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00:01:11.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:28.000Yeah, so basically, my grandpa obviously grew up in the communist regime.
00:02:32.000How it all really started is at a young age.
00:02:34.000He gave his life to the Lord and was serving in the church and his family was Christian, but it all really took off when he went to a university in Odessa that's in Ukraine.
00:03:05.000Tomorrow, you have to make a decision in front of the entire student body.
00:03:09.000And it was basically like an auditorium.
00:03:11.000And he had one night to think about it.
00:03:14.000And he went back and forth because it's either giving up your dream, which is something he studied for for almost five years, or it was God.
00:03:23.000And he went up on stage and he chose God.
00:03:33.000And you read the book, and I'm not finished with it yet, but I'm at the point, I'm at the part where he was spending 23 hours a day on the ground.
00:04:26.000We've talked at length on this podcast before, and I encourage everyone to go back in the archives to check it out.
00:04:31.000But there's a war in Christianity right now.
00:04:33.000What does Joseph's testimony tell you to what you're actually fighting for right now?
00:04:38.000Yeah, and I'm thankful you have Elizabeth on the program because I met Joseph a little bit before you did.
00:04:43.000I was doing a freedom rally in Santa Barbara, and there's an elderly gentleman there with a younger guy, and all of a sudden this group comes up to me, and they've got Russian-Ukrainian accents.
00:05:44.000And what you're asking me is, what does it mean to me as a pastor?
00:05:46.000Well, first I was moved there when he prayed for me.
00:05:49.000And he articulated what we're facing as a nation.
00:05:53.000And then he went on through interpretation through his son to tell me what we're facing as a nation so severe that he had seen this coming in in the Ukraine.
00:06:02.000And I don't know if you remember this, but he's a man of many words.
00:06:06.000And he didn't use many that day when you had him come up.
00:06:56.000And how he was fighting for Christianity.
00:06:59.000And at the time, the Soviet, what was the prior czarist Russia when he was growing up, was not as hostile towards Christianity, but there was still kind of a tension.
00:07:10.000Yeah, like, hey, we don't like this as much.
00:07:11.000But then all of a sudden, Stalin realized that we have to get rid of Christianity.
00:07:21.000And he was a gift to both me and to you that we are to awaken to what, you know, God, God wants to do in calling the church in America to wake up, that these freedoms and these liberties, you can vote yourself into socialism, but you're going to shoot your way out.
00:07:35.000My parents, my grandpa always says, Pastor Rob, that although, for example, in America, in our generation, especially my generation, to us, it seems that socialism and communism is just a type of system.
00:07:47.000You know, it's something we see in our government.
00:08:59.000I heard my grandpa would always share the stories, and I would hear my family, you know, tell me of what they went through and the persecution they went through.
00:09:36.000But when my mom always says, when my family first came here, we fled from this persecution and we wanted to experience the beauty of this country, the freedom that we have, that joy, just so you can worship God freely and no one's knocking down on your doors trying to rip your Bible away.
00:09:51.000But when they first came, they already started noticing little bits of socialism popping up here and there.
00:09:56.000They noticed it immediately, but no one else was noticing it.
00:09:59.000But because they're so, you know, used to seeing it, they saw it.
00:12:34.000Talk, tell us more because I have people that listen to this podcast or that are out there that say, well, I don't like his tone or his tweets.
00:12:49.000Because I don't think they realize that it's not just an economic thing or a free college or whatever.
00:12:54.000It's literally every single one of your rights.
00:12:56.000Everything is going to be taken away, and you're never going to have any freedom.
00:13:00.000And if it's Donald Trump that's going to get me the capitalism and the anti-socialism, then I'm taking it.
00:13:07.000So, Rob, you're hearing this, and her grandfather being a pastor and the connection of you being a pastor fighting for freedom and liberty.
00:13:14.000So many Christians are asleep at the wheel, if not complicit.
00:13:18.000On the other side, you and I have talked about this at some length before.
00:13:21.000I'm seeing more Christians rise up, I think.
00:13:24.000I think I'm a little bit love, hopes, all things.
00:14:20.000But these are folks that are fearless that have come.
00:14:24.000And that's where I got connected with your family.
00:14:26.000Not only meet you in Santa Barbara, but your family is literally driving down from Santa Barbara to participate in our services.
00:14:33.000And I think folks are looking at their churches and saying, if all you're going to give me is a live stream, that's like watching a fireplace on a computer.
00:14:56.000And I know a number of them are probably sitting in our sanctuary going, well, he's not that great of a pastor, but there's nowhere else to go.
00:15:27.000And then we watch this Black Lives Matter.
00:15:29.000And it's going to be a backlash to all these pastors who push for the black tiles because you're seeing a number, and we're watching this, a number of black Americans coming to our church who disdain what BLM stands for as far as socialism is not concerned.
00:16:14.000Just because it says this name doesn't necessarily mean, first of all, they even believe it because where are they in Chicago and the blood is flowing through the streets.
00:16:28.000They've got 400,000 a year of black children that are aborted in the womb.
00:16:33.000And so, but are you seeing pastors start to rise up?
00:16:37.000Because I have seen a crisis in the church.
00:16:39.000I see pastors being challenged by their congregants for the stands that they aren't taking and the ones sadly that they are taking and shouldn't.
00:16:47.000And I'm seeing a pushback from the congregants of that.
00:16:49.000And yes, I am seeing some pastors awaken to it.
00:16:52.000And interestingly enough, not pastors you'd expect to rise up.
00:16:56.000I mean, there's one guy in Los Angeles.
00:16:59.000It's going to come at a great cost for him.
00:18:41.000And stay away from each other and close all businesses completely.
00:18:44.000And they're conditioning you to obey everything they say.
00:18:48.000Nowhere in the history of the United States has the government ever gone this far to eliminate civil liberties, rights guaranteed in the Constitution for something that is not even remotely considered a deadly pandemic.
00:19:02.000Well, and where's the pushback, though?
00:19:04.000I mean, we're trying to do what we can, right?
00:19:07.000And we were not defiant of the measures.
00:19:12.000We weren't defiant when we didn't have the data.
00:19:15.000I want to be clear with, I mean, what we did at Turning Point Action, we hosted the President of the United States, and we were not supposed to do that.
00:19:58.000So I've just felt deeply convicted that if I've been taught be bold and do not compromise, that means using the platform that is in my generation, which is social media.
00:20:17.000Anything that I saw that was the truth, I've been reposting it.
00:20:20.000And the pushback and the anger from people is ridiculous.
00:20:23.000There are people that I have grown up with.
00:20:25.000There have been people that I've been so close with, have shared really intimate, even spiritual Christian moments with, people that I've gone to class with who know me, who have spent hours with me calling me a racist, everything that you could think of, a white supremacist, calling me disgusting and everything you could, everything that any conservative has been named, I've been named.
00:20:46.000And it's so brutal because you're trying, it's so hard to explain to someone who's so blinded that these are deep convictions.
00:20:53.000And nothing's going to change my mind because I know this is the truth.
00:20:56.000I know that God wants me to be doing this and we are called to do this.
00:21:00.000So can you dive for how do you know what do you feel when you know that?
00:21:21.000What gives you that sense of boldness?
00:21:23.000Well, of course, seeing my grandpa is such a good example.
00:21:27.000But honestly, if you are growing in your relationship with the Lord and you are pursuing God, that voice comes.
00:21:33.000Like God is going to give you the confidence.
00:21:35.000And at the end of the day, it says in the Bible, like the persecution you're going to face is nothing compared to the glory that you're going to see one day.
00:21:41.000And even when I feel so let down or feel so defeated, I know that we're going to see justice one day.
00:21:47.000Like we know what's going to happen in Revelation.
00:21:50.000So it's just knowing the truth in the Bible and then taking the experience of my family, I would be an idiot to be silent.
00:21:58.000Like I would be disrespecting my family and God.
00:22:01.000So it's very interesting what happens.
00:22:03.000Third generation of the families of socialist survivors actually typically, at least I shouldn't say typically, they're surprisingly defecting.
00:22:15.000So for example, if you go to Little Cuba or Little Havana in Miami, the third generation are actually embracing socialism.
00:22:21.000And so the imagery is that you have generations of grandparents that fled gunfire, were put in gulags, and were able to escape Marxism to watch their grandkids go march in the streets for socialism, the very same ideas that almost killed them.
00:22:37.000And so you have, in your circle of friends, have you had any positive feedback at all?
00:24:38.000And I think to myself, where's the Republican Party?
00:24:41.000Why don't they have the courage that these kids have?
00:24:43.000And I tell you why, because they haven't gone through the stuff that Elizabeth and I went where they're losing.
00:24:47.000They're more concerned with power than they are with truth.
00:24:49.000And I'm less worried about the numbers, how many are with us or against us at this moment.
00:24:55.000I'm worried about the boldness of our leaders because then that will create followers in the future.
00:25:00.000Because what we see is you have so many people in the establishment Republican circles now that are so unbelievably weak, they don't fight for anything.
00:25:09.000And your grandfather writes in the book, there were plenty of people that helped the Soviet Union that were supposed to be the good guys.
00:25:17.000I mean, if you don't mind making this connection, but we see that, I mean, I've heard of a few churches that have been taking pictures of contact tracing and they're sending it in.
00:25:26.000It's like that kind of silencing that you see because they don't want opposition.
00:25:33.000And we're, and you also start to see within the Christian community, with the pastoral community, that they find more favor in the social media circles if they come out against you for being a maverick.
00:27:06.000And this is a very important thing, and this takes a mature mind, not an immature mind, to be able to accept that there might be differences for certain outcomes of communities, right?
00:27:19.000Like, okay, there are certain more urban areas that have not done as well.
00:27:23.000But there might be other reasons that has happened outside of racism.
00:27:26.000And that's a very, that take, like, hold on a second.
00:27:28.000You're trying to tell me that maybe it's the fatherlessness problem.
00:28:32.000And so they deploy 15 FBI agents to go look into this, and they can't deploy one FBI agent to prevent George Washington from being toppled down in Portland, Oregon.
00:28:40.000And that's what they did in the Soviet Union.
00:28:41.000They tapped down the history beforehand.
00:28:43.000You got to take down the history so that they don't have anyone to turn to.
00:28:48.000When you were describing that you look at Joseph Bondarenko and how he would be 23 hours in a cell and he would consider it joy.
00:28:58.000And that takes me to Acts chapter five, where they couldn't stop the people from embracing what Peter and John were doing.
00:29:05.000So they, and Gamaliel tried to say, look, just leave them alone.
00:29:17.000It's like every other governor in a Democratic state that has allowed land to be taken for chop and jazz and all these, you know, and tear down their monuments.
00:32:14.000Politicians don't understand the pulpit.
00:32:16.000So when I say love hopes all things, I think with my whole heart that these pastors genuinely want to do the right thing.
00:32:24.000They don't know what it is because they're ignorant of what is required to defend a constitutional republic because whether they're seminary or the system of churches they participate in or how they've been educated, there has been this slow drip of socialism in a number of these Protestant portions of Christendom that have inculcated and indoctrinated our pastors.
00:32:50.000So they actually, I remember back when I was young, Tony Campolo was the big guy and he, you know, he was a social justice guy.
00:32:57.000And social justice has crept into the church.
00:33:00.000We've got huge reformed movements that are participating in it.
00:33:03.000There's very few that see the slow drip of socialism coming into the church and they're not aware of it.
00:33:18.000Well, and just so people realize, any pastor that has associated the Black Lives Matter movement, the most outspoken Black Lives Matter advocate, who's actually a white guy, interesting enough, Sean King, now calls for statues of Jesus to be torn down.
00:34:44.000And they have a Republican competitor, Wynn Red, but it's not that simple.
00:34:47.000So you're giving it to Act Blue and they're supposed to give it to Black Lives Matter.
00:34:50.000But then you go to Act Blue's 990 disclosure forum, a world of which I know really well because this is the world I live in and nonprofits.
00:34:58.000And you look through the disbursements and they don't have any Black Lives Matter disclosure of where the money's going.
00:35:05.000And you can, I went through as many documents I could get and I had other people that know that world do the same, can't find it, which is bizarre.
00:35:13.000And then you go through their disclosures on Act Blue and they say, well, we exist to raise money for Democrat candidates.
00:35:18.000How that's compatible with the C3 mission of Act Blue, I don't understand how that's even close to being okay.
00:35:23.000However, here's what gets interesting.
00:35:25.000When you give money to Act Blue, you don't know where it's going.
00:35:28.000They say it's going to Black Lives Matter.
00:35:29.000No way to actually tell, but let's pretend that it is.
00:35:32.000Do you know what Act Blue actually does?
00:35:35.000Rob McCoy, you give $100 to Black Lives Matter because you're some suburbanite that feels guilty because your pastor told you and you live in Dana Point or Laguna Nigel, right?
00:36:58.000Anyone listening to this that goes to a church and you're like, well, I don't know if I want to leave my church or not.
00:37:02.000It's the least you can do, send them the link to this podcast to your pastor and say, listen carefully.
00:37:07.000You have a pastor, you have a young Christian who is seeing and hearing this, and you have someone who actually knows what's happening out there.
00:37:13.000And every prediction I've made with this stuff has unfortunately come true.
00:37:16.000You can go back weeks ago when I said this is going to result in rioting, looting, unnecessary racial division, pastors supporting it.
00:37:24.000Now I'm telling you right now, anyone that steers their congregation in support of this, and there are churches here in Phoenix, Arizona, that they actually believe in good Bible-based teaching, that we're marching in the streets with Black Lives Matter activists.
00:37:56.000That people think are great Bible-believing churches where their pastors are marching with Black Lives Matter, and they did fundraisers for them.
00:38:02.000So these churches are funding pro-sex work, pro-abortion, pro-Planned Parenthood, pro-legalization, and pro-abolished police, and on their website, it's in their mission statement.
00:38:14.000We seek to disrupt and destroy the Western prescribed nuclear family.
00:38:19.000And also, they also want to remove the idea of a heterosexual, just the breakdown of how we identify for sex.
00:39:18.000And actually, the interesting thing is, though, there were a lot, they were first Bernie Sanders supporters.
00:39:23.000And when I asked them, you know, once they start going back and forth with me, I go, if you don't mind me asking, who are you going to vote for?
00:39:28.000And they always give me the answer, well, I thought that Bernie Sanders was our hope for the country.
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