The Charlie Kirk Show - Salvation is Essential

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00:00:08.000 Hey, everybody.

00:00:08.000 Happy Sunday.

00:00:09.000 Pleased to be able to share with you a speech I gave in Grand Rapids, Michigan, just a week ago with a friend of mine, Pastor Cody.

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00:00:36.000 Happy Sunday.

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00:00:38.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:39.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:00:42.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:45.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:48.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:49.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:50.000 His spirit, his love of this country.

00:00:52.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.

00:00:57.000 Turning point USA.

00:00:59.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.

00:01:07.000 That's why we are here.

00:01:11.000 Great to be here.

00:01:12.000 It's great to be back in front of human beings, right?

00:01:12.000 Happy Sunday.

00:01:15.000 And it's terrific.

00:01:17.000 So good morning.

00:01:20.000 I've been traveling the country the last couple weeks and speaking at a church almost every Sunday.

00:01:25.000 I was in Maine last weekend.

00:01:27.000 I was in California before that.

00:01:29.000 And God's doing some very exciting things in this country right now, I'll tell you.

00:01:32.000 And 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?

00:01:43.000 What is the role of the Word of God and the people of God?

00:01:46.000 And 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.

00:01:57.000 Recently 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.

00:02:09.000 An extraordinary discrimination against the assembly of believers.

00:02:14.000 The 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.

00:02:27.000 But 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.

00:02:36.000 We said, that's weird.

00:02:37.000 Why is it that you can just go into the streets and do that, but church is somehow deemed not essential?

00:02:44.000 And 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.

00:02:56.000 And I think it's long past time that we make the case that not just church is essential, but salvation is essential.

00:03:03.000 In fact, there's nothing more important than salvation, right?

00:03:06.000 And 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.

00:03:17.000 And 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?

00:03:26.000 So 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.

00:03:34.000 And that was taken away from them.

00:03:36.000 Now, for some reasons that are, again, debated and there's a conversation around it.

00:03:40.000 But if we look at what's happening in our country right now, we need to take a very serious pause.

00:03:44.000 And it's not an economic crisis.

00:03:46.000 All those things are real, but there's something much more structural happening.

00:03:50.000 And we need to get to the root reason of it.

00:03:52.000 We all know what that is.

00:03:53.000 A 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.

00:04:04.000 Seriously.

00:04:05.000 We are on pace to have 500,000 less children this year than last year.

00:04:09.000 We are on the verge of a population collapse.

00:04:11.000 Marijuana usage, drug usage, online internet usage of all the worst activities you can imagine are all up exponentially.

00:04:19.000 Cocaine usage, everything.

00:04:21.000 And some of these social psychologists are trying to figure out why this is the case.

00:04:25.000 And I think it's pretty ridiculously obvious.

00:04:28.000 When 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.

00:04:38.000 And so now we are actually realizing how essential church actually is.

00:04:42.000 And I'm going to say something very bold, and it's drawn many headlines.

00:04:45.000 Church is more than a YouTube live stream.

00:04:47.000 It's ecclesia.

00:04:48.000 It's the gathering of believers, right?

00:04:50.000 It is fellowship.

00:04:52.000 It is, oh my goodness, that person's having a tough week.

00:04:54.000 Let me go help that person.

00:04:56.000 That person needs some mentorship or some guidance or some counseling.

00:04:59.000 It's very difficult to do that through digital consumption.

00:05:03.000 I'm not discounting that for people that need that sort of stream of communication, but we also believe in this idea of liberty, right?

00:05:10.000 And it says very clearly in the scriptures that where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

00:05:15.000 But if you do not give people the liberty to worship, then all of a sudden some people then have that meaning completely disconnected.

00:05:23.000 So now we're living in a cultural chaotic moment, right?

00:05:26.000 I think that's a very agreed upon observation.

00:05:29.000 And 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.

00:05:40.000 But 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.

00:05:50.000 So thank you, Cody, for continuing to do that.

00:05:52.000 Thank you.

00:05:54.000 Now, the church is supposed to be a little bit rebellious against the culture.

00:06:02.000 The early church in Acts was by definition pushing up against the grain.

00:06:06.000 In 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?

00:06:17.000 It's almost trying to be part of the times instead of trying to signal against the times.

00:06:22.000 I 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.

00:06:30.000 And I don't think you should ever seek to offend people.

00:06:33.000 I think that is actually rooted in divisiveness and in immorality.

00:06:37.000 However, if you're saying something that is true and that offends somebody, that is not your problem, actually.

00:06:43.000 Jesus said very clearly that it will turn father against son, that the word of God will divide necessarily.

00:06:50.000 And 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?

00:06:57.000 And we're not.

00:06:58.000 In 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.

00:07:05.000 And this is natural.

00:07:06.000 This is predictable.

00:07:07.000 The scripture said this was going to happen, that we were going to try to conform to how the way that the worldly inclinations were.

00:07:15.000 But what do exactly do we do about it?

00:07:17.000 Well, number one, we have to understand why Christianity from a psychological perspective is different than any other religion.

00:07:26.000 See, we fall into this trap that Christianity is like every other religion, and sometimes we don't push back against it.

00:07:31.000 Now, 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. 0.93

00:07:49.000 And this is a side note to that.

00:07:51.000 We wonder why a lot of our children have lost direction.

00:07:54.000 Well, maybe it's because you removed the Bible from all of our schools across the country.

00:07:57.000 Maybe that was one of the reasons why we have this moral gap in our country.

00:08:00.000 It's not that hard to figure out.

00:08:02.000 However, as we look at all of that, we have to understand that the Christian faith is a commitment to truth.

00:08:09.000 That unlike any other religion that's ever existed, Christ didn't just say true things.

00:08:15.000 He was the embodiment of truth.

00:08:16.000 That 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.

00:08:23.000 Understand the opposition that wants to shut down our churches, they believe that truth is subjective, that everyone has their own version of truth.

00:08:31.000 This 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.

00:08:38.000 You only have your own version of truth. 0.62

00:08:40.000 This is a war on Christianity. 0.98

00:08:42.000 Understand that.

00:08:43.000 When they're saying that they hate truth, they're saying they hate Christ.

00:08:46.000 They're saying that they hate Jesus because that is the ultimate truth, the way and the life.

00:08:51.000 And 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.

00:09:02.000 And then tyranny will take over.

00:09:04.000 It's always the case.

00:09:05.000 So what does chaos look like?

00:09:06.000 Well, I think we've witnessed that.

00:09:08.000 In 1 Timothy, it says, pray for our leaders that we might live quiet and peaceable lives.

00:09:13.000 Basically, he was describing the opposite of Portland or the opposite of Seattle, right?

00:09:18.000 Quiet and peaceable are not those cities right now or in Chicago.

00:09:21.000 Quiet and peaceable is that we may be able to have children and be able to raise families in this world.

00:09:28.000 So 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.

00:09:42.000 But 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.

00:09:51.000 So this is happening for a couple of reasons.

00:09:52.000 And this is considered to be a penalty in groupthink on college campuses.

00:09:59.000 So I say it anyway.

00:10:00.000 I don't really care.

00:10:01.000 There is a concerted and deliberate war on men in our country.

00:10:05.000 And it's something that we need to have a real conversation about.

00:10:07.000 This should concern all people, men and women.

00:10:10.000 It 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.

00:10:19.000 Young 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.

00:10:29.000 I can't find someone that I want to lead me into the world or I want to pour into. 0.74

00:10:35.000 There's a lot of reasons for this.

00:10:36.000 Number 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.

00:10:49.000 But 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.

00:11:01.000 It's almost like it's no different than the story of Peter Pan.

00:11:05.000 A lot of you guys have seen this before, where you never mature.

00:11:09.000 You 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.

00:11:21.000 Well, 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.

00:11:28.000 Well, what kind of a what does that look like?

00:11:31.000 Well, 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?

00:11:41.000 We know that.

00:11:42.000 That has to be replaced.

00:11:43.000 It has to be by something.

00:11:45.000 And unfortunately, that is now being replaced by civilizational insurrection.

00:11:50.000 Basically, people are now finding their meaning in toppling the world around them because they themselves have discontent and misery.

00:11:57.000 That is right now a crisis in our country.

00:12:01.000 So a lot of churches, this one, and I want to thank you guys for having me speak at your church.

00:12:05.000 I'm for whatever reason considered to be controversial to speak at churches.

00:12:09.000 I think I just talk about the Bible and talk about our country.

00:12:11.000 But anyway, so thank you for that.

00:12:16.000 Some churches...

00:12:17.000 They say we are not going to engage on these issues.

00:12:20.000 They say it is not the role of the church to get involved in the public square.

00:12:25.000 I completely disagree with this.

00:12:26.000 Sometimes they give, and this is a very fancy word, an eschatological excuse as to not getting involved.

00:12:32.000 What does that mean?

00:12:33.000 They say, next Wednesday is basically when Jesus is coming.

00:12:36.000 None of this actually matters.

00:12:38.000 It's like deck chairs on the Titanic.

00:12:40.000 I want to make sure me and my family are saved and we're perfectly positioned.

00:12:43.000 None of this is right.

00:12:44.000 And I always challenge, I say, you might be right.

00:12:46.000 Then start fasting now if you're so confident in that, right?

00:12:49.000 Like, why eat another meal, right?

00:12:52.000 If the physical world no longer matters and everything around us is immaterial, then the fasting should start right now.

00:12:58.000 If it's really next Wednesday, go do it.

00:13:00.000 And I'm a big fan of fasting, but fasting for more than 40 days is really, really hard to do, right?

00:13:05.000 And 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.

00:13:17.000 You see, the church is supposed to be the place where believers don't become converts, but they become disciples, two totally different things, right?

00:13:26.000 Jesus said to make disciples of all nations, not converts of all nations.

00:13:30.000 Now, it's hard to get disciples without converts.

00:13:32.000 You need the first and then the second.

00:13:33.000 But 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.

00:13:47.000 But 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.

00:14:00.000 What do we think of that as a church?

00:14:02.000 And the pastor says, we don't take stances on that.

00:14:05.000 What is that person supposed to make of that?

00:14:07.000 Is 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.

00:14:17.000 You see, the church is not supposed to be the culture's best friend.

00:14:20.000 It's supposed to actually weigh in on some of these issues.

00:14:22.000 The 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.

00:14:32.000 It's probably one of the most important, if not the most important thing that we do.

00:14:36.000 That, okay, I guess the home improvement store is important, important lows or, you know, I went to Best Buy yesterday.

00:14:43.000 I guess that's important.

00:14:44.000 But what could be more important than giving people ultimate salvation, than giving people meaning?

00:14:50.000 And we've completely failed, if we're honest with ourselves.

00:14:53.000 We as Christians have had our worst moment in the last six weeks.

00:14:57.000 Awful.

00:14:58.000 Some people have sued, but most churches in this country have said we are going to submit.

00:15:03.000 We are not going to open our doors and we are going to just abide.

00:15:07.000 Boy.

00:15:08.000 So they say it's because of Romans 13.

00:15:10.000 If you're familiar with the text, Romans 13, Paul was writing a letter and he said to submit to leaders of authority.

00:15:15.000 And 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.

00:15:24.000 However, that mandate has been completely violated.

00:15:26.000 But let's look even deeper.

00:15:28.000 What makes our country different?

00:15:30.000 You see, when Paul was writing that letter, the sovereign was the emperor of Rome.

00:15:35.000 It was Nero, mind you, before the persecution of Christians.

00:15:37.000 A very important historical note. 0.57

00:15:40.000 Who's the sovereign in our country?

00:15:43.000 It's not the president.

00:15:44.000 It's not Congress.

00:15:46.000 It's actually us.

00:15:47.000 So 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.

00:16:00.000 That's why the founders were so ahead of their time.

00:16:04.000 They said, rights, they don't come from government.

00:16:07.000 They come from God Almighty.

00:16:09.000 You understand how incredibly, how much of a leap forward that was?

00:16:13.000 Like most of human beings lived in some form of destitute serfdom for thousands of years.

00:16:19.000 We take so much for granted in this civilization.

00:16:22.000 It's actually incredible.

00:16:23.000 That 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.

00:16:35.000 That was human historical norm.

00:16:37.000 And 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.

00:16:46.000 Why could they read?

00:16:47.000 Because they were given the Bible.

00:16:48.000 More people learned to read from the Bible than any other text in the history of the world.

00:16:52.000 And then this entire idea was like, well, maybe we start a government and a civilization that recognizes these rights that God gave us, right?

00:17:00.000 Understand that our entire system of government was inspired by the Bible.

00:17:05.000 Everything that we have is straight from the text, the idea of being able to freely express your religion.

00:17:11.000 Now, mind you, people say separation of church and state.

00:17:13.000 They say that a lot, right?

00:17:14.000 First of all, it's not in the Constitution.

00:17:16.000 It's not.

00:17:16.000 It's in a singular letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Convention.

00:17:20.000 If you look more critically at the Constitution, what they were worried about was having a national church.

00:17:27.000 What they were worried about was having an Episcopalian or a Catholic or a specific stream of Protestant.

00:17:33.000 It was never a question as to whether or not the country was going to embrace first biblical principles.

00:17:38.000 It wasn't.

00:17:39.000 In 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.

00:17:49.000 It was like, we have to make sure we articulate where it comes from.

00:17:52.000 So we have a birth certificate in our country.

00:17:55.000 It's a declaration of independence.

00:17:57.000 And in it, it says, we recognize the laws of nature and nature's God.

00:18:02.000 So 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?

00:18:09.000 The answer is, you're right.

00:18:11.000 That's exactly right.

00:18:12.000 That there's actually the divine right of kings is being disrupted because we need to go honor the true king.

00:18:17.000 Now understand that there was an awakening that preceded the American Revolution.

00:18:21.000 Do you know how we're able to have this civilization?

00:18:23.000 Because there are pastors like that you have today that went and spoke truth.

00:18:27.000 And 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.

00:18:38.000 So 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.

00:18:54.000 Understand that it is very unlikely that we're actually able to live in the luxury that we have.

00:19:02.000 It's more likely that we screw all this up.

00:19:05.000 Understand that.

00:19:06.000 And we know this biblically, right?

00:19:08.000 I mean, just look in the Old Testament.

00:19:09.000 What is the story of Israel?

00:19:11.000 The story of Israel, six times, they come out of the wilderness, they start some form of meaningful government.

00:19:17.000 They rise from a middle power to a great power. 0.86

00:19:20.000 They start to get a little bit too full of themselves.

00:19:23.000 A prophet comes is like, if you keep doing this, you're going to end up back in the wilderness.

00:19:27.000 They completely ignore it.

00:19:29.000 And then they fall back into the, and then they do it again.

00:19:31.000 And then they do it again.

00:19:32.000 And they do it again.

00:19:32.000 And six times, basically, more or less.

00:19:35.000 And so, and that's no different, by the way, than your own human experience, by the way, right?

00:19:40.000 Like you start to get on top of something.

00:19:41.000 You start to forget where you come from.

00:19:43.000 It's actually archetypically really perfect for your own personal life.

00:19:48.000 But then God changed the entire game by sending Christ.

00:19:51.000 Everything changed, right?

00:19:52.000 Where it wasn't about forming a perfect government to please God.

00:19:56.000 It was like, we're actually not enough.

00:19:57.000 We're broken by nature.

00:19:59.000 We know that.

00:20:00.000 And that's what's happening here today in our country.

00:20:03.000 You see, where I think we've really missed the opportunity, and it's not over yet.

00:20:07.000 We can still seize it, is that we have an opportunity to actually have a conversation on human nature in our country right now.

00:20:15.000 Where there's actually a lot of people that believe human beings are naturally good.

00:20:19.000 It's actually the predominant viewpoint of an entire political system.

00:20:24.000 We know it took us like three and a half chapters in Genesis to screw it up, right?

00:20:28.000 Not even.

00:20:29.000 Like, it was not that hard, right?

00:20:31.000 It was like the first time we got seriously tempted.

00:20:34.000 We're like totally gone.

00:20:36.000 We're depraved by nature, original sin.

00:20:38.000 We believe this theologically, that it doesn't matter how many good things we do.

00:20:42.000 It doesn't matter how many boxes we check.

00:20:44.000 Like, none of that is unless you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.

00:20:48.000 That's the only thing that matters.

00:20:49.000 And 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.

00:20:58.000 You know, it's like as soon as they're not their own God, and I'm going to get to that in a second.

00:21:02.000 But the gospel in four words, three words, two words, one word.

00:21:05.000 I did not coin this, by the way.

00:21:07.000 I don't remember where I heard it, but I'll never forget it.

00:21:09.000 Four words is Jesus took my place.

00:21:11.000 Three words is him for me.

00:21:13.000 Two words, substitutionary atonement.

00:21:16.000 One word, grace.

00:21:17.000 Four, three, two, one.

00:21:19.000 That's the easiest way I can summarize it.

00:21:22.000 But what we, as an admission, before we even take Christ as our Lord and Savior, and all of you know this, is it's a surrendering.

00:21:30.000 It's like, I'm not even close to being okay to operating in this world right now, and I need something else.

00:21:37.000 The other side doesn't believe that.

00:21:38.000 You have to understand that the atheistic humanists actually think human beings are great in the state of nature.

00:21:45.000 And so they believe that human beings are phenomenal.

00:21:49.000 It's everything around us that has screwed us up.

00:21:51.000 This is what they teach a lot of our kids, by the way.

00:21:54.000 Now you start to see kind of how things, hopefully the dots start to get connected.

00:21:57.000 You 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.

00:22:07.000 If you tell people you're awesome and it's everything around you, you're not going to go seek divine power.

00:22:12.000 You're going to go burn everything around you.

00:22:14.000 Because that's the problem, right?

00:22:16.000 The problem is the statues.

00:22:18.000 The problem is the police.

00:22:20.000 The problem are the prisons.

00:22:21.000 You can always find another enemy, but in reality, we know it's a spiritual brokenness from within.

00:22:26.000 And so this was theorized by a couple French philosophers.

00:22:31.000 Don't get me started on French philosophy, my goodness. 0.95

00:22:33.000 The damage they have done to our civilization is, can't even put into words. 1.00

00:22:36.000 I have so many French jokes, I won't get into it. 1.00

00:22:40.000 But they've invented two things, the tourniquet and the white flag, and that's about it. 1.00

00:22:44.000 So I'm kidding. 0.80

00:22:46.000 I got so many French jokes.

00:22:47.000 But I don't mean any offense by any French people out there.

00:22:51.000 But 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.

00:23:07.000 And so he said, actually in our state of nature, we're terrific.

00:23:11.000 He challenged, he said the Christians are wrong.

00:23:13.000 He said that this needs to be thrown out.

00:23:16.000 And if you put people in their natural condition, they're going to be phenomenal.

00:23:20.000 That's what we're dealing with right now.

00:23:21.000 Understand.

00:23:22.000 Right now, whatever side you want to talk about, and there are sides, right?

00:23:26.000 We have to be very clear that people are like, well, why are we so divided in our country?

00:23:30.000 And I don't seek division.

00:23:32.000 But it doesn't bother me.

00:23:32.000 I don't.

00:23:34.000 Because 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.

00:23:43.000 Like, I'm happy to say that salvation is essential and God is real and all these sorts of things.

00:23:47.000 It's not exactly a concern.

00:23:50.000 But that's one of the things that we are most up against right now.

00:23:55.000 And so it's so incredibly obvious that human beings are broken by nature.

00:24:00.000 We know this.

00:24:01.000 I mean, any of you that have raised children, you don't teach your child to lie, cheat, or steal.

00:24:05.000 They just happen to figure out a way to turn parents against each other, right?

00:24:10.000 You don't teach them to cry.

00:24:11.000 You don't teach them to make a scene.

00:24:13.000 They just kind of have it within them, right?

00:24:15.000 It's just kind of something that is built into their DNA.

00:24:18.000 In fact, if human beings were good, why do you have to teach goodness to children?

00:24:23.000 Why do we have to pour into young kids?

00:24:25.000 And that's biblical, by the way, right?

00:24:27.000 Teach a child in its ways and see forth it will go.

00:24:30.000 They will go.

00:24:31.000 I'm paraphrasing the scripture, the essence of that.

00:24:34.000 And so if this is not confronted, the civilization we love today will not exist.

00:24:41.000 I've said this for four years.

00:24:44.000 People used to say I was alarmist by saying this.

00:24:46.000 They said, oh, you're hyperbolic.

00:24:48.000 I think it's pretty, I think there's a wide agreeance now amongst reasonable people.

00:24:53.000 There's something different happening in the last couple of months that we've never seen before.

00:24:57.000 When 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.

00:25:12.000 The first of which is that Christianity has basically agreed that we're not essential.

00:25:15.000 That's the first thing.

00:25:16.000 Is 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.

00:25:27.000 We've basically said, yeah, maybe there is something to this secular humanism.

00:25:30.000 Maybe casinos are more important than the church.

00:25:32.000 Maybe.

00:25:33.000 Huge mistake.

00:25:34.000 And they yearn for it, but why do they want the church closed?

00:25:38.000 Let's go a level deeper.

00:25:39.000 Why is that?

00:25:41.000 Understand, the more people assemble and agree that there's a higher power than the government, that bothers totalitarians.

00:25:51.000 It does.

00:25:52.000 They will never allow a power to be greater than themselves.

00:25:56.000 And we've seen this time and time again.

00:25:57.000 In fact, the church has always been the firewall against totalitarian power grabs, always.

00:26:04.000 Because 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.

00:26:16.000 Maybe who is exactly she getting power from?

00:26:19.000 But when you remove that, all of a sudden they get a lot more importance in the eyes of a citizenry.

00:26:25.000 And the church has always been that firewall.

00:26:27.000 You remove the church, all of a sudden tyranny is allowed to spread like wildfire.

00:26:32.000 And you see this in every single 20th century experiment, right?

00:26:35.000 And again, I'm not trying to be, I'm not alarmist.

00:26:38.000 I'm being incredibly clear that you can lose something good very quickly.

00:26:44.000 Very quickly.

00:26:45.000 There is a assumption that, oh, this will never happen in America.

00:26:49.000 This will never, I've heard this so many times, makes my head spin.

00:26:52.000 This will never happen here.

00:26:53.000 I say, I don't know what historical construct that you are operating from, but you can lose something good and pure like that quickly.

00:27:00.000 And that is, and the Bible tells us this.

00:27:02.000 So what is the church supposed to do?

00:27:04.000 What is the, people say, well, Charlie, what can I do?

00:27:06.000 I'm all in.

00:27:06.000 I agree.

00:27:07.000 Number one, the education of our children must be taken more seriously than ever before.

00:27:12.000 I'm a massive fan of homeschooling, by the way.

00:27:14.000 I'm a huge fan of homeschooling.

00:27:15.000 We need to double or triple our homeschooling population.

00:27:18.000 Huge fan.

00:27:19.000 That's number one.

00:27:21.000 Number two, the church needs to get more active and more involved in promoting, supporting, and mentoring young people to get married and have children.

00:27:32.000 It could not, it's one of the most important things to happen right now.

00:27:35.000 And it's not happening.

00:27:37.000 Christians, on average, are now only having 1.7 kids per family.

00:27:41.000 That is down dramatically.

00:27:43.000 And I understand it for a lot of ways.

00:27:44.000 It's more expensive than ever to have children.

00:27:46.000 It is stressful to have, I get all those things.

00:27:49.000 However, when you look at what we are commanded to do, and especially the culture around us, my goodness, it's incredibly concerning.

00:27:58.000 The third reason why it's also hard, not to mention, is that a lot of people can't find suitable people to marry.

00:28:04.000 And that's something that is much more structural and much harder.

00:28:07.000 The third thing we can do is we got to get serious, as I mentioned earlier, about the war on men.

00:28:12.000 And it's a very, very real thing.

00:28:14.000 Now, mind you, a civilization can get too masculine and it can get too feminine.

00:28:17.000 A civilization needs to be balanced between the two.

00:28:21.000 Young men in particular need a call to action and to be challenged to be responsible for something.

00:28:29.000 Young men are responsible for nothing in this culture generally.

00:28:33.000 By the time they're 27, they're in basements.

00:28:35.000 They don't have jobs.

00:28:36.000 They don't have girlfriends.

00:28:37.000 A lot of them are living alone and it's been subsidized by the culture.

00:28:41.000 Young men need that call to action.

00:28:43.000 More so, young women have a different set of issues.

00:28:45.000 And I'm not saying it's young women do not have issues in this country.

00:28:48.000 But 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.

00:29:01.000 And 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.

00:29:14.000 That we challenge young men to be better versions of themselves.

00:29:18.000 So people say, well, what is responsibility?

00:29:20.000 The best way that I can define responsibility is another person would have a bad day if you didn't show up.

00:29:27.000 That's what responsibility is, right?

00:29:29.000 Like somebody else will have a bad day or a bad week or a bad month.

00:29:33.000 For young men, if they don't show up, no one's life gets changed usually.

00:29:37.000 That means you're not responsible for anything.

00:29:40.000 Like find some person on the planet that will be disappointed if you don't show up.

00:29:45.000 That's what responsibility is because you actually matter.

00:29:48.000 You actually have something to contribute to this broken and dark world.

00:29:52.000 And because a lot of these are like, well, I just, I'm, I'm just going to endlessly meander.

00:29:56.000 Well, that is not good for you.

00:29:58.000 It's not good for the society and it's not actually meaningful.

00:30:01.000 The 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.

00:30:13.000 Right?

00:30:13.000 And this is something that I talk about churches all across the country.

00:30:17.000 And so a couple things.

00:30:20.000 We have a million abortions in our country every single year, one million abortions every single year, a moral tragedy.

00:30:25.000 The church, this church being not one of them, but generally the Christian church. 0.55

00:30:30.000 And it was really a bizarre thing because I follow a lot of these megachurch pastors, right?

00:30:36.000 And some of them are phenomenal.

00:30:38.000 Some of them have decided never to speak out on these issues.

00:30:42.000 In 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?

00:30:55.000 That have lots of nuance and are statistically misleading if you just follow a lot of the narratives in the mainstream, remarkably so.

00:31:02.000 And I was watching a lot of these pastors do this and pour into it. 1.00

00:31:05.000 And 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. 0.89

00:31:16.000 And I was like, that's bizarre. 0.93

00:31:18.000 And I've processed this and I've thought about this.

00:31:22.000 I've prayed about it.

00:31:23.000 And I said, my goodness, why is that the case?

00:31:26.000 Some of it was an abdication just to the narrative.

00:31:28.000 Second 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.

00:31:38.000 But 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.

00:31:46.000 And that's actually, in my opinion, not treating the flock correctly.

00:31:52.000 Is that then you have confused parishioners that are like, well, exactly, how do I process these issues?

00:31:56.000 How about this?

00:31:57.000 It's biblical to never judge someone on the color of their skin.

00:32:01.000 Like, that's a pretty easy way to interpret it, right?

00:32:04.000 It'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.

00:32:13.000 These are all biblical ideas to be able to say that all life matters.

00:32:17.000 That's not a controversial thing.

00:32:19.000 And it's also evil to judge anyone based on their immutable characteristics, things they can't change.

00:32:25.000 That includes any sort of individual.

00:32:27.000 Saying when our children have to say that all white people do XYZ, that's engaging in sinful narratives and behavior.

00:32:35.000 And that should be rejected wholeheartedly.

00:32:37.000 Yet, unfortunately, it's a lot of times the church that has dived into this.

00:32:41.000 And 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.

00:33:03.000 All 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?

00:33:10.000 And we can kind of just wait for our moment and things are going to pass us by.

00:33:14.000 I think that is directly contrary to what Jesus taught us to do, be salt and light, to actually go and contest for these things.

00:33:20.000 And 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.

00:33:28.000 But when I talk about organized government or I talk about the Constitution, all of a sudden we're bringing people to Christ.

00:33:36.000 It's the opposite of what all the churches might tell you, right?

00:33:39.000 So the churches tell you, stay away from politics, stay away from this stuff.

00:33:43.000 It's going to pollute things.

00:33:44.000 People are going to get confused.

00:33:46.000 I don't agree with that, but just look at what we do.

00:33:49.000 I talk about getting your life together, getting your aim right, straightening yourself out, making sure you have a government that doesn't abuse you.

00:33:57.000 That'd probably be a nice way to start, right?

00:33:59.000 That allows you to speak freely, that allows you to be able to own personal property without confiscation, that embraces this free society.

00:34:07.000 And then people say, well, Charlie, where does that come from?

00:34:10.000 I'm so glad you asked.

00:34:12.000 It's the Galatians 3 model that the law is a school teacher to Christ.

00:34:16.000 That actually we have this incredible window of opportunity that we've been missing.

00:34:21.000 That you can bring people to Christ through making logical arguments for a civil society.

00:34:28.000 To the opposite, people said, no, stay away from that.

00:34:31.000 You're going to just draw critics.

00:34:33.000 Only talk about the gospel, which, of course, I think every single message a pastor should give should be surrounded by the gospel.

00:34:38.000 Absolutely.

00:34:39.000 And that's sometimes lost in modern-day Christianity.

00:34:42.000 However, there's, I think completely and totally, we are missing a huge thing.

00:34:48.000 When people say, Charlie, I own two fitness shops in downtown Los Angeles.

00:34:54.000 It got broken into.

00:34:55.000 All my stuff got stolen to the BLM Incorporated protests.

00:34:59.000 They stole $95,000 of the merchandise.

00:35:01.000 My insurance only covers $15,000 of it.

00:35:03.000 What am I supposed to like?

00:35:05.000 I'm in a state of chaos.

00:35:06.000 What do I do?

00:35:07.000 And 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.

00:35:18.000 But that's only going to happen if people respect the complete and comprehensive worldview of what someone's talking about.

00:35:25.000 Because it needs to touch every single part of civil society.

00:35:28.000 Or else it's incomplete.

00:35:29.000 Or else it's, you come here and you get saved, but it's not discipleship, right?

00:35:33.000 Because people are going to ask, they're going to be like, well, how do I make sense of this very big picture issue?

00:35:39.000 I'm like, well, we have the greatest book ever to exist in the history of the world because of, thankfully.

00:35:43.000 And I do want to talk about that.

00:35:44.000 And I kind of mentioned it earlier.

00:35:46.000 And am I okay on time?

00:35:48.000 Okay.

00:35:49.000 I could keep going.

00:35:49.000 So I just like, it's fine.

00:35:50.000 So, yeah, okay.

00:35:52.000 So I am a huge advocate.

00:35:55.000 And a lot of people in my political world think I shouldn't say this.

00:35:59.000 So I just say it louder and I don't really care.

00:36:01.000 So which is that the Bible should be required reading for every single child in this country.

00:36:09.000 And if not, they should lose federal funding.

00:36:11.000 It's that simple.

00:36:12.000 And people find that to be, I don't think that's controversial, right?

00:36:15.000 So, in fact, I think that should be normative.

00:36:18.000 And people say, well, you're integrating religion into the state.

00:36:20.000 I say, wait, hold on a second.

00:36:22.000 First of all, I say, as soon as, and I have, this is somewhat of a contrarian opinion.

00:36:28.000 I believe atheism is a religion.

00:36:30.000 I really do.

00:36:31.000 And not everyone agrees with this.

00:36:32.000 I've gotten to debates with theologians about this, but atheism is absolutely a religion.

00:36:37.000 A religion is an agreed-upon worldview, an acceptance of what happens after you die, a proselytation strategy, an evangelistic strategy, right?

00:36:45.000 They have all of that, right?

00:36:47.000 In fact, when I go to college campuses, I meet more atheists than Christians.

00:36:52.000 The atheists are way more bold than the Christians, by the way.

00:36:55.000 And they're way more committed to persuading me, right? 0.99

00:36:58.000 Which is always kind of weird.

00:36:59.000 I'm like, why does this matter so much to you?

00:37:01.000 Like, 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?

00:37:09.000 And then we're all dust.

00:37:10.000 Like, why would you care about me?

00:37:12.000 It's like, that's kind of bizarre.

00:37:14.000 And it just always bothers them when I say, without God, there would be no atheists.

00:37:18.000 Like, it really bothers them.

00:37:25.000 But 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.

00:37:38.000 They're like, well, it's easy to create a moral order without the Bible.

00:37:42.000 So, okay, tell me what your moral order is.

00:37:44.000 They say, treat your neighbor how you want to be treated.

00:37:46.000 I'm like, yeah, I wonder where you got that one from.

00:37:48.000 Like, keep going, right?

00:37:50.000 Or honor your parents.

00:37:51.000 I'm like, yeah, that's a couple thousand years old.

00:37:53.000 What else you got, right?

00:37:55.000 Or like, tell the truth.

00:37:56.000 I'm like, you're not exactly getting anywhere here, right?

00:37:59.000 Like, what else you got, right?

00:38:00.000 I mean, and of course, they're all deriving it from originally the law and the fulfillment of it by Christ.

00:38:07.000 They can endlessly pursue these Eastern meditative ways of trying to confront the world, but it all goes back to the original source.

00:38:15.000 Always, it always goes back to the source.

00:38:16.000 If they actually say something that is morally correct, right?

00:38:19.000 Then it goes back to that.

00:38:21.000 But then we don't do a good enough job of actually articulating what the Bible is.

00:38:24.000 It's more than just a lifestyle book, right?

00:38:26.000 I mean, it's more than just kind of like a, for lack of a better term, kind of like a best practices, like 10 ways to turn on your life.

00:38:34.000 Like, no, that's not exactly what the law is.

00:38:36.000 It can be, but like, it's not exactly what it is.

00:38:38.000 But I think it's also something that we don't talk enough.

00:38:41.000 It's a historical document.

00:38:43.000 And 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.

00:38:50.000 Therefore, it's history, not allegory, right?

00:38:52.000 It's a really important thing.

00:38:54.000 And so if we believe it's a historical document, then why wouldn't we teach it to every single child, right?

00:38:59.000 Do you know there's never been an archaeological discovery to contradict the truth of the Bible ever in the history of all excavation?

00:39:04.000 Do you know that the more we actually excavation archaeological digs we do, the more it actually reaffirms the veracity of the Bible?

00:39:11.000 So we teach our children Homer's Odyssey, for example, right?

00:39:15.000 We teach them Homer's Odyssey.

00:39:17.000 And no one for a second actually believes Homer's Odyssey.

00:39:20.000 You know, in a lot of ways, it's allegoric.

00:39:21.000 But 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.

00:39:31.000 We 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.

00:39:51.000 And that's the thing we say our kids shouldn't learn.

00:39:54.000 Like, that's the thing that we've removed.

00:39:56.000 There is zero, no secular argument why the Bible should not be taught in public schools.

00:40:00.000 The only reason they don't want the Bible to be taught, the only reason is it's a threat to their power grab.

00:40:05.000 That is the only reason they have it.

00:40:07.000 Because 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.

00:40:18.000 It's really fascinating history.

00:40:20.000 It is.

00:40:21.000 And yet the removal actually creates this massive gap, right?

00:40:25.000 Massive gap.

00:40:26.000 66 books, 34 authors.

00:40:29.000 And so then kids are going to start to look for other places for meaning.

00:40:34.000 And so I can test for this.

00:40:35.000 I think it should be part of public policy.

00:40:37.000 I think that we should completely advocate for it.

00:40:39.000 I think it's a winning issue because there is no content.

00:40:41.000 They say, well, we do not want the public schools to be taken over by the church.

00:40:47.000 What are they really saying?

00:40:48.000 They're really scared the Bible actually is something that is really attractive.

00:40:51.000 That's what they're saying.

00:40:52.000 Like, wait a second, just like teaching it, it's going to spread like wildfire.

00:40:55.000 So you do agree there's something special about this.

00:40:57.000 It's like, it's kind of weird. 1.00

00:40:58.000 Like you teach the Quran.

00:40:59.000 It's not exactly like everyone's like really fired up about it.

00:41:01.000 It's just kind of, if I may say, they do teach it a lot, by the way.

00:41:04.000 And which is, of course, a complete and total disintegration of their argument, right?

00:41:08.000 And 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.

00:41:17.000 And 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.

00:41:31.000 And he was saying that he didn't want to teach.

00:41:36.000 He's like, I don't like teaching the Bible.

00:41:37.000 Like, you're a historical text professor.

00:41:37.000 I don't do it.

00:41:40.000 What text could you teach that's historical that is more important?

00:41:43.000 And he's going into all this different stuff.

00:41:44.000 And finally, he set his real agenda came up.

00:41:46.000 He's like, well, I'm afraid to teach the Bible because people actually might believe it.

00:41:50.000 Like, okay, now you got it.

00:41:51.000 Like, okay.

00:41:52.000 Like, your agenda is very clear, right?

00:41:55.000 That 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.

00:42:08.000 And so this is another thing that's very important.

00:42:11.000 And if I may talk more pragmatically on this, we need to get a lot more critical of our institutions of higher education.

00:42:20.000 And I mean college.

00:42:21.000 I 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.

00:42:45.000 There has been this false promise.

00:42:46.000 Thank you.

00:42:47.000 There's been this false promise in our country that if you go to college, you will succeed.

00:42:53.000 Let's put that aside.

00:42:55.000 I can tell you statistically why that is not true and very questionable.

00:42:58.000 But 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.

00:43:17.000 Obvious exceptions to this are Liberty University, Hillsdale, and of course.

00:43:20.000 However, 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.

00:43:32.000 There is no God, all these sorts of things.

00:43:34.000 And so I just look more pragmatically here.

00:43:37.000 We absolutely need more plumbers, electricians, carpenters, people, HVAC, police officers, gap years, entrepreneurs, people that join our military.

00:43:44.000 In fact, I have visited the most prestigious schools on the planet, right, and spoke at them.

00:43:50.000 I've spoken at Stanford, I've spoken at Brown, I've spoken all across the country.

00:43:53.000 I've spoken at hundreds of schools across the country.

00:43:56.000 I can tell you this: there is more wisdom in most of the American plumbing community than in the professor community at Brown University, okay?

00:44:06.000 There it is.

00:44:08.000 And now, I am not against people pursuing higher education for purpose.

00:44:15.000 In fact, I think that in its intent, higher education was actually founded as a biblical basis.

00:44:20.000 You look at it in our country, these were all founded as seminaries on the eastern seaboard.

00:44:25.000 Princeton was a Presbyterian seminary back when it actually had people that believed in God.

00:44:30.000 And it's really kind of bizarre when you go to a seminary and you're like debating the existence of God.

00:44:34.000 I'm like, that's not, I thought that was like an agreed-upon universal, like before we go into the seminary, right?

00:44:39.000 Like, that's probably an important precondition, like the baseline.

00:44:44.000 Anyway, so, and so we have to look at universities as atheistic seminaries.

00:44:44.000 Like, okay.

00:44:50.000 That's a very important thing.

00:44:52.000 So, 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.

00:45:03.000 And so, I'm not saying not to send your child to college.

00:45:06.000 I wouldn't say that.

00:45:07.000 I don't know your life.

00:45:08.000 I don't know the for some people, it's absolutely the right decision.

00:45:11.000 For some people, it's a dreadfully awful decision.

00:45:13.000 What 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.

00:45:29.000 And 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?

00:45:38.000 And they walk in and they say, Oh, hey, how is school hour things?

00:45:40.000 And they're like, I'm really offended that we are celebrating Thanksgiving.

00:45:47.000 It's Indigenous Peoples Day. 1.00

00:45:48.000 And they're like, Oh, honey, okay, what did you learn?

00:45:50.000 Like, did the turkey consent to being killed?

00:45:52.000 Because I think that is some form of a macro oppression of the patriarchy.

00:45:55.000 Like, what?

00:45:56.000 Who are you?

00:45:57.000 Like, how did that?

00:45:57.000 I was like, 90 days, and I'm paying for this, right?

00:46:01.000 And so, the steady and constant involvement in the education of our children is so incredibly important, right?

00:46:08.000 And also, we need to dress down the appearances in our country that somehow you are a smarter person because you have a degree, okay?

00:46:16.000 And that is something that I personally have lived through, and I never went to college, and other people have also had the same experience.

00:46:24.000 But 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.

00:46:33.000 Now, 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.

00:46:42.000 I'm just opening up a critical dialogue as to what exactly is the best choice for an entire generation.

00:46:49.000 So, only 59% of people that go to college graduate, 59%.

00:46:53.000 Out of the people that graduate, 44% actually are in jobs that do not require college degrees.

00:47:02.000 44% of the people that graduate.

00:47:04.000 So, I think I'm over on time, but let me close.

00:47:06.000 Is that okay?

00:47:07.000 Okay, I literally talk for six hours a day, so I could talk all day long.

00:47:11.000 So, that's literally what I do on my podcast.

00:47:13.000 So, look, a couple thoughts.

00:47:16.000 First, 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.

00:47:26.000 And I think that we have something to share that is important.

00:47:31.000 So that's a couple things.

00:47:33.000 Number one, think of your current life and whatever level of activism that you are involved in.

00:47:40.000 I implore you to please double or triple it.

00:47:42.000 And that doesn't necessarily just mean political activism.

00:47:45.000 It's fighting for what is right and for what is good in the world, right?

00:47:49.000 And unfortunately, a lot of that intersects with politics and a lot of it intersects with governmental representation.

00:47:56.000 But 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.

00:48:06.000 It 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.

00:48:17.000 I'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.

00:48:23.000 That's not something I'm prepared to do.

00:48:25.000 So you can kind of figure out your own way to try to what you need to do and what that looks like.

00:48:30.000 But more concretely, it's this.

00:48:33.000 Think in your life, someone who is preying on the innocent in a position of strength.

00:48:39.000 This is a form of tyranny.

00:48:40.000 It's happening all across the country where people are afraid to speak their mind.

00:48:44.000 They will have backlash and all this.

00:48:47.000 Be more bold than you could ever possibly be.

00:48:50.000 Because then people say this, and this is my final note, and then we'll close.

00:48:53.000 I'll do a pastor close.

00:48:54.000 I'll do like four closes, right?

00:48:55.000 So, right?

00:48:58.000 People say, well, Charlie, the price of speaking out is a lot.

00:49:02.000 So you're probably right.

00:49:04.000 But it's a logical fallacy.

00:49:06.000 It's the fallacy of the status quo.

00:49:09.000 You know what it is?

00:49:10.000 There's also a price to not speaking out.

00:49:13.000 There's also a price to not saying anything.

00:49:16.000 And somehow we think that it's actually easier to say nothing or it's better.

00:49:22.000 Okay.

00:49:23.000 And I ask pastors all the time, where is your line?

00:49:26.000 Because I want to know.

00:49:27.000 If you're not speaking out now, what has to happen for you to speak?

00:49:31.000 Like, I want to know concretely, what is it?

00:49:34.000 Like, 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?

00:49:45.000 Because that line's been crossed, but it's not enough for most pastors to speak out.

00:49:49.000 Is 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. 0.68

00:50:04.000 Well, then you would have been okay with what Stalin did when he destroyed all the churches and he killed 60 million people.

00:50:10.000 Now, I'm not saying that's going to happen here.

00:50:11.000 That would be unfair.

00:50:13.000 But there's in some ways you have to have the line in your head.

00:50:16.000 For me, the line's been crossed.

00:50:17.000 That's why I'm traveling the country.

00:50:18.000 That's why I'm doing what I'm doing.

00:50:20.000 That's why I'm speaking out.

00:50:21.000 Because I think that moral people need to do more right now.

00:50:24.000 So I have two podcasts a day, one every weekend, Saturday, and Sunday.

00:50:33.000 One 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.

00:50:43.000 That's the only thing I ask out of you guys today as a way to follow me and it actually helps support me tremendously.

00:50:49.000 And we're reaching millions of young people around these messages every single day.

00:50:53.000 The church is called for a moment like this.

00:50:55.000 Let's have the boldness of Stephen and of the early church where they went out into the public square.

00:51:01.000 They were unafraid of the repudiation and they stood for truth.

00:51:04.000 Now 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.

00:51:14.000 Thank you guys so much.

00:51:18.000 Thank you guys so much for listening.

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00:51:25.000 Email us your questions: freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:51:28.000 Thank you guys so much for listening.

00:51:30.000 God bless you.

00:51:31.000 God bless our country.

00:51:32.000 See you later this week.

The Charlie Kirk Show - August 23, 2020

Salvation is Essential

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