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00:01:09.000I really want to focus on the five things I learned in the 15 days to slow the spread, which has been a whole year.
00:01:33.000But let's take their unbiblical, unconstitutional, immoral phrase at face value.
00:01:39.000Let's just pretend they're right for a minute.
00:01:42.000Why don't we keep the state out of the church then?
00:01:46.000Why don't we say, hold on, the government has no business what happens in here?
00:01:52.000Because under their own belief, they've always been worried about the church taking over the state.
00:01:56.000When reality, the threat has always been the state taking over the church.
00:02:01.000And so that's what I want to focus on here.
00:02:04.000And just so everyone has a little bit of a baseline, I am an evangelical Christian, a Bible-believing Christian, is the most important thing in my life.
00:02:13.000For those people that are here that have never been in a church before, welcome.
00:02:17.000And I encourage all of you, and throughout this speech, I'm going to hopefully make a case that you need Jesus in your life.
00:02:25.000There's a God who made you in his image, and he wants to get to know you, and he wants to get in a relationship with you.
00:02:32.000And why I do what I do at turning point, why I speak at churches, is of course to spread the gospel.
00:02:40.000But I believe that's the most important thing you can do.
00:02:43.000But if you don't have the freedom to spread the gospel, we're all going to be sharing the gospel from prison.
00:04:17.000The idea of life beginning at conception.
00:04:20.000All of these things are in the Bible thousands of years ago before the scientific discoveries were ever done.
00:04:26.000The more we learn the scientific realm, the more we realize that belief in the world around us without an intelligent creator takes far more faith in that than faith in believing that there was actually an intelligent creator that created you in his image.
00:04:41.000I don't have enough faith to be an atheist.
00:04:45.000So science and reason trust the science, they say.
00:06:32.000What I came up against is the mask mandates that you're going to go into a private place of worship or enterprise and say, I'm going to force you to do something which is so incredibly philosophically ironic for the people that say my body my choice.
00:06:52.000Reason and revelation, the mixture of both built Western civilization.
00:06:58.000Reason is our capacity to solve problems in a chaotic natural world.
00:07:32.000But when two weeks became a month and it became two months and we realized who is at risk, what we needed to do to protect those people, provide services for those people, every school in the country should have opened instantaneously.
00:07:46.000And so what ended up happening under the guise of, well, trust the science.
00:07:52.000You see, that's a conversation ender because no one ever wants to be on the wrong side of science.
00:07:58.000But science is always about constant and persistent inquiry, always.
00:08:03.000So Galileo, again, our children don't learn any of this stuff.
00:08:07.000They learn about like Angela Davis or Nicole Hannah Jones or Frank Marshall Davis.
00:08:12.000Galileo, who challenged the predominant view of the gravitational how the Earth or the Sun interact.
00:08:22.000Are we the center of the universe or is the sun the center of our galaxy?
00:08:28.000And he was actually imprisoned for it.
00:08:30.000And the idea of challenging something that is dogma is always the right thing to do.
00:08:38.000Now, what's amazing is the more you challenge the truth of the Bible, the more it actually proves itself to be true.
00:08:44.000We should never be afraid of inquiry of the Bible.
00:08:47.000I tell people all the time, go find me a cheerful, successful, happy person that is not living consistent with the tone and tenor of the Bible.
00:08:56.000They might not be saved, but the truths of the Bible are always true.
00:08:59.000That there is a God that created you in his image and he wants to get back in a relationship with you and he sent an intermediary for you to make that possible so that you might have eternal life because we are broken and you're not going to get there on your own.
00:09:14.000You know, we spend a lot of time on this show talking about culture, about why strong families matter, why values matter, why faith matters.
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00:10:31.000And so, instead, the idea of challenging what is said on TV from Fauci or from our public health officials, and I say this completely honestly, I don't remember your governor's name because she's not worthy of remembering her name.
00:14:48.000So liberal justice Louis Brandeis talked about the laboratories of democracy, the differences between states.
00:14:55.000And so now hopefully this is a great teaching lesson to a lot of your friends here in New Mexico, the fact that you have not had a Republican legislature in 90 years, I think since you officially became a state, that elections have consequences.
00:15:09.000That you pay all this in property taxes, you pay all this in sales tax for shuttered schools, declining education rates.
00:15:15.000Meanwhile, your neighboring states have open schools and open businesses and lower virus death rates.
00:15:22.000And I would hope this is an awakening moment for the people in New Mexico.
00:15:25.000I hope this is a moment where we say, we're not going to take this any longer.
00:15:29.000And I want to actually, I want to build on that point, which is people have said that Steve and your church is in violation to the governor's orders.
00:15:41.000In fact, one of the other pastors here who runs a Calvary Chapel, he's a complete fool, I must say.
00:16:07.000The idea that the sovereign is somehow the government is so backwards.
00:16:13.000It really shows, and I'll get into this in a second, that too many pastors in this country have no idea why we were founded, our foundational ideas, how exceptional this country is, how it actually is a gift from God, the greatest experiment in civil government in world history.
00:16:30.000So to believe something like that, you must believe that the governor is in charge and you're the subject.
00:16:39.000What makes the American model different is that the citizens are in charge and the government works for us.
00:16:48.000Therefore, and this is why the Constitution is the greatest political document ever written in the history of the world.
00:16:54.000It says it comes from the belief that you naturally, made in God's image, have rights.
00:17:01.000A right to consciousness, right to movement, a right to speech, a right to protection, a right to buy and own property.
00:17:08.000And the biggest concern the founding fathers had was not first and foremost what you would do with that freedom.
00:17:15.000No, no, the first concern they had is what would happen if someone tried to take your freedom away.
00:17:20.000So therefore, the compact that we have in this country, the partnership, if you will, the way it was designed and a way a pastor should articulate it, is they took the teachings of the Bible, the revelations of the Enlightenment, articulated them in a document where the governor has absolutely no right to come into a private religious assembly and tell you what you have to do with your own assembly.
00:18:42.000And remember, YReFi doesn't care what your credit score is.
00:18:45.000Just go to yrefi.com and tell them your friend Andrew sent you.
00:18:52.000Now, people say, well, what about public health?
00:18:58.000If everything in life was about sacrificing liberty for safety, then we must have a very different conversation of what we have in our country.
00:19:09.000I wrote a sarcastic piece that actually, unfortunately, satire is quickly becoming reality.
00:19:16.000Dr. Seuss is banned, no men, no women, men and women's sports, Aunt Jemima, Gone with the Wind.
00:19:23.000No, it's like things that would have been sarcasm five years ago.
00:19:27.000I cannot tell if I'm reading the New York Times or the Youngins sometimes.
00:19:32.000And so something I wrote sarcastically that I guarantee you will be pushed by somebody is if we were serious about saving lives and liberty is not a value we care about, let's get rid of driving.
00:19:55.000But no rational or reasonable people that has actually benefited from motorized transport, the liberty of having such, would argue that the abolition of all transportation is something that a mature or wise society would do.
00:20:08.000Instead, we'd say, well, let's figure out a safer way to transport ourselves.
00:20:13.000Seatbelts, airbags, traffic lights, removing licenses from people that get multiple accidents.
00:20:19.000See, that's what a mature society does.
00:20:22.000Yet, our handling of the pandemic, or what just happened here, was the exact opposite.
00:20:29.000It was as if at all costs we must embrace a belief of safetyism, that freedom and liberty does not matter.
00:20:36.000And this is a very difficult thing to tell you.
00:21:06.000That private gun ownership, there will be people that abuse that technology.
00:21:12.000But the benefit of owning it and having it far outweighs the potential cost.
00:21:16.000And we have lost that altogether, which I find so amazing for all the people on the left that are constantly arguing for drug legalization and all the other things.
00:21:24.000They say, oh, we should be allowed to do whatever we want to do whenever we want to do it, but you must wear a mask when you're inside.
00:21:30.000Like, at some point, the Leviathan government implodes upon itself.
00:22:00.000Do you see how many churches are embracing BLM Incorporated?
00:22:04.000You see how many Christian pastors are embracing this sort of belief?
00:22:11.000Over the last hundred years, we are now seeing the secularization of America.
00:22:16.000If you don't believe in God, then right and wrong is merely an opinion.
00:22:20.000This drives atheists nuts when I say it, so I will repeat it for emphasis.
00:22:25.000If you do not believe in God, right and wrong is merely an opinion.
00:22:32.000And people say, well, I know what's right through life experience.
00:22:38.000You see, this is exactly, this is a huge missed opportunity by the American church.
00:22:44.000You ask most college kids, you go to University of New Mexico, and you ask someone there, and you say, Do you believe people naturally are basically good or basically bad?
00:22:56.000They will say, People are basically good.
00:22:59.000You must have gone to a college to believe something as foolish as that.
00:23:04.000You see, if you grow up in a wealthy, generous, benevolent society as America, where things generally work, it's easy to get desensitized to the belief that people are just naturally generous to each other.
00:23:56.000And most countries have not been able to do that.
00:23:59.000So in the 1940s and 50s, we used to teach young people, you are the problem, and America is awesome.
00:24:09.000Now we teach young people, you're awesome, and America's the problem.
00:24:14.000Where now young people, students, are not told you might have to improve your life.
00:24:22.000Instead, go destroy the country around you and that will create a better place.
00:24:26.000No gratitude for what came before them.
00:24:28.000But the point I really want to make here, which is the more condensed point, and I asked about the religion of leftism and Christianity.
00:24:35.000And Christianity in America, this church aside, has grown weak, complacent, and quite honestly, complicit with some of the most sinister political movements that I could possibly put my finger on.
00:24:47.000The church, and this is a tough realization, is far weaker than I thought.
00:24:56.000People say, this country is not founded on Judeo-Christian principles.
00:25:01.000Anyone who said that has no understanding whatsoever of Blackstone, of John Locke, of the writings of Thomas Jefferson, the belief of the founders, George Washington, regular church attending, God-fearing, Bible-inspired, courageous men and women, Abigail Adams, but we should be unafraid to say men without having to qualify it.
00:25:25.000I think that's an okay thing to say, right?
00:25:28.000And so this is going to be a deciding moment for the church.
00:25:34.000So Rick Warren, who played an impact on my life, and some pastors don't like the fact I call out these pastors by name tough.
00:25:42.000Rick Warren, who runs a church, saddleback church, and he had a really big impact on my life on finding Jesus and the gospel, but he is failing the test currently, unbelievably.
00:25:54.000So Rick Warren comes out, and this is so unbiblical, it's hard to even unpack in the 16 minutes I have remaining, where Rick Warren says, God does not care how you vote.
00:26:07.000In fact, he said there's no difference between each side.
00:26:11.000Now, I'm not here just going to say that Republicans are awesome and Democrats are awful.
00:26:20.000The point is God cares about everything you do.
00:26:23.000What does God not care about what you do?
00:26:25.000God cares about what you say, who you marry, how you act, what you eat, where you travel, what work you participate in.
00:26:33.000This kind of idea that God somehow gives a permission slip, a moral pass to any one of your actions, is completely antithetical to the idea of an omniscient, omnipotent creator that cares about everything you do.
00:26:46.000More importantly, voting is a reflection of your values.
00:26:52.000Voting is you getting into the public square and saying, this is what I believe, and I want to at least have a singular moment where I can reflect that.
00:27:03.000Imagine being a young woman just finding out that you're pregnant, not knowing where to go or what to do, not even knowing exactly what is going on in your body.
00:27:12.000While the whole world tells her it's just a clump of cells, you and I, we both know the truth.
00:27:19.000And once she has an ultrasound that you provide and she sees the truth of the baby growing inside of her, you help her choose life.
00:27:27.000When you join us in providing ultrasounds with pre-born and she sees her baby and hears her baby's heartbeat, you will double the likelihood that she will choose life.
00:27:37.000And 100% of what you give goes to providing ultrasounds, 100% pre-born separately fundraises for administrative costs.
00:30:08.000The left, the secularists, the nihilists, the people that believe there's no difference between men and women, the people that want your borders open, the people that want to keep you shut down, you know what they fear more than anything else is an active church.
00:30:57.000Now, understand, they first come for the churches they don't like.
00:31:01.000You see the Calvary Chapel down the street with the pastors whose name I forget, who writes bad things about your pastor, who attacks your pastor, they won't touch him.
00:31:22.000They know the only thing between them and their power grab is people that spend 30 minutes worshiping something that isn't government.
00:31:35.000You just spent 30 minutes admitting, whether you realized it or not, if you participated in that worship, is you, governor, don't matter as much as my Lord.
00:31:44.000Therefore, I take my orders from them and not from the governor.
00:33:18.000Freedom and responsibility are directly tied together.
00:33:21.000What a lot of students say that I care about freedom is like, maybe you do.
00:33:28.000But if your perception of freedom is just putting whatever substance you want into your body, making any moral decision you want, and somehow that is going to bring you to a place of peace, you're going to be a slave to that entire process.
00:33:43.000What makes Christ so different, even just from, and obviously I believe Jesus is the Son of God and an equal part of the Trinity, but just from a purely philosophical point, is that everything Christ stood for was about liberating you from your past choices.
00:34:00.000It's unbelievable when you think about it.
00:35:23.000You have to tell a three-year-old that you must demand freedom, but you also make good, you must make good choices, or else you're going to be a slave to your decisions.
00:37:23.000Because we have not properly communicated the need to have children.
00:37:28.000Thankfully, we as Christians have a pretty easy answer to that.
00:37:31.000It's biblical to have children and to multiply.
00:37:35.000But for the rest of the world, they'll say, why do I need to recreate myself?
00:37:41.000This world is so broken, it's terrible.
00:37:43.000If I believed what the left believed, which is this is the worst country ever, we're going to die of global warming, everything's racist, why would I have children?
00:38:12.000And you're going to see 20 years from now, all of a sudden, they're going to be like, the Earth's population is decreasing, not increasing.
00:38:18.000Remember, they said, oh, it's going to be a population boom.
00:39:47.000How about you put out the fire and you build new?
00:39:49.000And that's what we must do in this moment.
00:39:51.000So, in this moment, we are at a time where people are going to be looking for truth more than ever.
00:40:00.000This will either be the moment where the church, where Christians, or even people that have never come to a church before, people that love freedom or our country, will be courageous and bold or will be fearful and cowardly.
00:41:30.000The question is: will we be hiding in our caves and our catacombs, or will we be contesting and occupying, building new companies, starting new endeavors, getting married and having families and having children, and yes, being unafraid of whatever the local tyrant might say because you're hosting a religious service.
00:41:50.000And here's what's going on, here's the amazing thing: is that when you step into that public square, the ecclesia, the ecclesia is a biblical word where if I said, Jesus said to his disciples, on this rock, build my, and we say church, right?
00:42:09.000An ecclesia was a Greek word for a political gathering where they unified around two other Greek words, eleutheria and isonomia, freedom and equality.
00:42:19.000So Jesus used the word, on this rock, build my public square engagement center.
00:42:25.000On this rock, build my go forth in every sector.
00:42:29.000This idea of compartmentalized Christianity has got to stop.
00:42:34.000We should have comprehensive Christianity where we're saying, you know what?
00:42:38.000I don't like the music my kids listening to.
00:42:40.000I'm going to go support a Christian artist or I'm going to do it myself.
00:42:43.000I don't like the education of my kids.
00:42:44.000I'm going to step up and do it myself.
00:42:46.000Where we're not going to just be spectators, but we're going to be participants in the culture of what's happening right now.
00:42:59.000I know a lot of people are feeling depressed.
00:43:02.000But we are on the precipice of what can be not just a great awakening in this country, but a revival the likes of which we've never seen before.
00:44:00.000And so if I could just give one shameless plug, if that's okay.
00:44:04.000Some of you guys listen to our podcast, and some of you guys, thank you for that.
00:44:10.000Some of you guys have never heard me before or heard of us.
00:44:13.000The way that we are able to stay uncanceled, the way that we're able to stay uncensored, is if you just take out your phone, every single iPhone has a podcast app, and you push it, you type in Charlie Kirk Show, and you hit subscribe.
00:44:27.000That helps me more than I could ever tell you.
00:44:31.000And if everyone in this church did it right now or watching at home and that subscribe button becomes subscribed, we would beat the New York Times and podcast by tomorrow morning, which is a moral thing to do.
00:44:42.000And so please, please consider doing that.
00:44:44.000We have three services tomorrow, but I'm so blessed to be here.
00:44:47.000I came here for a reason, because this pastor and this church has passed the test.