The Charlie Kirk Show - March 15, 2021


Top 3 Things Every Christian Must Demand Of Their Government


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Learn English with Charlie Kirk. Charlie is the founder of Turning Point USA, an organization dedicated to fighting for freedom on college campuses across the country. He is also the president of the Christian Leadership Conference. In this episode, Charlie talks about what it means to be a courageous Christian in the face of adversity.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
00:00:01.000 I gave a very important speech in Albuquerque, New Mexico at my friend's church, Steve Smotherman's Church, all about what's happening in our country.
00:00:11.000 Where do we find moral courage?
00:00:13.000 Has this ever happened before?
00:00:15.000 We dive into a lot.
00:00:16.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:19.000 If you want to support our program, go to charliekirk.com/slash support.
00:00:24.000 And if you want to get involved with Turning Point USA, go to tpusa.com.
00:00:28.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:29.000 Here we go.
00:00:31.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:32.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.
00:00:35.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:38.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:41.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:42.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:43.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:52.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:00.000 That's why we are here.
00:01:04.000 Thank you guys.
00:01:06.000 Thank you.
00:01:07.000 It's great to be here in person, our peaceful protest.
00:01:10.000 That's what we're calling it, right, Steve?
00:01:13.000 I really enjoyed last evening.
00:01:15.000 If you tuned in or you were there, there will be a little bit of overlap, but we're going to talk about some new things today in every single one of the services.
00:01:23.000 First of all, I just want to say all of you that go to this church, maybe you're guests at this church, this man right here is passing the test.
00:01:33.000 This is a courageous man.
00:01:37.000 And also, it's not just him, but it's his whole team that has been working through this in the last year.
00:01:46.000 Because I could tell you, I've traveled the country.
00:01:50.000 You know, our podcast is doing very well.
00:01:52.000 We get thousands of emails.
00:01:54.000 And what people are saying more than anything else in the Christian world is, why is my church not open?
00:02:00.000 Why is my pastor not standing?
00:02:02.000 Why can Steve open and my church not be open?
00:02:06.000 And the answer is because moral courage is very rare right now.
00:02:11.000 Moral courage is very rare right now.
00:02:15.000 And Steve and this church has decided to do the right thing.
00:02:20.000 Not the easy thing, but the right thing.
00:02:22.000 So there's a couple protesters outside, a little disappointed.
00:02:26.000 It's only about 10.
00:02:27.000 Usually I'm able to draw a lot more than that.
00:02:30.000 And here's how you know you're doing the right thing.
00:02:35.000 What does it say in the book of James?
00:02:37.000 Consider it a pure joy if you are persecuted for the name of Jesus.
00:02:42.000 If you're not under attack right now, you're doing something wrong.
00:02:46.000 If you are not receiving backlash, then you are not in the sweet spot.
00:02:54.000 And so there's a couple things I want to talk about.
00:02:58.000 And I think that we fail to realize as Christians that we're in the midst of a big theological debate in our country.
00:03:09.000 And it's a theological debate that the media and the politicians don't want to admit.
00:03:16.000 This last year has really exposed it.
00:03:20.000 So we have to be very careful and specific the way that we describe what has happened in the last year.
00:03:27.000 For example, people say the virus has caused a rise in suicides.
00:03:33.000 People say the virus has caused small businesses to close.
00:03:38.000 That's incorrect.
00:03:40.000 The virus has killed people.
00:03:42.000 The virus is a real thing.
00:03:44.000 We know how it works.
00:03:45.000 We know how it operates.
00:03:46.000 Take proper precautions.
00:03:48.000 Act responsibly.
00:03:50.000 Use your liberty for good.
00:03:51.000 You could use your liberty for bad.
00:03:53.000 There's plenty of ways to do that.
00:03:55.000 But the virus did not get rid of the small businesses.
00:03:58.000 The lockdowns got rid of the small businesses.
00:04:02.000 The lockdowns have negatively impacted students across the country in a way that's hard to even comprehend.
00:04:13.000 And so for the governor and her team, and I mean this non-sarcastically, I don't remember her name because she is not doing anything worthy of me to remember her name.
00:04:21.000 Seriously.
00:04:22.000 No, seriously, I mean that.
00:04:26.000 And I say this.
00:04:28.000 In the Bible, names mean a lot, right?
00:04:30.000 Names are important.
00:04:31.000 She doesn't have a name worth remembering. 1.00
00:04:33.000 She's done nothing but abuse your freedoms and liberties, and she's part of the ruling class. 1.00
00:04:37.000 I'll get to that in a second. 0.97
00:04:38.000 So I have a message for her and for all the lockdown politicians in both parties, but mostly in one party.
00:04:43.000 And this is exactly what the Bible tells us, and it's more applicable today than ever before.
00:04:48.000 Number one, there is a God, and you are not him.
00:04:53.000 It's that simple.
00:04:59.000 And what these governors don't understand, what your governor in particular does not understand, is what is the compact that we're in in this country?
00:05:09.000 What's the relationship that we enter into?
00:05:12.000 And so a line of attack towards this church and your pastor is that you are violating the orders.
00:05:21.000 You've heard this before, right?
00:05:22.000 You're violating.
00:05:23.000 I've been told we're only allowed to be 33% open.
00:05:25.000 So look around.
00:05:26.000 It looks like we're violating, right?
00:05:28.000 Looks like we're violating.
00:05:33.000 Anyone who says that, anyone who believes that, has no idea what makes the American experiment so different.
00:05:42.000 You understand how exceptional this country is.
00:05:46.000 This is the greatest experiment in civil government in the history of the planet.
00:05:51.000 This country, I truly believe, is a gift from God, and we're currently squandering it.
00:05:56.000 And so what makes this country different is the consent of the governed.
00:06:01.000 They require our permission.
00:06:03.000 But even more than that, it's a simple recognition of where do rights come from.
00:06:07.000 See, if our children were being educated properly, which they generally aren't, this is one of the most important things that you could teach a young person.
00:06:15.000 Where do rights come from?
00:06:16.000 You hear people all the time, well, I have a right to this and I have a right to that.
00:06:19.000 Slow down.
00:06:20.000 Who gives you your rights?
00:06:22.000 God gives you your rights.
00:06:23.000 You're exactly right, not government.
00:06:26.000 And so when they say that you are violating the government's order, it's the exact opposite.
00:06:33.000 The government is violating your freedom to worship your creator.
00:06:38.000 They're violating you.
00:06:40.000 You're violating nothing.
00:06:43.000 What makes this country different and what we must defend at all costs, and I mean that, because the stakes have never been higher, is the government is supposed to work for us.
00:06:55.000 We're not supposed to work for the government.
00:06:57.000 Going back to the Greek word of citizen, it means co-ruler.
00:07:00.000 If you're a citizen, you are a co-ruler, the consent of the governed.
00:07:04.000 So if you read the U.S. Constitution, which is the greatest political document ever written in the history of the world.
00:07:09.000 Now, why is the Constitution so amazing?
00:07:12.000 The Constitution is so amazing, and it's the longest-lasting political document because it was not written for the times.
00:07:18.000 It was written to stand the test of time.
00:07:21.000 So it wasn't written just for one period of time.
00:07:24.000 And so the founding fathers were so brilliant, and they understood that the raw material that they were dealing with was terrible.
00:07:31.000 The raw material, we're human beings.
00:07:34.000 We're pretty awful.
00:07:36.000 We're terrible, actually.
00:07:37.000 So when you deal with the raw material of selfish, sinful, broken human beings, and you're able to create anything that is at least better than awful, you're doing okay.
00:07:50.000 So the founding fathers knew this verse, Genesis 8.
00:07:53.000 Now, any Christian who says that human beings are naturally good is ignoring this truth in the Bible.
00:07:59.000 And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, quote, I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth.
00:08:10.000 Neither will I ever again strike it down every living creature as I have done.
00:08:13.000 What is the Lord saying?
00:08:15.000 We're screwed up from the moment we're born. 0.83
00:08:18.000 Natural sin, original sin. 0.75
00:08:21.000 That's who we are in the state of nature.
00:08:22.000 Founding fathers understood this.
00:08:24.000 They said, we're not going to be able to create perfect people.
00:08:27.000 What made the founders so different, which is why the Constitution is more relevant today than ever before, is they knew the worst thing that could possibly happen was not singular evil.
00:08:40.000 It wasn't just one person murdering another person.
00:08:42.000 That's very bad.
00:08:44.000 It wasn't one person stealing a single thing.
00:08:47.000 It wasn't one person telling one lie.
00:08:48.000 No, no, no, there's something much worse than that.
00:08:50.000 This is a great question to ask a young person in a civics course, right?
00:08:53.000 Again, if our teachers were doing their job, they'd be taught to teach this, which is what's the worst thing you could do?
00:08:58.000 What's the worst thing you could do?
00:08:59.000 People might say, murder, lie.
00:09:01.000 Oh, that's all bad.
00:09:03.000 But what's worse than that?
00:09:04.000 The collectivization of that.
00:09:07.000 Where all of a sudden, not just there's a singular theft, but ultimate power, government becomes entrenched towards lying, stealing, murdering, killing.
00:09:20.000 That is far more evil than a single person doing that.
00:09:23.000 So the founding fathers realized that if we don't prevent against that collectivization of evil, tyranny, then all the freedoms that we momentarily enjoy will disappear.
00:09:36.000 That's why what you are doing today, worshiping our Creator, getting closer to the person who brought you to this planet, who made you in his image, is constitutionally protected twice in the U.S. Constitution.
00:09:49.000 The Establishment Clause and the Free Expression Clause.
00:09:51.000 The Founding Fathers were so clear about the role of the church, the role of worship, that they went out of their way to say that government has no right, no power to ever get into the church.
00:10:03.000 And as Steve said, we touched on this a little bit yesterday.
00:10:06.000 People say, separation of church and state.
00:10:08.000 Who's heard this before?
00:10:09.000 All the time.
00:10:10.000 Do you know that's nowhere in the Constitution?
00:10:12.000 Nowhere.
00:10:13.000 It's not in the Constitution.
00:10:14.000 It's in a single letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Convention.
00:10:18.000 One letter.
00:10:19.000 And they took it.
00:10:20.000 It's immoral.
00:10:21.000 It's unconstitutional. 0.98
00:10:22.000 It's unbiblical. 1.00
00:10:23.000 But let's pretend the fools are right. 0.99
00:10:26.000 Let's pretend that separation of church and state is the way we should live. 0.99
00:10:29.000 Then government bureaucrats have no business ever stepping foot in a church. 0.99
00:10:33.000 Keep the state out of the church.
00:10:36.000 So why is it, and this is worth thinking and contemplating, why is it that they're so focused on the church?
00:10:44.000 Do you notice how obsessed they are about the church?
00:10:46.000 BLM Inc. walks through the streets and they riot and they, no social distance, and they say that's okay.
00:10:52.000 Abortion clinics remain open. 0.87
00:10:54.000 Cannabis dispensaries remain open.
00:10:56.000 Yet it's the church that they're obsessed with.
00:11:00.000 Why?
00:11:02.000 Because every tyrant, and I'm going to dive into that word because it's a very important word, is threatened by the gathering and the organizing of citizens, co-rulers, that recognize something is more important than them.
00:11:18.000 What you're doing today, whether you realize it or not, is you are saying, hey, governor, whatever her name is, I answer to a higher power than you do.
00:11:29.000 That's what you're saying today.
00:11:33.000 And they don't like that.
00:11:35.000 That drives them mad.
00:11:38.000 They want to get rid of it.
00:11:39.000 Look at all the tyrants in the Bible. 0.98
00:11:42.000 Murdering of infants. 0.73
00:11:44.000 Going after anyone that might challenge their authority. 0.91
00:11:47.000 This pattern replicates itself.
00:11:50.000 Now, we as Christians have to do a better job of explaining what is happening in our country is a war on human nature.
00:11:59.000 You could have new phones, new technology, faster cars, better airplanes.
00:12:03.000 Human beings are not going to change.
00:12:05.000 The gospel is as relevant today as it was when it was first spoke, when it was first written down.
00:12:11.000 It's just as relevant.
00:12:16.000 Look, you've heard me talk about my pillow.
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00:12:21.000 And a lot of people are saying it's literally changing their life.
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00:12:27.000 But all that aside, Mike Lindell, a lot of you are asking me, how do I support Mike Lindell?
00:12:33.000 I love what he's doing.
00:12:34.000 I think he has great character.
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00:13:07.000 So in my spare time, I read Aristotle, and I encourage all of you to do that.
00:13:12.000 I'm half kidding.
00:13:13.000 But no, I was reading this the other day from a really brilliant guy, Dr. Larry Arne, who was doing a lecture from Hillsdale College, great place.
00:13:21.000 And I was reading this after the lecture, and I could not believe this.
00:13:25.000 And I'm going to read this from you.
00:13:26.000 And if you don't know it, Aristotle is one of the great classics who's taught by Plato, and one of the main reasons why the gospel spread in the first place.
00:13:34.000 And I think that if you really want to dive deep into the scriptures, understand ancient Greek.
00:13:38.000 It's a very important thing.
00:13:39.000 But I read this and I said, this is exactly what is happening right now.
00:13:43.000 So he wrote a book called Politics.
00:13:45.000 It's one of the most 2,400 years ago.
00:13:49.000 And do you know what he warned against?
00:13:51.000 I'll read it.
00:13:52.000 Tyrants preserve themselves by not letting there be any schools or collegial gatherings for leisured pursuits and doing everything that will keep all people as unknown to one another as possible.
00:14:12.000 Since familiarity breeds a greater degree of mutual trust.
00:14:17.000 That one sentence has more wisdom than the entire University of New Mexico.
00:14:21.000 It's true.
00:14:24.000 That one sentence.
00:14:26.000 Let's read this slower, piece by piece.
00:14:29.000 And by the way, Aristotle was not a Christian.
00:14:32.000 He actually was on earth before Christ ever came to be.
00:14:37.000 But Aristotle's thinking, writings, and influence paved the way for Christ's ministry.
00:14:44.000 And also, his reemergence with Thomas Aquinas allowed the gospel to spread.
00:14:49.000 So some Christians say, Charlie, why are you quoting a non-Christian in church?
00:14:53.000 I think that's a very sloppy accusation. 0.99
00:14:55.000 But if that's what you're thinking, there's a lot of wisdom.
00:14:58.000 Aristotle makes the argument that there is a God and he's worthy of exploring.
00:15:02.000 Okay, let's go through this again.
00:15:04.000 Tyrants preserve themselves by not letting there be any schools.
00:15:08.000 Why?
00:15:11.000 Education, the pursuit of truth, challenges tyrants' power.
00:15:16.000 Education comes in the Latin word to lead forth.
00:15:19.000 They don't want children to be led forth in the pursuit of truth to defend liberty, keep people locked down in their homes, looking at a computer screen, addicted to TikTok, no friends, no contact.
00:15:30.000 We'll get that in a second.
00:15:31.000 Other collegial gatherings.
00:15:34.000 What just happened there?
00:15:35.000 We were just worshiping.
00:15:36.000 Beautiful worship, by the way.
00:15:38.000 It's really good.
00:15:41.000 Why do tyrants hate that?
00:15:43.000 Because you're actually enjoying yourself. 0.99
00:15:45.000 Tyrants need you to be miserable. 0.98
00:15:47.000 They do. 0.95
00:15:48.000 The happy you are, the less relevant they are.
00:15:51.000 The happy you are, the less likely you are to listen to that woman from Santa Fe that just goes endlessly about whatever she has to say.
00:16:00.000 And doing everything, this is very important.
00:16:02.000 Tyrants, this is 2,400 years ago.
00:16:05.000 Things don't change.
00:16:07.000 You have new technology.
00:16:08.000 You could talk faster, whatever.
00:16:09.000 Human beings are exactly the same, carbon copied.
00:16:12.000 And this is something the left does not believe, by the way.
00:16:14.000 The left believes that human beings are malleable, yet you could change them.
00:16:20.000 Good luck.
00:16:22.000 We'll get to that.
00:16:23.000 That will keep all people as unknown to one another.
00:16:28.000 How do you keep people unknown to one another?
00:16:30.000 You make them all wear masks all the time.
00:16:32.000 And again, if you're wearing a mask here, I am mask agnostic.
00:16:36.000 I mean that.
00:16:36.000 I really am.
00:16:37.000 Agnosis means without knowledge.
00:16:38.000 They might work, they might not work.
00:16:40.000 And you should not make fun of people that wear masks.
00:16:42.000 I mean that non-sarcastically.
00:16:43.000 And you shouldn't condemn people that don't wear them.
00:16:45.000 No, I mean that.
00:16:46.000 Seriously.
00:16:47.000 However, the mask mandate, mandate, I'm totally against.
00:16:52.000 I'm not agnostic on that.
00:16:53.000 The mandate where I'm going to make you feel uncomfortable.
00:16:57.000 And I've come under great accusation for this, so bring it on. 1.00
00:17:01.000 I think that the Muslim veil dehumanizes people. 0.99
00:17:04.000 And I think the mask mandate dehumanizes people. 1.00
00:17:06.000 I'm going to say that publicly.
00:17:08.000 It does.
00:17:10.000 I think that God gave us a face for a reason.
00:17:15.000 And I think it's child abuse to have three-year-olds walking around with masks on.
00:17:18.000 I really do.
00:17:19.000 I think it's child abuse.
00:17:22.000 Oh, they're going to love that.
00:17:25.000 You're welcome, Steve.
00:17:29.000 Again, this is 2,400 years ago.
00:17:31.000 There's so much wisdom that came before us and the nonsense they teach our kids in these schools today.
00:17:36.000 You know, one thing, and I study the left because they follow me around the country so angry.
00:17:40.000 Do you notice how angry they are?
00:17:41.000 I thought they won every election.
00:17:43.000 They're the angriest winners I've ever seen in my life.
00:17:45.000 No, seriously.
00:17:47.000 They're always angry.
00:17:48.000 They're burning and they're yelling.
00:17:50.000 Anyways, we're happier and we lost.
00:17:52.000 It's like we have more cheerful.
00:17:54.000 And I'll get to that.
00:17:55.000 Cheerfulness.
00:17:55.000 Yeah, I know, I know.
00:17:56.000 Cheerfulness is actually the product of wisdom.
00:17:59.000 We'll get to that in a second.
00:17:59.000 That's why Christians are happier people.
00:18:01.000 Okay, so as possible, since familiarity breeds a greater degree of mutual trust.
00:18:10.000 Why is trust important?
00:18:12.000 Well, trust means that you don't have to live in a gated community.
00:18:20.000 Trust means that you're okay walking into a public event and not thinking you're going to be mugged outside.
00:18:29.000 Trust is all that keeps you from living in an endless paranoia hell.
00:18:34.000 It's trust.
00:18:36.000 And what we've grown accustomed to in America, and those of you that have visited the third world, you know that's not the case. 0.84
00:18:41.000 Is those little pieces of trust, it's not the norm in most countries around the planet. 0.95
00:18:46.000 It's not.
00:18:47.000 That if you have any sort of success, you're in gated communities, armed guards, chauffeured, in the house by the sun goes down.
00:18:56.000 You're not going out.
00:18:58.000 Trust is important.
00:19:00.000 Why do tyrants not want you to be able to trust other people?
00:19:03.000 It makes them more important.
00:19:06.000 And so, not letting there be any schools.
00:19:10.000 The fact that we've closed schools in our country permanently is going to be one of the greatest moral injustices ever done in the history of our country.
00:19:17.000 Ever.
00:19:19.000 The closure of schools was an unbelievable mistake.
00:19:23.000 Rise in suicide, opioids, mental health problems, child developmental problems.
00:19:29.000 I understand a couple weeks of school closures.
00:19:31.000 We didn't know what we were dealing with.
00:19:32.000 I get it.
00:19:33.000 Even a month.
00:19:35.000 Then you kind of roll into the summer.
00:19:36.000 Fine. 0.84
00:19:37.000 But then the fall, and then all the way to now, we are seeing a lost generation.
00:19:43.000 We are going to see millions of people.
00:19:45.000 You know, there are millions of people, according to independent study, that have never logged into a Zoom class.
00:19:51.000 They needed to be able to go to a class.
00:19:53.000 They needed to be able to held accountable.
00:19:55.000 What's going to happen to those people?
00:19:56.000 They'll get lost in the system.
00:19:58.000 They'll be more likely to go to prison, commit crimes, fall off the grid.
00:20:03.000 Why?
00:20:04.000 Well, because we were told to trust the science.
00:20:07.000 It's a lie.
00:20:08.000 What they meant and what they should say, what the governor should say, is, no, no, no, trust the scientists I like.
00:20:16.000 Big difference.
00:20:21.000 If we were to say trust the science, we'd say there is a portion of the American population that should take this very seriously.
00:20:29.000 Over the age of 60, underlying health conditions, comorbidities.
00:20:34.000 Focus on therapeutics, vitamin D, zinc.
00:20:38.000 Socially distant, stay at home if you have to.
00:20:40.000 We will take care of you.
00:20:42.000 The science says schools must be open.
00:20:45.000 The science says that businesses need to be open.
00:20:48.000 The science says that when you try to kill a mouse with a tomahawk missile, which is what we've done, you're going to uproot all of decent civil society and bring us in a direction that no one likes.
00:21:00.000 That's what the science says.
00:21:03.000 But they've politicized science.
00:21:04.000 Why?
00:21:05.000 Because they see an opportunity to make America in their image.
00:21:09.000 That's why.
00:21:10.000 And I hate to be this blunt and this cynical.
00:21:13.000 There is no other explanation for the lockdown of America beyond what they did.
00:21:17.000 Zero.
00:21:18.000 The states that are the most lockdowns are worse than the states that are opened up when it comes to virus rates, hospitalization rates, and death rates.
00:21:26.000 They're worse.
00:21:27.000 Not to mention all the other issues that they're going to have to deal with.
00:21:32.000 Now, the science tells us that children in schools are not contributing at all to community spread.
00:21:42.000 With the flu, that actually is not the case.
00:21:44.000 Believe it or not, children are spreaders of the flu.
00:21:47.000 For whatever reason, the Chinese coronavirus, which by the way, that's what everyone should call it, the Chinese coronavirus, no such spread.
00:21:57.000 And so this is a moment where we have to take a step back over this last year and we have to ask ourselves the question, how did this happen?
00:22:07.000 Because what just happened is going to take decades of work to reverse, if we even want to reverse it.
00:22:14.000 The inflation that's about to come, the money we created out of thin air, the schools, the closures, the mental health issues, the opioid addiction, and it's all self-imposed, almost all of it.
00:22:28.000 And so, how did this happen?
00:22:31.000 Well, number one, I'm going to read you a quote from George S. Patton, another person that isn't taught in our schools.
00:22:37.000 In fact, he's called the white supremacist, which is just so terrible.
00:22:39.000 And this describes your pastor perfectly.
00:22:42.000 Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
00:22:48.000 Courage, what your pastor has and what you have, is one of the most absent characteristics in America.
00:22:56.000 It is.
00:22:57.000 Why?
00:22:58.000 In the social media era and what we're in, it's nothing new.
00:23:01.000 People are afraid, understandably, of the cost that comes with speaking out publicly.
00:23:08.000 Now, if you don't believe in Jesus and you don't believe the Bible is the word of God, I actually judge you at a different degree here.
00:23:17.000 I do.
00:23:18.000 But if you believe that Jesus is king of the world, if you believe that Jesus is an equal part of the Godhead, if you believe that you're born new and you have everlasting life waiting for you, and somehow you're in a position where you're like, I'm scared of what people will think about me.
00:23:40.000 I think to myself, and I struggle to say this, do you actually believe that?
00:23:47.000 Because if you believe that you have everlasting life, if you've been born new, then what should be stopping you from speaking with courage and getting out into the public square?
00:23:56.000 Nothing.
00:23:59.000 And I'm not here to judge people's own walk and all that.
00:24:02.000 That's not my place.
00:24:03.000 It's not.
00:24:04.000 What I am saying, though, is, where's the fruit? 0.89
00:24:07.000 American Christianity has more higher budgets, bigger buildings, and more baptisms than ever before. 0.97
00:24:13.000 Yet we abort more children. 1.00
00:24:14.000 We have transgender bathrooms. 1.00
00:24:16.000 We're legalizing drugs as far as the eye can see. 1.00
00:24:19.000 More children are going to be raised out of wedlock than with stable families, 52% divorce rate.
00:24:23.000 And we look around and we say, what is the imprints that American Christianity has made on the world? 0.76
00:24:30.000 Bigger budgets, bigger buildings, more baptisms. 0.96
00:24:33.000 I'm all for that.
00:24:34.000 Trust me.
00:24:36.000 The parable of the talents, I think, is the best application for this.
00:24:41.000 In short, the wisdom of the parable of the talents is that if you are given more, you're expected to multiply what you've been given and you will be judged accordingly.
00:24:50.000 That's the short wisdom of it.
00:24:54.000 We live in the wealthiest, freest, most prosperous country in the history of the world that was founded by Christian men and women inspired by the Bible of activist preachers of the black robe regimen after the first great awakening from the teachings of the Bible. 0.65
00:25:11.000 What did they put on?
00:25:11.000 This is how I knew the founding fathers are brilliant.
00:25:13.000 They put Leviticus on the Liberty Bell.
00:25:15.000 That's how you know they're just awesome.
00:25:18.000 And, you know, people like Andy Stanley, megachurch pastor from Georgia, says, you know, we shouldn't teach the Old Testament.
00:25:24.000 That's complete nonsense. 0.99
00:25:25.000 No, it's true. 1.00
00:25:26.000 This is what most Christians are talking about right now.
00:25:28.000 And I'll get to that in a second.
00:25:31.000 We're going to be judged on whether or not we preserve this gift called the United States of America, or at the very least, if you try to do something about it.
00:25:38.000 Remember the raw material we're working with.
00:25:39.000 You know, I always love these campus leftists.
00:25:41.000 They say human beings are basically good.
00:25:44.000 And I say, only someone who has never studied human history can believe something like that, truly.
00:25:50.000 Look at the legacy of slavery.
00:25:51.000 Look what we're doing right now, a million abortions every single year in our country.
00:25:56.000 The Holocaust, Auschwitz, 50 million people killed between Mao China and the USSR.
00:26:01.000 And we're supposed to believe that human beings are basically good?
00:26:04.000 No.
00:26:05.000 So what makes America different is the first ever benevolent superpower in the history of the world, ever.
00:26:11.000 Show me another time where a country has had as much power as we have had and generally always striving to do the right thing.
00:26:19.000 We have power that could conquer an entire continent.
00:26:23.000 But generally, we care more to liberate than to occupy.
00:26:28.000 For example, show me another country that has committed so much for the liberation of people that were ensuring them or in bondage.
00:26:35.000 South Korea exists because of the United States of America. 0.53
00:26:37.000 We call it the Forgotten War. 0.88
00:26:39.000 The Korean War.
00:26:40.000 The communists were marching all throughout the Korean Peninsula. 0.65
00:26:43.000 They were going to occupy the entire Korean peninsula. 0.91
00:26:45.000 It would all be North Korea, the whole thing. 0.94
00:26:48.000 We send hundreds of thousands of our troops who are war-weary already after World War II, push back the communists to what is now the DMZ, and then a new country was formed, South Korea.
00:26:59.000 100 million people live free today in South Korea because of the selfless sacrifice of the United States of America.
00:27:08.000 100 million people.
00:27:12.000 And by the way, I'm a critic of many foreign policy decisions of the United States in the last couple hundred years.
00:27:17.000 I have never made the argument that America is perfect.
00:27:19.000 Of course not.
00:27:20.000 You're dealing with human beings.
00:27:21.000 But we are excellent.
00:27:22.000 It's a big difference.
00:27:24.000 And what did we ask for in return in South Korea? 0.98
00:27:26.000 Do we colonize them? 0.75
00:27:28.000 Do we ask for ports of entry?
00:27:29.000 5% tax?
00:27:31.000 All we asked for was land to bury our dead.
00:27:34.000 That's all we asked for.
00:27:36.000 He said, give us the land so we could bury the people at sacrifice so you could live free.
00:27:39.000 What other country has done that?
00:27:41.000 You think the Soviet Union went around to other countries liberating people from bondage?
00:27:45.000 They did the opposite. 0.60
00:27:46.000 They occupied, they controlled, and they terrorized.
00:27:50.000 This country shatters, the gospel will shatter alongside of it. 0.98
00:27:54.000 It will be the greatest deathblow to religious freedom in world history. 1.00
00:27:59.000 We take this so for granted. 0.90
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00:29:24.000 There is a serpent that is going around the American church. 0.99
00:29:28.000 America's a racist country. 1.00
00:29:30.000 America's a terrible place. 0.99
00:29:32.000 Why do you love your country?
00:29:35.000 This is a lie.
00:29:37.000 First of all, it tells you in the scriptures to pray for the peace of the city of which you are in, to care for the nation of which you're in.
00:29:43.000 What is a nation?
00:29:44.000 Where do we get the idea of a nation?
00:29:46.000 The Bible.
00:29:47.000 The idea of a nation, borders, values, laws, people who govern.
00:29:52.000 That's a biblical idea.
00:29:54.000 Nation versus kingdoms, big difference.
00:29:58.000 So we get this idea of a nation from the Bible.
00:30:02.000 America falls, the world will fall alongside of it.
00:30:04.000 And some Christians and some pastors are going alongside, and they're saying, what's the difference?
00:30:09.000 This country's not that great.
00:30:11.000 There's nothing special about us.
00:30:13.000 We're not exceptional.
00:30:14.000 That's what they're talking about. 0.90
00:30:17.000 And what unbelievable pride and foolishness, a terrible combination, I might add. 0.97
00:30:22.000 Deceitfulness, arrogance, and resentment. 0.88
00:30:25.000 The three worst things someone in public life could be.
00:30:29.000 And the American church right now is currently failing that test.
00:30:33.000 And they're not failing in a little bit.
00:30:34.000 They're failing in a lot.
00:30:35.000 There are three different types of churches in America when it comes to this.
00:30:39.000 The first is the church that you're in.
00:30:41.000 Wide open, great pastor, unapologetic, very courageous.
00:30:48.000 The second type of church is scared and complacent.
00:30:52.000 I'm going to offer some grace to them.
00:30:54.000 I don't think they've ever been trained or prepared for this moment.
00:31:00.000 I really do.
00:31:01.000 I think there are good pastors here in this general area that are completely taken by surprise.
00:31:08.000 Someone wants to shut us down?
00:31:10.000 I thought the church was always something that was going to be protected.
00:31:14.000 And I think some of them are good people that are kind of paralyzed in inaction.
00:31:19.000 And we need to go to those pastors and say, hey, lead, follow, or get out of the way.
00:31:26.000 It's really that simple.
00:31:29.000 And go follow people like Pastor Steve if you want to actually pursue what is right.
00:31:35.000 But the last type of church is the one that I've dedicated plenty of my time, energy, and public platform vocalizing towards.
00:31:44.000 And that's the complicit church.
00:31:47.000 This is a very big problem. 0.88
00:31:48.000 I'm talking about the church that embraces BLM Incorporated. 0.87
00:31:53.000 I'm talking about the church that says that America is not a country worth saving or preserving.
00:32:00.000 I'm talking about someone like Rick Warren, who played an impact on my life growing up, wrote a great book, Purpose-Driven Life, but he's not finishing well.
00:32:09.000 He's not.
00:32:10.000 In fact, it really is sad.
00:32:12.000 Rick Warren is not finishing the race well.
00:32:16.000 Remember, it says in the Bible that this is a long journey.
00:32:20.000 This is a marathon.
00:32:23.000 And if we all know that if you don't finish well, what good is the whole race, right?
00:32:26.000 It doesn't matter how strong you start.
00:32:28.000 This is a long arc.
00:32:30.000 And finishing well is tough.
00:32:31.000 You guys know that that are runners.
00:32:33.000 I used to run before I had a terrible back injury.
00:32:35.000 Finishing well takes, you got to dig deep, right?
00:32:38.000 That's where you really find out who you are, finishing well.
00:32:42.000 That's where all of a sudden the head games start to, you know, for those of you that have run marathons before, mile 20, mile 21, that is not a physical game, right?
00:32:51.000 It's all up here.
00:32:54.000 So a lot of these pastors are not finishing well.
00:32:56.000 Rick Warren comes out and he says, God doesn't care how you vote.
00:33:01.000 And he says, there's really no difference between the two.
00:33:03.000 Christine Kane said the same thing. 0.99
00:33:05.000 Doesn't matter who's in charge.
00:33:08.000 Now, to believe that God doesn't care about anything that you do is so unbelievably unbiblical.
00:33:15.000 God cares about everything that you do.
00:33:17.000 He cares about who you marry, how you act, where you work, where you spend your money, even how you eat, all of it.
00:33:23.000 God cares about all those things.
00:33:25.000 But to say that God is somehow morally indifferent, that he kind of takes a neutral position on the issue of abortion.
00:33:35.000 So I have three rules.
00:33:36.000 Three rules of how Christians should vote. 0.91
00:33:39.000 And it's not even right versus left.
00:33:40.000 It's this simple.
00:33:42.000 That every Christian, first of all, must vote. 0.98
00:33:46.000 Every Christian, and that's the least that you should do. 1.00
00:33:48.000 Like the very minimum. 0.98
00:33:51.000 All throughout the Old Testament, people we view as heroes were involved in secular government for God's purpose.
00:33:57.000 Esther, Mordecai, Daniel, Jeremiah, Nehemiah, Joseph, you name it.
00:34:02.000 They were the counselor to the king for God's purpose.
00:34:06.000 Three rules.
00:34:08.000 It's very simple. 0.97
00:34:10.000 And if any Christian violates these when they vote, then I believe that they're pursuing some form of an Eastern religious Christianity that is a complete and total deviation from the word of God. 0.94
00:34:24.000 Number one, it's pretty simple. 0.94
00:34:27.000 It starts and finishes with what you are willing to do with those that can't protect themselves, the issue of life.
00:34:33.000 If you do not vote for life and vote against the massacre of the unborn in our country, then you're not actually following the gospel.
00:34:43.000 Now, I will say that sometimes the pro-life movement needs to do a better job of advertising, advocating, and living out adoption.
00:34:53.000 I've said this before.
00:34:54.000 However, Pastor Rob McCoy, my pastor from Calvary Chapel Thousand Oaks, has a public challenge the last 20 years.
00:35:02.000 He says, Any member of our community that is thinking of having a child, I will adopt that child for you instead of you having an abortion.
00:35:11.000 Never been taken up on that offer, right?
00:35:14.000 And so I do, we have to do a better job of that.
00:35:16.000 And a culture of all of life.
00:35:17.000 Now, let me tell you what bothers me the most is the serpent in the church says, oh, you only care about pro-birth.
00:35:26.000 Heard this before.
00:35:29.000 Every public policy position that I articulate and that I believe in is for a culture of life.
00:35:37.000 I want more police officers because I want less children to be shot on the way to school.
00:35:42.000 I want school choice so minority kids can learn to read.
00:35:45.000 I want strong borders so women aren't sex trafficked across our southern border.
00:35:49.000 I don't want drugs to be legalized so that our teenagers aren't addicted to opioids.
00:35:55.000 Every position that we articulate is a pro-life position.
00:36:01.000 Every single one.
00:36:02.000 I want people to get married before they have kids because they're less likely to go into poverty when they have a mother and a father in the home.
00:36:09.000 So do not allow anyone to say, oh, you only are pro-birth.
00:36:12.000 Every position that I believe in and that you should believe in too is around a culture of life, the protection of the innocent, the elevation of the human being.
00:36:23.000 Not addicting them to government programs or government welfare, but giving them the tools, the skills, the education, which remember means to lead forth to be able to be self-sufficient and to succeed.
00:36:35.000 Number two, no Christian can ever be supportive of the destruction of the truth that there are only two genders. 0.80
00:36:46.000 And I never thought this would be an issue. 0.80
00:36:49.000 This is a new phenomenon.
00:36:51.000 If I would have said this 20 years ago, you guys would have been like, yeah, okay.
00:36:57.000 Chaos.
00:36:59.000 Confusion.
00:37:00.000 They're tools of the enemy.
00:37:01.000 Jesus brings truth.
00:37:03.000 When you have truth, what do you have?
00:37:04.000 Clarity, stability, and direction.
00:37:07.000 You ever try to drive somewhere without a map?
00:37:10.000 GPS goes out?
00:37:12.000 Chaos.
00:37:14.000 What are you willing to do when you're lost?
00:37:15.000 Anything.
00:37:16.000 Pay for directions.
00:37:19.000 Anything.
00:37:20.000 When you're lost, you panic.
00:37:24.000 What happens when you panic?
00:37:25.000 You're easier to control.
00:37:27.000 Chaos is a gateway to allow people to control you. 1.00
00:37:32.000 Gender, chaos, and confusion. 1.00
00:37:35.000 What's happening in our country is one of the most immoral, not talked about issues in our country. 1.00
00:37:40.000 I've gone all in on this issue. 1.00
00:37:42.000 There are only two genders, man and woman. 1.00
00:37:45.000 Science says this. 0.92
00:37:46.000 The Bible has said this.
00:37:51.000 It's a truth very early on in Genesis.
00:37:54.000 It doesn't take us that long to find it.
00:37:57.000 Why is this important?
00:38:00.000 It's important not just to try to stem the rise of chaos and confusion, but it's also important for something much more simple than this, which is, as soon as you can't define something as scientifically simple as an XX or an XY chromosome, what else are you all of a sudden start to not define?
00:38:22.000 For example, they are now saying that math is racist.
00:38:27.000 I'm not kidding.
00:38:28.000 It's a new thing.
00:38:28.000 That 2 plus 2 does not equal 4.
00:38:30.000 As soon as you have a war on objectivity as something as similar, as a chromosomal structure of how God made you, it all goes. 0.67
00:38:42.000 Number three, every Christian must vote and support candidates who believe that the church is the most essential institution in the country.
00:39:00.000 They work for us.
00:39:01.000 The church should never be closed again, ever, for the future of America.
00:39:06.000 Learn this lesson and say, you're going to have to come and arrest us all. 0.59
00:39:10.000 Now, I remember one of the skinny gene-wearing pastors from New York, he gave this long sermon about we need to have a Daniel moment in the church.
00:39:24.000 This is before the lockdowns, right?
00:39:25.000 When you have a Daniel moment, whole thing about Daniel, all this.
00:39:29.000 And I love the book of Daniel.
00:39:31.000 It's actually a beautifully written book.
00:39:34.000 And part in Daniel, Daniel, and I'm paraphrasing this story, was basically conspired against and put into a trap where basically if he was going to pray, he was going to be violating the law.
00:39:50.000 So what does Daniel do?
00:39:51.000 Daniel hears the order, understands the punishment, doesn't do anything violent, goes back to his home or his place of worship, opens up the windows towards the city for everyone to see, and conducts his prayer.
00:40:07.000 That's a Daniel moment that all of you are passing and your pastor is passing, where most pastors are saying, oh, I'm not allowed to gather.
00:40:16.000 Okay.
00:40:17.000 Shut it down. 0.92
00:40:18.000 Let's just become a YouTube channel.
00:40:20.000 That's what they're saying.
00:40:22.000 Remember what Aristotle said?
00:40:23.000 Not letting there be any schools or other collegial gatherings for leisured pursuits as possible since familiarity breeds a greater degree of trust.
00:40:32.000 What's happening here today?
00:40:34.000 There are people that are going to need to see friends that are going to need to be around other human beings.
00:40:41.000 I reject this movement that we are nothing more than automatons looking at a screen all the time.
00:40:47.000 That we're still human beings that need social gatherings, that needs to be around other heartbeats, that needs to be around other souls, that we're more than just the lens that we look through.
00:40:58.000 And for people watching at home, I understand that people have to make different decisions.
00:41:02.000 I've watched church on YouTube before.
00:41:04.000 It's fine.
00:41:04.000 It's not an accusation towards them.
00:41:07.000 The point is, don't disallow people from doing this.
00:41:11.000 That's called liberty.
00:41:15.000 So those are the three things.
00:41:17.000 It's more than that.
00:41:18.000 I mean, I could go into socialism on how it's directly against two out of the ten commandments: thou shalt not covet, thou shalt not steal.
00:41:24.000 I could go through all of it.
00:41:26.000 But those three things are non-negotiables. 0.66
00:41:29.000 You say you're a Christian, and yet you want to go vote for a million abortions a year, the destruction of gender, and a non-essential church.
00:41:42.000 Those are the three non-negotiables, and I could build all of it out even further than that.
00:41:46.000 So, what do we do about it?
00:41:47.000 What are the action steps?
00:41:49.000 First and foremost, let me tell you this: this state is ready for an awakening.
00:41:56.000 It really is.
00:42:00.000 That what you are doing here is going to send shockwaves throughout the entire state.
00:42:05.000 It really is.
00:42:06.000 And lean in on that.
00:42:08.000 Run for local office.
00:42:09.000 Take the education of your children seriously.
00:42:13.000 And the tyrants are getting nervous.
00:42:19.000 And they should be.
00:42:20.000 The tyrants have abused their power for too long.
00:42:26.000 And people of all different backgrounds are going to be looking at the church to guide them.
00:42:33.000 They're going to be looking at the place that communicates truth to guide them.
00:42:37.000 And so, in your own individual life, there's three types of people: the people that do nothing.
00:42:45.000 Forget about those people.
00:42:47.000 The fighters and the people that help the fighters.
00:42:52.000 And the fighters and the people that help the fighters are moral equivalents.
00:42:56.000 I mean this.
00:42:58.000 Not everyone can do what I do.
00:43:00.000 I get it.
00:43:01.000 Armed security, protests everywhere I go, death threats, you name it.
00:43:05.000 I live it.
00:43:06.000 And I do not play a victim.
00:43:07.000 That is not why I'm saying it.
00:43:10.000 I don't even want your sympathy with it.
00:43:12.000 It's part of the game.
00:43:13.000 It's a promise that Jesus made.
00:43:15.000 Blessed are you persecuted in the name of me.
00:43:17.000 And I mean that.
00:43:18.000 And I actually believe it.
00:43:20.000 But I understand That we have a diversity of ways that people are going to pursue this truth.
00:43:29.000 So, maybe you're a person, you're like, boy, if anyone found out I was even a little bit supportive of what he said, I'd lose my job, lose my career, I get it.
00:43:37.000 Then be someone that helps the fighters.
00:43:39.000 Be someone that is praying, active, and supportive of the people that are sticking their neck out.
00:43:44.000 Or maybe someone here is like, you know what?
00:43:47.000 I've been quiet for long enough.
00:43:49.000 I'm in a position of authority.
00:43:50.000 I'm a boss.
00:43:51.000 I'm a manager.
00:43:52.000 I'm a pastor.
00:43:53.000 And I am going to start speaking out.
00:43:55.000 And I don't care about the cost.
00:43:56.000 Be one of those two categories.
00:43:59.000 But the key is courage.
00:44:02.000 Courage is hard.
00:44:04.000 The best way to tell anyone to do anything is to show people that are doing it, like your pastor.
00:44:11.000 So people say, well, what does courage look like?
00:44:13.000 That's what courage looks like.
00:44:14.000 So I'll close with this.
00:44:16.000 I don't want to, I'm like right on time, right?
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00:44:55.000 I know it sounds silly and self-promotional, but it's very important.
00:44:58.000 The more people that do that, the more people organically get it.
00:45:02.000 And if everyone in this room did that, we would beat the New York Times and the podcast charts, which I would love to be able to do by tomorrow morning.
00:45:08.000 But the last thing is this, and then I'll hand it off to Steve.
00:45:13.000 There's a God who made you in his image.
00:45:16.000 He wants to get back in a relationship with you.
00:45:20.000 He has a way for you to do that through his son, a perfect sacrifice.
00:45:27.000 I gave my life to Jesus many years ago, and it's the greatest decision I ever made.
00:45:33.000 Maybe you're new to the church.
00:45:34.000 Maybe you've never been here before.
00:45:35.000 Maybe you just came for politics.
00:45:37.000 Then I highly, not just highly encourage, I plead with you to do that.
00:45:42.000 And that's really the why in what we do, isn't it?
00:45:45.000 And that's the why in what I do.
00:45:47.000 God bless you guys.
00:45:47.000 Thank you so much.
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