000 That's an exception.
00:40:12.000 The rule is that generally your parents weren't awful, generally.
00:40:19.000 And there are plenty of stories I hear about it.
00:40:23.000 However, I see people all the time.
00:40:25.000 I don't talk to my parents anymore.
00:40:26.000 I say, why?
00:40:27.000 Well, because they disagree with me on this and this.
00:40:31.000 I say, no, there's a specific commandment that you must honor your parents.
00:40:34.000 You must communicate with them.
00:40:36.000 They might have something that you can learn, to know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
00:40:40.000 They might be a little bit whatever.
00:40:45.000 But all of a sudden, to have the pride that I have it all figured out and my parents don't, that is how civilizations disintegrate.
00:40:52.000 And that's what they want to do.
00:40:53.000 It's what Mao did.
00:40:54.000 It's what Stalin did. 0.98
00:40:55.000 He brought in the young kids. 0.77
00:40:57.000 That's what the National Socialist Worker Party in Germany did.
00:41:01.000 When he brought in all the kids, they say, Your parents don't know, we know, obey the state.
00:41:05.000 That's why all of a sudden you have kids going to their parents like you don't understand the existential threat of climate change.
00:41:09.000 You don't understand how systemically racist we are.
00:41:12.000 Pitting kids against their parents, destroying that compact.
00:41:16.000 It's intentional because then all of a sudden your governor becomes more important because who are they going to look to for authority?
00:41:21.000 People need authority.
00:41:23.000 And if it's not the parent, who hopefully, God willing, will be getting their authority and their wisdom from the Bible and from God, this vertical relationship of civilization replication, which has worked very well for Western society.
00:41:36.000 We've just decided, you know what?
00:41:37.000 Everything before us was a mistake.
00:41:39.000 Let's just throw it through the shredder.
00:41:41.000 It's basically the ethos of college campuses.
00:41:44.000 That everyone who came before us, if someone was a white male before the 1800s, they just don't make it into the curriculum because they must have been completely evil, which is such an unbelievably awful way to look at life.
00:41:54.000 So let me kind of tie this all together.
00:41:57.000 What you're doing here in New Mexico is on the forefront of what matters most in America.
00:42:03.000 Let me tell you why.
00:42:05.000 You do not live in Texas.
00:42:07.000 You don't live in Alabama or Mississippi.
00:42:09.000 The fight here is harder.
00:42:14.000 It's easier to cower and conform.
00:42:17.000 You know how much easier?
00:42:18.000 You guys know it. 0.97
00:42:19.000 If you put your Black Lives Matter sign outside of your home, BLM, don't come after me. 0.99
00:42:26.000 I got it. 0.99
00:42:26.000 Look how good of a person I am, right? 0.99
00:42:28.000 All that.
00:42:29.000 It's harder to go to a church like this.
00:42:32.000 It's harder to articulate these ideas and values.
00:42:35.000 It's harder to go against the governor. 0.97
00:42:36.000 My goodness, she has the state police. 0.98
00:42:38.000 She has executive orders.
00:42:40.000 But I think the country that we all love, which is the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world, and the greatest experiment in civil government, and let me be very clear, we are not a perfect country.
00:42:50.000 I would never say something like that.
00:42:52.000 We are the best country, and we're an excellent country, and we're a moral country.
00:42:55.000 We are, because of our tradition, our culture, our history, our values, our ideas, how we are founded, recognizing we were made in God's image and protecting those rights that God gave us.
00:43:04.000 No other country has ever done that.
00:43:05.000 No country.
00:43:09.000 This country will survive or disintegrate based on whether or not the freedom-loving people contest in the tough fights, in the tough fights.
00:43:23.000 That is what will determine the future of America.
00:43:27.000 So in a decade from now, when I return to this church, or whenever, I'm coming in July, but let's say 10 years from now.
00:43:35.000 I'll be back sooner than that.
00:43:38.000 We'll look around and we'll say, either every person who was here said, now this is a mandate for action, or I'm just going to kind of cower because the stakes are too high.
00:43:48.000 That's what's going to determine the future of America.
00:43:50.000 So let me tell you two things that will give you hope and optimism.
00:43:53.000 Number one, we know the laws of nature, right?
00:43:57.000 Law of gravity, law of thermodynamics, Newtonian physics.
00:44:00.000 These are laws you can prove in science.
00:44:02.000 And I would like to add one to the scientific community.
00:44:04.000 The left destroys everything they touch.
00:44:06.000 Everything.
00:44:09.000 It says, try to everything.
00:44:11.000 They destroy the Boy Scouts.
00:44:13.000 They're trying to destroy the church.
00:44:15.000 They destroy universities.
00:44:16.000 They destroy companies.
00:44:18.000 So they're going to mess this up.
00:44:19.000 And we will have an opportunity at that moment.
00:44:22.000 I believe it's happening here in New Mexico.
00:44:23.000 And here's the second piece of truth that I will tell you.
00:44:26.000 You're actually much more influential and powerful than you might think.
00:44:30.000 It is the enemy that whispers in your ear where you say, my action doesn't matter.
00:44:34.000 My words mean nothing.
00:44:37.000 And I'm going to do nothing.
00:44:38.000 Apathy, being indifferent, is a gift to the enemy that wants to put evil into the hearts and minds of our young people. 0.78
00:44:49.000 It's a gift to the enemy that wants to continue to slaughter the unborn, the confusion of gender.
00:44:55.000 You're a lot more powerful than you might think.
00:44:56.000 You're also a lot tougher than you might think.
00:44:58.000 I don't think people give themselves enough credit.
00:45:00.000 I don't.
00:45:01.000 Especially in the last year.
00:45:02.000 Seriously, you're a lot tougher than you think.
00:45:05.000 And you should be, especially, everyone here should be applauded for that.
00:45:08.000 So let me give you two action items, one that Steve mentioned.
00:45:11.000 If you guys are able, it helps me a lot personally and our movement from being canceled by these big tech companies.
00:45:17.000 Every device has a podcast app.
00:45:19.000 You type in Charlie Kirk show, you hit subscribe.
00:45:21.000 Maybe I said something that motivated you to action and you want to hear more.
00:45:24.000 We do two podcasts a day, one on Saturday, one on Sunday.
00:45:27.000 And if every person in this church and watching at home did it, we would beat Rachel Maddow in the podcast charts, which I would love to do, everybody.
00:45:33.000 How great would that be?
00:45:35.000 Either on Spotify or on Apple News.
00:45:37.000 And here's the last thing: and run out of time every time.
00:45:40.000 The Bible is the word of God.
00:45:42.000 There's no other book ever written like it.
00:45:43.000 Some people might be here and you might have never been involved in church or whatever.
00:45:47.000 And you might say, I came here for Charlie and, you know, I don't know about this church thing.
00:45:51.000 That's fine.
00:45:52.000 Welcome.
00:45:53.000 There's a creator that wants to get to know you, that gave you a gift so that you can live forever.
00:45:59.000 You're broken by your nature.
00:46:01.000 You're not going to get enough points on the scoreboard to get you to eternal life.
00:46:04.000 And there is a gift that you can accept that can get you there.
00:46:07.000 The gospel in four words is Jesus took my place.
00:46:11.000 The gospel in three words is him for me.
00:46:15.000 Two words.
00:46:16.000 Substitutionary atonement in one word, grace.
00:46:18.000 What is grace?
00:46:19.000 We say that a lot.
00:46:20.000 Amazing grace.
00:46:21.000 Well, first, we must talk about what justice is.
00:46:23.000 Justice is getting what you deserve, a prison sentence.
00:46:27.000 A judge comes in and says, you broke into the store, you get a year in prison.
00:46:31.000 Mercy, as you go in front of the judge, they say, you broke in the store, but you serve a month in prison instead of a year.
00:46:36.000 It's getting less of a sentence.
00:46:38.000 But grace is at your sentencing hearing when someone shows up and says, I'll serve the prison sentence for that guy.
00:46:44.000 That's what Jesus gives you.
00:46:46.000 God bless you guys, and thank you so much.
00:46:55.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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00:47:09.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:47:10.000 God bless you.
00:47:11.000 Speak to you soon.
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