Charlie Kirk is a truth teller, a lover of his family and people, and a man after God's own heart. He is the President and Founder of Turning Point USA, the largest pro-American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic.
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00:01:09.000I am so excited to introduce, I know you guys are all here for our big guest speaker, but you spend two minutes with this man.
00:02:04.000So first, I want to repeat something I said at the pre-event, which is this is such an amazing country we live in.
00:02:12.000And only in America could you come to rural Colorado because somebody heard from God that she wanted to spread Jesus in Rwanda and that a bunch of people will show up to go give money for that to go spread the gospel on the other side of the world.
00:02:38.000Like, the Singaporeans, there's something special about this country and special about an idea that we want to make the world a better place.
00:02:47.000And fundamentally, Susan, what you've done here is having an amazing impact.
00:02:52.000And it's more than just, okay, we're going to go spend money overseas, which honestly doesn't really work long term, to be perfectly honest.
00:03:20.000So I'm just going to talk a little bit about Christian education and how critically important it is.
00:03:26.000And I was listening to that music and I was thinking to myself, you saw the joy and you saw the spirit.
00:03:32.000If you picked eight random kids in the public schools of Denver and put them up against those young kids, and I have no idea their background, I know nothing.
00:03:45.000I'm just, you know, just implying that just on the joy of their presentation, that despite probably coming from far less than from Cherry Creek, like a lot less, that there's something that those kids don't.
00:03:58.000And that's because, honestly, they have an abundance of riches in the spiritual domain.
00:04:02.000It doesn't matter that they come home to a mansion or to a hut.
00:04:05.000It does matter in the immediate, but there's something fundamentally missing in American education.
00:04:10.000And there's a lot of schools that are changing it.
00:04:12.000I spoke at one recently that's doing a great job here in the Colorado, Denver area.
00:04:16.000And we have missed the plot on what education is supposed to be.
00:04:20.000And we're now seeing the multiple decades of failure of what that actually means.
00:04:25.000And what Hope Haven is doing is actually fixing it on the other side of the world because these are going to become world leaders out of this country and out of the Central Africa.
00:04:36.000And there's so much untapped potential in Africa, like unbelievable untapped potential in Africa, that I think we're all going to marvel in the next 100 years what actually comes out of Africa in more ways than one.
00:04:47.000And so fundamentally, we as Christians should understand that the best investment that we can make is to teach a child of the ways that they will go and they will not depart.
00:05:02.000And yet, if we are honest with ourselves, how many times do we as Christians send our kids to public education and just hope the best is going to happen?
00:05:11.000Oh, they're going to go to Sunday school.
00:05:14.000Understand that the temptations and the menace of the world is going to do everything they possibly can to keep that kid away from the path of a proper biblical education.
00:05:26.000And a proper biblical education is the greatest inheritance that you can possibly give a kid.
00:05:32.000Bigger than paying for even college, bigger than a yacht, bigger than a trust fund.
00:05:38.000To have a kid know the Lord and know why he or she should exist in this world is the greatest possible thing that we can give.
00:05:47.000And unfortunately, the modern education system is against all the odds of the Bible.
00:05:52.000So, I mean, all the truth claims of the Bible.
00:05:55.000I was just talking to my very good friend Polly here about the first couple books of Genesis, and she was talking about the profundity of what God established in order.
00:06:04.000And in the West here in especially, and I, boy, I hope this doesn't continue to spread because we have a tendency in America to spread our good ideas and our bad ideas.
00:06:16.000And I really hope these bad ideas don't spread.
00:06:18.000We are living in a moment of cultural chaos.
00:06:21.000It's because we've deviated away from every truth claim that God established in just the first couple books of Genesis.
00:06:27.000And you think about it, God created what?
00:07:02.000If you believe those two things, you're a much better citizen and you're not a threat to your fellow man.
00:07:09.000But if you believe that there is a no God or if there was a God, it would be him, you're a very dangerous person in more ways than one.
00:07:15.000That type of person tries to unnecessarily lock down schools for no good reason whatsoever for two straight years, despite the fact that kids are killing themselves and masking them unnecessarily and closing down schools all in the name of science.
00:07:30.000The distinction between what is good and evil.
00:07:32.000It says in the scriptures, woe to those who would call good evil and evil good.
00:07:38.000My goodness, do we live in a time where that is plaguing our society right now?
00:07:42.000Where they are calling good and calling good evil and evil good.
00:07:45.000And by what definition do you mean it is good?
00:07:48.000Now, as you know, I visit college campuses, so you don't have to.
00:07:52.000And amazingly, I would probably have much more in common, and this is what's so beautiful about Christianity, and it's not about a tribe, it's not about a race, it's not about any of that.
00:08:04.000I'll have more in common with a 16-year-old at Hope Haven than a 16-year-old in a public school in Denver.
00:08:12.000I want you to think about it, halfway around the world, completely different background, because it's the worldview that matters.
00:08:18.000And it's by what standard do you consider to be something good?
00:08:21.000One of the most important questions you can imagine.
00:08:23.000When I go to these college campuses, they'll say, oh, it's just your opinion of what is good.
00:08:37.000Of course, everyone has a truth claim at some core.
00:08:39.000And we as Christians fundamentally believe, no, there of course is absolute truth.
00:08:43.000There's absolute truth of you shall not murder, you shall have no other gods before me.
00:08:47.000And you have to wonder how many kids in America and even Christian education can recite the Ten Commandments when they're pressed.
00:08:53.000I bet the kids at Hope Haven absolutely can.
00:08:57.000We're honored to be partnering with Alan Jackson Ministries.
00:08:59.000And today, I want to point you to their podcast.
00:09:02.000It's called Culture in Christianity, the Allen Jackson Podcast.
00:09:06.000What makes it unique is Pastor Allen's biblical perspective.
00:09:09.000He takes the truth from the Bible and applies it to issues we're facing today: gender confusion, abortion, immigration, Doge, Trump in the White House, issues in the church.
00:10:06.000And this is what's so important about spreading Christianity to Africa and to other countries and not allowing them to go back to pagan roots.
00:10:13.000It's very, very important because the pre-ancestral old tribal religions that predated Christianity, you would worship the nature.
00:10:23.000You would have kind of like a witch doctor that would come in and be involved in some very occult dark practices.
00:10:29.000What is the problem with worshiping the earth?
00:10:32.000When you start, well, beyond the obvious immediate problems, the moral issue is, well, what moral standard does the river give you?
00:10:41.000Do you get what is right or wrong when you worship the tree?
00:10:44.000If you have many gods, you have many moralities, definitionally.
00:10:48.000This is how Christianity changed the world.
00:10:51.000Christianity changed the world because it had an immediate truth claim that there is one God, there is a better way to live, and we all fall short of the glory of God.
00:11:00.000And only through his Son, Christ Jesus, are we able to have life eternal.
00:11:04.000And that there applies to all people in every culture, in every background.
00:11:09.000And you go through those other couple, the first other couple truth claims of the book of Genesis.
00:11:14.000One of my favorites, which is what is really interesting because you see these videos, like for example, in Matt Welch's movie, What is a Woman?
00:11:22.000He went into parts of Africa and would ask them, like, do you have this trans thing?
00:11:27.000And they'd like, look at him, like, what are you talking about?
00:11:30.000It's like, only in a Western secular mindset could you believe that men give birth, right?
00:11:37.000And you have to kind of look at it from a Christian perspective.
00:11:40.000God created man and woman differently and distinctly, and those distinctions actually keep us free.
00:11:49.000Everybody, the failure for us to embrace Christian education in our own country shows what we see what's happening in front of us every single day.
00:11:57.000And that's what's so encouraging is to actually bring to a country that is very open to Christianity the idea of worshiping God and following Him in all of our commands.
00:12:09.000And then the question, of course, then is begged: What are we Christians supposed to do in our local community?
00:12:14.000What are we supposed to do with those around us?
00:12:16.000Well, Christ our Lord calls us to be salt and light.
00:12:19.000He calls us to change the environment that we come in contact with.
00:12:28.000All of you supporting this is, and that's like a big deal.
00:12:33.000And we, as Christians, are not called just to have the truth and be like, well, that's nice.
00:12:37.000I'm not going to share it with other people.
00:12:39.000We're called to build more schools, to change our city councils, to flip our school boards, to build better marriages, to make the community more Christ-like, not just have our own little cloistered, you know, club and say, well, you know, Jesus is coming next Thursday, and I'm going to get raptured up pretty soon.
00:13:11.000The point being is we must find the place where we're not always welcome, we're not always celebrated, where it might be a little difficult, it might be a little treacherous, and to go spread the word of God and to spread his truths.
00:13:21.000And let me just reiterate this: is that when you fail to have Christian education, this is probably the secondary biggest failing of America.
00:13:30.000You might not even believe in Jesus Christ.
00:13:34.000But if you are honest, you have to believe that when a population fails to believe in God, bad things start to happen.
00:13:43.000That is, even an honest atheist should agree with that.
00:13:47.000And it is the necessity of believing in God.
00:13:51.000You see, when a civilization no longer has agreed-upon truth claims and does not look at each other as people made in a mago day or made in the image of God, horrendous actions start to occur.
00:14:04.000And not only that, people are going to find other counterfeit religions to try and fill themselves with, to try and fill their world with.
00:14:13.000And this is where I hear far too often well-meaning Christian parents will say, Well, I'm a Christian.
00:14:19.000Whatever my kid ends up believing is just fine, which drives me nuts when I hear it's like, oh, really?
00:14:38.000There is no such thing as a secular person.
00:14:40.000Worship literally means it comes from the old English worth ship, to worth up, to lift up, the worthy of worship, that of which we elevate.
00:14:48.000You think to yourself, well, you know, I don't worship God, but, you know, I'm just kind of going through my life.
00:14:53.000Well, then you're probably either worshiping yourself, you're worshiping, you could be worshiping the environment or the planet, you could be worshiping your status, you could be worshiping power.
00:15:01.000That is why God says in the first of the Ten Commandments, you shall have no other gods before me.
00:15:07.000And what is the great evidence of this?
00:15:09.000When God is no longer part of the equation, one of my favorite stories of the Bible, what happens when all of a sudden God gets removed from the Bible?
00:15:16.000Our natural inclination is to go back to tribal pagan worship.
00:15:21.000I want you to think of the context of what happens right around Exodus 19:20 and 21.
00:15:25.000So God's chosen people are delivered out of Egypt, and they see the most miraculous things you can imagine.
00:15:30.000The Nile turns to blood, there's locusts, Pharaoh gets completely punked, right?
00:15:48.000They see miracle after miracle after miracle after miracle.
00:15:52.000So Moses says, all right, you complaining, unruly bunch.
00:15:56.000By the way, this is how I know the Bible is true.
00:15:57.000No book in the history of ancient civilization has ever depicted themselves as negatively as the Hebrews depict themselves in the Old Testament.
00:16:07.000It's how you know the Bible must be true.
00:16:09.000We complain and we murder and we commit adultery.
00:17:11.000Anyway, so he comes down, and what Aaron is throwing a rave party in front of the golden calf and literally is having an orgy, not an exaggeration, right?
00:17:24.000And so he's like, I left you for 40 days and 40 nights, and what do you revert to?
00:17:29.000And then probably my favorite, as far as like humorous line of the entire Bible, the Bible is very funny at times if you actually understand the context.
00:17:37.000And Aaron's like, listen, here's my excuse, okay?
00:17:42.000Yeah, I know we took all the gold that we actually were given by God in Egypt, and I threw it in the fire, and out came a golden calf.
00:17:50.000And so, you think about it, it's like the dumbest excuse ever.
00:18:04.000God gave him this transmission, this uploaded moral app, if you will.
00:18:10.000And Moses is like, he just gets it from the divine and he just throws it to the ground because he was so let down, so aghast at what we revert back to.
00:18:21.000We're honored to be partnering with Alan Jackson Ministries.
00:18:24.000And today, I want to point you to their podcast.
00:18:26.000It's called Culture in Christianity, the Alan Jackson Podcast.
00:18:30.000What makes it unique is Pastor Allen's biblical perspective.
00:18:33.000He takes the truth from the Bible and applies it to issues we're facing today.
00:18:37.000Gender confusion, abortion, immigration, Doge, Trump in the White House, issues in the church.
00:22:00.000Outside of abuse, which I understand, there are people that call into my program, my podcast radio show, and they say, I don't honor my parents because I don't like the way they vote.
00:22:10.000That's a bad reason, honestly, not to honor your parents.
00:22:13.000I don't like them because they're annoying.
00:24:10.000And the West was not born out of transgender ideology.
00:24:15.000The West was not born out of these radical elements.
00:24:18.000Those are now symptoms of a much deeper problem that is occurring and manifesting.
00:24:23.000And so we have to ask ourselves a very honest and serious question, which is, what is the role of a Christian in America?
00:24:30.000Is it just to kind of sit idly by and hope it gets better?
00:24:33.000No, I think it's actually much deeper than that and much more important, which is we should try to change everything around us to be more honoring of God.
00:24:42.000Jesus said all the laws of the prophets hang upon these two commandments.
00:24:46.000Love the Lord your God with your heart, soul, strength, and mind.
00:24:56.000One is to honor God and one is to honor neighbor.
00:24:59.000He says to be salt and light, to change the environment of the context of the environment that you come in contact with.
00:25:05.000And what I see on college campuses is both exhilarating.
00:25:08.000In fact, we see more young people, especially young men, that are becoming Christian, that are more conservative, that are seeking truth than ever before, which is an amazing thing.
00:25:17.000Simultaneously, there's a lot of trouble.
00:25:20.000And the trouble that we see is the outgrowth of a secular worldview.
00:25:27.000There will be one winner in this equation.
00:25:29.000Either the winner of the equation will be those that love God and love his commands, or those that believe there is no God, and they're going to try to create some other morally contorted worldview.
00:25:40.000We are all inheritors of a Christian tradition.
00:25:43.000You can go all through Africa and you know that, right?
00:25:46.000Countries that are plagued by civil war and strife and division.
00:25:49.000The Christian tradition is to care for the least of these, to be charitable, individual rights, freedom of speech, private property rights, borders.
00:25:57.000These things all come from a Christian worldview.
00:26:00.000And right now we are teasing this idea of cut flowers, where we're going to cut flowers off from its source and we hope the flowers are going to continue to grow.
00:26:29.000They would take responsibility for it in their local community and in their state.
00:26:33.000And so I'm going to keep on spreading this news in the college campuses and the high schools and all the important work that we're doing at Turning Point USA.
00:26:43.000And we need to have even more of this work to continue, not just in Colorado, but across the country.
00:26:49.000It is a fight for the nation's youth, and we are all involved in it, whether you realize it or not.
00:26:55.000You see, the bad guys, whoever we're going to call them, the collectivists or the statists, they've made a 100-year plan to go after our nation's youth, and we as Christians have kind of just shrugged our shoulders.
00:27:05.000I'm thrilled that we're doing it in Rwanda.
00:27:07.000We need to do even more of it here in our country.
00:27:10.000And I'm telling you, there's going to be one kid that comes out of Hope Haven that could end up changing the world.
00:27:15.000What is the best thing that you can give to somebody in need?
00:27:19.000It's not just to give them a $5, you know, hand-me-up.
00:27:23.000It is to give them a biblical-based Christian education that they themselves can become a change maker, that they themselves can become salt and light.
00:27:33.000And boy, do we need that now more than ever.
00:27:35.000Thank you guys so much, and God bless you, Susan.