The Charlie Kirk Show - Twitter's Poison Pill

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00:01:44.000 First, I want to get to some news of the day that is unfolding that is highly consequential to the thing that is fundamental to our civilization, our society, which, of course, the founding fathers agreed, and that's why they put it in the First Amendment: our freedom of discourse, dialogue, the ability to disagree with conventional wisdom.

00:02:03.000 Elon Musk is special.

00:02:05.000 I'm not on board with Neuralink, not even a little bit.

00:02:08.000 I'm not on board with some of the other stuff he does, especially his work in China, but he's a special person.

00:02:14.000 Elon understands that if you do not have the ability to question ideas, that society will go in a tyrannical and dark direction.

00:02:25.000 It will taper off into the abyss.

00:02:27.000 But you must have the ability to speak your mind, ask questions.

00:02:35.000 Now, Elon has now made a full cash offer to buy all of Twitter, the entire thing, a $42 billion cash offer.

00:02:46.000 Now, Elon, he's doing this not for an economic reason.

00:02:50.000 In fact, Elon was asked a question why he is doing this.

00:02:54.000 He said, look, this is not a financial incentive.

00:02:56.000 This is something different.

00:02:59.000 Elon Musk is getting involved in this because he believes that if you do not have a platform where ideas can be spread without an oligarch or a tech censor coming in, then that civilization will always be controlled by whomever those gatekeepers actually are.

00:03:18.000 Speech is the most fundamental right that we have as human beings.

00:03:23.000 We are the speaking beings.

00:03:25.000 Speaking is our ability to reason.

00:03:29.000 Now, if you look at the reaction to Elon Musk wanting to buy Twitter, it should tell you everything that you need to know about how important it is to censor dissident ideas.

00:03:45.000 We are seeing a coordinated, multi-institutional, international backlash against the world's richest man who wants to buy Twitter.

00:03:58.000 Twitter right now has called an all-hands-on-deck emergency meeting.

00:04:04.000 A Saudi prince who owns a big part of Twitter comes out and he tweets that he's going to reject the offer.

00:04:09.000 Why, we don't know.

00:04:11.000 And then Vanguard comes out and buys another 7% with other people's money, OPM, to try to block Elon's takeover of Twitter.

00:04:20.000 Why is it that a Saudi prince, Vanguard, and all of the really angry, unhappy people on television are going from not caring at all about Elon to a straight 10 out of 10 to try to prevent him from buying Twitter and turning it into a free speech platform?

00:04:37.000 Well, this is why.

00:04:39.000 Cut 89, Elon Musk explains this.

00:04:41.000 Listen to it yourself.

00:04:43.000 And a good sign as to whether there's free speech is: is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like?

00:04:54.000 And if that is the case, then we have free speech.

00:04:56.000 And it's damn annoying when someone you don't like says something you don't like.

00:05:01.000 That is a sign of a healthy, functioning free speech situation.

00:05:07.000 And we don't have that right now.

00:05:08.000 Donald Trump is not on Twitter.

00:05:10.000 I'm not on Twitter.

00:05:12.000 People have tried for years to get me off Twitter, and we've been suspended.

00:05:16.000 Donald Trump has been banned.

00:05:18.000 So here's how it works: Jeff Bezos can buy the Washington Post.

00:05:21.000 Elaine Powell Jobs is able to run The Atlantic.

00:05:25.000 Bill Gates can dictate global health policy, but Elon can't buy Twitter.

00:05:30.000 It's because Twitter really has become a place where the most consequential ideas and mostly journalists get their stories, and it's the top of the tributary.

00:05:42.000 It's the beginning of the downstream effect.

00:05:46.000 Is that if you are able to have a free and open Twitter, it will then open and liberate the conversations in op-eds.

00:05:54.000 It'll open and liberate the conversation in newspapers.

00:05:58.000 Tucker Carlson beautifully put it: it's where elite opinion is incubated.

00:06:03.000 I'm saying it differently, but we're saying the same thing.

00:06:04.000 I don't even know he said that.

00:06:06.000 And if you do not have a platform where this exists, then the society will immediately fracture.

00:06:14.000 So I'm a big fan of Getter, and we're on Getter.

00:06:16.000 I'm a big fan of Rumble.

00:06:17.000 I'm a big fan of all these alternatives.

00:06:19.000 But those are means to a different end.

00:06:23.000 We all know that New York Times and Wall Street Journal and Huffington Post journalists are not going to flock to Getter.

00:06:30.000 Getter is simply a means to a separate problem, which is if we can't be on Twitter, we as conservatives need some place to be able to at least notify ourselves of what's happening and workshop our ideas.

00:06:41.000 Twitter was always something different, though.

00:06:44.000 When I started on Twitter, I had no followers.

00:06:46.000 Obviously, when you start, I started, I first created my Twitter account in 2011.

00:06:50.000 Now, I'm not going to try to, let's say, play into this too much, but I was probably one of the few pioneers of conservative Twitter.

00:06:58.000 Would that be fair, Connor, to say?

00:07:00.000 In our heyday, we were getting 120,000-plus retweets a day.

00:07:05.000 And one of the reasons was Twitter was kind of the open wild west of speech.

00:07:10.000 And it was fun because you would tweet something like, there are only two genders, and not only would you receive positive, but every journalist and activist could come after you and quote tweet.

00:07:20.000 And it was like this mishmash of different ideas.

00:07:24.000 And it made you think.

00:07:26.000 You could trend on Twitter.

00:07:27.000 You could, all these different things were a component of it.

00:07:30.000 But of course, as the country started to correct itself politically and started to become more Republican politically, Donald Trump winning in 2016, Twitter started to get blamed and then eventually infiltrated by people that realized that free speech actually was an impediment.

00:07:50.000 Let me say that again.

00:07:51.000 They believe that freedom of speech is an impediment to Democrats running the country.

00:07:57.000 Twitter saw Trump and all of his allies, myself included, as an existential threat to them trying to be able to control the country. 0.98

00:08:07.000 Now, if you're on the political movement that is trying to increase speech police and content moderation, maybe your ideas are awful and garbage and terrible, and maybe you're a really sad person because you are. 0.97

00:08:21.000 And we are seeing this at every corner. 0.94

00:08:23.000 The reaction from people that are otherwise considered to be smart is extraordinary.

00:08:30.000 How about this one?

00:08:30.000 Play cut 78.

00:08:32.000 No, I'm sorry, we'll save that one for a different one.

00:08:35.000 Let's play this one, which is Joy Reid on MSNBC goes after Elon after the announcement to buy Twitter. 0.98

00:08:43.000 Play cut 96.

00:08:44.000 He's one of the most thin-skinned people on social media.

00:08:47.000 And this week, he tried to come for Senator Elizabeth Warren, who tweeted, let's change the rig tax code so that the person of the year will actually pay taxes and stop freeloading off everyone else.

00:08:58.000 Well, Elon wasn't happy, so he did what he always did and stomped his little feet and insulted Senator Warren, calling her an angry mom and referring to her as Senator Karen.

00:09:08.000 You can see why they hate Elon Musk.

00:09:11.000 They need to be able to control Twitter.

00:09:13.000 Max Boot, who I don't really know why people listen to this guy anymore.

00:09:18.000 He's verified on Twitter, says, quote, I am frightened by the impact on society and politics if Elon Musk acquires Twitter.

00:09:25.000 He seems to believe that on social media, anything goes.

00:09:28.000 For democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less.

00:09:33.000 So we need more people to be banned from Twitter because their ideas are so terrible and they spread disinformation.

00:09:39.000 Speech is the only thing that keeps us from anarchy and chaos.

00:09:45.000 If you're not talking, you're going to be fighting.

00:09:48.000 MSNBC analysts say this is why we must abolish billionaires.

00:09:52.000 When people are allowed to acquire this must concentrate influence, they'll inevitably man spread economic power into every other form of power.

00:09:58.000 So Elon has made a $42 billion cash offer to buy Twitter, which, according to his own goal, would liberate Twitter from the occupation of the censorship regime.

00:10:12.000 Let's get to another piece of sound here.

00:10:15.000 So Elon Musk puts forward a bid to buy Twitter $42 billion.

00:10:20.000 He is trying to be the liberator of Twitter.

00:10:22.000 Twitter is currently under a tyrannical regime.

00:10:26.000 I'm living through it as well.

00:10:28.000 Cut 88, Elon sees this as a moral good, and he is right that if we are going to have a functioning and decent civilization, then we must be able to have a town square or a public square where you're able to speak your mind.

00:10:43.000 Play Cut 88.

00:10:45.000 My strong intuitive sense is that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization.

00:11:02.000 But you've described yourself.

00:11:04.000 I don't care about the economics at all.

00:11:06.000 Okay, that's cool to hear.

00:11:08.000 And the people that live on Twitter, which is so funny because we always say, like, get off Twitter.

00:11:14.000 Twitter is a place where it's an echo chamber, and it is.

00:11:17.000 The same journalists that live on Twitter are so triggered that these are just some of their reactions.

00:11:22.000 Some of their reactions are just almost like it's a parody.

00:11:26.000 You can't believe this.

00:11:28.000 One person who is an award-winning multimedia journalist says, if Elon Musk successfully purchases Twitter, it could result in World War III and the destruction of our planet.

00:11:37.000 Well, you know, we wouldn't want to get ahead of ourselves here or start exaggerating things.

00:11:41.000 Some of the other responses include just blue checks one after the other, blue checks being verified, people, saying that this is the death of democracy.

00:11:52.000 Well, listen to this one.

00:11:54.000 It's two pieces of tape.

00:11:56.000 Started Cut 77, Tucker Carlson had this on his program from an op-ed written from a Reddit CEO, written from former Reddit CEO, on how Elon's vision of free speech is bad for Twitter.

00:12:08.000 Play Cut 77.

00:12:09.000 But at the Washington Post, they served up something slightly different, a little more stealthy.

00:12:13.000 They enlisted the former CEO of Reddit, an activist mediocrity called Ellen Powell, who couldn't manage to actually run Reddit, to write an op-ed with this title: quote, Elon Musk's vision of free speech will be bad for Twitter.

00:12:26.000 And then the piece contained this line.

00:12:28.000 Now, this line doesn't so much reveal a lack of self-awareness as it does commit murder against the entire concept they're trying to support.

00:12:35.000 And here's what it is: quote: Musk's appointment to Twitter's board shows that we need regulation of social media platforms to prevent rich people from controlling our channels of communication.

00:12:46.000 Says the person who wrote the op-ed in the Washington Post, owned by Jeff Bezos, the world's formerly richest man.

00:12:53.000 Now, of course, it's Elon Musk.

00:12:55.000 Yeah, I'm going to go write an op-ed in Washington Post saying that oligarch shouldn't be able to control our speech.

00:13:00.000 Meanwhile, I'm writing an op-ed where an oligarch controls my speech.

00:13:05.000 Meanwhile, who do they think actually owns these companies?

00:13:08.000 You don't think Zuckerberg controls speech on Facebook?

00:13:11.000 No, what they hate is the wrong oligarch controlling what can be said and what can't be said. 0.72

00:13:17.000 They don't mind oligarchs. 0.95

00:13:18.000 They just don't like oligarchs they don't like.

00:13:22.000 And so someone says, Well, Charlie, you're against the few ruling the many.

00:13:27.000 Someone asked this question at Berkeley.

00:13:28.000 Why are you okay with Elon doing this?

00:13:30.000 Because I want to win.

00:13:32.000 Look, is it ideal to just kind of have one billionaire after the other try to bail out the common cause of the commoner or people like us?

00:13:38.000 No, it's not ideal, but I want to win.

00:13:41.000 And if all of a sudden we have a fighting chance because Elon wants to go put on a jersey of Team Western civilization, team reality, and team humanity, sign it up.

00:13:50.000 I'm in the business of defeating the left and winning.

00:13:53.000 And if that means that all of a sudden we're going to be like, wow, I never thought that we'd all of a sudden be okay with the world's richest man swooping in and helping us out, let's do it.

00:14:02.000 You know, some people, you know, they email me and say, Charlie, you know, I have a lot of principled problems with, you know, a rich person thinking they can solve a lot of problems for us.

00:14:10.000 Okay, you might have some principle problems for it.

00:14:12.000 Look at things pragmatically.

00:14:13.000 What other option do we have right now to save public discourse online?

00:14:18.000 Former SEC chair says the government stepping in to stop Musk from a Twitter takeover is a very real threat.

00:14:24.000 We've been warning about this on this program, that they're going to come after SpaceX contracts, that they're going to investigate Tesla.

00:14:31.000 Elon has struck a nerve.

00:14:34.000 In fact, he's at something more fundamental that if Elon said something racist, which he wouldn't, if Elon would have even gone after the environmentalists, which he wouldn't, if Elon would have gone after the trans lobby, nothing pales in comparison to the fight that Elon has now picked.

00:14:50.000 Because now you got Saudi princes and the Department of Justice and the Security Exchange Commission, and you have billionaires and Vanguard all on the same page.

00:15:02.000 Why?

00:15:02.000 Because Elon has picked a fight that connects all the fights.

00:15:07.000 Elon is now at the issue that transcends all the other.

00:15:12.000 Can you challenge power?

00:15:14.000 Can people speak freely?

00:15:15.000 Can you express irony and humor and wit?

00:15:20.000 Can you speak your mind?

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00:17:13.000 Okay, it says, this is a little confusing, but there's a, so Twitter has just, it's only confusing just because it's very technical financial language about public security law.

00:17:23.000 So Twitter has now announced that its board unanimously voted to adopt a limited duration shareholder rights plan.

00:17:30.000 The rights plan will reduce the likelihood that any entity like Elon, person like Elon, or group, gains control of Twitter through open mark accumulation without paying all shareholders an appropriate control premium or without providing the board sufficient time to make informed judgments and take actions that are in the best interest of shareholders.

00:17:52.000 Under the rights plan, the rights will become exercisable if an entity, person, or group acquires beneficial ownership of 15% or more of Twitter's outstanding stock in a transaction not approved by the board.

00:18:05.000 In this event, that rights become exercisable due to the triggering ownership threshold being crossed.

00:18:11.000 Each right will entitle its holder, then the other person, triggering the rights plan, whose rights will become void if not exercisable, to purchase at the then current exercise price additional shares of common stock, having then current market value of twice the exercise price of the right.

00:18:25.000 So if that's making your head spin, let me tell you what it really means.

00:18:29.000 In layman's terms, this is saying that if Elon acquires more than 15% of the company, in order for him to exercise his voting rights, he must pay a 100% premium over the current price.

00:18:40.000 They're basically creating an Elon clause.

00:18:44.000 They lock Elon out of buying the stock, then they give him the rest of the shareholder, the stock at a discounted rate, hoping to level the playing field and driving up the price to show that the stock is more than what is offered.

00:18:56.000 Now, so if Elon doesn't, it doesn't work here, then what Elon needs to do, and I think this is probably Elon's plan B, which we're going to noodle around with in the next hours, Elon will just start his own Twitter.

00:19:10.000 Elon will then say, okay, I'm going to go sell all my shares.

00:19:12.000 Since all you guys want to go buy shares now, I'm going to go sell my $12 billion of shares or whatever, however much he bought, or $3 billion of shares.

00:19:19.000 And what if Elon dedicated $15 billion of shares to starting his own Twitter?

00:19:27.000 It would be pretty significant.

00:19:29.000 It would be pretty powerful.

00:19:32.000 So basically, Twitter held an emergency meeting that is against the fiduciary interest of the company itself.

00:19:40.000 I want you to think about that.

00:19:41.000 So Twitter held a meeting that is actually against what is in the best interest of Twitter.

00:19:47.000 And so, And one would think that actually dilutes the stock, but it's basically a poison pill.

00:19:57.000 A poison pill is a clause that is put into agreements designed to destroy the deal.

00:20:03.000 It happens all the time.

00:20:04.000 It happens in merger and acquisition deals.

00:20:06.000 Remember, when deals are about to go through, there's a much higher likelihood that they get killed than they actually happen because only one thing that is disagreeable has to pop up to actually kill the deal.

00:20:18.000 So basically, what they're trying to do is they're trying to put forward clauses that make the hostile takeover of Twitter unlikely.

00:20:28.000 Why?

00:20:29.000 Again, because the ability, the power, the capacity to shut people up is central to everything they're trying to do.

00:20:43.000 If they are not able to shut people up, if they are not able to make you disappear from online discourse, then they immediately become less powerful.

00:20:54.000 In an interesting turn of events, if Elon is able to take over Twitter or start his own, it would be one of the great death blows.

00:21:02.000 It'd be great, one of the great blows of power to the very same people that seem to be untouchable, the World Economic Forum types, the Great Reset types.

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00:22:16.000 We're going to keep on going into the Elon story, but we do want to take pause and talk about Good Friday.

00:22:21.000 Last night is where we remember the Last Supper, and the scriptures tell us that Jesus and his disciples went up to a place to pray and rest, and his disciples were supposed to stay awake and they fell asleep.

00:22:37.000 And Jesus said to the Lord, not my will, but thy will be done.

00:22:45.000 And then started what is now known as Good Friday.

00:22:48.000 With us to help just tell that story and to communicate that to people that might not be Christian or serious about their faith or might be curious is my pastor and very good friend, Rob McCoy.

00:23:00.000 Rob, welcome back to the program.

00:23:02.000 Thanks, Charlie.

00:23:03.000 It's good to be with you.

00:23:04.000 We're getting ready for our Good Friday service at noon today, so good timing.

00:23:08.000 And in two weeks, your son is getting married, too.

00:23:11.000 So it's an important season.

00:23:13.000 Yeah, he's getting married and I'm getting a cash ectomy.

00:23:17.000 That's right.

00:23:18.000 So Mikey's doing a great job.

00:23:20.000 So Rob, you know, let's just start from the basics.

00:23:22.000 What is Good Friday?

00:23:23.000 Why does it matter?

00:23:24.000 Why do we take pause to remember what happened this day?

00:23:27.000 Well, you know, if you search the scriptures, you never find the two words together, Good Friday.

00:23:33.000 The reason why you call it Good Friday is it's from Aristotle, basically.

00:23:37.000 It's that I think it's pronounced eudaimonia, which is the highest good.

00:23:44.000 And as you've studied Aristotle, Charlie, the idea is that an object is good based on its ability to accomplish that for which it was created to do.

00:23:53.000 So a cup is good if it holds water.

00:23:55.000 It's not good if it leaks.

00:23:57.000 In Romans 14, 9, for to this end, Christ died and rose and lived again that he might be the Lord of both the living and the dead.

00:24:07.000 It's good Friday because he was born to die.

00:24:12.000 It's good Friday because we needed someone to die in our place for the propitiation of our sins.

00:24:19.000 It's good Friday because we couldn't do that and we were helpless without him.

00:24:26.000 And I can't die for you, Charlie, and you can't die for me.

00:24:28.000 The wages of sin is death.

00:24:31.000 And the reason why I can't die for you is because systemically, my blood is tainted with sin, as is yours.

00:24:40.000 But Christ was fully God, fully human, and was tempted in all ways, but was without sin.

00:24:46.000 It's Good Friday because his sacrifice upon the cross paid the penalty for our sins.

00:24:52.000 The wages of sin is death.

00:24:54.000 So that's the idea of Good Friday.

00:24:58.000 And the idea that we would make jewelry out of the most painful capital punishment ever designed by man, which is the crucifix, the cross, where you basically suffocate because you have to pull yourself up on the nails.

00:25:17.000 And one of the reasons why they went to break his legs was so that you would collapse on your lungs and suffocate, but he had already died prior to them coming to expedite his death.

00:25:31.000 But all of this is the simple fact that God left the glory of heaven's throne for the humiliation of an earthly cross because he knows that mankind's purpose is far greater than to wallow in the slavery of sin.

00:25:48.000 He's come to set us free.

00:25:50.000 And that's why it's Good Friday, because not only was it good what the Lord did, he was born to die in our place, but it's good because he threw that death on that cross, paid the penalty to redeem man, to set us free from the slave block of sin, that we would know the truth and the truth would set us free.

00:26:11.000 Amen.

00:26:12.000 And it kind of confuses people.

00:26:14.000 And I think you articulated it beautifully.

00:26:16.000 How could something be good when it was torture and death and public humiliation?

00:26:23.000 Talk about, though, how Christ did this obediently and not willingly.

00:26:27.000 That scripture always pops out to me.

00:26:30.000 The scriptures say that Jesus said, no man takes my life.

00:26:34.000 I willingly lay it down.

00:26:36.000 He did this because of his love for his creation.

00:26:41.000 We're the only creatures in all of God's creation who've been given the ability to choose.

00:26:46.000 And basically what we've done is we've committed cosmic treason.

00:26:52.000 You know, he gave us everything and he said, name it all and enjoy it all.

00:26:56.000 But of this tree, do not eat.

00:26:58.000 For in eating it, dying, you will surely die.

00:27:00.000 It's present and progressive.

00:27:03.000 And then he created time so that we would have an opportunity to be reconciled.

00:27:08.000 And he sent his son, Jesus, to reconcile us to the Father.

00:27:12.000 Jesus willingly went to the cross.

00:27:15.000 No man took his life.

00:27:17.000 He was obedient to the Father.

00:27:19.000 As it says in Philippians 2, let the mind that was in Christ Jesus be in you.

00:27:25.000 Christ, though, being God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but took on the form of a servant unto death, even death on a cross.

00:27:33.000 He brought humility.

00:27:35.000 He brought service.

00:27:38.000 He brought a love that would love your enemies and do good to those who would spitefully use you.

00:27:46.000 It's the only kind of remedy this systemically tainted world would find healing from, that he would go into the darkest heart, into the meanest character, and transform you because his kindness would lead you to repentance, which is change, and his spirit would take up residence in your life.

00:28:07.000 If I have a moment, I just, can I say this last thing, Charlie?

00:28:12.000 What I wanted to point out was simply this, that Christianity is different from every religion in the world. 0.95

00:28:18.000 Because when we talk about sin and why this is Good Friday and why we have to deal with sin, people struggle with that word.

00:28:27.000 Sin is an archer's term.

00:28:29.000 Where the bullseye is and where the arrow lands is called the sin distance, how far you've fallen from perfection.

00:28:36.000 There's nobody perfect.

00:28:36.000 And that's all it is.

00:28:38.000 There's none righteous, no, not one.

00:28:39.000 But what happened is in every religion in the world, man's trying to reach God by hitting the bullseye, and we're never going to obtain perfection.

00:28:48.000 I'm sorry, but it's just not going to happen.

00:28:50.000 But in Christianity, Christ moved the bullseye to where our arrow is and gave us his righteousness and put it on our account and paid the penalty for our sin.

00:29:01.000 And he's forgiven us past, present, and future.

00:29:04.000 And we don't obey him in order to earn this.

00:29:09.000 We obey him because he's done this for us.

00:29:12.000 It's not out of obligation, but out of adoration.

00:29:16.000 And this is the most beautiful thing about Christianity.

00:29:18.000 It is a love relationship with our Creator restored through the blood shed on the cross by our Savior Jesus.

00:29:25.000 Now, without getting too far ahead of ourselves, but the story starts with the sacrifice.

00:29:30.000 Well, it doesn't start there, but then it results in a resurrection.

00:29:35.000 Talk about that.

00:29:35.000 And what does that mean?

00:29:38.000 So when the Lord spoke to his disciples, he would say, I'm going to be crucified and buried.

00:29:45.000 But he would never include the crucifixion without the resurrection.

00:29:50.000 Jesus overcome the law of sin and death by the spirit of life in Christ Jesus.

00:29:55.000 Because he was sinless, the grave couldn't hold him.

00:29:58.000 It's what separates Christianity again from every religion in the world, that the tomb is empty. 0.73

00:30:03.000 Our Savior is alive.

00:30:05.000 And you can read works by Lee Strobel and many others who take a look at the tomb itself and Josephus and historians that articulated that moment in history.

00:30:22.000 But it was the resurrection that changed it all because mankind has something in common.

00:30:28.000 The grave awaits us all.

00:30:30.000 For time to exist, there needs to be a beginning and an end.

00:30:33.000 And that when we breathe our last on this earth, we step into eternity.

00:30:41.000 Now, every religion leads to God, but only one religion leads to heaven because the Bible says that every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of the Father.

00:30:52.000 But there will be the sifting where depart from me, I never knew you.

00:30:55.000 Because if we try to stand before God in our own righteousness, there's none righteous, no, not one.

00:31:01.000 But if we stand before him covered in the forgiveness of the blood his son shed, he's our advocate.

00:31:09.000 God the Father is the judge.

00:31:11.000 Jesus is the advocate.

00:31:12.000 Satan is the accuser.

00:31:14.000 And we win the case because our penalty has been paid.

00:31:18.000 And that's the beauty of the resurrection, that our God is alive.

00:31:22.000 He sits at the right hand of the Father, ever living to make intercession for you and me.

00:31:26.000 We have an advocate who contends for us.

00:31:29.000 His spirit dwells in us.

00:31:31.000 And he is a living God.

00:31:35.000 And it's just such a profound gift.

00:31:38.000 I wasn't raised in a Christian home, but when I came to understand the gospel in college, I was blown away.

00:31:45.000 And a man's no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he can never lose.

00:31:49.000 Amen.

00:31:50.000 So what do people have to do to get that kind of transformation in their life?

00:31:54.000 You know, they call it the Via Dola Rosa, the way of pain.

00:31:57.000 Jesus walked the Via Dola Rosa.

00:31:59.000 He endured unbelievable beatings.

00:32:01.000 They whipped his back with a cat of nine tails. 0.92

00:32:05.000 They put a bag over his head. 0.99

00:32:06.000 Sucker punched him and said, prophesy who hit you. 0.95

00:32:09.000 They put a crown of thorns. 0.95

00:32:10.000 They pulled his beard out of his face.

00:32:12.000 They pierced his hands and his feet.

00:32:14.000 All of that to tell you that it was that death on the cross was the ugliness of our sin.

00:32:21.000 And every drop of blood poured out of his body for you and for me.

00:32:25.000 What do you do?

00:32:26.000 He's already done it.

00:32:28.000 He extends to you this gift.

00:32:29.000 A gift is grace.

00:32:31.000 It means that you receive it.

00:32:32.000 You just put your hands out and say, Lord, will you be my savior?

00:32:36.000 Will you forgive me of my sins?

00:32:38.000 I accept your payment on my behalf.

00:32:42.000 And now I want to live for you.

00:32:43.000 I want life and life more abundant.

00:32:45.000 And Jesus says, come to me, all you are burdened and heavy laden.

00:32:48.000 I'll give you rest.

00:32:49.000 Call on the name of the Lord and you will be saved.

00:32:50.000 And his name is Jesus.

00:32:52.000 He's the only savior of the world.

00:32:54.000 And in today's time, with all the dark negativity, cynicism, that's the best news.

00:32:59.000 So it is.

00:33:01.000 It's Good Friday.

00:33:02.000 Rob, you're doing an amazing job.

00:33:03.000 You're going to have packed services.

00:33:05.000 I know.

00:33:05.000 How many services do you have this weekend?

00:33:06.000 The regular schedule?

00:33:07.000 Did you add any?

00:33:09.000 Yeah, we've got five.

00:33:10.000 So, yeah, it's going to be a crazy day, but a good day.

00:33:14.000 Just for everyone to know.

00:33:15.000 No, Good Friday, we're going to be packed too.

00:33:17.000 Two years ago, exactly, Rob was one of the only pastors in the country that said, you know what?

00:33:22.000 We are going to do something for Easter.

00:33:24.000 And I remember exactly where I was.

00:33:26.000 Everything was locked down, but you guys did a whole service.

00:33:30.000 And you said, if you want to come to Easter, I'm not going to prevent you from coming from Easter.

00:33:33.000 And you would have thought that you guys had Chernobyl or something happening at Godspeak and Thousand Oaks.

00:33:38.000 They had people in full hazmat suits trying to lock you down.

00:33:41.000 But now two years later, you're busting at the seams and God rewarded that obedience.

00:33:46.000 So, Rob, God bless you.

00:33:47.000 Great to see you.

00:33:48.000 Thank you so much.

00:33:48.000 You too, Charlie.

00:33:49.000 God bless you.

00:33:50.000 You're doing great.

00:33:51.000 Love you, man.

00:33:51.000 See you soon.

00:33:52.000 Thank you.

00:33:53.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

00:33:54.000 Email me directly, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:33:57.000 Thank you so much for listening.

00:33:58.000 God bless.

00:34:01.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk. com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - April 15, 2022

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