00:00:09.000Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, I'm airing one of my favorite speeches I gave very recently about fighting in our country, what you can do to make a difference.
00:00:17.000It was at my friend Pastor Ken Graves Church in Maine.
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00:00:53.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:59.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:02:11.000My very good friend and my pastor, the person who I really have gotten to know Ken because of, Pastor Rob McCoy, he is fighting the battle right now in Thousand Oaks.
00:02:24.000A criminal restraining order was put against his church for gathering this week, despite no virus cases, socially distanced service, and the cannabis distributor, the strip clubs, and the liquor stores are open.
00:02:37.000And he says, why can't we have church?
00:03:32.000Turning Point USA, we're on over 2,000 high school and college campuses across the country.
00:03:37.000I have spoken at some of the most adversarial, most difficult campuses imaginable, from Brown University to UC Berkeley to Stanford to Harvard to Yale.
00:03:48.000And I am unafraid to say that God is real.
00:03:51.000I'm unafraid to say that our country is actually a gift from the generations that preceded us.
00:03:56.000We have to understand how this country was built.
00:03:59.000And I think that we're really losing that in our country in a lot of different ways.
00:04:02.000And so when I travel these campuses and I get booed at and I get screamed at, I actually know that I'm probably going in the right direction at that moment.
00:04:10.000You know, when you come up against that kind of fierce antagonism from the secular, atheist, very bitter community, you're like, I must be doing something right if they are really coming after me that aggressively.
00:04:23.000That's not always a great rule of thumb.
00:04:24.000But it is when you go to a college campus, I'll tell you that much.
00:04:27.000So I want to touch on a couple things and kind of kind of complete the picture here.
00:04:33.000But I will kind of reiterate something I mentioned in the first couple services, which is we really are in a spiritual battle in this country.
00:04:40.000And there's now a public referendum that is very scary, where we have now prioritized through our laws that what we are doing right now is actually illegal.
00:04:49.000And the United States Supreme Court, it is said it's illegal under federal law for more than 50 people to gather at church.
00:05:28.000Where basically the decision was, if you're a casino, if you're a cannabis distributor, if you're a strip club, if you're Walmart, if you're Home Depot, you are essential.
00:05:38.000But a church, sit and obey no more than 50 people.
00:05:44.000And to be consistent, if you're saying it's about public health, then all mass gatherings should be held accountably similar, right?
00:05:52.000Especially the 250,000 people that were in Boston on the streets of Boston in early June, or the 500,000 people in the streets of New York.
00:06:02.000And so what we as Christians have just wanted is just a fair shake.
00:06:05.000Why is it that churches are treated so categorically different?
00:06:08.000And we're seeing this across the country.
00:06:10.000And what we have basically seen is that admission from our governmental rulers is they believe that salvation is not essential and church is not essential.
00:06:18.000And boy, is there ever a time to stand up against that as clearly as possible as we as faith-filled people, because the government will push us as far as we're willing to take it.
00:06:30.000And what Ken has done amazingly, and Ken's like, come on and arrest me.
00:06:36.000And a lot of it is because they know that as soon as they start to overly criminalize Christianity, hopefully, I would hope there'd be a backlash.
00:06:46.000I'll tell you, though, from inside their circles, and I read a lot of their internal writings and things that have been leaked, they can't believe how little backlash there has been.
00:06:54.000Just so you know, they have not been able to believe how weak American Christians have become.
00:07:55.000Well, it's because some people in government and in leadership believe the church is a true obstacle to what they want to actually achieve.
00:08:02.000Is that the church is actually getting in the way of their power grab?
00:08:07.000You see, some people in the more atheist secular community in our country, they believe that the church is an impediment to the kind of country that they want to live in.
00:08:18.000And this is a very difficult conversation for some people to have, but it shouldn't be for us Christians because we know it.
00:08:24.000This was prophesied in the Bible, in the text, that we were going to come under great persecution.
00:08:29.000And we, for a couple centuries, quite honestly, the last hundred years especially, we Christians have actually had it pretty good in Christian historical terms.
00:08:39.000In Christian historical terms, we have it the best that Christians basically have ever had it.
00:08:43.000The early church was under severe persecution, Nero cutting Christians' heads off.
00:08:48.000The early church met in catacombs in Rome out of fear of persecution, of governance.
00:08:53.000It wasn't until the conversion of Constantine about 350 years after Christ was Christianity even a normally accepted religion in the Mediterranean.
00:09:03.000It was a religion that was basically always being persecuted.
00:09:06.000It wasn't until Marcus Aurelius, the last good emperor of Rome, who was in a lot of different ways a misunderstood figure in the West, but also helped create a lot of what they call Stoic philosophy.
00:09:18.000He was actually a friend of Christians.
00:09:21.000And it wasn't until him was there actually some sort of normalcy of the expression of Christianity.
00:09:27.000The rule, not the exception, has been the martyrdom and the persecution of Christians across the planet.
00:09:33.000So we've grown kind of comfortable, haven't we?
00:09:36.000We know it's protected because of that beautiful document, the greatest political document ever written in the history of the world, the United States Constitution.
00:09:44.000And now it's kind of all being put in jeopardy.
00:09:46.000And they do say it's because of public health, but if it is, then be consistent.
00:09:50.000Then say that 200,000 people that go to Boston and New York can't gather.
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00:11:16.000And so then we ask ourselves the question, what is the church actually there to do?
00:11:20.000And I've seen what this church has done.
00:11:22.000I've heard the stories, drug recovery, opioid recovery, marriage counseling, helping people get through tough times.
00:11:29.000The church is actually a moral necessity for a civil society.
00:11:34.000But certain people don't want that to be the case.
00:11:36.000They want the government to replace that.
00:11:39.000What a dangerous path that is to get on.
00:11:41.000And so if they had a button to push and they could say they could close this church, they would absolutely press that button.
00:11:47.000What's interesting is that if we had the same button to eliminate atheists or secularists, we wouldn't push that button.
00:11:55.000Because we see those people as an opportunity, not as an obstacle.
00:11:59.000We see those people as a chance to be able to interface with them and bring them to eternity and bring truth to them.
00:12:04.000So as I'm tasked to go to college campuses, it's a very telling thing because I could tell you exactly where the culture is going five years from now.
00:12:12.000So five years ago, five years earlier, I would tell you that there was going to be a defund police movement, there was going to be an abolished prisons movement, and the war in Christianity would only intensify.
00:12:26.000Whatever happens on college campuses will soon happen in your entire culture.
00:12:30.000What happens in college campuses will soon happen in the halls of Congress.
00:12:33.000And I saw the bitterness, the resentment, and the arrogance that people had towards Christianity.
00:12:38.000The biggest thing that happens when I go to college campus is the mockery that God might exist.
00:12:42.000They believe that man created God, not that God created man.
00:12:45.000They believe that atheism is the only true way to create a civil society or whatever society they want to create.
00:12:51.000And I can tell you right now, the way that culture is headed in the next five years, it's very troubling if we continue on these trends of what's happening on our university campuses.
00:13:00.000Because what ends up happening is you have these elite schools, mostly in the Northeast and out west, that are teaching ingratitude for the nation that we live in.
00:13:08.000They don't teach that the Constitution is actually the greatest political document ever written that allows for the free expression of religion, the free expression of ideas regardless of your faith or any faith at all whatsoever.
00:13:18.000Instead, they say that the Constitution is an oppressive document that must be eliminated and we must start over.
00:13:24.000And so this is the idea of postmodernism.
00:13:27.000I talked about this in the first service, but if you don't know what postmodernism is, I'll give you a quick download and then I encourage you to find out because every one of your kids is learning it.
00:13:36.000Every single one of your kids, either through Snapchat, TikTok, delete TikTok, by the way, for all you young people out there.
00:14:30.000They're saying that there's no such thing as truth, that everyone has their own version of truth, and the only thing that exists in the world that is actually real is power.
00:14:41.000That everything that we do is nothing more than a power play.
00:14:44.000That's why they're so obsessed with power when you think about it.
00:14:46.000Because that's the only thing that they can actually touch and they can understand is having power over another group.
00:14:52.000They look at everything through a lens of victims and oppressor.
00:14:56.000That's how they look through everything.
00:14:58.000That without us realizing it, the women in America are inherently oppressed by the patriarchy, that there's always a power system at play, and the only way to actually get rid of it is to blow up our entire civilization.
00:15:11.000Now, this might come to you as it might seem radical.
00:15:25.000These are the ideas that are expressed in every single vein.
00:15:28.000And they're all at odds, and it's spiritual war with the Bible and with the Word of God, every single one of them.
00:15:35.000And so if you understand deeper what their true agenda is, there's a reason why they remove prayer in our schools.
00:15:41.000There's a reason why you cannot teach the Bible.
00:15:43.000Because as soon as you introduce the Bible to somebody's life, all of a sudden, the power play that might be underway might mean a lot less because someone might actually be able to find ultimate truth and a higher power.
00:15:56.000So these people are very much driven by resentment.
00:15:58.000They're driven by a bitterness that is within them, that we know this is a problem because they don't have ultimate salvation.
00:16:05.000However, they will go their entire life trying to satisfy that kind of bitterness through earthly means, right?
00:16:12.000Trying to find it where they're never going to actually be able to find that kind of peace that we as Christians all have.
00:16:20.000Is that if you allow this to go unchecked, which we have, an entire generation of young people will have no appreciation for the country that they're in, where 54% of my generation believes it's basically time to completely change Western civilization.
00:17:05.000Now, a lot of that has been put in jeopardy in the last couple decades, and a lot of that has been, quite honestly, questioned by the elites and the ruling class in our country.
00:17:14.000So we as Christians right now, I think that this is a huge deciding point for us.
00:17:20.000It's either going to be that we as Christians kind of want to be something like fourth century monks, or we're going to be like the early church.
00:17:28.000We could be like fourth century monks and go into the caves and never spread the gospel or good news or fight for civil society and just wait for the storm to pass.
00:17:36.000Or we can do what the Bible actually tells us to do, which is to go contest for truth in every single corner of civil society or uncivil society.
00:17:44.000As Paul said, contest for whatsoever is true.
00:17:57.000And we should say it's a bad idea and we should be not afraid to contest for that.
00:18:00.000The implementation of laws is exactly why we're able to have a civil society.
00:18:06.000God gave us the law for a reason, because not because he doesn't like us, if he wasn't the fun police, but because he actually loved us.
00:18:12.000Because if you follow these rules, you'll actually live a more quiet and peaceable life, which is exactly what Paul tells us in 1 Timothy, one of the last things that Paul ever wrote.
00:18:21.000So the question for us Christians, and this is a very, some people say, you know what?
00:18:58.000I think that is not theologically sound.
00:19:00.000I think we are called to spread our light in all corners, especially in civil society and even more so in governance.
00:19:07.000And I could tell you personally, I am not prepared to face my creator and not have a good reason when it is asked, hey, what did you do about the 61 million abortions that happened since Roe versus Wade?
00:19:30.000And I speak out and I say we should have more compassion and love for women that have done that, but we should also be very clear that if there's anything for the church to get involved with, my goodness, is that not a moral yes or no issue when people that have no voice at all whatsoever have their lives taken away from them.
00:19:48.000If there's ever a yes or no choice, that is one of them.
00:19:51.000And so I think that, and this is not the majority opinion, by the way, more pastors, Ken is the outlier, not the rule.
00:19:59.000More pastors are running to the hills away from these discussions than ever before.
00:20:04.000This is the Gideon's army moment, right?
00:20:06.000Where our forces are thinning and thinning and thinning.
00:20:09.000And if you remember the biblical story of Gideon's army, God thins the ranks and thins the ranks.
00:20:15.000And he thins it even more, where he says, go drink from the river.
00:20:18.000And the people that either get on the knees or they drank like this, one of the two he sent home.
00:20:23.000And they ended up delivering and winning the battle, believe it or not.
00:20:26.000And I think he did that for a very important reason, so that the people who won the battle wouldn't give themselves the credit, but give God the credit.
00:20:32.000I think that's exactly what is happening now.
00:20:34.000In some ways, it's actually like a refiner's fire.
00:20:37.000This is actually a really refreshing moment.
00:20:39.000I'm actually more enthused that our ranks are shrinking than ever before.
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00:23:12.000There's this whole new thing that's happening in Christianity where it's like Christian Inc. almost, where there's a whole megaplex of the author-speaker series.
00:23:21.000And I can say this as someone who's kind of an outsider.
00:23:24.000I run an organization that does have a secular charter, but I'm a Bible-believing Christian.
00:23:29.000So I can kind of play in both spaces here.
00:23:31.000And I look at Christianity externally and kind of the whole kind of complex that's been created.
00:23:39.000And generally, it's about meeting the budgetary needs and expanding to get the most amount of people in the biggest possible building and getting all these YouTube views and all those things.
00:23:50.000And I think some of them have good intentions.
00:24:27.000It's not just one YouTube video of four and a half minutes, you know, of someone that's just saying, you know, with the lights behind them and all that stuff, that's kind of a feel-good gospel.
00:24:36.000And I'm not opposed to that theologically.
00:24:38.000What I am opposed to is when the church has become so absent from the culture that they exist in, and it gets even worse than that.
00:24:48.000When the church involves itself on the opposite insidious forces.
00:24:52.000So it would be one thing if the church remained neutral during this in the last eight weeks.
00:24:59.000So many churches, including Bible-believing churches all across the country, they have gotten actively involved in raising the money, activating their congregation, and mobilizing it towards things that are around destroying the nuclear family and destroying Western society.
00:25:15.000Like we have to go and march in the streets for this.
00:25:19.000And some of these pastors, and I follow some of them on Instagram, and yeah, they have half a million Instagram followers and all those sorts of things.
00:25:25.000They have never spoken out against on the issue of life, ever.
00:25:29.000They've never spoken out about the persecution of the church.
00:25:32.000But the one time they decide to go mobilize is around a very deceptive movement that kind of came out in early June, that if you read the website, was about destroying the Westernist prescribed nuclear family, was around pitting people against each other based on their immutable characteristics, and quite honestly, was about disrupting the biblical worldview that we all have.
00:25:53.000I was like, that's what you get involved in?
00:26:02.000I think a lot of this is rooted in a poor understanding of the Bible as almost reading it the way you want to see it and also not accepting some of the harder truths that are around it.
00:26:11.000I think additionally, you know, we have to be honest that Christianity should always be contesting for the most difficult cultural struggles.
00:26:21.000This is hard because we're always like, well, we don't know if we're going to win.
00:26:25.000Well, the victory here is actually completely irrelevant to whether or not you should get involved.
00:26:30.000In fact, I couldn't think of a more irrelevant reason not to get involved because we've already won.
00:28:09.000And it's actually a really fun time if we embrace it.
00:28:12.000If you accept the suffering that will happen, the persecution that's inevitable, the backlash, but also the promise that this is what we're called to do, then this is the time to rise up.
00:28:22.000I can't think of a more exciting time to actually be a Christian.
00:28:40.000I mean, Christ had a message that can apply to all people, but he was very clear that not everyone was going to be able to go on that path.
00:29:13.000There's a war on men, the likes of which we've never seen.
00:29:16.000And I am, of course, for strong men and strong women, but we have hyper-feminized America to a way that is so unbelievably dangerous, our society will cease to exist.
00:29:26.000Now, mind you, a country can get too masculine too.
00:29:30.000That's when you get strongman dictatorships that end up exploiting the power they get.
00:29:34.000So I'm not saying that one society needs to be completely more masculine than feminine.
00:29:40.000I actually think it needs to be balanced, like a marriage where one becomes in flesh, where there are attributes that God gave the feminine and the masculine.
00:29:47.000I mean more archetypically here, and then I'll actually dive into the actual practice.
00:29:52.000But the masculine traits have been completely eradicated from our society.
00:29:57.000Young men are committing suicide in our country, the rates of which it should be the number one public health crisis in the country.
00:30:03.000More young men have committed suicide.
00:30:05.000That should just make us stop and say, what kind of country are we living in right now?
00:30:10.000Mind you, self-exiting from life should be, all death is a tragedy.
00:30:15.000But self-exit is something that should just make everyone just be very just, it should just, I've lost friends of suicide, and it's very, very hard.
00:30:24.000And it's hard for the people around you.
00:30:25.000But we have to ask ourselves, why is this happening?
00:30:28.000And it happens for men and women, but it's almost 10 to 1 men to women, okay?
00:30:33.000And the reason is because from the time you're seven years old in the public school system, young men, either consciously or subconsciously, are ridiculed and attacked for things they cannot control.
00:30:43.000The entire education system, first of all, is designed against the way that young boys actually are.
00:31:34.000But young men, in a lot of ways, especially in their developmental phases, ages 8, 9, and 10, the years that really matter, we have a school system that is not set up for them at all.
00:31:44.000Then you put into an entire culture of guilty until proven innocent, where 13, 14, and 15-year-olds, the messages I get of 14-year-olds that are being accused of things they did not do and being guilty until proven innocent is unbelievable.
00:31:57.000And then we have an entire, by the time young men get into high school, they get a hyper-feminized view of everything.
00:32:05.000And it really creates an imbalance in a very, very, I think, dangerous way.
00:32:11.000The number one complaint, we do a young women's leadership summit every single year.
00:32:15.000Our young women's leadership summit has 1,500 young women from across the country.
00:32:19.000The number one complaint I get is I cannot find strong men, honest men, men that have responsibility.
00:32:25.000And these are young women that have their act together.
00:32:27.00022 years old, college graduates, first in their class, and they have all those things, but the thing they really, really want is a loyal spouse and someone that they're able to build a future with.
00:33:27.000All throughout the Old Testament, we see people living at their fathers, and then they send out and go, right?
00:33:31.000And young men, we do the exact opposite.
00:33:34.000And we should release them into the world where we say, you have to become a tougher person to shoulder a burden to protect the innocent, to build something meaningful.
00:33:44.000To go out into the forest and the woods that is dark, that is dangerous, deliver the goods, and come back home.
00:33:50.000The woman is the protector, the nurturer.
00:33:52.000And I'm not supposed to be saying any of this because I get, you know, ridiculously attacked by the media, which is why I say it all the time.
00:33:58.000Because they say, oh, that's incorrect.
00:34:00.000And look, of course, there's exceptions to all of this.
00:34:03.000But we know these things to be generally true.
00:34:18.000I mean, that is such a perverted, excuse me, perverted view of the world that you had to go to Brown University to believe something like that, that there's no difference between men and women, biologically or societally or whatever.
00:34:28.000And so for young men in particular, if we do not address this crisis of lack of masculinity, the entire culture will cease to exist.
00:34:45.000The 30-year-olds right now are the most unmarried generation in American history, most unmarried.
00:34:49.000Highest suicide rate for young men under the ages 28 to 32.
00:34:53.000Highest addictions to everything imagine from drugs to pornography to online video consumption.
00:34:58.000And yet, so these are the byproducts of it.
00:35:01.000And then you have the unhappiest female demographic in the history of the planet.
00:35:05.000You have very successful, corporate, aspirational, young 33-year-old women that can't find a spouse, or the spouse they do find is not exactly like Ken Graves.
00:35:55.000And they are 18 months old and they're looking at their father and looking at their mother, two years old, and they're seeing what they want to become.
00:36:03.000And if they do not see that correctly in the archetypical fashion, well, that's when all of a sudden you start to see societal upheaval, where you have 500,000 less babies this year than last year.
00:36:13.000We're on the verge of a population collapse.
00:36:15.000People say overpopulation, not even close.
00:36:18.000We have young men that are 32 that are saying, I'm never going to get married.
00:36:24.000You can't sustain a civilization that way.
00:36:26.000And now it's spreading across the globe.
00:36:28.000And that's exactly why our biblical worldview is so comforting for us.
00:36:32.000And that's why we have to spread it, because you have miserable people that have been told nothing but do whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it.
00:36:40.000You're the most important person in the world.
00:36:43.000Where we have a book, The Word of God, 66 books, that are all beautifully put together.
00:36:48.000And that's just, I talk about the Bible to secularists all the time, and they hate the Bible.
00:36:54.000They think it's just a bunch of mythology and all this.
00:36:56.000And just taking out that it's actually the spoken word of God, let's just take that absent.
00:37:00.000The fact the Bible even exists is miraculous.
00:37:03.000The fact that you have 66 independent pieces of literature that harmonize as beautifully as they do, just from a literary standpoint, is the most exceptional document ever created, ever.
00:37:14.000And we don't talk about that enough because it wasn't like they all just sat down in one reading and wrote Plato's Republic.
00:37:19.000Like, that's a pretty good piece of work.
00:37:20.000But you have 35 or 34, 35, 30 authors, over 5,000 years, more or less, I'll say 2,500 years, that independently write a document that is the perfect summation of the human experience.
00:37:32.000From creation to the end, to sin, to struggle, to chaos, disorder, disunity, salvation to eternity.
00:37:39.000Is that not the journey of the human life right there?
00:37:42.000And it's completely harmonic where you can just zoom in on one book and say, here's a whole book of how to apply your life to have meaning, the book of Proverbs, right?
00:37:50.000Here's a book of how to build civil society of government, which is Isaiah.
00:37:53.000That's where we get the idea of the executive, the legislative, and the judicial government.
00:37:56.000Here's a whole book of what's going to happen to you and how to endure it, right?
00:38:02.000Here's a whole book of how to build a church, my goodness.
00:38:21.000But the book that survived, that's the most duplicated, the most influential, the most cited, the kind of one-word, like kind of the one-sentence phrases that we always tell people in the secular world, almost all of them come from the Bible.
00:38:35.000You treat others the way you want to be treated.
00:38:37.000Like, okay, that's not an original concept.
00:39:18.000And so, you know, young people, I get thousands of emails in my podcast a week, thousands.
00:39:24.000And I'm telling you right now, we have just ignored the mental health crisis in our country, the likes of which, I mean, the emails I get, I just, I am so angry at our entire institutional systems that have failed young people, especially young men, the lack of meaning, lack of direction.
00:39:38.000And I just, I continually pour into them to try to go back to the original text and sources.
00:39:44.000And so it's in some ways it's intentional, but if we're not honest about addressing those kind of root causes, it's going to get very, very troubling.
00:39:55.000So we have that crisis of masculinity.
00:41:32.000It's not the most difficult equation to be able to square.
00:41:36.000And so, and all of you in your own life, I think right now, we should be called in a couple different ways.
00:41:43.000And so we have a crisis in all those different things.
00:41:48.000The educational part of it, I'm a huge advocate of homeschooling.
00:41:51.000I've advocated for it for a long time.
00:41:53.000And I think anyone that homeschools should be elevated as heroes.
00:41:55.000We have to double the homeschooling population in the next five years.
00:41:58.000And I think that we should really embrace that.
00:42:02.000And we as, you know, I look at some of these massive churches and I say, boy, if you guys just would have had a little bit smaller meeting space and you would have just subsidized your congregation to have more people homeschooling, maybe you would have, you know, a better culture around you.
00:42:19.000And so the education of our children is probably one of the most important places that we can all contest and that we can get engaged in.
00:42:25.000Because if we allow this to play itself out, the civilization that we all love will come crumbling down.
00:42:31.000And that's something I find a lot, is that people, We have things so unbelievably good by historical terms that we actually don't think it can end.
00:42:41.000When actually it's inevitable that it will end.
00:42:44.000It's actually the fact that it exists that is the exception.
00:42:47.000And apathy, I mean, Thomas Jefferson did it best.
00:42:52.000When you're able to do what you want to do and pursue your faith and create wealth like us, it is actually incredibly predictable that we take it for granted and we don't contest for it.
00:43:02.000Because you have something to lose, right?
00:43:04.000Because you actually have wealth and treasure and family and connections to lose.
00:43:08.000But if we're not willing to lose everything, then we will lose everything.
00:43:10.000That's kind of the message here, especially religious freedom.
00:43:14.000And I'm afraid for a day that I grow up in 30 years from now where the church will absolutely be criminalized, where people running for office have said that if a church does not perform same-sex marriages, they will lose their tax-exempt status.
00:43:27.000That is now a mainstream opinion of the far left in our country.
00:45:50.000And it's a series of replicated and duplicated societal and governmental experiments that ended in well over 120 million people being murdered.
00:46:01.000And here's the succession that happened.
00:46:04.000And we can learn from it or we can decide that we're better than it and just walk away from it, right?
00:46:08.000You get a civilization that is a little bit uneasy.
00:49:43.000And the thing that pains me the most, I got to be honest with you, when I go speak down in Miami and I'm greeted by 70 and 80-year-old Cubans that fled the Cuban Revolution, right?
00:51:16.000I mean, we are locking pastors up in prison because they remain open and cannabis distributors can just stay wide open.
00:51:22.000And so the question is this: the only Constitution allows for the framework for this, and here's where I'll close: is what are Christians going to do about it?
00:51:33.000Now, if our answer is nothing, then okay.
00:51:36.000Then find a place that will be unaffected by this widespread tyranny and hope it doesn't come for you.
00:51:43.000I don't think that's the moral thing to do, actually.
00:51:46.000I think that's actually incredibly selfish, immoral, and against the Great Commission.
00:51:50.000I think the opposite is actually what you should do.
00:51:52.000Get right into the fight and defend the innocent.
00:51:55.000Get right into the fight and defend dialogue and speech, to defend the freedom of expression of all people, to actually get into those uncomfortable conversations and discussions and those political, you know, type of, let's just say, races or involvements, whatever it is, voting, engagement, knowing who stands for what.
00:52:13.000And people are like, well, politics doesn't, politics, I don't like it.
00:52:15.000Well, it affects you whether you like it or not, okay?
00:52:18.000I mean, whether you think you can be above it, you're wrong.
00:52:20.000The most important thing you can do in your life is accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.
00:52:24.000The second thing is to make sure you can do the first, right?
00:52:27.000And now millions of people aren't able to do that.
00:52:30.000You know, I get messages from people, and I praise God, my podcast has grown, of people that say, Charlie, I live in Michigan, and I love your podcast.
00:52:38.000And I've been dealing with some tough issues, and I need to go to a church, but I can't because they're all closed.
00:52:46.000And I think to myself, those pastors that don't remain open in Michigan to communicate to that young man who wants to find Jesus, you are not spreading the gospel.
00:52:54.000You are pandering to earthly authority.
00:52:57.000You are disobeying the Great Commission because there are millions of young people.
00:53:00.000In a time like this, the church should be more open than ever before.
00:53:03.000Do you know that we have twice as many people that are addicted now to substances than before the shutdown?
00:53:09.000Suicide rates are up sometimes 400% in certain parts of the country.
00:53:13.000Marital abuse, spousal abuse, sexual violence, every metric you have for a decaying society is up.
00:53:23.000And I'm sure you guys know very well opioid addiction in this part of the country, which Washington, D.C. has decided isn't a top-tier issue.
00:53:29.000They just have turned a blind eye to this part of the country.
00:53:32.000And it's just beyond irritating that they then come on their horse and they say, oh, you all have white privilege.
00:53:36.000Like, you want to go to an opioid clinic down the street?
00:53:39.000And you tell me how much white privilege is in Maine?
00:53:40.000It just drives me absolutely off the wall.
00:53:43.000And I've seen the suffering that it's done to your communities.
00:54:41.000It's harder to go up to the tyrant and look at them in the eyes.
00:54:43.000It's harder to go up to the person who's doing the oppressing and say what you're doing is wrong.
00:54:48.000And you know exactly who that is, think in your own life.
00:54:51.000The person right now that is bullying, the person right now that is saying that you're not welcome in my home because of X, Y, Z, Z, because of your ideology or belief or all this.
00:54:59.000And if you haven't found that person, you will.
00:55:34.000Through every single mass media circuit, Hollywood, you name it, they are teaching things that are so malevolent and pernicious that some of you would be even amazed if you saw some of the stuff that is being taught to our kids.
00:55:45.000In fact, one of the unintended godly consequences of shutdown is that parents are actually seeing the garbage that their kids are learning all day long.
00:55:51.000I mean, I have gotten probably 50,000 different messages on social media of people that are like, I had no idea my kid was learning this stuff.
00:55:58.000I'm like, well, that's at least that's an unintended consequence of this stuff, right?
00:56:04.000And the last thing is this, and I don't love saying this, but everything you do should reflect your worldview.
00:56:09.000There's no place now that should be absent of what you believe, how you vote, what you do, everything.
00:56:14.000And I think every single Christian needs to vote.
00:56:16.000I am not going to tell you how to vote here, but I think it should be pretty obvious that you should vote for the unborn, religious liberty, freedom of expression, and not turning our entire country into a Marxist wasteland.
00:56:26.000I think you can make your own decisions, right?
00:56:28.000So, I know I'm getting the yank here, but look, I'm going to keep on fighting.
00:57:22.000And so when you get a little bit down, you come back on Sunday and you hear from Pastor Ken and you see your friends, and then you go back and you fight, and you contest again.
00:57:53.000You say things that are true and you say truth, they cripple.
00:57:57.000They do not know how to deal with that.
00:57:59.000That's why they don't like dialogue, because they have nothing to say.
00:58:04.000That's why they want to shut you up, because they know they might actually have to hear something that is true, and their entire world that is built on a false idol might crumble.
00:58:12.000Stand for truth, fight more than ever before.
00:58:21.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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