00:01:07.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:14.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:29.000I wanted to also add in regards to what Pastor Rick was sharing about The Guardian.
00:01:34.000First of all, I want to welcome, now this is a for-profit newspaper, but to their credit, they show up, they come to the sanctuary, they get the story, and the Ventura County stars here, Tom Kiskin and the photographer, and I just want to say thank you for coming.
00:04:07.000Charlie, you brought up the Bondarenkos in the audience, and I never want to miss the opportunity to acknowledge Joseph Bondarenko.
00:04:14.000He spent 10 years in a Soviet gulag, 23 hours a day in solitary confinement for being a preacher during the Soviet era.
00:04:23.000And from the Ukraine and the Bondarenko family, everyone is confused about the Ukraine, and we're sending billions of dollars to the Ukraine.
00:04:36.000Germany sending, I mean, what's going on there?
00:05:30.000And I think all of us were also very disturbed at the money, the time, the treasure, and the lives that were lost, not really a clear goal that came out of the quagmire in the Middle East.
00:05:42.000I think great countries stop being great when they get involved in endless wars.
00:05:46.000History tells us that very clearly, repeatedly.
00:05:50.000And while all those things being very clear, I have a series of very short, simple questions that the American ruling class dodge at every single senators that come on my show.
00:06:03.000I just ask, I say, what does success look like?
00:06:06.000What are you willing to do to get to that line of success?
00:06:09.000And will you ever be willing to disengage if all of a sudden the stakes get too high or you get too close to failure?
00:06:16.000Those three questions are what adults ask before you do anything meaningful.
00:06:21.000Buy a piece of property, get married, buy a car, anything.
00:06:25.000We have not asked that question and got an answer on any of those.
00:06:28.000Okay, so right now, what does success look like?
00:07:35.000I don't know about you, but I'm not exactly enthusiastic about sending our best and our brightest and our youngest and our most, with the highest potential into a hot war with a nuclear powered nation that should, by the way, be a soft ally in the fight against the real threat, the Chinese Communist Party, that is legitimately taking over the world.
00:07:56.000And The third point that I want to make, will the American ruling class ever say, hold on, maybe this is not a good idea?
00:08:05.000And no, because if you know anything about how the American ruling class operates, is that they operate with hyper-aggression, never apologizing or admitting a failure ever.
00:08:21.000It's your fault that your jobs got shipped overseas to China.
00:08:25.000It's your fault that you didn't take the vaccine.
00:08:28.000It's always the American people's fault.
00:08:30.000And so I take a step back, and I don't trust the people in charge, nor should you after the last couple of years.
00:08:36.000And I certainly don't trust the very same American foreign policy establishment that was unable to have success in Libya, in Syria, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in every theater they engage in themselves.
00:08:48.000And in fact, I think they're getting us closer to a state of permanent conflict with, again, let me repeat this.
00:08:56.000I think that he should be condemned for his actions.
00:08:59.000But sometimes in geopolitics, you have to be willing to have temporary partnerships against the greater evil.
00:09:06.000And the greater evil is not a little bit, it's by far the CCP's conquest of the Western world and the modern world.
00:09:13.000So while the CCP is dumping fentanyl into our schools, spying on your kids via TikTok, dumping steel and solar panels, involved in hyper-sophisticated technological war, we're worried about an 800-year family dispute over an arbitrary border 5,000 miles away because Lindsey Graham tells us, I'm sorry, pal, you've been wrong about everything the last 20 years.
00:09:35.000I don't care the way you think I should.
00:09:37.000In fact, we should not send another dime.
00:09:38.000We should just send humanitarian assistance.
00:09:49.000Nobody on television says, here's what it's going to take for peace.
00:09:53.000In a mature and adult civilization, when there's a hot war with very high stakes with NATO member countries, shouldn't there be negotiations going on all the time?
00:10:02.000No, it seems as if our foreign policy establishment does not want peace.
00:10:23.000But I see very clearly what they're trying to do.
00:10:25.000They're trying to make us care more about the invasion of a foreign country, which, by the way, final point, our own country is being invaded every single day.
00:10:42.000I was so into what you were talking about.
00:10:53.000Charlie, we just had the privilege to be with some pastors, especially some that stood in defiance of the tyranny of Governor Nussalini there in L.A. County.
00:11:03.000We had some up in Ojai, which, you know, that's no conservative bastion up there.
00:11:41.000First, I came across an author by the name of Tom Holland, who's actually a secular writer, but he's very fair.
00:11:48.000And he just, he makes an argument, looking at history very honestly, that what we consider to be common sense in the West is anything but common sense, right?
00:11:58.000So I could list off five things and someone in secular society would say, oh, yeah, every society understands that.
00:12:03.000For example, not touching children or taking advantage of them, giving money and charity to the poor, natural rights, the fact that the strong should protect the weak.
00:12:12.000I could go through one after the other.
00:12:14.000And the argument he makes is that in the West, we are actually inheritors of a Christian inheritance.
00:12:19.000That without a biblical construct, the world does not know these things as quote-unquote common sense.
00:12:24.000And you don't need any more evidence than what you see happening in the underdeveloped world or in the Islamic world or in the hypersecular world.
00:12:33.000If you do not have codes or customs that are put in place, it is almost the norm to take advantage of children.
00:12:39.000Look what happening in America right now, where they're going after children with this incredibly insidious transgender ideology with medical mutilation or the chemical castration of children.
00:12:50.000The idea that children should be protected by adults is a uniquely Christian idea.
00:12:56.000And no one really has the courage to say that out loud.
00:12:58.000But going back even further, what I said previously and understanding that, it's if you want to know what the left is trying to achieve, they're trying to obliterate many of the distinctions that are laid out in the first 11 books of Genesis.
00:13:11.000So I'm having a great, because, yeah, I'm sorry, first 11 chapters of Genesis.
00:13:54.000300 years from now, someone will be able to listen to this.
00:13:56.000Like, oh, yeah, of course, of course, of course.
00:13:58.000And so one of the arguments that is very clear in the Torah, the first five books of the Bible and the first 11 chapters of Genesis, is distinctions.
00:14:07.000So if there's just one way you want to describe why the Bible is different than any other religious book, it's that it's very clear about distinctions and maintaining those distinctions.
00:14:17.000So a distinction, for example, is the distinction between God and man, that we are not God and there is a God.
00:14:49.000The distinction between good and evil, the distinction between adult and child.
00:14:53.000These distinctions are there because distinctions actually make you free.
00:14:57.000And the law is supposed to honor those distinctions to understand our broken human nature so we can flourish and glorify God.
00:15:04.000Everything the American left is trying to do right now is try to destroy those distinctions, one at a time and almost simultaneously.
00:15:12.000That there is no good and evil, that you could do whatever is right in your own eyes.
00:15:15.000That there is really no difference between man and woman.
00:15:18.000That there is no difference between man and nature.
00:15:21.000In fact, no, we must be subservient to nature.
00:15:24.000And you can just go through the first 11 books of Genesis and you'll see very clearly that those distinctions, the core canon of our existence, is predicated on us honoring those distinctions and teaching them and defending them.
00:15:37.000It takes courageous people to defend those distinctions because the enemy and the world wants to do everything it possibly can to shred them.
00:15:44.000Let's just take one of those very clearly that's happening in this community and across the country.
00:15:49.000The distinction between man and woman.
00:15:51.000What a very simple biological distinction that you could be taught now that there is no difference, man and woman, and you could be whatever you want to be.
00:16:00.000What an amazing agent of chaos the enemy is to get us into a place of permanent discord and confusion.
00:16:08.000And I mean, it's such a silly idea that you have to go to college to believe it, which, by the way, check out my latest book.
00:16:34.000They want to justify a totalitarian regime that then can take over because they've decided and they've been able to destroy what we call a free society.
00:16:43.000And so I've really been pouring over what I think far too many pastors do not teach, which is Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, which, if you look at the founding fathers, the founding fathers cited the book of Deuteronomy more than any other source in writing the Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers, and the Constitution.
00:17:03.000He quoted Deuteronomy more than any other book.
00:17:05.000And Jesus, when Jesus was alive, and it's still the same today, the most holy thing a Jew can do is to study the Torah.
00:17:13.000So our Lord and Savior, God in flesh, loved the first five books of the Bible.
00:17:20.000And yet, so many pastors across the country intentionally avoid it and tell us that the first five books of the Bible are irrelevant.
00:17:28.000Andy Stanley, who's a pastor in Georgia, says that we shouldn't take seriously the first five books of the Bible, that Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, are irrelevant and not worthy of study or appreciation.
00:17:43.000And so as we try to look at this time of chaos and confusion, which is widespread in our nation, I find it so comforting personally to go back to that these are eternal fights, that these are fights that predate us and they're going to be here long past us.
00:17:57.000But the order that can be restored is very clear, which is to establish the distinctions and to protect them, but it takes courage to do so.
00:18:13.000Now, for those of you who call God speak home, I want you to forget everything Charlie just said because I'll be preaching that the next Sunday.
00:18:28.000And his comment that when he had come from India and he's driving through Quaker Pennsylvania and he sees a stand that says, you know, free, no, milk, $5.
00:18:49.000It's the principles established by our founders.
00:18:54.000Charlie, when Pastor James Cadiz had shared about this idea of John 1 and Genesis 1, bridge that for us because that was profound.
00:19:04.000And also this idea of politics, when Pastor Greg had talked about, you know, the concept that you share from Aristotle that politics is the highest form of community because it combines morality with sociability.
00:19:21.000But, you know, most people say poly, meaning many ticks, meaning blood-sucking parasite.
00:19:27.000They have such a bad understanding of politics.
00:19:30.000And one thing I was going to add is: if God didn't intend us to be in politics, he would have never invented marriage.
00:19:38.000Well, and that's the case for why we should defend heterosexual marriage, by the way, is that marriage needs to be the union of different parts.
00:19:47.000And so anything that tries to say that marriage should be the same parts is not marriage.
00:20:12.000It's incredibly deep and it's filled with profundity.
00:20:14.000In the beginning was the word and the word became flesh and flesh was God became flesh and the flesh became the word was the word became the word was God and the word became flesh.
00:20:24.000And this the idea of word is really the word logos.
00:20:27.000We could do a whole hour on what logos is and what that means.
00:20:30.000It could be dialogue, spoken truth, reason.
00:20:32.000These are all replacement and filler words.
00:20:34.000But if you kind of put the two creation stories, Genesis 1 and John 1, they're both saying the same thing, which is that spoken truth has incredible importance to our existence.
00:20:44.000Because if Genesis 1, 26 and 127 is true, which is let us make man in our image, right?
00:20:53.000Therefore, in God spoke things into existence, right?
00:20:56.000And God said, let there be light, and God said, let there be expanse, and God said, let there be man.
00:21:02.000Therefore, in the logos being spoken word, is that our ability to be made in God's image is our ability to speak truth.
00:21:12.000And so you look at that in today's time, and you look at the two creation stories, Genesis 1 and John 1, what is the thing that they're most obsessed with right now? Is making sure you can't speak the truth.
00:21:24.000In essence, the only way you can challenge lies is to have the courage and the ability to speak truth, to try to go up against it, to challenge it, to dissect it, to cross-examine it.
00:21:35.000And so I believe we get closer to the divine through actually using the logos.
00:21:41.000And Jesus did not just say true things.
00:21:44.000That's what's so amazing, is that he was the truth.
00:21:47.000He was the embodiment of all things true.
00:21:50.000Never sinned, never said a faulty word.
00:21:52.000And so we apply that to our own world and how we're supposed to live out.
00:21:55.000People say, well, Charlie, you know, I get accused of not being Christ-like.
00:21:59.000Sometimes that's totally and completely true.
00:22:02.000But at least what I am attempting to do is I'm trying to speak truth every single day.
00:22:08.000And if you want to be more like Jesus, that's the most Christ-like thing that you can do, is to speak truth every single day, regardless of the cost or the circumstance or the penalty or the punishment, is to speak truth.
00:22:25.000And so to be made the image of God, you think about how powerful that is.
00:22:30.000And if you also just want a little early hat tip to the Trinity, it says in the original Biblical Hebrew, let us make man in the image of God.
00:23:14.000And also understanding that when the first five books of Moses were written, it was written when the world was largely pagan.
00:23:21.000The idea of a monotheistic God that just spoke things and they happened was an unconscionable concept at the time.
00:23:31.000It was all these polytheistic gods, the God of the sun, the God of the moon, the God of the river, the God of the flowers, the God of the, and this idea that there's one God and omniscient, omnipresent, and is able to speak things into existence, it was a foreign concept.
00:23:46.000It was hard to wrap your head around it.
00:23:47.000And it wasn't until the Greeks that they realized that man is significant over all other creation, or even creation itself, over all other distinctive animals.
00:23:55.000And so they started to celebrate man as being distinct and special.
00:23:59.000And that's where we get the original language of the scriptures.
00:24:03.000It's so, because it's the language of the greatest philosophical thinkers of all time: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle.
00:26:49.000So you read this biblical story and it's kind of fitting, and all of a sudden, the story, and it's very clear that God will sow confusion in the ranks of man if you do not honor him and if you do not understand the hierarchy and the distinction between God and man.
00:27:04.000And what is so amazing is the only reason we know about the story of Babel is they had this massive city, and I'm sure they had scrolls, galore, and scholars was this little ragtag Bedouin group of people that later became Jews that saw it happen.
00:27:24.000That's the only reason we knew about it, is that they didn't write any texts, they had no record.
00:27:29.000No, it was just the story of, yeah, these people said that we're going to do this without God, and we're going to build something so high to the heavens, nearly challenge him.
00:27:37.000And I believe firmly that what many of the architects of the World Economic Forum are doing, one world, one language, one currency, is trying to reunify Babel.
00:27:51.000But Thomas Jefferson and the Torah both did not like big cities or centralized power.
00:27:59.000The founding fathers, all they had to do, and they wrote about this, was read Genesis 11 and say, we need checks and balances.
00:28:06.000We need separation of powers because it's not good for one person or one people to be this clustered, this centralized, with that much power.
00:28:15.000And I have to hear Christians tell me the Bible doesn't tell you anything about politics.
00:28:26.000The idea of doing something apart from God bringing confusion.
00:29:01.000We believe in distinction of man and woman.
00:29:03.000But the feminists, the reason they haven't spoken out is they have not been able to agree in harmony because from a secular worldview, why is it wrong for someone with power to exploit someone that doesn't have as much?
00:29:38.000And so therefore, this is why the trans thing is so important and you have to keep on fighting on it and you cannot give an inch because it's a perfect example of what ends up happening.
00:29:46.000Moral chaos into moral totalitarianism immediately, from one to the other.
00:30:02.000Then you get people that have power that bully and punish people that don't have as much power.
00:30:09.000And absent those of us that are able to then protect those that can't protect themselves, you're going to then live in a very perverted form of a tyrannical regime.
00:30:37.000Sometimes they could be 25, sometimes they could be 45, sometimes they could be eight, right?
00:30:43.000Then there's the protector of infants.
00:30:46.000This is a new category that is uniquely Western.
00:30:50.000Most civilizations had zero understanding as to why children should be protected.
00:30:56.000If you read your Bible, I guarantee you one of the things you remember most is the harsh, clear teaching of Jesus about not touching children.
00:32:41.000But also with infants, protectors of infants, and predators.
00:32:46.000If the protectors of infants are afraid to be calling bad names, bigots, homophobes, or whatever, nothing will stop the predators from going after the infants.
00:32:54.000And that is the great struggle of our time.
00:32:56.000It's the fuel behind the parents' party.
00:32:58.000It's the fuel behind the sexualization of our curriculum.
00:33:01.000It is the fuel behind CRT, behind pornography in our schools, behind all of these things.
00:33:06.000Is what will the people that are tasked to protect infants do against the predators?
00:33:12.000I can say this: as a new father, I want to go Old Testament on these people, and I don't care what they call me.
00:33:28.000Yeah, let me just kind of one more thing before we do questions.
00:33:31.000I just want to, I've been super blessed by diving back into Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.
00:33:37.000I don't think enough Christians have had really the time to do that as much.
00:33:41.000Rob has taught through it really well, especially the civic and moral implications.
00:34:00.000Like, wow, the country that I love, the country that I fight for every day, was birthed out of an appreciation for the books that so many American churches say they're not worthy of study.
00:34:12.000When I hear a pastor say that I don't want to get involved in politics, I'm like, that's someone that has not really studied Leviticus or Deuteronomy.
00:34:42.000Do you feel that God is perhaps not as favorable towards the United States as he once was because we have deviated from our founding fathers and those precepts?
00:35:27.000Removing prayer in schools, removing Bible study, the secularization of society, all these things I think might be the case.
00:35:35.000But the most operative way I can answer it is, what does that mean for me?
00:35:40.000And for me, it means I have to fight harder to try to create a new awakening, a new revival, and movement around patriotism and goodness and truth and virtue and beauty.
00:35:52.000I'm afraid I hear far too often, and I get a lot of these emails, Charlie, America is over with.
00:35:57.000God has turned his back on this nation.
00:39:05.000All I know is this, is that if you take time to strengthen yourself, no matter what happens, that will give you an advantage, no matter what ends up coming around the corner.
00:40:26.000It hasn't changed, but it has clarified and deepened.
00:40:30.000So we have a five-month-old, amazing, praise God, super healthy and just vibrant and full of joy and just incredible.
00:40:40.000And one of the things you learn almost immediately, and I'm sure there's a lot of other lessons around the corner for me as I hear from other people, is that you really don't matter in this equation.
00:40:52.000And it is, and this is why fatherlessness is so high because the whole culture is about you and your feelings, not about duty or obligation.
00:41:03.000And that's a completely different moral construct that we should talk about.
00:41:08.000So it doesn't matter if what I want to do, it's what I ought to do, which is to raise good people and to make sure that my daughter is well served and that I'm present and my wife is supported.
00:41:22.000It's completely irrelevant what I feel.
00:41:25.000That is very clear when you have a child.
00:41:28.000And it's also clear why weak, cowardly men that have been fed a steady diet of secular, indulgent narcissism abandon their wives because we've been told them that you matter.
00:41:41.000You're all this, yeah, look, you do matter, but it's less about how you feel.
00:41:44.000And it's more important about one of my favorite words: duty.
00:43:47.000It means that first, I think that us kind of de-emphasizing the Sabbath has been one of the great mistakes of secular modernity.
00:43:54.000I think we should bring back blue laws.
00:43:56.000I think whoever runs for president should run on at least an optional day of rest and celebrate it and talk about how we're moving way too fast and we're hurrying our life and we're more depressed and we're more suicidal and more anxious than ever.
00:44:08.000And the scriptures have the key, which is to shut everything down for 24 hours once a week.
00:44:12.000I think it will solve a lot of our problems just by doing that alone.
00:44:16.000I'm writing a whole book on this, by the way, because I think one of the great failures of modern Christianity is no longer honoring the Sabbath.
00:44:51.000Thankfully, you have grace and redemption and mercy, but I mean, so anyway, that's, I could go on at length ad nauseum in that way, but I am a recipient of a blessing.
00:45:02.000God rested after creation, and I think we should too.
00:45:17.000So, how would you recommend proceeding when you have trans people in your family that obviously you love and you care about these people, but you don't agree with these things and you don't support these things, but you still care about these people?
00:45:42.000And my heart goes out to you because in some ways, it's easier, it's easier for me to kind of be blunt on the trans issue because it's a distance, right?
00:45:56.000In some ways, I don't have to live with it.
00:46:00.000I think I don't know who in your family is dealing with it, but let me say this as let me just say it as bluntly as possible.
00:46:09.000It is not loving to validate somebody's indulgence in a mental illness, it's not, it's just not.
00:46:16.000And the loving thing to do would be to get them the support, the care that they need through spoken truth to tell them that how you feel is not consistent with your biological reality.
00:46:31.000And those who argue with reality live in hell.
00:47:08.000Empathy is nowhere to be found in the Bible, right?
00:47:10.000Sympathy and empathy are two different words.
00:47:13.000But let me say this, though, that I believe love is knowing somebody well enough for that they have not reached their full potential and then having the courage to tell them that they should not stay in a certain pattern.
00:47:26.000So I don't know if the trans person is thinking about hormone blockers or puberty blockers or chemical castration or Lupron.
00:47:36.000It shows us that that starts a cascade of interventions that increases the rate of suicide, self-harm, misery.
00:47:44.000What we do know is that from people that have escaped that cascade of interventions, that true liberation and true freedom actually comes from proper reconciliation with probably someone who harmed them, right?
00:47:57.000Because that's usually one of the reasons why they go through this.
00:48:01.000And I'll say this: the final, I don't know how old this person is that's dealing with this.
00:48:06.000The vast majority of people that are coming out as trans right now in America are actually young women experiencing puberty that do not have a father figure at home.
00:48:16.000And they think puberty means that they're actually a male and they're preyed on by groomer predators in school, prescribed irreversible drug treatment that then puts them into this cycle.
00:48:28.000I'm not one to say it's easy what you have to do, but what I would encourage you is to love like Jesus would, which is not to accept the sin, to always still dialogue and to be there for small favors or to be there for dinners.
00:48:43.000I would not shut off communication or conversation.
00:48:45.000I think that would be the worst thing you could do.
00:48:47.000But when the rubber hits the road and they seek validation, because they will, they will always seek validation.
00:48:54.000This is why the trans movement is tyrannical at nature.
00:48:56.000It's not enough that they chop off their parts.
00:48:58.000They want you to tell you that they're doing the right thing, that they're chopping off their parts.
00:49:03.000It is, by definition, always seeking the validation of the other because they know what they're doing is wrong.
00:51:22.000Well, first, let me further diagnose the problem because I've really labored over this topic and this issue.
00:51:26.000I've said this many times, those of you that listen to my podcast and my radio program, you've heard this story before, so you have to just entertain me.
00:51:33.000And back in the spring of 2020, I made the worst prediction in the history of American radio.
00:51:38.000So bad, they should have kicked me off the airwaves.
00:51:42.000I did this whole podcast where I said, Listen, okay, they're trying to lock down America, and the pastors love liberty, and the churches aren't going to put up with this, and American Christians are going to fight back, and the lockdowns are not going to last a week.
00:51:55.000And American Christians are just going to tell these tyrants to go to heaven and to get out, and it's going to be this huge thing.
00:52:52.000With, they had went, they had like disinfectant, three masks on, they had oxygen machines, every door was wide open, and like one person was allowed to come in at a time and like take communion for Palm Sunday and then leave.
00:53:08.000And then they would, I literally, in the live stream, you'd watch it, they would spray the chair and then wipe it off.
00:53:14.000And it was, it was amazing to see on the live stream.
00:55:21.000After the lockdowns, the forced vaccines, the mRNA gene-altering shot, the masks on kids, most suicidal generation in history, wide open border, crashing the economy, manipulation of social media, spying on a president, removal of a president, you're still kind of in the neutral zone at this point.
00:55:40.000Like, I don't know, I need to see more information to proceed.
00:55:49.000Like, I'm going to need more time to figure it out.
00:57:48.000South Korea is a free nation now, thanks to American soldiers.
00:57:51.000And we have also adopted biblical values, same values of America when founding our own country.
00:57:57.000And yet, these days, a lot of leftist ideologies from America and that have been destroying American values are also flowing into our country and destroying our foundation as well.
00:58:07.000And do you believe this freedom movement that you're in right now, Christian truth movement, should spread out to the world?
00:58:14.000And if you do, then how can we achieve that?
00:58:18.000She also wants to know if you'll go to With me because I'm going to go with, and we're going to do a go to Seoul.
00:58:23.000Yeah, we're going to have a first of all, God bless you.
00:58:29.000There is no, and this is why I'm done with these pastors.
00:58:32.000There is no greater demonstration about the moral need to engage in politics than looking at a satellite image between North Korea and South Korea.
00:58:47.000My blood pressure rises when a pastor says it doesn't matter.
00:58:50.000You've got concentration camps, death camps, propaganda, people being massacred in the streets, and complete totalitarian regime in North Korea and a robust Christian nation that has the rule of law, separation of powers, and a constitution, freedom of speech, commerce, some of the most valuable companies on the planet in South Korea.
00:59:08.000And you're trying to tell me politics doesn't matter.
00:59:10.000If you believe in a God that loves people and God looks at it and he says, which one do you think is closer to glorifying him that has more people being able to be free?
00:59:20.000God looks at North Korea or South Korea.
00:59:22.000Only politics is to answer for that question.
00:59:26.000And yet, Christians say repeatedly, it does not matter.
01:00:06.000Even the Europeans think we're taking this trans thing too far.
01:00:10.000The French, Emmanuel Macron, who is no lover of America or American values, says that this American mind virus of wokeism, I'm paraphrasing, is destroying French language culture.
01:01:38.000Again, I think this Ukraine mess is not worthy of our intervention in one way, shape, or form, except the fact that we should be leading for the brokering of peace.
01:01:46.000We should every day be hosting meetings.
01:01:48.000Why are we not getting closer to peace?
01:01:50.000We're getting further away from peace.
01:01:51.000And by the way, you know who's the impediment to peace?
01:02:01.000Talk to the people on the ground in Ukraine.
01:02:03.000This whole war could have been prevented if Joe Biden, the Central Intelligence Agency in Zelensky, would have taken a very prudent deal to allow the eastern part of Ukraine, which are 99% Russian-speaking, ethnically and homogenously Russian, to just allow that to happen.
01:02:18.000And this displacement, this refugee crisis never should have happened.
01:02:22.000Look, first and I would love to talk about wars abroad, but first, we are a broken nation and we're further getting we need to secure our border first, be energy independent, get our recession figured out, not have a hundred not have 107,000 drug overdoses every single year, not have the leading cause of death for kids 18 to 30 be suicide.
01:02:43.000I think it's insane to even be talking about these foreign wars of abstractions when our own country is falling apart.
01:02:50.000You know your regime is not serving your best interests when they're more worried about war games abroad when your own country is being shattered into a million pieces.
01:03:07.000In our current level of political corruption, could our leaders take a position that could get them assassinated?
01:03:26.000So I tend to be more open-minded on these things.
01:03:30.000So I do think, though, that this is my current theory, that assassinations tend to create bedlam and chaos.
01:03:38.000The new maneuvers of the permanent administrative state tend to not be as blunt measures as what we saw in Dallas, but instead, it's what they did to Trump, which is we are going to remove you by other means.
01:03:52.000We are going to pretend like it's peaceful and that it's within the constitutional norms.
01:03:57.000We're going to use the intel agencies.
01:03:58.000We're going to try to indict you, use blackmail.
01:04:01.000And I think they're trying to do that to Joe Biden right now as well.
01:04:04.000And so to answer your question, is there something that could be done to necessitate an assassination attempt?
01:04:23.000And I know you're not allowed to say that out loud, but it's true.
01:04:26.000Just read the Peter Strzok text messages for the deep-seated contempt.
01:04:31.000So not everybody in the government wanted to see Donald Trump killed.
01:04:34.000Not everyone wanted to see him taken out.
01:04:36.000Therefore, I believe there was a mass agreement that we could take him out using Facebook, Zuckerbucks, Mark Elias, mail-in ballots, FBI, CIA, DHS.
01:04:49.000So I believe that Donald Trump was such a threat to the administrative state, the fourth branch of government, the status quo, that they had to throw everything at him.
01:04:59.000And unfortunately, as the chapter is still being written, they were successful.
01:05:04.000And we'll see if they are successful at the end of the chapter.
01:05:16.000That's going to be important everywhere.
01:05:19.000On the topic of protecting infants and also those people that have been trafficked, are you aware that the military tribunals are being held?
01:05:27.000Because I think that would help bring people to the precipice if we actually knew there was, I mean, how deep all of this goes.
01:06:12.000I mean, so just, you know, there was a Pew Research study that was done that shows that young people are 15 points less liberal than they were five years ago, which is amazing.
01:06:20.000So they're gravitating away from the left.
01:06:23.000They are moderately more conservative, one or two points more conservative.
01:06:27.000Not a lot, so we've got some work to do.
01:06:29.000But look, I'm about to go on a campus tour.
01:06:58.000Look, there's more young people that are open-minded than there were a couple years ago.
01:07:02.000This woke stuff is increasingly unpopular.
01:07:05.000It's also, it's unpopular amongst middle-income whites and also Asians and Hispanics and some blacks too, as well.
01:07:15.000This woke stuff, you have to be super wealthy, incredibly comfortable financially to believe that men can become pregnant and that race should trump merit, right?
01:07:27.000You have to be like permanently wealthy to believe that stuff, right?
01:07:31.000Because it's inherently disempowering to you.
01:07:34.000Basically, the message that skin color should trump merit is a message to anybody who's not in some protected class that one day you're going to encounter a situation or a scenario where your ambition, your delayed gratification, or your sacrifice will not be rewarded.
01:07:49.000That's a deeply unpopular message to a young person, isn't it?
01:07:53.000Where the message used to be like, hey, if you wake up early and you stay late and you dedicate yourself and you study and you do your job, you can move up in life.
01:08:00.000But now the sales pitch is that we should reappropriate the entire society to skin color and sexual orientation and or other characteristics.
01:08:38.000I do think that the people that have raised them, though, generally have no idea what this generation is dealing with, which is a steady diet of cynicism and nihilism with, of course, these incredibly destructive smartphones that, I mean, I've talked about that at length here at this church before, that are doing far more damage than we'll ever realize, which is the largest open-air drug experiment in human history.
01:09:29.000But if you want to make the message obviously broader, just talk about how truth can heal them, how a proper way of living can heal them.
01:09:35.000This is a battered generation, everybody.
01:09:38.000And I hope our political leaders realize that for their sake, not even to win elections, just so that this generation doesn't go down as, you know, the greatest disaster in American history.
01:11:03.000So let me not answer it specifically to you, because I actually think you got a great excuse because you do live in kind of where private schools are full and all this.
01:11:12.000Most parents that tell me that, I want to just lovingly challenge you as to what could be more important than even if you have to go into debt, move to a smaller home, or forego vacations.
01:11:23.000If there is a non-woke private alternative, I encourage you to prioritize that over any pleasure that you might have in your line item.
01:11:31.000It's an exception around here because you guys live in Narnia, right?
01:12:53.000The blunt is usually the most remembered, okay?
01:12:56.000So and then also have them take Hillsdale online courses, Charlie for Hillsdale.com.
01:13:04.000But look, the point is this, is that unfortunately the public school government school system is probably past the point of redemption.
01:13:11.000My biggest piece of advice, I don't say this lightly, after 10 years of doing this and looking at this and studying it, is almost everyone should just leave.
01:13:55.000And look, one of the truths of the story of Sadome and Gomorrah is there is a limit where sometimes you have to leave and then not look back.
01:14:08.000Can I do a quick interlude about the RNC?
01:14:10.000Do you guys want to hear about the RNC thing?
01:15:35.000It's kind of very similar to the pastor conversation, except the odds are actually better at the RNC than amongst American Christians, which is like one in three of RNC members actually really are good people that are doing their job, that are fighting hard, Harmeet Dylan being one of them.
01:15:51.000And they want what's, I mean, they really are, and they're so sweet.
01:15:55.000And they came up to me and they told me what they're dealing with.
01:16:02.000I think that my math is right correctly.
01:16:04.000Final vote tally was 111 votes for Rana and then 51 votes for Harmeet and then four votes for one of my favorite human beings ever, Mike Lindell.
01:16:14.000And Harmeet and Mike were running in tandem, basically.
01:16:16.000We'll support one another if we can keep the threshold and they were unsuccessful.
01:16:33.000Where I literally stood in a lobby and shook hands from 7 a.m. till the vote and looked people in the eye and heard.
01:16:38.000And my thing, I said, you realize 98% of the people you represent that you beg for money from, that you send text messages to want change here.
01:16:46.000And they say, they don't know what they're talking about.
01:17:50.000That's not to say you should stop giving politically, just stop supporting them.
01:17:53.000And then I encourage every one of you, become precinct committee men, get involved in the California State Central Committee, and you'll find out very quickly who voted for Rana and who didn't, right?
01:18:03.000And replace the people that voted for Rana.
01:18:17.000I mean, not only, she's super smart, she's a lawyer, she's amazing, and you can't support her.
01:18:21.000So, anyway, I learned a lot by going there, and it shows that we have a lot of work to do, but it's not the fight for liberty and victory is not going to come through the Republican National Committee.
01:18:40.000With your book, The College Scam, so it's divesting from anyone who's put into endowment funds and donated to these universities.
01:18:49.000You have this divestment where they're putting it into turning point.
01:18:52.000I would say, and I'm just going to be blunt with it and leave you from having to solicit: don't give to the RNC, give to turning point action.
01:19:04.000And if you feel moved to do that, we do have a grassroots political arm that I think one of the great political avants of our time is helping grow.
01:19:13.000We're hiring field workers, we're doing it the right way.
01:19:16.000We have a turning point pack that works in harmony there.
01:19:53.000It says, For God hath put it in their hearts to fulfill his will, to agree and give their kingdom unto the beast until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
01:20:02.000I believe that's a confederacy between the ruling class at the end of time and the papacy.
01:21:32.000And he declares in Luke that we're to occupy, do business until he comes.
01:21:37.000And what can happen with us at Calvary Chapel, because we're preacher at premillennial, is it self-fulfilling prophecy that, and James Cadiz is perfect at this.
01:21:49.000Neither do a few others, where you have, you're so, you look at the geopolitical horizon for one thing, the soon return of Christ, and you're not investing in the next generation because you think, well, it's an unstoppable juggernaut.
01:22:05.000Well, that's just not, that's not for us to decide.
01:22:09.000You know, we're not polishing brass on the Titanic.
01:22:14.000The idea is we're preparing a nation and a culture grows great whose citizens plant trees of the shade they'll never know.
01:22:22.000And if we don't, if we don't contend, there aren't any Protestants on the Supreme Court because we don't educate our kids to be able to sit in that seat.
01:23:18.000It's hard because I'm a single mom doing it myself.
01:23:21.000But I have a heart for kids and I find myself kind of the mama to all their peers.
01:23:27.000So like in my home, I can teach about Christ, but when their friends are coming over, they're confused about if they're straight or if they're gay.
01:23:36.000And I'm the one having to like stand my ground with them.
01:23:40.000So my question is, and it's more for my kids than me because I try to help these kids and show them Christ and be the example.
01:23:47.000But for my children, they come to me at night and they go, Mom, you know, it really hurts my heart that they're going through this.
01:23:55.000What resources would you suggest to like maybe between the ages of like 12 and 18 where they can understand and they can get the tools on how to fight that battle?
01:24:05.000So I'm teaching them, but where can they get that on their own?
01:24:14.000The best resources I could give you for that in particular is someone who I just think is a legend is focus on the family's resources from Dr. Dobson.
01:24:23.000He's been fighting this fight well before I was alive.
01:24:26.000He has unbelievable amount of literature and videos and podcasts on the kind of teenage sexuality question in particular, how to address that lovingly, how to go through that.
01:24:37.000I think Dr. Dobson is one of the great, you know, treasures of our time.
01:24:41.000I grew up listening to Focus on the Family, and I don't think we talk about him enough, especially as we're kind of going through a resource bank.
01:24:47.000I recently went through their website and I was blown away by just how good the material is, right, Rob?
01:24:54.000I mean, he was real, I feel like the church promoted him a lot 10 or 15 years ago, but the stuff is even better than it was then.
01:25:09.000But the resources they've developed specifically for how parents can talk about homosexuality with teenagers, I think might really bless you.
01:25:17.000So it's just Dr. Dobson, focus on the family, go to their website, tons of free resources.
01:25:23.000I think it would really bless you, especially as you go through those.
01:27:04.000I've dealt with a lot of teachers in your situation.
01:27:07.000Teachers that don't have to worry about looking over their shoulder every single day about what they do and the curriculum they choose.
01:27:13.000They tend to be the best teacher they can be.
01:27:16.000Not saying you can't be in your current environment, but it's as a teacher, what are you arguing with unions?
01:27:22.000You should be worried about educating kids, not having to circumvent educational political bureaucracy, right?
01:27:28.000And so I just say that as a heart for you and for how you could be the best teacher to as many kids.
01:27:33.000And then finally, I think you got to get the word out that teachers in California can leave the union, which thanks to the Supreme Court decision, they can.
01:27:40.000And many teachers don't even know that they can do that.
01:27:53.000Do you pray for your enemies and how do you love our neighbors, especially my generation, 20 years old, graduate high school, going to college?
01:28:00.000How do you love your neighbor and how do you pray for your enemies during our time right now with cancel culture?
01:28:33.000Or Charlie, you could have said this better.
01:28:35.000I don't believe love is validating or platforming an error.
01:28:40.000I think true love is introducing truth to correct that error.
01:28:45.000So I try to love the generation by speaking truth that is Jesus Christ, that is his word, that is the Bible, that is the natural law, that is the outgrowth of the Bible, which is the greatest civilization ever to exist in the history of the world.
01:28:57.000We're living in it, Western civilization.
01:29:00.000And so I do pray for my enemies, as difficult as that is.
01:29:03.000I'm going to add to it if you don't mind, unless you just want him to answer, because he's pretty smart.
01:29:09.000I always, and the congregation knows this if they've been, if folks have attended here, I always say this: people aren't the enemy.
01:29:18.000Their ideology is my enemy, but they are not.
01:29:21.000And you do good to those who spitefully use you.
01:29:23.000It's hard to hate someone you're praying for.
01:29:26.000And if you actually go to interact with them, and that's what I, Charlie sells himself short because what he says about not forgetting, I watch him contend on campuses in a civil and gracious manner with people who are doing ad hominem attacks on him.
01:29:40.000And he's kind enough to stop and say, Look, okay, ask me the question.
01:31:46.000Lean in, strengthen that community, deepen your understanding of the scriptures, help other people that need it in this congregation, and they're going through these battles.
01:31:57.000This is a gathering place for the nation's most important warriors for liberty.
01:32:03.000History will mention God Speak Calvary Chapel as one of the few churches that stood outside the trend that platformed the great fighters where they came for nourish and replenishment and to be refilled.
01:32:16.000I know I feel that way every time I come here.