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00:01:09.000My speech at Pastor DJ's Church, the House Church in Snohomish, Washington.
00:01:29.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:36.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:59.000Look, I knew we were going to be in Seattle today.
00:02:03.000We had it on our calendar for quite some time.
00:02:05.000And, you know, look, Pastor Roger is a very sweet man, and it's tough when the left comes after you.
00:02:10.000It's tough when they say they're going to burn your neighborhoods down and burn your homes down.
00:02:14.000And I really, I feel for him deeply, truly.
00:02:17.000And I sent out the video I did, and I don't want to hear any nonsense about going after Pastor Roger because he's a good man.
00:02:25.000And until you guys have to deal with that in that neighborhood, and we're used to it at turning point, I would have handled things a little bit differently because of my opinion, when a terrorist comes to your door, you don't negotiate with terrorists.
00:02:38.000And so somebody who listened to our podcast or follows us got us connected to this wonderful church.
00:02:46.000And I said, I don't care if I have to fly out 40 armed guards.
00:02:52.000We're going to go send a message to Antifa that we are gathering and we are open and we're not going to take it.
00:03:00.000That this idea of mob justice, that if you go into the streets with weapons anonymously, that you can somehow dictate the terms of engagement in our country.
00:03:15.000That is something I'm not going to put up with.
00:03:18.000Because look, this is a deeper trend in our country, which is that we used to be a country and it's slipping out of our hands in a very, very troubling way of law and order, of rules, of the government coming to your defense when you want to worship your creator or have a guest speaker.
00:03:39.000But now, if you get enough thugs in the streets or just the threat of that, then all of a sudden you can shut up a speaker and restrict an assembly from happening.
00:05:03.000There's a lot of similarities, which is that I will go anywhere there are truth tellers and people that have courage that want to stand for their beliefs.
00:05:11.000I don't care about the political outcome.
00:06:29.000But after a month and two months, I think this church and many other churches across the country made the right decision to fully reopen because church is not just essential, it's the most essential thing in our country.
00:06:48.000And there are other churches that believed, hey, we're just going to continue to do the live stream thing.
00:06:55.000But it says in the Bible very clearly to never forsake the gathering of believers.
00:07:00.000There's something special when people gather in person.
00:07:02.000I've become a technology skeptic over the last year.
00:07:06.000In fact, I think those phones are largely destroying our humanity.
00:07:09.000And I could go into that if there's interest.
00:07:11.000But seriously, I think that, you know, when I was eight years old, my parents did something that young kids have no idea what this is.
00:07:24.000And then we use something called our imagination.
00:07:28.000And when I go into a restaurant and I see a family of six and everyone's staring at their screens, I say, I'm not exactly sure how to articulate it, but that's just bad for people.
00:07:43.000Because when I went out to eat when I was eight years old, at the very least, my parents would give me a piece of paper to draw on.
00:07:49.000That was like the limitation of keeping me at bay.
00:07:53.000If not, I had to look someone in the eye and have a conversation.
00:07:55.000Now it's just put the screen in front of them.
00:07:57.000That'll keep them busy for the next 30 minutes and then maybe give them a snack.
00:08:00.000So, anyway, I've become a technology skeptic over the last year, and I think the church should as well.
00:08:06.000I think there's something to be said when the church just voluntarily shut down its doors in most parts of the country, this church obviously being an exception to that.
00:08:15.000And we saw a rise in mental health issues, drug usage, alcoholism, and all these other just unspeakable tragedies that have just increased.
00:08:26.000So, we have to ask ourselves the question: what is the church?
00:08:29.000And that's a question that we really haven't had to ask our entire life because we've always taken it for granted.
00:08:33.000The church is not a building, obviously.
00:08:52.000But church is community, it's relationships, it's friendships, it's where the spirit moves.
00:08:57.000Because what's happened here today, after I'm done speaking, someone here has been wanting to go to talk to someone in this room for quite some time.
00:09:20.000And after the last year, I believe it more than ever before: that the people that wish to shut down and shut up the church, they want us to become a TED Talk on YouTube.
00:09:28.000And we can never let that happen again.
00:11:02.000Now, the original translation, they brought it to church, but what was an ecclesia?
00:11:07.000An ecclesia was a political gathering that used to happen in ancient Greece, where the citizens of a local community used to fast and pray and come and gather for the welfare of the city around them.
00:11:19.000And there were two words that were the big unifying principles around an ecclesia: Eleutheria and isonomia, which are the Greek words for freedom and equality.
00:11:28.000I wonder what country has those two words as unifying principles.
00:11:32.000And so this idea of what is the church, not every pastor agrees with this, and I'm happy to go toe-to-toe with all of them in my very limited understanding of the scriptures to actually read the scriptures.
00:11:44.000Is the church should not just not be afraid, but should be actively involved in the moral, civic, and political issues of the day.
00:11:53.000The church should lean in on these issues.
00:11:57.000Now, some pastors say, we don't do that.
00:14:09.000All throughout the Old Testament, people that we view as heroes, Daniel, Esther, Mordecai, Jeremiah, Nehemiah, Joseph, they all influenced secular government for God's purpose.
00:14:18.000They went after government, and they were the counselor to the king.
00:14:21.000Remember that phrase, it's very important.
00:14:23.000They were the communicator of God's purpose to secular government to try to effectuate positive change in the region or the land of which they are in.
00:14:32.000And so let's think of that phrase counselor to the king.
00:14:34.000This is on the founding fathers mentioned time and time again.
00:14:36.000Founding fathers were Bible-believing people.
00:14:38.000Do not believe anything else you say and any sort of the nonsense or the drivel that you read in popular culture.
00:14:44.000The founding fathers were prayerful and moral people.
00:14:46.000John Adams said it very clearly, our second president, the Constitution was written solely for a moral and religious people.
00:14:53.000It is wholly inadequate to the people of any other.
00:14:56.000He goes on to say that liberty is only possible when you, the people, know how to deal with that liberty.
00:15:04.000You could screw it up in like 10 years.
00:15:06.000Because if you do not have the rules for yourself, the rules for your children, soon liberty will be less about the pursuit of virtue and more about chasing pleasure.
00:17:03.000And you've seen that replicate time and time again.
00:17:06.000So without a moral order, which is then why Moses got the uploaded moral app of the Ten Commandments, which is six commandments, us in the relationship of God, four between each other, is without those wise restraints, you will not be able to stay free.
00:17:22.000So all throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament, there's story after story of people of God being the counselor to the kings.
00:17:31.000The founding father said, look, insofar the church remains active and Christians remain vocal, they will be the counselor to the king.
00:17:40.000They'll be the one rising up, organizing their communities, running for office.
00:17:45.000They're the ones that are going to keep the constitutional republic in check.
00:17:52.000We don't teach this history to our children because we've decided to allow our secularists, leftists, run our entire government education system, which it was up for me, I'd abolish the Department of Education like yesterday.
00:18:08.000We were just talking about this, DJ, which is the Black Robe Regimen, probably one of the most important stories in American history that we do not teach our children about, which is activist pastors before the founding of our country.
00:18:22.000George Whitfield, Jonathan Edwards, Roger Williams, speaking clearly of the scriptures.
00:18:28.000And they caught the attention of one very, very wise man who is wrongly described as a deist, one of my favorite American founders.
00:18:36.000I wouldn't say he's a Bible-believing Christian, but I have my suspicions that he was.
00:18:40.000We just don't have documentation of it, it's Benjamin Franklin.
00:20:41.000He's a conservative, an Irish-English member of parliament, who told King George, don't do this.
00:20:47.000These guys want it more than we do because these are Protestant, Bible-believing, liberty-loving people, and the world's never seen anything like this.
00:21:12.000But what he was getting at is that there was a special kind of a citizen that was kind of formed because of the Bible-believing ethic that led into it.
00:21:20.000Second Great Awakening happened in the 1815s to 1820s.
00:21:25.000America almost fell backwards, didn't really get to the place that it did because of an alcoholism crisis and a moral crisis that happened in the 1850s, 1820s.
00:21:37.000Activist pastors rose up and caught America from falling.
00:21:40.000You guys have all done that trust fall before, where you just kind of, that's been America time and time again.
00:22:03.000America was founded on freedom, not on slavery.
00:22:06.000The year after the Declaration of Independence, now I'm going to give you some facts, and even some conservatives are afraid to talk about this because they just don't know the history, and that's fine because they don't teach it anywhere.
00:22:16.000A year after the Declaration of Independence, Vermont independently abolished slavery.
00:22:22.000In the original draft of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, in his own handwriting, said slavery is an unspeakable sin, and we blame King George for bringing slaves to our country.
00:22:33.000The Northwest Territories back then was Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa.
00:22:39.000This is the new first sovereign piece of land that was brought in front of George Washington as president.
00:22:44.000And they said these will be free territories, not slave territories.
00:22:48.000Now, if we were founded on slavery, why is that the biggest land expansion in American history was a free territory, not a slave territory?
00:22:56.000It's because the founding fathers were working to decouple and eliminate a centuries-old sin, and they said the least we can do is make these new territories free, not slave.
00:23:07.000If it was in the DNA of America, then those would have been all slave territories all the time.
00:23:12.000Now, there was the presence of slavery in America, but the only reason the founding fathers put up with it was because they believed that if there was a union without southern states, they would never be able to defend themselves against a French or a British invasion.
00:23:26.000It was never about an apology of slavery.
00:23:29.000You read the writings of Benjamin Flankin, even the slave owner himself, Thomas Jefferson, who freed slaves throughout his lifetime, testified in front of the Virginia, the Virginia Assembly, the Virginia House of Commons, to abolish slavery.
00:23:41.000And then Thomas Jefferson, on one of his first acts as president, as the third American president, signed a moratorium of no new slaves coming into the United States.
00:23:49.000Now, this fact pattern, I could go on, right?
00:23:51.000There's about 500 different little facts like this, is almost completely absent from our public dialogue and discourse.
00:23:57.000It's a lot more nuanced that says, oh, slavery existed, therefore everyone that was there must have endorsed it.
00:24:04.000And that's a sloppy, in fact, pathological view of history.
00:24:07.000Only someone that has a desired outcome could believe something like that.
00:24:11.000It wasn't until John C. Calhoun, who was the vice president for Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams, did the idea of slavery get back into the public discourse of something that was worthy of defending.
00:24:21.000I think he was a true villain of American history, John C. Calhoun, who wrongly misinterpreted the scriptures.
00:24:30.000Talks all about beware of false prophets for a very satanic purpose, of which is one person owning another person.
00:24:37.000It wasn't until John C. Calhoun did that start to actually regain traction.
00:24:41.000The founding fathers generation was almost in full agreement that if we are serious, we have to have clauses to end this sin of slavery.
00:24:49.000And then John C. Calhoun brought it back to the top.
00:24:52.000But then the second, the third great awakening was pastors who rose up in a little schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin, and they founded a political party based on one idea, which was abolishing slavery.
00:25:49.000And the Republican Party was formed on this idea.
00:25:54.000And in the Dred Scott decision, which I'm sure a lot of you learn about that, seven of the justices who voted to uphold the unspeakable sin of slavery, all seven were Democrats.
00:26:07.000The first ever movie to be screened in the White House was a disgustingly racist movie called Birth of a Nation, which was screened by Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, in the White House.
00:26:20.000Nathan Bedford Forrest, the founder of the KKK, was a Democrat.
00:26:23.000Anyway, I'm not trying to overly politicize anything.
00:26:50.000Billy Graham had a way to speak the gospel in a cheerful, charismatic, public way that just motivated and captured a nation.
00:26:59.000But what a lot of people don't know about Billy Graham is that 1954 to 1955 and 1956, the number one topic that he spoke on was what he called Satan's religion, communism.
00:27:12.000Billy Graham was the most outspoken anti-communist the church had ever seen in American history.
00:27:18.000The man that every Christian says, I got nothing bad to say about him.
00:27:23.000That's the one where even the woke pastors, they're like, we like Billy Graham, right?
00:27:34.000Even they have good things to say about Billy Graham.
00:27:36.000Well, Billy Graham, the man who brought millions to Christ and changed the fabric of the country forever, he spoke out on moral and political issues.
00:27:46.000So that was the fourth great awakening.
00:27:48.000Right after World War II, peace and prosperity, all of a sudden, America started to have a need for a moral and spiritual reawakening.
00:27:58.000But that was only made possible because there was a political attempt to take over the country by the communists in the 1950s.
00:28:04.000And Billy Graham was largely responsible for stopping that.
00:28:13.000We are living on the coattails of the latest generation.
00:28:16.000And their sacrifice for us, it's about running out.
00:28:19.000It's been about 70 years of peace, prosperity, and relative constitutional freedom.
00:28:25.000We're losing it year by year, but we still have this little glimpse of it.
00:28:29.000So the question is, now we are here in 2021.
00:28:32.000What does the left not completely control?
00:28:36.000They control our educational system, our corporations, our sports, our beverage companies, our airlines, city councils, Congress, the presidency, the bureaucracies, Hollywood, film and media, social media, graphic designers, whatever, they control it.
00:28:51.000There's only one thing, and it's the thing they want the most.
00:28:54.000It's the thing they're spending billions of dollars to try to take over.
00:28:57.000That has always been more powerful than any other institution, and that is the church, everybody.
00:29:38.000And in the most unusual way, talking about cultural, civic, and political issues is drawing people into the church.
00:29:46.000It's drawing people to find that kind of moral clarity.
00:29:50.000And if the church does decide to get its proper role in our country as counselor to the king in that fifth grade awakening, all of a sudden all these other problems are going to start to fix themselves.
00:30:02.000The moral decline, the institutions that we say, why don't we control them anymore?
00:30:06.000It's because the church has been silent.
00:30:09.000It's because the left, they've been doing ecclesia.
00:30:18.000They've been building these massive mega corporations.
00:30:21.000And quite honestly, American Christianity, and I say this with all possible due respect to amazing pastors, we've been trying to be part of the dominant culture, not speaking truth against the culture.
00:30:34.000And this is the greatest untapped resource in the country and for the kingdom, by the way, is that, you know, I get a lot of youth ministers.
00:30:45.000They say, Charlie, so many of my kids, you know, they're on fire for the Lord when they're 16 or 17, and then they go to college and they become atheists.
00:30:53.000And I say, well, did you ever talk politics to your youth group?
00:30:56.000They say, oh, no, we stayed away from that.
00:30:58.000I said, well, then you're not talking about the religion that they're going to convert to.
00:31:03.000They're going to go convert to secular humanism.
00:31:05.000Now, if a youth pastor says, you know, we bring young people to the Lord, I love that.
00:31:46.000But what I'm getting at is, I saw so many young people that gave their life to the Lord that are still trying.
00:31:52.000I'm trying to my best to get them back there because they come in contact with a highly persuasive, emotionally driven religion of leftism.
00:32:03.000And if they do not have any understanding of how their faith and the word comes in contact with the daily news, Or if they can't answer the why questions, it will be so fragile, it will shatter after one semester at University of Washington or Washington State University or wherever.
00:32:21.000University of Oregon, UC Berkeley, whatever.
00:32:24.000And let's just say not every kid succumbs to that, but plenty do.
00:32:30.000The number one complaint I get from youth pastors is, Charlie, we have these amazing numbers and they come back when they're 20 and we don't know what happened.
00:32:39.000And it's because young people need to know how their faith interacts with something that they are getting pushed forward every single day on social media, the mass movements, all these things.
00:32:50.000What does the Bible say about race relations?
00:32:53.000Well, it says very clearly that skin color is really irrelevant to the Lord.
00:32:56.000It says clearly that we are all one in Jesus Christ.
00:35:53.000That what the Lord is saying in Jeremiah is if you just are indifferent to the condition of what happens around you, then your own welfare, your own ability to get in contact with your creator or to worship your creator will be impacted.
00:36:13.000If you're just indifferent, you allow totalitarianism to run amok, then your ability to worship your creator can very much get interrupted.
00:36:21.000And that's where I want to end this part of our talk, which is a little bit of a call to action, which is the people that control basically everything, they are obsessed with you.
00:36:58.000They wanted a church they could control.
00:37:01.000Because this idea of worship bothers anyone who wants to have a totalitarian state.
00:37:08.000Because when you're here worshiping the Lord or you're hearing a wonderful message, what you're really saying, whether you realize it or not, is that my connection to my Creator matters more than Governor Inslee.
00:37:56.000It comes with a promise many times in James and in Matthew's, which is that if you decide to take that bold step of inviting Jesus into your life and giving your life to Jesus, it comes with a promise of persecution.
00:38:10.000Now, this is the least, this is the less popular part of the speech, but it's the true part, which some of us are built for a moment like this, right?
00:38:25.000And now, let me just say, as lovingly as I can, I've seen a lot of different pastors from across the country give the bring it on speech for the last decade.
00:38:34.000And then when it was brought on, they folded like a cheapsuit.
00:42:42.000That means we've got to start running for office, become precinct committee people.
00:42:46.000This means you got to take the education of your children really seriously.
00:42:49.000It means that if this is not your home church, you got to lovingly go get a meeting with your senior pastor and ask them to explain Jeremiah 29, 7.
00:42:58.000And say, why are we not seeking the welfare of the peace, the shalom of our city right now?
00:43:03.000Why are we not seeking leaders that are biblical?
00:43:06.000As it says in 1 Timothy, pray for those in authority so you might live quiet and peaceable lives.
00:43:10.000One of the last things that Paul ever wrote before he was reversed, upside down crucified, must have been pretty important when he said that to young Timothy.
00:43:20.000That's a call to action for a lot of you that might go to church close here or far away from here.
00:43:24.000Because this whole beautiful gift we've been given, this Constitutional Republic, it's going to fall apart if churches don't rise up and if Christians don't rise up.
00:43:34.000And I'll close with this and we'll do some questions, if that's okay, which is, they know this.
00:43:42.000They're the most paranoid people I've ever been around.
00:44:01.000Which is, they're worried, and they know this.
00:44:04.000This is why they're preemptively striking, that people that don't share their values, that have been quiet and decent, are all of a sudden going to say, you know what?
00:44:13.000The Lord is going to judge nations, says that in the Bible.
00:44:17.000That you're going to be judged based on how much you have been given, parable to talents, that I am going to contest.
00:44:24.000I'm going to get into that public square for the first time in my life.
00:44:27.000I'm going to do something to push for the moral good.
00:44:30.000And maybe I don't know how to do that, but that's where I'm the how guy, okay?
00:46:11.000So we're actually developing that right now.
00:46:14.000We're kind of trying to create a Sermon Central for sermons that deal with the public square, kind of a resource database for pastors in particular on every single one of these issues.
00:46:26.000And so I'd love to stay in touch with you and help provide that.
00:46:29.000And that's a piece of feedback we receive a lot as pastors say, hey, Charlie, I want to speak out, but I need the information and I need the resources to be able to do that.
00:46:39.000And we'd be happy to help supply that for you.
00:47:47.000And that needs to be the first thing that we have to focus on.
00:47:49.000Now, before we even get to that, though, we got to fix the way we do elections in our country.
00:48:01.000And happy to dive into what that looks like.
00:48:05.000And whether it be voter ID and ending voting month in our country where you, I know that in Washington, you guys have basically universal mail and voting at this point, which is you guys have seen what happens.
00:48:18.000And this should be a warning sign for other states to not do universal mail and voting.
00:48:24.000And I don't know the details of Washington.
00:48:26.000I know Oregon quite well because I've spent a lot of time there.
00:48:29.000And I'm guessing it's very similar where it's bail.
00:48:33.000Are you allowed to ballot harvest here?
00:48:35.000I'm guessing you are allowed to ballot harvest.
00:48:37.000No, some states you aren't, so I just, I don't want to assume.
00:48:41.000Ballot harvesting should not be allowed.
00:48:44.000And it lends itself to paid full-time union organizers that can go collect ballots and disenfranchise other people where their full-time job is not political activism.
00:48:54.000Okay, it lends itself to whatever party has a well-oiled political infrastructure.
00:48:58.000Now, with that being said, the biggest issue, though, out of all the issues even beyond that is the voter registration rolls.
00:49:06.000This is the thing that no one ever wants to talk about, but it matters the most, which is when someone moves, when someone passes away, when someone no longer is registered to vote, whatever.
00:49:25.000You'll probably still lose in the Ninth Circuit for obvious reasons.
00:49:29.000But there's been some progress made even in the Ninth Circuit in Los Angeles where they got like 18, not 1,800, I think 180,000 dead people removed off the rolls, which, by the way, and that was in LA County, which helped make a small difference in some of these races that Republicans won congressional seats in.
00:49:46.000And so when you start cleaning the rolls, all of a sudden universal mail and voting, it becomes harder because that's the list that they're coming after, going after.
00:49:55.000Now, you asked me specifically about 2024.
00:50:09.000And you remember back in 2016, we thought it was going to be John Kasich or Rand Paul or Jeb Bush.
00:50:16.000And then a man came down the escalator and everything changed for good, right?
00:50:21.000And so let me say this, which is it's more about what the candidate believes, number one, and whether or not they have courage.
00:50:34.000This is a very important, those are the two things I care about most.
00:50:37.000And I wouldn't have said that five years ago.
00:50:39.000The more I've studied, the more I've dug deep into this, I really don't care if you're a businessman or even if you're a lifelong politician, which is very rare for them to have these type of qualities.
00:50:49.000I care more about, no, seriously, I care, do you believe the right things?
00:50:54.000Do you want to stop the erosion of American manufacturing?
00:50:58.000Do you think that we should put our citizens first?
00:51:00.000Do you think that the church is essential?
00:51:02.000Do you think that the Second Amendment is a non-negotiable right in the United States Constitution?
00:52:15.000And yet, Florida has a lower virus death rate, a lower hospitalization rate, and less kids with mental health problems, alcoholism, and drug usage than the top 10, the top 10 lockdown states of a moving average of those together, which is Washington, is Oregon, is California.
00:52:31.000So if you aggregate the top 10 lockdown states and you find their virus rate, their hospitalization rate, and their death rate, Florida beats the moving average of those 10 lockdown states.
00:52:40.000Because the lockdowns actually did the opposite.
00:53:09.000So do I want them to meet in a restaurant where they go every other table with the windows open?
00:53:15.000Or do I want them all crammed into a home?
00:53:18.000What's better to stop the spread of the virus?
00:53:20.000So in California, people kept on meeting in people's homes with bad ventilation.
00:53:25.000So that's why the ones that lock down they continue to see rates that go up, where many of the social gatherings in Florida happened in areas with open windows, in places and businesses that took that very seriously.
00:53:37.000This promise that you're going to be kept safe by the government actually did the opposite.
00:53:41.000It actually incentivized bad behavior to have you get closer to people to get up close to them as quickly.
00:53:48.000And by the way, I'm a full believer in acting with responsibility like something that we've decided to lose in our country.
00:53:54.000But that I don't know who's going to come on the scene, but I think Ron DeSantis, again, it's very early and he could, you know, he could fizzle out or whatever.
00:54:05.000But I think we have to think of ourselves: let's get out of the personality contest and say, are they going to fight for the issues and the values I believe in?
00:56:12.000Okay, let me start with Romans 13, because this is something a lot of pastors talk about quite often.
00:56:17.000And so I actually was just talking to Wayne Grudem, who's one of the top Bible scholars and theologians about Romans 13, because it's often quoted, but very rarely misunderstood.
00:56:29.000Basically, Romans 13, and I'm going to paraphrase, says, submit to the rulers in authority, right?
00:56:34.000Because they are anointed by God for your good.
00:56:38.000So that's a very interesting verse, especially if you look at it from an American standpoint.
00:56:53.000And so, and so it's a very, whomever is in charge is not the sovereign in our country.
00:57:00.000So Inslee or Biden, that's actually not the ruler.
00:57:04.000If you take it from a, if you look at Romans 13 through a correct political standpoint, now, from a Chinese example, I'm happy to go through that as well because they don't have the same constitution, but we're not talking about that.
00:57:16.000And so these pastors say, no, we must submit to those people in authority.
00:57:24.000And so if the sovereign's natural rights given to you by God are violated, then the people we put are violating our rights and they're in violation of Romans 13.
00:57:50.000It can get very heavy because what is good governance?
00:57:54.000Well, it's pretty easy to see when that starts to get abused.
00:57:59.000But never did Paul ever say an absolute in any of his writings whatsoever that we should embrace or love tyranny, which is a Greek word tyrannos, which is the ownership or the mastery of one another.
00:58:12.000Instead, he used this Greek, I can't remember the Greek word, ruler, which even if you look at it from an outside of United States constitutional standpoint, let's say Chinese, is that if they are no longer allowing you to peaceably assemble or to worship the Creator, they have violated what Romans 13 is all about.
00:58:29.000I only say this because it is the most quoted verse of an enact of church.
00:59:05.000However, it also says very clearly in the scriptures that, and you look, you could go throughout that there are times for conflict, there's times for struggle, and that you should stand for truth when that does come for you.
01:01:17.000Human beings deserve to be able to see one another.
01:01:20.000I think that the more masked we are, the more foreign we are to one another.
01:01:24.000The more masked we are, the more nasty we are.
01:01:27.000The less likely to have compassion and love.
01:01:29.000More likely to seek grace and mercy, to ask people how their day is going.
01:01:34.000I think it's more likely to make us cold and distant.
01:01:37.000And so that's a sociological question, but I think that I can make an argument that the more we indulge in the masks at all times, it makes it harder to be a good Christian.
01:01:46.000It makes it harder for us to go heal those that are broken and minister those that need to hear about Christ.
01:01:54.000And this is the one thing that really, really bothers me: is that I went around the country five or six years ago speaking out publicly against the mandatory hijab in the Middle East.
01:02:04.000Because I said it was dehumanizing to women to make them wear a hijab.
01:02:09.000Because God gave them a face for a reason.
01:02:12.000And if you're going to mandate that, there's something wrong with that.
01:02:15.000And for whatever reason, we kind of lost that intensity of that argument in the last couple months, all under this guise of public safety and health.
01:02:22.000What I just presented to you was a mature, nuanced position.
01:02:27.000It wasn't one way or the other, but this kind of position is given no such platform, unfortunately, in so many places in our country.
01:02:35.000And so I would continue to push forward and don't give them a reason, just some advice, to stylistically be able to critique you.
01:02:53.000And then, just on a more societal thing, I think a lot of this is about social conditioning to see if they can get an entire population to sit down and obey and do what they're told.
01:04:31.000The Hillsdale.edu online courses are beautiful when it comes to the Constitution on Aristotle.
01:04:38.000And before you send your kid to high school or college, if you say, just take six of these, I'm going to give you $100, it'd be the best money you ever spend.
01:04:47.000Because it's very in-depth, and they take notes and they have quizzes after.
01:04:52.000And then we on our program tries to be a little bit more of an everyday version of some of those more distant ideas and we incorporate them.
01:05:09.000Going along a little bit with what the gal was saying over there, I go to a church in Seattle that's really started to buy in and propagate the woke agenda and CRT.
01:05:18.000And we're a largely white congregation.
01:05:20.000I've been told that as a white person, I need to do the work and do better, et cetera, et cetera.
01:05:27.000I'm actually having a conversation this Friday with both of our lead pastors and our worship leader.
01:05:32.000And like you said, I don't want to be combative.
01:05:34.000I want to represent Jesus as best as possible.
01:05:40.000And, you know, I've done a lot of research on this, and there's a really dangerous trend happening in a lot of churches across the country, which is a mixture of a couple things.
01:05:52.000White guilt, virtue signaling, and really bad theology.
01:05:57.000So I don't know if your church has good theology or not.
01:05:58.000So I'm not going to necessarily, it's okay.
01:06:01.000So if your theology is a little bit shaky, then you start to view the scriptures or the biblical narrative as a means for massive social change, not for eternal life or for transformation.
01:06:35.000So the race one is a very interesting one and one that I really have no tolerance for, quite honestly, because we are the least racist country ever to exist in the history of the world.
01:06:48.000And they do this in a variety of different ways.
01:06:54.000And again, it all comes from our universities, almost all of this, coupled with, again, shaky theology.
01:06:59.000The first thing is that they really think race matters.
01:07:03.000So the fact that they say, well, white people have to do better, like, whoa, whoa, hold on a second.
01:07:07.000Are you trying to just put some form of a preference on the melanin content in my skin?
01:08:15.000That's a really wordy way to say a very obvious thing.
01:08:18.000A black child in America that is raised by a mother and father is more likely to succeed through every objective metric imaginable than a white child raised by a single mother.
01:08:29.000So if you go through prerequisites, right, because that's what we're talking about here.
01:08:33.000Again, now we're talking about things that are actually a little bit above the tribal screaming that we're seeing from the left, such as how many inputs go into the output of a human being?
01:08:43.000And discrimination is not the only input.
01:08:46.000In fact, the number one bearing is whether or not you have a stable mother and a father.
01:08:50.000But there's others, which is how many words does a three-year-old hear on a daily basis?
01:08:54.000So if a three-year-old is hearing more than 4,000 words on a daily basis, they're more likely to have a higher IQ and less likely to commit crimes.
01:09:01.000Now, it also depends on what kind of music they're listening to.
01:09:04.000Are they listening to heavy metal and rap music or classical music with soft undertones?
01:09:09.000These sorts of things have really important bearings.
01:09:12.000And skin color is really irrelevant to those sorts of things, actually.
01:09:16.000But they're saying that they do and they do matter.
01:09:18.000I could get into some of the more specifics, such as, and you guys see that here in Seattle, especially, that Asian Americans are about 50% wealthier on average than white Americans in America.
01:09:29.000If we were so systemically racist, how could that possibly be?
01:09:34.000And so also, why is it that the richest immigrant group in America per nation is Nigerian immigrants?
01:09:41.000Nigerian immigrants that are black, that come to America without money or resources, are the richest immigrant group after a decade of living in America.
01:09:51.000I have a litany of facts and data, science and statistics that go to show this.
01:09:55.000But basically their entire conclusion is this, which is a sloppy, pernicious, and dare I say, evil way to look at the world, which is they look at a disparity.
01:11:21.000As America got significantly less racist, and yeah, I know, it got all of a sudden those conditions worsened.
01:11:31.000The final thing I'll say is this, which is a lot of this, and I'll never underestimate the power of white guilt.
01:11:39.000And this is something that Shelby Steele has written about a lot, which is that for what there is this, there's this pathological obsession of upper middle class white people that work for Amazon and Starbucks to think that they have to be the white savior of black America.
01:11:58.000And it's like, first of all, you're super racist the way that you just categorize society.
01:12:04.000And secondly, unless you have materially and actively been racist in someone else's life, why are you trying to overcompensate for yourself?
01:12:13.000Maybe there is something you're not telling us.
01:12:32.000My name is Riker Roberts, and I live a little bit close to here.
01:12:35.000And I've been watching you on news probably the past three or four years.
01:12:38.000And I just want to say I'm really refreshed to have somebody that I feel like has a fire, you know, as somebody that's younger and that's not sitting here and seeing that just because of his age, he has nothing to say.
01:13:20.000I asked you about the 3 a.m. voting count and how they woke up and that today we're told that that's just normal and that cops don't have any jurisdiction.
01:14:04.000If God's plan, because I'm a big believer in God's plan, so I've always been at peace my whole life, no matter what happens to me.
01:14:10.000If God's plan is for us to not get better, if God's plan is for us not to fix these laws, look at the 37 states, good job.
01:14:18.000But if that doesn't work, and we're sitting here and you're in your 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s talking about the same thing, and so am I. Are we just going to have to say goodbye to our country?
01:14:28.000Or is there something else that you think that might happen?
01:14:42.000So, look, I actually think, I think that your concern is a good one.
01:14:50.000It's a question I get a lot, and this is not the question you asked, so let me answer that second, but let me first answer one question I get a lot, which is, Charlie, do you think we're going to win?
01:14:59.000And that's part of the essence of your question.
01:15:03.000It's one of the top three questions I get.
01:15:06.000Again, I'm not saying it's your question, but there's an essence of it, which is basically what people are asking me to say, is no, I don't think we're going to win.
01:15:14.000Therefore, you're like, okay, good, now I can give up.
01:15:38.000And the most instructive story is Genesis 11, the creation of the Tower of Babel, trying to create something up to the heavens bigger and larger than God.
01:15:48.000They almost can't help themselves, but do that.
01:15:51.000We know how that ended in chaos and scattering across the globe.
01:15:55.000And so this is a good question of what comes next.
01:16:00.000There's many, many different outcomes that could be coming.
01:16:04.000And there's about 50 different trends that we talk about on our show that people are afraid to talk about, which is that we're entering the most violent decade in American history.
01:16:12.000And it's manufactured for the sole purpose to create a national police force.
01:16:17.000That they do not want to abolish the police.
01:16:19.000They have never wanted to abolish the police.
01:16:24.000And these local city councils defunding the police are manufacturing a scenario and a situation of suffering that the citizens like you are going to say, help us.
01:16:32.000They'll say, okay, well, here's a national FBI police force that's been critically trained in diversity training.
01:17:33.000You could change the fabric of the political country if you bring in another 12 million people from the third world because more people are trading with dollars.
01:17:40.000Therefore, all of a sudden, less the value of the dollar is spread amongst more people.
01:17:45.000Therefore, it's a hedge against inflation.
01:17:47.000So they're forcing the inflationary hand to justify an amnesty bill.
01:17:51.000Again, most Republicans are playing right into this, saying, oh, they're trying to get inflation because it's only going to help asset holders.
01:18:24.000So you've mentioned, thank you for being young.
01:18:27.000In 1 Timothy, young Timothy, Paul commends Timothy and says, Do not let your age be a barrier to you trying to affect social change or trying to spread the word.
01:19:31.000Is that I don't know how this thing's going to end up.
01:19:33.000I think we are going to win because we have truth and I'm seeing a renewed spirit.
01:19:37.000But we need to have that spirit that Paul had, where Paul knows, hey, any moment, those centurions are going to come drag me and I'm going to get reverse crucified for believing in my Lord and Savior.
01:19:46.000Whoa, imagine that kind of sort of Damocles.
01:19:49.000And yet he says, I'm more free than I ever will be.
01:19:52.000And it says very clearly, I believe in 1 Corinthians, where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty.
01:22:55.000Look, you kind of know the story, the background of how I actually ended up here, but why I'm giving 330 speeches a year and why I'm doing basically, let me think about this, 550 podcasts a year.
01:23:43.000Is that, man, I'm speaking anywhere that people will have me to say some very clear things.
01:23:49.000That in the Bible, it talks about time in two different ways.
01:23:52.000So, the Greeks had two words for time: chronos, where we get the word chronological from, and Kairos, which is all throughout the book of Mark.
01:24:00.000And Kairos is a different type of time.
01:24:02.000The Greeks were phenomenal with language.
01:24:04.000Our language is actually a lot more simple than theirs.
01:24:08.000Kairos is a moment of action, a moment unlike any other, a moment that will determine the future.
01:24:15.000And that's the type of time that we're in, a Kairos moment.
01:24:18.000Because I felt right after Joe Biden got inaugurated, the body of Christ believers and conservatives getting into this kind of sort of a victim mentality.
01:24:29.000We lost, they stole it, you know, like, and I get all of that.
01:24:32.000We just had a good dialogue about that.
01:24:35.000I got to do everything I can because, look, my family has been here since the 1620s and fought in every single major war from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War to World War II, giving immense sacrifices.
01:24:47.000And this is a beautiful country and a wonderful country.
01:24:50.000And by the way, let me just be very clear: I didn't go to Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale.
01:24:55.000I'm like every single one of you, okay?
01:24:57.000There's nothing unique or special except the fact that I study really hard, I'm able to make arguments in a way that makes sense, and I work really hard.
01:25:04.000All of you guys could be doing something the way that we're doing it.
01:25:08.000I'm here to show you that you're not alone, that I'm barnstorm in the country, and that you guys possess the tools at your disposal to make a difference.
01:25:16.000And then I'm especially going to churches because you guys really are the ones that need to get into that posture right now.
01:25:21.000You're the ones that have to get more active than ever before.
01:26:02.000It comes from two Greek words, which means through logos or through reason, dia, as we get diameter, log, logos, reason, speech, which is all throughout John and John 1.
01:26:12.000So, what is the best way to pursue truth?
01:26:14.000Well, Jesus, being truth himself, did it by asking questions.
01:26:19.000Phenomenal way of getting towards truth.
01:27:51.000But I think to myself, man, if I really am going to live out the courage I'm trying to instill with you, I got to at least stand for what I believe when it's going to be the most uncomfortable for me, right?
01:28:01.000I got to at least stand for truth to the people close because that's the hardest.
01:28:33.000And all of a sudden, you might not say those things and you might not open up that way.
01:28:36.000What am I getting at is that we have to be more bold to have the toughest conversations, which the closest people to us.
01:28:43.000Now, before we get into politics, though, every single person here has to be a daily ambassador to bring people to Christ every single day.
01:28:50.000Because once that happens, that's the most important thing.
01:28:53.000So, and by the way, there might be some people here that are like, all right, Charlie, I love you.
01:28:57.000And I kind of plug my ears during the religious thing.
01:29:01.000There's a lot of churches out there that don't do it the right way.
01:29:04.000There's a lot of people that say one thing and they don't do the other.
01:29:06.000But let me tell you, that doesn't make the gospel any less necessary for you.
01:29:10.000Just because you've been burned by a church or some guy on TV that said something and did something else, let me tell you, here's the gospel in four words, three words, two words, one word.
01:29:40.000Stole something from a local store, go in front of a judge, serve in a prison sentence.
01:29:46.000Mercy is going in front of the judge, and they find out you stole something, and they give you a little bit of a less prison sentence.
01:29:52.000But grace is something that is beyond human comprehension.
01:29:55.000Where you go right in front of the judge and they're about to sentence you to jail and someone pops up and says, I will serve that prison sentence for him.
01:30:14.000Now, we're going to keep on messing up every single day we live.
01:30:17.000Every single day you need to be renewed with grace.
01:30:20.000But once you accept Jesus Christ into your life, I could tell you as someone who has done this, something's different.
01:30:26.000The way you talk, the way you eat, after you do something that you don't like, it's all of a sudden you're bringing Jesus with you when you do that.
01:30:33.000Not to say you live a perfect life, of course not.
01:31:23.000Where it's just, you just got to open up your heart and let them in.
01:31:26.000And so then from there, once you're all daily ambassadors and missionaries every single day for Christ, then once people start drinking from the streams of liberty, they're going to want to find its source.
01:31:36.000Because liberty is not man's idea, it's God's idea.
01:31:39.000And that's the way you'll win people over.
01:32:10.000She headed a chapter there at the University of Hawaii, and that's how I found out about you guys.
01:32:15.000But I'm very excited too that you are in the high schools.
01:32:19.000And if you could, because I brought a soon-to-be high schooler here with me, if you could please speak to the young people who maybe aren't that interested in politics or, you know, maybe roll their eyes when these kinds of things are mentioned.
01:32:34.000Could you speak to them about what is happening right now?
01:32:53.000They did a really good job, though, of making me understand the country and our history and what made us different.
01:33:00.000And then from there, I realized: well, then why do some people want to mess up this beautiful country that we're in, right?
01:33:05.000So that's the most important thing is the patriotic element.
01:33:07.000And let me tell you, as someone who studies this history for hours a day, we have some amazing history in this country that most young people are never exposed to.
01:33:16.000That could only be described or explained as divine intervention at times.
01:33:27.000But just understand that there will be a moment when all of a sudden you're going to come across something and say, that's not right.
01:33:36.000For example, there's a young lady in the room here and you play sports.
01:33:41.000And you're like, I don't like politics.
01:33:42.000They drugged me along to this church thing.
01:33:44.000And he's throwing all the, everyone's clapping, like, okay, let's just get home, whatever.
01:33:48.000And maybe you're a young soccer player, 14 or 15.
01:33:51.000But all of a sudden, you're going to be at a soccer match, and a bigger person than you've ever encountered is going to be playing against you.
01:33:57.000Maybe a basketball meet, you know, basketball game.
01:34:01.000And you're like, that doesn't, they're really athletic and really built.
01:34:05.000Turns out that's a biological man playing against women.
01:34:07.000And that person ends up winning all-star MVP, of which has happened in Connecticut, of which has happened all throughout the country.
01:34:13.000And you complain to your parents, you say, I was not able to compete at my highest level because they had more testosterone and more muscle mass and they were bigger.
01:34:21.000And you're like, well, you remember when that guy came to that really sweaty gym?
01:34:28.000And you were counting down the minutes and you're like, I didn't like that.
01:34:33.000And he said, you got to get involved and get engaged.
01:34:38.000It mattered because what he was talking about was, amongst other things, that men are men and women are women and women's sports are deserving of protection.
01:34:48.000And so there's a hundred thousand different examples I could give there.
01:36:07.000And so we're going to post a lot of these speeches.
01:36:09.000So if you're like, man, I really want to hear that again, then you guys can subscribe as I told you on all of your podcast app.
01:36:15.000And by the way, all of these open-air conversations we've been having across America, I think, are really helpful because a lot of the questions are there.
01:36:22.000But I'm going to end with this, which is on Pearl Harbor, the day of Pearl Harbor, the day that lived in infamy, there was one man smiling.
01:36:31.000It's the greatest man to live in the 20th century, Winston Churchill, who he was taking it on the chin.
01:36:38.000He was feeling similar to how some of you feel, which is where you're living through this cultural blitzkrieg, right?
01:36:45.000Every day you wake up at something else.
01:36:48.000Aunt Jemima, Dr. Seuss, Coca-Cola's been lost, Delta, they're raiding apartments.
01:36:55.000You know, the stuff that you're like, whoa, this is not, this is a cultural blitz creek.