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00:00:54.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:57.000And yeah, well, I mean it with all my heart.
00:02:00.000And the context of that verse is Paul, one of the last things Paul ever wrote before standing trial and eventually being crucified, literally killed, to young Timothy, who was really kind of trying to find his way.
00:02:10.000Paul is going to write in chapter four that he has lived his life looking for the coming of the Lord Jesus.
00:02:19.000It's the first time in Paul's authorship where he surrenders that blessed hope joy and expectancy when he says that I know that what is laid up for me is a crown of righteousness that the Lord our God will give to not only me, but to all those who have loved his appearing.
00:02:37.000Paul was able to do so much for the kingdom of God because he believed that every day could be the day that he met Christ.
00:02:44.000And there's a joyous, beautiful sense of urgency.
00:04:02.000But the essence is that you will be persecuted and it will strengthen your faith.
00:04:07.000And that there's also a promise that after the persecution, you're going to be stronger and more fulfilled and closer to God because who doesn't want to get closer to God?
00:04:15.000Isn't that the hole in our heart that we all have?
00:05:47.000I went to tell that newspaper that I said that our delight was in his policies, which honored the God of the Bible.
00:05:55.000It wasn't the man, it was the positions that were God honoring.
00:05:58.000That kind of position, Charlie, is going to generate what Paul says here is a warfare, is a spiritual, emotional, and sometimes, God forbid, it's sad, but even in some areas, people would take that violently, which is never the Christian.
00:06:14.000And I denounced it as it was happening.
00:07:15.000Mike McClure is facing $1.5 million fines, possibly a judge-ordered bank confiscation against his assets of his church and potentially prison time for just opening up his church.
00:08:27.000We didn't know what we were getting our hands into, our bodies into.
00:08:32.000And then as time went on, and you've not only copied, or not copied, but recorded this well, but you spoke out very clearly about this, that something was up.
00:09:33.000And the church is going to be the tip of the spear for attack.
00:09:39.000If we couldn't stand against a virus that we couldn't see, what are we going to do when we see a government that visibly will be coming against us?
00:09:51.000It depends on the will of the pastor that's running the church and also whether or not that congregation is willing to actually do what that word of God says.
00:10:01.000Is it just kind of an allegorical document?
00:10:03.000Is it kind of like a life improvement book?
00:10:05.000Or is it actually something you believe is the word of God?
00:10:23.000And a lot of modern day Christianity actually believes in the God of Oprah, which is like this unspecified kind of like this not monotheist, like it's like this kind of Eastern spiritual God.
00:10:34.000And then if you kind of meditate to get closer to it, and really Christianity is not that different than any other religion, that has seeped into massive parts of the American church.
00:10:44.000That is a pantheism that is well entrenched within Christianity.
00:10:48.000And I say the God of Oprah because she's like championing this.
00:10:51.000But all of this stuff about what are you going to do if you've sat in a church all your life and you were told that God loves you, he does, but nothing bad is going to happen to you because his thoughts toward you are good.
00:11:06.000Well, that's true, but you're never going to get sick and you're never going to go broke.
00:11:14.000There's been this God with several heads that have been crafted by pulpits today, or I should say for generations now, where I believe Jesus could come back at any moment.
00:11:27.000And you can almost smell the reality of that.
00:11:30.000Having said that, I don't know when he's coming back, but I've got to live like Paul, like he's coming back today.
00:12:15.000Despite every time God reveals Himself, you think that at some point God was like, Wait a sec, I brought you out of Egypt, delivered you from Pharaoh, parted the Red Sea, minor details, delivered you with manna and with as much coils as you can imagine.
00:12:55.000So listen, as a pastor, and speaking to predominantly Christians right now, when the Bible tells us that in the last days, perilous times will come, as soon as the Bible announces that, 90% of my angst and my fear is evaporated because my Bible tells me in advance that these days are coming.
00:13:14.000Number two, there's going to be the rise of false doctrines and false teachings.
00:13:20.000Yes, and what's interesting about that is we've always thought in our Western mind, and I get it, that it's cults and false teachings about religion and stuff.
00:13:32.000But you know what we can also, I think, expand on is false teaching can also be, now I'm realizing that when somebody comes and says to the world, to you and I, this is what's going on, this is what you must do, and that what you must do is stay indoors, don't talk to anybody, cover your face, and detach from the culture, and they pound fear into you.
00:15:15.000And so an example of this is if you walked into your home every day at 5 p.m. and everything was taken care of for you.
00:15:21.000Food, allowance money, and you don't even acknowledge where it comes from.
00:15:25.000You just grow accustomed to that, right?
00:15:27.000You don't start to acknowledge that there's a giver there.
00:15:29.000However, really strong-built families where the father is working till 9 p.m. every night just to be able to bring enough food, you say, that's the guy that's bringing home what gives us the capacity to keep going.
00:16:06.000But if you're more of a lazy posture, if you're someone that wants to be taken care of, if you're someone that wants to be sedentary, by the way, all these things are anti-biblical, then liberty is not really for you.
00:17:33.000More specifically, I drove a Porsche on a racetrack in Los Angeles that's owned by Porsche because that's what the course is designed to do.
00:18:53.000Is if you're in a nation that is for liberty, and the founding fathers saw the First Amendment being the First Amendment because it's natural law.
00:19:02.000John Locke articulated it, social contracts.
00:19:48.000Alexa de Tocqueville made that pretty clear.
00:19:50.000And so, as soon as the church started to become about wealth, health, you know, increasing your bank account and making you feel nice about yourself.
00:19:59.000And it made, and it made as its 11th commandment or its first mission: we've got to be relevant.
00:20:05.000We've got to do everything we can to be relevant.
00:20:12.000We've got to have tennis shoes and skinny jeans, and we've got to have this and that, and we've got to be relevant.
00:20:17.000When all the while, if we would have just stopped and slowed down to realize the Holy Spirit is always relevant, we need to follow Him and He's going to lead us through the Word, which is eternally relevant.
00:20:27.000That's exactly equally then as it does now.
00:20:31.000And so, the other issue with that and where the Christian church is now going to be tried, and guess what, Jack?
00:20:37.000You're going to pass the trial because you're already in the midst of it.
00:20:40.000It's not as if you're waiting for it to start, but there's some pastors 20 miles from here, 30 miles from here, they think that they're going to be spared.
00:20:48.000And maybe they will in this moment, because the current power structure does not want to obliterate the American church.
00:21:00.000And they want obedient churches because they know if they get rid of all the churches, that will spark an uprising.
00:21:05.000But if they have a church that does what it's told to do, if they have a church that will give the correct sermons, that will never mention life, that will never come out and talk about the biblical case for against illegal immigration, but instead will tow the party line and that will host the correct ceremonies, never get political, then that church won't get audited and that church won't be investigated.
00:21:27.000This is exactly what happened in Romania.
00:22:01.000And Stalin especially had the Russian Orthodox Church.
00:22:05.000However, you would know as you're giving, you know, in the Orthodox Church, I don't know if they call it a sermon or a homily or whatever, you would know that there might be a member of Stalin's Praetorian Guard, if you will.
00:23:01.000Okay, so I got a phone call the other day, and the phone call was, hey, for 2021, are you guys willing to host the local ecumenical prayer meeting?
00:24:31.000Well exactly yeah now unity unity, now.
00:24:34.000That should be the slogan, unity obey, now obey.
00:24:38.000What's interesting is there are going to be some people who are watching right now and they know enough of the Bible to say, how dare you two when the Bible says how blessed and beautiful it is that the brethren together that would dwell together in unity yes, that the brethren would dwell together in unity.
00:24:56.000That presupposes doctrine, that the doctrine of God's word has united us.
00:25:01.000We need to remember Charles Spurgeon was right when he said, regarding division in the church, there are things such things as blessed subtractions.
00:25:11.000Not everything under the church roof is of the church, and we're coming into a year where the church, I think, is going to be tested yeah, I mean in more ways than one and the churches that stay disciplined to the word of god and are willing to stand courageously and boldly will be blessed beyond measure.
00:25:31.000So look Charlie, I know we've got producers and stuff going crazy behind us.
00:25:36.000Well hey listen, I hope you enjoyed this episode of real life with Charlie Kirk and if you'd like to find out more, you can go to Jackkibbs.com.
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