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00:00:27.000You know, with all the cancellation and all the bad guys coming after people that are trying to tell the truth, when you support us at charliekirk.com slash support, you are saying no to cancel culture.
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00:01:24.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:32.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:47.000And it's been quite a month this last week for us on our team.
00:01:51.000We've been crisscrossing the country from Michigan to Minnesota, and we're heading to Texas this week.
00:01:58.000My day job is to go to college campuses so you don't have to and to spread the message of truth and of liberty.
00:02:06.000And every message I give, I make sure that I tell young people the importance of ultimate purpose.
00:02:13.000And 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.
00:02:21.000In fact, I was in Minnesota in Mankato, and I had some students come up and they say, basically, what is the point of existence?
00:02:33.000And 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.
00:02:43.000That'll be not the most uplifting part of my message.
00:02:45.000Actually, it's very uplifting because we win against Satan thanks to Jesus.
00:02:49.000So there actually is kind of uplifting.
00:02:53.000Satan has done a very good job of leading us to believe that there's nothing to believe in.
00:02:58.000And we've seen that over the last year and a half.
00:03:02.000And kind of in my job, I talk about a lot of different things, but I'm trying to bring people to ultimate purpose.
00:03:09.000And the ultimate purpose is Jesus Christ.
00:03:12.000And 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.
00:03:23.000And 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.
00:03:33.000And so I was really moved this last week when I had students come up to me.
00:03:38.000And 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.
00:03:45.000It'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.
00:03:56.000And I was really moved when students came up to me.
00:03:59.000They said, Charlie, I'd never heard anyone in the history of this campus say that Jesus Christ was the king of the world.
00:04:08.000And 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.
00:04:14.000And 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.
00:04:23.000And it might not be politically correct, of which if you know me, I could not care less about that.
00:04:30.000That 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.
00:04:43.000And 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.
00:04:50.000I was like, why can I not get Genesis 1-1 out of my head?
00:04:55.000And it's a scripture that everyone knows in one way or the other.
00:04:59.000And by the way, Rawl gave me this beautiful Bible.
00:05:02.000And 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.
00:05:09.000I'll get into that later, though, because I'm a big believer in physical Bibles.
00:08:21.000That 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.
00:08:33.000And 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.
00:08:47.000Now, 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.
00:08:56.000They'll start to find other false religions rooted in teachings that are not of the Bible.
00:09:01.000It says 365 times throughout the Bible, do not be afraid.
00:10:37.000And 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.
00:10:46.000That he's going to do whatever he possibly can.
00:11:24.000No, I want a dedicated, unchanging, uncorruptible, non-influenced, cannot be influenced from anything, place where I can get straight and get right with God.
00:11:37.000And the other reason that I love it is that a Bible has a certain weight and feel to it.
00:11:42.000Anyone 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.
00:11:50.000And 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.
00:12:02.000I know when I pick up my Bible, this is my weapon.
00:12:05.000As soon as I pick it up, this is dedicated for a specific purpose, a connection to the divine.
00:12:12.000When I pick up my phone, that's not the purpose of the phone.
00:12:15.000In fact, for my phone, it's just kind of like, what is it today that I need to be upset about, right?
00:12:44.000And 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.
00:13:25.000I was like, am I really too busy for that?
00:13:28.000And, 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.
00:14:10.000But maybe he rested to enjoy, to ponder, to see.
00:14:17.000And 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.
00:14:22.000Well, then what is God trying to tell you with this?
00:14:24.000So anyway, in July, I said, you know what?
00:14:27.000I'm just, again, if you know my schedule, I'm giving 330 speeches a year.
00:14:32.000I'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.
00:16:25.000When you get in a fight with your parents, even if you don't like your parents, you know that's not right.
00:16:30.000When 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.
00:16:42.000And 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.
00:16:49.000And if you know me, I got my phone everywhere, right?
00:16:53.000And now I am very proud of, I'm very thankful, not proud of myself, I'm very thankful to God.
00:16:57.000I deleted all my social media apps from my phone a year and a half ago.
00:17:32.000You could do things you otherwise wouldn't do.
00:17:34.000Now, 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.
00:17:45.000And 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.
00:17:54.000All of a sudden, it leads up to, and so yesterday I took the 24 hours, which actually look at the Bible.
00:18:00.000It really is Friday night to Saturday night, not against Sunday church.
00:18:03.000I'm actually very in supportive of it.
00:19:40.000I 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.
00:19:50.000However, 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.
00:20:11.000But they certainly do not care in their viewpoint as much as Christianity for intention.
00:20:16.000We care about did you mean to do well or what is the intention of your heart?
00:20:22.000In Judaism, they say what actually ended up happening, a very more legalistic, law-based way to look at things.
00:20:28.000Where 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.
00:20:40.000Almost impossible for human beings to live up to.
00:20:44.000Because it's not just what happens outside, it's also what happens inside.
00:20:48.000And 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.
00:21:04.000And obviously, this is kind of, you know, this is very rare in today's time.
00:21:09.000We have people in most of society and most in cultural institutions that want to glorify and glamorize the watering down of God.
00:21:19.000And I want to say this again, that if you follow God's commandments, you will be blessed.
00:21:25.000And 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.
00:21:41.000It's there to actually have you grow closer to God.
00:21:45.000And so a couple things I just want to kind of mention, and I encourage you guys to come to the next services.
00:21:51.000Every service will be different because it's kind of off the cuff.
00:23:06.000This is why Paul says that we must pray for a renewing of our mind.
00:23:11.000We must actually try to renew our identity in Christ.
00:23:15.000We 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.
00:23:24.000He gets thrown into the lake of fire forever.
00:23:27.000But Satan is a real threat to many believers because we de-emphasize it.
00:26:26.000It'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.
00:26:36.000He knows that's where human beings are in some ways at their weakest.
00:26:39.000This is why it says in the New Testament, flee from sexual immorality.
00:26:45.000And it goes on to say that Satan prowls the earth, in 1 Peter, prowls the earth like a lion looking for those to devour.
00:26:53.000It's a pretty profound statement, isn't it?
00:26:55.000Now, 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?
00:27:03.000The third thing is by who you surround yourself with and what you put into your mind and what you put into your soul.
00:27:09.000It's a very important thing that you are a combined moving average of the five people you spend the most time with.
00:27:18.000Go 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.
00:27:23.000Not your five best friends, not the five people you want to be with, but just an allotment of time.
00:27:40.000What kind of music are you listening to?
00:27:42.000If 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.
00:27:55.000And so those are three very simple ways.
00:27:58.000And one of my favorite scriptures in the entire Bible, again, let's try to bring back physical Bibles.
00:29:13.000No coincidence that Satan then prays on Jesus when he's at his weakest.
00:29:18.000Everyone 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.
00:29:32.000You know, when you sleep in and you're working out and you're listening to praise music, you're fine.
00:30:12.000Now I deserve something that makes me feel good.
00:30:16.000Jesus was hungry, so hungry that his body was eating himself alive.
00:30:21.000Continues, 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.
00:31:53.000Well, 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.
00:32:02.000And so Jesus never questions that Satan can give momentary gain and pleasure here on earth.
00:32:11.000And 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.
00:32:47.000I don't think I have time to get into it.
00:32:50.000And 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.
00:32:58.000And then Satan said to him, Go, Satan, or go away, Satan, depending on your translation.
00:33:03.000For it is written, you shall worship the Lord your God and serve him only.
00:33:10.000Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and began to minister to him.
00:33:15.000Now, 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.
00:33:28.000Only Jesus' divine nature was able to defeat Satan.
00:33:31.000Understand, 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.
00:33:45.000When Jesus, in another scripture in Mark, tried to take, was confronted with demon-possessed people, he said, What is your name?
00:33:53.000Said, my name is Legion because we are many.
00:33:56.000Now, 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.
00:34:10.000And 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.
00:34:52.000I'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.
00:35:42.000Maybe you're not doing something consequential enough for Satan doesn't take you seriously.
00:35:52.000Where 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.
00:36:23.000But the church that remains open, courageous, going to other countries, ministering, winning souls for Christ, he's like, whoa, there's a problem there.
00:36:35.000That'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.
00:37:41.000Or, yeah, read the whole Bible cover to cover in one year.
00:37:45.000It's called Bible in 365, and it's a wonderful, beautiful ministry.
00:37:49.000And she also has a great Made in America clothing line.
00:37:52.000And so thank you for wearing that and for supporting her.
00:37:55.000And so people ask, Charlie, how can we support you?
00:37:59.000Well, 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.
00:38:07.000But Jesus wants to set the captives free of our sinful nature.
00:38:11.000And my day-to-day job is, of course, to spread the gospel.
00:38:14.000I did my best to do that, and we're going to do it again in the next couple minutes.
00:38:17.000But 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.
00:38:27.000We'll get into that in other services.
00:38:29.000But 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.
00:39:04.000If 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.
00:39:55.000Grace is unlike any other word that we understand.
00:39:59.000Justice is you getting what you deserve.
00:40:01.000You 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.
00:40:09.000Mercy is getting less of what you deserve.
00:40:12.000You get five years in prison instead of 10 years.
00:40:15.000Grace, and we will all face God, the judge, when we die.
00:40:20.000I don't know if you know this, but everyone dies.
00:40:23.000It's important to remind yourself of that.
00:40:25.000That you face God, the judge, and he's going to list everything you did wrong in your life.
00:40:31.000It's going to be a long sentencing hearing for me.
00:40:35.000Well, you get justice, which is hell, because that's what we deserve.
00:40:38.000Mercy, which is less of that, which I'll allow the theologians to figure out what that is, or grace.
00:40:44.000Grace 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.
00:40:55.000I will go into the prison cell for him or her so that they can live forever.
00:41:10.000It'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.
00:41:20.000That's a gift that we must try to give all people in the world.
00:41:24.000And 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.
00:41:33.000The most important thing that you can do, which is to be born new into the kingdom of God.
00:41:40.000And there's a competition right now, and Satan is trying to tell people this doesn't matter.
00:42:02.000Our nature is nasty, it's brutish, it's short, and it's awful to one another.
00:42:08.000And 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.
00:42:17.000Well, Martin Luther had a great quote.
00:42:20.000He 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.
00:42:34.000So this is something that is profoundly important for every single Christian to focus on.
00:42:39.000And 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.
00:42:44.000And he wants to live in eternity with you and for you.