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00:02:41.000Stand up against the poison of white supremacy as I did my inaugural address to single out as the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy.
00:03:00.000And I'm not saying this because I'm not a black HBCU.
00:05:03.000You're way younger than I am, but I'm just here to say part of the reason the church is not waking up or is waking up very, very slowly is because most people have never lived through anything like this.
00:05:16.000Most American Christians have never had to deal with what we call evil, satanic evil.
00:05:23.000And we want to pretend it's not happening.
00:05:25.000We want to pretend like, oh, it's just a bad patch and we'll get back to normal.
00:06:04.000But the fact of the matter is, Charlie, no kidding, most people cannot process, and I get that because it's been hard for me to process how evil things are.
00:06:29.000I don't go and won't go into details now, but I can just say bluntly, I believe this is God's message of mercy to his church at a time when we sort of don't deserve it.
00:06:40.000He's giving us a warning and a clear path.
00:06:43.000It's really the same thing Bonhoeffer was trying to say to the German church in the 30s.
00:06:54.000But if you're clear-minded, as you are, and as I am, and as many others are, you see on every front, not one or two things, on many fronts, a level of lunacy, insanity, wickedness, evil, corruption we have never seen before.
00:07:12.000And if the church, if those who dare to call themselves Christians do not stand up and speak up and self-sacrificially act in a way that pushes against this, that speaks against this, that says, no, we will not have this.
00:07:28.000If Christians don't do that, we slide into the abyss.
00:07:32.000And many people just need to be convinced, yes, we're sliding to that abyss.
00:07:36.000And by the way, it will be because of your inaction.
00:07:40.000God will hold you responsible for saying nothing, for doing nothing, for attending a church that pretends like none of this is happening, for attending a church that's more worried about being divisive than about speaking truth.
00:08:17.000He came from, he's just, he said it out of a spirit of we're trying to win these people over, not turn them off.
00:08:22.000Listen, um, even when someone is a coward, uh, sometimes it's not the thing to do to call them a coward.
00:08:30.000Let's just say that all of that is not relevant in a way.
00:08:34.000What we're talking about, I mean, I guess it can be unhelpful, but I just want to say that if somebody is, let's say somebody is simply being fearful, let's say somebody is being what they consider prudent, they think they're being prudent.
00:08:51.000So let's just say what you're doing is not God's will.
00:08:54.000So, okay, we don't need to throw the term around coward.
00:08:58.000I mean, some people, um, you know, people rarely realize they're being cowards.
00:09:40.000And I'm willing to change, you know, vocabulary, diction, you know, tone, but I'm not obviously going to compromise on truth.
00:09:48.000And that's what I, because I just, I lose patience, Eric.
00:09:50.000I'm like, you're a coward at this point.
00:09:52.000If you don't speak out, maybe I'm, maybe I'm hurting the cause by speaking that definitively.
00:09:59.000I don't know about you, but it takes a lot to shock me these days.
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00:11:29.000But I think the reason I wrote the book Letter to the American Church, honestly, is to reach those people who are unclear, right?
00:11:39.000In other words, we're not talking about the cowards.
00:11:41.000We're not talking about the woke people that are that couldn't care less about America, that couldn't care less about anything except, you know, building their brand.
00:11:51.000We're talking about the good folks in the middle who maybe need a little push, need a little inspiration, need a little biblical explication of why it's necessary for the church to address these issues because you're not hearing a lot of that.
00:12:07.000Another book just came out from some pastor in Tennessee, basically saying division is bad and we hate division.
00:12:14.000And I think to myself, listen, when chattel slavery was on the ballot, There were people who said, oh, that's not a gospel issue.
00:12:22.000We don't want to, we just care about evangelism.
00:12:25.000What about the black people who were enslaved?
00:12:56.000All I'm saying is that most people who knew that it was morally wrong nonetheless felt like it's out of bounds.
00:13:04.000I mean, look, you could talk about this on almost any issue, but the point is what they're doing to young people right now in our public schools, confusing them about sexuality, about that is satanic.
00:15:34.000But to be clear, in Germany in the 30s, Hitler was not Hitler.
00:15:39.000In other words, most people were fooled.
00:15:42.000They didn't know that the Hitler of 33 or 34 or 35 would become a synonym for evil.
00:15:49.000They were fooling themselves into thinking it's not that bad.
00:15:52.000But what I'm saying is that today, if the person we know who was Adolf Hitler, this evil guy is running for office, there are still pastors who would say, well, I'm not supposed to be political, even though I know that he's really evil.
00:16:08.000Politics, it's kind of like, you know, they're hiding behind a shield and I can't shoot at them because I'm just a pastor.
00:16:15.000And I think that's not been the role of the church through the millennia, through the centuries.
00:16:24.000And this American Churchianity lie that we're supposed to play church.
00:16:29.000We're supposed to have these intellectual beliefs that don't affect my life, that don't make me want to protect my family, that don't make me want to protect my community from wickedness and lunacy.
00:16:41.000That somehow I'm supposed to just avoid all that.
00:18:10.000It means that as things get more and more and more obviously horrible and openly satanic, the good news is that's what it takes to wake up some people who otherwise would continue to sleep forever and have been asleep forever.
00:18:23.000When you see things getting this bad, fill in the dots.
00:18:33.000That is finally waking some people up.
00:18:36.000And the reason I keep saying that I wrote the book Letter to the American Church is to reason with the person who isn't already there, to say, like, what do you say to this?
00:18:47.000Most people who read the book, they get convicted.
00:20:05.000I mean, because you've been around Christianity for a while and you wrote the Bonhoeffer book, which is translated into like 100 languages or something.
00:20:11.000And so I imagine you were invited to speak at so many churches that now really won't talk to you.
00:20:36.000I want to try to really challenge them lovingly.
00:20:40.000Honestly, sometimes, again, Charlie, this is not to push the book, but sometimes I think in the privacy of reading, somebody can save face.
00:20:49.000When it's a debate or a dialogue, people are just going to, you know, they're going to argue and they want to win and they don't want to be humiliated.
00:20:54.000But in the privacy of reading, sometimes God can get a hold of you and speak to you.
00:21:09.000People keep saying to me, I've bought 10 copies of this book and I've given it to every pastor in my area.
00:21:14.000And I think to myself, if two of those pastors are moved and understand that they have been silent in the face of evil, that's all we need.
00:21:51.000You're giving, I mean, do you not understand that God is going to hold you accountable for supporting something that should not be supported?
00:22:00.000This is like going to a church that is turning a blind eye to the rise of Hitler.
00:22:20.000And hopefully we could fix that next week.
00:22:22.000I do know for certain, though, Eric, I am told that there are some people coming to our summit, more than a couple, that are not yet bought in, that have yet to speak out from the pulpits, but they're curious.
00:22:32.000So let's try to win them over, Eric, next week in Nashville.
00:22:54.000As a law enforcement person, you know, we follow the law.
00:22:57.000We're now in court now, today, asking the judge to revisit this law to deal with this humanitarian crisis.
00:23:05.000Because even when they decided to put in place that law, no one thought that they would be dealing with a humanitarian crisis of disproportion.
00:23:13.000So, Eric, you know, this is interesting.
00:23:16.000There's a lot of news happening in New York, but what's your take as a New Yorker about the flow of the illegals just coming endlessly into New York?
00:23:31.000The flow of illegals into this nation, the fact that we don't have the political will to stand up against this lawlessness, to stand against an attack on our sovereignty as Americans, the fact that we have innumerable anti-American people embedded everywhere throughout our government.
00:23:50.000So, you know, by the time they get to New York, I just laugh.
00:24:27.000Giuliani comes in, institutes common sense policies, okay?
00:24:31.000That you don't need to be like a conservative to understand like feces on the streets and like threatening insane people, homeless people wandering around.
00:24:58.000And in Chicago, they just have sworn in Brandon Johnson, a Marxist, as mayor of Chicago.
00:25:05.000So, Eric, here's, you know, some people ask, and, you know, here's an email: Charlie, my pastor preached this weekend that we should not have borders, that Jesus is a refugee and we should let everyone into the country.
00:25:46.000These things are meaningless political statements.
00:25:49.000And of course, they're political statements.
00:25:51.000We are to, you know, when it says to love the stranger, yes, you're to love the stranger, but you're not supposed to have government policies that erase borders.
00:26:18.000God has given it the role to wield the sword, to protect the innocent.
00:26:23.000That is not the same thing as how I, as a Christian, should deal with the beggar on the street.
00:26:29.000The fact that there are pastors and many Christians who are not pastors who don't understand these distinctions is about the breakdown of civics, teaching civics and understanding basic things.
00:26:42.000People used to understand these things.
00:26:44.000You didn't have to used to explain these things.
00:26:47.000But when you have pastors like that trying to sound woke, trying to sound compassionate, they are deeply confused.
00:26:55.000And again, if you go to a church like that, for the love of Pete, get the heck out yesterday.
00:27:01.000There are a lot of pastors that are saying that.
00:27:06.000And by the way, every time I post about illegals, people say, oh, and you call yourself a Christian.
00:27:11.000You know, borders actually were a biblical concept.
00:27:14.000The idea of distinctions, limitations on governing authorities, that nations shall be blessed.
00:27:20.000By the way, Jesus was not a refugee when he went from his birthplace at Bethlehem to Egypt.
00:27:35.000And so, but, but, Eric, they say this over and over again to try to, you know, let's just say push forward some sort of liberal or left-wing worldview.
00:28:49.000There are many wonderful people, but I think the only person who has the ability at this point, not just to win, but to do what needs to be done, is Donald Trump.
00:29:01.000I think that, again, a lot of people play patty cake with evil, even good guys, even conservative guys, they don't understand that we're in a war and the people, it's like dealing with the cartels.
00:29:12.000Like, you know, they'll cut your fingers off.
00:29:16.000We're dealing with people in this political battle in America where you need somebody who understands the stakes, someone who has himself been so unbelievably viciously, unprecedentedly attacked that he understands what we're dealing with.
00:30:00.000It was just, I'm also hopeful for the country, Charlie, because I think, again, many Americans are waking up to the evil we're dealing with.
00:30:10.000What we're dealing with, you know, it's not 2004.
00:30:24.000And by the way, it will get much worse.
00:30:26.000It's God's mercy to us to see the evil now so that we will wake up, but it will get much, much worse if we don't fight against it.
00:30:36.000And I simply think that Trump is the man who has the ability to do that.
00:30:43.000I wish many of the others well, obviously, but I don't think that they're the people for such a time as this in the way that I think the Trump is.
00:30:55.000And so I think Trump's in a really good spot.
00:30:58.000DeSantis is probably going to announce any week.
00:31:01.000Now, I'm sure you have a lot of friends that are behind DeSantis.
00:31:04.000I think the sooner we wrap up this primary, the better.
00:31:08.000I wish I could, I don't know DeSantis.
00:31:10.000I wish I could get him alone in a room and say to him, please, for your sake and the nation, go to Donald Trump and say to him, what can I do to help you, sir?
00:31:22.000I think that would be the best thing for America.
00:31:26.000I really do think that he'll get his chance.
00:31:30.000But I think that people often kind of quail and quiver that they think, oh, all these bad things are happening.
00:31:38.000That's the whole point of all of these preposterous political attacks is to make him seem unelectable to people who are kind of like trying to read the tea leaves.
00:31:47.000I was told by friends in 2016, Eric, Eric, please stop.
00:32:50.000But I mean, it just cracks me up that there's so many people that they kind of don't care if the country goes down in flames or they pretend like it just won't go down in flames.
00:33:00.000We can just look away and whoever gets elected is elected.