The Charlie Kirk Show - Stopping a Great American Suicide on Tuesday with Pastor Rob McCoy

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, it's Monday.

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00:00:22.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:23.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.

00:00:26.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

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00:00:32.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:33.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:34.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.

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00:01:29.000 Charlie has been traveling all over the country.

00:01:32.000 I caught up on the Charlie Kirk crazy train in Arizona and it took me to Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, while Charlie went up to Wisconsin, Illinois, came back here.

00:01:42.000 He did three services this morning.

00:01:45.000 Three this morning and here and then tomorrow we're going to Asheville, so pray for us.

00:01:49.000 And then we're going, we're doing a couple hours of radio and then we're going to head up to Grand Rapids for which should be the final rally to moment.

00:01:58.000 So he's 27, as Pastor said, and I'm 56, and it's just not fair, Charlie.

00:01:58.000 Yeah.

00:02:05.000 Well, Rob is also my pastor, and I met Rob a year and a half ago.

00:02:09.000 I'm an evangelical Bible-believing Christian.

00:02:12.000 And my whole life, I was told that the politics that I was doing and that was my career was inconsistent and incongruent with the gospel and Christianity.

00:02:21.000 And then I met Rob, who was serving in office and was outwardly spoken politically.

00:02:27.000 And I learned that there's a huge lie that's being taught in Christianity today that Christians shouldn't contest in the political arena.

00:02:34.000 And that is, I think, anti-biblical and against everything that we're supposed to call to do.

00:02:39.000 In the Old Testament, there's many examples of people that we view as heroes that contested to influence secular government.

00:02:47.000 Daniel, Joseph, Nehemiah, Jeremiah, Esther, Mordecai.

00:02:51.000 There's multiple examples of godly people trying to influence secular government for good.

00:02:57.000 Jesus Christ said at Caesarea Philippi, he said, on this rock build my ecclesia.

00:03:03.000 We say, we use the word church, but when William Tyndale actually translated the original Koigne Greek from Greek into English, English was the peasant's language, he went into this what this word ecclesia actually means.

00:03:16.000 And Rob was the first one to really mention it to me.

00:03:18.000 And ecclesia is exactly what we're doing tonight.

00:03:21.000 It was a political gathering of civic-minded people that wanted the betterment of their own community.

00:03:26.000 Now, Jesus, using that term, he didn't use synagogue or temple.

00:03:31.000 He used ecclesia.

00:03:33.000 So I believe that Jesus wanted comprehensive Christianity, not compartmentalized Christianity, where we just wall ourselves off and not get into the culture and into every arena of our country or our nation.

00:03:47.000 When I had shared with Charlie about this idea that we, you know, when Jesus said to Peter, who do men say that I am?

00:03:53.000 And then he says, you're the Christ and Son of the Living God.

00:03:55.000 He says, bless are you, son of Marjonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed that to you.

00:03:58.000 And then he goes on to say, upon this rock, his testimony, I will build my, and again, as Charlie said, ecclesia.

00:04:04.000 And the reality of it is he co-opted a secular term.

00:04:08.000 He didn't use a religious term like Charlie said.

00:04:10.000 But here's the critical component.

00:04:13.000 I've been in Calvary Chapel, and they're big in California.

00:04:16.000 Charlie says there's more Calvary Chapels in California than Dunkin' Donuts.

00:04:22.000 And we've been there since 1968, but our founder, Chuck Smith, was apolitical.

00:04:28.000 He just wanted to preach the gospel.

00:04:30.000 I've been hearing that for all my ministry life.

00:04:33.000 Oh, I just preach the gospel, brother.

00:04:36.000 Well, so do I.

00:04:37.000 Yeah, but I don't do politics.

00:04:39.000 And I ask pastors, I've spoken to 15,000 of them across the country.

00:04:42.000 Why don't you do politics?

00:04:43.000 Oh, politics is dirty.

00:04:45.000 I go, well, so is the church.

00:04:46.000 What's your point?

00:04:50.000 And then he says, then they'll say to me, well, I'm tired of voting for the lesser two evils.

00:04:54.000 I go, unless Jesus Christ is running for office, you'll always be voting for the lesser two evils.

00:04:58.000 Again, what's your point?

00:05:04.000 And what they don't understand is that this is exactly what we should be doing because Jesus commanded it.

00:05:11.000 Upon this rock, this testimony, I will build the public square.

00:05:15.000 Charlie, those two words, talk about the ecclesia because this is an awakening in America.

00:05:21.000 We have abandoned it in the last 50 years and we're returning to it. 0.64

00:05:24.000 Our founders understood it.

00:05:25.000 Talk about it.

00:05:26.000 Yeah, an ecclesia, as it was used in the New Testament, the New Testament was written in Greek.

00:05:32.000 Jesus spoke Aramaic.

00:05:33.000 And an ecclesia was gathering around two big words, ella eutheria and isonomia.

00:05:39.000 Those are Greek words for freedom and equality.

00:05:42.000 I wonder what country was founded around the ideas of freedom and equality.

00:05:45.000 So you understand that the founding fathers, 51 of 55, of the signers of the Declaration, were Bible-believing, regular church-attending Christians.

00:05:53.000 The First Great Awakening inspired the American Revolution and the formation of our country, 1787 Constitutional Convention, 1791, the ratification of the Bill of Rights, but our birth certificate, 1776, the Declaration of Independence.

00:06:06.000 They knew exactly what Ecclesia meant because that translation was just about 150 years old.

00:06:13.000 When Tyndale said, no, no, no, no, church does not mean the church in Rome.

00:06:18.000 It means the gathering of people that care about their community.

00:06:21.000 A church does not mean the hierarchical church.

00:06:24.000 And I don't mean any slights towards our Catholic friends.

00:06:26.000 My whole family is Catholic.

00:06:27.000 I come from the Midwest, so I don't mean it in any sort of offensive way.

00:06:31.000 But he's Protestant, so don't throw anything at him.

00:06:33.000 But I just don't share that theology.

00:06:36.000 So I don't want to be accused of going outside my lane and seeing anything that is offensive.

00:06:41.000 But I just don't share that theology.

00:06:43.000 And that really changed the way we view civilization and it created Western civilization.

00:06:48.000 So these founders were inspired by what a Greek ecclesia was.

00:06:52.000 The founder said, what two amazing words to try to build a country around?

00:06:56.000 Isonomia and ellautheria.

00:06:59.000 Freedom and equality under the law.

00:07:01.000 And no other country in the history of the planet was ever formed on the ideas of rights coming from God, not from government, on natural rights that had really rules for the road for our government and our leaders.

00:07:16.000 Great example.

00:07:17.000 The Constitution was written for people like your governor.

00:07:20.000 That's why the Constitution was written.

00:07:22.000 Because when his tyrannical orders start coming down that were shutting down gatherings of believers and small businesses, but keeping abortion clinics open and keeping weed dispensaries open or liquor stores open, that kind of checks and balance is exactly why the Constitution was written.

00:07:38.000 Or in California, Rob McCoy, my pastor right here, under three separate hearings in front of a judge for just having the same type of gathering that you're having right now.

00:07:50.000 California Department of Health threatening with arrest.

00:07:54.000 Why is it the founding fathers put in these restrictions against government?

00:07:58.000 Because they knew these times were coming.

00:08:00.000 They knew that tyrannical leaders were eventually going to try to use governments to go after believers, go after Christians, go after people of faith.

00:08:11.000 And we have to understand that the First Amendment, if you ask an average public educated young person in our country, you ask them, where do your rights come from?

00:08:19.000 They're like, well, it comes from D.C., it comes from politicians.

00:08:22.000 It's so wrong and it's so immoral that we have done such a poor job of communicating our values to young people because you're starting to see America change.

00:08:30.000 It's because we have not communicated our values well to young people.

00:08:33.000 That's why.

00:08:34.000 And students then come to me and they say, well, doesn't government give us our rights?

00:08:39.000 No, not at all.

00:08:40.000 Our rights are given to us, granted by God, and government is there first and foremost not to violate it and at best to protect those rights.

00:08:49.000 So, for example, in the midst of a pandemic, the First Amendment doesn't go away.

00:08:54.000 Church all of a sudden doesn't become unessential just in the midst of a pandemic.

00:08:57.000 In fact, church becomes more essential in the midst of crisis.

00:09:08.000 So, Charlie and I, our paths crossed, and it was interesting because it just seems like it's skyrocketed since this whole COVID thing.

00:09:16.000 And just like many of you here in North Carolina and California, early on, we didn't know the severity of the virus.

00:09:22.000 And so we started to willingly yield to the governor's request to social distance and not have gatherings.

00:09:28.000 And we did a couple of live streams.

00:09:30.000 But then on Palm Sunday, April 4th, it's a sacrament to us, and we participate in that sacrament the first Sunday of the month at the beginning of our holy week, which is Palm Sunday.

00:09:43.000 And the governor comes out and says, No, no, church is non-essential.

00:09:47.000 You can't gather.

00:09:48.000 What if we follow CDC standards like all the other essential stores?

00:09:52.000 Abortion clinics and liquor stores and cannabis distributors.

00:09:56.000 No, church is not essential.

00:09:58.000 At the time that he gave that ruling, I was a sitting city councilman.

00:10:03.000 I worked hard and I've been re-elected and I'm up for re-election in November.

00:10:07.000 And I did well in my city.

00:10:09.000 I was the mayor during, well, I was mayor pro tem when 12 of our young people were shot in a dance hall, Country Western Dance Hall, two of my congregants, killed.

00:10:21.000 I buried them.

00:10:23.000 And then I became mayor.

00:10:25.000 We lost an officer, Officer Ron Healis, my friend.

00:10:28.000 He'd been shot.

00:10:29.000 We dedicated a freeway to him and a park to all the victims.

00:10:32.000 And the community that wondered if a pastor should be in politics all of a sudden understood the value of that.

00:10:38.000 And then after the shooting, our entire community was encircled by fire as if the entire city began to burn.

00:10:45.000 May or may not have seen it on the news.

00:10:47.000 I love my city.

00:10:49.000 I don't ever want any danger to come to my city.

00:10:52.000 But when the governor said on his directive that the church is non-essential, April 3rd is Saturday, I realized that word had gotten out because we were going to follow CDC standards.

00:11:02.000 We were going to have communion regardless of what the governor was saying.

00:11:05.000 I'm not going to allow the governor to say the church is not essential.

00:11:07.000 It's not his role.

00:11:08.000 You're not allowed to do that.

00:11:10.000 You know, the church is the bride of Christ.

00:11:14.000 You try to come to me and tell me that my wife of 30 years is non-essential, you'll be picking up your teeth with your broken arm.

00:11:29.000 So April 3rd, news got out.

00:11:32.000 It went all the way over to England.

00:11:33.000 I realized this is going to cause havoc for my colleagues on the council, so I resigned from that seat.

00:11:38.000 I gave up a seat that I'd worked hard to obtain, and I was good at it.

00:11:41.000 I love my community.

00:11:42.000 April 4th, we hosted communion. 1.00

00:11:45.000 And then when the governor embraced all the BLM Inc. Riots in Los Angeles, where 75% of the businesses that were burned and looted in Los Angeles were Jewish-owned. 0.83

00:11:59.000 And he praised them, and they were shoulder to shoulder, no masks. 0.63

00:12:03.000 And at that point, we've been doing nightly one-hour live streams for all our shut-ins, 65 and older folks who had comorbidities and concerns.

00:12:12.000 We had no less than 12 doctors and two psychologists, and every night we go over the data.

00:12:16.000 The death rate in our county of 750,000, 780,000, is 1/100th of 1%.

00:12:25.000 And by the way, that's people who died with COVID, not from.

00:12:29.000 Of the tragically over 100 victims in our county, only two have died from COVID, the rest with.

00:12:35.000 We had a fentanyl overdose young man.

00:12:38.000 And when he died of a fentanyl overdose, he tested positive.

00:12:40.000 That's a COVID death.

00:12:42.000 That is wrong.

00:12:45.000 And we know the data.

00:12:46.000 And so after the riots, I just said, you know what?

00:12:50.000 Put some ionization machines in, some UV lights, open the church.

00:12:54.000 You can't worship with a mask, and you can't have fellowship six feet apart.

00:12:59.000 And so we went wide open on May 31st.

00:13:03.000 We've been wide open ever since.

00:13:04.000 Here we are in November.

00:13:06.000 We haven't had one case of COVID, not one.

00:13:11.000 And we'll stop.

00:13:16.000 In California, they won't tolerate it if you step out of line.

00:13:20.000 They're tyrannical.

00:13:21.000 They understand the church and they don't want the church.

00:13:24.000 And so they got a political and predictable judge to put an emergency restraining order on us.

00:13:30.000 And they tried to force the sheriff to come in and lock us up and arrest in the order me and 1,000 DOEs, either visitors or congregants.

00:13:41.000 And that was in August.

00:13:43.000 And the judge said, on a scale of 1 to 10, as far as danger to the community, you're at 10.

00:13:49.000 And I said, all right, I see how we're going to do this.

00:13:52.000 And we opened the church, violated the restraining order.

00:13:55.000 And the day that I went to the church, when they said that they were going to give citations to 1,000 of our congregants, I walked up to the church, and this will blow your mind.

00:14:04.000 The church was surrounded by congregations that drove three hours north.

00:14:09.000 And they said to me, We came today so that we get the citation so you can worship in peace.

00:14:14.000 That's the body of Christ.

00:14:25.000 Well, I'll just show you this last thing then.

00:14:29.000 At this point, we know how this virus operates.

00:14:34.000 And if you don't, you should do your homework.

00:14:38.000 And if you're allowing them to mitigate the loss of your liberties, and you willingly rolled over, and this is my struggle.

00:14:47.000 The pastors are the defenders of the bride of Christ.

00:14:51.000 It's time to open your churches.

00:14:55.000 Now, you can get upset with me and say, Pastor, you're in violation of Romans 13.

00:15:03.000 I know Romans 13.

00:15:05.000 God appoints all positions of authority.

00:15:06.000 We're to honor those positions of authority, obey those positions of authority.

00:15:09.000 They're there for our good.

00:15:10.000 Amen.

00:15:11.000 I agree.

00:15:13.000 And we both interpret the passage the same way, except the pastors don't know what I know because they haven't held office, and I have.

00:15:22.000 When I was elected to that office, I put my hand and I raised my right hand and I swore to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

00:15:31.000 And in that Constitution, I thought, I better read it if I'm going to defend it.

00:15:36.000 It doesn't give us any rights.

00:15:37.000 As Charlie said, it protects us from the infringement of the government upon our God-given rights.

00:15:44.000 And in the first three words of the preamble of the Constitution, the authority in Romans 13 is listed, and it's real simple: we, the people.

00:15:55.000 And if they violate that Constitution, it says in our Declaration of Independence, it's our right and our duty to push back.

00:16:02.000 The people need the church.

00:16:06.000 And there's many examples throughout the Bible of the correct disobedience when God's will is violated.

00:16:16.000 For example, Daniel.

00:16:17.000 Daniel, when King Darius came forth with a decree saying that anyone who follows the rabbinical laws and prays publicly will be put to death.

00:16:25.000 So, what does Daniel do?

00:16:26.000 Not only does it say very clearly, I think it's Daniel 6:11, that he heard the order, he understood the order, and then he prayed anyway.

00:16:34.000 He went home and opened up the window towards the city so everyone could see.

00:16:38.000 And he's going to say, Hey, world, you're now going to look at me, pray.

00:16:42.000 Not only did he disobey it, he didn't do it privately, he did it publicly and he did it proudly.

00:16:48.000 And so, where's the church right now embracing our inner Daniel?

00:16:51.000 Or how about the story of Moses? 0.99

00:16:55.000 I mean, if you're just supposed to follow every single order, just kill all the babies, right? 0.99

00:17:00.000 The beginning of Exodus.

00:17:02.000 Any sort of disobedience throughout the scriptures, there's plenty of examples that when God's law and God's will is violated, that the people of the church and of the kingdom are supposed to stand up for what is moral and what is right and what is good.

00:17:17.000 We must do so prayerfully and faithfully.

00:17:20.000 But we know exactly what this was all about.

00:17:22.000 This was not a tough Romans 13 call.

00:17:25.000 This wasn't like a close miss.

00:17:27.000 This was, hold on a second.

00:17:28.000 Abortion clinics, weed stores, liquor shops, home improvement stores, BLM ink marches allowed, yet churches closed.

00:17:37.000 Hold on a second. 0.99

00:17:39.000 This seems to be the greatest attack on religious freedom in American history, and Christians should never put up with that.

00:17:56.000 Part of the pushback with the governor and the reason why we did what we did is rights are like muscles.

00:18:03.000 If you don't exercise them, you lose them.

00:18:05.000 Now, look, I know my fellow shepherds, and many of them that I went to Israel with here in North Carolina, and by the way, thank you for your prayers.

00:18:13.000 It's sustained us, and we've been so blessed by all the believers in North Carolina who've been praying for us.

00:18:18.000 Thank you.

00:18:19.000 But I know this.

00:18:20.000 I know shepherds are peacemakers.

00:18:23.000 I know they don't like conflict.

00:18:24.000 I get that.

00:18:26.000 But peace isn't the absence of conflict.

00:18:29.000 Jesus said, I didn't come to bring peace, but a sword.

00:18:32.000 Peace isn't the absence of conflict.

00:18:34.000 Peace is the presence of Christ in the midst of the conflict.

00:18:36.000 He's the prince of peace.

00:18:38.000 And we're to confront bad ideology that enslaves our people.

00:18:44.000 I'll lead into this with Charlie.

00:18:47.000 Three to five million Jews enslaved in Egypt.

00:18:50.000 They cry out to God for a deliverer. 0.98

00:18:51.000 God sends Moses.

00:18:54.000 Moses confronts Pharaoh.

00:18:55.000 Let my people go.

00:18:56.000 Pharaoh says, Who is God that I should obey him?

00:18:58.000 Doubles the brick output and reduces the materials.

00:19:01.000 And the people who were crying for freedom, you know what they did?

00:19:04.000 They began to whine at Moses.

00:19:07.000 Americans don't love liberty and we don't love freedom.

00:19:10.000 We love someone to take care of us.

00:19:13.000 But when it comes to paying a price for liberty, like standing up, where you're going to be targeted, you blame everyone and you just give up.

00:19:24.000 And yeah, see.

00:19:26.000 No, it's been a teaching moment for me.

00:19:29.000 Three years ago, I would have thought something completely the opposite.

00:19:33.000 And it's a fire alarm for our civilization.

00:19:36.000 And it has nothing to do with what's going to happen or not happen this Tuesday.

00:19:39.000 We'll talk about the election.

00:19:40.000 This is a very, this is a red alert for Western society.

00:19:44.000 Human beings, I now believe, do not want to be free.

00:19:48.000 We don't.

00:19:50.000 We want security, significance, and satisfaction.

00:19:53.000 I have been stunned, let down, depressed at times at how we have allowed our freedoms to be run roughshod the last six months.

00:20:00.000 We do not want to be free.

00:20:02.000 We don't.

00:20:03.000 In fact, I think it actually confirms exactly what the Bible tells us: that without a relationship with God through his Son, Jesus Christ, we don't even know what liberty and freedom is.

00:20:11.000 We're just aimlessly going in the woods thinking we know what freedom and liberty is.

00:20:15.000 Liberty is a value you have to teach young people.

00:20:19.000 Freedom is a value.

00:20:20.000 It's not in the bloodstream.

00:20:22.000 It's not natural.

00:20:23.000 We say, oh, yeah, home of the brave and land of the free.

00:20:26.000 And okay.

00:20:28.000 And why all of a sudden are you allowing these governors with no science, no data to shut down our schools?

00:20:34.000 One out of four young people have contemplated suicide in the last 90 days.

00:20:38.000 One out of four.

00:20:40.000 Antidepressant medications up 600%.

00:20:43.000 And two times as many young people have committed suicide, then died of the virus.

00:20:47.000 Yet they have school closures still in the three biggest school systems across the country.

00:20:51.000 Almost all New York City schools are closed.

00:20:53.000 Chicago school is completely closed.

00:20:55.000 And the LA Unified School District almost completely closed.

00:20:58.000 You want to know why we're on pace to have 500,000 less children next year than this year?

00:21:03.000 You want to know why all of a sudden this is the most miserable generation in American history?

00:21:07.000 And we can dive in, we can go into all those sorts of things.

00:21:09.000 Because we did not actually teach what is necessary for freedom to exist.

00:21:14.000 So it's very, it's just something that, man, what a great opportunity for the church to step up.

00:21:19.000 And we have just swung and missed.

00:21:21.000 And we said, we don't want to play.

00:21:23.000 Because as Rob frequently says, in the words of the stairwell at Harvard University in the law school, it says, the law is the wise restraints that keep men free.

00:21:36.000 That doesn't make any sense.

00:21:36.000 What?

00:21:38.000 Law, restraints, free?

00:21:40.000 You're trying to tell me the more I restrain myself, I actually might be more free?

00:21:44.000 How does that one work?

00:21:46.000 It's the opposite of what we teach young people today.

00:21:49.000 What we say is your indulgence will make you free.

00:21:52.000 What we tell young people is we say, just go pursue your dreams and your passions. 0.88

00:21:56.000 What a bunch of nonsense.

00:21:58.000 Your dreams and your passions? 1.00

00:22:01.000 Who came up with this ridiculous idea? 0.88

00:22:03.000 Go follow your heart. 1.00

00:22:05.000 What?

00:22:06.000 What do we do?

00:22:06.000 Follow your heart.

00:22:07.000 Oh, this is why you have young people that spend seven and a half hours on their smartphone every single day.

00:22:12.000 52% of them live at home with their parents.

00:22:14.000 The average is $45,000 in debt.

00:22:17.000 They're borrowing money they don't have to study things that don't matter to find jobs that don't exist.

00:22:21.000 And we're wondering why all of a sudden they're the most miserable generation in American history.

00:22:24.000 It's because they followed their heart.

00:22:27.000 Which is deceitful above all else.

00:22:30.000 It's deceitful at best.

00:22:32.000 How about you act with wisdom?

00:22:34.000 There's a whole book dedicated to that.

00:22:36.000 And we go back to that phrase.

00:22:38.000 The law is the wise restraints that keep men free. 0.51

00:22:40.000 Instead of telling young people, go buy the next thing on Amazon. 0.84

00:22:43.000 The thing will be delivered to you in five seconds or less.

00:22:45.000 You can go to any website at any time.

00:22:47.000 Just go pursue the next dopamine rush.

00:22:49.000 Maybe we should tell young people, stop doing a couple things.

00:22:51.000 You actually might be free.

00:22:53.000 Maybe you should spend less time on that smartphone.

00:22:55.000 Stop visiting that website.

00:22:56.000 Don't do that substance.

00:22:58.000 Maybe stop hanging out with those people.

00:23:00.000 Stop gossiping.

00:23:02.000 We live in a time in American history where young people can have anything they want at any time, yet there has never been a generation that has been so empty.

00:23:09.000 It's because if you do not have the law as basically the framework around all of this, what we call liberty and freedom, which is really nothing more than the capacity to indulge, you'll be a slave to that device instantaneously.

00:23:09.000 Why?

00:23:25.000 So I'll go back to what I said.

00:23:26.000 Do human beings want to be free?

00:23:29.000 Wow, I don't think so.

00:23:31.000 I think we want security, significance, and satisfaction.

00:23:34.000 I think only through a relationship with Jesus Christ and understanding the full story, the full truth of the Bible, then we can actually understand what freedom really is.

00:23:45.000 Not this cheap soundbite freedom that they talk about on television.

00:23:48.000 Like, oh, yeah, freedom is going out to a nightclub at 2 a.m.

00:23:51.000 That's not freedom.

00:23:52.000 Yeah, go do that.

00:23:54.000 Go do that for a month and go tell me how happy you are.

00:23:57.000 You want to go see a miserable place?

00:23:58.000 The most miserable places on the planet are in the research triangle at UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University.

00:24:05.000 You can do whatever you want whenever you want to do it.

00:24:07.000 In fact, they have seminars encouraging young people to be indulgent.

00:24:13.000 They have entire weeks celebrating hedonism.

00:24:18.000 Most miserable places on the planet.

00:24:20.000 Why?

00:24:21.000 Well, it's because all of a sudden, and it's this old, beautiful Hebrew phrase.

00:24:25.000 And I was walking Stanford University, and Dennis Prager had a very similar experience to me.

00:24:29.000 I just saw nothing but rubbish at so many of these colleges. 0.97

00:24:32.000 It was just such nonsense. 0.99

00:24:34.000 I thought, of course, there's no God here, so there's no wisdom.

00:24:38.000 Of course, there's nothing here worthwhile of learning.

00:24:41.000 And that's what it says in the scriptures.

00:24:44.000 Without God, there is no wisdom.

00:24:46.000 And so we've removed God completely from higher education and completely from communicating to young people.

00:24:51.000 We wonder why we're in all these issues and all these troubles.

00:24:54.000 And here's the final thing I'll say: is this.

00:24:56.000 You don't contest for your freedom.

00:24:57.000 It'll be taken away almost instantaneously.

00:25:00.000 And guess what?

00:25:02.000 We've let it happen.

00:25:03.000 I have been stunned at how not just pastors haven't opened, I thought, I said, this lockdown thing won't last 10 days.

00:25:10.000 We knew within mid-March that this thing was very contagious, very much a threat for a certain part of the population, of which is a very small part of the population, predominantly people with pre-existing underlying health conditions in nursing homes.

00:25:25.000 But 95% of the population very much should have been allowed to open up by early April.

00:25:30.000 The businesses, the suicides, all that stuff could have been prevented and avoided.

00:25:33.000 I said, I thought more of the American people.

00:25:36.000 I did.

00:25:37.000 I said, every church will open by Easter.

00:25:39.000 And I was stunned at how powerful fear really is.

00:25:44.000 And it's a teaching moment, everyone, because I'm telling you right now, this is just a dry run for what they want to do next.

00:25:53.000 As I was sharing earlier with the Israelites, Moses confronts Pharaoh.

00:25:58.000 He finally relents after the 10 plagues, lets them go.

00:26:01.000 They go through the Red Sea, and Pharaoh realizes he's losing his slave industry.

00:26:06.000 So he pursues with the army.

00:26:08.000 God drowns them.

00:26:08.000 Miracle after miracle, manna, water, quail, clothes don't wear out.

00:26:13.000 And this is the interesting thing to me.

00:26:15.000 Moses goes up on Mount Sinai.

00:26:17.000 Now, the church has abandoned the law.

00:26:21.000 Saved by grace through faith, it's a gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.

00:26:21.000 We're Ephesians.

00:26:24.000 Amen.

00:26:27.000 Well, Genesis 15, Abraham believed God.

00:26:30.000 It was accredited to him as righteousness.

00:26:31.000 Amen.

00:26:33.000 So why 430 years later to give the law?

00:26:36.000 Moses goes up on Mount Sinai and God gives him a downloaded moral app.

00:26:42.000 First five commandments, our relationship with the Lord.

00:26:44.000 Second five commandments, relationship with each other.

00:26:47.000 Aristotle said the highest form of community is politics because it requires morality and sociability.

00:26:53.000 How do we get along?

00:26:54.000 You say you don't do politics?

00:26:55.000 You do politics every day in your family, in your business, in your church, and you need to do it in your community.

00:27:02.000 You contend for morality.

00:27:04.000 So when Moses comes down with these Ten Commandments, the entire nation of Israel is in debauchery with a golden calf having a rave party. 0.86

00:27:13.000 And the first thing he does is he starts to instruct the young people on the moral law. 0.87

00:27:18.000 And then he places it in the center of the community.

00:27:20.000 And here's the greatest miracle.

00:27:22.000 For 40 years, these people lived together, three to five million people for 40 years without a police force or a standing army.

00:27:28.000 Because they had true freedom.

00:27:30.000 Freedom in their relationship with God and freedom in their relationship with each other.

00:27:33.000 Want the government to do it for you?

00:27:35.000 All you're saying is, will you enslave me?

00:27:40.000 Put some restraints in your own life and serve the Lord.

00:27:43.000 That's what the church calls us to, and that's what we need to revisit.

00:27:46.000 We're the ecclesia.

00:27:48.000 And while we've been doing church, the secular progressive left has been in the ecclesia indoctrinating our children and making our churches irrelevant.

00:27:59.000 And that ends now.

00:28:02.000 And the country will always be in its healthiest or its sickest position based on the church's involvement in politics.

00:28:15.000 It's that simple.

00:28:16.000 When the church is involved in politics, good things happen.

00:28:19.000 Slavery gets abolished.

00:28:20.000 Civil Rights Act gets passed. 0.59

00:28:22.000 Child labor laws.

00:28:23.000 Women's suffrage.

00:28:25.000 When the church gets involved in politics, you get movements like Ronald Reagan that defeat Cold War communism, the greatest economic boom in American history, and a revival of the American dream.

00:28:35.000 When churches disengage from politics, like in California, where they've aborted more children than the entire population of Canada, like in California, where churches have disengaged from politics, where in the midst of a pandemic, they have just passed SB 145 into law.

00:28:49.000 That is law.

00:28:50.000 It's not just an idea.

00:28:52.000 It decriminalizes pedophilia in the state of California.

00:28:55.000 Remember when we went through all these conversations 10 years ago and we said they're going to try to go for pedophilia next, and everyone said, no way, no way, no way?

00:29:02.000 Already happened in California.

00:29:04.000 And most churches were silent.

00:29:06.000 In fact, I think every church, I think maybe five churches spoke out against it.

00:29:09.000 We're now in California, it's state law that a judge can now tell a pedophile you do not have to register in the sex registry database.

00:29:17.000 Gavin Newsom, in the midst of a pandemic, businesses are absolutely going under wildfires like you've never seen before, homeless on everything.

00:29:24.000 What does Governor Gavin Newsom do?

00:29:27.000 What does the pedophile lobby want?

00:29:30.000 And this is going to spread all across the country.

00:29:32.000 And so for the churches that say we don't get involved in politics, I have one very simple question.

00:29:38.000 What's your line then? 0.99

00:29:39.000 If your line is never, then resign as a pastor because you're a coward. 0.99

00:29:43.000 You're like, oh, I'll never get involved in politics. 0.99

00:29:45.000 Really?

00:29:46.000 You would have been.

00:29:48.000 Your line is never.

00:29:50.000 So let me just be clear.

00:29:51.000 Your line is, I'm never going to get involved.

00:29:53.000 So in 1930s, Italy, when Benito Mussolini all of a sudden starts rounding people up to the death camps, your line is nothing.

00:30:00.000 People say that'll never happen here in America.

00:30:02.000 We've aborted 61 million babies since the 1970s.

00:30:02.000 Oh, really?

00:30:06.000 You're trying to tell me it's never happened.

00:30:07.000 It's happened in front of your eyes.

00:30:08.000 The only problem is that it's a little bit, you know, off to the side and you don't have to witness it every single day.

00:30:13.000 What's your line, pastors, that won't get involved?

00:30:15.000 Some of them say, once things get really bad, you wouldn't believe the answers I get.

00:30:21.000 And some of these pastors say, Charlie, you're just getting too involved in this stuff.

00:30:26.000 We as Christians are not supposed to contend with this.

00:30:29.000 I'll tell you what. 1.00

00:30:30.000 Christians don't contend in this civilization. 1.00

00:30:32.000 It'll crumble quicker than you could possibly imagine. 1.00

00:30:34.000 And I really believe this.

00:30:36.000 God will judge us of whether or not we preserve the gifts He's given to us.

00:30:41.000 So the parable of the talents can be interpreted many different ways.

00:30:45.000 The parable of the talents, some people make an economic application to it.

00:30:49.000 I think that's correct.

00:30:49.000 I don't think it's the perfect application.

00:30:51.000 For those of you that don't know the parable of the talents or just a refresher, it's one of Jesus' actually most harsh teachings.

00:30:57.000 At the end of the parable of the talents, he has some of his most direct, most clear condemnation of people that do not follow this teaching.

00:31:07.000 It goes as follows.

00:31:08.000 A master gives one of his workers a certain currency, let's say, you know, $2, just to use equivalent, two talents, two talents, two talents.

00:31:17.000 One person, they're different amounts.

00:31:19.000 I'm sorry, two, three, and four.

00:31:21.000 The person that has two puts it under the rock and does nothing with it.

00:31:25.000 The person that has three multiplies it slightly.

00:31:27.000 The person that has four multiplies it greatly.

00:31:30.000 Master comes back and greatly rewards and appreciates, what's the right word I'm looking for?

00:31:36.000 He applauds the person that multiplies it greatly.

00:31:39.000 Person does a little bit says that.

00:31:40.000 Person that does not multiply what you're given gets absolutely repudiated.

00:31:45.000 We're actually going to be held to a higher standard.

00:31:48.000 Well, we have to face our creator and they say, I gave you guys America.

00:31:54.000 I didn't give you Belgium. 0.98

00:31:56.000 Yeah, we laugh. 1.00

00:31:58.000 I didn't give you Pakistan.

00:32:00.000 God bless those people, by the way.

00:32:01.000 Or Venezuela.

00:32:02.000 Or Venezuela.

00:32:03.000 Like, we're at a higher standard here.

00:32:05.000 What did you do when I gave you a gift of the most generous, benevolent, charitable country ever to exist?

00:32:12.000 What did you do to a country that fought two world wars and ended a Holocaust, liberated people from totalitarian fascism?

00:32:20.000 The parable of the talents is a call to people that have been given a lot.

00:32:23.000 And we've been given a lot as Americans.

00:32:26.000 And so the question is, what are we doing with that?

00:32:28.000 Are we multiplying it?

00:32:29.000 Are we thinking of how do we make the nation stronger, better?

00:32:33.000 As it says in Jeremiah, pray for the welfare of the nation that you're in.

00:32:36.000 Contest for that.

00:32:37.000 1 Timothy, it says, pray for the leaders and authorities that you might live quiet and peaceable lives.

00:32:42.000 Most Christians can't tell you the five school board members that are actually shaping the curriculum, the local kids in public education.

00:32:48.000 They don't know who their state reps are.

00:32:49.000 They might know the governor.

00:32:50.000 And if you're lucky, they'll know their congressman and they might get involved in the presidential race.

00:32:55.000 So yeah, I think that we as Christians and as Americans, we're going to be held to a higher standard.

00:33:03.000 In our fast-paced world, it's time to make reading a priority.

00:33:06.000 At least it used to be.

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00:33:42.000 One of the most critical years in American history, obviously, 1776.

00:33:47.000 And as Washington was holding Dorchester Heights over Boston, the British, when the snows would thaw, they would take over Dorchester Heights and the Continental Army would have to depart.

00:33:59.000 Washington didn't have any artillery to hold the hill.

00:34:04.000 And a young guy by the name of Henry Knox comes to him and says, I know where some artillery is.

00:34:09.000 He says, who are you?

00:34:10.000 And he says, I'm a bookseller in Boston.

00:34:11.000 He's 20s, probably Charlie's age.

00:34:14.000 So he takes the greatest engineering feat ever accomplished, brings it from Fort Ticonderoga, gets up on Dorchester Heights. 0.53

00:34:22.000 They bomb first victory they have over the British. 0.93

00:34:24.000 Everyone's thrilled. 0.97

00:34:25.000 They go into the summer and they sign what is the longest standing birth certificate in the history of the 6,000 years of recorded world history.

00:34:34.000 For 244 years, this is the oldest nation under one birth certificate.

00:34:38.000 And they wrote these words, we hold these truths to be self-evident.

00:34:41.000 Or actually, it says, when in the course of human events becomes necessary, it wasn't for America.

00:34:45.000 It was for all people, for all time.

00:34:48.000 And they go on to talk about God four times in the Declaration of Independence, also pointing out from Isaiah that God is our king, our judge, and our lawgiver, executive, legislative, judicial.

00:34:57.000 They knew all this.

00:34:59.000 And as they laid this out and they signed it, at the end of it, they said, we pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

00:35:06.000 And then after they signed that Declaration of Independence, they lost battle after battle after battle after battle.

00:35:12.000 Only one in nine Americans fought the Revolutionary War.

00:35:14.000 They ended up freezing to death at Valley Forge.

00:35:20.000 Half of Washington's army, and they had a smallpox outbreak, right?

00:35:25.000 Epidemic.

00:35:26.000 An epidemic, and the British were already immune to it.

00:35:29.000 And Washington was told, Washington was told he'd lose 5% of his forces if he tried to inoculate his troops.

00:35:35.000 And they were already decimated.

00:35:36.000 Most of them had dysentery, and their families would be affected.

00:35:40.000 They willingly inoculated themselves, exposed themselves to the virus, not on behalf of liberty, but for the opportunity to simply fight for liberty.

00:35:52.000 Not to protect it, but to fight to obtain it.

00:35:56.000 And at that point, not only was half the army dying of dysentery, a third of them didn't even have boots.

00:36:01.000 They had to wrap their feet in burlap sacks.

00:36:03.000 And in less than nine days, the conscriptions would be up and this entire experiment in liberty would be over.

00:36:08.000 And you wouldn't be here right now.

00:36:10.000 Neither would I.

00:36:11.000 And the ragtag of remaining Continental forces march 11 miles to Trenton, cross the Delaware in freezing temperatures.

00:36:17.000 And the only casualties that Washington had were the two men that froze to death on the route.

00:36:22.000 They surprised the Hessians on Christmas Day when everyone else was having a warm fire and opening presents.

00:36:28.000 And they turned the tide of the war.

00:36:30.000 And what inspired them, interesting guy, Patrick Henry.

00:36:34.000 No, I'm sorry.

00:36:36.000 Thomas Payne.

00:36:37.000 He's the one who said, what's that?

00:36:40.000 Common sense, right?

00:36:41.000 These are the times that tribe men's souls, the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot, will in the season shrink from the duty of their country.

00:36:46.000 But those who defend it now deserve the love and respect of all men and women.

00:36:50.000 Tyranny like hell is not easily conquered.

00:36:53.000 And Washington was so moved by that.

00:36:54.000 He put it out to all the troops.

00:36:56.000 And they secured the freedom you're now enjoying.

00:36:59.000 Oh, and you guys look at me and go, you're such a hero.

00:37:02.000 You've been fined $3,000 and you're standing against Newsome.

00:37:06.000 What?

00:37:08.000 My father had three tours of Vietnam.

00:37:11.000 My godfather was given the Silver Star because he had survived Pearl Harbor.

00:37:17.000 They sunk his ship.

00:37:19.000 USS Cassin.

00:37:20.000 My wife's grandfather sunk the Nogato.

00:37:23.000 He's an ace.

00:37:23.000 He had the Navy Cross.

00:37:26.000 They worked hard.

00:37:28.000 And here we are, we're rolling over and giving away what 244 years of men and women who bled and died to secure these rights.

00:37:37.000 And it's time we awakened to this gift of America because those talents need to be multiplied.

00:37:45.000 So I want to get to a couple questions, but before we do, people are saying, okay, I got it.

00:37:55.000 I'm all in.

00:37:55.000 What do I do?

00:37:56.000 Well, if only there was an election right around the corner.

00:37:58.000 I mean, my goodness.

00:38:00.000 You're in one of the most important.

00:38:02.000 What's up?

00:38:03.000 We can do the phone thing.

00:38:04.000 Yeah.

00:38:05.000 Right now, you're in a state that very well could determine the future of the Republic.

00:38:08.000 All you literally have to do is show up and fill in a couple bubbles.

00:38:11.000 Like, wow, that's tough.

00:38:13.000 Pledging your lives, your fortunes, and you got to show up for less of a line than it takes to get a Starbucks coffee or Dunkin' Donuts, fill in a couple of bubbles and everything that has an R next to it, and then go home.

00:38:23.000 Like, that's the toughest thing ever.

00:38:30.000 And look, we're running ourselves into a hole.

00:38:35.000 I'm going to be honest with you guys.

00:38:36.000 I've done 120 speeches in the last 90 days.

00:38:38.000 I do two podcasts a day.

00:38:39.000 I do two hours of radio day.

00:38:41.000 I've had to raise $6 million to help support the president from the outside.

00:38:44.000 We've got 180 people on staff on our 501c3.

00:38:47.000 We've got 45 on our 501c4.

00:38:49.000 We're going to 50.

00:38:50.000 We've done 50 churches the last six months.

00:38:51.000 We had to fight county, municipal, city ordinances, canceled events, college campus revolts, all of it.

00:38:56.000 And then we have to go to churches sometimes.

00:38:59.000 People say, I don't really like Trump's tone.

00:39:01.000 I'm like, really?

00:39:01.000 This is what I have to deal with now.

00:39:03.000 Like, the country's burning.

00:39:05.000 BLM Inc. is like inches away from the White House.

00:39:07.000 We have Gorsuch Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, 300 circuit court judges.

00:39:11.000 The embassy's in Jerusalem.

00:39:12.000 Golan Heights is recognized.

00:39:13.000 Iran deal is canceled.

00:39:14.000 We're building the southern border while we're finally taking child sex trafficking seriously.

00:39:18.000 And I got to worry about this guy's tone.

00:39:20.000 Like, this is what I have to hear at this point.

00:39:24.000 And look, I'm the first one to admit, being a Bible-believing evangelical Christian, I think it can be puzzling at times for certain Christians when they say, how good, a three-times married, twice-divorced man, how could he be worthy of my vote?

00:39:36.000 Look, before we get out the moral measuring stick, okay, all of us fall short of the glory of Jesus Christ.

00:39:43.000 That's number one.

00:39:44.000 Number two, God's working in Donald Trump's life in ways that it's hard to even describe.

00:39:48.000 He's prayed over every morning.

00:39:49.000 He has Michael Pence, who has been loyally married, a faithful Christian.

00:39:52.000 Many just is an awesome believer.

00:39:55.000 More ministers, more pastors, more Christians have been invited to the Oval Office in this administration than any administration in recent history.

00:40:02.000 And why did President Donald Trump speak, why was it him that was the first president ever to speak at the March for Life? 0.61

00:40:07.000 George W. Bush, Christian, never spoke at the March for Life.

00:40:10.000 George H.W. Bush, Christian, never spoke in the March for Life.

00:40:14.000 Ronald Reagan never spoke at the March for Life.

00:40:17.000 Why is it that the Playboy from New York, all of a sudden, the guy that talks in a unique way and has his own style?

00:40:22.000 Why him?

00:40:23.000 Maybe it's because God whispered in the ear of a man for a time that, quite honestly, we're in battle times right now.

00:40:33.000 We're in times where all of a sudden, you know, the nice Christian Texan from Texas, George W. Bush, God bless him.

00:40:41.000 He didn't move the embassy to Jerusalem.

00:40:42.000 He told us he would.

00:40:43.000 He didn't do it.

00:40:44.000 He didn't want to offend people.

00:40:46.000 He didn't give the goal line heights back to Israel.

00:40:48.000 He didn't want to offend people.

00:40:49.000 President Donald Trump, blessed are the peacemakers, right?

00:40:53.000 He's bringing Israel, Sudan, Bahrain, and UAE to the table.

00:40:56.000 Historic peace deal things that people couldn't even imagine four years ago.

00:41:01.000 Blessed are the peacemakers.

00:41:02.000 First president of American history in my life, not American history in my lifetime, not to start a new war instead of bringing our troops home from these endless misadventures overseas.

00:41:10.000 Blessed are the peacemakers.

00:41:13.000 And then I'll do this and we'll do some questions.

00:41:17.000 Yeah, we'll do the questions.

00:41:18.000 I'd add this part because Charlie gets his question.

00:41:20.000 Honestly, I get frustrated with it too.

00:41:22.000 I haven't heard as much as he has.

00:41:23.000 But this idea, look, I get it.

00:41:26.000 You don't like Trump.

00:41:28.000 Okay, so what?

00:41:30.000 He's not running for pastor in chief.

00:41:36.000 Now, I'll say this.

00:41:37.000 I'll say this.

00:41:39.000 There's seven areas in sociology that move culture: arts, entertainment, business, politics, religion, education, and family.

00:41:48.000 And if you don't like Trump and you say that, why would you vote for him?

00:41:51.000 He's immoral.

00:41:54.000 I would say to you, okay, we cannot vote for him, but make sure that you take Judges 14 out of the Bible, just cut that out with some scissors.

00:42:03.000 And then also take Hebrews 11 and cut that out because we can't put Samson in.

00:42:08.000 Name one moral thing about Samson's life.

00:42:13.000 He was prophesied from the womb to deliver God's people.

00:42:16.000 Only Jesus was the other one to do that. 0.95

00:42:18.000 He was raised with a Nazarite vow. 0.99

00:42:20.000 That's homeschooling.

00:42:22.000 Wasn't allowed to touch alcohol. 1.00

00:42:24.000 And the very first words recorded out of the mouth of this anointed one was: go get that Philistine woman, I want her. 1.00

00:42:32.000 He went off the reservation. 0.95

00:42:35.000 And he goes off to pay a gambling debt, and the Spirit of the Lord comes upon him. 0.99

00:42:38.000 He's in a prostitute's bed all night, and the Spirit of the Lord comes upon him. 0.96

00:42:41.000 Not once, but twice. 1.00

00:42:43.000 Try teaching that in Sunday school.

00:42:47.000 But why would God put him in the hall of faith?

00:42:51.000 Judges 14:4.

00:42:54.000 What Samson's parents, Manoah and his wife, what Samson's parents didn't realize is God was seeking an occasion to move against the Philistines.

00:43:00.000 He was willing to do what God's people weren't.

00:43:03.000 He wasn't going to tolerate Satan occupying territory that belongs to God.

00:43:08.000 And this is the last part. 0.99

00:43:11.000 The things about Samson, he's got iconic hair and his downfall is women. 0.95

00:43:15.000 Well, it sounds like the president. 0.98

00:43:19.000 Wait.

00:43:22.000 But Samson was uniquely equipped, uniquely equipped.

00:43:26.000 And so is Trump.

00:43:27.000 Artists Entertainment, number one television show in America.

00:43:33.000 In the sociological realm to move culture, let's look at media.

00:43:36.000 His Twitter account, over 80 million followers.

00:43:39.000 He's a master at it, trolling too.

00:43:41.000 Politics took out 16 Republican candidates, the most heavily funded Democratic candidate in the history of the nation.

00:43:48.000 Business.

00:43:50.000 Trump brand is world-renowned.

00:43:52.000 Family, three times married, twice divorced.

00:43:54.000 All of his kids love him and are successful in their own right.

00:43:56.000 We can go down the list.

00:43:58.000 Look, last thing, 1865, Abraham Lincoln Ford's Theater with his wife, April 14th, they're next to each other.

00:44:08.000 The war's coming to a close.

00:44:10.000 He leans into his wife and he says, when this is all over, I want to walk with you in the streets of Jerusalem, footsteps of Jesus.

00:44:16.000 Because he wanted to go to Jerusalem.

00:44:18.000 John Wooksbu shoots him.

00:44:20.000 My last words.

00:44:22.000 He lived until April 15th and he died.

00:44:27.000 And the great emancipator, 2% of the nation's population, died in this war.

00:44:32.000 7,000 men died in 20 minutes in the second battle of the Civil War.

00:44:39.000 And he's a great emancipator.

00:44:42.000 And the pulpits in America, he happened to die on April 15th, which is Good Friday.

00:44:48.000 And the titles of the majority of the sermons in America was decrying the fact that Lincoln died in a theater on Good Friday.

00:44:58.000 That's called virtue signaling.

00:45:00.000 Stop it.

00:45:02.000 It's about time you roll up your sleeves and participate.

00:45:04.000 The guy's been facing 95% negative media.

00:45:07.000 Every day he wakes up.

00:45:09.000 He is a bodyguard for Western civilization.

00:45:12.000 And oh, you don't like it.

00:45:14.000 Okay, well, are you in favor of abortion?

00:45:19.000 Has anyone done more for the black community?

00:45:21.000 Hispanic community?

00:45:23.000 Women? 1.00

00:45:25.000 And you just have to be prepared for that. 1.00

00:45:28.000 You got to look at those things.

00:45:30.000 And so this state matters a lot.

00:45:32.000 And you guys know that.

00:45:34.000 You have an important Senate race, which is critical.

00:45:36.000 When you need a new governor, run for us.

00:45:38.000 Seriously.

00:45:43.000 And so we're getting down to the wire, and people say, well, what can I do?

00:45:49.000 What can I do?

00:45:50.000 How many of you have gotten those obnoxious texts where it's like, please, Joe and Camel, I need your help, or these surveys, all that stuff.

00:45:57.000 What?

00:45:57.000 And I do this at every speech, and we do it on all of our radio programs and all this.

00:46:01.000 What if every single person who says, I need to do more, I need to do more.

00:46:04.000 There's something you can do.

00:46:06.000 And it's one of the greatest untapped assets in the political atmosphere right now that no one's talking about.

00:46:11.000 You take out your smartphone and you text every single person in your contact book, a copy-paste, a message of why you're voting for Trump.

00:46:18.000 Imagine an average American has 2,000 contacts in their phone.

00:46:22.000 If you text every single one of them, it'd be the same as if Trump got $100 million of advertising on television.

00:46:28.000 Now, some of you guys are like, oh, I don't want to offend my friends.

00:46:30.000 Then you're not willing to actually get him across the finish line.

00:46:33.000 Because the people that you might not offend you, you'd be surprised at how many people might just need that text from you right now in North Carolina.

00:46:41.000 Do you know how lucky you guys are to live in North Carolina?

00:46:44.000 I have people in California when I go to speak at Jack Kidd's church, God bless that guy.

00:46:48.000 We have 15,000 people that show up and they say, you know what I would give to live in a state where I can make a difference?

00:46:54.000 And yeah, we're working for California.

00:46:56.000 Rob might disagree.

00:46:57.000 Trump's not going to win California this year, okay?

00:47:00.000 Love, hope, salt.

00:47:01.000 Not going to happen this year.

00:47:01.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:47:03.000 You guys are right here in the trenches where people are praying for you.

00:47:07.000 You know that people are praying for you right now?

00:47:11.000 You know that there's probably 50,000 people right now concurrently praying for you in California?

00:47:16.000 The Republic depends on it.

00:47:18.000 I pray that people in North Carolina's eyes will be opened.

00:47:21.000 You know there are people in New York right now praying for you in Illinois in states where their vote because the electoral college doesn't matter more.

00:47:27.000 So guess what?

00:47:29.000 Parable of talents.

00:47:30.000 You guys now have a higher expectation because you're in a state that's going to determine this whole thing.

00:47:36.000 So I don't want to empty my phone because I'm going to offend some people.

00:47:39.000 Okay.

00:47:40.000 I've flown out from California the last three weeks in a row.

00:47:43.000 It's a long flight from California to Carolina.

00:47:46.000 I mean, to North Carolina.

00:47:47.000 I've done that last three weeks.

00:47:49.000 Eight-hour round trip.

00:47:50.000 I got a family, five kids.

00:47:52.000 I got three grandkids.

00:47:52.000 I got a church to run.

00:47:53.000 I'm tired.

00:47:55.000 But this state's important.

00:47:57.000 And I live in California and I can see how important it is.

00:48:01.000 In California, we have 15,280,000 evangelical Christians in the state of 30 million.

00:48:07.000 Of those 15 million, half of them aren't even registered to vote.

00:48:10.000 And of the half that are registered to vote, only half of those vote in a presidential election, 12% in the non-presidential election. 0.96

00:48:15.000 That's pathetic.

00:48:18.000 We need to step into the ecclesia with this understanding that the nation needs good government, and good government only happens with good people and good ideas. 0.94

00:48:29.000 So do it.

00:48:30.000 Amen.

00:48:31.000 Let's do some questions.

00:48:32.000 What's the best way to do that? 1.00

00:48:33.000 Just a couple hands up and scream them out.

00:48:36.000 Yeah, someone wants to scream out a couple of questions. 0.99

00:48:37.000 Let's put some qualifiers on it. 0.89

00:48:39.000 No speeches.

00:48:40.000 Yeah, we're not here to hear you talk and bloggate about your manifesto.

00:48:44.000 Just ask a question.

00:48:45.000 Question ends on an upnote with a question mark.

00:48:49.000 It's a question.

00:48:50.000 If you don't know what a question is, it's not a statement.

00:48:53.000 Yeah, it's a question.

00:48:54.000 It's not a monologue.

00:48:55.000 Do we have a question?

00:48:58.000 Yes.

00:49:11.000 I'm going to kind of reinforce what we talked about at dinner, so you're going to have to hear it twice.

00:49:15.000 So, no, there's a crisis happening with young people in this country, and almost every political leader on both sides don't quite recognize it.

00:49:25.000 We're playing with a potential revolution that could happen in the next 18 to 24 months in our country.

00:49:30.000 And conservatives usually view it purely ideological.

00:49:34.000 Liberals view it purely material.

00:49:36.000 I think it's a mixture of both.

00:49:37.000 Let me explain it very quickly.

00:49:39.000 Conservatives will say, young people are about to revolt because we filled them with bad ideas since they were young, and they have no appreciation for our country.

00:49:47.000 That's absolutely right.

00:49:49.000 Our college system is an absolute scam.

00:49:51.000 There is no other way to put it.

00:49:52.000 We need to start calling it that.

00:49:55.000 When you go $65,000 into debt to go study North African lesbian poetry, you got a problem.

00:50:02.000 And all of a sudden, you go to the best places of learning, and I say, we interview over 3,000 young people a year.

00:50:09.000 And by the way, I'm way too tired to care about if I'm offending you right now.

00:50:12.000 So I deeply apologize for that.

00:50:14.000 So I mean that sincerely.

00:50:16.000 It's been a long month this week.

00:50:21.000 So I don't mean to offend you.

00:50:22.000 And if it's coming across, apology in advance.

00:50:25.000 So we interview 3,000 young people a year at Turning Point USA.

00:50:29.000 My favorite question to ask a young person is, what's your skill?

00:50:32.000 And they say, well, I went to Wake Forest.

00:50:34.000 I said, no, no, no, no, what's your skill?

00:50:37.000 And they said, I have a political science degree from Wake Forest.

00:50:39.000 I said, I got that part.

00:50:41.000 What can you do that a high school kid can't do?

00:50:43.000 And they said, well, I took all these classes.

00:50:45.000 I said, I got that.

00:50:46.000 But what's your skill?

00:50:48.000 And they're like, I've never been asked that question.

00:50:50.000 If you can't answer that question, if all of a sudden you, after four years, do not have a skill that a high schooler doesn't have, why are you borrowing all this money to go study all these classes to learn America is awful and learn that God doesn't exist?

00:51:02.000 Why are you doing that?

00:51:03.000 Well, because my parents are making me.

00:51:04.000 They're misleading.

00:51:06.000 And they're misleading you, is what I should say.

00:51:06.000 They're misled.

00:51:08.000 It's that simple.

00:51:09.000 And it's more about parents' egos than actually the future of their kids.

00:51:13.000 And this is, again, I don't mean any offense by this, but it's absolutely true.

00:51:16.000 Most parents want their kids to go to college because they believe a lie that it's going to improve their economic well-being.

00:51:21.000 It's not true.

00:51:22.000 41% of kids that go to college will not graduate.

00:51:25.000 41%.

00:51:26.000 Everyone in this room knows a kid that didn't graduate from college that went and dropped out.

00:51:30.000 Their confidence is shattered.

00:51:30.000 What happens?

00:51:32.000 Their direction is lost.

00:51:33.000 And they're endlessly in debt.

00:51:36.000 They never should have gone to college in the first place.

00:51:38.000 Maybe community college, maybe go get a skill, go become a computer engineer, a plumber, a carpenter, HVAC, work with your hands, police officer, firefighter, entrepreneur, or join the military.

00:51:47.000 But maybe the four-year university path wasn't for you.

00:51:49.000 Out of those that graduate, 44% of those that make it out of the university system, 44% 10 years after, 10 years after, are employed in jobs that don't require college degrees.

00:52:01.000 So they have a bunch of debt, no skills, filled with bad ideas, and all of a sudden they're working in jobs that don't actually require a college degree.

00:52:09.000 So why did they go in the first place?

00:52:11.000 And it's because we have been fed this continuous narrative that you must go to college to succeed in this country.

00:52:17.000 Okay, that's the ideological.

00:52:18.000 I can build out the college piece a lot more.

00:52:21.000 And I want to be very clear.

00:52:22.000 I'm not anti-college.

00:52:23.000 If you want to be a doctor, if you want to go study engineering, or if you want to get a skill in that job interview, if you can say, oh, no, no, no, I'm going to become a lawyer.

00:52:31.000 That's my skill.

00:52:32.000 Awesome answer, by the way.

00:52:34.000 Or I went to college because I'm studying biochemistry and I can do things you can't do.

00:52:40.000 The problem is 50 plus percent of all degrees are in the soft social sciences.

00:52:44.000 Those are not skill-based degrees. 0.99

00:52:47.000 It's meandering ideological exploration in like Eastern meditative feminist studies. 1.00

00:52:47.000 Okay? 1.00

00:52:53.000 Okay, I can keep going with all these, by the way.

00:52:55.000 North American migratory bird studies or Central American underwater basket weed, whatever it is, right?

00:53:01.000 Whatever is nonsense they're giving out at these universities.

00:53:03.000 Okay.

00:53:04.000 So then that's the ideological.

00:53:06.000 But here's the part that we conservatives get wrong.

00:53:09.000 Here's the part that we have to get more serious about: the material.

00:53:13.000 This is where the left gets it right.

00:53:16.000 And they get the ideological wrong.

00:53:18.000 I want anyone who's over the age of 40 to think back to your life when you were in your 20s.

00:53:23.000 When you worked hard and you applied yourself, you probably saw your life get a little bit materially better each year.

00:53:30.000 You maybe started to take out a mortgage, maybe a car loan.

00:53:33.000 What was happening either consciously or subconsciously is you were building faith in the American way of life.

00:53:42.000 And all of a sudden, the harder you worked, the more you wanted the country to succeed, because with it, you were succeeding.

00:53:49.000 We have now sent young people with all that ideological, philosophical nonsense, college, and then we send them to all the urban centers across the country.

00:53:57.000 That's why you see these rural areas decaying slowly.

00:54:00.000 What happens when you go live in Raleigh?

00:54:02.000 You go live in Charlotte.

00:54:03.000 You're renting, not owning.

00:54:05.000 Your entire paycheck goes to overly inflated groceries, tax bills, nightlife, whatever, and you're not saving any money, not building equity, and you're probably working a minimum wage job or a job that doesn't require a college degree, which you're underpaid.

00:54:19.000 What does that mean after five years, 10 years?

00:54:22.000 Eventually, you're going to say, is this system working for me?

00:54:26.000 They're crippled with $75,000 in student loan debt.

00:54:29.000 They're not seeing their life get materially any better.

00:54:31.000 They're not building any equity or ownership.

00:54:33.000 Don't be surprised when all of a sudden they want to burn down the world around them.

00:54:37.000 So what's happening is a confluence of two things.

00:54:39.000 Really bad ideas, and we didn't do our job on the ideological, and they're not seeing their life get materially better.

00:54:45.000 And then, what do conservatives say to young people all the time? 1.00

00:54:48.000 Generally, this is true. 1.00

00:54:50.000 Go get a job.

00:54:51.000 Go work harder.

00:54:52.000 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:54:53.000 We shut down our country for the last nine months. 1.00

00:54:54.000 What jobs are young people supposed to get right now? 0.97

00:54:57.000 What internships are they supposed to pursue?

00:55:00.000 And now the conservative response is: go apply yourself.

00:55:03.000 Where?

00:55:05.000 And so what we've done is such a disservice to students.

00:55:08.000 And I'm telling you right now, we're playing with a 75 million person revolution that will stun all of you in a way.

00:55:14.000 And we are so lucky running up against Joe Biden.

00:55:16.000 I'm telling you right now, if they ran like a more articulate, wiser, higher IQ version of Alexandria Casio-Cortez, we would get blown out of the water.

00:55:27.000 Because this transcends party lines, this transcends this. 0.60

00:55:30.000 You go to a younger audience.

00:55:32.000 This is something that conservatives get wrong.

00:55:34.000 People say, oh, young people like Bernie Sanders because they want free stuff.

00:55:37.000 No, they don't.

00:55:39.000 It's wrong.

00:55:40.000 They like Bernie Sanders because he represents freedom to them.

00:55:43.000 Why?

00:55:44.000 He's going to free me from my student loan debt.

00:55:47.000 He's going to give me freedom from my debt.

00:55:50.000 He's going to give me freedom from all these decisions I was told to make by my parents.

00:55:55.000 That's who he represents.

00:55:57.000 And conservatives are like, oh, go work harder.

00:55:59.000 I'm sorry.

00:56:00.000 They were felt a narrative to go borrow $80,000 and they have no skills.

00:56:04.000 Don't all of a sudden act as if they're in the same set of circumstances.

00:56:07.000 I worked hard when I was in college.

00:56:09.000 Okay, what was the price to go to UNC Chapel Hill in state back 30 years ago?

00:56:14.000 Inflation adjusted versus today.

00:56:17.000 It's not even close.

00:56:18.000 So what do we do?

00:56:20.000 Well, we first have to recognize it's a confluence of the ideological and the material.

00:56:24.000 And also, my goodness, I'm telling you right now, if we lose this election, you're going to have a Castro-style revolution on your hands.

00:56:30.000 And Biden will be a sideshow.

00:56:32.000 They'll go after everyone.

00:56:33.000 And it'll work.

00:56:34.000 It'll work with conservative kids.

00:56:36.000 It'll work with Republican kids.

00:56:37.000 It'll work with Christian kids.

00:56:39.000 Because as soon as you start to see hyperinflation, which is imminent, you see growth go down, you see the wealthiest people continue to get their earnings higher. 1.00

00:56:48.000 You're playing with something that is really going to be a tinderbox.

00:56:51.000 So how do we fix it?

00:56:53.000 You have to rebuild the American way of life in America.

00:56:56.000 We're on pace to have 500,000 less children next year than this year. 0.54

00:56:59.000 500,000.

00:57:01.000 We're on the verge of a population collapse.

00:57:03.000 We have more single 30-year-olds than married 30-year-olds.

00:57:07.000 There are more young people that are 18 that are not dating than dating.

00:57:12.000 The hyper-feminization of America that has contributed to this significantly, all these sorts of factors.

00:57:18.000 There are 54% of college graduates ages 24 to 30 are living at home with their parents.

00:57:23.000 And if you're out there in the audience, that's one of you.

00:57:25.000 I don't blame you.

00:57:26.000 I don't.

00:57:27.000 I blame the shutdown.

00:57:28.000 I blame the economic conditions.

00:57:29.000 What we do wrong is we make fun of those young people.

00:57:31.000 Every time I say that, people are like, oh, you want to get out of your parents' basement?

00:57:34.000 They got nothing else they can do because you told them to go to college and get a meaningless piece of paper.

00:57:39.000 Stop attacking them.

00:57:40.000 Start working inwardly about this whole system that we designed for them that's screwed up.

00:57:44.000 So what do we do about it? 0.93

00:57:46.000 We have to completely change the way that we pour into young people in this country. 0.86

00:57:50.000 It's very simple. 1.00

00:57:51.000 We have to tell young people, go get married.

00:57:53.000 We're going to make it easier to have lots of kids.

00:57:55.000 We're going to give you opportunities.

00:57:57.000 We're going to open up our economy fully.

00:57:58.000 We're never going to shut down our country again based on half-truths and nonsensical science.

00:58:04.000 And we have to de-urbanize our country very quickly.

00:58:07.000 We've got to get people to leave the urban areas, reclaim towns like Asheboro, like Boone, like these forgotten cities, and have young people take ownership of the once great cities in America.

00:58:16.000 We don't do that. 0.75

00:58:17.000 You're not going to like what's going to happen next.

00:58:24.000 Question, go ahead.

00:58:27.000 What about the most good people?

00:58:34.000 I mean, look, I think every parent that can should homeschool their kids.

00:58:38.000 I'm a big believer in homeschooling.

00:58:40.000 I love homeschooling.

00:58:42.000 Yeah, look, can anyone tell me every school board member in this local area?

00:58:47.000 Can one person tell me every single one?

00:58:49.000 One person.

00:58:51.000 Wow.

00:58:54.000 Can you list the things that your school board deals with that would allow your community to live quiet and peaceable lives in all godliness and reverence?

00:59:01.000 So I don't want to hear anyone complain about education in Asheboro ever again.

00:59:06.000 We're supposed to participate.

00:59:08.000 We pray for kings and those in authority.

00:59:10.000 Then we would live quiet and peaceable lives in all godliness and reverence.

00:59:13.000 Say, oh, I don't like what's happening and all this.

00:59:14.000 Not one person.

00:59:15.000 I'm not trying to make you guys that, but stop complaining about it if you're not, if you don't even know the names, you're not contesting those races.

00:59:20.000 You know that they're putting 1619 stuff into all your curriculum in the state, right?

00:59:24.000 They're putting critical race theory, white fragility, white privilege.

00:59:27.000 They're stuffing it in all the curriculum.

00:59:29.000 And I get this question all the time: what do we do with education?

00:59:31.000 I say, name one school board member, name two, name three.

00:59:35.000 They have full jurisdiction over the curriculum, over teacher.

00:59:35.000 I don't know.

00:59:39.000 You'd be amazed at how much power these school board members have.

00:59:42.000 So that's the answer to that.

00:59:44.000 And I'm going to be honest, I'm going to give you guys some tough love.

00:59:46.000 We just talk a good game.

00:59:47.000 We do not act a good game as conservatives.

00:59:49.000 I'm telling you.

00:59:50.000 The teacher unions, the left-wing forces, they're outspending us.

00:59:53.000 They're doing this.

00:59:54.000 And then we have to, I get questions.

00:59:55.000 Does my vote even matter?

00:59:57.000 I'm like, this is where we're at now.

00:59:58.000 I have to convince people to go fill in bubbles.

01:00:01.000 Like, that's the level of engagement that we have to bring people to.

01:00:05.000 In California, in the last 10 years in political and politics, $300 million has been spent in political campaigns, $200 million by two entities: the CTA, California Teachers Association, the SEIU, Service Employee International Union.

01:00:18.000 It's gone to one party, and thus they dominate the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of our government in California.

01:00:24.000 And it's basically a nation-state and run by one party.

01:00:28.000 And we lead the nation in abortion.

01:00:30.000 We lead the nation in poverty.

01:00:31.000 We lead the nation in homelessness.

01:00:32.000 We lead, it's just all the things you shouldn't lead in, we do.

01:00:37.000 And 15 million evangelical Christians.

01:00:41.000 And the only entity left to turn the tide is the church.

01:00:47.000 If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and heal their land.

01:01:01.000 But I don't do politics.

01:01:05.000 Chuck Smith started Calvary Chapels in 1968.

01:01:08.000 He didn't do politics either.

01:01:09.000 We had 10,000% growth.

01:01:10.000 Churches all over the place.

01:01:11.000 Now know this.

01:01:14.000 With all those churches and everything we got, we now have the worst state.

01:01:19.000 That's where focus on the family came from.

01:01:22.000 That's where Bill Bright.

01:01:25.000 You talk about every major Christian organization came out of California.

01:01:31.000 And the state is decimated.

01:01:36.000 We have the worst politicians on the face of the earth.

01:01:43.000 Next question.

01:01:46.000 Any others?

01:01:46.000 No?

01:01:47.000 No questions?

01:01:48.000 Everybody's tired.

01:01:49.000 Mueller?

01:01:49.000 Okay.

01:01:50.000 Mueller?

01:01:51.000 No.

01:01:53.000 Give us the one thing that we can do, one thing to turn the tide outside of voting.

01:01:59.000 What's the one thing we could do?

01:02:02.000 Yeah, look, a couple things.

01:02:08.000 Yeah, I'll give one or two.

01:02:10.000 Can I give one too?

01:02:11.000 Yeah, go ahead.

01:02:12.000 No, no, you do it.

01:02:13.000 I'll wait for you.

01:02:14.000 Look, you have to take the education of your children more seriously.

01:02:18.000 I've been amazed at how many, I mean, we kind of have an instant poll result, I guess you could say.

01:02:24.000 We get tens of thousands of emails through our podcast every single month.

01:02:29.000 We've had over 100 million downloads.

01:02:31.000 Praise God.

01:02:32.000 We're the most downloaded Christian conservative podcast out there.

01:02:35.000 And I encourage all of you guys to check it out.

01:02:37.000 We talk about the gospel at least once a week.

01:02:39.000 And we also talk about politics every single day.

01:02:42.000 It saddens me how many parents reach out to me and they say, Charlie, I raised my kid in the church.

01:02:48.000 I taught them conservative values.

01:02:51.000 And now they won't even talk to me because they're left-wing, liberal, all this.

01:02:57.000 It is so widespread.

01:03:00.000 And the best answer is: yeah, look, you didn't take it as seriously as you probably should have when they were growing up.

01:03:06.000 And that's number one.

01:03:07.000 And number two is act like what you do matters.

01:03:11.000 And that's that's a biblical principle.

01:03:13.000 Act like what you do civically is actually going to be a reflection of the country you want to live in.

01:03:17.000 I don't know if all the speeches and all the podcasts and all the radio shows and three hours a night and crisscrossing the country, never being in one place for more than five hours.

01:03:26.000 I don't know what I have done and what Rob has done and what we have done.

01:03:30.000 I don't know if it'll make any difference.

01:03:32.000 We could get blown out on Tuesday.

01:03:33.000 We could win by a huge margin.

01:03:35.000 We could win by 300 votes.

01:03:36.000 But the reason I'm doing it, and I'll never forget when Jordan Peterson, who's not a Christian, but he knows the Bible better than most Christians, looked at me in the eyes and he says, act like what you do really matters.

01:03:48.000 I'll never forget that.

01:03:50.000 And so then in June, Trump was down 19 points in the polls and things were awful.

01:03:56.000 You remember that.

01:03:56.000 It was just not a chance.

01:03:58.000 And I thought to myself, am I going to be a spectator like I'm watching the Carolina Panthers on TV?

01:04:04.000 Or am I going to be a participant?

01:04:06.000 And we met with our team and I said, we've got to go raise $6 million.

01:04:10.000 I'm going to speak everywhere anytime.

01:04:12.000 The reason we're here tonight is literally we had a 12-hour window and I couldn't sit still.

01:04:17.000 I couldn't.

01:04:18.000 Because I see this country crumbling in real time.

01:04:21.000 And I said, maybe if I go speak at a couple churches in North Carolina, that might help make a ripple effect and might make a difference.

01:04:27.000 A couple hundred votes.

01:04:28.000 Who knows?

01:04:29.000 Maybe someone needs to hear it.

01:04:30.000 They'll tell a friend.

01:04:31.000 They'll post it on social media because I actually believe what I do matters.

01:04:34.000 And so that's, I want to give you the confidence that what you do will eventually project out into the world and will come back to you.

01:04:43.000 It really does matter.

01:04:44.000 And if you don't believe in it, that if you say, what I does, it doesn't matter if I vote.

01:04:48.000 I'm just one person of all this.

01:04:49.000 That is the beginning of societal nihilism and the country will not survive a generation.

01:04:54.000 Do you think the people that stormed Normandy Beach, they're like, I don't know if this actually is going to mean anything, me going this way.

01:05:01.000 Of course not.

01:05:02.000 Do you think that the people that were making the bullets and the munitions and the supply lines, they're like, I don't know if my one extra shift to make this aircraft carrier is going to make a difference?

01:05:12.000 That's why they were the greatest generation.

01:05:15.000 Every single person believed that their individual contribution will be a reflection of a moral good. 0.93

01:05:21.000 And I'm just raising the fire alarm here, and I don't mean to be overly alarmist, but the number one question I get from Christians is: does my vote actually matter? 0.96

01:05:30.000 And what do I, does it actually move the dial? 0.99

01:05:33.000 Man, that is widespread nihilism.

01:05:37.000 And then the other thing you guys got to do is learn.

01:05:40.000 I think, and this is the one thing of hope I have to say, I think we're on the verge of a great awakening, but it's different than people might think.

01:05:45.000 It's because I see people getting deeper and more serious about the issues that are coming to our time.

01:05:51.000 Our podcasts that are most listened to are the ones that are two hours plus.

01:05:55.000 I see Christians and pastors waking up and diving deeper into what is supply and demand?

01:06:00.000 What are the laws of nature?

01:06:02.000 Who is John Locke?

01:06:03.000 What did Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Augustine, Bentham, Hume, Mill?

01:06:07.000 What did they all think?

01:06:07.000 And why did they think that?

01:06:09.000 Who are the influences on Western society? 0.72

01:06:11.000 Is it biblical to support BLM Inc.? 0.92

01:06:13.000 I'm getting more questions than ever from curious Christians. 0.88

01:06:16.000 And here's why. 0.98

01:06:17.000 When the crisis happens, the best thing you can do is pause and learn exactly what is happening around you.

01:06:23.000 That's a good sign.

01:06:24.000 I encourage everyone out here to become a subject matter expert in all of these things.

01:06:29.000 It takes time.

01:06:30.000 We do two hours of research minimum a day.

01:06:32.000 You've got to read books.

01:06:33.000 You've got to go deep.

01:06:34.000 You've got to watch lectures.

01:06:35.000 You've got to listen to that stuff.

01:06:36.000 And the more you learn, that is a sign of a revival and an awakening.

01:06:41.000 Amen.

01:06:44.000 In 2013, I took a trip with Governor Rick Perry to Israel.

01:06:49.000 I was a teaching pastor, and he was thinking of running for president.

01:06:53.000 And he brought some Texas big boys, and we went, and there was a state senator from California named Shannon Grove.

01:06:59.000 And I had been in politics walking precincts with my mother.

01:07:02.000 My family wasn't Christian.

01:07:04.000 I knew what it was like to walk a precinct.

01:07:05.000 My mother was president of the Republican women, and I met Ronald Reagan when I was little.

01:07:08.000 And I was into politics.

01:07:10.000 My dad ran for city council, and I always assumed he had three tours of Vietnam.

01:07:13.000 I just assume that's what you did.

01:07:16.000 And then I got into the church.

01:07:17.000 I'm like, they don't do that.

01:07:19.000 And I was Calvary Chapel, and none of the Calvary Chapels would do it.

01:07:22.000 And Shannon Grove, we're in Israel, and I'm teaching at these sites, and these guys have heard me teach.

01:07:27.000 And she turns to me and she says, You need to run for office.

01:07:31.000 I go, What office?

01:07:32.000 She says, State Assembly.

01:07:33.000 I said, I don't know my elbow from my earlobe on state politics.

01:07:38.000 She said, It's the lower house.

01:07:39.000 I'll teach you everything you need to know.

01:07:41.000 And I ran.

01:07:42.000 I'd prayed about it.

01:07:42.000 My wife and I fasted and prayed, and the Lord gave us a piece.

01:07:45.000 And the verse he gave me was, Job, yea, though he slay me, yet will I praise him.

01:07:49.000 I was hoping for a better verse.

01:07:51.000 I won the primary. 0.94

01:07:53.000 I lost the general election because Christians didn't show up, and I lost by a few, just a few votes, and I was exhausted. 0.96

01:07:59.000 But I want to tell you a story because I went on to win city council and get re-elected. 0.93

01:08:05.000 And I just kept pushing.

01:08:06.000 I didn't know politics, but I got a quick education at the point where Charlie and I meet, we travel the country, and I can contend with the best of them.

01:08:12.000 But this is a story that moved me, and I pray it does the same for you.

01:08:17.000 The primary for the state assembly race, not only was I being attacked by the opposing party, I was being attacked by my own party.

01:08:25.000 I was the only Republican remaining, and they put another person up there because they said they didn't want a Christian in there.

01:08:31.000 My party spent a million dollars against me.

01:08:33.000 I had been a Republican longer than I'd been a Christian, longer than I'd been a father, longer than I'd been a husband.

01:08:39.000 Not in that order.

01:08:41.000 And they're carpet bombing me with a million dollars.

01:08:44.000 They're attacking my school, our preschool.

01:08:46.000 They're attacking the church.

01:08:48.000 They're sending me death threats.

01:08:49.000 They keep my car.

01:08:53.000 It's a fun thing: you go out to your windshield and say, Good luck starting your car.

01:08:57.000 That's fun.

01:09:00.000 And I stepped into the middle of that, and now I'm out of money.

01:09:03.000 And I don't even want to go to my mailbox.

01:09:06.000 And I'm named Robert McCoy after a man named Robert Broussard Early.

01:09:11.000 He's my godfather.

01:09:13.000 My mother had died of cancer.

01:09:14.000 My dad was in a home with Alzheimer's, Navy captain, three tours of Vietnam.

01:09:18.000 And my father's commanding officer, Rear Admiral Robert Broussard Early, was my godfather.

01:09:24.000 So I went to go visit him because he was going to turn 100 years old.

01:09:27.000 He happened to be the oldest living survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

01:09:31.000 He was lieutenant on the USS CAS on December 7th, 1941.

01:09:36.000 Yeah.

01:09:37.000 It's late.

01:09:39.000 And I knew I'd miss his 100th birthday, and I didn't want to open my mailbox anymore, so I drove down.

01:09:42.000 I sat down in his house, and he was still driving at 99 years of age.

01:09:46.000 Not well, but he was driving.

01:09:49.000 He still did 100 sit-ups a day through the course of the day.

01:09:53.000 He said movement was life.

01:09:56.000 He was bigger than life.

01:09:58.000 He lived in the same house all 50 years I'd known him.

01:10:00.000 He looks at me.

01:10:00.000 He says, How's it going?

01:10:03.000 I said, Uncle Bob, I'm getting carpet bombed by my own party.

01:10:08.000 I feel like I've led all these folks on a rosy road to nowhere.

01:10:11.000 I'm getting picked on by the church.

01:10:12.000 I'm getting death threats.

01:10:13.000 They're attacking the school.

01:10:14.000 They're attacking our church.

01:10:16.000 They keep my car.

01:10:17.000 And I'm going through the whole thing.

01:10:18.000 And while I'm lamenting, he puts his hand up and shaking with age at 99.

01:10:25.000 He puts it up, and I'd never heard him angry in 50 years.

01:10:28.000 I'm whining, I'm lamenting.

01:10:29.000 He puts his hand up and he goes, STOP IT!

01:10:32.000 Paralyzed me. 0.88

01:10:33.000 Nothing like getting spanked by a 99-year-old man.

01:10:39.000 He said, Rob, listen to me.

01:10:42.000 You don't know tough.

01:10:45.000 I was 16 years old in the Great Depression.

01:10:47.000 We didn't know where our next meal was going to come from.

01:10:50.000 Had it not been an appointment to the Naval Academy, I would have never received a college degree.

01:10:55.000 And you, Rob, being a history major, you didn't realize that we had the 17th to 20th smallest military on the face of the earth because we were in isolationist mode.

01:11:05.000 And I was in Pearl Harbor on December 7th when the Japanese bombed and they sunk my ship and the harbor was on fire.

01:11:13.000 And I pulled my shipmates out and they were dead.

01:11:17.000 He said the next day we took on a two-fronted war against two fascist nations.

01:11:21.000 We brought them both to their knees, set up constitutional republics in both countries.

01:11:25.000 And we did that by lifting that same fleet from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. 0.67

01:11:28.000 And I was on an opposite ship when we went into Tokyo Harbor to accept the surrender of the Japanese.

01:11:34.000 And we were not occupiers.

01:11:36.000 We were liberators.

01:11:36.000 We only asked for enough ground to bury our dead and came home.

01:11:39.000 Cut federal spending, started the greatest industrial revolution in our lifetime.

01:11:44.000 He looks at me and goes, Now quit your whining and go finish what you started.

01:11:51.000 Where is that generation? 0.99

01:11:54.000 This is worth fighting for.

01:11:56.000 You want inspiration?

01:11:57.000 Is that not enough?

01:11:59.000 Let's go do it.

01:12:01.000 Let's take that talent and multiply it.

01:12:03.000 So I'll end with this uplifting note.

01:12:06.000 No, I mean that.

01:12:07.000 This race can be won, believe it or not.

01:12:10.000 I see the data.

01:12:11.000 Last night at 7 p.m., something that can only be explained in prayer.

01:12:15.000 And Rob will tell you, I monitor this stuff every 30 minutes.

01:12:20.000 We have a multi-million dollar operation gone through it, not like the campaign, but it's pretty good.

01:12:25.000 And something last night at 7 p.m. just broke, where we were monitoring Midwest polling for the president, and independence just shifted like eight points in a day.

01:12:36.000 And what we are seeing in real time, and it'll only happen if we turn out, we contact our friends and do this, is a late break that we couldn't have prayed for.

01:12:45.000 We only could have prayed for that, we couldn't have dreamt for.

01:12:48.000 North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Arizona are basically the three states that are the most important for the president's victory.

01:12:56.000 They are using a lot of the public polls to tell you that he can't win.

01:13:00.000 It's nonsense.

01:13:01.000 Apps, I'm telling you right now, right here, that if everyone shows up on Tuesday in record numbers, we win North Carolina by four or five points.

01:13:08.000 Tom Tillis gets re-elected and you have a new governor.

01:13:10.000 It's that simple.

01:13:11.000 Whatever numbers they're throwing at you, public polling, all this, throw all that into the shredder.

01:13:15.000 What's so amazing is, and I'm sure a lot of you are convicted after tonight, there's time on the clock.

01:13:23.000 The founders gave us elections for a reason, so that we can reclaim our government and prevent bad movements from coming into power.

01:13:29.000 President Donald Trump can win this thing, and it's in your hands to do it.

01:13:34.000 I hope you do.

01:13:34.000 Thank you, guys.

01:13:41.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:13:42.000 You guys can always email us, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:13:46.000 Please consider supporting us at charliekirk.com/slash support.

01:13:49.000 God bless.

01:13:53.000 This is the most important election of our lifetime.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - November 02, 2020

Stopping a Great American Suicide on Tuesday with Pastor Rob McCoy

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