The Charlie Kirk Show - How the Nation Can Turn Back to God—LIVE from Golden Spring Calvary Chapel

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00:01:11.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:44.000 Good morning, everybody.

00:01:45.000 It's great to be here.

00:01:47.000 And it's been quite a month this last week for us on our team.

00:01:51.000 We've been crisscrossing the country from Michigan to Minnesota, and we're heading to Texas this week.

00:01:58.000 My day job is to go to college campuses so you don't have to and to spread the message of truth and of liberty.

00:02:06.000 And every message I give, I make sure that I tell young people the importance of ultimate purpose.

00:02:13.000 And I don't know if you noticed this, you probably have, but for many students across the country right now, they are experiencing a crisis of purpose.

00:02:21.000 In fact, I was in Minnesota in Mankato, and I had some students come up and they say, basically, what is the point of existence?

00:02:31.000 There is no God.

00:02:32.000 There is no truth.

00:02:33.000 And I realized in a very profound way that Satan, who is real, by the way, and the church doesn't talk about Satan enough, and we'll talk about Satan a little bit.

00:02:43.000 That'll be not the most uplifting part of my message.

00:02:45.000 Actually, it's very uplifting because we win against Satan thanks to Jesus.

00:02:49.000 So there actually is kind of uplifting.

00:02:51.000 Just a matter of how you frame it.

00:02:53.000 Satan has done a very good job of leading us to believe that there's nothing to believe in.

00:02:58.000 And we've seen that over the last year and a half.

00:03:02.000 And kind of in my job, I talk about a lot of different things, but I'm trying to bring people to ultimate purpose.

00:03:09.000 And the ultimate purpose is Jesus Christ.

00:03:12.000 And purpose comes from a Greek word telos, which is where we get the word telescope from, which means far out in the distance that worth aiming for.

00:03:23.000 And without any form of purpose, then you start to get into a lifestyle that prioritizes indulgence or pleasure and all these sorts of different things.

00:03:33.000 And so I was really moved this last week when I had students come up to me.

00:03:38.000 And again, the primary thing I do is not to spread the gospel in the sense that you might think, but everywhere I go, I spread the gospel.

00:03:45.000 It's no different than those of you that are plumbers or carpenters or police officers that you're able to do it through the work that you embody and you still talk about it every single day.

00:03:56.000 And I was really moved when students came up to me.

00:03:59.000 They said, Charlie, I'd never heard anyone in the history of this campus say that Jesus Christ was the king of the world.

00:04:06.000 Not once in four years.

00:04:08.000 And it moved me back to an earlier time when I was in church, and I just know I have to get my life right with Christ.

00:04:14.000 And I was just reminded that this is a good kind of lesson that I learned this last week for all of you, that you need to say that every single day to somebody.

00:04:23.000 And it might not be politically correct, of which if you know me, I could not care less about that.

00:04:30.000 That you need to say every single day that there is objective truth, that there is a point for your existence, that there is a God who loves you and that created you.

00:04:43.000 And I don't know if any of you have had this experience before, but I was kind of jolted awake the other night with just kind of a repetition of Genesis 1-1.

00:04:50.000 I was like, why can I not get Genesis 1-1 out of my head?

00:04:55.000 And it's a scripture that everyone knows in one way or the other.

00:04:59.000 And by the way, Rawl gave me this beautiful Bible.

00:05:02.000 And I'm going to get into Bibles in a second, which is a really important thing because I think physical Bibles need to have a comeback and we've got to get rid of our Bible apps.

00:05:09.000 I'll get into that later, though, because I'm a big believer in physical Bibles.

00:05:13.000 I don't mean to offend people.

00:05:14.000 That's probably going to be the most controversial part of my speech today.

00:05:17.000 Because then I say, take out your Bibles when I speak at churches. 1.00

00:05:20.000 People take out their iPads.

00:05:21.000 They say, no, we've got to get back.

00:05:23.000 I'll tell you why.

00:05:23.000 I'll make a very good case for it, by the way.

00:05:26.000 I will win over some people, and then some people will send me some angry emails.

00:05:29.000 But the beginning of everything is so beautiful.

00:05:36.000 And we kind of skim over this.

00:05:38.000 And I just, I want to, please open your Bibles, and I'll get to why I think we need to have real Bibles in a second.

00:05:46.000 But I will say that Genesis 1 through 6 is so beautiful that I encourage all of you to spend some time with it.

00:05:57.000 And do not skim over it.

00:05:58.000 You're like, yeah, I know the creation story.

00:06:00.000 And so just in Genesis 1, 1, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

00:06:06.000 You have three things, three things that are absolutely true that the world tells you is not true.

00:06:12.000 There is a God and you are not him.

00:06:15.000 It's a pretty amazing thing, isn't it?

00:06:17.000 There is creation and you didn't create it.

00:06:20.000 And there was a beginning.

00:06:22.000 And God made that beginning possible.

00:06:25.000 Three things.

00:06:26.000 And he did it in ex nihilo, which means out of nothing God breathed existence.

00:06:31.000 Now, it continues through Genesis 1.

00:06:33.000 It says, God said, God spoke, and there would be existence.

00:06:38.000 Now, there are two creation stories in the Bible, and they both say the exact same thing.

00:06:44.000 The other is in John 1, where it says, in the beginning was the word, and the word was God, and the word was with God.

00:06:50.000 Now, how you say, Charlie, how is that the same thing?

00:06:53.000 Now, the word word is not actually a perfect English translation of the Greek.

00:06:59.000 John 1 is in the beginning, there was the logos, which means rational speech.

00:07:04.000 What does it say here?

00:07:06.000 God spoke into existence.

00:07:08.000 Both John 1 and Genesis 1 are saying the same thing.

00:07:11.000 They're saying that God spoke it, and then it was.

00:07:14.000 And I love this.

00:07:15.000 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

00:07:18.000 This right here should give us all comfort.

00:07:20.000 That there are things that we cannot do.

00:07:24.000 There are things that are above our ability to understand and comprehend.

00:07:30.000 And as I mentioned earlier, there is a God and we are not him.

00:07:34.000 And therefore, that God is worthy of our praise.

00:07:37.000 That God is worthy of our worship.

00:07:39.000 That is God worthy of our wonder.

00:07:41.000 Wonder is one of my favorite English words.

00:07:45.000 And wonder is the beginning of the pursuit of truth.

00:07:49.000 This is why the world is so, I think, in a form of chaos right now, is that people don't stop and enjoy the wonder around them.

00:07:58.000 And people, you might say, well, Charlie, what could possibly be wondrous around you?

00:08:02.000 Well, in California, there's like no excuse because you have such a beautiful natural landscape.

00:08:06.000 But outside of just natural beauty, how about the wonder of creation of new life?

00:08:11.000 The wonder of the inexplicable miracle of how DNA, deoxoribal nucleic acid is formed.

00:08:19.000 The wonder of the laws of physics.

00:08:21.000 That as soon as you admit, like, wow, my human comprehension, my human-sized brain cannot wrap my head around this, there's something greater than this.

00:08:31.000 And that greater is God.

00:08:33.000 And we now live in a country, and I believe this, the reason that we are becoming significantly less free is because we've become more secular, is because we have removed God from society.

00:08:47.000 Now, this is not something that you'll hear from a lot of different people outside of the church, but I believe that as soon as you de-emphasize God, people will start to find other false religions.

00:08:56.000 They'll start to find other false religions rooted in teachings that are not of the Bible.

00:09:01.000 It says 365 times throughout the Bible, do not be afraid.

00:09:06.000 Once for every day.

00:09:08.000 And yet I feel in the last year and a half, we've been living in a non-stop, perpetual place of constant fear.

00:09:14.000 God does not want you to be afraid.

00:09:15.000 He does not.

00:09:17.000 He's not given you a spirit of fear, but a spirit of courage and that of a sound mind.

00:09:21.000 And can you live a free and full life if you do not understand the objective meaning of God's place in society and in your life?

00:09:32.000 Now, some people will say, well, Charlie, I know lots of good atheists.

00:09:36.000 That is not the point.

00:09:38.000 The point is, how do you know it's good?

00:09:41.000 That's the point.

00:09:42.000 Is that if there is no God, good is nothing more than an opinion.

00:09:46.000 You only know a line is crooked because you have a straight line to compare it to.

00:09:51.000 God is good and God is perfect.

00:09:53.000 And we know this through what?

00:09:54.000 His word.

00:09:55.000 So let me take a detour of to why we need to get rid of the Bible apps and we need to get our physical Bibles.

00:10:00.000 Okay, let me tell you, this is the inerrant word of God.

00:10:06.000 It is special.

00:10:08.000 I know that Satan is always trying to distract me from reading the word of God.

00:10:12.000 Satan hates it when you try to read the Bible.

00:10:15.000 Anyone get really sleepy right before bed when you read the Bible?

00:10:18.000 That's not from God.

00:10:19.000 That's the spirit of slumber by Satan.

00:10:21.000 Yet you watch a movie and you keep on wanting to go to the next Netflix show, next Netflix show.

00:10:26.000 Sometimes the spirit of slumber doesn't come upon you when you're watching a football game.

00:10:30.000 But the spirit of slumber comes on you when you're reading the Bible because Satan wants to distract you from reading the word of God.

00:10:35.000 He wants to take you away from this.

00:10:37.000 And I know for me that when I open a Bible app, for whatever reason, whatever crisis is going on that day in my life just happens to appear and emerge.

00:10:46.000 That he's going to do whatever he possibly can.

00:10:48.000 Understand, Satan is a person.

00:10:50.000 This is a very important thing.

00:10:52.000 That by name, Satan was a fallen angel from heaven trying to distract you, lie to you, and deceive you.

00:11:00.000 Why would we ever try to say, I'm going to use a device or a platform that allows me to somehow get my eyes off the word of God?

00:11:08.000 That's number one.

00:11:09.000 Number two, it allows other people to hold you accountable to reading the word of God.

00:11:13.000 I know when I open my Bible, that's all I'm doing.

00:11:16.000 But when my wife sees me on my phone, I'm like, oh yeah, I'm reading the Bible.

00:11:19.000 She's like, are you really reading the Bible?

00:11:22.000 Like, come on.

00:11:23.000 Like, are you really reading it?

00:11:24.000 No, I want a dedicated, unchanging, uncorruptible, non-influenced, cannot be influenced from anything, place where I can get straight and get right with God.

00:11:37.000 And the other reason that I love it is that a Bible has a certain weight and feel to it.

00:11:42.000 Anyone who's been in sports or anyone who's been in law enforcement and anyone who's been in the military, and thank you to our veterans, by the way, for serving our wonderful and amazing country.

00:11:49.000 Seriously, thank you.

00:11:50.000 And that when you use a weapon and you know the weight of it, you know the texture of it, you know the feel of it, same if you're a baseball player or a football player.

00:12:02.000 I know when I pick up my Bible, this is my weapon.

00:12:05.000 As soon as I pick it up, this is dedicated for a specific purpose, a connection to the divine.

00:12:12.000 When I pick up my phone, that's not the purpose of the phone.

00:12:15.000 In fact, for my phone, it's just kind of like, what is it today that I need to be upset about, right?

00:12:20.000 Or what do I need to get?

00:12:22.000 My phone almost never gets me less stressed.

00:12:25.000 That's what I learned.

00:12:27.000 And I actually had this amazing discovery.

00:12:30.000 I said, every time I pick up my phone, I feel as if things are falling apart.

00:12:34.000 Every time I pick up my Bible, I think like things are falling into place.

00:12:37.000 It's amazing.

00:12:38.000 It's a big difference, isn't it?

00:12:39.000 It's a lot more comforting.

00:12:41.000 I say, so I want nothing to do with it.

00:12:42.000 I'll get rid of it.

00:12:44.000 And so I didn't come here prepared to talk about this day, but let me tell you about one way that God really changed my life in the last couple months, which is, I read a lot of the Old Testament.

00:12:54.000 I encourage you to do that as well.

00:12:56.000 I understand reading Numbers is not exactly as exciting as reading Proverbs.

00:13:01.000 I get it.

00:13:02.000 But there's infinite truth in every single book of the Bible.

00:13:06.000 And so I was reading Exodus and I was reading the Ten Commandments.

00:13:10.000 And I just thought to myself, am I actually following the Ten Commandments?

00:13:14.000 Okay, not murdering.

00:13:15.000 You know, that one's good so far and it will remain that way.

00:13:19.000 You know, honoring your mother and father, you know, all these things.

00:13:21.000 And then the Sabbath, I was like, yeah, whatever.

00:13:23.000 I'm too busy for that.

00:13:24.000 And I stopped myself.

00:13:25.000 I was like, am I really too busy for that? 0.55

00:13:28.000 And, you know, being around a lot of Orthodox Jews, I was always so moved at how Orthodox Jews obeyed the Sabbath as if it was the kind of commandment we take it with lying and murdering. 1.00

00:13:42.000 That really moved me.

00:13:43.000 And so as I got to an no-Orthodox Jews, how do you do this? 0.99

00:13:46.000 Like, don't you get anxious about Twitter or whatever it was?

00:13:50.000 And all these nonsensical things we think are actually important.

00:13:54.000 And then I reread in Genesis 1, God rested after he created our world around us.

00:14:00.000 Even God took a moment to rest.

00:14:03.000 Now, did God need rest?

00:14:04.000 Absolutely not.

00:14:05.000 Of course not.

00:14:06.000 He's infinite.

00:14:06.000 He's omniscient.

00:14:07.000 He's omnipotent.

00:14:09.000 He has infinite strength.

00:14:10.000 But maybe he rested to enjoy, to ponder, to see.

00:14:17.000 And so even if you think you have all the, I don't need a day of rest, I'm bulletproof and I walk on water.

00:14:22.000 Well, then what is God trying to tell you with this?

00:14:24.000 So anyway, in July, I said, you know what?

00:14:27.000 I'm just, again, if you know my schedule, I'm giving 330 speeches a year.

00:14:32.000 I'm doing two podcasts a day, three hours of radio a day, and then also running an organization with 200 employees and having to raise the money for all that.

00:14:39.000 And don't feel sorry for me.

00:14:40.000 I'm the luckiest person ever to live.

00:14:42.000 I'm super blessed.

00:14:43.000 God has put me in a wonderful place.

00:14:44.000 But it was getting to the place in July where it was a little much.

00:14:47.000 It was finally, for the first time in nine and a half years, I was like, okay, I need something.

00:14:51.000 And I said, I asked a pastor friend of mine, I said, you know, what can I do?

00:14:55.000 He said, are you following God's gifts?

00:14:58.000 I said, well, what do you mean?

00:15:00.000 And he said, well, God gave you a list of gifts.

00:15:03.000 And I said, what are those?

00:15:04.000 He said, tell me.

00:15:05.000 He's like, well, they're the Ten Commandments.

00:15:07.000 And I never thought of it this way.

00:15:08.000 You understand, God gave us the Ten Commandments to bless us.

00:15:12.000 God gave us the Ten Commandments not because he hates you, but if you follow them, that you're blessed.

00:15:17.000 And this is a totally different way to view the decalogue than what most of secular society will tell you, right?

00:15:24.000 Most of secular society will act as if God is the fun police.

00:15:28.000 He gives you the Ten Commandments because he doesn't want you to live like the rest of people. 0.99

00:15:32.000 It's the exact opposite of the truth, and I'll prove it to you.

00:15:35.000 Is that sometime at the 12 o'clock service?

00:15:37.000 Not you, because you're at the 8 o'clock service, someone's going to stumble in because they made bad decisions last night.

00:15:42.000 You all made wonderful decisions last night because you're here at the 8 o'clock service.

00:15:49.000 It's true.

00:15:50.000 You went to bed early, a little chamomile tea, a little scripture.

00:15:54.000 Or maybe someone made some really bad decisions and they're here at the 8 o'clock service and they never went to bed.

00:16:00.000 They said, I got to go to church.

00:16:01.000 I'm going straight to bed.

00:16:02.000 I'm going straight to church, I mean.

00:16:04.000 No bed.

00:16:04.000 I'm half kidding.

00:16:06.000 The point is that you know that when you defy God's commandments, there's a price to this.

00:16:13.000 The founding fathers knew this.

00:16:14.000 They called this the laws of nature and nature's God.

00:16:16.000 You drink too much, you don't feel great the next morning.

00:16:19.000 You lie, steal, and cheat.

00:16:21.000 There's something in your soul that starts to get weighed down.

00:16:24.000 You disobey your.

00:16:25.000 When you get in a fight with your parents, even if you don't like your parents, you know that's not right.

00:16:30.000 When you start to have discord with your family or your children, because God imprinted on all of us, especially those of us that are born new, he said, hey, if you follow these commands, you're actually going to live full lives.

00:16:42.000 And if I had to say this, ever since I realized this and recognized this, I said, okay, I'm going to go in a leap of faith.

00:16:49.000 And if you know me, I got my phone everywhere, right?

00:16:53.000 And now I am very proud of, I'm very thankful, not proud of myself, I'm very thankful to God.

00:16:57.000 I deleted all my social media apps from my phone a year and a half ago.

00:17:00.000 I highly encourage it, by the way.

00:17:01.000 It's very liberating.

00:17:03.000 But it wasn't enough.

00:17:04.000 Just the text message, the emails, I said, okay, leap of faith starting in July.

00:17:08.000 I'm going to turn off my phone for 24 hours and only check it once throughout the 24-hour window and take an honest Sabbath.

00:17:17.000 And I can tell you this, it's been one of the greatest blessings where people know I'm unreachable and I say, deal with it.

00:17:23.000 I'm available six other days of the week.

00:17:26.000 I actually read.

00:17:27.000 It's an amazing thing.

00:17:28.000 I encourage you to do it.

00:17:29.000 It's wonderful.

00:17:30.000 Spend time with family.

00:17:32.000 You could do things you otherwise wouldn't do.

00:17:34.000 Now, this might not be relevant to everyone in the audience, but I know for young people, this is extremely relevant because you live off of these devices as if they're some sort of kind of part of your existence.

00:17:45.000 And ever since I was able to turn off the phone and just take a legitimate Sabbath, all of a sudden, those other six days are centered around that one day.

00:17:54.000 All of a sudden, it leads up to, and so yesterday I took the 24 hours, which actually look at the Bible.

00:18:00.000 It really is Friday night to Saturday night, not against Sunday church.

00:18:03.000 I'm actually very in supportive of it.

00:18:04.000 I'm not getting into that.

00:18:05.000 I'll have Rawl explain how Sunday church came to be.

00:18:08.000 But Friday night to Saturday night in the society we're in actually makes a lot of sense.

00:18:12.000 Friday night, things start to, you know, kind of scale down.

00:18:14.000 Saturday, I believe, is a great day of rest.

00:18:17.000 And I'm working on Sundays.

00:18:18.000 I'm speaking at churches, so it's like, yeah, great Sabbath, right?

00:18:21.000 I'm talking three, four, five, ten times a day.

00:18:24.000 I encourage all of you to start doing this.

00:18:28.000 Now, it might not be the phone example, but find that place of stress and anxiety.

00:18:32.000 It might be trying to carve out not going to work.

00:18:35.000 It might be carving out not doing a certain thing that day.

00:18:38.000 Try to find something that glorifies God and removes something that causes you to sin.

00:18:44.000 And Jesus said this.

00:18:46.000 Jesus understood that we as human beings are not good at dealing with sin.

00:18:52.000 What did Jesus tell you to do when something causes you to sin?

00:18:55.000 Get rid of it.

00:18:56.000 It's better to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than enter into the pit of hell with two eyes.

00:19:02.000 I'm paraphrasing, but you all know the scripture.

00:19:04.000 And that, so for me, I'm not able to totally remove the phone.

00:19:08.000 I can't wait to go back to flip phones, by the way.

00:19:10.000 Big fan.

00:19:11.000 Miss it.

00:19:12.000 Seriously, I do.

00:19:12.000 It's a big thing.

00:19:15.000 But at least for one day a week, I know I say, and I, and someone asked me the other day, said, Charlie, why do you do this?

00:19:19.000 You're too busy.

00:19:20.000 I said, because God told me.

00:19:22.000 It's very comforting to know that.

00:19:24.000 You know what?

00:19:25.000 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and that very same God told me to rest, and I'm going to do it.

00:19:29.000 I'm not going to overthink it.

00:19:32.000 And there is this tendency to all of a sudden for we as human beings, I'm not against questioning, by the way.

00:19:38.000 I'm not against skepticism.

00:19:40.000 I believe that if you actually use the reason that God gave you, we'll get into reason maybe in this service or the next service, that we actually grow closer to God.

00:19:50.000 However, I believe that if you have the spirit of trying to prove God wrong, then you'll find some reason not to believe in him.

00:19:58.000 This is a very important thing.

00:20:00.000 This is one distinction between Christianity and Judaism, which is the things of the intention and the heart.

00:20:07.000 Now, I'm not saying Judaism doesn't care at all about intention.

00:20:10.000 I'm not saying that.

00:20:11.000 But they certainly do not care in their viewpoint as much as Christianity for intention.

00:20:16.000 We care about did you mean to do well or what is the intention of your heart?

00:20:22.000 In Judaism, they say what actually ended up happening, a very more legalistic, law-based way to look at things.

00:20:28.000 Where Jesus Christ knows that, hey, not only should you not commit adultery, but if you lust with your eyes, you've already committed adultery in your heart.

00:20:38.000 It's a big standard, isn't it?

00:20:40.000 Almost impossible for human beings to live up to.

00:20:44.000 Because it's not just what happens outside, it's also what happens inside.

00:20:48.000 And so the significance of this, I believe in more ways than one, is that we must understand that in the world that we're living in, we must try to prioritize obedience to God and obedience to a transcendent order.

00:21:04.000 And obviously, this is kind of, you know, this is very rare in today's time.

00:21:09.000 We have people in most of society and most in cultural institutions that want to glorify and glamorize the watering down of God.

00:21:19.000 And I want to say this again, that if you follow God's commandments, you will be blessed.

00:21:25.000 And we should do everything we possibly can to try to tell people that the laws of nature and nature is God, as the founding fathers wrote in the Declaration of Independence, or as it says in Galatians 3, that the law is a school teacher to Christ.

00:21:41.000 It's there to actually have you grow closer to God.

00:21:45.000 And so a couple things I just want to kind of mention, and I encourage you guys to come to the next services.

00:21:51.000 Every service will be different because it's kind of off the cuff.

00:21:55.000 This is my speech prep.

00:21:57.000 And, you know, Raul gave me like a list of stuff to talk about, which we'll probably get to eventually.

00:22:03.000 Maybe, we'll see.

00:22:04.000 So this is kind of how we do things.

00:22:08.000 I want to talk a little bit about our uplifting topic of Satan, which, and you should laugh at him.

00:22:13.000 You should, because at least you acknowledge he's real.

00:22:16.000 Which is most of the world does not believe Satan exists.

00:22:18.000 This is a dreadful belief.

00:22:20.000 I believe the lack of believing that Satan is real is what led to a lot of societal destruction.

00:22:26.000 Because if you believe Satan is real, then it's almost impossible not to believe that God is real, right?

00:22:30.000 I mean, that's, if you only believe Satan is real, then you're literally a Satanist, right?

00:22:35.000 Which is a real thing.

00:22:36.000 Church of Satan is an actual thing that exists, especially here in California.

00:22:39.000 They have a legitimate building and everything.

00:22:42.000 But we must understand, especially for those of you that are believers, right now, Satan is trying to be on offense.

00:22:52.000 If you felt like you've been going through a bout of spiritual warfare the last six or nine months, you're not alone.

00:22:57.000 Spiritual warfare is Satan playing with the one domain he thinks he can dominate.

00:23:01.000 He can't touch the heart if you're born again.

00:23:04.000 He tries to get into the mind.

00:23:06.000 This is why Paul says that we must pray for a renewing of our mind.

00:23:11.000 We must actually try to renew our identity in Christ.

00:23:15.000 We must understand the two books of the Bible that Satan hates the most is Genesis and Revelation, because it tells us who he is and how it ends for him.

00:23:24.000 He gets thrown into the lake of fire forever.

00:23:27.000 But Satan is a real threat to many believers because we de-emphasize it.

00:23:32.000 Now, let me be very clear.

00:23:33.000 Jesus has ultimate victory over Satan, but you do not.

00:23:36.000 It's a very important thing.

00:23:38.000 Some believers think that you can manage your sin as if it's an air conditioning unit.

00:23:43.000 I can find the right temperature, right?

00:23:45.000 Between not too hot, not too cold.

00:23:47.000 I could manage that kind of sin, and I can kind of get in that perfect, comfortable way.

00:23:52.000 Satan understands that if he can even get a singular vector into your life, then all of a sudden that will grow.

00:23:59.000 That sin will fester like a tumor within you.

00:24:01.000 Yeah, I'll just kind of watch this one show I know is not good for me.

00:24:05.000 You know, I'll just kind of drink this substance.

00:24:07.000 I know that's not good for me.

00:24:08.000 I say this to students all the time because I don't see a lot of students here.

00:24:11.000 The student population will grow as the services get later.

00:24:13.000 I know it.

00:24:13.000 But if it feels good for you immediately with no effort, it's probably not good for you.

00:24:20.000 It's a good rule for life.

00:24:21.000 If it makes you feel good for you immediately with very little to no effort, it's probably not good for you.

00:24:28.000 Probably.

00:24:28.000 It's a good rule for life.

00:24:30.000 And so Satan is able to capture believers in three ways.

00:24:34.000 Let me also say this, though.

00:24:35.000 For those of you that are elders in the church, you are especially targeted for attack from the enemy.

00:24:42.000 It says that very clearly in the scriptures.

00:24:44.000 If anyone here is an elder of this wonderful church.

00:24:46.000 So number one, Satan tries to get you through your vows.

00:24:53.000 I will never take another drink again.

00:24:55.000 Don't say that.

00:24:56.000 You are not capable of doing that.

00:25:01.000 Self-control is a fruit of the Spirit.

00:25:03.000 It says it very clearly in the scriptures.

00:25:05.000 Instead, you should say, only thanks to the power of Jesus Christ would I ever not be able to take another drink again.

00:25:12.000 That is a completely different thing than saying I alone can take on the evil and the devices of Satan.

00:25:20.000 Completely and totally different.

00:25:21.000 And Jesus said this: He said, Do not make earthly vows.

00:25:26.000 Let your yes be yes and your no be no.

00:25:29.000 As soon as you take a vow, what is Satan?

00:25:32.000 He's a taunter.

00:25:35.000 He's able then to taunt you with your own vow, right?

00:25:37.000 You said you would never do this again.

00:25:39.000 Come on, let's see how strong you are.

00:25:41.000 All of a sudden, it's held over your head.

00:25:43.000 Instead, you should say, I am not enough.

00:25:46.000 Jesus, take my place and fight the spiritual battle for me.

00:25:50.000 Please, Jesus, come into my life.

00:25:52.000 And that surrender, that true, that true unconditional admission that you cannot fight that spiritual battle is incredibly liberating.

00:26:02.000 And Jesus will come in and will win that battle.

00:26:04.000 But here's the other: the second way is that Satan takes hold when we are disobedient, especially in terms of the flesh.

00:26:12.000 Satan is a master of being able to capture us when we engage in repetitive, intentional, fleshly sin.

00:26:21.000 We all know what that is.

00:26:22.000 I don't need to overemphasize that.

00:26:24.000 You know what that is. 0.80

00:26:26.000 It's when we decide that things that feel good that we know that are not good for us, especially in the sexual domain, that's where Satan is licking his chops and he knows he's got you.

00:26:36.000 He knows that's where human beings are in some ways at their weakest.

00:26:39.000 This is why it says in the New Testament, flee from sexual immorality.

00:26:45.000 And it goes on to say that Satan prowls the earth, in 1 Peter, prowls the earth like a lion looking for those to devour.

00:26:53.000 It's a pretty profound statement, isn't it?

00:26:55.000 Now, again, I'm not sure any of you expected to come at an 8 a.m. service and hear about Satan, but you'll be glad you did because he's real, okay?

00:27:03.000 The third thing is by who you surround yourself with and what you put into your mind and what you put into your soul.

00:27:09.000 It's a very important thing that you are a combined moving average of the five people you spend the most time with.

00:27:18.000 Go home tonight and list the people you spend the most, the five time, spend the most time with the five people you spend the most time with.

00:27:23.000 Not your five best friends, not the five people you want to be with, but just an allotment of time.

00:27:29.000 Are those five people glorifying God?

00:27:32.000 Are those five people gossiping, or are they lifting people up?

00:27:35.000 You will soon become a combination of those five people.

00:27:38.000 Human psychology tells us this.

00:27:40.000 What kind of music are you listening to?

00:27:42.000 If you listen to music that is constantly glorifying, tearing people down instead of building people up, all of a sudden those are vectors for the enemy to be able to get into you, to be able to try and corrupt you.

00:27:55.000 And so those are three very simple ways.

00:27:58.000 And one of my favorite scriptures in the entire Bible, again, let's try to bring back physical Bibles. 0.98

00:28:03.000 I'm done with that, though.

00:28:04.000 I get the angriest emails from people.

00:28:06.000 Charlie, I'm a great Christian because I use the Bible app.

00:28:08.000 I never said you weren't.

00:28:09.000 I just said, don't give Satan an opportunity to get your eyes off of what matters, is Matthew 4, which is the temptation of Jesus.

00:28:17.000 And I think I have enough time to go through this.

00:28:20.000 Yes, I do.

00:28:21.000 Okay.

00:28:21.000 I promise in the next services I'll talk about the decline of America, but that's pretty obvious.

00:28:27.000 It's falling apart.

00:28:28.000 Okay.

00:28:30.000 So then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

00:28:35.000 After he had fasted 40 days and 40 nights, he became hungry.

00:28:38.000 Anyone ever fast before?

00:28:40.000 Fasting, you guys, fasting church?

00:28:42.000 Okay.

00:28:43.000 Yeah, so if I miss lunch, big problem, right?

00:28:46.000 So not exactly into the fasting thing.

00:28:48.000 Lots of admiration for people that fast.

00:28:51.000 But anyone that knows, if you fast after three days, what happens?

00:28:54.000 You stop being hungry.

00:28:56.000 So what happens if you're hungry now in a back end of a fast?

00:29:00.000 That means your body's literally eating itself alive.

00:29:03.000 So Jesus fasted for 40 days and 40 nights.

00:29:06.000 That's a pretty amazing thing.

00:29:07.000 He was so hungry that he was starting to eat himself alive.

00:29:11.000 This is a very important thing.

00:29:13.000 No coincidence that Satan then prays on Jesus when he's at his weakest.

00:29:18.000 Everyone here in this room, when you are tired, when you have to work that second shift, when you have to get up at 3 a.m. to go drive a friend to the airport, when your son messes up, Satan has you targeted immediately.

00:29:32.000 You know, when you sleep in and you're working out and you're listening to praise music, you're fine.

00:29:38.000 Not fine, but it's harder.

00:29:39.000 But boy, I'll tell you, when I got to get up early, when I got to travel and all this, all of a sudden, what sets in?

00:29:46.000 I deserve the ability to sin.

00:29:49.000 Victimhood mentality, self-pity is the gateway to Satan ruling your life.

00:29:54.000 Let me say that again.

00:29:55.000 Self-pity is a gateway for Satan to rule your life.

00:29:59.000 Man, my favorite sports team lost a game.

00:30:02.000 I can go to this website now.

00:30:04.000 You think I'm joking?

00:30:05.000 A lot of people, I mean, we all do this in one way or the other.

00:30:09.000 It's all of a sudden, something bad happened to me.

00:30:11.000 Feel sorry for me.

00:30:12.000 Now I deserve something that makes me feel good.

00:30:16.000 Jesus was hungry, so hungry that his body was eating himself alive.

00:30:21.000 Continues, and then the tempter came and said to him, Quote, if you are the son of God, command that these stones become to bread, become bread.

00:30:29.000 Now, Rawl gave me this Bible.

00:30:30.000 This is the New American Standard Bible.

00:30:32.000 I like that it says tempter.

00:30:33.000 Not every translation says that.

00:30:35.000 That's pretty good.

00:30:37.000 We can get back into what the original Greek said.

00:30:39.000 But tempter, taunter, the evil one.

00:30:43.000 But this is very important.

00:30:45.000 That what is it that Satan does when you're at the weakest?

00:30:51.000 He tries to taunt you with what your nature tells you you need.

00:30:56.000 So Jesus, taking fully human form, being 100% divine, still experienced hunger.

00:31:03.000 And Satan says, come on, turn these stones to bread.

00:31:05.000 Satan will taunt you and he will try to taunt the word of God in front of you.

00:31:10.000 We'll get to that in a second.

00:31:10.000 He actually quotes Deuteronomy.

00:31:12.000 But he answered and said, It is written, man shall not live.

00:31:15.000 Jesus answered, live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

00:31:19.000 Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the pinnacle of the temple.

00:31:22.000 Now, this is very important.

00:31:24.000 Never once does Jesus question Satan's authority over the earth.

00:31:30.000 We are living in enemy-occupied territory, everybody.

00:31:33.000 Jesus called Satan the prince of this world.

00:31:35.000 Paul called Satan the God of this world.

00:31:39.000 Those are big words.

00:31:41.000 That we are living in enemy-occupied territory.

00:31:45.000 Now, this is too heavy for some Christians.

00:31:47.000 I've said this at churches before, and some Christians get up and leave.

00:31:50.000 They say, I can't handle it.

00:31:51.000 I just want to hear about Jesus.

00:31:53.000 Well, if you want to hear about Jesus, you've got to know what is the consequence of not accepting Jesus, which is permanent rebellion, living in discord and disharmony.

00:32:02.000 And so Jesus never questions that Satan can give momentary gain and pleasure here on earth.

00:32:11.000 And he said to him, If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, he will command his angels concerning you.

00:32:16.000 That's from Deuteronomy.

00:32:17.000 And their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

00:32:22.000 Jesus said to him, On the other hand, it is written, you shall not put the Lord your God to the test.

00:32:28.000 So Satan is trying to play a word trick here.

00:32:31.000 It's like, I know scripture better than you.

00:32:33.000 Isn't that creepy to think that Satan knows scripture?

00:32:36.000 I'm going to think about that.

00:32:38.000 That Satan knows the word of God and he tries to use it against you.

00:32:46.000 There's a lot there.

00:32:47.000 I don't think I have time to get into it.

00:32:50.000 And again, the devil took him to a high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory and said to him, All these things I will give to you if you fall down and worship me.

00:32:58.000 And then Satan said to him, Go, Satan, or go away, Satan, depending on your translation.

00:33:03.000 For it is written, you shall worship the Lord your God and serve him only.

00:33:10.000 Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and began to minister to him.

00:33:15.000 Now, depending on the translation, some will say that the angels kind of caught him because Jesus was exhausted in the earthly form because it's tough work to fight Satan in the earthly form.

00:33:28.000 Only Jesus' divine nature was able to defeat Satan.

00:33:31.000 Understand, Satan being the rebel, being a deceiver, being a serpent, being the usurper, he tried everything he could to overthrow God and took one-third of all angels with him.

00:33:45.000 When Jesus, in another scripture in Mark, tried to take, was confronted with demon-possessed people, he said, What is your name?

00:33:53.000 Said, my name is Legion because we are many.

00:33:56.000 Now, this is a really important question for a lot of Christians, which is, are we understanding correctly that what's happening in our country and our nation around us is a spiritual battle, not a material battle.

00:34:08.000 We must understand that.

00:34:10.000 And that we have been given the tools and we've been given the gift through Jesus Christ where victory in the spiritual domain is ours because it's Jesus's.

00:34:21.000 And I know a lot.

00:34:25.000 Someone here today is experiencing spiritual battle.

00:34:28.000 I encourage you to consider those three things that I mentioned, right?

00:34:32.000 The sins of the flesh, the vows, and who you surround yourself with.

00:34:35.000 But even that is not a guarantee.

00:34:38.000 But I'm going to challenge this wonderful 8 a.m. service.

00:34:40.000 I won't say this for the 12 p.m. service.

00:34:42.000 It's going to be more about forgiveness and grace and mercy.

00:34:44.000 I'm kidding.

00:34:46.000 I know how this works.

00:34:47.000 I've seen this play before.

00:34:48.000 I'm going to challenge the 8 a.m. service.

00:34:51.000 First, I'm going to say this.

00:34:52.000 I'm going to say, if you are experiencing spiritual battle and you're doing pretty well in those three things, that means you're doing something consequential enough that Satan is going to try to use his limited resources to come after you.

00:35:05.000 Satan is not everywhere.

00:35:07.000 Let me say that again.

00:35:08.000 He is not everywhere.

00:35:10.000 That's why when I go to San Francisco, I feel a spiritual heaviness.

00:35:13.000 Seriously.

00:35:15.000 That's when I go to South Dakota.

00:35:17.000 I don't.

00:35:19.000 It says in the Bible that certain cities will have principalities of darkness.

00:35:24.000 That's why certain nations, you ever go to Haiti?

00:35:26.000 Woo! 0.99

00:35:26.000 Lots of spiritual heavies. 0.99

00:35:28.000 New York, forget it.

00:35:29.000 I literally almost collapsed once in New York after giving a message.

00:35:32.000 It's so spiritually heavy.

00:35:34.000 That's a very real thing.

00:35:35.000 Now, for those of you, though, that say, Charlie, this spiritual mumbo jumbo, I don't get it.

00:35:40.000 You ready to be challenged?

00:35:42.000 Maybe you're not doing something consequential enough for Satan doesn't take you seriously.

00:35:52.000 Where every significant pastor who's really making a difference that I know, every Christian music artist, every person that's contesting for truth said this year has been one of the toughest when it comes to spiritual warfare I've ever experienced.

00:36:06.000 Ever.

00:36:07.000 It is a standard across the level.

00:36:09.000 To the people that are like, yeah, I mean, I haven't felt anything.

00:36:12.000 Church is closed.

00:36:14.000 Not, you know, not doing anything.

00:36:16.000 They're like, yeah, our attendance has gone down.

00:36:17.000 We're kind of doing a pre-pre-recorded YouTube message.

00:36:20.000 That's it.

00:36:20.000 I was like, yeah, Satan's passed by.

00:36:22.000 He's like, yeah, whatever.

00:36:22.000 That's not a big deal.

00:36:23.000 But the church that remains open, courageous, going to other countries, ministering, winning souls for Christ, he's like, whoa, there's a problem there.

00:36:29.000 Let's go after that one.

00:36:31.000 Remember, he's not unlimited.

00:36:32.000 He's limited in his resources.

00:36:34.000 So that's a challenge.

00:36:35.000 That's something I want you to pray about, which is if you're not experiencing that kind of spiritual warfare, if this message didn't resonate with you, maybe you've got it all figured out.

00:36:43.000 Maybe you're perfectly in alignment.

00:36:44.000 You're asking Jesus and you're doing it great.

00:36:46.000 Or maybe, maybe it's like, man, am I doing everything?

00:36:49.000 Am I acting courageously and boldly in everything I possibly can to contest and stand for truth?

00:36:55.000 It's something to pray about and think about.

00:36:57.000 Okay, I will close with a couple thoughts.

00:37:00.000 I'm going to do a pastor's close, so it's going to be kind of like five closes in one.

00:37:05.000 And so it's a joke in the church.

00:37:07.000 It should, whatever.

00:37:10.000 Number one, so in the other services, we'll talk about the country a little bit more.

00:37:13.000 I wanted to make, I don't really know what I wanted to make this message, but I hope it blessed you because it's right out of the Bible.

00:37:19.000 And so the first thing I want to say is this: people ask, they say, Charlie, how can we stay in touch with you?

00:37:25.000 Just kind of as a side note, we are on thousands of high school and college campuses across the country.

00:37:31.000 Hey, I see a proclaimed shirt.

00:37:32.000 That's my wife's shirt. 1.00

00:37:33.000 Thank you.

00:37:33.000 That's awesome.

00:37:34.000 I love it.

00:37:35.000 That's terrific.

00:37:36.000 My wife does an amazing ministry to allow people to help them read the Bible every day.

00:37:40.000 Are you part of it?

00:37:41.000 Or, yeah, read the whole Bible cover to cover in one year.

00:37:45.000 It's called Bible in 365, and it's a wonderful, beautiful ministry.

00:37:49.000 And she also has a great Made in America clothing line.

00:37:52.000 And so thank you for wearing that and for supporting her.

00:37:55.000 And so people ask, Charlie, how can we support you?

00:37:59.000 Well, at Turning Point USA, we are really, we're bringing the message of truth and liberty, which the main message of the Bible is a lot of different things.

00:38:07.000 But Jesus wants to set the captives free of our sinful nature.

00:38:11.000 And my day-to-day job is, of course, to spread the gospel.

00:38:14.000 I did my best to do that, and we're going to do it again in the next couple minutes.

00:38:17.000 But it's also to set people free of governmental tyranny, to set people free of the tyranny of their own nature, set people free of the tyranny of bad laws and bad leaders.

00:38:27.000 We'll get into that in other services.

00:38:29.000 But one way that every person can support us, if this resonated with you, we do at least once a week, sometimes twice a week, right out of the Bible teaching what's happening in the world and what you can do about it on our podcast.

00:38:42.000 Every single phone has a podcast app.

00:38:44.000 You guys can subscribe to it.

00:38:46.000 I know we have some listeners here.

00:38:47.000 I got some beautiful messages from people.

00:38:49.000 It really blesses us as we're under constant threat and cancellation from Apple and Facebook and Google.

00:38:55.000 And so all you have to do is take out your phone, type in Charlie Kirk Show.

00:38:58.000 It really does bless us.

00:38:59.000 It's a gift to us.

00:39:00.000 So please consider doing that now or sometime later today.

00:39:03.000 It really does help us out.

00:39:04.000 If you don't know how to subscribe to a podcast, I think I saw a six-year-old around here somewhere that will happily guide you through that and will help you with that.

00:39:14.000 So let me close with this.

00:39:16.000 And I do encourage you to come to the second and third service.

00:39:18.000 They're all going to be unique.

00:39:20.000 And I have a whole list of stuff that I got to none of it.

00:39:24.000 But anyway, I think it was important, which is this, which is the most important thing you could do is give your life to Christ.

00:39:30.000 But a lot of you, raise your hand and giving your life to Christ.

00:39:33.000 Raise your hand.

00:39:33.000 Okay, it's basically the whole room.

00:39:35.000 So now what?

00:39:37.000 You got to go get more people to give their lives to Christ.

00:39:40.000 You got to go fight for souls.

00:39:42.000 It's the most important thing you can do.

00:39:44.000 The gospel in four words, Jesus took my place.

00:39:47.000 The gospel in three words, him for me.

00:39:49.000 The gospel in two words, substitutionary atonement.

00:39:52.000 The gospel in one word, grace.

00:39:55.000 Grace is unlike any other word that we understand.

00:39:59.000 Justice is you getting what you deserve.

00:40:01.000 You go in front of a judge, and the judge says, Okay, I'm going to sentence you to 10 years in prison because you stole something from a store.

00:40:09.000 Mercy is getting less of what you deserve.

00:40:12.000 You get five years in prison instead of 10 years.

00:40:15.000 Grace, and we will all face God, the judge, when we die.

00:40:20.000 I don't know if you know this, but everyone dies.

00:40:23.000 It's important to remind yourself of that.

00:40:25.000 That you face God, the judge, and he's going to list everything you did wrong in your life.

00:40:31.000 It's going to be a long sentencing hearing for me.

00:40:35.000 Well, you get justice, which is hell, because that's what we deserve.

00:40:38.000 Mercy, which is less of that, which I'll allow the theologians to figure out what that is, or grace.

00:40:44.000 What is grace?

00:40:44.000 Grace is something so unique, so different, so profound, which is as soon as the sentencing is about to be ushered in, someone comes in and says, No, I will serve that prison sentence for him.

00:40:55.000 I will go into the prison cell for him or her so that they can live forever.

00:41:00.000 That's grace. 0.97

00:41:01.000 You didn't earn it.

00:41:03.000 You didn't check boxes for it.

00:41:05.000 You didn't go park cars for a ministry and that gets you extra points to go to heaven.

00:41:09.000 None of that's true.

00:41:10.000 It's that it's equally accepted for all people that allow Jesus Christ to be your Savior, the Savior of the world, to be born new and to be completely and totally renewed.

00:41:20.000 That's a gift that we must try to give all people in the world.

00:41:24.000 And for those of you that have not given your life to Christ, I could tell you it is the most freeing, liberating thing that a human being can possibly do.

00:41:33.000 The most important thing that you can do, which is to be born new into the kingdom of God.

00:41:40.000 And there's a competition right now, and Satan is trying to tell people this doesn't matter.

00:41:48.000 It isn't true.

00:41:49.000 But there is a God who loves you.

00:41:51.000 He loves you enough to give you an opportunity and a chance to be able to live forever in eternal communion with him.

00:42:00.000 We don't deserve that.

00:42:02.000 Our nature is nasty, it's brutish, it's short, and it's awful to one another.

00:42:08.000 And so, for my purposes and for all of you, maybe you're like me, where your primary job is not always to spread this type of message.

00:42:17.000 Well, Martin Luther had a great quote.

00:42:20.000 He said that a Christian will not be known by putting a cross in every shoe, but it's living out the gospel in every interaction and every conversation and proclaiming the gospel at all places, at all places you possibly can.

00:42:34.000 So this is something that is profoundly important for every single Christian to focus on.

00:42:39.000 And so just to kind of summarize some of the things we talked about, which is that there is a God and we are not him.

00:42:44.000 And he wants to live in eternity with you and for you.

00:42:48.000 And there is a battle right now.

00:42:51.000 There is a spiritual battle of light versus dark and good versus evil.

00:42:55.000 And if we allow Jesus to fight that battle for us, victory is ours.

00:43:01.000 So God bless you guys.

00:43:02.000 Thank you so much for having me today.

00:43:03.000 And I hope you come to the second and third service.

00:43:05.000 So thank you guys.

00:43:06.000 God bless.

00:43:09.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:43:11.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom, at charliekirk.com.

00:43:13.000 God bless you guys and get involved with Turning Point USA.

00:43:16.000 TPUSA.com.

00:43:17.000 Thanks so much.

00:43:21.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - October 17, 2021

How the Nation Can Turn Back to God—LIVE from Golden Spring Calvary Chapel

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