The Charlie Kirk Show - The Church & Lockdowns, Tyranny, Natural Rights, and Revival with Pastor Greg Fairrington

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.

00:00:01.000 Today, I wanted to air a now very famous sermon speech that I have given in Rockland, California, where reporters couldn't possibly believe that I spoke to 1,400 people in person, no social distancing, no masks.

00:00:15.000 It's a great conversation.

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00:00:23.000 This conversation was actually done with my friend, Pastor Greg Farrington from Rockland, California at Destiny Church.

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00:02:09.000 All right, so a little bit unscripted this time.

00:02:11.000 We've done this twice.

00:02:12.000 You said I could a little bit.

00:02:14.000 Any direction you want to go?

00:02:15.000 Any direction.

00:02:16.000 This is really, really important to the Farrington household, mainly my daughter, my son, and myself.

00:02:23.000 We're huge 49er fans.

00:02:25.000 Yes.

00:02:26.000 You went to school with Jimmy Garoppolo.

00:02:29.000 So I went to, yeah, I went to Wheeling High School.

00:02:31.000 He went to Rolling Meadows.

00:02:32.000 We actually trained in quarterback camp together.

00:02:34.000 Are you serious?

00:02:35.000 Yeah.

00:02:35.000 So Jimmy is.

00:02:37.000 Somebody got a football.

00:02:38.000 So Jimmy's two years older than I am, and we knew the Garoppolo family growing up pretty well.

00:02:44.000 His other brother worked for my father.

00:02:46.000 But yeah, I was actually at the NFC, not the championship game, the divisional, but against the Vikings last year supporting Jimmy.

00:02:52.000 I have no inside information about Jimmy's recovery or any of that.

00:02:57.000 Well, we need something.

00:02:59.000 Can you send him a message?

00:03:00.000 You got his social media.

00:03:01.000 Well, I'll tell you Jimmy Garoppolo's story.

00:03:03.000 And so Jimmy Garoppolo was a linebacker for Rolling Meadows High School up until his sophomore year until a sequence of injuries, they started to realize this kid had amazing talents.

00:03:03.000 Okay.

00:03:14.000 We went to the same quarterback coach, Jeff.

00:03:16.000 Wait a minute.

00:03:17.000 He got injured in high school.

00:03:18.000 No, no, no.

00:03:19.000 No, his, no, he didn't.

00:03:21.000 But the other quarterbacks were getting injured.

00:03:24.000 They said, hey, this kid has a bunch of talent.

00:03:25.000 Maybe he'll be a good quarterback.

00:03:27.000 And then he ended up going to the same football coach as I did.

00:03:30.000 And we got to know each other.

00:03:31.000 And he was no offers at all going into his senior year of high school.

00:03:36.000 Ended up walking on at Eastern Illinois University where Tony Romo and Sean Payton went.

00:03:40.000 And he ended up becoming All-American by the time he was a senior and obviously drafted by the Patriots and all that.

00:03:46.000 But it's a pretty amazing story because he was, he's probably one of the most successful NFL quarterbacks that was unrecruited, not recruited out of high school.

00:03:54.000 And incredible talent.

00:03:56.000 And I remember being a sophomore in high school and he was a senior.

00:04:00.000 And my dad turned to me because he made just an impossible play.

00:04:04.000 He said, that kid's going to play in the NFL.

00:04:06.000 And he had that kind of talent.

00:04:07.000 So hopefully things end up sorting itself out.

00:04:10.000 We're a church that believes in divine healing, and we'll pray for healing there.

00:04:15.000 So if you want to send them a message on that.

00:04:17.000 Well, that's good.

00:04:18.000 See, that was a surprise question.

00:04:19.000 That was a little surprise question for you right there.

00:04:22.000 There's some main and plain things that I do want us to talk about.

00:04:26.000 One is, you know, as you've heard, we've opened the doors for 26 weeks here, six months.

00:04:31.000 You know, when they first say, hey, we got to flatten the curve, you know, so let's all be good, good team players.

00:04:38.000 And we did that.

00:04:39.000 But we said, hey, this is turning into two months and we got to get back to church.

00:04:43.000 Biblical mandate, First Amendment rights to do that.

00:04:48.000 So there's been pockets of this has happened across America.

00:04:52.000 Pastors and churches that have said we're going to stand and they stood in this moment.

00:04:57.000 But how come the rest of the churches and pastors aren't getting on board?

00:05:02.000 It's a great question, isn't it?

00:05:04.000 First of all, you have an amazing pastor here and a great church here.

00:05:09.000 And for everyone watching online, a lot of the people that are watching online on our YouTube channel, they would be stunned to see that there are three services packed out of people here because that's not the norm across the country, as you guys know, is that actually there's like one courageous pastor for every hundred miles, is what I found.

00:05:30.000 And there's a couple in this state, Jürgen, Pastor Juergen in Awakened Church San Diego, Pastor Rob McCoy, Pastor James Cadiz.

00:05:37.000 Mike McClure is amazing in Calvary Chapel, San Jose.

00:05:40.000 He's up against massive fines for a similar actually, he has a much more adversarial county than here.

00:05:46.000 And so you guys have gone through a lot here, but what he's going through in Menlo Park, San Jose area is awful.

00:05:53.000 And so you asked, What is the reason?

00:05:56.000 I've been trying to unpack that.

00:05:57.000 And so I've been speaking at churches throughout the last six or seven months all across the country.

00:06:01.000 And when I started in June or July, you know, I was very much of kind of the grace-filled message, like, please open your church.

00:06:09.000 You should be doing this.

00:06:11.000 Look at the double standard. 0.69

00:06:13.000 Look at how BLM Incorporated is able to riot and loot, you know, without any form of decency for the surroundings around them. 0.59

00:06:23.000 The Los Angeles Lakers celebration was allowed to go straight through the streets of LA. 0.70

00:06:27.000 No social distancing, no masks.

00:06:29.000 Strip clubs are now allowed to be open in San Diego.

00:06:31.000 Cannabis dispensaries remained open.

00:06:33.000 Abortion clinics remained open.

00:06:35.000 And as the months have gone on, I'm going to be very honest with you guys.

00:06:38.000 My patience with pastors that have not opened their church is just gone.

00:06:43.000 It's just, and I, and here's one of the main reasons.

00:06:48.000 One of the main reasons is that there is a central planning unbiblical component to keeping your church closed at this point.

00:06:55.000 We know how the virus operates.

00:06:57.000 We know who is most at risk.

00:06:59.000 But opening up your church for voluntary gathering is insulting to your congregation.

00:07:06.000 Here's why.

00:07:07.000 It's you saying, I know what's best for every single person who's going to show up.

00:07:11.000 See, all of you came here today making a voluntary choice, assessing the risk of you gathering.

00:07:16.000 You know, there's a chance.

00:07:17.000 Of course you do.

00:07:18.000 But you made the decision that I'm going to take the proper precautions.

00:07:21.000 I might have already had it.

00:07:22.000 How many people of here already had the virus?

00:07:24.000 It's okay, about 40 or 50.

00:07:27.000 Now, I ask for a reason.

00:07:28.000 Why should we continue to keep the country closed for you?

00:07:32.000 I mean, you should be at least able to live, right?

00:07:35.000 I mean, that's a good question, right?

00:07:37.000 Now that we're nine months into this thing, there's at least five or six million people that have known that they've had it.

00:07:42.000 And so now we're keeping everything closed for you, even though you've been through that.

00:07:45.000 And so there's this incredible kind of pride that comes in to being able to say that I'm going to keep the church shut down because I'm such a good person and I don't want to contribute to the spread is say, well, first of all, it's not a victimless action.

00:08:01.000 When you keep the church closed, depression goes up, lack of social contact, suicide, mental health issues, marital issues.

00:08:09.000 They took Easter from us, which is the number one gathering of believers every single year and where churches really get to expand their membership and expose the church to people that only go to church on Christmas and Easter.

00:08:20.000 And the other part of this where pastors, I think, they're really kind of in this handcuff where they are afraid to go against the predominant culture.

00:08:29.000 And the church is always supposed to be disagreeable by nature.

00:08:32.000 The church exists to say no to a secular humanist indulgent culture.

00:08:38.000 That's why the church exists.

00:08:40.000 And so the moment when Christianity becomes within the predominant political viewpoint or the predominant cultural tendencies of Hollywood or the tech companies, we should take pause and say, wait a second, is that really congruent with what the Bible is teaching?

00:09:00.000 And the answer is no. 0.73

00:09:01.000 And they hide behind this really sloppy reading of Romans 13, which says to submit to all rulers of authority.

00:09:09.000 And it goes on to and say, unless there is tyranny in some form or fashion.

00:09:13.000 But let's play that out.

00:09:15.000 Who is the ruler of authority in our country?

00:09:17.000 And you might say it's Gavin Newsom.

00:09:21.000 But you might say it's a congressman or a city council member.

00:09:24.000 Under a constitutional republic, if we are to read Romans 13 as it is written, we're actually in charge.

00:09:31.000 We're the sovereign.

00:09:32.000 So to use a sloppy interpretation of Romans 13, let's even take their argument at face value.

00:09:40.000 They say, submit to all leaders of authority.

00:09:42.000 What are we supposed to submit to then?

00:09:43.000 Submit to a government that respects your natural rights.

00:09:47.000 If that government then starts to violate your natural rights, that compact is broken.

00:09:51.000 All of a sudden, that voluntary compact that we have with that government, that sort of contract that we have, has been invalidated, especially when those rulers and those leaders violate the rules themselves.

00:10:04.000 So when Gavin Newsom goes to French laundry and you can't go to church, stop listening to Gavin Newsom.

00:10:16.000 This group is pretty loose.

00:10:18.000 No, it's great.

00:10:19.000 This will be the longest loan we've had.

00:10:21.000 Yeah, so here we are.

00:10:25.000 The government kicks the doors of the church down.

00:10:30.000 They're inside the church now.

00:10:32.000 And we got, because they use COVID as their way into controlling our behavior.

00:10:39.000 So they don't want us to meet.

00:10:40.000 So they use something to say, hey, you can't meet.

00:10:45.000 You mentioned this first service.

00:10:48.000 Doesn't it take some people in culture to defy the civic government at some point in time to maintain their rights that are given to them?

00:11:02.000 Yeah, absolutely. 0.66

00:11:03.000 And so some of the Christian pastors that I disagree with that are just totally wrong, and many of which, many of whom are cowards, and I say that, I don't say that lightly. 0.93

00:11:13.000 I don't. 0.95

00:11:14.000 They have no courage to their convictions whatsoever. 0.97

00:11:16.000 They just want bigger budgets and bigger buildings and maybe some baptisms as well, the three B's that drive most of Christian Incorporated in this country. 1.00

00:11:24.000 It's true. 0.95

00:11:26.000 And, you know, if they had 10% less people showing up, yet 100% more truth, they would consider that to be an awful thing.

00:11:32.000 And when people leave churches, they're like, I'm leaving.

00:11:35.000 I'm like, yeah, don't worry.

00:11:35.000 There's way too much truth there probably for you, right?

00:11:37.000 It's like way too much.

00:11:39.000 And so people say, they'll say, well, I want separation of church and state.

00:11:43.000 First of all, that's not in the Constitution.

00:11:44.000 It's not.

00:11:45.000 It's in a singular letter that Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Convention.

00:11:48.000 But, okay, you want separation of church and state?

00:11:50.000 Yeah, I want the state to stay out of my church.

00:11:52.000 There you go.

00:11:53.000 Okay.

00:11:54.000 I want let's take that argument.

00:11:58.000 I want the California public health officials to say, you know what?

00:12:01.000 No, you don't have the right to come in here.

00:12:03.000 So, religious expression is clearly protected by two clauses in the First Amendment: the Free Expression Clause and the Establishment Clause.

00:12:10.000 It is the only thing that we have in our country that is explicitly protected by two separate clauses.

00:12:15.000 And yet, we have decided in the last six months to completely abandon the terrain of interfacing on how important the church is.

00:12:24.000 Activist Christians built this country, it's a verifiable fact.

00:12:27.000 Pastors from the pupils of America built the philosophical and moral framework that started the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world. 0.88

00:12:36.000 The four great awakenings, the three awakenings that followed, the four total great awakenings, continued the American experiment through many sorts of seasons of up and down.

00:12:45.000 And so, there's many examples in the Old Testament and the New Testament of defying tyrannical authority.

00:12:55.000 This sort of theological revisionism that has now seeped its way into even some seminaries that teach a lot of youth pastors across the country around the only interpretation of Romans 13 that I already have kind of picked apart is really dangerous.

00:13:12.000 So, how is a pastor who remains closed supposed to make sense of the story of Daniel?

00:13:18.000 When there was an order that was a conspiracy against Daniel, right?

00:13:22.000 It was a conspiracy.

00:13:24.000 They went up to the king, and there were a couple kings he served.

00:13:27.000 I think it was Nebuchadnezzar, but I could be wrong.

00:13:29.000 There's a couple, he was a counselor to multiple kings, but I think it was Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 6, where the king was convinced by bad actors to put forth an order that said, If you follow the rabbinical laws and if you follow the laws of prayer, then you will be put in prison.

00:13:47.000 And they wanted to go after Daniel. 0.61

00:13:49.000 This was a true conspiracy, right?

00:13:51.000 The definition of a conspiracy.

00:13:53.000 So, Daniel in like 6:11 or 12, I might be off by a couple of verses.

00:13:56.000 It says so clearly: Daniel heard the order, he understood the order, and then he made a conscious decision to defy the order.

00:14:05.000 Now, he didn't defy it in private, he didn't defy it by going into a corner and praying.

00:14:11.000 He went to his home, opened up the window towards the city, and prayed towards the city, saying, You're going to have to watch me pray, and you're going to have to come arrest me because God will deliver me.

00:14:22.000 Now, that is a direct act of civil disobedience of the rulers.

00:14:28.000 Why did he do it?

00:14:29.000 Because it violated God's commandments.

00:14:31.000 That's why.

00:14:32.000 If it was some sort of inconsequential rule, right?

00:14:37.000 Then Daniel probably wouldn't have taken that kind of dramatic action.

00:14:40.000 But as soon as it started to violate God's commandments, such as the assembly of believers, the worshiping of an almighty and a loving God, then Daniel said, You're going to have to come arrest me and all of that.

00:14:50.000 I'm going to do it so you know that I'm doing it.

00:14:52.000 And that's a very important part of civil disobedience, right?

00:14:54.000 And Daniel is the ultimate example of biblical civil disobedience.

00:14:58.000 He didn't flee, he didn't try to evade arrest. 1.00

00:15:03.000 He said, I'm going to take responsibility for violating your stupid rule. 0.99

00:15:08.000 Now, this is a very important thing, and you've lived this out as a courageous pastor. 0.99

00:15:13.000 You said on Pentecost, you're going to have to arrest me.

00:15:18.000 And they ended up not because a lot of their threats are baseless and they're cowards, and they actually don't want the conflict.

00:15:25.000 But what you look at that biblical example of Daniel, we can also look in the first part of Exodus at the midwives that saved Moses by defying the orders of, you know, terminating or killing the firstborn children.

00:15:38.000 No, Moses, if that was not violated.

00:15:40.000 Why?

00:15:41.000 That's against God's commandments, right?

00:15:43.000 Thou shalt, I mean, and the Ten Commandments weren't even actually necessarily communicated yet, but it was pretty well, you know, it was pretty well known that murder was not looked favorably in the eyes of God.

00:15:54.000 What's the point I'm getting at here?

00:15:56.000 Is that there are multiple examples of God's people prayerfully, carefully, but yet publicly defying tyrannical orders.

00:16:06.000 And we must do that in this season.

00:16:08.000 Let me be very clear.

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00:17:08.000 And this is not something that we come to lightly.

00:17:12.000 If you are going to defy a government order, it should not be haphazardly.

00:17:15.000 It should be done so prayerfully.

00:17:16.000 You should fast.

00:17:18.000 However, if you come to the conclusion to defy, then you must go all the way through.

00:17:23.000 That means that, that's right, I am going to accept the punishment.

00:17:27.000 This is what Ralph, this is what Henry David Thoreau and it's either Emerson or Thoreau.

00:17:32.000 I get the two interchange.

00:17:33.000 They're both at the same time, but Martin Luther King talked about, which is that if you're going to disobey, you have to be willing to then serve the prison sentence.

00:17:40.000 And Daniel was the biblical inspiration for this.

00:17:43.000 And so where we are right now with the church in America is they're trying to see how far they can actually push us.

00:17:50.000 This is a social experiment, and we are failing miserably.

00:17:54.000 And basically, what the tyrants and the autocrats, the politicians, and the bureaucrats have learned is that the American church will do exactly what we tell them to do.

00:18:03.000 There might be a couple disagreeable bunches here, but when they come through and they say that your child cannot go to school without a mandatory vaccination, they know most churches will agree to it.

00:18:12.000 They know that because we haven't opened our doors.

00:18:15.000 Now, and that's where all of that's where this comes in.

00:18:18.000 Where we are now in a season where we know how this virus operates.

00:18:20.000 We know the human cost of the lockdowns.

00:18:22.000 We know the erosion of private property.

00:18:24.000 We know people's life savings that have vanished.

00:18:26.000 Now is the greatest clarion call for a mass civil disobedience against these autocrats and these tyrants, but we must be willing to pay the price.

00:18:34.000 Very important.

00:18:35.000 It's funny.

00:18:38.000 When we decided to open up the church, it was actually the time that we got on the front page of the B in July.

00:18:47.000 And I told my wife before I came to church because there were people who are threatening us.

00:18:53.000 They're going to block our streets, all that stuff.

00:18:56.000 And I said, well, this is what we're going to do.

00:18:58.000 As soon as they arrest me, you're going to take everybody outside.

00:19:01.000 You're going to have a protest outside, but you're going to send two of my best friends to get me out of jail.

00:19:06.000 We had a plan.

00:19:07.000 We had a plan.

00:19:09.000 What I love about it is that you were not planning to get in the getaway car or to abdicate it to somebody else or blame somebody else.

00:19:17.000 So you deserve a lot of credit for that because you have an infinite amount more courage than the entire combined body of most pastors in this country.

00:19:24.000 I mean that.

00:19:26.000 Thank you.

00:19:28.000 So let me pivot.

00:19:32.000 Here's a question you don't know I was going to ask.

00:19:34.000 Okay.

00:19:35.000 But we talked, we just mentioned it in my office.

00:19:39.000 There's a, you know, because people have been saying, hey, the virus is going to go away after the election.

00:19:44.000 Well, it didn't.

00:19:45.000 The fear just got higher, right?

00:19:47.000 I think that the media pivoted to that.

00:19:50.000 And so now there's the hope of the vaccine.

00:19:53.000 What do you think about the vaccine?

00:19:55.000 I mean, look, I'm not going to take it.

00:19:57.000 Let me be very clear.

00:19:58.000 And if there's someone here that is, and they feel that the data analysis they do warrants them taking it, then okay, that's what liberty is all about, right?

00:20:10.000 Is that you can make informed decisions.

00:20:11.000 I'm not going to ridicule anyone.

00:20:12.000 I'm not going to say I have any sort of inside information against it or for it.

00:20:17.000 What I am going to say is that I have the personal agency not to take something that is suspiciously rushed to market where they are now in a very totalitarian way forced almost previewing force to say that you must take this in order to get your children here or get jobs or all that.

00:20:33.000 That raises alarm bells for me.

00:20:34.000 Let me be very clear.

00:20:36.000 And so I want everyone to do their own independent research of people that you trust and dive deep into it.

00:20:40.000 And then you come to your own conclusions.

00:20:42.000 What really bothers me, though, about that entire conversation is how they are now going to use this as a social check mechanism of whether or not your children can live the same sort of life as those that do accept that decide to do it.

00:20:59.000 And that's a very dangerous thing.

00:21:01.000 We're all of a sudden that we believe so firmly in this rush to market vaccination that still we have not seen the data on it.

00:21:09.000 We have not seen the clinical trials.

00:21:10.000 We have not seen any of that where we must take it for whatever reason that they're pushing it.

00:21:16.000 And there's a profit incentive behind it.

00:21:18.000 Of course there is.

00:21:19.000 There are people that are going to make a tremendous amount of money behind this.

00:21:22.000 And here's also where I land on just the issue of the election being the end of kind of the virus, or at least the fear-mongering around it.

00:21:35.000 President Trump, and I also said this as well, that as soon as after the election, they were going to open up the country.

00:21:42.000 And I was wrong in saying that.

00:21:46.000 I should have known better because their real intentions behind the virus is to use it as a fear-mongering tactic.

00:21:56.000 And it is a real virus.

00:21:58.000 You take proper precautions, but they're using it to now be able to accomplish prior held and deeply held political objectives, right?

00:22:09.000 So they did it to try and destroy Donald Trump.

00:22:12.000 They did it to try and blame him for it.

00:22:14.000 And now that it's over, the political side of it has kind of now gone away.

00:22:18.000 So now they can do what they really want to do.

00:22:21.000 And that's not to open up the country and get back to how things used to be.

00:22:24.000 Now what they really want to do is the great reset, which is what's coming in 2021 at the Davos meeting.

00:22:30.000 You guys can look it up yourself of the World Economic Forum where they want to abolish private property.

00:22:35.000 They want to get rid of fossil fuels.

00:22:37.000 They want to empower and embolden the pharmaceutical companies.

00:22:40.000 And they have now said, and Justin Trudeau said this, who he on one of his Zoom or Skype calls that he did with foreign leaders, Justin Trudeau said this presents in a once-in-a-generation opportunity to be able to fundamentally transform our countries.

00:22:57.000 And that's what they're doing.

00:22:58.000 And so now you're seeing Gavin Newsom and J.B. Pritzker and Andrew Cuomo intensify the lockdowns.

00:23:04.000 Why?

00:23:04.000 Well, it's not to defeat the president.

00:23:06.000 It's actually not, because now there's no electoral safeguard.

00:23:09.000 The reason they didn't do this in October is actually because lockdowns are super unpopular.

00:23:13.000 It's actually they started to see themselves pay a political price to these lockdowns.

00:23:17.000 Now that there's no election to actually be as a check and balance against it, they have a completely different reason.

00:23:22.000 They want to crush you.

00:23:23.000 That's why.

00:23:24.000 They want to make your savings disappear.

00:23:27.000 They want to make your businesses evaporate.

00:23:31.000 They want to make Your children be chemically addicted to whatever substance they have to take now to not be depressed.

00:23:39.000 And so they're just going to try to wait this thing out enough to suffocate our entire civilization.

00:23:45.000 That's their agenda now.

00:23:46.000 And by the way, none of this is theorizing.

00:23:48.000 Just look at what they say.

00:23:50.000 They all have said this publicly, all of them.

00:23:52.000 Mayor Eric Garcetti and Laurie Lightfoot say, now we can really, you know, tackle climate change.

00:23:57.000 Now we can pass universal basic income.

00:23:59.000 Now we can do Medicare for all.

00:24:01.000 Now we can do all these things that we've wanted to do.

00:24:04.000 So you have a pathological, sociopathic group of people that have these deeply held political convictions prior to the virus.

00:24:12.000 The virus comes, they get this anti-scientific notion of shutting everything down, which has never worked before. 0.91

00:24:18.000 It's the dumbest epidemiological idea ever, which is to quarantine the healthy and then make the sick and the vulnerable have more people that are infected.

00:24:25.000 So let me get this straight. 0.98

00:24:26.000 We put infected people in nursing homes and we closed our schools.

00:24:28.000 Like, what on earth was that all about? 0.76

00:24:31.000 And then we keep the most productive, least likely to die people, which are young people between the ages of 18 to 30, sheltered in place so they can amass massive debt loads, stay out of the economic force, get high levels of depression, not get married, not have kids.

00:24:46.000 They make perfect revolutionaries, by the way. 0.79

00:24:47.000 Of course, they're going to burn down the country around you.

00:24:49.000 They haven't done anything for six months because you shut down their country.

00:24:52.000 Of course, they're going to burn everything down.

00:24:54.000 And so the only solution to this is the sequence, the rate that this is going is they're going to try to lock us down worse than they did in March and April at this point.

00:25:03.000 Just look, everything that happens in Europe is a preview to happen here, right?

00:25:06.000 Because they're trying to create this globalist coalition where there is no difference between countries.

00:25:11.000 So when Merkel McCron and Boris Johnson locked down for 60 days, like total lockdown, that's coming here next.

00:25:17.000 Don't be surprised.

00:25:18.000 Why are they doing it?

00:25:19.000 Because there's no penalty to pay at the ballot box anymore.

00:25:21.000 That's why.

00:25:22.000 It's because elections are over outside of the Georgia runoff, and they've already suffered consequences because of it.

00:25:28.000 Republicans flipped three state legislators, won 28 out of 28 congressional races, we won Senate races.

00:25:33.000 The lockdowns ended up being unbelievably unpopular.

00:25:36.000 And so now they see this as their chance to go for the jugular.

00:25:39.000 They want to create a crisis so bad that only a massive government could come in and promise to save it.

00:25:47.000 Yeah, they want everyone to all of a sudden say, I'm in so much suffering, I have no other choice.

00:25:53.000 And unless we have tens of millions of people demanding and living out the reopening of our country, they're going to get what they want.

00:26:03.000 So my wife says this: we're one nation under God, not one nation under government.

00:26:09.000 That's who we are as a people.

00:26:10.000 We're under God.

00:26:16.000 So you mentioned we had an election, right?

00:26:19.000 Or no, we haven't had an election yet, but we're unsure a lot of things.

00:26:26.000 I'm not the smartest guy in the room, but I'm not the dumbest.

00:26:30.000 I'm just kind of looking at all the trends, which you've already rehearsed.

00:26:35.000 Donald Trump won this election.

00:26:37.000 He won the election.

00:26:38.000 Very clear.

00:26:39.000 And look, the so let's just look at non-Trump data and then let's connect it together.

00:26:48.000 How is it that President Trump did better than any Republican with blacks and Hispanics since 1960?

00:26:54.000 He won West Texas.

00:26:55.000 He won the Rio Grande Valley that a Republican has not won since 1906.

00:26:59.000 President Trump won Beverly Hills.

00:27:04.000 President Trump did unbelievably well in areas that Republicans have never ever done well.

00:27:12.000 Republicans won 28 out of 28 House seats.

00:27:15.000 Republicans are supposed to lose up and down California.

00:27:18.000 Michelle Steele and Young Kim have won in Orange County.

00:27:21.000 Mike Garcia is knocking on the door.

00:27:22.000 It's within 50 to 100 votes, but he actually might pull it up.

00:27:26.000 And polling said there was no way that he was going to be able to survive that.

00:27:29.000 Republicans flipped a deeply Democrat seat in downtown Miami with Elvira Salazar, who speaks fluent Spanish, former communist refugee. 0.84

00:27:38.000 So she was in Cuban communism and fled.

00:27:41.000 And incredible story.

00:27:43.000 And she won by three points.

00:27:44.000 Trump did 17 points better in Miami-Dade County.

00:27:48.000 And so Trump did better, five points better in Chicago, one point better in Washington, D.C.

00:27:52.000 He did better everywhere, except the four cities that stopped counting on election night.

00:27:58.000 And so before I proceed any further, let's just look at this completely rationally and logically, outside of all the filters of what you see on television, because they're all lying to you, okay?

00:28:07.000 And I don't say that lightly.

00:28:08.000 You're being lied to.

00:28:10.000 And just looking at this very rationally, and some of you might say there's no widespread evidence, there's no evidence widespread of voter fraud.

00:28:19.000 Okay, let's just put that aside.

00:28:22.000 How can anyone possibly say in any sort of human exercise where there's 170 million participants and the prize is a $4 trillion government for four years, control of the U.S. Armed Forces, the intelligence agencies, and ultimate power that we're supposed to believe that no one's going to cheat in that exercise when 170 million people are participating.

00:28:44.000 People cheat playing monopoly, okay?

00:28:48.000 People cheat at poker.

00:28:49.000 People cheat on taxes.

00:28:51.000 People cheat, driving to church.

00:28:53.000 I'm sure one of you cheated by running a red light or disobeying a stop sign or a U-turn you weren't supposed to do.

00:28:59.000 We are programmed to make things better in our image.

00:29:03.000 That's called sin, distance from God.

00:29:05.000 And so we're supposed to believe that we have evidence of a multi-trillion dollar money laundering industry that exists in our country, child sex trafficking industry, of a drug trafficking industry.

00:29:18.000 We know organized crime hits every portion of America, everything.

00:29:22.000 We have millions of prisoners.

00:29:24.000 We could go on endlessly of the types of problems we have.

00:29:27.000 But the one thing that operates perfectly and seamlessly with no corruption, no questions, is our voting system. 1.00

00:29:37.000 That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. 0.99

00:29:41.000 They then say, and that's just looking at it logically and rationally. 1.00

00:29:45.000 They say there's no evidence of widespread voter fraud.

00:29:48.000 So first of all, these are, that's an objective and a subjective term, right?

00:29:52.000 So it's kind of linguistic jiu-jitsu they're playing with you.

00:29:55.000 How do you define widespread?

00:29:57.000 You ever think about that?

00:29:59.000 It's a completely subjective term, right?

00:30:02.000 So one person might say widespread is 1%.

00:30:05.000 Some person might say widespread is 5%.

00:30:06.000 1% Trump's president.

00:30:08.000 So all of a sudden, they say it's not widespread.

00:30:10.000 Well, okay, 1% wouldn't be widespread.

00:30:12.000 It's enough to determine the presidency.

00:30:14.000 Do you see all of a sudden they're playing games and they're lying to you?

00:30:17.000 And they say there's no evidence.

00:30:18.000 Okay, if all of us went into the Sacramento area to restaurants and to laundromats the next couple of days, you wouldn't see any evidence of money laundering until you were able to get the FBI or authorities involved, look through people's bank statements, see who's coming in with piles of cash, and all of a sudden you'd see who actually's trying to clean dollar bills in your local area.

00:30:37.000 What's the point?

00:30:37.000 Some of this stuff hides itself really well.

00:30:39.000 That's what organized crime does.

00:30:41.000 And you don't have massive amount of criminal units looking into it.

00:30:43.000 They're going to keep on doing it.

00:30:45.000 And so when you start to see these massive national trends and four outliers, it happened to be the most four deciding state, you know, counties and cities in the states that matter, then we have to call timeout and ask really what's happening.

00:30:56.000 And so we've been looking into this.

00:30:58.000 We've been doing more research on our program and our podcast than almost any out there.

00:31:02.000 So I'm just going to give you some numbers.

00:31:03.000 I want everyone to think about this.

00:31:04.000 Thank you.

00:31:05.000 I want you to think about this really rationally, right?

00:31:08.000 And so, and by the way, we know what they are willing to do.

00:31:12.000 And I want to be very clear.

00:31:14.000 And I say this with no kidding whatsoever.

00:31:16.000 If I thought Benito Mussolini was in the White House, I would cheat. 0.98

00:31:22.000 And I would be able to justify it under the Christian ethic. 0.99

00:31:24.000 I would. 0.86

00:31:25.000 If I thought that Adolf Hitler was in the White House, I would cheat in the election. 0.95

00:31:31.000 I would.

00:31:32.000 Because that's what they've convinced themselves of.

00:31:35.000 They have convinced themselves that that is actually a reincarnation of 1930s Germany.

00:31:40.000 It's a sick lie, but there are 30 million people that believe that.

00:31:44.000 So think what they would be willing to do.

00:31:46.000 What you would be willing to do if you were counting votes in 1930s Germany.

00:31:50.000 What would you do?

00:31:52.000 You'd probably throw away some votes for that one party, wouldn't you?

00:31:54.000 Because you would think that you would know.

00:31:56.000 That's actually the pathological obsession that these people have.

00:32:02.000 And so all of a sudden, this idea of fraud becomes a lot more palatable.

00:32:05.000 Like, wow, okay.

00:32:06.000 So let me just, here's one example that I can use, and I could go endlessly with this.

00:32:10.000 Explain to me, anyone in the media, please offer me an explanation.

00:32:14.000 Why in Pennsylvania there was a 1,774% increase of voter registration for 90 plus year olds in the midst of a pandemic within 90 days?

00:32:26.000 No, that's a really simple, easy question, right?

00:32:29.000 Why is it that there was a bum rush of 90 plus year olds in the midst of a pandemic, the likes of which we've never seen, to go register to vote?

00:32:38.000 Why is it most of those lived in places where other voters are registered to vote?

00:32:42.000 Those are mostly nursing homes or living centers.

00:32:45.000 Well, an easy answer would be a practice that has been exposed before by certain agencies when a little bit of investigation is done. 0.99

00:32:51.000 It's called granny farming.

00:32:53.000 It's a term that the New York Times came up with, which is the intercepting and filling out of ballots of people that are at risk and they actually don't receive the ballots themselves.

00:33:02.000 Just two days ago, a woman named Susan at a developmentally disabled clinic in downtown Milwaukee said she started to do Zoom interviews with all of her patients because of the virus, she's not able to go in.

00:33:14.000 20 of them said that they wanted to vote for Trump, but the person who came in filled out the ballot for them for Biden and they were able to do nothing.

00:33:21.000 Can you think of anything more sick or evil than going to developmentally disabled patients and then exerting your political will against their choice?

00:33:30.000 That is an evil that I don't even want to touch right now.

00:33:32.000 But again, if they think the person in office is an evil person, they're justifying their own behavior.

00:33:39.000 And so there's an infinite amount of data I could go with this stuff.

00:33:45.000 So it's like Dane County, Wisconsin.

00:33:47.000 Let's just use this.

00:33:48.000 Anyone know Dane County, Wisconsin?

00:33:49.000 Maybe, maybe not.

00:33:51.000 Now it opened.

00:33:52.000 Okay, so Dane County, Wisconsin is where the University of Wisconsin-Madison is.

00:33:56.000 It's the largest school in the state of Wisconsin.

00:33:59.000 When Barack Obama visited in 2012, he had 45,000 people.

00:34:03.000 I think we'll all agree that Obama, for all of his flaws, that was a real political movement.

00:34:09.000 People supported him.

00:34:10.000 They had signage.

00:34:11.000 They had enthusiasm.

00:34:12.000 They had energy.

00:34:13.000 There was a kinetic energy to Barack Obama, right?

00:34:15.000 People were talking about it.

00:34:17.000 It was kitchen table conversation.

00:34:19.000 There was a real velocity behind the Obama movement, right?

00:34:22.000 Not one that I would philosophically subscribe to, but I believed it when he won.

00:34:26.000 Like I bought it.

00:34:27.000 I said, okay, there's support here.

00:34:29.000 It is inexplicable to me that Joe Biden, while the campus of University of Wisconsin-Madison is closed, it's a ghost town, managed to get 65,000 more votes than Barack Obama did in that same county.

00:34:40.000 I don't believe it.

00:34:42.000 And I want someone to prove how that's possible.

00:34:44.000 Joe Biden, who said he had no ground game, no canvassers whatsoever.

00:34:49.000 Now, the only explanation is because of vote by mail.

00:34:52.000 Is vote by mail, because everyone got a ballot, all of a sudden expanded turnout, and therefore it expanded Joe Biden's reach.

00:34:58.000 Jimmy Carter himself said that vote by mail is the most unsecure, open-to-fraud method of voting.

00:35:04.000 Of course it is.

00:35:04.000 You don't know who's actually filling out that ballot.

00:35:07.000 And you guys know all too well ballot harvesting here in the state of California, what it can do to an election.

00:35:11.000 And so, and even with ballot harvesting, you guys did unbelievably well in some of these elections here in California.

00:35:16.000 And so the suppression of anyone that mentions this stuff is also a tell that we're onto something.

00:35:23.000 How aggressive they are coming after me for just asking questions shows me that there's something to this, whether it be in Dominion voting systems or Hammer and scorecard or in SmartMatic or whatever it is, there are open-ended questions that we deserve answers to.

00:35:40.000 Because here's the consequence: the consequence is that if they do what they typically do, which is sit down and shut up, you're a racist, he's going to be president, then 70 million people are no longer going to trust the system.

00:35:56.000 And while that might be something that could benefit us politically in the short term, it's a really bad thing for the country.

00:36:03.000 It just is.

00:36:04.000 And so what happened, my working theory is this, and this is my exclusive theory, is that on Saturday before the election, the Biden campaign and the Democrats had to resort to Plan B and Plan C. Their initial plan was to win in a legitimate blue wave landslide styled after Obama in 2008 and 2012, where they would win Senate races in Montana, Iowa.

00:36:34.000 That any fraud that was done would be covered up by a massive Nancy Pelosi expansion.

00:36:40.000 But the Saturday before the election, they started to see what I saw, which was the Democrat polling was collapsing faster than the Nagino line in World War II.

00:36:50.000 I mean, it was the French way that just surrendered, right?

00:36:53.000 It was collapsing in real time.

00:36:55.000 And it was happening so quickly because a lot of you know this in your life, you know people.

00:37:00.000 The late breakers all went for Trump.

00:37:02.000 Married women went for Trump in a way the polling would never have expected, six points above the polling, right?

00:37:07.000 Where all of a sudden decent Americans were like, I don't like his style, but he's far better than Biden.

00:37:11.000 And it was happening, and the Democrats didn't know what to do.

00:37:15.000 And it is my working theory, and I think I can prove it.

00:37:17.000 I don't know if I'd be able to prove it in front of a judge because it's just that threshold of evidence is I don't have subpoena power, right?

00:37:23.000 But I could prove it to all of you, is that they went to Plan B, which is the Chicagoization of American politics, which is we are not going to submit our election results on election night.

00:37:33.000 We are going to take days.

00:37:35.000 We are going to sort.

00:37:36.000 We are going to cut corners.

00:37:38.000 And all of a sudden, we're going to slow down the process.

00:37:42.000 Have you ever lived through an election where it takes them five days to count ballots?

00:37:45.000 Where all of a sudden it's this all-week banana republic style affair of just like these slow trickle of ballots?

00:37:51.000 And the reason I believe is this, is that if all the ballots were demanded to be counted on election night, I think President Trump would have won.

00:37:58.000 I really do.

00:37:59.000 And so this is an old Chicago tactic, right?

00:38:03.000 Just figure out how many votes you need and compensate the difference with all the ballot laundering and the absentee rejection fraud.

00:38:09.000 And so here's a really simple example, a numerical example.

00:38:12.000 Just think about this logically.

00:38:14.000 Just strip yourself of any bias you have over Trump or whatever.

00:38:16.000 Georgia had 260,000 mail-in ballots in 2016.

00:38:21.000 They had 1.3 million this election cycle.

00:38:25.000 What guarantees were we given that they were prepared to process 1.3 million ballots correctly and verify all those signatures and check for fraud?

00:38:35.000 In 2016, 4% of all mail-in ballots were rejected for many different reasons.

00:38:41.000 Less than half of 1% was rejected this election in Georgia because they weren't prepared for that kind of onslaught of mail-in ballots.

00:38:49.000 And so that opens up for people that are filling in two ballots.

00:38:52.000 They're out of state.

00:38:53.000 They're filling it in for friends.

00:38:54.000 And you might say, well, it's not widespread.

00:38:57.000 1% of 1.3 million is a very big number.

00:39:00.000 In fact, that's closer than the number it would take.

00:39:03.000 4% of that number is about 40,000.

00:39:06.000 That would be enough for President Donald Trump to now be considered the winner in Georgia.

00:39:10.000 And so I know that I'm going on about this, but I think you guys are very interested in this.

00:39:16.000 That this was without a doubt not their primary plan.

00:39:22.000 And I think that if we can finally get the Federal Bureau of Investigation or the Department of Justice involved, which I don't know where they are, and I'm not trying to make you upset, but just think about this for a second.

00:39:34.000 Bubbo Wallace, Bubba Wallace, the NASCAR driver, claims that his rope on his garage is a noose.

00:39:41.000 Okay.

00:39:43.000 Again, it wasn't as bad as Justice Smollett.

00:39:45.000 He didn't plan it there, but he gives this whole diatribe about how it's a noose and he knows a noose when he sees one. 0.99

00:39:51.000 And only a black person can know what a noose looks like, which is the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life. 0.98

00:39:55.000 Like, everyone knows what a noose looks like, and we know what a garage thing is, okay? 0.99

00:39:59.000 The FBI sent 13 agents to go investigate that overnight.

00:40:03.000 Remember?

00:40:04.000 13 agents, like instantaneously.

00:40:07.000 And they determined that it was a garage rope and it wasn't a noose.

00:40:10.000 And all of that was just kind of drum-up controversy.

00:40:13.000 Where are the FBI agents flooding these urban areas and just asking questions?

00:40:18.000 Where are they?

00:40:20.000 And it's as if there's this line that they're not allowed to cross because they're afraid of being called bad names.

00:40:29.000 And I am confident, in fact, I'm certain that if any form of investigation was given into these cities, that there would be an organized criminal racket.

00:40:39.000 And let me just say one other thing.

00:40:40.000 People say there's no evidence, it's not true.

00:40:42.000 What if I told you 10 years ago that there would be 89,000 people that would step up and say they were sexually assaulted in the Boy Scouts?

00:40:49.000 Would you believe me?

00:40:50.000 No.

00:40:50.000 And say, no way.

00:40:52.000 They would have spoken out.

00:40:53.000 Well, that's what came out last week.

00:40:54.000 What if I told you in the 1960s that there were 600 Catholic priests that were molesting children?

00:41:00.000 You'd say, that's heresy. 1.00

00:41:01.000 Shut up. 1.00

00:41:02.000 Ended up being true. 1.00

00:41:03.000 You don't find something until you look into it.

00:41:06.000 And when you have suspicion of something, especially something evil, you have a moral obligation to look into it.

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00:42:42.000 Church and politics.

00:42:45.000 I was, you know, called a bunch of names by people outside the church, inside the church, that I was too political.

00:42:54.000 My viewpoint is everything's political.

00:42:58.000 But at this point, what does the church do?

00:43:02.000 What are the action steps that we take?

00:43:05.000 Because we're fired up here.

00:43:06.000 We want to do something.

00:43:09.000 What do we do?

00:43:11.000 So there's a verse in 1 Timothy that says, Pray for all leaders and authorities so they might live quiet and peaceable lives.

00:43:17.000 And I ask this question of churches, and I would imagine this church would be able to answer it better: is, you know, do you know the names of every single school board member and city council member?

00:43:26.000 And are you praying for them by name and the issues that they're dealing with?

00:43:29.000 And most churches can say no.

00:43:31.000 And they just say no.

00:43:32.000 I'm like, I don't.

00:43:33.000 And I think that churches need to begin to dominate local government.

00:43:38.000 I think that local races are so unbelievably important and they just get looked over.

00:43:43.000 County supervisor races, recorder races, and they're usually on like a Tuesday in March in an off year.

00:43:49.000 But they sometimes are the most consequential races to determining education and even whether or not you're going to have the California Department of Health showing up.

00:43:59.000 A lot of those are results of local races.

00:44:01.000 And so I will say this: what is the church supposed to do?

00:44:04.000 The church needs to get more political, not less political.

00:44:08.000 As I mentioned, all throughout the Old Testament, all throughout the Old Testament, there are examples of God's people trying to influence secular government.

00:44:16.000 Daniel, Joseph, Nehemiah, Jeremiah, Esther, Mordecai, there's limitless examples.

00:44:24.000 And so if a church says we don't want to be a political church, ironically, that's already a political statement, right?

00:44:31.000 So whether you say you're political or we're not political or politically left or political right, no matter what you do, you're making a political statement.

00:44:38.000 So just make the correct one is the next choice to make.

00:44:41.000 And then the other thing is that we are going to have to take account and responsibility for what we have been given.

00:44:48.000 And this is reflected in the parable of the talents.

00:44:52.000 And I believe that one of the gifts that we have been given is America.

00:44:56.000 And so I believe that the parable of the talents, for those of you that don't know, is basically a parable of an owner or someone in charge that distributes talents or currency to three different people.

00:45:13.000 And they all get different amounts and they all decide to do something different with it.

00:45:16.000 The person who gets the least amount ends up not multiplying it at all and putting it under a rock.

00:45:22.000 The person who gets an intermediate amount multiplies it slightly, but the person who gets a lot multiplies it greatly and gets blessed tremendously in the eyes of Jesus telling the story.

00:45:33.000 And the person who does nothing, it's one of the harshest actual sentences we have from Jesus on record, which is basically you're going to burn forever and the gnashing of the teeth.

00:45:41.000 I think we're actually going to have to take account for blessings that we're given.

00:45:44.000 And I actually think that we as Americans, when we face judgment, I think we are going to have a lot of explaining to do if we just decided to say that this country founded by Christians on biblical ideas that has been more equitable, more benevolent, more creative, and more generous than any other country ever, we decided it didn't matter if it disintegrated.

00:46:03.000 I think that we're going to actually face judgment for that.

00:46:05.000 Because this experiment that we have is the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.

00:46:10.000 It has lifted more people out of poverty, given more people opportunity, given more charity around the world, been a better example for these biblical ideas.

00:46:17.000 And so the church in Jeremiah, it says, care for the welfare of the nation that you're in.

00:46:22.000 We should care greatly of the direction the country is going in.

00:46:25.000 And so action steps are as this.

00:46:27.000 Number one, obviously the civic and local races, platform candidates that are around biblical ideas and support them.

00:46:35.000 And the other thing is this, and this is an unusual thing that I tell people, but it's go crazy about learning.

00:46:42.000 The greatest thing that the Christ, the thing that the Christian community doesn't do enough of is learn the political landscape that we're in.

00:46:50.000 And I'm starting to see this happen more, I have to say.

00:46:54.000 Start to read the literature that drives the left.

00:46:59.000 Know who Saul Linsky is. 0.91

00:47:00.000 Go read Rules for Radicals.

00:47:02.000 Go read what your children are learning.

00:47:04.000 Go understand what the 1619 project is.

00:47:07.000 Go read the political philosophy that was inspired by Christianity that built America, from Edmund Burke, from Thomas Paine to John Locke to Socrates to Plato and Aristotle.

00:47:18.000 And what I have found about Bible-believing Christians, especially Christians in a church like this, is that you're not afraid to learn.

00:47:26.000 A lot of you have Bible commentaries and you listen, you go deep into the original Greek and Hebrew.

00:47:30.000 That's awesome.

00:47:32.000 So let's do a little bit of learning now on the political landscape because learning is always the first step to a revival.

00:47:39.000 And a lot of your questions, let me be very clear, a lot of your questions of what do I do will answer itself the deeper you get into the texts, the deeper you get into the pursuit of truth, all of a sudden the answers will present itself.

00:47:53.000 Like, oh my gosh, yes, of course I should do that.

00:47:56.000 And so I want a knowledgeable Christian political community.

00:48:00.000 I want a Christian community that knows the literature of the left better than their activists do.

00:48:06.000 I want to see a Christian church that knows exactly where natural rights come from, that knows the writings of Aquinas versus Augustine.

00:48:13.000 And if a lot of this stuff is just all a bunch of word salads, that's okay because we never had to do this before.

00:48:19.000 You know why?

00:48:20.000 Because we were reaping the benefits of Christian sacrifices many generations ago. 0.86

00:48:25.000 We don't have that luxury anymore. 0.93

00:48:30.000 Two questions.

00:48:32.000 First is this.

00:48:33.000 And I think it's important for our church to hear this.

00:48:37.000 You made a recommendation to me in my office.

00:48:41.000 We have all kinds of different ministries here.

00:48:43.000 We're a large church, youth, college, young married, you know, active adults, bunch, bunch, bunch.

00:48:52.000 Who do you think we ought to hire here?

00:48:54.000 I think that every church needs a political civic pastor coordinator that at least once a week or once a month has a civics night where people can come and ask really good questions that things you're wrestling with.

00:49:06.000 And because with the over-political nature of our country, I'm sure a lot of people in this room have questions that you guys are wrestling with that you see on social media where people say, How can you be a Christian and support Trump?

00:49:18.000 How can you be a Christian and want to take people's health care away?

00:49:21.000 You're only pro-birth. 0.86

00:49:22.000 You're not pro-life.

00:49:23.000 I'm sure you guys hear this in one way or the other on social media.

00:49:25.000 See a lot of these heads being nodded?

00:49:27.000 So then what's the church doing to gather you guys on Wednesday or Thursday nights?

00:49:31.000 The same way that you would gather young singles and tell them how to marry biblically.

00:49:36.000 The same way on Tuesday nights you would have the young financial planning group, right?

00:49:39.000 How to get yourself out of bankruptcy.

00:49:41.000 It's not insignificant when people wrestle with these political issues because it sometimes possesses you, right?

00:49:47.000 Like maybe everything I believe politically is wrong or maybe like maybe it is, maybe it isn't.

00:49:51.000 And then you gather them.

00:49:52.000 And so I think that every church across the country should put on their payroll someone that is designated as the civic and governmental and political pastor, where people in that church can seek out that person in person, in email, phone call, text, and weekly gatherings around these issues of how am I supposed to interact with civic government with the Bible.

00:50:14.000 And if you have confusion, that's okay.

00:50:18.000 That's what that person should be there for.

00:50:20.000 And what I have found, and I know that you're already interested in doing this, organically, you kind of independently, I should say, we kind of came to this idea, is that as soon as you start to satisfy the flock around some of these answers, you will be stunned to see the church continue to grow and also deepen in its commitment to faith.

00:50:40.000 Because when you have, especially with young people, and when you have 18, 19, and 20-year-olds that are on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube all day long, and they're hearing nothing about transgender, BLM Incorporated, more relativism stuff, and they come back to the church and they ask a pastor, hey, what am I supposed to make sense of this?

00:50:58.000 And they say, oh, no, no, we don't touch this.

00:51:00.000 Well, then they're not going to come ask you for marriage advice either.

00:51:03.000 Okay, they're not going to come ask you for other important advice because they value that.

00:51:06.000 That's a really important thing.

00:51:07.000 They're trying to.

00:51:08.000 Can you help make sense of this?

00:51:09.000 Because there's this six-minute video about reparations, and it kind of feels good.

00:51:13.000 And shouldn't we, as Christians, give reparations away?

00:51:17.000 And if a pastor doesn't know exactly how to answer that, or they just say we don't do that, then they're going to be dismissed and they'll go seek somebody who is going to go answer them.

00:51:26.000 And that person probably isn't rooted in biblical truth.

00:51:29.000 And so I think that's a really important step for every church to take across the country.

00:51:36.000 So I don't believe that God is done with America.

00:51:40.000 I believe that there's a call, an anointing, a specific thing that God helped this nation to be birthed.

00:51:50.000 I don't believe that God is done with it.

00:51:54.000 We've talked about a lot of the challenging stuff that's in front of our nation.

00:51:58.000 Can you just give these people some hope in this moment?

00:52:01.000 So I'll do it in two and a half minutes if I can.

00:52:05.000 If you're like me, you look at the landscape and you say there are zero powerful institutions I trust.

00:52:11.000 If you're like me, you look at the news networks that many of us used to trust, the papers we used to read, the companies we bought stuff from, the colleges we sent our kids to, or your friends went to college to, or the Christian pastors you once followed, and you say, there's very little I trust anymore.

00:52:30.000 If you're like me, that's how I feel.

00:52:32.000 That is if this, the year of 2020, I think, has become the post-institutional year, where institutions that once had such authority over our lives have been crumbling and almost like Genesis 11 just absolutely being scattered and it's happening quickly.

00:52:49.000 So on the appearance, that's a really depressing thing.

00:52:53.000 It's actually unbelievably exciting because now it's this barren landscape where new things can be built.

00:52:59.000 Where all of a sudden, we as Christians, I think, have a call to action to do two things.

00:53:04.000 Well, three things.

00:53:05.000 Build, support, defend.

00:53:07.000 So to build new things, to build bigger institutions, to expand churches that are doing the things the right way, to go deeper into all of that, to build families, to do, to build new stuff.

00:53:18.000 And that is what we are called to do as Christians.

00:53:20.000 It's a uniquely Christian idea, which is to go forward into the unknown, into the barren, and erect something new.

00:53:27.000 That is a Christian idea, right?

00:53:29.000 And that's something we don't talk about enough.

00:53:31.000 Where it's Christianity is not about destruction.

00:53:34.000 It's not about any of that.

00:53:35.000 It's about, that's why the pilgrims literally called themselves pilgrims, even though they went the opposite direction of Israel.

00:53:40.000 Like, what?

00:53:41.000 They were going to nothing because they knew out of nothing, something could be created if you follow God's law.

00:53:46.000 Again, that's a longer speech I could give for a different time.

00:53:49.000 However, build, support.

00:53:52.000 I'm going to challenge all of you here.

00:53:54.000 Don't ever on social media or internet indulge in a pattern of behavior where you're looking for the next failure.

00:54:02.000 Do you notice how there's this irresistible appetite from the media and from the people who process media to wait for the downfall of the next person?

00:54:10.000 The next podcaster, you know, the next Christian pastor, the next business tycoon.

00:54:15.000 We just can't wait for the inevitable fall, right?

00:54:18.000 What are we doing to actually support the good guys?

00:54:20.000 What are we doing to go out of our way to say, you know what?

00:54:23.000 I know that they're going to try to be attacked by the media.

00:54:26.000 I know that they're going to send investigative reporters after them.

00:54:28.000 I know they're going to be all these sorts of different things.

00:54:30.000 I want to kind of prop up the good guys because they're going to be out of attack.

00:54:34.000 They're going to be under attack.

00:54:35.000 Because every time we see a pattern of success in our country, all of a sudden there is this massive, nasty, venomous internet culture that takes over, ridicules, mocks that person, and tries to take them down.

00:54:49.000 And again, I participate against that happens to me every day.

00:54:52.000 I'm not saying it's about me, but I'm saying that it could be very, it could be really exhausting when you feel as if even people that are supposed to be on your team are kind of like, yeah, I kind of want to see him cut down because he's a little too high for me.

00:55:05.000 Like enough of that.

00:55:06.000 Let's support the good guys.

00:55:07.000 They're not going to be perfect, but they'll be good.

00:55:08.000 And the final thing is let's go.

00:55:11.000 And I said build, support, defend.

00:55:12.000 And the defend is the other part of it, which is here's the optimistic message is that as the laws of gravity are now caving in on higher education, college, tech companies, big corporations, media institutions, all of it, then what a great opportunity to build something new.

00:55:28.000 And that's where we have to lean in and say that this is going to be our greatest moment where people are going to be seeking truth, seeking courage, because it is so unbelievably rare right now.

00:55:38.000 And it's going to be tough.

00:55:39.000 It's going to be difficult.

00:55:40.000 But I believe that America's best times could be ahead of us if we look at this as a new building moment, the same way the pilgrims did this very week many hundreds of years ago, where we're going to the new Jerusalem to go build something new with God's law and to be able to really fulfill his purpose here on earth and in this country.

00:55:58.000 And with that, I believe our best days are ahead.

00:56:00.000 Amen.

00:56:05.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:56:07.000 Please consider getting involved with Turning Point USA, where we play offense with a sense of urgency to win America's culture war at tpusa.com.

00:56:15.000 TPUSA.com.

00:56:18.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:56:19.000 God bless.

00:56:20.000 Speak to you soon.

The Charlie Kirk Show - November 27, 2020

The Church & Lockdowns, Tyranny, Natural Rights, and Revival with Pastor Greg Fairrington

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