The Charlie Kirk Show - March 03, 2024


Stop Caring About Your Tax Deduction: LIVE at Strong Church in Phoenix, AZ


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Join us as we hear from Pastor Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, as he shares the story of how he built one of the most powerful youth organizations in the country, and how he and his organization are fighting for freedom on campuses across the country.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
00:00:01.000 A amazing episode here with Field of Hope of what's going on live from our strong church event in Arizona brought to you by TPUSA Faith.
00:00:12.000 We share that and also how we are building a response to secular globalism.
00:00:18.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:21.000 Subscribe to our podcast and get involved with TurningPointUSA at tpusa.com.
00:00:26.000 Email me as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:29.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:30.000 Here we go.
00:00:31.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:32.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:34.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:38.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:41.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:42.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:43.000 His spirit, his love of this country.
00:00:45.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:52.000 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.
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00:01:29.000 I had the privilege to meet Charlie, well, probably now about four years ago, and how we got connected.
00:01:36.000 He calls me his pastor, although he doesn't come to our church that often.
00:01:42.000 Charlie, come on out.
00:01:43.000 Charlie Kirk, everybody.
00:01:50.000 Yeah, I felt like Christopher.
00:01:54.000 And so we met at that conservative radio conference, and then we've become friends ever since.
00:01:59.000 And then all this TPUSA faith, it was an idea that we had because you made the worst prediction in radio history.
00:02:08.000 No, that's right.
00:02:09.000 For those of you that watch the podcast, you know that I make predictions every so often.
00:02:13.000 And some of you have heard this story before, but in the spring of 2020, I made the worst prediction, I think, ever in recorded history since the advent of podcasting.
00:02:23.000 Everything was locking down, and people were starting to stay at home.
00:02:27.000 And I said, hey, these lockdowns, they're not going to last because the church loves liberty and the church is going to resist all these lockdowns.
00:02:36.000 And boy, I was wrong about that.
00:02:40.000 I mean, again, some exceptions in this current audience of people that resisted and stayed open.
00:02:47.000 And you deserve credit and encouragement for that.
00:02:50.000 But the vast majority of American churches did exactly what the government told them to do.
00:02:57.000 And they locked down.
00:02:59.000 They took Easter from us.
00:03:00.000 They took Pentecost from us.
00:03:03.000 We were psychologically manipulated using information warfare, saying that watching church on a screen is the same as being around believers. 0.76
00:03:13.000 And we just kind of took it.
00:03:15.000 And again, for those of you that resisted, especially in blue enclaves, they called you super spreader, responsible for mass murder.
00:03:22.000 Rob, you know, I'll never forget.
00:03:24.000 I was watching the live stream back here in Phoenix and you did communion, I think on Palm Sunday, is that right?
00:03:30.000 And they only allowed you to have one person in a chair.
00:03:34.000 And after the person got out of the chair, they had to kind of wipe it down and disinfect it, right?
00:03:38.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:03:40.000 And they were still attacking him for being a super spreader.
00:03:43.000 And of course, it was one of the reasons they did that was they wanted to try to send a message that the church was not sovereign.
00:03:52.000 God was not sovereign of the country.
00:03:53.000 The church is subservient to the state.
00:03:57.000 And we just kind of took it.
00:03:59.000 And over the summer of 2020, we started to see more and more resistance against that.
00:04:04.000 Of course, then we had the second episode that led to the start of TPUSA Faith, where we decided to burn our country down to a crisp all around the lie that we're systemically racist, otherwise called as Floyd de Palooza, basically, when the entire country decided to burn itself.
00:04:21.000 And the same pastors that told us that they did not want to be political, the same pastors that told us that we'll never do a voter registration drive, were very quick to give a sermon telling us that you're racist if you have white skin color and that we all need to be in support of the racial justice movement and that we need to contribute to Black Lives Matter.
00:04:43.000 For example, like Rick Warren, who always tells us, oh, am I not allowed to name any names?
00:04:48.000 I'm sorry.
00:04:49.000 It doesn't bother me.
00:04:51.000 But no, I mean, Rick Warren, who I've debated with him on text message, and he's like, you know, Christians shouldn't be involved in politics. 1.00
00:04:57.000 You know, we come to a greater kingdom.
00:04:59.000 Like, then, Rick, why did you go march in a BLM parade?
00:05:02.000 Like, what is that all about?
00:05:04.000 So, oh, it's left-wing politics that's okay.
00:05:06.000 But if you dare try to contest for the, let's just say, the revitalization of the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world, then you can't do that.
00:05:15.000 So, TPUSA Faith was launched.
00:05:17.000 And, Rob, our friendship was really the beginning of that.
00:05:20.000 And then our friendship with the Barnetts.
00:05:21.000 And it has now grown beyond anything we could have imagined.
00:05:25.000 And glory be to God.
00:05:27.000 This is a movement that is spanning all 50 states and thousands of churches and pastors.
00:05:33.000 And, Pastor Luke, I told you when we were backstage about a year ago when we first had the privilege to meet, I said, you know, I met Charlie, first church he ever spoke at was ours.
00:05:43.000 And I said, thank you for giving him a mantle that I can't provide because I have a gift of preaching a church down to a manageable size.
00:05:51.000 But you've afforded Charlie that and all of TPUSA faith.
00:05:58.000 And Tommy, thank you for the inspiration of that and embracing us.
00:06:02.000 Amen.
00:06:03.000 Amen.
00:06:03.000 And a couple of things I do want to share before we get to a question and answer, which is we need to be prepared if they try to lock us down again or they try to go right after the church.
00:06:13.000 This whole kind of obviously coordinated op that they're running around Christian nationalism is trying to get you to kind of sit in the corner, to shut up, and to obey. 0.63
00:06:24.000 There's this book that was written.
00:06:25.000 I think you're in the book, The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory, by Tim Alberta, who, you know, he conveniently was allowed on MSNBC as soon as the book was published.
00:06:35.000 Barack Obama said it was one of his favorite books of 2023, which was hilarious because it made the list of Barack Obama's favorite books like three weeks after it was published.
00:06:46.000 Like, okay, yeah, I'm sure you read the entire thing.
00:06:49.000 And they want to try to neuter the church ahead of this critical year.
00:06:56.000 And I mean, what Bob McEwen said is so accurate and so important.
00:06:59.000 And don't think of it as political.
00:07:01.000 Think of it as serving your flock.
00:07:03.000 They're looking to you for answers.
00:07:05.000 Deep down, they're begging for you to have the Bible be the lens of which they view of how they vote.
00:07:12.000 And any of the kind of chattering disagreement that you might get from some of the people in your church that say, oh, I don't want it to be political.
00:07:21.000 That does not represent a majority of how the church, not even a majority, like 90% of how the church feels.
00:07:26.000 Deep down, they want to be led.
00:07:28.000 They want to know what the Bible says about these critical issues.
00:07:31.000 And we are being sold this lie.
00:07:33.000 We're being sold a lie that you can be a church in America and be silent on all these major culture issues, all these major faith issues, because they are spiritual issues at the core.
00:07:44.000 And to be led that they're anything but spiritual, to believe that they're anything but spiritual issues is just not the case.
00:07:50.000 And Jesus needs to be the center of everything that we do, always.
00:07:54.000 And Jesus had a lot to say about every single one of these issues.
00:07:58.000 Jesus spoke very clearly about what happens when you go after children.
00:08:01.000 Jesus spoke very clearly about what happens when you don't obey the commandment, the two greatest commandments, love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.
00:08:10.000 And you could spend an entire month talking to your congregation of what it means to love your neighbor as yourself.
00:08:16.000 And so we have to be prepared in this critical year for that.
00:08:20.000 And I also want to say that we could talk about the churches that are silent, that are not speaking out, but I am just blown away by how many amazing pastors and churches there are.
00:08:32.000 And I think so many of you feel the same way being at an event like this, how encouraging it is to know you're not alone.
00:08:39.000 And that was one of the other reasons why we started TPUSA Faith, is I got annoyed.
00:08:44.000 I kept on going to Steve Smotherman's church or Keith Kraft's church.
00:08:48.000 And every so often, it wasn't necessarily at their churches, but I'd hear something, I'm the only pastor that is resisting lockdowns.
00:08:54.000 Like, well, you're not the only one because I just came from this church here.
00:08:58.000 And I said, we have to try to network.
00:08:59.000 We have to try to strengthen the bride of Christ.
00:09:02.000 And, you know, one of the objections that people will say is, you know, you guys are trying to divide.
00:09:09.000 I disagree.
00:09:10.000 I actually think that we're trying to unite the bride of Christ.
00:09:14.000 And if it divides the secular world, so be it.
00:09:17.000 That's not for us to worry about.
00:09:19.000 In fact, I'm fine, you know, drawing a line in the sand and saying that we don't believe that men can give birth and that children should not be taught graphic pornography and that we should have borders and that we should have leaders that love the country.
00:09:32.000 In fact, I fail to understand why not every pastor in the country is contesting for those things.
00:09:39.000 And the last thing I'll say before I throw it back to Rob here is that the people that say that we should be silent on these issues, they refuse to ever have theological discussions on this because the theology is not with them.
00:09:52.000 Instead, they go to secular emotionalism.
00:09:55.000 Oh, you're being mean.
00:09:56.000 Oh, you're not being kind.
00:09:59.000 But they can never cite scripture that says we should be indifferent about the suffering of our nation or the suffering of our neighbor.
00:10:07.000 In fact, it's the opposite.
00:10:09.000 The Bible commands that we pursue justice, justice you shall pursue, that you shall demand the welfare of the nation that you are in.
00:10:16.000 As I mentioned last night, Jeremiah 29, 7.
00:10:18.000 You know, Daniel, Esther, Mordecai, Nehemiah, Jeremiah, they all contested for the nation.
00:10:23.000 They were counselors to the king.
00:10:25.000 And this is a new age, I believe, demonic phenomenon that has come into the church that where we just kind of sit on the sidelines and we allow, you know, like, well, we're just going to kind of, you know, have church on Easter and Christmas, and we're not going to get into the public square and the Ecclesia.
00:10:44.000 So I want to encourage you guys to keep on fighting.
00:10:46.000 You know, Charlie, one of the things that was a great blessing to me was we had the churches that stood in defiance to the tyranny.
00:10:46.000 Amen.
00:10:56.000 And then as we started to do these pastors' conferences, it was a lot like Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who stood in opposition to Hitler in 34.
00:11:03.000 3,000 pastors stood with him.
00:11:05.000 3,000 pastors were in the opposition standing with Hitler.
00:11:08.000 And 11,000 of these 17,000 evangelical pastors were in the middle saying, we just bury our heads and hope it goes away.
00:11:15.000 None of them expected in less than 10 years that 6.5 million Jews would be gassed and incinerated and the church would be silent in relation to that.
00:11:23.000 And it was Martin Niemohler, who started out liberal, but was moved by Dietrich Bonhoeffer and joined the cause.
00:11:31.000 You and I have seen pastors stand, but what's really been exciting is when we do these pastors conferences, we get young guys coming in going, you know, we did the lockdowns.
00:11:38.000 We did all that.
00:11:39.000 We were wrong.
00:11:40.000 I'm in.
00:11:41.000 That's so encouraging.
00:11:42.000 Can you speak to that?
00:11:43.000 You know, and we need to have a heart for pastors that are not yet on board.
00:11:47.000 Again, I will be honest, I struggle with this.
00:11:50.000 If you're really not yet speaking out after four years of this, I got a lot of bitterness for you.
00:11:56.000 I got to work on that.
00:11:57.000 I asked Jesus for forgiveness.
00:11:58.000 No, I'm going to be honest.
00:11:59.000 Like, I just, I ran into a pastor the other day.
00:12:02.000 They're like, yeah, I'm not really sure if it's time.
00:12:06.000 And I think that my congregation won't receive it well.
00:12:09.000 I was like, you should be a pastor.
00:12:10.000 I got really upset.
00:12:11.000 And you should just resign.
00:12:13.000 I'm like, just go sell insurance or something.
00:12:15.000 Nothing wrong with that.
00:12:16.000 I mean, it's fine.
00:12:18.000 So you can go be an evangelist in the insurance industry.
00:12:22.000 We need that.
00:12:25.000 It's like, don't, as soon as you assume the mantle of the holy, as the whole book of Leviticus focuses on this.
00:12:36.000 It means separate in Hebrew.
00:12:38.000 The holy needs to be separated from the rest.
00:12:44.000 There's different rules for you guys.
00:12:46.000 There's different rules when you say you're a pastor.
00:12:49.000 And it's not for everybody.
00:12:50.000 And we should be loving enough to say to the people that are not living up to the standard of being a pastor, that's okay, but stop damaging the label and the mantle of what it means to be a pastor by acting no differently than a new age motivational speaker.
00:13:09.000 That's a good word, Charlie.
00:13:14.000 All right, folks.
00:13:15.000 Well, the next portion of our segment is up to you.
00:13:17.000 We're going to do some question and answer.
00:13:20.000 I don't know who's fielding the questions.
00:13:21.000 I think you can line up.
00:13:22.000 We'll do some questions.
00:13:23.000 Yeah, line up.
00:13:24.000 I love to hear from you.
00:13:25.000 That's the most important.
00:13:27.000 And especially, we'd like to hear from some pastors that you're just not sure about all this.
00:13:32.000 And you've got some, you know, questions.
00:13:34.000 That's perfect.
00:13:35.000 That's what we're looking for.
00:13:37.000 Or whatever.
00:13:38.000 And please, remember, it's questions, not dissertations.
00:13:43.000 All right?
00:13:45.000 You can email me your dissertation, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:13:48.000 Yeah.
00:13:49.000 All right.
00:13:49.000 I promise I probably won't read it.
00:13:51.000 So the line can go here.
00:13:56.000 And whoever wants to go first.
00:13:58.000 Yes.
00:13:58.000 Yes, sir.
00:13:58.000 Who's up?
00:13:59.000 Anyone?
00:13:59.000 Yes, ma'am.
00:14:00.000 Sorry.
00:14:01.000 Thank you.
00:14:02.000 So I feel you on everything that you're saying.
00:14:05.000 I'm an attorney, and it's really interesting because I'm from Minnesota.
00:14:10.000 It's hard to be a Christian in those type of states where things are coming in from the outside we didn't even ask for, people didn't even want.
00:14:17.000 But to your point, how do pastors speak out in their churches on these political matters without violating the internal revenue codes, risking the loss of their 501c3 status and having that kind of federal pressure be put down on them?
00:14:35.000 Because it's my understanding: if you're going to speak on one side, you have to speak on the other side and provide equal time, equal opportunity.
00:14:42.000 Great question.
00:14:43.000 Yes.
00:14:43.000 So does anyone know how many churches have lost their C3 status in the last decade?
00:14:48.000 Yeah, zero.
00:14:49.000 Zero.
00:14:49.000 This is a lie from the pit of hell.
00:14:52.000 Let me work through this.
00:14:53.000 So, first, I run a 501c3, Turning Point USA.
00:14:56.000 And as you can see, we can legally talk about a lot of issues without endorsing candidates.
00:15:01.000 Now, even if you wanted to endorse candidates, Rob is the most, let's say, cowboy of this.
00:15:08.000 Rob, you endorse from the stage, and then what do you do?
00:15:10.000 You mail the tape into the IRS?
00:15:12.000 Yeah, I send it to the IRS.
00:15:13.000 I say, come get me.
00:15:21.000 I love your heart.
00:15:23.000 I can't stand that question.
00:15:26.000 Why are you a pastor if you're so afraid of ooh daddy government that might make the tax deduction go away?
00:15:33.000 Like, ooh, the tax deduction might go away.
00:15:37.000 I'm scared.
00:15:39.000 Resign.
00:15:40.000 Get out of the ministry, man.
00:15:42.000 Like, what is not you?
00:15:43.000 I'm just saying, like, I just, I cannot, I can't tolerate this anymore.
00:15:49.000 Like, we have criminal invaders on our southern border.
00:15:53.000 They're chopping off the parts of our kids.
00:15:55.000 They're teaching our kids outright demonic activity, and the excuse that I get more than anything else is: well, you know, the Internal Revenue Service after a multi-year audit might do something they haven't done in a course of a decade, even though I'm legally allowed to do it.
00:16:09.000 Well, my elder board told me that if I do this, we might lose the piece of paper and our business model might be compromised.
00:16:14.000 Like, I'm sorry, if that's your excuse, then you should go be a developer of condominiums because you're much more worried about paying the note to a bank than saving souls for Jesus Christ.
00:16:39.000 All right, we'll go over here.
00:16:41.000 Yes, dear.
00:16:42.000 I have a question about just fellow Christians like not loving each other and not showing unity in the church.
00:16:49.000 Yeah, so the Bible says, Speak the truth in love.
00:16:53.000 Love without truth is hypocrisy, truth without love is brutality.
00:16:57.000 It says, Endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit, the bond of peace, and it's to a man's benefit to overlook an offense.
00:17:02.000 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold and settings of silver.
00:17:06.000 And that's what we're trying to do.
00:17:09.000 But the problem is, Christians think that peace is the absence of conflict.
00:17:14.000 It's not.
00:17:14.000 It's the presence of Christ in the midst of the conflict.
00:17:19.000 Jesus said, I didn't come to bring peace, but a sword, and it's going to be divisive.
00:17:23.000 And people say, you know, Trump was divisive.
00:17:24.000 I don't think he was divisive as much as he was a highlighter to show where the division already was.
00:17:30.000 And in the body of Christ, if we're going, for example, and you know, I hold Eric responsible, Eric Metaxas.
00:17:37.000 He has a book called Letter to the American Church in a movie that just came out in the movies tonight.
00:17:41.000 And it's remarkable.
00:17:43.000 You all have to be there.
00:17:44.000 It's remarkable.
00:17:45.000 But he was on a podcast and he commented about preacher pre-millennial.
00:17:50.000 And it talked, I won't go into it, but it created division.
00:17:55.000 And now we're getting churches that won't show the movie because they've been offended by his statements.
00:18:01.000 We don't have that luxury.
00:18:04.000 If we don't stand together, we're going to fall apart.
00:18:07.000 And if we don't stand for liberty, we're going to be arguing our theological differences from prison.
00:18:13.000 And I would say the greater the threat, the more we're unified.
00:18:18.000 And we have to look past everything that the world is trying to divide us on and find that commonality.
00:18:25.000 And the thing we love about TPSA faith is we represent five-point Calvinists and swinging from the chandelier.
00:18:31.000 Jesus said last night.
00:18:33.000 And we must acknowledge primary doctrine and secondary doctrine.
00:18:36.000 I'm not a theologian, right?
00:18:37.000 We all know when there's primary doctrine problems, right?
00:18:40.000 You wouldn't be here if there was primary doctrine problems, right?
00:18:42.000 If you rejected the divinity of Christ, you wouldn't be here, right?
00:18:45.000 If you are post-modernist when it comes to the inerrancy of scripture, you know, you wouldn't be at this conference, right?
00:18:50.000 But there will be, there are people here with differences when it comes to eschatology.
00:18:54.000 And I'm proud to say that we have people that have differences in that view.
00:18:58.000 And I'm not going to say that's not important.
00:18:59.000 I'm not going to say that that's not critical.
00:19:01.000 But my personal line of work with TPSA Faith is the contest for liberty, which is God's idea, not man's idea.
00:19:08.000 And I think we have so much to unite behind that and to agree upon.
00:19:11.000 And that's the spirit that we have here.
00:19:13.000 So that was a tremendous question.
00:19:14.000 Thank you for teeing that up for us.
00:19:16.000 Bless you, dear.
00:19:17.000 Thank you.
00:19:17.000 Yeah.
00:19:17.000 Over here.
00:19:19.000 Hi, my name is Paula.
00:19:21.000 This is a question about schools.
00:19:23.000 I'm a teacher.
00:19:25.000 We have a Christian principal, but yet we have things displayed in our school that are very inappropriate.
00:19:32.000 And I just want to know how to approach this with her.
00:19:37.000 You have tenure, right?
00:19:39.000 Yes, I do.
00:19:39.000 Yeah, good.
00:19:40.000 But finally, we can use tenure to our advantage.
00:19:44.000 Look, it's not easy, but don't be afraid to be disagreeable.
00:19:48.000 I mean, don't put it in your classroom.
00:19:51.000 It's hard for them to fire you, obviously, because you have tenure.
00:19:54.000 But I don't want to ask for necessarily specifics, but I imagine it's in the LGBT realm, you know, probably.
00:20:01.000 And this is a pseudo-religion.
00:20:04.000 And the LGBT mafia, right? 1.00
00:20:07.000 The trans the alphabet letter mafia is a better way to put it, has taken advantage of all of us as Christians. 1.00
00:20:14.000 And they've taken advantage of us because we were so beat down for years because we were told that marriage between a man and a woman is not popular, that you're a hater, just let these people live.
00:20:26.000 And we kind of laid down all of our arms because there was a fake peace treaty that was issued for a very short period of time where we were told that the alphabet mafia, they get gay marriage, which we never should have allowed to happen, and everything's going to be fine. 0.95
00:20:44.000 And in reality, it was the opposite.
00:20:46.000 In reality, they saw us as suckers, and they saw us as bringing on all of our defenses, and they went right after our children.
00:20:56.000 Remember, the alphabet mafia, they recruit because they can't reproduce. 0.99
00:21:02.000 Remember that.
00:21:03.000 So they must go after your children.
00:21:06.000 And they are groomers.
00:21:08.000 Ask James Lindsay, who goes through it in great detail.
00:21:08.000 Don't believe me.
00:21:12.000 It's one thing if you are struggling with same-sex attraction.
00:21:15.000 We all have a heart for those people.
00:21:17.000 We want to minister to those people.
00:21:19.000 We're not here to go out of our way to ridicule people for the sins that they struggle with.
00:21:24.000 It is a completely nother thing to normalize sinful behavior, wear it as an identity, put it as curriculum, and then call us haters if we dare oppose it.
00:21:35.000 And so please keep on fighting.
00:21:38.000 I would also add for you: we're not in charge of the outcome.
00:21:42.000 We're in charge of the obedience.
00:21:44.000 And we're not to be afraid of the consequences of standing for the truth.
00:21:48.000 So be even more bold.
00:21:50.000 All right?
00:21:51.000 Take it on.
00:21:52.000 God bless you.
00:21:52.000 Go get them.
00:21:53.000 Over here, yeah, man.
00:21:54.000 What's up?
00:21:55.000 Hi there.
00:21:56.000 I have four children, second grade through 10th grade, and I've always thought I wanted to raise my kids to be lights in a dark place in public school and wanted them to go and be able to share their faith.
00:22:05.000 But my question is, at what point do I, as a parent, abandon ship and say, like, I can't subject my kids to that anymore.
00:22:12.000 I need to pull them out.
00:22:16.000 So my wife and I have five children.
00:22:18.000 We've done private school, private Christian school.
00:22:21.000 We've done public school.
00:22:22.000 We've done a homeschooling.
00:22:23.000 We've done all of them.
00:22:25.000 And each, you know, we know our children better than the teachers do.
00:22:29.000 We know what each child can handle and what would be best for them.
00:22:32.000 We pray fervently.
00:22:33.000 We also, especially in the public school where my oldest son went, we examined that and participated and went and looked at what the curriculum was.
00:22:45.000 And anytime there was a red flag, we go in and make ourselves known.
00:22:51.000 You don't just release them to the public school system.
00:22:56.000 You're vigilant and you keep a track on it.
00:22:59.000 But at the end of the day, you're a steward of your children's life.
00:23:04.000 God entrusted you.
00:23:05.000 You're not going to be able to blame the teachers.
00:23:08.000 You're not going to be able to blame anybody but yourself.
00:23:10.000 And you're going to have to give an accounting to the Lord.
00:23:12.000 So it's asking for wisdom.
00:23:14.000 It says in James, if any man lacks wisdom, all he could do is ask of God.
00:23:16.000 God will give freely to him who asks.
00:23:18.000 He'll show you what to do with the kids that he entrusted to you.
00:23:21.000 And ask him.
00:23:22.000 And each one may be equipped for, but quite honestly, my kids are out of high school.
00:23:27.000 It's gotten exponentially worse.
00:23:29.000 That's right.
00:23:31.000 I don't envy your position, but I know God will help you through it.
00:23:34.000 Yeah, I'm closer and closer to the point that there's very few circumstances where I think Christian kids should go to government school.
00:23:41.000 And I'm willing to be convinced, but it's only because of the risk involved that you run a double-digit risk, 20, 30, 40% of you losing your child before they even reach adulthood.
00:23:54.000 And so think of them as being light once they reach adulthood, wherever they end up if they go to college into the work.
00:24:01.000 Because then they have the majority of their life is post-18, God willing, right? 0.98
00:24:05.000 And so to think that they're going to be Christian missionaries when they're 12 is a wonderfully romantic idea.
00:24:11.000 It rarely ever happens.
00:24:14.000 And to be perfectly honest, there's too much risk involved in the predatory environment that government schools have become.
00:24:20.000 Thank you.
00:24:25.000 Yeah, we've got time for about two more questions.
00:24:26.000 Go ahead.
00:24:27.000 Hey, Charlie, I'm a big fan of your ministry.
00:24:30.000 God bless you for that.
00:24:31.000 To what you were talking to, the lady that was here earlier, I kind of like had a question and roll me back to our lack of involvement, brought the abortion thing around, and then what you said about gay marriage, our lack of, I mean, our lack of involvement in politics.
00:24:47.000 And then what I'm seeing now is that they're trying to legalize pedophilia softly.
00:24:53.000 So, you know, to what Jesus said, you know, the thing about tying a rope around your neck into a millstone and then throwing the sea thing.
00:24:59.000 I think this is going to be the next challenge for the church.
00:25:03.000 We go with what Jesus said or what do we do?
00:25:06.000 Yeah.
00:25:06.000 So, I mean, we have to be ready for what happens when they start ridiculing us.
00:25:10.000 They say, well, why do you guys hate pedophiles so much? 0.76
00:25:14.000 You're a hater. 0.95
00:25:16.000 What are you, pedophile phobic? 1.00
00:25:21.000 Just get ready. 0.99
00:25:22.000 It's already here, by the way.
00:25:23.000 Minor attracted person, decriminalization of the pedophilia laws in California.
00:25:30.000 You no longer have to mandatorily get registered in a sex offender database if you have a sex crime with a child.
00:25:36.000 In five states that we know of that are Democrat-controlled states, they have all shortened mandatory prison time when it comes to pedophilia type activity.
00:25:44.000 Child sex crimes are being decriminalized.
00:25:48.000 For example, in the state of Virginia, I'm going to screw up some of the details, but it was essentially like, hey, you have to tell a parent if a teacher is engaging in homosexual type transgender teaching towards a child.
00:26:01.000 And they said no.
00:26:03.000 They shot it down.
00:26:04.000 So just get ready for that.
00:26:06.000 They will not stop.
00:26:08.000 Here's the important thing is that not every single person who teaches queer theory is necessarily a pedophile, but every single pedophile believes in queer theory.
00:26:18.000 So you can kind of square that circle.
00:26:20.000 And it's all part of a direct, it's a direct crusade of how far can I push the church.
00:26:27.000 And now it is, now we're no longer kind of having to, we never were in this space, but it's so clear where Jesus says what happens when you go after the children.
00:26:37.000 And there will be churches where they're going to bring pedophiles on stage and be like, well, you know, we just shouldn't be so hateful.
00:26:44.000 They're born this way.
00:26:46.000 They're born with loving eight-year-olds.
00:26:50.000 If you can't fight on the first issue, why would you fight on the third issue?
00:26:54.000 But hey, we only do the gospel around here.
00:26:59.000 Thank you.
00:27:01.000 So much.
00:27:05.000 I think we have time for maybe one.
00:27:07.000 I'm not sure we're going to have two, so go ahead.
00:27:11.000 Being that we're aware that Jesus is coming soon, 2 Peter 3 says he's coming, but for his mercy, I would just like to ask for all the people surrounding me, whether Christian or the body of Christ or unbeliever, how do we grace versus death?
00:27:32.000 Like, you're going to die if you don't know this truth.
00:27:34.000 How do we, when do we discern we're extending grace or we're allowing people to die without knowing the truth or get out of our space without sharing the truth, in other words.
00:27:45.000 And is that for each Christian unbeliever?
00:27:48.000 Like, how do we handle that?
00:27:49.000 Yeah, it's important not to put too much pressure on yourself.
00:27:51.000 That's important, right?
00:27:53.000 God is sovereign.
00:27:54.000 God has a plan, but we also have marching orders.
00:27:57.000 And so everywhere I go, I try to share the gospel.
00:27:59.000 It's incorporated in everything I do.
00:28:01.000 I will say I think I have shared the gospel more on demonic liberal college campuses than anybody in the last decade.
00:28:07.000 I will put that up against anybody from Berkeley to the halls of UT Austin.
00:28:14.000 And so, you know, look, God has a plan.
00:28:17.000 God is sovereign.
00:28:18.000 But we also must hold account to our action.
00:28:21.000 And so I'll close with this.
00:28:23.000 I was very thankful for the opportunity to go on a podcast that is as demon-filled as demon-filled can get.
00:28:30.000 It's called Whatever.
00:28:31.000 If you haven't watched it, you're lucky. 0.96
00:28:34.000 It is full of porn people and all sorts of awful things.
00:28:37.000 And I think from my own personal understanding, I was one of the few people ever to go on that podcast and just outright share the gospel and throw the net.
00:28:46.000 They were moved by it.
00:28:47.000 It was powerful.
00:28:48.000 Yeah, there was a witch there.
00:28:49.000 There were two people that are winning awards in the porn industry that were alongside of it.
00:28:53.000 And I've no idea if I won over those eight young ladies or the millions of people online, but I went out of my way to do that because I felt a moral obligation to at least throw the net, right?
00:29:04.000 I'm not a trained evangelist.
00:29:05.000 It's not what I do professionally, but with the platform that the Lord has given me, I believe that I have a duty to share the gospel wherever I go and whatever platform he gives me.
00:29:15.000 So.
00:29:19.000 The Bible says that they committed themselves to the apostles' teaching and the Lord added to their numbers daily.
00:29:24.000 Salvation is God's deal.
00:29:26.000 We just are obedient to proclaim it.
00:29:27.000 So folks, thank you so much.
00:29:29.000 Our time's up.
00:29:30.000 We'll see you next time for the Letter for American Church screening.
00:29:33.000 God bless you guys.
00:29:34.000 Thank you so much.
00:29:37.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:29:38.000 Everybody, email us as alwaysfreedom at charliekirk.com.
00:29:41.000 Thanks so much for listening and God bless.
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