The Charlie Kirk Show - July 05, 2026


Giving Everything on the Altar of Liberty: Charlie at Dream City Church


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Happy Independence Day! On this episode of The CharlieKirkShow, host Charlie Kirk talks about the signing of the Declaration of Independence and what it means to celebrate Independence Day. He also talks about why it is so important to remember where we were a year ago and where we are now.

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00:00:03.000 My name is Charlie Kirk.
00:00:05.000 I run the largest pro American student organization in the country fighting for the future of our republic.
00:00:11.000 My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth.
00:00:14.000 If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable.
00:00:19.000 But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful.
00:00:24.000 College is a scam, everybody.
00:00:26.000 You got to stop sending your kids to college.
00:00:27.000 You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible.
00:00:31.000 Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter.
00:00:33.000 Go start a Turning Point USA High School chapter.
00:00:35.000 Go find out how your church can get involved.
00:00:37.000 Sign up and become an activist.
00:00:39.000 I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade.
00:00:41.000 Most important decision I ever made in my life.
00:00:43.000 And I encourage you to do the same.
00:00:45.000 Here I am.
00:00:46.000 Lord, use me.
00:00:48.000 Buckle up, everybody.
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00:01:17.000 Thank you, everybody.
00:01:18.000 Please take a seat.
00:01:19.000 Thank you.
00:01:21.000 Luke, that was a wonderful introduction.
00:01:23.000 Thank you. 0.99
00:01:23.000 And I have to say, if America had a thousand Dream City churches, this country would be in a much better place. 0.99
00:01:30.000 I'll tell you what. 1.00
00:01:32.000 And this is now becoming kind of a tradition.
00:01:37.000 Independence Day weekend, and so I'm gonna do similar to last year.
00:01:41.000 You know, it's very, someone earlier said, Charlie, you could just give the same message as last year if people forget.
00:01:45.000 But no, no, I hold myself to a higher standard.
00:01:47.000 So we're gonna read part of the declaration today.
00:01:51.000 We're gonna talk about what it means to celebrate independence.
00:01:55.000 And before I go any further, though, I just wanna make sure that everyone here understands and realizes we're gonna talk about this tonight.
00:02:03.000 We should just be in a constant state of gratitude these last couple of days, especially, because think about where we were a year ago.
00:02:12.000 And where we are now.
00:02:15.000 And on July 13th, you all remember where you were, I hope, on July 13th, where just a couple millimeters determined the future of our country, and I think for much better and for far worse.
00:02:28.000 We can say that it's all about how hard we worked or what we did.
00:02:33.000 God is not done with America, everybody.
00:02:35.000 God is at work in this country, and God is not done with this country.
00:02:40.000 So this weekend, we celebrate Independence Day.
00:02:43.000 And that is the signing of our birth certificate.
00:02:46.000 Now, far too often we talk about the Declaration, but we don't actually read it.
00:02:51.000 Now, at Dream City Christian and at Turning Point Academy and at real schools in this country, they're learning the Declaration of Independence.
00:02:59.000 They're going word by word, they're going paragraph by paragraph, and we're going to do that partially here today.
00:03:06.000 It's a long document, it's a beautiful document.
00:03:08.000 But I want to first kind of frame the context of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
00:03:15.000 Because I think it's lost on us exactly what was happening.
00:03:18.000 So, some people think the signing of the Declaration of Independence was the beginning of the war against the British Empire.
00:03:25.000 It was not.
00:03:26.000 It did not begin the war, it justified the war.
00:03:29.000 Back in April of 1775, so a year and a half basically before, a year and a couple months before, that was Lexington and Concord.
00:03:37.000 So, the blood was already being spilled way before the Declaration.
00:03:41.000 So, imagine a nation at war, and we weren't really sure what we were doing or why we were fighting.
00:03:45.000 We just knew.
00:03:47.000 The British were oppressing us.
00:03:48.000 We knew that tyranny was bad.
00:03:51.000 And we weren't even sure how long this was going to continue.
00:03:54.000 The Battle of Bunker Hill that we all remember learning about growing up, that was in June of 1775 before the Declaration of Independence was written and signed.
00:04:04.000 Now, after that, our founders were so pious and they were so Christian, blessed are the peacemakers, they wrote what is called the Olive Branch Petition.
00:04:13.000 So they sent a letter to the king trying to end the war in August of 1775.
00:04:19.000 The king responded and said, Nope, you guys are in rebellion and I'm going to crush you.
00:04:24.000 So the founders were like, okay, I guess we have a war on our hands, and we didn't invite it.
00:04:29.000 We don't want it.
00:04:30.000 They're oppressing us, and we're going to play to win.
00:04:32.000 Fast forward all the way now to July of 1776.
00:04:36.000 The war is raging.
00:04:39.000 The rich of the colonies are losing their farms.
00:04:42.000 They're losing their ships.
00:04:43.000 They're losing everything.
00:04:45.000 And so teleport yourself for a moment into a room that is in Philadelphia in July.
00:04:52.000 Anyone been in Philadelphia in July?
00:04:54.000 It's not a dry heat, let me tell you.
00:04:56.000 It's not like Phoenix.
00:04:58.000 It is like 90% humidity.
00:05:00.000 That is a port city, and they're in a room with no air conditioning.
00:05:05.000 At any moment, the British Empire could have arrived because it was a port city.
00:05:09.000 They could have gone into Independence Hall and they would have arrested all 56 men and they would have hung them, every single one of them, for treason, one by one.
00:05:17.000 These 56 men had a decision to make.
00:05:20.000 They had a decision of whether or not they were going to continue this war, of which the odds were beyond stacked against them.
00:05:27.000 I think President Trump's ascent to the presidency is one of the greatest political comebacks ever.
00:05:32.000 That pales in comparison to what the founding fathers were up against.
00:05:35.000 They had no navy.
00:05:36.000 They didn't have a ship.
00:05:37.000 They didn't have a canoe.
00:05:40.000 They had no permanent alliances, nothing.
00:05:43.000 They had no standing army.
00:05:45.000 All they had, literally, they were a bunch of farmers, merchants, and preachers with muskets, right, Luke?
00:05:53.000 That's what the founding fathers were.
00:05:55.000 But they had something that the British did not have they had more faith than the British, they had a belief in the divine.
00:06:04.000 And they worshiped God Almighty.
00:06:06.000 So, here is the greatest fighting power.
00:06:08.000 I know this might be hard for you to comprehend.
00:06:11.000 Imagine if the script was flipped.
00:06:13.000 We right now have the world's strongest military. 0.52
00:06:15.000 Boy, we saw what our military did in Iran.
00:06:17.000 I mean, that was unbelievable.
00:06:18.000 They flew through the night.
00:06:20.000 Incredible.
00:06:22.000 So, we have the world's strongest military.
00:06:24.000 So, imagine as strong a military that we have against like a random colony.
00:06:30.000 Just pick a colony anyway.
00:06:32.000 That was how the odds were stacked against it.
00:06:35.000 The British Empire, they were well trained.
00:06:37.000 They were bringing in Prussian mercenaries from Germany.
00:06:40.000 36,000 British troops had already occupied New York and Boston.
00:06:45.000 This thing looked like the rebellion was about to be quelled.
00:06:49.000 If you were looking for all the young men out there, if you were looking at the draft kings or the, let's just say, the poly market betting odds, it was like 99.9 to 0.1 that America or the colonies were going to survive.
00:07:05.000 The guys that were kind of taking wages didn't look good.
00:07:08.000 Again, some of the older folks are like, What are you talking about?
00:07:10.000 Gambling is a sin.
00:07:11.000 You guys shouldn't do it as much as you do.
00:07:13.000 But the fact that you get what I'm saying means that point delivered, okay?
00:07:21.000 It was the most unlikely scenario imaginable.
00:07:26.000 And so these farmers and these merchants and these preachers with muskets stuck themselves into a room and they had a decision to make.
00:07:33.000 And for about a week, they were like, Hey, we could surrender.
00:07:37.000 And the reason they didn't surrender is because what was happening 10 years prior.
00:07:42.000 For 10 years, the most successful, most robust Christian revival in history was underway.
00:07:49.000 And this is the buried lead.
00:07:51.000 This is the part of our birth certificate and our birthday as Americans that's not talked about in the media.
00:07:58.000 It's not talked about in our public schools. 0.81
00:07:59.000 They'll only maybe talk about the founding, and then they'll be, oh, they were a bunch of slave owner terrible people. 0.59
00:08:04.000 But they don't talk about the 10 years before the founding.
00:08:07.000 Did you know that there were 25,000 sermons given over a decade to the population of the 13 colonies, delivered by people like Whitfield and Jonathan Mayhew and Jonathan Edwards?
00:08:20.000 So, Jonathan Edwards.
00:08:22.000 Had a sermon that he delivered thousands of times.
00:08:24.000 The title of the sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
00:08:29.000 That's not exactly a prosperity gospel.
00:08:35.000 That's not exactly, hey, give me $10 and you're going to get very rich.
00:08:39.000 That's about as harsh as it gets.
00:08:41.000 Oh, Mr. Edwards, thank you to our small town here in rural Massachusetts.
00:08:45.000 What are you going to be talking about today?
00:08:46.000 You're all sinners in the hands of an angry God.
00:08:49.000 Oh, thank you.
00:08:50.000 So nice and wonderful. 0.96
00:08:53.000 What Jonathan Edwards is able to do is he was able to bring a once Christian colonies that were stepping away from God to repentance.
00:09:01.000 Everybody, you cannot get to revival without repentance, and you can't get to liberty without revival. 0.59
00:09:06.000 And repentance to Almighty God is what led to the founding.
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00:10:13.000 So you have these guys stuffed in a room.
00:10:15.000 They just lived through the greatest Christian revival in history.
00:10:19.000 And so they were thinking to themselves, what do we do?
00:10:21.000 They started in prayer, by the way.
00:10:23.000 It's very important.
00:10:24.000 They started with prayer and fasting.
00:10:27.000 And they came to the conclusion, and they said, hey, we got to do something about this.
00:10:31.000 We're going to write a letter.
00:10:33.000 We're going to justify it.
00:10:34.000 We're going to synthesize it.
00:10:35.000 And we're going to give the colonies, our people that are fighting, their why.
00:10:41.000 We are going to now form and birth a new nation founded on ideals that are totally incompatible with what the monarchy believes.
00:10:49.000 And this is our nation's birth certificate, but it might be our death certificate.
00:10:55.000 And I'm going to build that out for a second because it's lost on so many of us.
00:10:58.000 Including myself when I was doing research for this, just how much these men and their families and their wives were risking.
00:11:05.000 Because the wives also don't be talked about enough.
00:11:07.000 These wives understood they may never see their husbands again, that their kids, that their sons and their daughters may never be raised by a father.
00:11:16.000 And so they decided, like, hey, who's, you know, they looked around the room and here was like, I think he was 27 or 28, Thomas Jefferson, like, hey, he's smart.
00:11:24.000 Why don't you take a draft at it?
00:11:26.000 So Thomas Jefferson wrote this in his 20s.
00:11:30.000 And I'm going to talk about that in a second, but first, I want to just remember the signers of the declaration that we don't always recount.
00:11:39.000 We talk about John Hancock, we talk about Thomas Jefferson.
00:11:43.000 I'm going to list some names of some people that did sign their death certificate. 0.99
00:11:47.000 You see, the Brits, they were brutal.
00:11:50.000 They were harsh.
00:11:51.000 It's very easy for us in the year of the Lord, 2025, to look back at 1776 and enjoy our pool parties and our burgers and our hot dogs, which you should, and our fireworks and our ice cream.
00:12:02.000 But I want you just today at church to just imagine what it would be like to sign a document against the world's largest power and your house, your kids, your livelihood, your 401k, your second home, whatever could be snatched away from the world's largest power.
00:12:18.000 And for some, it meant nothing.
00:12:20.000 That's exactly what happened.
00:12:21.000 Like William Ellery, not a name that you would hear very often, signer of the declaration.
00:12:26.000 He watched the British burn his home and destroy everything he owned. 0.88
00:12:29.000 These were nasty people.
00:12:31.000 They went to his house, they took all of his kids up on a hill, and they said, You worked your whole life to build this house.
00:12:36.000 Now, I want you to understand, we value our homes a lot here in 2025.
00:12:41.000 For them, it was literally everything.
00:12:43.000 There was no savings account, there was no like Roth IRA, there was no like buying Amazon stock.
00:12:49.000 Everything was the house.
00:12:51.000 If you had a house, you were a rich person, you had land it could produce, and the British, in a form of torture, would make your entire life be burned in front of your eyes.
00:13:01.000 And your kids would have to watch it.
00:13:03.000 Or how about Lewis Morris?
00:13:04.000 The British troops plundered his estate, drove off all of his cattle, and destroyed his property.
00:13:11.000 Carton Braxton, signer of the Declaration, a wealthy Virginia planter and merchant, he lost all the ships, he saw his fortune ruined, he got so depressed by all that he died in debt and never saw the end of the war.
00:13:23.000 Thomas McKean was hunted by the British, had to move his family five times, and died penniless.
00:13:29.000 Five times in the span of three years with no cars and no planes, constantly moving, being hunted by the British.
00:13:36.000 Abraham Clark, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, two of his sons were captured by the British and brutally treated and tortured in prison ships, and one nearly starved to death.
00:13:47.000 Or John Hart fled into the woods to escape the British troops.
00:13:51.000 His wife died while he was on the run.
00:13:55.000 And his 13 kids were scattered, his farm was ravaged, and he never saw his kids again.
00:14:00.000 They did this by choice, everybody.
00:14:03.000 This was not something that came to them.
00:14:05.000 They went through this level of suffering.
00:14:07.000 Or how about Francis Lewis?
00:14:08.000 His wife was imprisoned for months, tortured by the British, and died shortly after release.
00:14:13.000 He died with nothing, totally impoverished.
00:14:16.000 Or Richard Stockton, captured by the British, imprisoned, abused, starved, and released only after swearing never to fight again.
00:14:22.000 He never recovered and died before the war ended.
00:14:25.000 Or John Morton, alienated by all of his friends.
00:14:28.000 Understand when you signed this document, almost two thirds of the entire colonies were against this war.
00:14:34.000 One third were neutral, one third with the British, and only one third were support.
00:14:39.000 Only 3% ended up fighting, and a small percentage of that actual fighting force were like the ones that drove it forward.
00:14:46.000 So imagine if you think you were outnumbered for not taking the vaccine, if you think you were outnumbered for not wearing a mask when you showered, if you think you were outnumbered.
00:14:57.000 I want you to imagine.
00:14:59.000 What it was like when everyone around you, this guy lost all of his friends.
00:15:04.000 When you signed the declaration, you were not met with pomp and circumstance and a parade.
00:15:09.000 You were not met as like a hero's welcome.
00:15:11.000 You became a public villain.
00:15:14.000 You became someone that all of a sudden you are.
00:15:16.000 And we in 2025, I want you to understand signing your name back in the ancient world was as close, there was almost no equivalent in the modern era.
00:15:28.000 There's nothing close.
00:15:29.000 Because we sign stuff all the time, right?
00:15:31.000 Signing documents, signing checks.
00:15:33.000 When you sign something, that is your all encompassing body.
00:15:37.000 That is everything.
00:15:39.000 That is your kids, your grandkids, your estate.
00:15:41.000 It is a holy vow that you are making.
00:15:44.000 John Morton was alienated by his friends and family for switching the Patriot cause, died in 1777, never saw a victory.
00:15:52.000 Or Button Gwinnett, literally killed over fighting for the Revolutionary Clause, one of the signers of the Declaration.
00:15:58.000 So, why would they do something like this?
00:16:01.000 Why would they go up against the greatest power ever where they knew they were probably going to lose?
00:16:06.000 They did it because they valued being right before God, not right before King George.
00:16:16.000 It's the only reason they did it.
00:16:18.000 And we should honestly just remember these founding fathers that died and gave up everything.
00:16:26.000 And I want you to understand it'd be one thing if you go and die for a war and you still have your land, you could die at least somewhat at peace that your kids are going to be okay.
00:16:35.000 These kids that all entered into poverty, this guy, 13 kids, nothing.
00:16:39.000 So he dies a tormented death.
00:16:41.000 I want you to imagine right now that all of your savings disappear and you also die.
00:16:46.000 I mean, it would be unthinkable, right?
00:16:47.000 Your kids would have to go on welfare.
00:16:49.000 They'd have to become beggars.
00:16:51.000 And so, with all of that context, with that backdrop, the founders met in July of 1776. 0.72
00:16:59.000 They said, Thomas, you write the thing, right?
00:17:03.000 And they prayed on every single word.
00:17:05.000 This was not, by the way, this was not like them skimming it.
00:17:08.000 This was not like a DocuSign or the terms of service on Apple when you get a new iPhone and no one reads that stuff and you go all the way to the bottom, like, okay, great, yeah.
00:17:15.000 King George, God, thank you.
00:17:17.000 Every word was debated.
00:17:19.000 Every word was prayed over.
00:17:22.000 I'm going to focus on a couple elements I didn't in the previous service, but I'm going to say just one.
00:17:27.000 I'm going to repeat one.
00:17:28.000 It begins with when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them.
00:17:43.000 A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to separation.
00:17:50.000 Now, some of that is written in a little bit of Old English, so it's hard to quite understand what Thomas Jefferson is saying.
00:17:57.000 Here's what he's saying King George, it's not just that it's right for us to separate from you.
00:18:02.000 All people in all time, anywhere around the world, deserve to be free, not under someone like you.
00:18:08.000 This is an anthem for all of history.
00:18:11.000 It is a universal claim.
00:18:20.000 Is an absolute game changer.
00:18:22.000 I'm taking it right now, and you got to check it out.
00:18:25.000 So, before Charlie ever stepped into a debate stage or behind a microphone, he understood something important.
00:18:30.000 If you want to lead, you have to first learn.
00:18:32.000 Charlie believed that ideas shape character and conviction and courage.
00:18:36.000 And that's why he spent so many years studying the classics, the American founding, and the Bible.
00:18:40.000 And he did a lot of that through Hillsdale College's free online courses.
00:18:44.000 These are real college courses taught by actual Hillsdale professors.
00:18:48.000 They're amazing, the best academics in the country.
00:18:51.000 One of those courses, like I just said, is Great Books 101, Ancient to Medieval, where you'll study foundational authors like Homer, Augustine, Dante, Chaucer, writers who shape Western civilization, and they still speak to the deepest questions about our human nature, courage, family, and government.
00:19:08.000 The course includes Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the epic stories of Achilles and Odysseus that have influenced the West for thousands of years, and this summer, Hillsdale College is releasing a brand new course dedicated entirely to Homer's Odyssey.
00:19:21.000 Great Books 101 is the perfect way to prepare.
00:19:23.000 Before the full Odyssey course launches in July, Charlie understood that learning isn't just about gaining knowledge, it's about forming the mind and character needed to face the challenges of life with wisdom and courage.
00:19:35.000 So you can enroll today completely free.
00:19:37.000 Visit charlieforhillsdale.com to start learning today.
00:19:41.000 That's charlieforhillsdale.com.
00:19:44.000 Charlieforhillsdale.com.
00:19:45.000 Learn deeply, think clearly, lead boldly, carry it forward.
00:19:52.000 Now, I want to emphasize one thing he said here, which drove King George crazy.
00:19:59.000 The laws of nature and nature's God entitled him.
00:20:03.000 We as Christians believe that there is a God given moral law that is discernible by reason and conscience.
00:20:11.000 And nations must govern in harmony with it.
00:20:14.000 This is a perfect connection to what Pastor Luke said earlier. 0.99
00:20:18.000 Why is it that in Los Angeles, a bunch of bums can walk into Starbucks and take as much food as they want and no one says stop? 1.00
00:20:28.000 When you refuse and you reject God, all of a sudden stealing is not wrong. 1.00
00:20:33.000 When you reject God, abortion is not wrong. 1.00
00:20:37.000 When you reject God, there's nothing wrong with the transgenderism nonsense. 1.00
00:20:41.000 Here are five things of which the natural law says in great detail. 1.00
00:20:45.000 And by the way, it's connected to something that comes later in the Declaration.
00:20:48.000 Number one, we believe, because the Bible teaches it and it's in the natural law, human life is sacred and every single life matters, regardless of how small or how big that life is.
00:21:01.000 Why do we believe that?
00:21:03.000 We believe that because every human being is made in the image of God and is not a mistake, it is a miracle.
00:21:10.000 It's not an accident, it is a design.
00:21:13.000 And if you have a design, you have a designer.
00:21:14.000 If you have a creation, you have a creator.
00:21:16.000 And the founding fathers understood this.
00:21:18.000 And this is where all of a sudden they went shots fired against the king.
00:21:22.000 So the king is reading this.
00:21:23.000 He had to call in a bunch of scribes.
00:21:24.000 He couldn't believe it.
00:21:25.000 He thought that he was going to get a letter from the founding generation.
00:21:30.000 He thought that these colonists, these farmers, these merchants, these pastors, they were going to do a writ of surrender.
00:21:36.000 Please spare us our life and don't burn our property.
00:21:39.000 Instead, they got like a 10 out of 10 maximal aggression Trump tweet.
00:21:44.000 Right?
00:21:49.000 They got like, whoa, okay, we're going that intense.
00:21:54.000 They went, we hold these truths to be self evident.
00:21:56.000 Boom, shots fired.
00:21:58.000 All men are created equal.
00:22:01.000 Now, that, we should applaud that, and I wish Americans believed it more and more.
00:22:06.000 But understand, the king doesn't believe that.
00:22:10.000 He's reading this like, no, I'm better than you.
00:22:11.000 I'm the divine right of kings, I'm King George.
00:22:13.000 You're not. 0.97
00:22:14.000 What do you mean all men are created equal?
00:22:15.000 So he'd call in his scribes, like, what do they mean by this?
00:22:18.000 They say, well, sir, they think that you're equal to them.
00:22:22.000 And what was the reason they gave?
00:22:25.000 That they are endowed by their creator, capital C.
00:22:30.000 This was not because they were doing a bunch of study of Greek and Roman history.
00:22:35.000 And there are some Greek and Roman influences here.
00:22:37.000 It's simply and solely a biblical worldview that expressed itself in the revolution, only in Genesis 1 26 and 1 27, which is universal human equality.
00:22:48.000 That I'm not better than Luke, and Luke is not better than me, that we are all the same in God's economy.
00:22:54.000 From that, then you get natural rights, and you get what birthed Western civilization.
00:23:00.000 Understand that if you visit a lot of the rest of the world, go and visit India right now, go and visit the tribes of Africa.
00:23:06.000 They have caste systems and intergenerational ruling structures where not all people are created equal. 0.56
00:23:12.000 They believe that there's some sort of hierarchy to existence.
00:23:15.000 Well, I have more money than you, then I'm better than you.
00:23:18.000 Only in America do we posit in our birth certificate.
00:23:21.000 Yep, you might have more money, but that doesn't mean you have more rights.
00:23:21.000 Nope.
00:23:24.000 Yep, you might have a nicer car, but I'm the same in God's economy, and both of us are going to have to go in front of God the judge one day.
00:23:32.000 And both of us are equally made.
00:23:34.000 Do you understand the significance of that?
00:23:36.000 And it was at no small cost.
00:23:38.000 So then the king is reading this, he's getting angry and angrier.
00:23:42.000 And this is where it gets so profound.
00:23:44.000 That among these, oh, yeah, it's up here, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:23:50.000 You cannot have liberty and you cannot have happiness if you do not protect life.
00:23:55.000 Let us be a state and a country again that values life at every possible stage, from the unborn to the born to the elderly.
00:24:05.000 And the founders articulated this beautifully.
00:24:07.000 So I could go in all the different elements here, but let me just.
00:24:11.000 Repeat something I said earlier that a rejection of the universal moral order, the natural law that was talked about in our birth certificate, the laws of nature and nature's God.
00:24:22.000 We are seeing the consequences of what happens when you do not have that.
00:24:27.000 In the words of G.K. Chesterton, it's not that when you have no God, people believe in nothing, it's that they'll believe in anything that men can give birth, that borders don't matter, that you could change your sex on a whim.
00:24:42.000 That life does not have any value.
00:24:44.000 You see, the founders, they were able to build the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world upon eternal biblical scripture and truth.
00:24:52.000 And that is not just Charlie Kirk saying it.
00:24:54.000 Today, this Independence Day weekend, we need to also just look at what the founders themselves said.
00:25:00.000 This stuff you will not hear on CNN, I guarantee it.
00:25:04.000 Patrick Henry, who is, let's just say, one of the more outspoken people of the founding generation, he was a little bit of a rabble rouser, if you will.
00:25:13.000 A little bit of a bomb thrower.
00:25:15.000 I know no one in politics that would probably fit that mold.
00:25:17.000 But anyway, he famously said, Give me liberty or give me death.
00:25:20.000 This is one of my favorite quotes.
00:25:22.000 It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ.
00:25:33.000 Patrick Henry.
00:25:37.000 John Adams, the second president.
00:25:41.000 Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.
00:25:45.000 It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. 0.93
00:25:47.000 It's one of my favorite quotes.
00:25:49.000 I'm going to get to a second quote in a second, but everybody, the Declaration and Constitution are tied together.
00:25:54.000 What we enjoy as liberty right now starts to vanish as you see in LA when you no longer have a moral or religious people.
00:26:04.000 So when Luke says, Why is it that there's this kind of soft anarchy and no one stands up for what is right?
00:26:10.000 Well, if you don't have a moral or Christian framework, then theft is not something to oppose.
00:26:16.000 Oh, they need the money. 0.97
00:26:18.000 You know, just let them steal it.
00:26:19.000 I'm sorry, in the Ten Commandments, God says, Thou shalt not steal.
00:26:23.000 There was not a parenthetical that said, However, it's less than $1,000, I think it's okay.
00:26:30.000 Private property is robustly defended throughout the Bible and throughout the scripture.
00:26:36.000 John Adams says, The general principles on which the founding fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity.
00:26:47.000 John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, In June 28, 1813.
00:26:55.000 We posit that there is a transcendent moral order above us.
00:27:01.000 And what we are saying here is really at odds with a lot of the modern world.
00:27:06.000 James Madison said the only sure foundation for civil liberty is the Bible, not the teaching of Aristotle, which I love, or Plato, or of Immanuel Kant, or Thomas Hobbes.
00:27:22.000 But it is the Bible.
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00:28:25.000 And so, what I want you to understand is when you see those fireworks go up this weekend, is that under the surface of all the liberty that we now enjoy for 249 years, it did not happen by accident.
00:28:37.000 It was not just a roll of the dice.
00:28:40.000 It was serious Christians, serious believers that gave you all the freedom that you are able to enjoy.
00:28:48.000 And here is my proof.
00:28:49.000 People say, well, that's not true.
00:28:51.000 Then why is it that no one has been able to replicate America?
00:28:55.000 Why is it that we are the freest, greatest nation for now 249 years running?
00:29:01.000 Why is that?
00:29:04.000 The next richest country in the world is China, which is the opposite of almost everything we believe a total police state, hyper totalitarian, very materialistic.
00:29:14.000 Now, look, we have to be honest.
00:29:15.000 In America, some of these are slipping away in front of us.
00:29:18.000 We worship stuff more than we should.
00:29:20.000 But don't fool yourself.
00:29:21.000 There is still a remnant that should be admired and encouraged of Bible believing Christians and churches like this that love God and love people and work for his purposes every single day.
00:29:34.000 And we don't do a good enough job teaching our kids how great of a country that this is.
00:29:38.000 We are the most generous country ever to exist in the history of the world. 0.90
00:29:42.000 We give more to the poor, more to poverty, we give more to the third world.
00:29:46.000 We give more in humanitarian aid.
00:29:47.000 We finance more Christian missionaries and more ministries.
00:29:50.000 70% of all the Christian mission work is originated by 5% of the population here in America.
00:29:56.000 When there's a tsunami, when there's a flood, when there's a civil war, they don't call the French and they don't call the Belgians.
00:30:01.000 They call the Americans because there's something different about this country.
00:30:05.000 And it's because what we believe is American values in liberty, in e pluribus unum.
00:30:11.000 Go, anyone, pull out a dollar bill before they try to have a centralized bank digital currency.
00:30:15.000 On the American dollar bill is the American Trinity.
00:30:19.000 In the American Trinity are three things.
00:30:20.000 Of course, we as Christians have the Christian Trinity God, the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit.
00:30:25.000 On the U.S. dollar is the American Trinity.
00:30:28.000 Liberty.
00:30:29.000 In God we trust, and e pluribus unum.
00:30:32.000 E pluribus unum is what?
00:30:34.000 Out of many, one.
00:30:35.000 That together, the universal human equality reigns above all.
00:30:39.000 That it does not matter if you're black or you're white or you're Hispanic.
00:30:43.000 In God's economy, you are all human beings made in his image.
00:30:47.000 It doesn't matter if you're tall or you're small, unborn or born, you're a human being.
00:30:51.000 Regardless of all of it, I'm going to end with this.
00:30:54.000 I could go on for like another hour, but I'm going to end with this, everybody, which is one of my favorite parts of the entire declaration the end.
00:31:04.000 Because the end shows what type of nation that we are.
00:31:08.000 The end shows the profundity, the depth, the weight, and the heaviness of everything in front of us.
00:31:18.000 There are two types of ways that you could do relationships.
00:31:22.000 You can have a contractual relationship, which is perfectly okay.
00:31:26.000 When you hire your doctor, when you go to a doctor, when you buy a piece of property, when you buy a land, when you buy a car, whatever.
00:31:33.000 That is a contractual relationship.
00:31:36.000 We as Christians understand that at times, though, you have covenantal relationships.
00:31:41.000 The best example of a covenantal relationship is between husband and wife.
00:31:47.000 That is a covenant.
00:31:48.000 Jesus and the church is a covenantal relationship.
00:31:52.000 Throughout the Bible, there are covenantal relationships the Abrahamic covenant, the Noahic covenant, the Davidic covenant, the Mosaic covenant, the covenant with Israel, and of course, the new covenant with Jesus Christ.
00:32:03.000 When you enter into a covenantal relationship, here is what makes a contractual relationship versus a covenantal relationship.
00:32:09.000 First of all, a covenantal relationship says that this will last as long as we are faithful.
00:32:16.000 A contractual relationship is here's the terms, it ends in 10 days.
00:32:21.000 That's it, the lease of the car.
00:32:23.000 A covenantal relationship is built on love and kindness, respect and trust.
00:32:29.000 A contractual relationship goes into paragraph 6a on the different terms.
00:32:33.000 Nothing wrong with that, but it's different.
00:32:35.000 And the most important component.
00:32:37.000 A covenantal relationship involves three parties, where a contractual relationship is two parties.
00:32:45.000 I'm buying something, I'm selling something.
00:32:47.000 A covenantal relationship is person, person, God.
00:32:52.000 It is a relationship between three parties.
00:32:54.000 This nation, when it was founded, unlike every other country, Canada, contractual relationship.
00:33:01.000 Mexico, contractual relationship.
00:33:03.000 I'm not trying to bash on these countries, it's just the way it is.
00:33:06.000 But America was a covenantal relationship. 0.94
00:33:09.000 At the end of the declaration, very similar to the book of Nehemiah, as in Nehemiah 9, when the Jews were in exile, King Cyrus sends them back, they were just a complete mess, right? 0.86
00:33:20.000 And Nehemiah restores the covenant in Nehemiah 9. 0.79
00:33:24.000 We are now in front of God, we're going to recommit to God, and we're under God's covering.
00:33:30.000 The last part of the declaration, they say, We therefore, the representatives in all caps, the United States of America.
00:33:38.000 Everybody, that's the first time that term was used.
00:33:40.000 The United States of America.
00:33:42.000 Isn't that beautiful?
00:33:43.000 They say it in all caps in case you're missing it.
00:33:46.000 In General Congress assembled, appealing to the supreme judge of the world.
00:33:52.000 Who are they appealing to?
00:33:53.000 Well, that's Jesus Christ.
00:33:55.000 Here's a fun trivia question for all of you this weekend on Independence Day.
00:33:58.000 You guys can tell your friends where does Jesus appear in the declaration?
00:34:02.000 Right there, the supreme judge of the world.
00:34:04.000 It says in the book of Revelation, Jesus will take the seat of judgment as the supreme judge of the world at the end of the age.
00:34:10.000 The founders knew what they were saying.
00:34:11.000 Do you know every single founder was fluent in Greek, fluent in Hebrew?
00:34:15.000 And they were taught the Bible as a primary text document from a young age.
00:34:20.000 So they knew what they were saying when they said, Supreme Judge of the world.
00:34:22.000 This was not an accident, this was intentional.
00:34:24.000 They were appealing to Jesus Christ.
00:34:26.000 They were praying to Jesus at the end of this.
00:34:29.000 And here is the kicker as to why we are all here today.
00:34:33.000 They said with great prayer and reverence that at any moment their house could be burned, their wife could be kidnapped, and their kids could be tortured.
00:34:40.000 And for the support of this declaration, who were they relying on?
00:34:45.000 Were they relying on reason?
00:34:47.000 Were they relying on luck?
00:34:48.000 Were they relying on chance? 0.89
00:34:50.000 Were they relying on Hinduism? 0.98
00:34:52.000 No. 0.50
00:34:53.000 Reliance on protection of divine providence.
00:34:59.000 And now here went.
00:35:00.000 So they went to divine providence.
00:35:01.000 That's one part of the covenant.
00:35:04.000 They went vertical and then they went horizontal.
00:35:06.000 We then pledged to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
00:35:12.000 They go up and they go to the side.
00:35:15.000 And all of a sudden they've created a triangular covenantal relationship. 0.99
00:35:19.000 Everybody, that's why we beat the British.
00:35:21.000 It's because when all of a sudden the British were paid mercenaries, our guys pledged to each other and to a higher power.
00:35:29.000 And I'll be honest, the fact that our nation has lasted in its current form for 249 years, it is the longest lasting political document ever written in the history of the world.
00:35:39.000 We are under that covenant, and we will stop being under that covenant if our faithfulness wanes.
00:35:46.000 If we become a secular nation like Los Angeles is, if we go away from God, as the prophet Isaiah says Woe unto those who call good evil or evil good.
00:35:55.000 In Isaiah 33 22, it says, For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king, and he will save us.
00:36:01.000 They all knew this intimately.
00:36:02.000 The founding generation did.
00:36:04.000 So I want you to celebrate this nation the remainder of this weekend.
00:36:07.000 Tell your friends about it because it's actually a much bigger deal than I think we realize.
00:36:12.000 We should be so grateful.
00:36:13.000 We should be on our hands and knees, kissing the ground and thanking God we get to live in this great nation, which is the inheritance not of luck, not of chance, not of Buddhism, but the inheritance of courageous Christians who put everything on the line so that we can live free.
00:36:28.000 Thank you, guys.
00:36:29.000 God bless you.
00:36:30.000 And God bless the United States of America.
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