00:00:54.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:00.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:12.000I just want to thank, first of all, all of you that send me your warm notes of encouragement that you're praying for us and praying for me.
00:01:20.000It's, you know, it's a battle out there, and there's definitely some spiritual warfare going on.
00:03:18.000And when we feel as if we don't have momentum, we feel as if there's not enough or not going fast enough.
00:03:23.000And if you're like me since January, especially, feels like we've been a little bit on defense, a little bit on the heels, a little bit like we've got no momentum.
00:03:33.000It seems as if our values, our ideas are always under attack.
00:03:37.000And it seems like the mass is decreasing and any movement is going backwards.
00:03:42.000But in the last couple of days, I've felt actually something different.
00:03:45.000A certain senator from West Virginia came out and he said, look, I might be able to negotiate on a couple of things, but HR1 and HR5 and adding DC and Puerto Rico estates and mail-in ballots, that's not going to happen.
00:05:19.000And for those of you that have been in Israel, you could just imagine how beautiful and majestic this was.
00:05:24.000The son of David built something to the glory of God that was so incredible.
00:05:28.000But that temple was destroyed and the Jews were sent out into exile.
00:05:33.000Jews coming from the tribe of Judah, the Hebrews, God's chosen people.
00:05:37.000Then a secular man, best described as someone who is not part of God's chosen people, Cyrus, as said and was prophesied, came and said, You know what?
00:05:46.000You can go back to Jerusalem and you can reclaim what is yours.
00:05:50.000So they get back and they have all this momentum.
00:06:40.000It's kind of a little bit of a, hey, I'm not loving this right now.
00:06:45.000But then all of a sudden, this man of God, Zechariah, and there's over 30 people with that name in the Bible, and historians point this specific prophet as being kind of the hype man.
00:06:55.000He was the guy that came to Zerebbabel.
00:10:01.000And as we look at that scripture, we know how it ends.
00:10:04.000And so if momentum is the product of weight or mass times velocity or speed, then a big, heavy debt object could be going really fast, but that's not momentum.
00:10:17.000And so what we need to understand, or very slow speed, I should say.
00:10:20.000So the issue that we have here is we need to continue to expand our ranks and look around.
00:10:47.000But for those of you that say, oh, a small thing doesn't really change history, what if I told you a piece of wood this big created America?
00:10:59.000What if I told you a piece of wood this big changed the course of human history?
00:11:04.000All of you have heard of Benedict Arnold before.
00:11:06.000Benedict Arnold was a traitor to the United States.
00:11:09.000In the Revolutionary War period, we were in a bitter war against the greatest power the world has ever seen, with a navy that was unmatched and ground forces that were well trained and unlimited budget.
00:11:19.000King George basically declared war on us for sport.
00:11:23.000He was like, ah, the American colonists, I'm going to prove it to them.
00:11:26.000And adding insult to injury, Benedict Arnold betrayed the armed forces and he befriended this guy by the name of Major John Andre.
00:11:36.000He was constantly slipping secrets of troop formations and George Washington was always confused how the British knew that there was going to be one or two moves ahead.
00:11:45.000He was always like, how do they know what I'm going to do before I do it?
00:13:26.000But as we know in the Bible, if you decide to do acts of treachery, what is done in darkness will be brought to light.
00:13:32.000So this deal gets brokered, and Major John Andre gets on the ship.
00:13:37.000He's excited because he just brokered the deal where Benedict Arnold said, I'm going to tell you when to attack West Point and how to attack it at the perfect time.
00:14:43.000It does very little to no damage to this ship.
00:14:46.000But strangely and bizarrely, it hits the wood in a certain way where a splinter of wood this big pops up and goes up into the nose of Major John Andre.
00:15:00.000So Major John Andre gets really annoyed and irritated and he's like, you know what?
00:15:09.000Turn this around so I can get this fixed or you can find another person.
00:15:12.000And no one really knows the significance of the documents he has right there in his jacket.
00:15:18.000They go back, they get intercepted by three American minutemen.
00:15:23.000And all of a sudden they say, they pat him down and they get all the papers and they look at this and they say, oh my goodness.
00:15:29.000And a man by the name of Major Benjamin Talmadge, who is one of George Washington's secret spies, a man who is loyal and committed to the truth, said, I will take that.
00:15:41.000He ran as fast as he could, got on horseback and rode through the night, nearly killed his horse to General Washington.
00:15:48.000Said, this is how they know what we're doing before we do it.
00:15:51.000And immediately, George Washington said, Ah, I see.
00:15:55.000Benedict Arnold fled and this is whole drama, but the trust of Benedict Arnold was broken.
00:16:00.000And you say, okay, but what's the significance?
00:16:04.000If the cannonball would have destroyed the ship, everyone would have cheered, but they just would have sent another ship to go have Benedict Arnold sell us down the only a piece of wood this big that could have annoyed a sociopath by the name of Major John Andre to turn around to then go to shore and have three American minutemen then get in the custody to get the papers that show irrefutably that Benedict Arnold was selling our troops.
00:16:31.000So be that piece of wood, will you please?
00:16:35.000Will you go be that one little piece of action?
00:16:37.000Because the small things are the big things and that changed the course of the entire American Revolution.
00:16:43.000From that point forward, George Washington only kept his dearest friends and he had checks and balances against everyone around him.
00:16:49.000All of a sudden, the American troops had a shot of energy and the British troops had a little bit of despair.
00:16:54.000It changed the course of history nearly permanently.
00:16:57.000And I truly believe it was a miracle in the hand of God.
00:17:00.000I believe what was being done in darkness for selling out our country for lies and deceit and for tyrannical control was done for the reason of trying to preserve power.
00:17:12.000The small things are the big things, everybody.
00:17:14.000The little things have big, big impact.
00:17:17.000And a piece of wood that big very well could have won the American Revolution and with it all the freedom and liberty that we enjoy today.
00:17:27.000Okay, let's get to what's happening now in Arizona.
00:17:31.000So a lot has happened since our last meeting.
00:17:34.000And I first just want to thank all of you that have had a recommitted energy and focus on school boards in general.
00:17:41.000So I'm going to do a couple school board updates here, things that are happening, trends, what's wrong with them.
00:17:46.000Then we're going to get to some statewide stuff.
00:17:48.000And then we'll do some questions, which we really, really enjoy.
00:17:52.000So many of you are aware of what's been happening in the Scottsdale Unified School District.
00:17:58.000And yeah, so quite a lot's been happening.
00:18:02.000So they had a meeting in late April and they canceled the meeting because they said there was a bunch of agitators there about mask policy and whatever it is.
00:18:56.000I think that we have to recommit ourselves to knowing what our children are being taught, where is it coming from, because a country, a nation, and a people cannot continue to flourish if we are not able to pass down our proven traditions and our customs to the next generation.
00:19:11.000And look, I'll be honest, I think that we've been taken advantage of.
00:19:16.000I think that we gave trust and then we kind of just said, you know what, I trust you to do this.
00:19:36.000And if any of you live in Litchfield, Arizona and want to live around there, you have to keep that.
00:19:41.000I have to say, because of what we've done here, they released a statement that they're reconsidering their equity critical race theory curriculum.
00:20:00.000I'm going to go through a couple other examples.
00:20:01.000And I met with some amazing teachers previously: is that what exactly is it that we find to be so troubling about this new trend?
00:20:11.000And so, we went into this last time, but it's worthy of repetition, which is there is a movement right now in the country to try to implement critical race theory into our schools.
00:20:23.000And critical race theory comes from this idea of critical theory.
00:20:27.000It was born out of the Frankfurt School in Germany, and it's by a guy by the name of Herbert Marcuse and a woman by the name of Angela Davis, who is still alive.
00:20:36.000Angela Davis is a member of the American Communist Party, and critical theory, especially critical race theory, is at direct odds with the teachings of the Bible and the traditions of Western civilization.
00:22:03.000Now, instead of emphasizing action, trying to understand how every person is made in the image of God, critical theory, going back to Herbert Marcuse, believes that everything is a power struggle.
00:22:17.000That everything, without whether you realize it or not, is one group fighting another group.
00:22:21.000We as Christians find this to be quite honestly reprehensible.
00:22:25.000We find that every person at birth is, of course, broken by nature and needs a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
00:22:32.000That you might be part of a group of your choosing.
00:22:35.000You might be part of some group, but the most important group that you should be part of is called the kingdom of heaven group.
00:22:40.000That's the group that we care about the most.
00:22:43.000And that tradition that was passed down through Western culture allowed this idea of individual rights to really be created.
00:22:51.000You have to understand before America, this idea of ancestral guilt, that you must atone for what your great-grandfather did was normal.
00:23:01.000So if I told you right now that all of a sudden you must do something that you didn't do, but someone that you were related to did, you'd say, no, that's not me.
00:23:08.000I make my own choices and my own action.
00:23:10.000Now, we know this in how we explain salvation to young people.
00:23:17.000We say, hey, you need to, your parents can't save you.
00:23:20.000You got to come in your own relationship with Christ.
00:23:22.000Now, that idea that you will be individually held accountable is a uniquely Christian idea that has been passed down either consciously or subconsciously in our American traditions, customs, and in the rule of law.
00:23:56.000But the way that critical race theory teaches, oh, no, no, you look like that person, therefore, you must be held accountable with that person.
00:24:03.000And anyone who's grown up in the West, as we have, we know this to be rather so obvious, sloppy, dangerous, and dare I say, unethical and evil.
00:25:05.000The thing that's truly been destroyed in our country is the nuclear family in our country, is being able to be raised with a mother and a father.
00:25:14.000If a child hears 3,000 words or less every single day, they are far more likely to go to prison, commit crimes, or join a gang.
00:25:22.000If they hear 3,000 words or more, higher, more vocabulary, more likely to have higher cognitive function, they're more likely to be able to go to college and not commit crimes.
00:25:31.000Now, you ask yourself, is a child more likely or less likely to hear more words if they have a mother or father around?
00:25:39.000And we know, according to the data, that a child that is, a white child that is raised by a single mother, and God bless our single mothers, by the way, it's an afana, we should support them in every way, is less likely to succeed, not because of a single mother, just because of the pressure and the weight of raising a child than a black child that is raised by a mother and a father.
00:25:59.000That single statistic is the most universal and colorblind statistic.
00:26:04.000But instead, the emphasis on this conversation that is unfortunately being entertained in Chandler Unified School District, amongst many others, is one that will reverse everything that I said.
00:26:16.000And this is where I think we have to continue to stand up clearly and boldly and understand where these ideas come from.
00:26:22.000You know, I remember 10 years ago, 10 years ago, when we used to say, you know what, if you cared about skin color, you're kind of engaging in racism.
00:26:32.000And I think that we should actually just repeat what Martin Luther King Jr. said, which is I dream of a day where we care about the content of someone's character, not the color of your skin.
00:27:52.000And if I can only hear you mumble and I can't see your entire expression, I think it actually dehumanizes our interactions with one another and makes us less civil, less likely to have empathy, less likely to be compassionate, less likely to love like Christ did if we're walking around with masks all the time, acting as if you're the problem, not the opportunity.
00:28:23.000Nationally, there have been a couple states, Oklahoma as one, Montana as the other, and Florida as the other, that have passed pieces of legislation in the state level that have done the following.
00:28:34.000Arizona currently has not done this, but the opportunity is there.
00:28:38.000Number one, that has said that men are not allowed to compete in female sports against females.
00:28:50.000Florida has signed that into law, and God bless Governor Ron DeSantis for doing that.
00:28:59.000Another one would be banning this idea of critical race theory.
00:29:04.000Now, let me say this: I'm not one to go quick into this idea of banning.
00:29:09.000After all, we do love freedom of speech and discourse.
00:29:12.000However, there are certain ideas that are so vile, so against our ethical system, that we do not believe they should be the forefront of how we train and instill values into our children, especially in the formative years, because we know this, especially those of you that are teachers and that have worked in childhood development.
00:29:29.000You only get so much time and attention with a five and six and seven-year-old.
00:29:34.000And if you're using that valuable time to all of a sudden emphasize things that we do not want emphasized, then all of a sudden we should say, time out, that is not what education should be for.
00:29:43.000So education comes from the Latin word to lead forth.
00:29:47.000So how are we leading forth the seven-year-olds that say, you know what?
00:29:51.000What really matters is not how you act.
00:29:55.000It doesn't matter your relationship with your creator.
00:29:57.000What matters is something you can't change.
00:29:58.000That's kind of awfully depressing for a seven-year-old to hear.
00:30:02.000And so there are a couple bills right now that are up against, that are kind of being debated right now.
00:30:08.000And the Arizona session is coming to an end.
00:30:12.000I want to just name a couple that have been vetoed.
00:30:14.000And I hope that there's some reconsiderations of these right now in Arizona.
00:30:20.000HB 2792 was vetoed by the governor, which prohibits the delivery of early ballots to anyone who has not specifically requested one.
00:30:28.000Another one that was vetoed, which is kind of bizarre that this was vetoed, is the one right here that requires the Attorney General to review the constitutionality of any executive orders by the president.
00:30:52.000You guys make your own decisions, right?
00:30:54.000And we're doing everything as a 501c3 would.
00:30:56.000I'm just here telling you the facts, right?
00:30:58.000That SB 11074 was vetoed by the governor, which would have banned requiring public employees to participate in critical race theory training, which includes teachers, educators, and administrators.
00:32:05.000Our country has not always lived up to that concept that all men are created equal, still is a fundamental idea that should be upheld by our schools, government institutions, and society.
00:32:15.000To teach our children otherwise is immoral and fuels corrosive social tensions within our state and nation.
00:32:20.000So, let's just be somewhat solution-oriented.
00:32:23.000How about we say, Governor, I'm not sure why you vetoed these 22 bills.
00:32:26.000We're going to say it with a smile, but why don't you pass the Unbiased Teaching Act here in Arizona and lead the rest of the country in saying we in Arizona care about character, not skin color?
00:32:36.000There is still time to do this, and all of you guys can get that done right here in the state of Arizona.
00:32:44.000And so, this is still coming up, and Michelle Udall is a Republican member of the House of Representatives in Mesa.
00:32:49.000And so, there's a lot happening in Arizona.
00:32:52.000And as we talked about last time, this state is the gateway to the rest of the country.
00:32:57.000There are hundreds of millions of dollars pouring into the state on the state and local level.
00:33:02.000And I just want to re-emphasize this point, and I'd love to do some questions and dive into this even more.
00:33:06.000Re-emphasize the point that the small things are the big things.
00:33:09.000You never know when your individual courageous action could very well be the thing that all of a sudden changes the course.
00:33:15.000It could be one letter, one conversation.
00:33:18.000But I also want to say that let us never become angry or bitter or anything less than joyful in how we communicate that.
00:33:25.000I've tried my best to do that in the way that I've done this, despite any sort of personal reservations I have.
00:33:30.000And you guys can make your own feelings.
00:33:32.000But I think that with good cheer and embodying how we're supposed to communicate and be empathetic, but also clear.
00:33:38.000Remember, Jesus was so unique, obviously.
00:34:52.000What am I, like a running back for the Arizona Cardinals or something, right?
00:34:56.000And there's nothing special about what I do, it's just energy and it's participation.
00:35:01.000Instead, I'm hearing people that are saying, Man, like these amazing parents I just met with from a certain unspecified part of Arizona, they said, We're in the trenches.
00:35:09.000We're getting called names, we're getting called all these things, and I feel what you feel.
00:35:14.000And thank you for having my back, and we have your back.
00:35:16.000And that's really what we're here to do: to enlighten, to educate.
00:35:20.000And if you feel so compelled, all of a sudden you believe what Zachariah said.
00:35:24.000And I'm going to re-emphasize this piece of scripture.
00:35:26.000Those small things are the big things that the little action that might feel so insignificant that God can use for that great purpose.
00:39:09.000We say, how many of you want to get rid of freedom of speech?
00:39:11.000And if 51% of the hands go up, it's gone.
00:39:14.000A republic is intentionally slow and deliberate because it recognizes things that are eternal, things that don't change.
00:39:22.000You see, the professors and the people that run our public health department and the people on television, they try to convince you because we have airplanes and internet and Twitter and Facebook that human beings have evolved so much since the times of Christ.
00:39:33.000Now, we're just as lying, deceitful, treacherous, self-centered, narcissistic, and sociopathic as the Pharisees were.
00:39:40.000We haven't really improved much at all.
00:39:41.000In fact, in some ways, technology has made it worse.
00:39:45.000So the founding fathers built the system on things that do not change.
00:39:49.000Don't let your smug friends say, oh, we've advanced so much in postmodern America.
00:39:55.000I can fly to New York, therefore we're better people.
00:39:59.000Well, no, actually, those things only reinforce or accelerate our broken nature.
00:40:03.000In fact, it only makes us need Jesus more.
00:40:06.000And so this republic style of government recognizes that.
00:40:10.000The American system also has this idea of checks and balances.
00:40:15.000So if you dive deep into the philosophy behind the American founding, you start to see this recurring theme, which is it's really hard to change things quickly.
00:40:26.000I want to think, just I want to reiterate that.
00:41:54.000That the government just can't storm into your home and take all of your stuff.
00:41:57.000Fifth Amendment, that you're able, that's the right against self-incrimination.
00:42:01.000Six, seven, eight are all about due process, quick and speedy trial.
00:42:04.000The Ninth Amendment is really kind of fun because the Ninth Amendment says that there are rights out there that exist that aren't currently articulated in the Constitution.
00:42:14.000I actually love that amendment because it says very clearly in the Bill of Rights, it says, if we didn't touch it, it doesn't mean we got it wrong.
00:42:21.000It means very well that we're not saying we have all the answers.
00:42:26.000It's the most humble amendment of the entire United States Constitution and honestly the most looked after, the Ninth Amendment.
00:42:32.000The 10th Amendment, which means that anything we didn't cover goes down to the states and down to the people.
00:42:38.000I love the 10th Amendment because remember, the states created the federal government.
00:42:41.000The federal government did not create the states.
00:42:44.000The states created the federal government.
00:42:46.000The federal government did not create the states.
00:42:48.000Now, what's interesting, and I will get back to your Second Amendment question, is that the Bill of Rights was not put or passed till December of 1791.
00:42:59.000If you guys remember, in 1787, in September, after some heated debates, that's when the Constitution was passed.
00:43:05.000It took them four years to get this passed.
00:43:07.000Is George Mason, good old George Mason, who passed the original Bill of Rights in Virginia, which recognized this idea, like, hey, you need extra protections so human beings don't get steamrolled by government because that's how God made them.
00:43:23.000And they need to be able to pursue virtue.
00:43:26.000Let me say what liberty is: liberty is not being able to put drugs in your body or do things as you want to do it.
00:43:31.000This like weird secular version of liberty.
00:43:34.000That is never what the founding fathers knew liberty to be.
00:43:37.000Liberty is the ability to pursue virtue, which means the good, without someone getting in the way.
00:44:07.000Because if we just have a little bit of reading of history, it is time and time again of well-meaning people that represent the people that all of a sudden take away our freedoms and liberties.
00:44:21.000They knew that in order for consent of the governed to work and permission to work, people had to be able to defend themselves, not just from someone coming into their home, but God forbid from a usurptatious government.
00:44:33.000And this is a unique characteristic of the American system.
00:44:37.000This is one that I believe actually creates more peace than conflict.
00:44:42.000It creates more negotiation and bargain than actual toil and division.
00:44:47.000And it's almost completely contrarian than what you might believe.
00:44:51.000So the new ATF person, as I now come back to your question, is now up for confirmation.
00:44:57.000He does not believe that firearm ownership is a constitutional right.
00:45:02.000He has a whole litany of he thinks that AR-15s aren't, they should be confiscated.
00:45:45.000She's been pretty good on a couple things.
00:45:46.000Again, I know that she's awful unlike everything else, but the fact that she opposes breaking the filibuster and adding these things and she's giving some of these nominees a hard time, honestly, think because I could use a couple people standing up and kind of doing, just throwing a little chaos there.
00:46:06.000And I'll give you one final example of this.
00:46:09.000If you're not yet one over on this, and I'm a big Second Amendment guy, obviously, which is, I want you to think back to Hong Kong, the Hong Kong protesters two years ago.
00:46:19.000The Hong Kong protesters, again, Hong Kong for 100 years had a 100-year contract with the British.
00:46:24.000It was a sovereign place where they had private property rights, freedom of commerce.
00:47:32.000When I thank you, that we thank you for all your hard work, all your dedication, all your research, all being rooted in the truth, information that you come back to inform us.
00:47:44.000So thank you for your wonderful wedding gift, too, by the way.
00:47:54.000Last night on Tucker, Candace Owens was on, and she spoke about how the Democrats are actually changing the demographics of the United States, that the Harris-Biden, the Biden-Harris administration, however you want to go ahead and look at it, is actually changing the demographics of the United States by bringing in all these illegals.
00:48:23.000They're the new votes for the Democrats.
00:48:27.000How do I, as an individual, how do we, we being the corporate consensus Christian conservatives, how do we stand up against this and stop this insanity?
00:48:44.000So let's talk about biblical immigration for a second, because I think that there's a little bit of a misunderstanding here.
00:48:49.000Every time immigration, migration, or transferring from one land to the other is talked about in the Bible, assimilation is almost always mentioned.
00:49:15.000A nation is mentioned many, many times all throughout the scriptures.
00:49:18.000A nation is when people come together, hopefully voluntarily, and they agree, again, hopefully through their actual consent, to be able to govern themselves in one way or the other.
00:49:28.000Nations are rarely, if not ever, acts of randomness.
00:49:34.000Now, sometimes you have some people that play war games with that, but where we are right now, most nations are deliberate.
00:49:41.000If nations all of a sudden are just kind of suggestions and borders are nothing more than lines drawn on a map, then all of a sudden that means the Bill of Rights does not really apply to the people of America.
00:49:51.000It might apply to the entire Western Hemisphere, but whose Bill of Rights?
00:49:54.000The Mexican Bill of Rights or the American Bill of Rights?
00:49:56.000Now, I have nothing against the Mexican Bill of Rights, but the Second Amendment's not in the Mexican Bill of Rights.
00:50:01.000I have nothing against the Mexican Bill of Rights, but they do not have as robust free speech protections, or maybe the Canadian Constitution, where they just locked up another nine pastors for violating orders for doing exactly what you did right now.
00:50:12.000What I'm getting at is that borders and immigration, the ability to have self-determination, is a fundamentally moral question.
00:50:22.000When it comes to this idea of immigration into the country, we have to also broaden the conversation that it's not moral for the people that are coming here, the women that get raped, taken advantage of, trafficked across the southern border for sport and for pay by coyotes in the cartel that have created these vacuums of, boy, what's the right word I'm looking for?
00:50:46.000They create these vacuums of, they're taking advantage, these vacuums of, quite honestly, horror.
00:50:54.000And so the moral thing to do would be what Nehemiah did.
00:50:58.000Build a wall and have a process if you want to come in to come in.
00:51:02.000The entire book of Nehemiah is just about that.
00:51:05.000Because in the book of Nehemiah, it says very clearly, and I'm quoting, I'm paraphrasing, I should say, that there are threats sometimes that want to diminish the state of Israel.
00:51:13.000And this idea about nations and borders, I love Israel, by the way.
00:51:17.000Greg, you and I talk about Israel all the time.
00:51:54.000If Israel laid down their weapons, there would be no Israel.
00:51:57.000If the Arabs laid down their weapons, there would be peace.
00:52:00.000That's all I have to say about Israel in the Middle East.
00:52:02.000With that being said, I believe it is a moral thing that Israel says we are going to have control over the people that come into our nation.
00:52:15.000I think we should have grace and mercy and truth.
00:52:18.000At the same time, we must be very clear through public policy decisions that if immigration, which I believe it is, is being used as a political tool, that is immoral and it is wrong and is being used as a continual political football.
00:52:39.000So $86.9 million was given to a non-profit organization to house illegal immigrants, technical immigration, in hotel rooms.
00:52:49.000Now, how many people right now who serve this country are having trouble paying for the housing bills, including their medical, their meals, and yet we have 87 million dollars given to illegal immigrants to an organization to house them until they get a court date.
00:53:06.000So my question is, can you give us one practical thing we can do to avoid this or to stop the government from doing this?
00:53:12.000Because I don't know about you, but I prefer American citizens to get help, even more veterans to get help than illegal immigrants or criminals that come into this country.
00:53:46.000I will say this though, that the more the governors of the southern states can try to use whatever resources they have at their disposal to try to protect the sovereignty of the states that they've been sworn to protect, I'm in full support of that.
00:54:00.000It seems like the federal government is completely uninterested in helping right now, that our vice president goes down to Guatemala and is interested in that.
00:54:09.000Look, we had a time where border crossings were at an all-time low.
00:54:20.000The amount of rapes, human smuggling, child sex trafficking, drugs, and guns being smuggled were plummeting.
00:54:26.000So I think we have to talk about the holistic human cost here as well.
00:54:30.000And I just got to be honest, I'm losing my patience with the current people in power that lectured me and us for nine months about children in cages.
00:54:41.000And now that is even worse than ever before.
00:54:43.000And all of a sudden, we have to be just kind of just virtue-signaled non-stop.
00:54:48.000So, this is where hopefully we can get a leadership class in our country that starts to be very clear about what immigration is, what that mechanism is.
00:54:56.000And mass migration is not good for anybody.
00:55:06.000A nation, as described in the Bible, has a moral right of self-determination to be able to decide who comes into their country and for what purpose.
00:55:15.000I'm afraid that the spirit of generosity we have has now been taken advantage of on a national and international level, and that it is now coming at a great cost to us.
00:55:27.000And so we have to be very clear about that.
00:55:44.000Maybe get into, you know, I mean, like they're on a reservation.
00:55:47.000Just ask Steve Smutterman all about that.
00:55:48.000He's got a lot to tell you about that.
00:55:51.000Come to some sort of state-based coalition to say, look, I'll just use Texas as an example.
00:55:56.000If you're not going to do it, I'm going to mobilize the Texas Rangers, right?
00:55:59.000Like, I mean, at some point, there's got to be a breaking point there, right?
00:56:03.000Because there's a mechanism for this to work, but you guys see this.
00:56:08.000And just so you guys know, Scottsdale Road.
00:56:13.000Scottsdale Road, there is a hotel that used to be a double tree right across from the Hampton Inn Suites where there are hundreds of foreign nationals that have illegally entered into America that are being paid $384 a night to stay there.
00:56:27.000And quite honestly, I'm really insulted because I grew up around Czechoslovakians and Poles and Arabs and Persians and Koreans that waited their turn and they applied and they came into this country and that somehow we should give preference to people that jump in line and border jump.
00:56:46.000I'm not a fan and I find that to be something that we should oppose.
00:57:00.000I apologize if it's painful for anyone here.
00:57:02.000I want to know how we can more emphasize God's love, mercy, and forgiveness for those who have already participated in abortion instead of rejecting or judging them because they're the ones that need our compassion the most.
00:57:15.000First of all, thank you for that question.
00:57:28.000And I think the pro-life movement is doing some good things, Lila Rose and others, but we're doing, I don't know what, I've never seen an advertisement.
00:57:39.000I could be wrong, and I'm going to say this as lovingly as I can.
00:57:41.000An advertisement or reached out to ever by a pregnancy crisis center anywhere in the country.
00:58:04.000And so a pregnancy crisis center is a place that's rooted usually in Christian ethics and values, but it's all about trying to love and counsel and give compassion to expectant mothers to have the child.
00:58:20.000I think that the way the pro-life movement currently is in some of its messaging, it is way too harsh for women that were taken advantage of by abortionists.
00:58:32.000I'll give you a great example of this.
00:58:33.000I got a question the other day in Ohio, and it was contentious.
00:58:55.000You know so little about how this process works.
00:58:58.000These are people that come with whatever option, the small framework of options that have been given to them.
00:59:03.000We don't have a culture of life in many communities, including, by the way, upper middle class white communities.
00:59:08.000Just so we're clear, upper middle class white communities, there's like nothing worse than being pregnant as a teenager or early 20 something.
00:59:16.000And we should be way more understanding and accepting and lifting mothers up like, okay, you made a mistake, but you just made it right for a mistake that you just made.
00:59:23.000Instead, we're like, oh, you did that premaritally, like you're a bad person.
00:59:28.000So like, no, actually, okay, you made a mistake.
00:59:31.000And there's grace every day thanks to our creator, Jesus Christ.
00:59:35.000And God bless you for now saying you're going to take responsibility to bring that life into this world.
00:59:40.000And a lot of young women, they fear nothing more than having to have that kind of conversation.
00:59:44.000And quite honestly, I can see that to an extent.
00:59:47.000Secondly, they underestimate the abortionists.
00:59:50.000These abortionists have a profit incentive to misrepresent the facts, to go after women and try to have a system that they profit from, that they have a financial model.
01:00:01.000I'm perfectly cool with this conversation of holding abortionists accountable, but I think women have to be met with grace and compassion and mercy and say, look, man, it's bad for everyone.
01:00:14.000You know, majority of women regret having abortions in our country.
01:00:18.000And a lot of women never even knew it was an option.
01:00:22.000They didn't know adoption was an option.
01:00:33.000I know what Dream City is doing, which is awesome.
01:00:36.000And, but holistically, we need to do a lot more.
01:00:40.000And I think it's also a tonal thing too.
01:00:42.000It has to be tonal, T-O-N-A-L, which is we got to be the ones that are like, hey, we're pro-life, but we're also going to be the ones that if we need to look after a kid, we will.
01:00:52.000We're going to be the ones that are going to help, you know, in any way possible.
01:00:57.000And this is something I've been talked about a lot.
01:00:58.000And we're only going to ever, I think, win on that issue when we embrace the entire cycle of life, which is exactly what this beautiful church does from the people that are lost and abandoned and forsaken all throughout.
01:04:37.000So my question is a little bit specific.
01:04:40.000How do you encourage someone to think for themselves when they're surrounded by far-left influences and you're the only conservative influence on their life?
01:04:55.000This is one of the reasons why I love Freedom Square.
01:04:58.000So I'm going to do the thing where I'll eventually get back to it.
01:05:04.000Aristotle said politics is the highest form of community because it combines sociability and morality.
01:05:10.000And I just want you to know this is a community for you.
01:05:13.000And if you're the only one, you should get involved with turning points.
01:05:16.000Keep coming to Freedom Square because this is a place where you can look around and know you're not alone, know that people share your values and that you want to do something about it.
01:05:24.000I just want to just re-emphasize that.
01:07:51.000How do you know something is false if you don't know that which is true?
01:07:54.000And that's this idea of objective truth, which is what the entire Christian faith is centered around, right?
01:07:59.000Our whole belief system is that some things are irrefutably, eternally true.
01:08:05.000And then we built a whole civilization around things that were eternal, right?
01:08:08.000And that's the connection between the divine and then the material.
01:08:11.000And so the other thing is just, I keep re-emphasizing this point: just be an embodiment of light and win them over with your charm and who you are.
01:10:15.000These are 2,000 people at 8 o'clock, on a Tuesday night in Phoenix that are coming together to hear and listen about what's happening in the nation and in the area around you.
01:10:26.000There's something happening here, and I don't know quite what it is, but it's bigger than all of us.
01:10:30.000And it could be explained as maybe the spirit moving or something that's really, really awesome.
01:10:34.000And I'm telling you that the test is gonna be, and so here's, here's a good, someone said to me, Charlie, what does success look like for 2021?
01:11:09.000If every person got that description and said that guy had guts for truth, that guy did something that was beyond themselves, that took a leap of faith.
01:11:18.000If every person had that description, then all of a sudden this thing would turn around.
01:11:22.000I'll be honest, some of the biggest movements are by a couple thousand people that congregate in places that really matter.
01:11:29.000It's this kind of retelling of history where sometimes like, oh, it was 500 million people.
01:11:35.000The American Revolution was hatched in barns and saloons, bars, barns, literally, bars, saloons, taverns, and churches of just eight to 10 people that were like, hey, do you hear about this George Washington guy?
01:12:35.000One here, one there, and then we got to go wrap it.
01:12:38.000Hey, Charlie, actually, that hotel right on Scottson Road, I graduated from SHAP, which is a Scottsdale School, and I did not wear a mask when I graduated, just FY.
01:12:47.000But my question is about, I'm very blessed I get to go to college this coming year.
01:12:53.000And what do you think is like the most important thing for folks my age in college to focus on?
01:12:58.000Like, would it be history or like taking like theology classes?
01:13:02.000Like, what's the focus that we ought to have to be this movement, to help continue this momentum?
01:13:35.000Go read and it's just go seek wisdom, which of course isn't rooted in the Bible, which is basically a diagnosis of how human beings act, human nature, and things that explain how the world works.
01:13:47.000So we do two hours of study a day on our podcast.
01:13:50.00090 minutes of my study is dedicated to things that do not change.
01:13:53.000Then 30 minutes, I like read the news and like whatever, because I just kind of find that to be some, but the 90 minutes is what explains what's currently happening.
01:14:02.000So for example, a good thing that you could wrestle with for the next 100 years of your life is what is the good?
01:14:39.000And you'd almost tease an 18-year-old.
01:14:41.000You'd almost want to bring them along and say, okay, now that we got you interested, here's the 5,000 things you got to do to get even close to knowing kind of almost what that is.
01:14:50.000Now, college, and I don't know the specific college, now college is the opposite.
01:14:55.000Now it goes down and says there is no truth, there is no beauty, there is no wonder, there is no God.
01:15:00.000We're nothing but a bunch of cells in a collision course.
01:15:50.000So how can I, as a senior, like combat these different opinions that go on their own, like racial or critical race theory and stuff like that?
01:16:01.000How do we as students actually make a difference?
01:16:05.000So can you just give me some examples of some of the things that are being just, you know, you don't have to if you don't want to.
01:16:10.000So like all the mask things are critical race theory, that's a pretty big one.
01:17:29.000All of a sudden, when everything becomes labeled that, then there's no nuance, and then it just becomes this kind of blanket of generalization and this broad stroke of nothingness.
01:17:36.000So I just want to say, be prepared anytime you stand up against this stuff, be called those things, and be able to navigate that.
01:18:20.000Pressure creates good people, or it creates frameworks where you can then correct your behavior, and then you're able to teach ethics in those situations.
01:18:29.000One of the reasons we have a crisis of goodness in education is we have no more pressure.
01:18:34.000There's no grades, turning it whenever you want to.
01:18:39.000You remove pressure, all of a sudden that kind of framework for the betterment disappears.
01:18:44.000So with that being said, character comes from the Greek word imprint or tattoo.
01:18:49.000You're going to have to ask yourselves the question, what is it deep down, the character that I, the person I want to be, what would I do in a situation like this?
01:18:55.000Should I ask my teacher these questions?
01:19:04.000The more you do in the embodiment of what we talk about with love and with truth and grace and mercy will have a lasting positive impact on you for the rest of your life.
01:19:16.000You might have bad things said about you on social media.
01:19:19.000But all of a sudden, that pressure, the sickness in your stomach, the sleepless nights, the accusations from parents, that will all of a sudden create you to have the maturity of a 50-year-old at 18.
01:19:29.000And all of a sudden, you'll be like, you know what?
01:19:31.000I learned about the proper way to navigate opposition when I was in high school, when they decided to throw everything I possibly could at Horizon High School.
01:19:39.000And all of a sudden, you become that person.
01:19:42.000I think the greatest person in the 20th century was Winston Churchill.
01:20:10.000So he met with the king, and basically they couldn't form a government.
01:20:14.000And the king said, I want you to put down on a list of paper everyone that you think can become prime minister to form a government to stop the Nazis because they were bombing the English channel.
01:20:28.000He left parliament and he wrote this in his diaries, according to his historian Sir Martin Gilbert, with the weight of the world on his shoulders because he knew no matter who he put on that piece of paper, the real answer was going to be him.
01:20:40.000And he said in his private journals that every moment from a time he was in college as a boy in the infantry, in the army, as a biographic or an author of 50 books led him to that moment.
01:20:52.000Every moment of when the pressure came down and he learned who he was and how to operate and how to act.
01:20:56.000So what I'm getting at is that you need to ask yourself the question at 17, which is tough.
01:22:22.000Rick Rinnell, who's a very courageous, good person, is one example.
01:22:26.000And boy, if all of a sudden the church becomes like an advertising arm of something that is so clearly defined as distance from God, I'm perplexed by that.
01:23:35.000So I look, I am very clear on what biblical marriage is.
01:23:38.000I'm also one that believes that we should be very clear and loving to people that have that lifestyle.
01:23:46.000And I am, and we are at Turning Point USA.
01:23:48.000As I said, they're some of my best friends in the world.
01:23:50.000But I don't think we should ever waver on the truth and what that is.
01:23:53.000And let me say this: I know a lot of people that are gay, that are disgusted with the conflation of the gay issue with the transgender issue.
01:24:01.000And their intention, the movement seems to try to put them together.
01:24:06.000But look, as soon as you draw distance from God, we know where that goes and we know the pattern that then manifests itself.
01:24:12.000So, look, I think the most important thing that a church should have is a big cross at the highest possible point that everyone can see.
01:24:22.000And then, if they need to fly any flag, it says in Jeremiah very clearly to pray and demand for the welfare, the peace, the shalom of the city and the nation of which you are in, because that welfare is your welfare.
01:24:35.000So, I perfectly support an American flag outside of every church as long as it's not higher than the cross that flies above it.
01:25:51.000And I want one thing, everybody, that I don't have to flee.
01:25:55.000I want one thing that all of a sudden can take a turnaround and come back, as Pastor Luke would say, back to biblical truth and things that are eternal.
01:26:03.000And it starts with that little piece of wood because the small things are the big things.