00:00:59.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:29.000And God's doing some very exciting things in this country right now, I'll tell you.
00:01:32.000And we'll talk about that and we'll talk about how we're kind of in a lot of different ways having a conversation in our country right now of what is the role of church?
00:01:43.000What is the role of the Word of God and the people of God?
00:01:46.000And it's really fascinating because right now we're experiencing one of the greatest threats and one of the greatest attacks of religious expression in the history of our country.
00:01:57.000Recently we saw in Las Vegas, the Supreme Court incorrectly ruled that Caesar's Palace can remain open with thousands of people, but Calvary Chapel, Las Vegas, can't have more than 50 people.
00:02:09.000An extraordinary discrimination against the assembly of believers.
00:02:14.000The church, I think, went above and beyond in the month of March, April, and May to abide by guidelines to make sure that we as Christians were not trying to contribute to the spread of the virus.
00:02:27.000But then in late May and early June, we looked as our cities were filled with millions of people, many of whom were not wearing masks at all, just deciding to gather next to each other.
00:02:37.000Why is it that you can just go into the streets and do that, but church is somehow deemed not essential?
00:02:44.000And so as I've traveled the country, I've recognized and I've realized that a lot of these power-grabbing politicians are basically counting on the decency and the reasonability of a lot of Christians.
00:02:56.000And I think it's long past time that we make the case that not just church is essential, but salvation is essential.
00:03:03.000In fact, there's nothing more important than salvation, right?
00:03:06.000And what ended up happening during the course of all this is that for reasons that are hotly debated, and we can do that for the years to come, the most important day on the Christian calendar was taken from us, Easter.
00:03:17.000And you talk to any pastor, go to any church across the country, they'll tell you that that day, more people give their life to Christ than almost any other time in the entire calendar, right?
00:03:26.000So imagine how many millions of people that would have gone to church on Sunday on Easter Sunday would have given their life to Jesus Christ.
00:03:53.000A recent CDC report came out just a couple days ago that said one out of four young people under the age of 25 seriously considered suicide in the last 90 days.
00:04:21.000And some of these social psychologists are trying to figure out why this is the case.
00:04:25.000And I think it's pretty ridiculously obvious.
00:04:28.000When you don't allow 25 million people to go worship every Sunday, all of a sudden people are going to replace man's search for meaning for hedonistic practices.
00:04:38.000And so now we are actually realizing how essential church actually is.
00:04:42.000And I'm going to say something very bold, and it's drawn many headlines.
00:04:45.000Church is more than a YouTube live stream.
00:04:56.000That person needs some mentorship or some guidance or some counseling.
00:04:59.000It's very difficult to do that through digital consumption.
00:05:03.000I'm not discounting that for people that need that sort of stream of communication, but we also believe in this idea of liberty, right?
00:05:10.000And it says very clearly in the scriptures that where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
00:05:15.000But if you do not give people the liberty to worship, then all of a sudden some people then have that meaning completely disconnected.
00:05:23.000So now we're living in a cultural chaotic moment, right?
00:05:26.000I think that's a very agreed upon observation.
00:05:29.000And one of the main reasons is that the church has basically abdicated their role and their responsibility to say, look, we, for six weeks, for eight weeks, we played by the rules.
00:05:40.000But the minute that you say that abortion clinics and marijuana dispensaries can remain open, but churches can't, I am not going to follow by those guidelines and we are going to open our church doors.
00:05:50.000So thank you, Cody, for continuing to do that.
00:05:54.000Now, the church is supposed to be a little bit rebellious against the culture.
00:06:02.000The early church in Acts was by definition pushing up against the grain.
00:06:06.000In a lot of different ways, the church now today, absent this beautiful church we're here gathering, has kind of almost become like a rock and roll concert paired with a TED Talk, right?
00:06:17.000It's almost trying to be part of the times instead of trying to signal against the times.
00:06:22.000I talked to some of these pastors, your incredible pastor not being one of them, and they say, Charlie, we don't want to offend other people.
00:06:30.000And I don't think you should ever seek to offend people.
00:06:33.000I think that is actually rooted in divisiveness and in immorality.
00:06:37.000However, if you're saying something that is true and that offends somebody, that is not your problem, actually.
00:06:43.000Jesus said very clearly that it will turn father against son, that the word of God will divide necessarily.
00:06:50.000And so that's something that we need really to have a conversation about, which is, are we pushing the boundaries of this broken culture enough?
00:06:58.000In fact, in a lot of different ways, we're trying to conform to the way that things are instead of trying to stand for truth in opposition to them.
00:07:07.000The scripture said this was going to happen, that we were going to try to conform to how the way that the worldly inclinations were.
00:07:15.000But what do exactly do we do about it?
00:07:17.000Well, number one, we have to understand why Christianity from a psychological perspective is different than any other religion.
00:07:26.000See, we fall into this trap that Christianity is like every other religion, and sometimes we don't push back against it.
00:07:31.000Now, we can go through the inherent authenticity of the scriptures, about the historical and archaeological evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ, about how the Bible is the greatest book ever to exist in the history of the world, how the Bible is the only book ever, the more you read it, the more it reads you, why the Bible is the living word of God and why everyone should read the Bible every day.
00:08:16.000That is why in the book of John, he is described as Logos, the pursuit of all that is true and is right in the world.
00:08:23.000Understand the opposition that wants to shut down our churches, they believe that truth is subjective, that everyone has their own version of truth.
00:08:31.000This is what when you send your child to college, they're probably being taught some version of this or a public school that there's no such thing as truth.
00:08:38.000You only have your own version of truth.
00:08:43.000When they're saying that they hate truth, they're saying they hate Christ.
00:08:46.000They're saying that they hate Jesus because that is the ultimate truth, the way and the life.
00:08:51.000And so what is very important to articulate and understand is that when you say there's no such thing as absolute truth, you will necessarily dive into chaos.
00:09:08.000In 1 Timothy, it says, pray for our leaders that we might live quiet and peaceable lives.
00:09:13.000Basically, he was describing the opposite of Portland or the opposite of Seattle, right?
00:09:18.000Quiet and peaceable are not those cities right now or in Chicago.
00:09:21.000Quiet and peaceable is that we may be able to have children and be able to raise families in this world.
00:09:28.000So when you look at the numbers and you say we are on pace to have 500,000 less children this year than last year, every single one of us should take pause and say, there are multiple crises happening in this country, the virus, of course, being one of them.
00:09:42.000But we are on the verge of a civilizational collapse if we think that 500,000 less children is a good thing and a sustainable thing.
00:09:51.000So this is happening for a couple of reasons.
00:09:52.000And this is considered to be a penalty in groupthink on college campuses.
00:10:01.000There is a concerted and deliberate war on men in our country.
00:10:05.000And it's something that we need to have a real conversation about.
00:10:07.000This should concern all people, men and women.
00:10:10.000It is the hyper-feminization of our country where young men in particular are taught that they're wrong for even existing, that they exist in a patriarchal tyranny.
00:10:19.000Young women, the number one complaint I get from young women, and we have thousands and thousands of listeners on our podcast every single day, is I can't find a man that I want to marry.
00:10:29.000I can't find someone that I want to lead me into the world or I want to pour into.
00:10:36.000Number one, as I mentioned, I think that we have an entire culture that is not correctly understanding the biblical blend of the masculine and the feminine, which is something that the scriptures talk about so beautifully.
00:10:49.000But number two, I think even more concretely than this, is that a lot of men have almost become, as I kind of use this term, they've almost become mature infants.
00:11:01.000It's almost like it's no different than the story of Peter Pan.
00:11:05.000A lot of you guys have seen this before, where you never mature.
00:11:09.000You almost become the king of the lost boys on pleasure island, where you're not responsible for anything, where you don't actually, you're not able to burden, you're not able to shoulder a burden that has any meaning.
00:11:21.000Well, the consequence of this is that we are on pace to have more people that are single in the millennial generation than are married with children.
00:11:28.000Well, what kind of a what does that look like?
00:11:31.000Well, when you don't have a family and you don't go to church and you don't believe in God, God puts this yearning for meaning in our heart, right?
00:12:52.000If the physical world no longer matters and everything around us is immaterial, then the fasting should start right now.
00:12:58.000If it's really next Wednesday, go do it.
00:13:00.000And I'm a big fan of fasting, but fasting for more than 40 days is really, really hard to do, right?
00:13:05.000And so, and of course, you call that bluff, and it really comes down to the eschatological argument or the end times argument is sometimes of a facade for not wanting to get involved in really difficult and hard conversations.
00:13:17.000You see, the church is supposed to be the place where believers don't become converts, but they become disciples, two totally different things, right?
00:13:26.000Jesus said to make disciples of all nations, not converts of all nations.
00:13:30.000Now, it's hard to get disciples without converts.
00:13:32.000You need the first and then the second.
00:13:33.000But what ends up happening, and I've seen this at some of the biggest churches in the country, is they're so focused on new conversions, new conversions, new conversions, is someone comes and gives their life to Christ and they start listening to all the Christian music and they really turn their life around.
00:13:47.000But six weeks, eight weeks, three months later, they come to their pastor and they say, hey, at my local public school, a man who says he's a woman is now going to be showering with my daughter.
00:14:02.000And the pastor says, we don't take stances on that.
00:14:05.000What is that person supposed to make of that?
00:14:07.000Is all of a sudden the place that's supposed to give them answers biblically, that's supposed to say this is right and this is wrong, they kind of get a little less enthused and they get more confused.
00:14:17.000You see, the church is not supposed to be the culture's best friend.
00:14:20.000It's supposed to actually weigh in on some of these issues.
00:14:22.000The first of which right now is we need to, this is the moment to do it, my goodness, is make the case to the entire country that what we're doing today is not just essential.
00:14:32.000It's probably one of the most important, if not the most important thing that we do.
00:14:36.000That, okay, I guess the home improvement store is important, important lows or, you know, I went to Best Buy yesterday.
00:15:08.000So they say it's because of Romans 13.
00:15:10.000If you're familiar with the text, Romans 13, Paul was writing a letter and he said to submit to leaders of authority.
00:15:15.000And I'm paraphrasing here, but the essence is that so that people, that tyranny, as long as tyranny does not exist, the innocent are not taken advantage of.
00:15:24.000However, that mandate has been completely violated.
00:15:47.000So when our rights are violated, the sovereignty, the compact we have with our government, all of a sudden Romans 13 is completely invalidated because our religious liberty, our natural rights, are blown apart.
00:16:00.000That's why the founders were so ahead of their time.
00:16:04.000They said, rights, they don't come from government.
00:16:23.000That the norm, the norm is that you worked on a farm, you got enrolled into some silly war, you died by the age of 28, and if you were lucky enough, you'd live to 35 to have a couple of kids.
00:16:37.000And then the Enlightenment popped up and the Protestant Reformation came with Martin Luther, where it was actually the number one reason we were able to have Western society because people could read.
00:16:48.000More people learned to read from the Bible than any other text in the history of the world.
00:16:52.000And then this entire idea was like, well, maybe we start a government and a civilization that recognizes these rights that God gave us, right?
00:17:00.000Understand that our entire system of government was inspired by the Bible.
00:17:05.000Everything that we have is straight from the text, the idea of being able to freely express your religion.
00:17:11.000Now, mind you, people say separation of church and state.
00:17:39.000In fact, George Washington was a prayerful, Bible-believing individual that this idea of liberty, it was never a question as to whether or not we're going to recognize it.
00:17:49.000It was like, we have to make sure we articulate where it comes from.
00:17:52.000So we have a birth certificate in our country.
00:17:57.000And in it, it says, we recognize the laws of nature and nature's God.
00:18:02.000So when they send that letter and they send it off to King George, all of a sudden King George is like, you're trying to tell me I'm not the most important person in the world?
00:18:12.000That there's actually the divine right of kings is being disrupted because we need to go honor the true king.
00:18:17.000Now understand that there was an awakening that preceded the American Revolution.
00:18:21.000Do you know how we're able to have this civilization?
00:18:23.000Because there are pastors like that you have today that went and spoke truth.
00:18:27.000And they went church by church in the eastern seaboard and they said that we need to understand what tyranny is, where liberty comes from, and the actual inspiration of freedom.
00:18:38.000So the civilization starts, and we're actually on a very predictable path of where we are, where now we have grown so content and so apathetic with the wealth and the luxury around us that we are now disconnecting from the liberty giver, the liberty giver being God Almighty.
00:18:54.000Understand that it is very unlikely that we're actually able to live in the luxury that we have.
00:19:02.000It's more likely that we screw all this up.
00:20:49.000And I say this on college campuses, and kids don't always like to hear it because it actually is an admission that they might not be the most important person on the planet.
00:20:58.000You know, it's like as soon as they're not their own God, and I'm going to get to that in a second.
00:21:02.000But the gospel in four words, three words, two words, one word.
00:21:38.000You have to understand that the atheistic humanists actually think human beings are great in the state of nature.
00:21:45.000And so they believe that human beings are phenomenal.
00:21:49.000It's everything around us that has screwed us up.
00:21:51.000This is what they teach a lot of our kids, by the way.
00:21:54.000Now you start to see kind of how things, hopefully the dots start to get connected.
00:21:57.000You see, if you say and you teach people you're depraved by nature, they're going to seek something that hopefully will heal that broken nature.
00:22:07.000If you tell people you're awesome and it's everything around you, you're not going to go seek divine power.
00:22:12.000You're going to go burn everything around you.
00:22:47.000But I don't mean any offense by any French people out there.
00:22:51.000But anyway, this guy, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, had done more damage to our civilization where he argued that human beings are terrific by nature, that he preferred the infant over the civilized, the primitive over the infant over the adult, the primitive over the civilized.
00:23:07.000And so he said, actually in our state of nature, we're terrific.
00:23:11.000He challenged, he said the Christians are wrong.
00:23:13.000He said that this needs to be thrown out.
00:23:16.000And if you put people in their natural condition, they're going to be phenomenal.
00:23:20.000That's what we're dealing with right now.
00:23:34.000Because if the other side is saying they don't believe in God and they don't want higher meaning or higher purpose, it's really not my concern as to whether or not we're, like, I'm happy to be divided on that.
00:23:43.000Like, I'm happy to say that salvation is essential and God is real and all these sorts of things.
00:24:48.000I think it's pretty, I think there's a wide agreeance now amongst reasonable people.
00:24:53.000There's something different happening in the last couple of months that we've never seen before.
00:24:57.000When you have, as I mentioned, a fourth of my entire generation that has seriously considered suicide, where more young people have died of suicide by a multiple in the state of California than from the virus, when you have all these sorts of things happen, you have to ask yourself the question why.
00:25:12.000The first of which is that Christianity has basically agreed that we're not essential.
00:25:16.000Is that instead of leaning into this moment where the church opening its doors in a flooding way and being able to say we are going to be more bold, more courageous than ever before, we've abdicated it.
00:25:27.000We've basically said, yeah, maybe there is something to this secular humanism.
00:25:30.000Maybe casinos are more important than the church.
00:25:52.000They will never allow a power to be greater than themselves.
00:25:56.000And we've seen this time and time again.
00:25:57.000In fact, the church has always been the firewall against totalitarian power grabs, always.
00:26:04.000Because when people gather and they worship God and they worship an ultimate power, the king of kings and the lord of lords, all of a sudden a power-grabbing governor is like, maybe she needs to be put in check.
00:26:16.000Maybe who is exactly she getting power from?
00:26:19.000But when you remove that, all of a sudden they get a lot more importance in the eyes of a citizenry.
00:26:25.000And the church has always been that firewall.
00:26:27.000You remove the church, all of a sudden tyranny is allowed to spread like wildfire.
00:26:32.000And you see this in every single 20th century experiment, right?
00:26:35.000And again, I'm not trying to be, I'm not alarmist.
00:26:38.000I'm being incredibly clear that you can lose something good very quickly.
00:27:21.000Number two, the church needs to get more active and more involved in promoting, supporting, and mentoring young people to get married and have children.
00:27:32.000It could not, it's one of the most important things to happen right now.
00:28:43.000More so, young women have a different set of issues.
00:28:45.000And I'm not saying it's young women do not have issues in this country.
00:28:48.000But if you, right now, it is such a slanted agenda to try to destroy the American male that the byproduct of that is the state will eventually take the place of that.
00:29:01.000And so that kind of call to adventure where you tell young men that it is cowardly to take advantage of the innocent, that it is not heroic to sit in your basement till 4 a.m. to do nothing endlessly.
00:29:14.000That we challenge young men to be better versions of themselves.
00:29:18.000So people say, well, what is responsibility?
00:29:20.000The best way that I can define responsibility is another person would have a bad day if you didn't show up.
00:29:58.000It's not good for the society and it's not actually meaningful.
00:30:01.000The other thing is this, is that, and I'm very careful the way I word this, but the church needs to be very clear on where it stands on the biggest moral issues of our time.
00:30:38.000Some of them have decided never to speak out on these issues.
00:30:42.000In late May, though, in early June, when a lot of these uprisings took place, a lot of Christianity Incorporated spoke out more than ever before on these very divisive, remarkably complex issues, right?
00:30:55.000That have lots of nuance and are statistically misleading if you just follow a lot of the narratives in the mainstream, remarkably so.
00:31:02.000And I was watching a lot of these pastors do this and pour into it.
00:31:05.000And I say, man, I've never heard them say one thing about the 1 million abortions every single year, but that's the issue that you decide to speak out on to go post a black square at this moment.
00:31:23.000And I said, my goodness, why is that the case?
00:31:26.000Some of it was an abdication just to the narrative.
00:31:28.000Second of which was like, we don't want to have to get involved in anything other than like my silence could be misconstrued as being complicit.
00:31:38.000But a lot of it is a byproduct because for years we've just completely uninvolved the church in these matters, is what it's been.
00:31:46.000And that's actually, in my opinion, not treating the flock correctly.
00:31:52.000Is that then you have confused parishioners that are like, well, exactly, how do I process these issues?
00:31:57.000It's biblical to never judge someone on the color of their skin.
00:32:01.000Like, that's a pretty easy way to interpret it, right?
00:32:04.000It's also biblical to say that every single life matters from the womb to a fully grown adult to all the way to the last moments of breath.
00:32:13.000These are all biblical ideas to be able to say that all life matters.
00:32:27.000Saying when our children have to say that all white people do XYZ, that's engaging in sinful narratives and behavior.
00:32:35.000And that should be rejected wholeheartedly.
00:32:37.000Yet, unfortunately, it's a lot of times the church that has dived into this.
00:32:41.000And so that's where the church, I believe, has to get more active than ever before in the public square, ever, in talking about these issues and saying we are going to contest for biblical truths every single day, for liberty, for freedom of speech, for dialogue, for religious expression, for life, for traditional marriage, and also for personal property rights, private property rights, freedom of commerce.
00:33:03.000All these things are completely harmonic with the gospel because sometimes the church feels as if we can be kind of monks in the countryside, right?
00:33:10.000And we can kind of just wait for our moment and things are going to pass us by.
00:33:14.000I think that is directly contrary to what Jesus taught us to do, be salt and light, to actually go and contest for these things.
00:33:20.000And what the really interesting thing is, and I see this from what I do, I am not a pastor, I'm not a preacher, I speak at churches, I am a Bible-believing Christian.
00:33:28.000But when I talk about organized government or I talk about the Constitution, all of a sudden we're bringing people to Christ.
00:33:36.000It's the opposite of what all the churches might tell you, right?
00:33:39.000So the churches tell you, stay away from politics, stay away from this stuff.
00:33:46.000I don't agree with that, but just look at what we do.
00:33:49.000I talk about getting your life together, getting your aim right, straightening yourself out, making sure you have a government that doesn't abuse you.
00:33:57.000That'd probably be a nice way to start, right?
00:33:59.000That allows you to speak freely, that allows you to be able to own personal property without confiscation, that embraces this free society.
00:34:07.000And then people say, well, Charlie, where does that come from?
00:35:07.000And being able to explain very clearly what exactly chaos is without Christ, being able to bring people to a sense of meaning and salvation, there's the greatest opportunity right now for revival in our country ever.
00:35:18.000But that's only going to happen if people respect the complete and comprehensive worldview of what someone's talking about.
00:35:25.000Because it needs to touch every single part of civil society.
00:36:32.000I've gotten to debates with theologians about this, but atheism is absolutely a religion.
00:36:37.000A religion is an agreed-upon worldview, an acceptance of what happens after you die, a proselytation strategy, an evangelistic strategy, right?
00:36:59.000I'm like, why does this matter so much to you?
00:37:01.000Like, if you really believe you're just a combustion of cells, like you got like 45 years left to just maximize the hedonistic pleasure, right?
00:37:25.000But the lack of teaching the most important text in the history of the planet where more of our idiomatic moral sentences come from, we, you know, I love these secularists.
00:37:38.000They're like, well, it's easy to create a moral order without the Bible.
00:37:42.000So, okay, tell me what your moral order is.
00:37:44.000They say, treat your neighbor how you want to be treated.
00:37:46.000I'm like, yeah, I wonder where you got that one from.
00:38:43.000And that's something that we don't do a good enough job articulating because if we actually believe the Bible, we believe that things actually happened.
00:38:50.000Therefore, it's history, not allegory, right?
00:39:17.000And no one for a second actually believes Homer's Odyssey.
00:39:20.000You know, in a lot of ways, it's allegoric.
00:39:21.000But you look at the actual how, the first manuscript to the replication and the duplication of the manuscript, it's hundreds, if not 800 years of a gap between that.
00:39:31.000We have original manuscripts and texts from eyewitness accounts from Jesus Christ from four different authors, never ever contradicting anything that was said from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John from four different accounts, completely harmonic, getting a full picture of Christ of the most important person ever to exist in the history of the world, whether he believes he's the Son of God or not.
00:39:51.000And that's the thing we say our kids shouldn't learn.
00:39:54.000Like, that's the thing that we've removed.
00:39:56.000There is zero, no secular argument why the Bible should not be taught in public schools.
00:40:00.000The only reason they don't want the Bible to be taught, the only reason is it's a threat to their power grab.
00:40:07.000Because there's no way, whether it be the construction of the first or second temple or the destruction thereof, King David, the creation of the kingdom of Israel, King Hezekiah, these things actually happen.
00:40:59.000It's not exactly like everyone's like really fired up about it.
00:41:01.000It's just kind of, if I may say, they do teach it a lot, by the way.
00:41:04.000And which is, of course, a complete and total disintegration of their argument, right?
00:41:08.000And they do this, I know, a lot in the state of Michigan, where they're teaching the four pillars of Islam, but they won't teach the teachings of Jesus Christ in public school.
00:41:17.000And then the other part of it is this, is that a lot of, and I'll never forget this dialogue I had with a professor once, and I was talking about the Bible, and he was a historical text professor and very, very confused guy, very smart, but very confused.
00:41:31.000And he was saying that he didn't want to teach.
00:41:36.000He's like, I don't like teaching the Bible.
00:41:37.000Like, you're a historical text professor.
00:41:52.000Like, your agenda is very clear, right?
00:41:55.000That you are worried that people actually might give their life to a higher power, that you actually might not be the most important person on the planet or in what they call higher education.
00:42:08.000And so this is another thing that's very important.
00:42:11.000And if I may talk more pragmatically on this, we need to get a lot more critical of our institutions of higher education.
00:42:21.000I think that right now during this pandemic and what we're living through, we are starting to see the incredible fraudulent nature of college, where people are going $70,000, $80,000 into debt for a Zoom call this semester, where we are seeing young people borrow money they do not have to study things that do not matter to go find jobs that simply do not exist.
00:42:55.000I can tell you statistically why that is not true and very questionable.
00:42:58.000But I actually think that what we have done is we have surrendered the entire landscape of professional and young development to a group of very, very angry and bitter people that don't share our values, don't share our worldview, and are incredibly persuasive and effective at getting your kids to believe in nothing and hate the country.
00:43:17.000Obvious exceptions to this are Liberty University, Hillsdale, and of course.
00:43:20.000However, most schools, including some in this state, They are professional persuasion artists to be able to convince your children that there is no such thing as absolute truth.
00:43:32.000There is no God, all these sorts of things.
00:43:34.000And so I just look more pragmatically here.
00:43:37.000We absolutely need more plumbers, electricians, carpenters, people, HVAC, police officers, gap years, entrepreneurs, people that join our military.
00:43:44.000In fact, I have visited the most prestigious schools on the planet, right, and spoke at them.
00:43:50.000I've spoken at Stanford, I've spoken at Brown, I've spoken all across the country.
00:43:53.000I've spoken at hundreds of schools across the country.
00:43:56.000I can tell you this: there is more wisdom in most of the American plumbing community than in the professor community at Brown University, okay?
00:44:52.000So, as we look at some of our seminaries as ways to train up people to go become pastors, they look at their universities as places to get people to believe in nothing to go try to radically revolutionize the entire world.
00:45:03.000And so, I'm not saying not to send your child to college.
00:45:08.000I don't know the for some people, it's absolutely the right decision.
00:45:11.000For some people, it's a dreadfully awful decision.
00:45:13.000What I am saying is understand the potential risks and costs that you may never see your child in its current form again, in their current form, that they might become a bitter, vengeful, arrogant, deceitful individual because that is what is taught at almost every single university across the country.
00:45:29.000And I always kind of joke around that parents will send their kids off to college and they'll come back by Thanksgiving, like 90 days later, right?
00:45:38.000And they walk in and they say, Oh, hey, how is school hour things?
00:45:40.000And they're like, I'm really offended that we are celebrating Thanksgiving.
00:45:57.000I was like, 90 days, and I'm paying for this, right?
00:46:01.000And so, the steady and constant involvement in the education of our children is so incredibly important, right?
00:46:08.000And also, we need to dress down the appearances in our country that somehow you are a smarter person because you have a degree, okay?
00:46:16.000And that is something that I personally have lived through, and I never went to college, and other people have also had the same experience.
00:46:24.000But there is a societal cultural pressure that you are less than not as smart if you don't go through this certain sequence of choices.
00:46:33.000Now, if you are prepared to go $50,000, $60,000, $70,000 in debt, if you're prepared for all of that and you believe it's worth it, then absolutely, again, I'm not telling you not to do something.
00:46:42.000I'm just opening up a critical dialogue as to what exactly is the best choice for an entire generation.
00:46:49.000So, only 59% of people that go to college graduate, 59%.
00:46:53.000Out of the people that graduate, 44% actually are in jobs that do not require college degrees.
00:47:16.000First, I just want to thank you guys for so attentively and kindly listening today and for having me and hosting me because it's not something that every church does.
00:47:26.000And I think that we have something to share that is important.
00:47:33.000Number one, think of your current life and whatever level of activism that you are involved in.
00:47:40.000I implore you to please double or triple it.
00:47:42.000And that doesn't necessarily just mean political activism.
00:47:45.000It's fighting for what is right and for what is good in the world, right?
00:47:49.000And unfortunately, a lot of that intersects with politics and a lot of it intersects with governmental representation.
00:47:56.000But we as Christians no longer can just sit idly by when the innocent are being preyed on, our expression and our religious liberties are completely dismantled.
00:48:06.000It is, we are called, I really believe, I am not prepared, just so you understand, I am not prepared to face our creator and say I did nothing at the 1 million abortions that happen in our country every year.
00:48:17.000I'm not prepared to say I did nothing when a casino is valued to be essential and a church wasn't in Calvary Chapel, Las Vegas.
00:48:23.000That's not something I'm prepared to do.
00:48:25.000So you can kind of figure out your own way to try to what you need to do and what that looks like.
00:49:27.000If you're not speaking out now, what has to happen for you to speak?
00:49:31.000Like, I want to know concretely, what is it?
00:49:34.000Like, is it when they start arresting pastors like they're doing right now in California for hosting church, but they're letting out 18,000 criminals and rapists right now in California?
00:49:45.000Because that line's been crossed, but it's not enough for most pastors to speak out.
00:49:49.000Is the line where all of a sudden they decide that marijuana dispensaries need to have special licenses to be open, but Easter Sunday isn't as I want to know the line because I know for one that if, and by the way, if some pastors say that line doesn't exist, I'll never get involved.
00:50:04.000Well, then you would have been okay with what Stalin did when he destroyed all the churches and he killed 60 million people.
00:50:10.000Now, I'm not saying that's going to happen here.
00:50:21.000Because I think that moral people need to do more right now.
00:50:24.000So I have two podcasts a day, one every weekend, Saturday, and Sunday.
00:50:33.000One way that you guys could bless me is if you all take out your smartphone and you type in Charlie Kirk show to your podcast provider and you hit that subscribe button.
00:50:43.000That's the only thing I ask out of you guys today as a way to follow me and it actually helps support me tremendously.
00:50:49.000And we're reaching millions of young people around these messages every single day.
00:50:53.000The church is called for a moment like this.
00:50:55.000Let's have the boldness of Stephen and of the early church where they went out into the public square.
00:51:01.000They were unafraid of the repudiation and they stood for truth.
00:51:04.000Now is the time where we realize this is a Gideon's army moment where our forces are going to be narrowed down, but God will call us down to a smaller number, but for a bigger victory, and then we will win.