The Charlie Kirk Show - Keeping the Republican Party a Pro-Life Party

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00:01:30.000 So, Charlie Kirk, he's here.

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00:02:45.000 Hello, everybody.

00:02:47.000 What an amazing video that is.

00:02:49.000 This has really been quite a week, and God's timing is perfect in so many ways.

00:02:55.000 And it's fitting that I'm ending my week speaking at an organization that is on the front lines saving babies.

00:03:03.000 Because this week has, if you've been following the news cycle, abortion has been in the news cycle a lot this week, especially for those of us that live in Arizona.

00:03:11.000 And there's some people that believe that we should no longer talk about the abortion issue and stay away from it.

00:03:17.000 And then all of a sudden you see a story like that and you say, well, what other issue matters more than that?

00:03:22.000 Like what matters more than saving life and saving babies from the potential slaughter of Planned Parenthood.

00:03:29.000 And so I just first want to say this, I speak at a lot of different places and the people actually on the front lines saving babies' lives, counseling women that are in crisis, that are being abused, are the closest thing to heroes that we have in the country.

00:03:46.000 And so I just, and it is such difficult and largely thankless work.

00:03:55.000 And I just want to say thank you.

00:03:58.000 I mean, so many of these individuals are, they said no to higher-paying jobs.

00:04:02.000 They work very long hours.

00:04:04.000 It can be very discouraging because sometimes a woman will come into the clinic and she might choose abortion after a lot of work that's been put in.

00:04:13.000 But it's work that is rooted in obedience.

00:04:16.000 And only a Christian organization would work this hard to save babies that are not their own. 0.97

00:04:25.000 I want you to think about that for a second.

00:04:27.000 Do you think a secular organization would be working super hard to try to save life of babies that are not their own?

00:04:33.000 Of course not.

00:04:34.000 And one of the things I want to talk about tonight is the pro-life movement, kind of where we're at, because we're at a crossroads right now, because there are a lot of different people that say, let's stop talking about abortion and let's just try to get away from this issue.

00:04:46.000 And I completely disagree with that, and I'll tell you why in so many different ways.

00:04:49.000 But also, the reality that we're living in a post-Christian society. 0.80

00:04:54.000 And this is really hard for those of us that are believers because we remember when America was a Christian society.

00:05:02.000 And I promised myself I wouldn't make this speech overly political because it's honestly, this is so much bigger than politics.

00:05:09.000 But let's just look at Easter Sunday.

00:05:11.000 Easter Sunday, which should have been a proclamation of the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, was called Transvisibility Day by the White House.

00:05:21.000 I'm not exaggerated, by the way.

00:05:22.000 They sent out a whole press release saying that it's Transvisibility Day.

00:05:26.000 It's like, I'm sorry, you have the whole month of June for Transvisibility Day. 0.73

00:05:29.000 Can we have like one day to celebrate the resurrection?

00:05:32.000 I don't need to convince you guys of this.

00:05:34.000 Church attendance is down.

00:05:35.000 We see the hyper-secularization of the country.

00:05:38.000 There are so many great Christians still, so many of you, so many great churches that are still fighting for righteousness and fighting for what is right.

00:05:45.000 But we are living in this post-Christian society. 0.79

00:05:48.000 And we don't really know what is the governing belief of the current, let's just say, orthodoxy of the country.

00:05:55.000 There's all these different sorts of pseudo-religions that have popped up.

00:05:58.000 I have great experience in many of them because I visit college campuses, so you don't have to.

00:06:03.000 And when I visit these campuses, I get kind of a different taste and flavors of all the different fake religions. 0.99

00:06:10.000 And let's just be honest, they're not new.

00:06:13.000 They're resurrected from the scriptures of the same pagan beliefs that were all throughout Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Samuel, where whether it be worship of the earth, whether it be the unclean spirit of Jezebel, or whether it be Molech, nothing is new under the sun.

00:06:37.000 That's what it says in Ecclesiastes, actually.

00:06:39.000 I always laugh when people say that.

00:06:41.000 I say, do you know where that comes from?

00:06:42.000 Like, the Beatles?

00:06:43.000 I said, no, it's not from the Beatles.

00:06:44.000 Okay, no, it's not from the Beatles.

00:06:46.000 No, it's not.

00:06:47.000 Nothing's new under the sun.

00:06:49.000 Thank you, King Solomon.

00:06:51.000 And so it's totally true.

00:06:52.000 And we're living through this time where this is a spiritual war fundamental.

00:06:59.000 And I'm going to just kind of talk about some hard truths here tonight, and then you can take it however it is.

00:07:05.000 But I don't know how many Christians actually recognize we're in a spiritual war.

00:07:09.000 And when I look at who's actually making a difference for what God cares about, I look at this organization, I put this right at the top of the list.

00:07:16.000 I mean, what could possibly be more important than starting an emergency line for someone who takes an abortion pill and you want to reverse that? 0.68

00:07:24.000 I mean, that is, think about that.

00:07:27.000 You are called to a work like that.

00:07:30.000 And only a Christian society and Christians that understand that you are called to serve the least of these, to love your neighbor as yourself, as it says in Leviticus 19, would be called to do such a work. 0.98

00:07:46.000 And I am terrified at two things.

00:07:48.000 The church not recognizing this, and we'll get to that in a second.

00:07:51.000 But secondly, the hyper-secularization of America, which is the more secular America gets, we are going to lose this sort of spirit, this sort of courage that we're celebrating tonight.

00:08:05.000 And so a couple things that I want to talk about this.

00:08:06.000 Let's look at Canada.

00:08:08.000 Canada is a very secular country.

00:08:10.000 In fact, Canada is as secular as the state of Oregon or Washington is.

00:08:15.000 It is, in fact, by the way, if people say, oh, you know, when is Marxism coming to the country?

00:08:22.000 It's already here, but it's invading from the north as well.

00:08:26.000 I mean, Canada is so unrecognizable.

00:08:29.000 And I could do a whole speech on where Canada has become.

00:08:31.000 But let me tell you what happened in Canada.

00:08:33.000 And I'm fearful that we in this country might make the same mistake soon.

00:08:38.000 Just like in America, Canada had abortion that was imposed by them by judicial fiat in 1989.

00:08:46.000 In Canada right now, abortion is legal up to birth.

00:08:50.000 And all abortions are covered at taxpayer expense through Canada's single-payer health care system.

00:08:56.000 In fact, Canada is the only country in the world where abortion is free of all legal restrictions.

00:09:05.000 In fact, it's publicly designated as a medical service.

00:09:10.000 In Canada, there are some pro-life people, but most pro-life people back what's called the Conservative Party.

00:09:17.000 But this means absolutely nothing.

00:09:21.000 The Conservative Party of Canada is not a pro-life party.

00:09:24.000 Its platform suggests legal abortion, and its leaders support legal abortion.

00:09:29.000 None of the major parties are actually pro-life.

00:09:32.000 All the party leaders support abortion on demand.

00:09:35.000 The Canadian pro-life movement became so weak that any legislation with even a whiff of pro-life intent goes down in flames.

00:09:43.000 In Canada, there are no criminal penalties for injuring an unborn child while attacking a pregnant woman, because in Canada, the unborn have no rights whatsoever.

00:09:52.000 And I looked this up beforehand, and I'm going to read this to you.

00:09:54.000 This is from the Conservative Party's website.

00:09:57.000 If the Conservative government will not support any legislation to regulate abortion.

00:10:02.000 Now, why do I tell you that?

00:10:03.000 Because they made a political decision in the 1990s that it's too controversial.

00:10:09.000 Some people are suggesting and recommending the same thing right now in this country.

00:10:14.000 I want nothing to do with that.

00:10:15.000 We have to actively reject that to make sure that our pro-life movement expands both in our influence and our cultural impact.

00:10:24.000 And that for those of us that are conservatives, we don't just say it's a policy platform, but we lead with our pro-life positions.

00:10:30.000 That we say that it is a priority in our advocacy.

00:10:36.000 And we have to be honest that the country is not as pro-life as we are.

00:10:40.000 I was like the only person, I think, and well, not only, I think Matt Walsh was too, but a couple other, where Arizona strikes down this old law, this law that says all abortion is illegal except the life of the mother.

00:10:52.000 And I was like, this is awesome.

00:10:53.000 Like, finally, we banned abortion.

00:10:56.000 I could tell by all your silence, you guys might not be that fans of it either.

00:10:58.000 And like, we should be celebrating it.

00:11:00.000 Is that what we want?

00:11:01.000 I guess not, right?

00:11:05.000 Because people are like, well, what do you mean?

00:11:06.000 Like, banning abortion?

00:11:07.000 Like, that kind of sounds, that's the goal, everybody, isn't it?

00:11:11.000 And people are like, I don't know.

00:11:13.000 Like, is that what we want?

00:11:14.000 Again, I'm not picking on you guys, but you know, if I said a different political statement, I could get a standing ovation, right?

00:11:20.000 Like, if I said, for example, Dr. Fauci should be in prison, everyone's like, yeah!

00:11:24.000 See?

00:11:26.000 But I said, abortion is banned in Arizona.

00:11:29.000 And we're at a pro-life dinner.

00:11:33.000 Gotcha.

00:11:35.000 Well, you should scream in joy, but, right?

00:11:39.000 But I'm not picking on you guys, but it just proves the point.

00:11:42.000 And I'm just proving the point because people are so uncomfortable because we're so conditioned.

00:11:45.000 Like, are we allowed to celebrate that abortion is illegal?

00:11:47.000 Like, is this a good thing?

00:11:48.000 Is it a bad thing?

00:11:49.000 And it's amazing, but it's not going to last, obviously, because the people of Arizona are going to support it, and they're going to reverse it through a ballot referendum.

00:11:56.000 But the point I'm getting at, though, is so illuminating.

00:11:58.000 I was like, I thought we're the pro-life movement.

00:12:00.000 I thought that's the whole thing, right?

00:12:01.000 And some people were like, we're not that pro-life, right?

00:12:04.000 Like, we want like pro-life at like 28 weeks.

00:12:06.000 I'm like, okay, that's not pro-life, actually.

00:12:08.000 And I was like, we have a lot of work to do.

00:12:10.000 But let's be honest, that the pro-life community, those of you that have been in the trenches, and I know I was like teasing you a second ago, but those of you that have been advocating and working and doing this incredible labor for 50 years, you have punched above your weight.

00:12:27.000 You have been outspent.

00:12:29.000 You have been bullied.

00:12:30.000 You've been slandered.

00:12:32.000 Some of you had your clinics firebombed across the country.

00:12:35.000 And 50 years ago, Catholics, evangelical Christians, people who love Jesus, who believe that God commands us to fight for righteousness, 50 years ago, they said, we are not going to give up.

00:12:48.000 Catholics prayed the rosary every single day for the reversal of Roe versus Wade.

00:12:52.000 Evangelical Christians went to work in their capacity on this amazing coalition.

00:12:56.000 And decade after decade, so I first got into politics into 2012, and I was told, and I've been a pro-life warrior my whole life, and I was told that Roe versus Wade will never be repealed.

00:13:06.000 That's what I was told.

00:13:07.000 It's never going to happen.

00:13:09.000 And, well, God works in miraculous ways.

00:13:13.000 Where a formerly pro-abortion, pro-choice man who lived a very colorful life went down a golden escalator, became president, and put three Supreme Court justice on the Supreme Court.

00:13:23.000 And now Roe versus Wade is repealed, and abortion is technically illegal now in Texas, which is awesome. 0.71

00:13:28.000 Praise God.

00:13:28.000 And see, now we're getting at it.

00:13:32.000 And you, the movement, did that.

00:13:35.000 And I just want to make sure you understand that that should give you great hope for the next fight ahead.

00:13:40.000 Planned Parenthood was publicly funded with $500 million a year.

00:13:43.000 You have every major billionaire oligarch that funded the pro-abortion cause for years, for decades.

00:13:50.000 And yet the pro-life movement was able to launch a strategy to try to build coalitions in legal, in the courts, to be able to reverse Roe versus Wade.

00:14:00.000 And now we need that next 50-year vision because we are at a crossroads.

00:14:04.000 And a lot of people are wondering, what do we do and how do we do this?

00:14:07.000 How about this?

00:14:08.000 We play offense because we have the greatest story to tell.

00:14:11.000 In fact, look at those five, I think it's five images, right?

00:14:13.000 Those five images behind me.

00:14:15.000 That's the story that we get to tell.

00:14:18.000 Is that there's something spiritual that kicks in for all of us when you see a baby.

00:14:24.000 And they want to expand the amount of babies that are terminated in the womb.

00:14:28.000 We have to tell that story and play offense and not be afraid of the names that they call us. 0.57

00:14:34.000 They're the ones that want to slaughter children in the womb. 0.98

00:14:36.000 We're the ones that want to go on a rescue mission to save them from that slaughter.

00:14:41.000 That we are the ones that advocate that every single human being has dignity.

00:14:45.000 But what is the real divide here?

00:14:47.000 And I want to thank every church here that supports this ministry.

00:14:50.000 It is so important.

00:14:51.000 And I encourage you to do even more.

00:14:53.000 The real divide here is that everybody here in this room believes in Genesis 126.

00:15:00.000 The other side does not.

00:15:03.000 And it's the simplest question that I ask on a college campus.

00:15:07.000 And yes, this does very well on TikTok, which drives me crazy.

00:15:10.000 I have to use TikTok.

00:15:11.000 There's Chinese spying on me, all this stuff.

00:15:14.000 But I'm very, very popular there, evidently.

00:15:16.000 And it's very simple.

00:15:18.000 What is a human being?

00:15:21.000 What is a human being?

00:15:23.000 And if you can, I mean, we know the answer to that.

00:15:26.000 A human being is an image-bearer.

00:15:30.000 A human being has a soul.

00:15:33.000 The secular materialists on campus, they will contest that a human being is an accident of millions of years of evolution and we just happened to turn out this way.

00:15:46.000 And like they make fun of us for believing in stuff that takes too much faith. 0.96

00:15:50.000 Like, I don't have enough faith to believe in that kind of rubbish.

00:15:53.000 That the human genome is an accident of evolution.

00:15:57.000 I mean, you just see that just the process of how life is made, that it's obvious there is a designer behind that.

00:16:05.000 However, it is easy to justify the discarding of human life if you reject Genesis 1.26.

00:16:11.000 So in Genesis 1.26, it says, Let us make man in our likeness, in God's image.

00:16:19.000 Now, just as a fun side note, the let us is the first mention of the Trinity in the scriptures.

00:16:27.000 And by the way, if you ever want to have loving fun with a rabbi, ask them to explain Genesis 1.26. 0.81

00:16:35.000 It's awesome.

00:16:36.000 They all have different answers.

00:16:38.000 Oh, it's God talking to the angels, God talking to the animals.

00:16:41.000 No, no, no.

00:16:42.000 It's God the Father, the Holy Spirit, and Jesus.

00:16:45.000 Let us make men in our image.

00:16:48.000 Anyway, loving fun with our Jewish friends.

00:16:51.000 They all have different answers there.

00:16:54.000 Anyway, it's fun.

00:16:55.000 Elohim is the term that is used, I believe, in the original Hebrew.

00:17:00.000 That defines who human beings are.

00:17:02.000 So if you believe that, then all of a sudden a hundred things automatically become true.

00:17:08.000 If you believe a human being is an image bearer, you don't have the right to eliminate another image bearer just because they're smaller.

00:17:18.000 Just because they're not as advanced in the level of development as you.

00:17:22.000 Just because their environment is not the same as yours.

00:17:27.000 And just because their degree of dependency is different than yours.

00:17:31.000 Now, I did not come up with this, but I have become very good at explaining it, which is the acronym SLED.

00:17:36.000 It is the easiest way to debunk a pro-abortion person in your life.

00:17:39.000 It is size, level of development, environment, degree of dependency.

00:17:43.000 You write that down, you could debunk any pro-abortion activist in your life, and it's very simple.

00:17:47.000 Where else do we apply on moral terms where your size, level, environment, or degree of dependency is equal to your worth?

00:17:54.000 I'm 6'4 ⁇ , like actually 6'4 ⁇ , not like a fake 6'4 ⁇ .

00:17:58.000 Am I allowed?

00:17:59.000 No, I just, I laugh because some people come up to me.

00:18:01.000 They're like, yeah, I'm 6'5.

00:18:02.000 I'm like, you're not 6'5 ⁇ , actually.

00:18:03.000 You know, I'm actually 6'4 ⁇ , and you're not.

00:18:05.000 You're tall, but you're not that tall.

00:18:07.000 Am I allowed to all of a sudden murder people shorter than me?

00:18:09.000 No.

00:18:10.000 Size means nothing.

00:18:11.000 In God's economy, your height, your size, whether you are one pound or 100 pounds or 200 pounds, you are made in the image of God.

00:18:19.000 Therefore, your size is completely irrelevant.

00:18:21.000 Okay, level of development.

00:18:23.000 Does a younger person somehow get less rights than an older person? 0.99

00:18:27.000 That's complete rubbish. 0.98

00:18:29.000 Okay, environment. 0.98

00:18:30.000 Do the people of Cincinnati get different rights than the people of Houston when it comes to human rights?

00:18:35.000 Of course not.

00:18:36.000 Then finally, degree of dependency.

00:18:38.000 If someone is dependent on another, does that give you the ability or the right to abolish them or to slaughter them?

00:18:43.000 No.

00:18:44.000 And by the way, you look at the babies here, they're dependent on their mother for quite a while.

00:18:49.000 I know we have a 20-month at home, a month-year-old at home.

00:18:53.000 That's a really funny age.

00:18:54.000 20-month-old, constantly running around saying no to everything.

00:18:57.000 It's really great.

00:18:59.000 And it's like one of life's greatest gifts.

00:19:02.000 And by the way, I thought I was pro-life before.

00:19:04.000 Now I'm like super pro-life.

00:19:05.000 And I have to check myself and pray for repentance.

00:19:07.000 Like, I have deep disgust for the people in the abortion industry.

00:19:10.000 Like, I'm going to be honest.

00:19:11.000 I think that it's modern Auschwitz, what they're doing in this country. 0.95

00:19:14.000 And that might sound extreme, but I mean, you look at a baby and you raise a child, and you're like, there's people for a living that go and eliminate that from happening.

00:19:22.000 I'll put that aside.

00:19:24.000 Degree of dependency.

00:19:25.000 So they cannot rationally debate on size, level, development, environment, degree, dependency.

00:19:31.000 And then we add another layer to this, which is you ask the pro-abortion advocate, what species is the being in the womb?

00:19:42.000 And, well, of course, it's human.

00:19:43.000 Don't go through some sort of species metamorphosis.

00:19:46.000 So, doesn't that being deserve human rights?

00:19:50.000 Most importantly, the right to live and the right to life.

00:19:54.000 And sometimes they will say, but Charlie, it's not your body, it's not your choice.

00:20:01.000 Sometimes, I have the best answer to this, which I actually found at the March for Life like four years ago.

00:20:06.000 There's an eight-year-old kid smiling with a sign, and I took a picture of it.

00:20:09.000 I said, That is the smartest thing I've ever heard.

00:20:11.000 I'm going to make America know this saying, and I've used it a million, like it's been seen by 30 million times, which is, okay, they say it's not your body, it's not your choice.

00:20:18.000 The answer is, but if it's not your DNA, it's not your choice, which is the best possible answer.

00:20:23.000 It's not your DNA.

00:20:25.000 New deoxoribonucleic acid is formed at that moment.

00:20:29.000 So, they can't defend on any sort of moral ground, so then they defend it on convenience grounds.

00:20:34.000 And that goes back to the ultimate schism: what is a human being?

00:20:39.000 And they're able to justify it because they think human beings, at the very worst, they think human beings are like an inconvenience annoyance and were overpopulated.

00:20:47.000 And make no mistake, depopulation is behind a lot of the abortion agenda in this country.

00:20:52.000 Okay, I know that might sound extreme, but there are depopulation advocates, Bill Gates, that have been arguing about this for years, and they're perfectly fine with abortion as a way of population control.

00:21:04.000 Read the original documents from Margaret Sanger and Eugenics.

00:21:08.000 They wanted widespread sterilization and population control.

00:21:11.000 But secondly, on top of that, which I think is incredibly important, is the question of who actually is in charge.

00:21:21.000 Everybody here tonight believes two things: whether you're Catholic, Evangelical, Episcopalian, which if you're Episcopalian here, good for you, because you're one of the few pro-life Episcopalians, I think, still in this country.

00:21:35.000 I'm sorry, I always pick on the Episcopalians.

00:21:37.000 Even Tucker picks on Episcopalians, and he's Episcopalian.

00:21:40.000 Which is, there is a God, and we are not him.

00:21:46.000 There is a God, and we are not him.

00:21:49.000 It sounds so obvious, right?

00:21:52.000 But most of the people that advocate for abortion will say that, well, there is no God, and if there was a God, it would be me.

00:22:04.000 And both of those things, I actually wrestle with this, and it's an open question on our podcast: which is, what is more damaging to society?

00:22:15.000 Believing that there is no God or believing you are God?

00:22:19.000 And I've come to the conclusion that believing God is actually worth than being an atheist.

00:22:23.000 Like, if you think you're God, I actually think you do more damage.

00:22:25.000 They're both really bad, obviously.

00:22:27.000 But atheism leads to that belief that you are a God.

00:22:30.000 And that confirms that we are in a theological and a spiritual battle.

00:22:37.000 I love the book of Exodus.

00:22:38.000 In fact, I think the book of Exodus speaks to our times more than any other book of the Bible right now.

00:22:45.000 Properly reading the book of Exodus, Exodus 1, I could do a whole hour speech on just Exodus 1.

00:22:50.000 I have it almost committed to memory.

00:22:52.000 And in Exodus 1, we must understand how Genesis ended.

00:22:55.000 At the end of Genesis, it was the high times of Egypt.

00:23:01.000 They avoided famine.

00:23:03.000 Things were going great.

00:23:05.000 And Joseph was the counselor to the king.

00:23:09.000 Joseph, by the way, is a perfect image of how I think Christians should interact with our government. 0.91

00:23:14.000 Counselor to the king.

00:23:15.000 Same like Esther, Mordecai, Nehemiah, Jeremiah, etc.

00:23:19.000 And one of my favorite verses, and it changes the whole trajectory of the Old Testament.

00:23:23.000 And then rose a king or Pharaoh over Egypt who did not know Joseph.

00:23:31.000 And by the way, you could apply it to today's time.

00:23:33.000 Then rose a generation over America who did not know Abraham Lincoln.

00:23:38.000 Then rose a generation over America who did not know George Washington.

00:23:42.000 Forgetting the sacrifices prior gets you tyranny.

00:23:45.000 So this king rises over Egypt, does not know Joseph.

00:23:50.000 And then he complains, who are these Hebrews that expand into so many numbers?

00:23:55.000 They are so numerous.

00:23:56.000 And he gives an edict for the midwives to the Hebrews.

00:24:00.000 And they very well could have been either Egyptian or Hebrew.

00:24:02.000 No one actually knows.

00:24:03.000 I'm not going to get into that very contested theological debate.

00:24:06.000 However, he says to throw the firstborn into the Nile.

00:24:11.000 Which in ancient times, is the closest thing to abortion that we could possibly get.

00:24:16.000 And what is remarkable, the context here the Pharaoh is the closest thing to like God on earth that you could have in ancient times, That he was literally looked at as a demigod, that he was the closest thing in that sort of pagan culture.

00:24:32.000 Secondly, understand Egypt was a death cult. 0.93

00:24:36.000 They built their structures there, that they spent more time building tombs, which are pyramids, than anything else.

00:24:45.000 Everything was focused on death, They said when you die, That's when the real good stuff begins.

00:24:50.000 So throwing babies into the Nile, no big deal, because when you don't believe in a monotheistic God, Why wouldn't you throw the babies into the Nile?

00:25:00.000 They're just inconveniences.

00:25:02.000 But one of my favorite stories in the entire scriptures are the first pro-life warriors that we have in the Bible that remind me of the pro-life warriors here is the midwives to the Hebrews.

00:25:15.000 They disobeyed Pharaoh because they feared God and this is why I think that they were Egyptian, because they go back to Pharaoh and Pharaoh is mad. 0.95

00:25:31.000 He's like, why are you not throwing these babies into the Nile?

00:25:36.000 And they say, well, the Hebrew women are so strong.

00:25:38.000 They go through labor so quickly and like the worst excuse ever, right? 0.73

00:25:42.000 And Pharaoh gets mad and he otherwise would have just killed them.

00:25:46.000 The reason he didn't kill them, I think, is because they were actually Egyptian, which makes their heroism even greater, my personal opinion.

00:25:51.000 But then I love this verse.

00:25:55.000 God dealt favorably with the midwives and increased their numbers greatly, a direct blessing.

00:26:03.000 God cares so much about the innocent life that was being thrown into the Nile that it was explicitly said in the book of Exodus that that is his will.

00:26:14.000 Everybody, what is going on right now is a very similar story where plant parenthood is doing the equivalent of throwing the babies into the Nile.

00:26:24.000 And the question is, will we do what is necessary to try and step up and try to prevent that?

00:26:29.000 Now, understanding then that the Jewish people going out of the death cult of Egypt is the story of Exodus.

00:26:36.000 Exodus comes from a Greek two words, ex hodos, the way out.

00:26:40.000 And eventually, you know, you guys know the story, but I just want to focus on Exodus 20, which is, I think, so important here, which Moses goes up to Mount Sinai, stays there for a while, and in the Ten Statements, which is actually what it is, not the Ten Commandments, I am the Lord your God who delivered you from Egypt.

00:26:57.000 Hey, remember, I'm the Lord your God that delivered you from that death cult.

00:26:59.000 You shall have no other God before me.

00:27:00.000 You shall have no other craven images.

00:27:02.000 You guys know the list.

00:27:03.000 And as if you couldn't write it.

00:27:05.000 This goes to show why our advocacy is so important.

00:27:08.000 Moses leaves Aaron at the base of the mountain for like a very short period of time.

00:27:13.000 And where do human beings resort back to?

00:27:16.000 This is a guy that saw the Nile turn to blood, that saw locusts come, you know, all the different, the famines, the 10 different plagues that came across Egypt.

00:27:27.000 This is a guy that saw the parting of the Red Sea, and Moses goes on a little hiatus to go convene with God, and Moses comes down with the tablets, and what is Aaron doing?

00:27:37.000 He's throwing a rave party with a golden calf, Being like, I don't know how this happened.

00:27:46.000 And isn't that amazing?

00:27:47.000 This is a guy that saw God's miraculous intervention, and still he goes back to the default setting of paganism. 0.92

00:27:58.000 And then I just love the amazing verse.

00:28:00.000 Moses says, So, what's happening here, Aaron?

00:28:03.000 He's like, Yeah, I mean, we threw the gold in the fire, and out came a golden calf.

00:28:07.000 You know, yeah, hate when that happens.

00:28:09.000 It's like one of the funniest verses, honestly, in Exodus.

00:28:11.000 Like, yeah, you know, we're throwing gold in there.

00:28:12.000 No, of course we know what happened.

00:28:13.000 It's that at our core, there is this tension that we must worship something.

00:28:19.000 And it's built into everybody.

00:28:20.000 There are no atheists, there's just people that call themselves atheists.

00:28:25.000 And you worship something.

00:28:26.000 Maybe you worship self, you worship a celebrity, you worship an icon.

00:28:30.000 That is literally why the first commandment is, you shall have no other gods before me.

00:28:34.000 Period.

00:28:35.000 Hard stop.

00:28:36.000 And we must understand that in this movement right now, as we contest for life, as we contest for the ultimate and the beautiful things, it is tempting because the culture wants to go back to worshiping the golden calf or whatever sort of false and fake idolatrous God as it might be.

00:28:53.000 So I'll close with this.

00:28:54.000 I think I'm doing okay on time.

00:28:56.000 Am I okay?

00:28:57.000 I can go a little bit longer.

00:28:58.000 Okay.

00:28:58.000 So it is time to play offense.

00:29:00.000 And I understand we're outnumbered.

00:29:03.000 We're outgunned.

00:29:04.000 But it is a fight that I think God, I don't want to say cares the most about, but it's certainly a fight that outside of getting people to give their life to Christ, I can't think of a fight as important in America as that.

00:29:20.000 And by the way, they're directly tied together, which is if you get people to know that Jesus is Lord, then you also want to make sure that the innocent are not slaughtered.

00:29:30.000 And the rise and the continuation of the pro-abortion industry is not going to go away.

00:29:37.000 But it is the grittiness, it is the resolve of so many of you that matter.

00:29:44.000 And we do not act because we want to see a specific outcome.

00:29:48.000 We act out of obedience.

00:29:51.000 And those are two completely different things.

00:29:54.000 And that's why I love what this organization is doing and I love everybody on the front lines, which is I do it not because I, my flesh, wants to do it.

00:30:05.000 I do it because God commanded me to do it.

00:30:09.000 And the sooner we can change that attitude, there's so many things that will fall into line.

00:30:16.000 And so we know that we are in the spiritual war.

00:30:19.000 And I will just say this.

00:30:20.000 I said this in the previous engagement that we were talking.

00:30:23.000 Isn't it something that civilizations that never came in contact with one another, that were never close to one another, they all had the practice of child sacrifice? 0.93

00:30:32.000 Aztecs, Mayans, Incans, Egyptians, Indus River Valley, the Mesopotamians.

00:30:37.000 It just seems as if there is a spiritual cry from the underworld to always sacrifice the least of these.

00:30:45.000 I'll let a theologian sort that out, but that's something worth thinking about and worth praying about.

00:30:51.000 Jesus in John 10, 10 says it perfectly.

00:30:55.000 The enemy has come to lie, steal, cheat, and destroy.

00:30:59.000 But I have come to give life and life more abundantly.

00:31:06.000 And we look at that in spiritual terms.

00:31:09.000 Satan wants to take all of our lives.

00:31:12.000 He is the author of deception.

00:31:14.000 And in the pro-life fight in front of us right now, what do the scriptures tell us about Satan's behavior?

00:31:22.000 From the garden to tempting Jesus in the wilderness.

00:31:27.000 It's never total lies that are told.

00:31:30.000 It's half-truths.

00:31:34.000 In the garden, which again, if you guys, I always find, I like finding funny verses because I think it gives some levity.

00:31:41.000 Because some people say, oh, the Bible's not funny.

00:31:43.000 Actually, there's some hilarious.

00:31:44.000 Like, for example, when the serpent goes to the woman and Eve and messes everything up.

00:31:50.000 What's the first thing that Adam says when God is confronted, when it's confronted by God, walks in the garden again?

00:31:55.000 It's the woman that you gave me.

00:31:57.000 That's hilarious.

00:31:59.000 We've never changed.

00:32:01.000 It's just from the garden.

00:32:03.000 Never taking responsibility, first thing.

00:32:06.000 It's the woman that you made for me that messed all this up. 1.00

00:32:09.000 It's really something.

00:32:10.000 But the serpent, and in the wilderness, what was Satan doing when Jesus was tempted for 40 days?

00:32:19.000 He was quoting scripture.

00:32:20.000 He wasn't quoting it correctly, wasn't applying it correctly.

00:32:24.000 And he is the author of deception.

00:32:27.000 Satan literally means prosecutor in Hebrew.

00:32:31.000 And I think there's going to be an author of deception of, you don't have to fight for life that hard.

00:32:36.000 You don't have to contest for the unborn.

00:32:38.000 And I go back to that example of Canada.

00:32:41.000 That there's some people that want to bring us that.

00:32:42.000 Just forget it, make it a non-issue.

00:32:46.000 And I personally, I wouldn't be involved in this if we weren't fighting for the ultimate things, for the eternal things.

00:32:56.000 And it's because we love the Lord our God with all our heart, heart, soul, strength, and mind.

00:32:59.000 It's because we love our neighbor as ourselves.

00:33:01.000 It's because we love Jesus as Lord and we want to act obediently and all those different things.

00:33:06.000 And it is going to get tough.

00:33:08.000 It will be gritty.

00:33:11.000 If you want to be popular, don't be pro-life.

00:33:14.000 If you want to be accepted by the world, don't hold these positions.

00:33:18.000 But you're here tonight, not because you want to be accepted by the world, but because you honor a God that loves us.

00:33:24.000 And He expects certain actions out of us here.

00:33:28.000 So I just want to thank the incredible group of individuals that make this organization possible.

00:33:32.000 And they did not tell me to do this. 0.94

00:33:35.000 They said, you know, Charlie, we're going to do a soft ass. 0.98

00:33:36.000 That's fine. 0.99

00:33:37.000 I'm doing a hard ass because I'm actually really fired up about this.

00:33:39.000 You guys should all give very generously to this organization. 0.52

00:33:42.000 And it is one thing, and I will say this: I, more times than not, will advocate for pro-life politics, which is important.

00:33:52.000 But we are hypocrites if we do not also financially support for pro-life charities that are doing that work for the women in need and that need us most.

00:34:02.000 In fact, the easy thing is just filling out a ballot.

00:34:06.000 You know the hard thing is showing up at one of these clinics as a volunteer when you might be under-rested, working two jobs, to go in very difficult, high-stakes circumstances.

00:34:19.000 And make no mistake, there is no middle ground on this issue. 0.64

00:34:22.000 Elizabeth Warren came out last year and said she wants to shut down every pregnancy crisis center in the country because they're leading women away from abortion. 0.93

00:34:32.000 Exactly, Pocahontas. 1.00

00:34:33.000 They are leading people away from abortion.

00:34:35.000 I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself.

00:34:40.000 I'll close with this, which is, I know a lot of you are wondering the state of the country, and you say, Charlie, are you optimistic or are you pessimistic about where we're going as a country?

00:34:51.000 I refuse to answer.

00:34:53.000 Because if I said I was optimistic, you'd all go home and do nothing.

00:34:57.000 If I said I was pessimistic, you go home and do nothing because you think everything's falling apart.

00:35:01.000 Instead, it's simply on the agency that God has given you to fulfill his will here on earth.

00:35:08.000 I know some of you probably say, but Charlie, I've done everything that's been asked of me.

00:35:12.000 I watched the news channels, I bought the pillow, I've done everything that's been asked of me.

00:35:25.000 Mypillow.com promo code Kirk, just so we're clear.

00:35:34.000 By the way, someone should go buy a bunch of my pillows and donate them.

00:35:37.000 That'd be really fun.

00:35:38.000 It's going to require more than that, everybody.

00:35:40.000 We need every single one of you.

00:35:42.000 First, we need the prayers for the pro-life movement because we are under attack asymmetrically and spiritually.

00:35:46.000 We need your dollars.

00:35:47.000 I'm just going to be blunt.

00:35:48.000 Part of your tithe and your offering every single year, 10% of the money that you give, and you should be giving 10% to church, part of that should go to pro-life ministries.

00:35:55.000 And that's how we do our family.

00:35:57.000 Our family, we break it apart, different pro-life ministries, different ones that are doing great work.

00:36:00.000 And number three, we need your advocacy and we need your voice.

00:36:03.000 We need you to be active on the political front, absolutely.

00:36:07.000 But also on changing hearts and minds.

00:36:09.000 On the next time that you have a dinner and someone makes a really strong opinion about abortion, you're like, oh boy, I don't know if I should, you should absolutely say something.

00:36:16.000 Because who knows, two other people at the table might agree with you.

00:36:19.000 And by silence, they will advance.

00:36:23.000 Out of a small little error, the rot will grow.

00:36:28.000 But we know that we can achieve major moral victories in this country.

00:36:34.000 And I'm inspired by all of you that are pro-life warriors.

00:36:37.000 That you do it because it's the right thing.

00:36:40.000 You don't do it for some big payday.

00:36:42.000 You don't do it for political opportunity.

00:36:45.000 And I think it's the best of this country.

00:36:47.000 I think it's the best that the country has to offer.

00:36:50.000 And I want to not just preserve it, I want to expand it.

00:36:52.000 I want to see more of it.

00:36:54.000 And what a time to be alive, everybody.

00:36:56.000 As it says in Esther, for such a time as this, where the stakes are so high, where we're up against a movement that doesn't believe in anything that I've talked about here.

00:37:05.000 And they now say, shout your abortion. 0.98

00:37:08.000 They do all this garbage and this nonsense. 0.99

00:37:10.000 And they are going to just continue on that unless we play offense, trust in God, and act boldly and courageously. 0.98

00:37:18.000 God bless you guys.

00:37:19.000 Thank you so much.

00:37:21.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:37:23.000 Everybody, email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:37:26.000 Thanks so much for listening and God bless.

00:37:29.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - April 28, 2024

Keeping the Republican Party a Pro-Life Party

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