00:00:59.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:07.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:37.000And I thought I knew what I was doing, and I didn't.
00:02:39.000And so I started this effort with no money, no connections, no idea what I was doing when I was 18 years old in the suburbs of Chicago.
00:02:47.000And I felt a need, a deep urge that the people of this nation needed to wake up, especially students and young people.
00:02:55.000I felt that we were given this incredible constitutional republic and we were making decisions, self-inflicted decisions, to turn this country away from righteousness and towards decay and despair.
00:03:07.000And again, it was a clumsy first couple of years starting at Turning Point USA.
00:03:11.000I had some amazing support along the way.
00:03:14.000The Lord really had his hand on this organization and has had his hand on this organization all along.
00:03:20.000And 10 years later, we are now the nation's premier organization for young people, pursuing and defending American values on high school and college campuses across the country.
00:03:32.000And, you know, a little bit, I do three podcasts a day, a couple hours of radio a day.
00:03:39.000I traveled 330 days last year all across the country.
00:03:42.000I've been over all 50 states twice over.
00:04:36.000I grew up in a Bible-believing Bible-based church in the suburbs of Chicago, where it was expositional, verse by verse, chapter by chapter, deep into the word.
00:04:45.000I believe in the inerrancy of scripture.
00:05:02.000And then my life really changed, and my premise was challenged when a pastor in California spoke at an event right before me, my now pastor, Pastor Rob McCoy, and he talked about how the two are actually never supposed to be separate.
00:05:17.000That these are questions of morality, of truth, about what is good, what is true, what is beautiful.
00:05:23.000Like Philippians 4:8, that says, whatever is right, whatever is good, whatever is true, whatever is praiseworthy, think on these things.
00:05:31.000And tonight we're going to think about these things.
00:05:32.000We're going to live out Philippians 4:8 tonight.
00:05:34.000We're going to think about the things that are true and praiseworthy and what things are not true and praiseworthy.
00:05:40.000And he really challenged me because I was under this assumption that America might have had some Christian roots at one point, but it basically was always a secular nation.
00:05:51.000And I didn't believe it as bluntly as that, but I definitely had some of those talking points beat into me, all the while being a Christian and being a constitutionalist.
00:06:02.000The deeper I dove into our nation's history, I realized that 55 out of 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence were Bible-believing church-attending Christians.
00:06:11.000I realized that the Constitution is a divinely inspired document that espouses biblical principles of consent to the governed and separation of powers and the independent judiciary.
00:06:19.000I realized how exceptional America was from the beginning because of the problem America sought to solve.
00:06:25.000And then I realized that it was the church that didn't just inspire, but it was the church that was the reason why America was founded in the first place.
00:06:37.000I grew up in a world where you didn't say that at church, or you get kind of uncomfortable.
00:06:41.000You start sitting around like, what is the pastor saying if they're doing that, right?
00:06:44.000And I really went into a time of prayer and reflection and eventually repentance because I asked God for forgiveness why I didn't actually push this forward the first eight years at Turning Point USA of everything I was doing.
00:06:56.000All the while I was never turning my back on the Lord, but I was trying to be like, yeah, that's not the place, not the time, place, or manner.
00:08:16.000The church should never get that hierarchy mixed up.
00:08:19.000And we'll talk about tonight about how to properly communicate that, where it comes involved in the church.
00:08:24.000But if you remain silent on the issues of patriotism and civic engagement, oh, that doesn't matter.
00:08:30.000Well, then we're all going to have to open prison ministries, everybody, because we'll be sharing the gospel from somewhere that is not as nice as this room right now.
00:09:36.000That's why I'm wearing the shirt right now, live free.
00:09:39.000It's God's wish for you to live free, free from sin, free from bondage, free from guilt.
00:09:42.000And yes, free from authoritarianism, petty tyranny that tells you what to do with your life when it gets in complete contradiction with your values.
00:09:50.000God's wish for his people is for you to live free.
00:09:53.000And so, yeah, to answer your question, at Turning Point USA, we started at his high school and college campuses.
00:09:58.000That is growing like you wouldn't believe.
00:10:00.000More and more young people are attending our events.
00:10:02.000They're starting chapters all around this quest for liberty, which is harmonic, by the way.
00:10:07.000It is completely alongside in parallel with what we're doing here tonight.
00:10:11.000We're trying to talk about liberty, and we're going to talk about it through a strictly biblical lens.
00:10:15.000But it's the same sort of thing when a college kid shows up at one of my events, either at the University of Arkansas, which we just did a couple nights ago, or, you know, Auburn, where we just did an event a couple nights ago.
00:11:17.000We now have a field team across the country that's working with pastors, working with churches.
00:11:21.000And the success, the momentum, the curiosity, the interest of churches that otherwise would have been on the sidelines, they want to say, hey, I want to do that biblical citizenship class.
00:11:29.000Or they might reach out to us, say, hey, Charlie, do you have a pastor summit coming up, which we do coming in August, where we're going to have pastors from all across the country come to our summit and hopefully empower them and equip them with the information and just encouragement in general to keep on speaking out on this.
00:11:44.000But I'll tell you, there are so many churches that are now speaking openly about these issues and about what's happening here.
00:11:50.000And I feel just we're calling this entire calendar year the rise of the citizen.
00:11:56.000We are seeing regular, normal, everyday people that otherwise would have just been either complacent or they would have been apathetic.
00:12:04.000They're starting to break out of their mold and they're starting to challenge authority and tyranny and reclaim what is rightfully theirs.
00:12:14.000Now, I'm sure there are several pastors in the room or viewing online.
00:12:20.000And this whole, I just want to stay here for a little bit longer.
00:12:22.000This idea of the separation of church and state, we found ourselves on the front page of the St. Louis Post Dispatch a few weeks ago for influencing, dare to influence the school board elections, which, by the way, are Tuesday, if I didn't mention that earlier.
00:12:36.000Tuesday, we're all voting in St. Louis County and St. Charles County.
00:12:41.000But you've got a few examples out there of, I know, from Jack Hibbs' church, Rob McCoy's church, of really this idea of having our 501c3 revoked or all of this stuff.
00:12:53.000Just speak into that just a little bit more.
00:12:55.000Yeah, let's first start on this line, separation of church and state.
00:12:57.000It's okay if you believe that's in the Constitution.
00:13:11.000So the separation of church and state was referenced once by Thomas Jefferson in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Convention, taken out of context, then re-referenced in a Supreme Court decision in the 1960s.
00:13:20.000I think it was either the Warren or the Burger Court that said there must be this wall between the church and the state.
00:13:26.000So let's just take that at face value for a second.
00:14:29.000So you could be as cavalier as Jack Hibbs and Rob McCoy.
00:14:32.000So Jack Hibbs, God bless him, he will endorse candidates from onstage.
00:14:36.000He will record it and then mail the recordings to the Internal Revenue Service asking them whether or not they want to make a judgment against his church.
00:14:50.000I'm just letting you know the spectrum out there, okay?
00:14:54.000Now, you could kind of do a middle ground where the pastor says, these are my personal opinions, not that of the church, and we're going to tell you what the Bible says.
00:15:01.000It's perfectly fine under the IRS code to do that, by the way.
00:15:06.000Or you could just even do something even more vanilla and say, I'm just going to tell you word for word what the word of God says about the 10 biggest issues happening.
00:15:14.000I'm not even going to mention the election.
00:15:16.000That is 100% safe harbor, okay, no matter what.
00:15:20.000So there really is no legal excuse as to why to not do it.
00:15:24.000We must understand the enforcement mechanism is the Johnson Amendment, what was put forward by Lyndon Baines Johnson to try to shut up a pastor he didn't like in Houston, Texas for the sole purpose of trying to make the church uninterested and not involved in this.
00:15:36.000But let's play this out for just a second.
00:15:39.000I think it's important to just take the threat at face value.
00:15:42.000So let's say that the church were to lose its tax-exempt status.
00:15:45.000The question is, would that momentary earthly penalty be worth pursuing righteousness?
00:15:53.000So the question is, you're afraid of losing a government certificate because you'll only say what is true if the government certificate will remain intact.
00:16:01.000That's a bad reason to do anything, by the way.
00:16:05.000Now, I'm not saying, don't be, I'm not saying be imprudent.
00:16:09.000You don't have to be the, I love Jack Kibbs.
00:16:14.000And by the way, by doing so, he's also creating space for other churches to be able to do a little bit less to use that as a reference point.
00:18:05.000I really want us to turn this issue into an issue of prayer.
00:18:08.000You know, we have several prayer meetings a week here, and we're praying just for the pulpits of our city to be bold, to be bold and courageous.
00:18:15.000Okay, I don't know what direction you want to go.
00:18:19.000So politics is also seemingly incredibly moral issues in the day.
00:18:24.000So if we don't speak up for the sake of the standard of morality, then it seems as if the political land is trying to establish what morality is for us.
00:18:50.000Jeremiah 29, 7, the Lord is speaking to his people where he's saying directly, you must demand the welfare, the shalom, of the city or the nation that you are in, because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare.
00:19:02.000So let's ask ourselves the question, is that true?
00:19:04.000Is your welfare tied to your nation's welfare?
00:23:31.000How do the people of Israel, how do they act?
00:23:35.000Well, after a couple of chapters, despite the fact that quail was blown off course and manna came from heaven, the people of Israel started to complain.
00:23:43.000And they said, who's this Moses guy anyway?
00:23:46.000And I'm paraphrasing, but I'm not far off.
00:23:49.000And they say, we want to go back to Egypt, slavery, because at least there we ate meat.
00:26:10.000I think it's being underreported and so misunderstood.
00:26:15.000So let's start with one component of this.
00:26:18.000And I'm going to take a little pivot from education and go to something that is in the open, that's universal, and that probably half this room willingly or unwillingly is subsidizing.
00:26:46.000Your children are learning values and morals and right and wrong more from watching Disney Plus than probably at school for the first five years of their life.
00:27:16.000So Disney decided to come out against a very vanilla, very mainstream bill in Florida where Governor Ron DeSantis, God bless his courage, decided to, seriously, decided to sign a piece of legislation that was wrongly labeled the Don't Say Gay Bill.
00:27:40.000Very simple piece of legislation that says basically that parents should be able to know their children's medical records and history, and that five, six, and seven, and eight-year-olds should not be taught about gay or lesbian sex in schools.
00:28:12.000All these different groups lost their mind.
00:28:14.000But then out of nowhere, because Disney World is the number one employer in Florida, 68,000 employees, they thought they could flex their muscle.
00:28:23.000So I want you guys to play along here with a thought exercise.
00:28:26.000I want you to imagine if Anheuser-Busch decided to try to kill a bill here in Missouri.
00:28:34.000That's the equivalent of what happens with Disney decides to speak out in Florida.
00:28:38.000So the courage it takes to stand up against Disney is the same as like standing up to Wall Street in New York or standing up to the oil companies in Texas.
00:28:49.000But Disney, for whatever bizarre reason, run by this new CEO, Bob Chapik, decided to play into the most insane allegations around this thing, dedicate $5 million to the human rights campaign, which is nothing more than a hate group, and say they're going to do everything they possibly can to repeal this bill.
00:29:59.000And so they lose their mind because they believe the media narrative.
00:30:02.000So then Disney realizes that they need to even compensate for this more.
00:30:08.000So they have a Zoom call five days ago.
00:30:10.000You might not have heard about this, where in the Zoom call, they said with all their executives, they have a not-so-secret gay agenda that they're pushing forward at Walt Disney Company.
00:30:20.000Here's a couple facts: what's happening at Disney.
00:30:22.000By the end of this year, 50% of all of their movies will have lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender characters.
00:30:30.000And if there's romantic scenes involved, there'll be gay and lesbian kissing.
00:30:33.000Now, what is with this weird and perverse obsession with corrupting children?
00:31:04.000So Disney understands if they can break that bond, if they can interrupt that flow of values, they're going to run the country.
00:31:11.000Now, regardless of your politics tonight, I'm sure we have people all across the board.
00:31:15.000I think it's fair to say that Disney Plus, a $250 billion company, espousing that they have a not-so-secret gay agenda, saying they want more like transgender Cinderellas or whatever.
00:31:31.000They're no longer going to be calling people in movies boys and girls, but they're going to have the proper pronouns.
00:31:36.000They're no longer saying at Disney World, boys and girls, welcome to Disney World.
00:31:40.000They're going to say, welcome the person's the Disney World.
00:31:42.000They're not taking a stance on whether or not women can become pregnant.
00:31:45.000They say they're birthing people at Walt Disney Company.
00:31:48.000They're saying that anyone can become pregnant.
00:31:50.000This is all things that Disney is doing.
00:31:52.000And what's so amazing, and this is something I'm going to be pushing this hard, right?
00:31:56.000Because Disney, I believe, this is a great opportunity.
00:32:00.000I haven't seen one like this in a long time, where they got rich being the family-friendly company.
00:32:07.000They got rich being the family-friendly safe haven.
00:32:10.000So now if they want to be kind of the safe haven for all of these incredibly controversial and dare I say, like perverse ideology for five, six, and seven-year-olds, then they're going to have to respond to when 75 to 80 million or 90 million people refuse to buy their products, go to their amusement parks, and their streaming services.
00:32:49.000But before you move on, we got to make sure I heard what you said because you said something very powerful about Disney.
00:32:56.000And it is a form of education that is absolutely establishing a narrative in our kids at a very young age.
00:33:04.000I mean, just as parents, I got four kids, 14 down to seven.
00:33:08.000And I'm just thinking, okay, how many times, you know, just for the sake of time, oh man, you'll put this movie on the tablet, put that on the tablet, put this DVD on in the car.
00:33:18.000There needs to be not, because I'm not, I don't ruha around it so much in the cancel culture part, but we're going to have to cancel them because they're doing this.
00:33:24.000What stung me was you said, no, no, no, this is about pushing back on what is seeking to educate my kids.
00:33:33.000And so education comes from a Latin word, which means to lead forth.
00:33:36.000And you want to lead your child forth to righteousness and to truth and to light and to Jesus.
00:33:41.000And just ask yourself the question, is 50% of movies Disney publishing with lesbian and gay kissing scenes going to be closer to getting your five or six or seven or eight year old closer to truth and righteousness?
00:34:04.000And I've said this for a while, and I'm glad you brought that up because I need to reinforce this more, which is because of the hyper-technological society, less children playing outside than ever before, which I think is a tragedy.
00:34:43.000And now they think they have such a monopoly on this that they'll be able to push their incredibly controversial and I believe degenerative agenda on a seven, eight, and nine-year-old.
00:34:55.000And I don't think we should really be shy about talking about divesting from it and doing that.
00:36:38.000Something the enemy would do, actually.
00:36:40.000The second thing is, we care more about things you can change and you can't change.
00:36:43.000Do we care about the things that happened prior that can't be changed?
00:36:47.000Or the story of, hey, I want to give my life to Christ.
00:36:50.000That's the whole program of being a Christian, isn't it?
00:36:52.000So the question is: if we had someone that came in and they're like, hey, I need help, would we fixate endlessly on everything they've done wrong?
00:37:00.000Like, keep on reminding them every single week, you're a drug addict, you're a drug addict, you're a drug addict, you're a drug addict, you know you're a drug addict, you know that you're a drug addict.
00:37:21.000And so, but instead, diversity, equity, inclusion, and all this stuff, it's built on a structure to hyper-focus on the things you can't change.
00:37:32.000It's like, okay, we're just going to talk endlessly on what your ancestors, who may or may not have been related to you, did.
00:37:38.000And in fact, the way we even talk about the history is wrong, and we're going to make you feel guilty and ashamed.
00:37:42.000So here's another good rule for life: any organization that makes you feel guilty after the speech is over should be abolished.
00:38:04.000And yet, the entire white privileged CRT regime is: I have to go feel guilty for the rest of my life because I've had like unrealized racism.
00:38:13.000Now, let me be very clear: if you are a racist or have racist tendencies, you got work to do.
00:38:19.000But just the melanin content in your skin, your mere existence, does not mean you've been expressing, you know, this white supremacist superstructure.
00:38:27.000And so this is all throughout our educational system.
00:38:29.000It's all throughout our college, all throughout education.
00:38:31.000And it's at direct odds with what we as Christians believe.
00:38:34.000It says neither slave nor Greek nor Jew.
00:38:39.000And so I, and this is really personal for me.
00:38:41.000And the reason I think that, you know, God put me in this moment during all this stuff is I've been like super unafraid as like a white Christian, which you're not supposed to, you know, talk about these issues, because I grew up in an America 10 years ago where none of this stuff was a big deal.
00:38:57.000Where it's like no one talked about race all the time.
00:38:59.000I went to a high school that was 53% Hispanic, where as white people in my school were like 18% of my school, and we had people from all different walks of life in all countries.
00:39:26.000And I got to tell you, this is a virus, to use a term we're all very familiar with, that is infecting every major institution in our country.
00:40:04.000At Columbia University in New York City, they have black-only graduation ceremonies.
00:40:10.000Over 100 universities across the country have black-only dormitories.
00:40:15.000So, we should ask ourselves the question: didn't we fight to end segregation?
00:40:18.000But according to Henry Rogers, otherwise known as Ebermax Kendi, who's kind of like the archbishop of critical race theory, he says that we need segregation today to try to fix segregation from yesterday.
00:40:30.000Here's a good universal principle, and I will fight on this till I die.
00:40:36.000I don't care who does it, segregation is evil.
00:40:44.000I'll give you, I could keep on going with more examples.
00:40:46.000There's a black-only high school where white kids are not allowed to apply in the suburbs of Portland.
00:40:51.000United Airlines has said they want 50% of all their new pilots to be black pilots, and they're going to elevate diversity over competency.
00:40:59.000Now, I don't know about you, I'm all for anybody becoming a pilot, but I want to know that my pilot is hired based on the ability to land the plane, not the melanin content in the pilot's skin.
00:41:16.000At State Street Capital Partners, which is one of the largest money management firms, you're only allowed to hire a white male through unanimous approval of the hiring committee.
00:41:29.000So, those are real-world implications, right?
00:41:31.000So, this is not just textbook, this is not just privilege walks, it's not just, oh, we need to make five-year-olds feel really bad or expand their horizons.
00:41:37.000No, no, no, no, this is what it looks like in practice.
00:41:40.000In practice, it looks like we have black-only dormitories.
00:41:43.000In practice, it looks like in Columbia University, they have black-only graduation ceremonies.
00:41:48.000And so, that's where it's not just where it's leading, it's where it is.
00:41:51.000And so, this is a direct result of this kind of educational regime that has been pushed forward to us.
00:41:57.000But here's what gives me hope, and where I just want to encourage you, right, is that this is deeply unpopular with the American people when they actually learn about it.
00:42:05.000Most Americans do believe in this promise of valuing the invisible over the visible.
00:42:10.000They believe in the promise of valuing what can change versus what cannot change.
00:42:14.000And they believe that the people in charge who are pushing this are radically changing the country that they were raised in and the country they want for their children.
00:42:22.000But here's the problem, and it goes to the trans issue, which we could talk about afterwards, because we haven't been controversial enough tonight, obviously, so we can get right into that, which is it's an imbalance.
00:42:31.000And the imbalance involves a lot of you.
00:42:33.000It certainly involved me for part of my life.
00:42:35.000The imbalance is this: 95% of the country believes that black-only dormitories are insane.
00:42:42.00095% of the country is afraid to talk about it.
00:44:16.000It's a gift from the Lord to say, you know, if it's going to cost you, we have to understand that God meets us at that cost with a profound grace that touches the heart, it touches the mind to be courageous and bold.
00:45:02.000Where a woman, at least I think she's a woman who wants to go on the U.S. Supreme Court, was asked by Senator Marshall Blackburn, what is a woman?
00:45:20.000I'm not a biologist, and I know a woman when I see one.
00:45:23.000I was at least glad to know, at least she was saying a biologist would be able to, hopefully.
00:45:28.000Yeah, and I think that's an interesting take.
00:45:32.000The problem is a lot of biologists nowadays believe that gender and sex are not related because the entire institutions have been corrupted.
00:45:39.000So, look, this is something where the church should be like, wow, do we believe in the Bible?
00:45:51.000So do you believe God created man and woman, or do you believe that God created man and woman and the 95 other genders, according to Brown University?
00:46:00.000And so the church is silent on this issue, largely not this church, but a lot of churches.
00:46:05.000And we're living in a moment right now where this is kind of like the premier issue.
00:46:10.000And part of it is to distract us, but I actually think the insignificance of being able to answer basic questions allows us to answer complicated questions.
00:46:18.000That if we can't answer what a woman is, then we probably can't figure out, and we shouldn't, by the way, get involved in wars in other countries.
00:46:25.000This has been my argument the whole time.
00:46:27.000And I'm like, listen, you want to go, you want to send troops where?
00:46:30.000We can't agree as a society on what a woman is.
00:46:33.000And you want to go launch Tomahawk missiles 5,000 miles away in a country most people can't pinpoint.
00:46:38.000They're like, oh, they're not related.
00:46:40.000They're related in that if you can't get the building blocks of your society right, you're not a country ready for war, let alone anything.
00:46:46.000And so this is a very important thing.
00:46:51.000So God created man, God created a woman.
00:47:49.000I'm not going to tell somebody I lied when I told the truth.
00:47:55.000And what a hypocrite I would be to come to this church and say, you know, it's going to cost you something while I privately like delete the tweet and go back to Twitter.
00:48:03.000It's going to cost you something while I tell my turning point USA students to keep on fighting hard.
00:48:22.000But it's going to cost everybody something, right?
00:48:24.000It's the little stuff that amounts to the big stuff.
00:48:26.000But the more important point is, how do we get to a place where this entire kind of like bully and intimidation group of the transgender people are able to like control whether or not I use the proper name of you were born, even though I used the right name later in the tweet.
00:48:45.000And so I just want you to understand, I just want to take pause, and this is where I really want the church to do more because it's because of the church's silence this is happening.
00:48:54.000So we have the Florida thing with Disney and Ron DeSantis, but then also in the last week, you saw someone who was born by the name of William Thomas, who was the 462nd best swimmer, was born a man, and then transitioned to a woman and won the NCAA championship as a woman.
00:49:10.000And I would bet there's still people in this room that had never heard that story yet, where a man born as a man competed as a woman and beat other women, went from the 462nd best man and competed as a woman and basically destroyed women's sports as we know it, and it's only going to continue.
00:49:32.000What's true is what the Bible tells us about everything.
00:49:36.000So if all of a sudden the organizations, the pastors who are in charge of communicating that truth go silent, especially on the most important issues, then where's society going to find truth?
00:49:46.000Without God and without Bible, right and wrong is merely an opinion.
00:49:53.000So we have, so the NCAA meets and they say, well, who's to say that William Thomas can't be Leah Thomas?
00:50:02.000And most mega church pastors, too focused on building bigger buildings, bigger budgets, and having more baptisms, which I'm in favor of all those things, but they put the church business model above righteousness, where this church put righteousness above the church business model, and the Lord has blessed this church, I think, immeasurably because of that, is most pastors did not even mention the fact that biological reality in women's sports was completely destroyed in the last couple weeks.
00:50:27.000And it's another one of those issues where 95% of the people believe this is crazy and 95% of people are afraid to speak out about this.
00:50:34.000And so you get to this moment where the question is, how do we communicate about this?
00:50:42.000And look, I want the best for Thomas, this person, right?
00:50:46.000William Thomas, Leah Thomas, whatever we want to call that person, right?
00:51:01.000And the reason being is I refuse to tell a lie, but I want what's best for Thomas.
00:51:05.000Counseling, therapy, hopefully a pastoral advice to bring that person to be able to bore anew, right?
00:51:11.000Romans 12, 2, do not conform to the ways of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
00:51:16.000I believe that mental condition that Thomas has, which is a mental condition called gender dysphoria, can be changed by the renewing of their mind.
00:51:23.000The promise of Romans 12, 2 is applicable to all people.
00:52:23.000And so, and I wish more people communicated this in this way because I think it resonates with 99% of the population.
00:52:31.000Because it's not about, and I do, I have a spot for all people that are suffering, but Thomas is also making the decision to cheat and to get into the field and to still compete and all that.
00:52:42.000But that's always going to happen, okay?
00:53:09.000We're at fault for putting up with this nonsense.
00:53:12.000And so we have to have a total reframing of, wow, this is a societal question, right?
00:53:18.000And I want everyone to get the help they need.
00:53:20.000But when all of a sudden your therapy becomes the disenfranchising of other women, that's basically the argument they're making, by the way.
00:53:28.000That if this person can't compete against other women, you are basically interrupting that person's therapy.
00:53:34.000I refuse to believe that we need to destroy all norms in society to go give therapy to a minority of the minority of population to go destroy the ambitions and the dreams of biological women.
00:55:20.000Look, so it's a moral question, right?
00:55:23.000So, the way that you put people in power matters.
00:55:26.000The way that we give up our power as people to the people in charge, the many giving up their power to the few, the process of which that is done matters.
00:55:35.000And so, if there are questions in how that process unfolds, then the church, I believe, must be involved in not a political issue, but an issue of election integrity, from poll watching to doing things the right way.
00:55:47.000And I don't think we have time here tonight to get into this.
00:55:49.000I just want to highly encourage you to check it out when it comes out.
00:55:52.000Dinesh D'Souza's upcoming movie, 2,000 Mules, which is going to be very informative.
00:55:58.000If you're a skeptic, I love skeptics, by the way, I do, about what happened in the 2020 election.
00:56:07.000Just humor me and watch the video after video of people coming at 3:30 in the morning, wearing latex gloves with 100 ballots in each hand, stuffing the ballots into ballot drop boxes on video from state video in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan, every state that bylaw forbids ballot harvesting.
00:56:26.000Just watch it and tell me what you think afterwards.
00:56:29.000And you should refer it to your skeptical friends.
00:57:18.000And I believe, whoa, and I believe that the system of how we do elections, from mass mail and balloting to Zuckerberg putting $430 million into our elections, should at least beg the question of was this done the right way?
00:57:32.000I want to trust who, I want to say, you know what, I might disagree, I don't like you, but you're there because you did everything the right way and the systems work the way they did.
00:57:40.000You should all desire that, by the way.
00:57:42.000In fact, I believe our country was less fractured when we said, you know what, not a fan of Obama, but he won that way and so be it.
00:57:51.000So it really kind of does beg that question.
00:57:54.000Hi, I'm a youth pastor actually in Grand City.
00:57:57.000I'm just wondering, I've read a few articles saying that we're a generation away from this next generation of Christianity and the church almost being non-existent.
00:58:05.000What would be kind of your advice or steps of faith for pastors or people who are practicing faith to kind of step in and bring it in that next generation?
00:58:35.000They can't articulate it, but they're living in this perpetual sea of chaos, of moral chaos, of societal chaos, of political chaos.
00:58:42.000And the people in charge have failed them at every turn.
00:58:44.000We locked down our society unnecessarily.
00:58:46.000We locked down our schools unnecessarily.
00:58:48.000We told them to get shots for a virus that wasn't going to largely affect them and impact them.
00:58:53.000We're dealing with a generation that is increasingly cynical and nihilistic and humanistic.
00:58:58.000And so my advice would be that we need to restore young people's faith, hopefully first and foremost, in the natural law, the God that made them and desires to get to know them again, and then Jesus Christ who will wash their sins away new.
00:59:12.000And I think it has to be done in a completely different way.
00:59:15.000Where I don't think, and this is my own personal opinion, you're going to win over young people by cussing and swearing in your sermons.
00:59:22.000It drives me nuts when I see that stuff.
00:59:24.000I don't think you're going to win over young people, you know, by just kind of watering down the gospel or, you know, trying to truncate the gospel.
00:59:33.000I think the entirety of the word of God speaks for itself.
00:59:36.000In fact, I believe in my work, and again, my work is probably more comprehensive in reaching out with young people than probably even most youth ministries, but so be it, whatever.
00:59:47.000I would say that a young person would much rather have bluntly spoken truth than well-tailored lies right now, because all they have received is well-tailored lies.
00:59:56.000And so, look, there'll be plenty of young people that will go away.
01:00:54.000They say, well, no one likes me and the girls won't talk to me and say, listen, maybe they won't talk to you because you don't got your life in order.
01:01:12.000The number one complaint I hear from young women about young men is young men have no control over themselves.
01:01:17.000Number one complaint I hear is they say with drinking or with drugs or with language or behavior.
01:01:23.000And look, the results speak for themselves.
01:01:25.000We're on the verge of a population collapse in our country.
01:01:27.000The least married generation in history, the least children ever be born, most drug-addicted, most alcohol-addicted, most suicidal, most depressed, most anxious generation in history, also the least religious.
01:01:41.000The watered-down gospel of trying to be socially relevant, I'm going to put four-letter words in my gospel, and young people are going to like me because I'm doing it on TikTok enough.
01:01:50.000Speak blunt and plainly speaking truth.
01:01:52.000Write to them, and I think the results will be amazing.
01:02:23.000So let me tell you: I'm going to speak directly to you, which I rarely do when someone asks a question.
01:02:29.000Okay, I try to generalize it, but I think it'll be applicable.
01:02:33.000The other side, whatever you want to coin the other side, 99% of their bad deeds don't get reported on.
01:02:40.000And so I would encourage you to be a top-tier investigative journalist.
01:02:45.000We do not have enough people doing the tough work of investigation.
01:02:48.000Now, investigation could be FOIA requests, Freedom of Information Act.
01:02:51.000It could be showing up at city council meetings and asking questions.
01:02:54.000It could be waiting all day at the airport till your congressman lands and just waiting for them to get off the plane and respectfully asking a question.
01:03:23.000Which is this, which is challenge authority, challenge tyranny.
01:03:27.000Journalism at its best challenges the powerful.
01:03:31.000What have you noticed in the last couple of years?
01:03:33.000Journalism not covering the news, but they're covering up the news.
01:03:39.000Instead of covering the Hunter Biden story, they actively covered it up.
01:03:44.000Instead of challenging the FBI and the CIA, challenging CNN, challenging the most wealthy people, instead of challenging Zuckerberg, who put $430 million, they put your church on the front page of the local newspaper because that's the threat, right?
01:03:59.000Yeah, like, yeah, where's your expose on the Zuckerberg money that came into this county?
01:05:06.000Hey, Charlie, I agree with you wholeheartedly that the church is the answer for the things that you were talking about today.
01:05:16.000But by and large, the church culture doesn't seem to really have the ministry and the things going on in the ministry to address those things.
01:05:28.000We got like children's ministry, singles ministry, but not things that are really geared to address the things that you discuss today.
01:05:48.000And you basically, you took my one-liner right out of my mouth, which is: so we have children's ministries, some prison ministries, we have financial counseling ministries, women's ministries, men's ministries, but a lot of churches don't have ministries to be able to make, to have their congregation make sense of the news or what's happening around them.
01:06:09.000So this is part of what we're trying to do at TPUSA Faith and kind of the team that we're creating.
01:06:13.000We do a once-a-month thing that can be done at any church at any time called Freedom Night in America, where it's an open setting for questions to be asked, for people to come to get advice from their pastors on these issues.
01:06:25.000I'm so incredibly encouraged to hear you guys have a civic engagement ministry.
01:06:35.000That's just getting engaged and making the decisions that you want to make.
01:06:39.000So in the best case scenario, I believe a church should have a full-time pastor where their full-time job is to be the go-to person for every contentious issue.
01:06:51.000So that person is the, hey, raise your hand on every Sunday.
01:06:54.000You got a question about the trans issue.
01:08:29.000And I just want to say, I know this sounds silly, but the fact that you guys are having me speak, it's a big deal in the sense most churches wouldn't get near this.
01:08:48.000So I'm 17 years old, and I've been trying to be very outspoken about my beliefs, been called all the names you can think of, racist, homophobic, transphobic, has had death threats put against me.
01:08:59.000And I feel like I'm doing a lot to try and help the students in my high school or high schools around me, but I feel like I'm not doing enough.
01:09:06.000So my question is, what is your advice to people like me who can't vote to try and help change the hearts and minds of my very woke generation?
01:10:25.000We seek to solve that at Turning Point USA, where the Turning Point USA chapter has 150 kids or 250 people.
01:10:32.000And next thing you know, that's the most popular thing in the high school or the college.
01:10:36.000And all of their tactics don't work and backfires on them.
01:10:39.000And we're on pace to have 1,000 high school chapters across the country at Turning Point USA, an incredible accomplishment that our field team deserves so much credit for.
01:10:48.000So look, stay involved with Turning Point.
01:10:52.000But I just also want to say this, which is you're going to be a tougher and stronger person because you're making the decision now to do what is right over what is easy.
01:11:04.000The younger you make that decision, the less phased you'll be when all of a sudden it says, well, I'm going to fire if you speak out.
01:11:23.000And so we should want that for our kids.
01:11:26.000We should want to have young people speak out with this.
01:11:29.000And because I would rather be on the side that has the 17-year-olds that are still standing, regardless of the cultural pressure, than the other side, which is actually they're a very weak movement.
01:11:40.000They've never had a fight for anything.
01:11:55.000I remember a while back when I first started listening to you, you were talking about you were writing a book about why your kids shouldn't go to college.
01:12:46.000Most people, if you may be a doctor or a lawyer or engineer, most people don't go to college for that reason.
01:12:51.000Most people go to college to go study the humanities where they learn to hate themselves, to study sociology, where they learn to hate everybody, or they study some other unspecified thing where they learn to hate the country.
01:13:04.000And so the culture that's been created on campus is one thing, but let's just talk about the pragmatic sense of it, right?
01:13:11.000Which is we have a generation of young people that are borrowing money they don't have to study things that don't matter to find jobs that don't exist.
01:13:18.000And we act as if this entire cycle works, the cycle of indebtedness.
01:13:22.000And I'm in the business of hiring young people.
01:13:25.000A college degree means nothing, absolutely nothing.
01:13:30.000And I know this is, this might be controversial.
01:13:32.000I don't, again, you know me well enough to not care and to trust me when I say this, which is if most parents, and this is, this is some, this is the controversial part.
01:15:09.000Because a lot of suburban moms and dads didn't want to tell their neighbors that their kid works construction.
01:15:15.000They'd rather tell their neighbors that their kid is an atheist lesbian that went to University of Missouri and is working as an accountant at Ernst Young, doesn't share any of their values, but at least they're not working construction.
01:16:23.000So the next presidential election and your influence on young people is absolutely amazing.
01:16:33.000Are you willing, Charlie, to endorse a candidate so that our young people who don't study and understand the candidates like you do, so they'll have a better chance of choosing correctly?
01:16:47.000And then more specifically, if the Republican nominations come narrowed down to Governor DeSantis and Donald Trump, would you be willing to verbalize your show?
01:17:49.000My question is going to be a little different than everybody else's.
01:17:52.000So my question is: people, we see people coming from New York down to North Carolina and the southern states, from California over into Texas, and they're starting to make these states blue.
01:18:00.000We watched North Carolina flip multiple times in the last election.
01:19:02.000You take out your smartphone, and there's a couple ways you could do it.
01:19:05.000You could go to the QR code on the screen and it will, if you have an Apple phone, so if you don't know what a QR code is, you open up your camera and then it will all of a sudden have a link on the top of your screen.
01:19:17.000It will transport you to a podcast page.
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01:19:48.000When you guys subscribe, it sends a message to the tech companies that millions of people are behind us and that we're less likely to be censored.
01:22:24.000And if it's not for you, look to your grandkids and say, it's worth it for you for me not to give up.
01:22:30.000If not for you, for the 17-year-old that asked the question, I want you to live in a free country.
01:22:34.000And here's what I can promise you, that there's thousands and hundreds of thousands, millions of people just like me and just like you that are dedicating everything they got at it.
01:22:43.000And I'll tell you what, the Lord is going to honor that.
01:22:45.000The Lord is not going to forsake his people when they stand with courage for righteousness.
01:22:51.000Now is the time to rise in more ways than one.
01:22:54.000I just want to say, what an amazing church.
01:22:56.000We are going to win, everybody, and the bad guys are going to lose.