George Janko is a comedian, radio host, and radio host. He is also the founder of Turning Point USA, one of the most powerful youth organizations in the country. George talks about his faith and how God has transformed his life.
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00:01:38.000If it's work, if it's personal, if it's a relationship, if you have to leave Jesus at the door, then might as well leave yourself there and welcome my God in because I'm not going to do that no more.
00:02:07.000I was born with a mother that taught me about Jesus Christ.
00:02:12.000And when you have that love of Jesus Christ, when a mother is doing her due diligence and teaching you about our Lord and our Father is maybe not with His words but by His actions teaching you how a man should be.
00:02:25.000When I came out to chase my dreams, I'm ashamed to say I left Jesus at the door.
00:02:31.000Not because I wanted to or not because people were trying to get me to, but it's because my own heart, which was wicked and I didn't know Scripture well, I relied on myself.
00:02:50.000And then 10 years went by and I'm like, how am I happier flipping at like a Burger King than I was like doing this career?
00:02:58.000And it was because I left my peace and joy at the door.
00:03:02.000And so when my career was at a place where it was almost for me time to go home, I said, you know, I'm going to do this one last time, but instead of leaving him at the door, I'm going to do this with just me and him.
00:03:18.000He took a boy that was ready to go home that was broken and lost, and he rebuilt him to be a man that...
00:03:24.000I'm not yet completely proud of, but if I keep walking and like you said with obedience, which is the hardest thing to tackle, but My prayers now isn't, God, I want this.
00:03:36.000It's, God, I want you to look down and be proud of the man that I am.
00:03:40.000And if I'm not there yet, take these feet and put them where they need to be, where you look down and you're pleased with me.
00:03:46.000And that's very consistent with the theme of, here I am, Lord, use me.
00:03:49.000For everyone to understand, George has millions and millions and millions of followers.
00:03:54.000George, you were part of a community that did not always, let's just say, glorify Christ.
00:04:01.000Yeah, but they could be looked at exactly like how I was, right?
00:04:05.000When you said the obedience thing, I've come to learn that there could be people that unfortunately don't know who Jesus is that act more like a Christian than a man who claims that he knows God.
00:04:17.000And so I've came to the conclusion, I understand why Jesus says, forgive them for they don't know.
00:04:25.000So yeah, I was with people that may have not respected our Lord the way that me and you would, but that's just because they don't know.
00:04:32.000And so as you've gone through this journey and you talk to a lot of Gen Zers, you have become open about your faith more so than anything else.
00:04:40.000Talk about how that has grown you and do you care if you lose followers or that you get people that say, stop talking about Jesus so much?
00:04:50.000Yeah, um, you know, I think the cool thing is when I redid everything with God, I kind of changed it and it was like a new slate.
00:04:58.000I would post a video and I would look how many likes.
00:05:16.000When I went with Jesus, like, it was just such easy success that it felt weird even claiming it that it was mine.
00:05:22.000So it's no question you saw George Janko 10 years busting his butt, doing everything you could, nothing happened.
00:05:30.000The day he just gave it to his Lord, everything fell at my feet.
00:05:34.000And to be honest, I'm not saying this patting myself on the back, I'm saying this, if you're working for something, I promise you everything you're praying for in your heart, everything that you work for, everything that you, I'm sorry to say this, worship, If you see eye to eye truly with our Lord and Savior and you get on the same page of them, all of those will be placed at your feet and you want to kick them out of the way because it has no candle compared to the peace and joy that I have when I'm just sitting reading my scripture.
00:06:07.000Talk about what you have learned about the best ways to communicate the gospel to a younger generation.
00:06:14.000Because we are told that Gen Z is the most secular generation in history.
00:06:19.000What have you learned as best practices to share your faith effectively?
00:06:24.000To be honest, I think, okay, so if you're going through something right now and you're working really hard and God's not blessing it, It's probably because it's your heart that wants that and it's not God's that wants that.
00:06:37.000Because our God is a very generous God and He's not going to hold something that's good for you.
00:06:42.000And when I stopped forcing things that He doesn't want and I just was obedient, I'm like, alright, if it's meant to be, if it's in your will, then let it be.
00:07:28.000But when you see a man who's truly broken and looking for God and really, really humbled himself and is meek, then I think that's when the ears could listen.
00:07:38.000I know a lot of you guys might have a different opinion of the other side, the other team.
00:07:43.000But truly, I say, I think it's because they don't know.
00:07:47.000So I think if there was a kid on the other side of the fence and they were going towards where Satan wants them to be and he sees us...
00:07:56.000Children of God, pointing our fingers, bashing at them, disrespecting them, and negating the fact that they probably came from a broken home.
00:08:05.000And that's why their fruits are like that, because their roots are like that.
00:08:09.000But our God is not calling us to be like the devil.
00:08:31.000And so if you could remember that Jesus came down and he truly spoke from his heart...
00:08:37.000And he preached with his actions by loving and communicating with the ones that they didn't want to love and communicate with.
00:08:45.000And through that actions, the other people on the other side of the team were like, oh, why am I getting more love from this guy that I'm supposed to hate more than my own family?
00:09:13.000I promise you, if we play the same rules that Jesus did, and we don't have to accept their sins and say, okay, let's just go along with it.
00:09:22.000I'm saying, hold your feet where they should be, but be meek and humble.
00:09:28.000And invite them into our homes instead of kicking them out.
00:09:33.000So George, talking about sharing the gospel, the modern gospel usually goes something like this, which is, if you give your life to Christ, you're going to become infinitely wealthy and your life will be very easy.
00:09:46.000That is a misleading way to try to bring people to Jesus.
00:09:50.000Instead, it should go something closer to, here is God's perfect law, you cannot hold that law, and you need Christ Jesus.
00:09:58.000Talk about where you think the modern gospel has failed in recent times and how we can do a better job.
00:11:00.000But the aspect of how can I teach, how can we stop telling them that there's joy and peace and there's all this, I don't agree because I promise you, and I say this before you, and I pray that God uses me as an example, but I promise you that if God took away my career, And I was just mowing lawns or wiping a desk or just refilling people's drinks.
00:11:23.000I promise you, if you gave me a kingdom with all the millions but then gave me a job that God gave me, the peace and joy that God gave me here would be way greater than what they could give me over here.
00:13:46.000And when we were dating, and my parents, you know, like a lot of immigrant parents, they have a little harder rules.
00:13:52.000But in the very beginning, and I think this is what's hard, is people want to plant something, and then when it grows, they expect it to be something else.
00:14:03.000So when you, for example, young ladies, when you date a guy, and you're like, he's great, but if he was like this, he would be better.
00:14:17.000You should be in love with patterns, what he's showing you.
00:14:21.000And what I showed my fiance before I put a ring on her and I promised God and her father, is I showed her a man that came from the man that my dad was.
00:14:51.000But he knows me and he knows God, so we'll do it together.
00:14:57.000And so a nation that honor your mother and father so that you may live long in the land of which you are in is the only one of the Ten Commandments that involves a promise and a nation.
00:15:07.000The country is no longer honoring their parents, both metaphorically and literally, and we are living through that.
00:15:15.000Instead, it seems as if there's a pattern of dishonoring one's parents.
00:15:19.000This is a serious issue, and I feel as if we are focused on trying to save America, it must start with restoring the honoring of one's parents.
00:16:19.000That's a man who didn't have a man raise him.
00:16:22.000A real man would respect a woman in all shapes and forms.
00:16:28.000Even when I was single and I was misbehaving and I was sleeping around, I wouldn't disrespect a woman because that could be somebody's mother one day.
00:16:36.000And I don't want to go to heaven and say, hey, you added her to go to hell more than heaven.
00:16:56.000Why do you think it's uncomfortable to sit in an elevator and ask somebody about a scripture, but it's totally fine to ask them about an OnlyFans model?
00:18:00.000I'm going to ask you guys, you don't have to answer this, but if you had two kids, one cared zero about how you felt and did whatever he want, but there was one that failed you a lot, but you could see the tears in his eyes and the pleading in his heart and That he's lost and confused.
00:18:22.000You would pick that child up, wipe his tears off and say, let's do it together.
00:18:56.000So in closing here, George, we're all very focused here about saving the country, fighting for liberty, fighting for freedom, which is ultimately God's idea, not man's idea.
00:19:07.000What wisdom do you have to share for the audience here as we close this conversation?
00:19:13.000Alright, there's one that I'm working on right now and I was asking God, I go, if I had to like leave something, I pray that he uses my mouth and that I could open up your hearts.
00:19:23.000And I pray that if there's somebody out there that has a hardened heart, I pray that the Holy Spirit opens it up for this one moment.
00:19:29.000And it's to love and forgive your neighbor.
00:19:33.000If you love and you forgive your neighbor and you pick up his slack because he's disobedient and not wise, we could rebuild with the Holy Spirit.
00:19:42.000None of us could do what the Holy Spirit could do.
00:19:46.000All of us could come together right now, grab our friends, grab our families, and we still wouldn't be able to hold a candle to what the Holy Spirit could do.
00:19:54.000So start inviting the Holy Spirit into your workplace, your school, your friends, your finances.
00:20:03.000Every single place that you walk into, ask Jesus to walk before you and take your mouth, take your eyes, take your ears.
00:20:10.000Because when I look out into the world and I see our music and I see our movies, Satan took our children's eyes and ears.
00:20:16.000And it's time that we take it back from him.