00:01:16.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:23.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:09.000And they wanted to cite, give citations to a thousand congregants or visitors, and they also named me in the suit.
00:02:18.000And they asked the judge to allow the sheriff to lock our doors and arrest people.
00:02:25.000The second judge that we papered, the first one was political and predictive, but the second judge denied that, but still allowed the fines for the restraining order in violation of it in contempt of the restraining order.
00:02:38.000And we've been doing that since late August.
00:03:08.000And they don't get a mulligan on this one.
00:03:10.000We're still pursuing our cross-complaint.
00:03:14.000We have in our county a 99.87% survival rate on this virus.
00:03:20.000We still don't have the data on who has died from COVID and who's died with.
00:03:24.000When I was with the judge and we had the Freedom of Information Act at the time, a little over 100 deaths in our county, only two of them had died from COVID: a man in his 90s and a woman in her late 80s.
00:03:35.000So we're looking at calling the health officer and everyone else, and we want to depose them.
00:03:43.000And they lifted the lawsuit, but they didn't apologize.
00:03:48.000They didn't offer to pay the legal fees that they've caused us to incur.
00:04:01.000This is businesses in Ventura that are just tired of the tyranny and the overreach of officials who have violated our Bill of Rights.
00:04:10.000The First Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, taking property without remuneration, violating the church's right to peaceably assemble.
00:04:19.000Largest number of opioid overdose deaths in the history of our country in a 12-month period.
00:04:25.000In addition, the figures I've received, child abuse in our county is up 300%.
00:04:31.000So to say the church isn't necessary while they allow abortion clinics and cannabis distributors to be essential, and then to violate our First Amendment over a virus that has a 99.8% survival rate is unconscionable.
00:04:44.000And they don't get them all again on that.
00:04:46.000So you're continuing your suit against the county.
00:04:52.000Well, I mean, obviously, as Christians, we have a higher law that we can work things out through the scriptures themselves.
00:05:00.000But if folks don't recognize the authority of God and this idea that these inalienable rights come from God and we don't operate in that context, then we go to a court.
00:05:12.000Granted, God is the one who gives perfect justice.
00:05:16.000But at times, you have to go to man's law and his court and you have to contend there.
00:05:22.000And it's what we've been given in our Constitutional Republic.
00:05:29.000Well, you know, you and I have had a chance to discuss this over the time.
00:05:33.000And at first, you know, love hopes all things.
00:05:37.000And I look at pastors as peacemakers, not wanting to confront.
00:05:42.000But what they don't comprehend is that this critical race theory is so nefarious that it's infiltrated every one of our institutions, including the church.
00:05:51.000And when they hear the word social justice, I get it.
00:05:54.000There's social ills in our nation, and we want justice for that.
00:05:59.000But the critical theorists, they don't interpret it the same way.
00:06:04.000They're saying that racism is systemic and white people and the Enlightenment thinkers and absolute truth don't exist.
00:06:16.000And their approach is truth is only defined by your political power.
00:06:21.000And so semantics and words mean nothing to them.
00:07:12.000Well, they thought that they could do it over the internet.
00:07:15.000And watching church on the internet is like watching a fireplace.
00:07:18.000You can see it and hear it, but you can't feel the warmth.
00:07:21.000And the depression, the things that they haven't even taken into consideration with their tyrannical draconian measures is the devastation they've done to our children and the psychological and spiritual devastation that they've wrought upon our state.
00:07:34.000And medically speaking, it hasn't done anything to make California better than any state that didn't lock down.
00:07:43.000As a matter of fact, Florida has a higher median age than California does, and they've had less deaths in California.
00:08:34.000I look at these pastors that have yielded and they quote Romans 13, but they don't understand that Romans 13 doesn't call for unlimited submission.
00:08:43.000The sermon done by Jonathan Mayhew, who died in 1766, John Adams said that that was the sermon that started the American Revolution because he pointed out in Romans 13 that you do submit to authority, but because that authority is appointed by God.
00:08:58.000But he goes on to say they're there for our good.
00:09:00.000When they cease to do good, they cease to be the authority.
00:09:04.000And so disobedience to tyrants is obedience to God.
00:09:07.000And that was long before we had a constitutional republic.
00:09:21.000And those who govern govern by our consent, and they're bound by the seven articles of the Constitution.
00:09:26.000And they swear to defend that Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
00:09:30.000One of the reasons why I stepped down as a sitting city council member that I worked hard to get that seat is because I refuse to be a part of a council that would not stand in defense of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
00:09:42.000It's our right and our duty to push back.
00:09:46.000And the governor has no right to say the church is non-essential.
00:09:51.000While he's declaring abortion clinics essential, why they rip apart the child in his mother's womb, flush their parts into the sewer systems of our nation.
00:09:58.000We lead the nation abortion in California.
00:10:01.000And he says cannabis distributors are essential.
00:10:03.000Liquor stores are essential, but not the church.
00:10:06.000And now we're watching this emotional, psychological, and spiritual devastation.
00:10:46.000It was a bunch of business owners who have defied the county orders because they were 65% of our restaurants, it's been estimated, will never reopen in our county.
00:10:55.000And so these folks said, look, we're opening because we're going to lose either way.
00:13:46.000They want to say that whites are systemically racist because of the Enlightenment thinkers, that the scientific theory and everything that came with modernism was a result of all of our ills.
00:14:00.000And to look at empirical data, to come to understand the laws of nature, nature's God, that truth can be known, they want that removed.
00:14:08.000Because they say that's a white man's constraint on society.
00:14:11.000And now they're saying intersectionality where these victim groups find their power or find truth by the power that they exert within the political arena.
00:14:24.000And that's devastating because a church abdicated its responsibility in the public square.
00:14:29.000We think we're not supposed to do politics, even though the word is both you and I know in Matthew, when he says, upon this rock, I'll build my ecclesia, public square.
00:15:12.000But to remove the law and our responsibility to implement that and those ideas and a constitutional republic found in Exodus, when Jethro says to Moses, appoint godly men over thousands, hundreds, fifties, tens who fear God and are not covetous and love truth.
00:15:31.000And we have to realize Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.
00:15:50.000And all it is is reverse racism and an attempt as they're doing these ethnic studies in California to try to pit races against one another and destroy this beautiful constitutional republic.
00:16:02.000And the church has to wake up to this.
00:16:04.000But so many pastors are not just okay with it, they're involved in it.
00:16:08.000Like that Judah guy, Judah Smith, I think his name is Levi Lusko, so many, I could name it, and Andy Stanley.
00:16:15.000I named them for a reason because enough.
00:19:24.000This is a war between either man's going to enslave man or God, we're created in his image in the Imago Day and we're going to be set free.
00:19:33.000Well, let's talk more about the Enlightenment because it's misunderstood.
00:19:36.000The Enlightenment inspired by the Protestant Reformation more than anything else was this idea that there is a God who loves us.
00:19:46.000And we start thinking, because it says in Isaiah, let us reason together about the natural world around us.
00:19:53.000And what are the rules of this natural world?
00:19:56.000And some really honest questions started to be asked about a lot of different things.
00:20:00.000Human behavior, scientific inquiry, gravity, force equals mass times acceleration, thermodynamics, and things that we just take for granted.
00:21:24.000Skaters whose skate parks were filled with sand by the government, surfers whose beaches were shut, business owners who'd never darkened the doors of a church had their businesses shut down.
00:22:17.000And the entirety of scripture from Exodus all the way to Revelation is Christ has come to set the captives free.
00:22:24.000Three to five million Jews set free from slavery in Egypt with a deliverer contending with a tyrant.
00:22:31.000And you look at the book of Exodus and you realize: is man going to rule or is God going to rule?
00:22:36.000Because man will enslave man, but God comes to set us free.
00:22:41.000And when he gives us the moral law, those are the wise restraints that make men free because we're living on his earth, breathing his air, you know, living on his dirt, drinking his water, and eating his food.
00:23:08.000And when we start to understand these laws and we pursue truth, then we come to faith.
00:23:14.000But this critical theory wants to remove all that empirical data, wants to remove the pursuit of truth and exchange it for political power.
00:26:52.000The idea is you got to take people deeper because it's truth that will set people free.
00:27:00.000And whatsoever things are true, we have got to make disciples.
00:27:05.000Disciples for the public square, the ecclesia.
00:27:07.000And as you pointed out, and we've had that privilege to study together those two words above the door of every ecclesia that occurred hundreds of years before Christ co-opted that secular term.
00:27:17.000And then, of course, 400 years after Christ spoke in Matthew, they come up with that term church.
00:27:22.000But Tyndale, who's hung and then burned For translating from the Greek into the English for the common language and translates that word correctly with a church that was tyrannical, he says assembly.
00:28:51.000But he gets social media followings and he gets accepted by Christian Incorporated.
00:28:55.000And so what I think needs to happen, you don't have to comment on this.
00:28:59.000I think what's going to happen actually is a completely new, exciting Christianity that takes bold stances in the public square and it gets blessed for it.
00:29:08.000And then they'll just be the kind of vichy French Christianity.
00:29:41.000I love my neighbor to the point where it's causing us to be fined and to be given citations and the threat of jail, to be ridiculed.
00:29:52.000I'm standing in defense of the abused who are quarantined with their abusers.
00:29:57.000I'm standing in defense of the elderly who have to die alone with a virus that has a 99.82% survival rate and they can't see their loved ones.
00:30:06.000I'm standing in defense of the children whose schools have been shuttered and the business owners whose livelihood has been stolen.
00:30:13.000I'm standing against tyranny, as is our congregation, and it's the church that ridicules us.
00:30:20.000And what are they doing to love their neighbor?
00:30:22.000Putting up a black tile because it's socially convenient when 4% of the population, black childbearing females, are responsible for 37% of the abortions, which means it's a black Holocaust.
00:32:10.000But nowhere when you see the church is spoken of in Revelation, nowhere does God commend a church for the size of their buildings or the number of congregants.
00:32:20.000It's always based on the presence of love and truth.
00:32:24.000And we're in a season where I don't think we value liberty.
00:32:33.000If we don't deal with this issue of liberty and we want to contend over our theological differences and the beauty of the coalition that we're putting together across the country with pastors who are standing very powerful.
00:32:44.000We come from every theological camp imaginable.
00:32:58.000But if you and I have both witnessed, all of us are getting along as we're endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit and the bond of peace because we have one thing in common, liberty.
00:33:08.000Because if we don't secure this, we're going to be arguing our theological differences from prison.
00:33:12.000While America, the last great vestige of the gospel, will be shut down.
00:33:16.000And you bind the strong man and he will come in.
00:33:20.000He will bind the strong man and they will plunder the house.
00:33:23.000And I would just say to my fellow pastors out there, if you believe the gospel is the most important thing, amen.
00:33:31.000But the second most important thing is protecting the Constitutional Republic that has defended religious liberty, that defends the preaching of that gospel, that is in a threat of being lost and devastated by this canceled culture and this rise of the absence of truth, but is driven by strictly political power.
00:33:53.000And they want to pit us against one another by immutable traits.
00:33:56.000Do not fall prey to that as an ignorant buffoon, as one of the useful idiots of their movement.
00:34:04.000So in the short time we have remaining, Rob, I'll tell you a story.
00:35:06.000And we need that network of churches because we're getting these people calling asking, where do I go?
00:35:11.000So folks, please, as Charlie requested, it would be a great asset to us and those around the country who desperately want to find a place to fellowship.
00:35:20.000So email us, freedom at charliekirk.com.