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00:02:49.000This has really been quite a week, and God's timing is perfect in so many ways.
00:02:55.000And it's fitting that I'm ending my week speaking at an organization that is on the front lines saving babies.
00:03:03.000Because 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.
00:03:11.000And there's some people that believe that we should no longer talk about the abortion issue and stay away from it.
00:03:17.000And then all of a sudden you see a story like that and you say, well, what other issue matters more than that?
00:03:22.000Like what matters more than saving life and saving babies from the potential slaughter of Planned Parenthood.
00:03:29.000And 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.
00:03:46.000And so I just, and it is such difficult and largely thankless work.
00:04:04.000It 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.
00:04:13.000But it's work that is rooted in obedience.
00:04:16.000And only a Christian organization would work this hard to save babies that are not their own.
00:04:25.000I want you to think about that for a second.
00:04:27.000Do you think a secular organization would be working super hard to try to save life of babies that are not their own?
00:04:34.000And 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.
00:04:46.000And I completely disagree with that, and I'll tell you why in so many different ways.
00:04:49.000But also, the reality that we're living in a post-Christian society.
00:04:54.000And this is really hard for those of us that are believers because we remember when America was a Christian society.
00:05:02.000And I promised myself I wouldn't make this speech overly political because it's honestly, this is so much bigger than politics.
00:05:11.000Easter 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.
00:05:35.000We see the hyper-secularization of the country.
00:05:38.000There 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.
00:05:45.000But we are living in this post-Christian society.
00:05:48.000And we don't really know what is the governing belief of the current, let's just say, orthodoxy of the country.
00:05:55.000There's all these different sorts of pseudo-religions that have popped up.
00:05:58.000I have great experience in many of them because I visit college campuses, so you don't have to.
00:06:03.000And when I visit these campuses, I get kind of a different taste and flavors of all the different fake religions.
00:06:10.000And let's just be honest, they're not new.
00:06:13.000They'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.
00:06:37.000That's what it says in Ecclesiastes, actually.
00:06:52.000And we're living through this time where this is a spiritual war fundamental.
00:06:59.000And I'm going to just kind of talk about some hard truths here tonight, and then you can take it however it is.
00:07:05.000But I don't know how many Christians actually recognize we're in a spiritual war.
00:07:09.000And 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.
00:07:16.000I 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?
00:07:30.000And 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.
00:07:48.000The church not recognizing this, and we'll get to that in a second.
00:07:51.000But 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.
00:08:05.000And so a couple things that I want to talk about this.
00:09:21.000The Conservative Party of Canada is not a pro-life party.
00:09:24.000Its platform suggests legal abortion, and its leaders support legal abortion.
00:09:29.000None of the major parties are actually pro-life.
00:09:32.000All the party leaders support abortion on demand.
00:09:35.000The Canadian pro-life movement became so weak that any legislation with even a whiff of pro-life intent goes down in flames.
00:09:43.000In 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.
00:09:52.000And I looked this up beforehand, and I'm going to read this to you.
00:09:54.000This is from the Conservative Party's website.
00:09:57.000If the Conservative government will not support any legislation to regulate abortion.
00:10:15.000We have to actively reject that to make sure that our pro-life movement expands both in our influence and our cultural impact.
00:10:24.000And 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.
00:10:30.000That we say that it is a priority in our advocacy.
00:10:36.000And we have to be honest that the country is not as pro-life as we are.
00:10:40.000I 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.
00:11:49.000And 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.
00:11:56.000But the point I'm getting at, though, is so illuminating.
00:11:58.000I was like, I thought we're the pro-life movement.
00:12:00.000I thought that's the whole thing, right?
00:12:01.000And some people were like, we're not that pro-life, right?
00:12:04.000Like, we want like pro-life at like 28 weeks.
00:12:06.000I'm like, okay, that's not pro-life, actually.
00:12:08.000And I was like, we have a lot of work to do.
00:12:10.000But 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.
00:12:32.000Some of you had your clinics firebombed across the country.
00:12:35.000And 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.
00:12:48.000Catholics prayed the rosary every single day for the reversal of Roe versus Wade.
00:12:52.000Evangelical Christians went to work in their capacity on this amazing coalition.
00:12:56.000And 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.
00:13:09.000And, well, God works in miraculous ways.
00:13:13.000Where 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.
00:13:23.000And now Roe versus Wade is repealed, and abortion is technically illegal now in Texas, which is awesome.
00:13:35.000And I just want to make sure you understand that that should give you great hope for the next fight ahead.
00:13:40.000Planned Parenthood was publicly funded with $500 million a year.
00:13:43.000You have every major billionaire oligarch that funded the pro-abortion cause for years, for decades.
00:13:50.000And 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.
00:14:00.000And now we need that next 50-year vision because we are at a crossroads.
00:14:04.000And a lot of people are wondering, what do we do and how do we do this?
00:15:33.000The 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.
00:15:46.000And like they make fun of us for believing in stuff that takes too much faith.
00:15:50.000Like, I don't have enough faith to believe in that kind of rubbish.
00:15:53.000That the human genome is an accident of evolution.
00:15:57.000I mean, you just see that just the process of how life is made, that it's obvious there is a designer behind that.
00:16:05.000However, it is easy to justify the discarding of human life if you reject Genesis 1.26.
00:16:11.000So in Genesis 1.26, it says, Let us make man in our likeness, in God's image.
00:16:19.000Now, just as a fun side note, the let us is the first mention of the Trinity in the scriptures.
00:16:27.000And by the way, if you ever want to have loving fun with a rabbi, ask them to explain Genesis 1.26.
00:19:11.000I think that it's modern Auschwitz, what they're doing in this country.
00:19:14.000And 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.
00:19:43.000Don't go through some sort of species metamorphosis.
00:19:46.000So, doesn't that being deserve human rights?
00:19:50.000Most importantly, the right to live and the right to life.
00:19:54.000And sometimes they will say, but Charlie, it's not your body, it's not your choice.
00:20:01.000Sometimes, I have the best answer to this, which I actually found at the March for Life like four years ago.
00:20:06.000There's an eight-year-old kid smiling with a sign, and I took a picture of it.
00:20:09.000I said, That is the smartest thing I've ever heard.
00:20:11.000I'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.
00:20:18.000The answer is, but if it's not your DNA, it's not your choice, which is the best possible answer.
00:20:25.000New deoxoribonucleic acid is formed at that moment.
00:20:29.000So, they can't defend on any sort of moral ground, so then they defend it on convenience grounds.
00:20:34.000And that goes back to the ultimate schism: what is a human being?
00:20:39.000And 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.
00:20:47.000And make no mistake, depopulation is behind a lot of the abortion agenda in this country.
00:20:52.000Okay, 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.
00:21:04.000Read the original documents from Margaret Sanger and Eugenics.
00:21:08.000They wanted widespread sterilization and population control.
00:21:11.000But secondly, on top of that, which I think is incredibly important, is the question of who actually is in charge.
00:21:21.000Everybody 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.
00:21:35.000I'm sorry, I always pick on the Episcopalians.
00:21:37.000Even Tucker picks on Episcopalians, and he's Episcopalian.
00:21:40.000Which is, there is a God, and we are not him.
00:21:52.000But 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.
00:22:04.000And 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?
00:22:15.000Believing that there is no God or believing you are God?
00:22:19.000And I've come to the conclusion that believing God is actually worth than being an atheist.
00:22:23.000Like, if you think you're God, I actually think you do more damage.
00:24:03.000I'm not going to get into that very contested theological debate.
00:24:06.000However, he says to throw the firstborn into the Nile.
00:24:11.000Which in ancient times, is the closest thing to abortion that we could possibly get.
00:24:16.000And 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.
00:24:32.000Secondly, understand Egypt was a death cult.
00:24:36.000They built their structures there, that they spent more time building tombs, which are pyramids, than anything else.
00:24:45.000Everything was focused on death, They said when you die, That's when the real good stuff begins.
00:24:50.000So 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?
00:25:02.000But 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.
00:25:15.000They 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.
00:25:31.000He's like, why are you not throwing these babies into the Nile?
00:25:36.000And they say, well, the Hebrew women are so strong.
00:25:38.000They go through labor so quickly and like the worst excuse ever, right?
00:25:42.000And Pharaoh gets mad and he otherwise would have just killed them.
00:25:46.000The reason he didn't kill them, I think, is because they were actually Egyptian, which makes their heroism even greater, my personal opinion.
00:25:55.000God dealt favorably with the midwives and increased their numbers greatly, a direct blessing.
00:26:03.000God 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.
00:26:14.000Everybody, 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.
00:26:24.000And the question is, will we do what is necessary to try and step up and try to prevent that?
00:26:29.000Now, understanding then that the Jewish people going out of the death cult of Egypt is the story of Exodus.
00:26:36.000Exodus comes from a Greek two words, ex hodos, the way out.
00:26:40.000And 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.
00:26:57.000Hey, remember, I'm the Lord your God that delivered you from that death cult.
00:26:59.000You shall have no other God before me.
00:27:00.000You shall have no other craven images.
00:27:05.000This goes to show why our advocacy is so important.
00:27:08.000Moses leaves Aaron at the base of the mountain for like a very short period of time.
00:27:13.000And where do human beings resort back to?
00:27:16.000This 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.
00:27:27.000This 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?
00:27:37.000He's throwing a rave party with a golden calf, Being like, I don't know how this happened.
00:28:36.000And 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.
00:29:04.000But 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.
00:29:20.000And 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.
00:29:30.000And the rise and the continuation of the pro-abortion industry is not going to go away.
00:29:37.000But it is the grittiness, it is the resolve of so many of you that matter.
00:29:44.000And we do not act because we want to see a specific outcome.
00:29:51.000And those are two completely different things.
00:29:54.000And 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.
00:30:05.000I do it because God commanded me to do it.
00:30:09.000And the sooner we can change that attitude, there's so many things that will fall into line.
00:30:16.000And so we know that we are in the spiritual war.
00:30:20.000I said this in the previous engagement that we were talking.
00:30:23.000Isn'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?
00:30:32.000Aztecs, Mayans, Incans, Egyptians, Indus River Valley, the Mesopotamians.
00:30:37.000It just seems as if there is a spiritual cry from the underworld to always sacrifice the least of these.
00:30:45.000I'll let a theologian sort that out, but that's something worth thinking about and worth praying about.
00:30:51.000Jesus in John 10, 10 says it perfectly.
00:30:55.000The enemy has come to lie, steal, cheat, and destroy.
00:30:59.000But I have come to give life and life more abundantly.
00:31:06.000And we look at that in spiritual terms.
00:33:37.000I'm doing a hard ass because I'm actually really fired up about this.
00:33:39.000You guys should all give very generously to this organization.
00:33:42.000And it is one thing, and I will say this: I, more times than not, will advocate for pro-life politics, which is important.
00:33:52.000But 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.
00:34:02.000In fact, the easy thing is just filling out a ballot.
00:34:06.000You 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.
00:34:19.000And make no mistake, there is no middle ground on this issue.
00:34:22.000Elizabeth 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.
00:34:40.000I'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?
00:35:48.000Part 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.
00:35:57.000Our family, we break it apart, different pro-life ministries, different ones that are doing great work.
00:36:00.000And number three, we need your advocacy and we need your voice.
00:36:03.000We need you to be active on the political front, absolutely.
00:36:07.000But also on changing hearts and minds.
00:36:09.000On 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.
00:36:16.000Because who knows, two other people at the table might agree with you.
00:36:54.000And what a time to be alive, everybody.
00:36:56.000As 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.
00:37:05.000And they now say, shout your abortion.
00:37:08.000They do all this garbage and this nonsense.
00:37:10.000And they are going to just continue on that unless we play offense, trust in God, and act boldly and courageously.