00:00:01.000I 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.
00:00:43.000His 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.
00:00:52.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:15.000If 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.
00:01:23.000First 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.
00:03:55.000But the virus did not get rid of the small businesses.
00:03:58.000The lockdowns got rid of the small businesses.
00:04:02.000The lockdowns have negatively impacted students across the country in a way that's hard to even comprehend.
00:04:13.000And 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.
00:04:59.000And 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?
00:05:09.000What's the relationship that we enter into?
00:05:12.000And so a line of attack towards this church and your pastor is that you are violating the orders.
00:06:03.000But even more than that, it's a simple recognition of where do rights come from.
00:06:07.000See, 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.
00:06:43.000What 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.
00:06:55.000We're not supposed to work for the government.
00:06:57.000Going back to the Greek word of citizen, it means co-ruler.
00:07:00.000If you're a citizen, you are a co-ruler, the consent of the governed.
00:07:04.000So if you read the U.S. Constitution, which is the greatest political document ever written in the history of the world.
00:07:09.000Now, why is the Constitution so amazing?
00:07:12.000The Constitution is so amazing, and it's the longest-lasting political document because it was not written for the times.
00:07:18.000It was written to stand the test of time.
00:07:21.000So it wasn't written just for one period of time.
00:07:24.000And so the founding fathers were so brilliant, and they understood that the raw material that they were dealing with was terrible.
00:07:37.000So 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.
00:07:50.000So the founding fathers knew this verse, Genesis 8.
00:07:53.000Now, any Christian who says that human beings are naturally good is ignoring this truth in the Bible.
00:07:59.000And 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.
00:08:10.000Neither will I ever again strike it down every living creature as I have done.
00:08:24.000They said, we're not going to be able to create perfect people.
00:08:27.000What 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.
00:08:40.000It wasn't just one person murdering another person.
00:09:07.000Where all of a sudden, not just there's a singular theft, but ultimate power, government becomes entrenched towards lying, stealing, murdering, killing.
00:09:20.000That is far more evil than a single person doing that.
00:09:23.000So 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.
00:09:36.000That'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.
00:09:49.000The Establishment Clause and the Free Expression Clause.
00:09:51.000The 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.
00:10:03.000And as Steve said, we touched on this a little bit yesterday.
00:10:06.000People say, separation of church and state.
00:11:02.000Because 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.
00:11:18.000What 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.
00:13:13.000But 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.
00:13:21.000And I was reading this after the lecture, and I could not believe this.
00:13:26.000And 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.
00:13:34.000And I think that if you really want to dive deep into the scriptures, understand ancient Greek.
00:13:52.000Tyrants 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.
00:14:12.000Since familiarity breeds a greater degree of mutual trust.
00:14:17.000That one sentence has more wisdom than the entire University of New Mexico.
00:15:11.000Education, the pursuit of truth, challenges tyrants' power.
00:15:16.000Education comes in the Latin word to lead forth.
00:15:19.000They 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.
00:19:06.000And so, not letting there be any schools.
00:19:10.000The 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.
00:20:42.000The science says schools must be open.
00:20:45.000The science says that businesses need to be open.
00:20:48.000The 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.
00:21:18.000The 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.
00:21:27.000Not to mention all the other issues that they're going to have to deal with.
00:21:32.000Now, the science tells us that children in schools are not contributing at all to community spread.
00:21:42.000With the flu, that actually is not the case.
00:21:44.000Believe it or not, children are spreaders of the flu.
00:21:47.000For whatever reason, the Chinese coronavirus, which by the way, that's what everyone should call it, the Chinese coronavirus, no such spread.
00:21:57.000And 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?
00:22:07.000Because what just happened is going to take decades of work to reverse, if we even want to reverse it.
00:22:14.000The 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.
00:23:18.000But 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.
00:23:40.000I think to myself, and I struggle to say this, do you actually believe that?
00:23:47.000Because 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?
00:24:36.000The parable of the talents, I think, is the best application for this.
00:24:41.000In 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.
00:24:54.000We 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.
00:25:31.000We'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.
00:25:38.000Remember the raw material we're working with.
00:25:39.000You know, I always love these campus leftists.
00:25:41.000They say human beings are basically good.
00:25:44.000And I say, only someone who has never studied human history can believe something like that, truly.
00:26:40.000The communists were marching all throughout the Korean Peninsula.
00:26:43.000They were going to occupy the entire Korean peninsula.
00:26:45.000It would all be North Korea, the whole thing.
00:26:48.000We 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.
00:26:59.000100 million people live free today in South Korea because of the selfless sacrifice of the United States of America.
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00:29:37.000First 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.
00:31:48.000I'm talking about the church that embraces BLM Incorporated.
00:31:53.000I'm talking about the church that says that America is not a country worth saving or preserving.
00:32:00.000I'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.
00:32:33.000I used to run before I had a terrible back injury.
00:32:35.000Finishing well takes, you got to dig deep, right?
00:32:38.000That's where you really find out who you are, finishing well.
00:32:42.000That'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?
00:34:10.000And 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.
00:34:54.000However, Pastor Rob McCoy, my pastor from Calvary Chapel Thousand Oaks, has a public challenge the last 20 years.
00:35:02.000He 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.
00:35:11.000Never been taken up on that offer, right?
00:35:14.000And so I do, we have to do a better job of that.
00:36:02.000I 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.
00:36:09.000So do not allow anyone to say, oh, you only are pro-birth.
00:36:12.000Every 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.
00:36:23.000Not 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.
00:36:35.000Number two, no Christian can ever be supportive of the destruction of the truth that there are only two genders.
00:36:46.000And I never thought this would be an issue.
00:38:00.000It'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?
00:38:22.000For example, they are now saying that math is racist.
00:38:30.000As soon as you have a war on objectivity as something as similar, as a chromosomal structure of how God made you, it all goes.
00:38:42.000Number three, every Christian must vote and support candidates who believe that the church is the most essential institution in the country.
00:39:01.000The church should never be closed again, ever, for the future of America.
00:39:06.000Learn this lesson and say, you're going to have to come and arrest us all.
00:39:10.000Now, 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.
00:39:31.000It's actually a beautifully written book.
00:39:34.000And 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.
00:39:51.000Daniel 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.
00:40:07.000That'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.
00:40:23.000Not letting there be any schools or other collegial gatherings for leisured pursuits as possible since familiarity breeds a greater degree of trust.
00:40:34.000There are people that are going to need to see friends that are going to need to be around other human beings.
00:40:41.000I reject this movement that we are nothing more than automatons looking at a screen all the time.
00:40:47.000That 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.
00:40:58.000And for people watching at home, I understand that people have to make different decisions.
00:41:02.000I've watched church on YouTube before.
00:41:18.000I 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.
00:41:26.000But those three things are non-negotiables.
00:41:29.000You 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.
00:41:42.000Those are the three non-negotiables, and I could build all of it out even further than that.
00:43:20.000But I understand That we have a diversity of ways that people are going to pursue this truth.
00:43:29.000So, 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.
00:43:37.000Then be someone that helps the fighters.
00:43:39.000Be someone that is praying, active, and supportive of the people that are sticking their neck out.
00:43:44.000Or maybe someone here is like, you know what?
00:44:16.000I don't want to, I'm like right on time, right?
00:44:19.000Number one, if you want to help anything that I'm doing or that we are doing, and we're traveling the country and barnstorming the country, there's a free of charge way to help us.
00:44:30.000Cancellation from big tech companies is one of the biggest threats to what I do.
00:44:34.000And one way to prevent against that is when thousands and thousands of grassroots people go around the tech companies and subscribe to our channels.
00:44:42.000It might sound superfluous, but they could digitally assassinate me overnight.
00:44:47.000So every single phone, an iPhone or an Android, has a podcast app.
00:44:52.000You just press it, you type in Charlie Kirk Show and hit subscribe.
00:44:55.000I know it sounds silly and self-promotional, but it's very important.
00:44:58.000The more people that do that, the more people organically get it.
00:45:02.000And 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.
00:45:08.000But the last thing is this, and then I'll hand it off to Steve.
00:45:13.000There's a God who made you in his image.
00:45:16.000He wants to get back in a relationship with you.
00:45:20.000He has a way for you to do that through his son, a perfect sacrifice.
00:45:27.000I gave my life to Jesus many years ago, and it's the greatest decision I ever made.
00:45:52.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:45:54.000If you want to get involved with Turning Point USA, where we play offense with a sense of urgency to win America's culture war, go to tpusa.com.