00:00:51.000His 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.
00:00:59.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:04:44.000And I am going to, at the end of this, ask for you to support this organization because the fight for life is the most important fight that we're involved in.
00:04:53.000And I'm going to talk about the work that I do on high school and college campuses where a lot of this kind of intersects.
00:04:59.000But I just want to reiterate the entire team here at Open Arms Pregnancy Crisis Center is so important because the whole team, they're dedicating themselves to this.
00:05:10.000And you see the budget of this center.
00:05:12.000A lot of the people that work for these centers, they very well could go work for a different hospital institution, but they make a choice to go work in an arena that literally saves lives at the moment where it's needed.
00:05:24.000So I just want to give a round of applause for the team of Open Arms Pregnancy.
00:07:00.000And we talk a lot about the need to protect life, but we also have to talk about a culture of life.
00:07:06.000And tonight, I think it's really important for us to understand that all of us here, when we protect life and we talk about the need to fight for those that can't fight for themselves, is we're really trying to articulate that there is a transcendent order.
00:07:19.000That if you do not believe that these beautiful children that you've seen are worthy of protection, then you're really engaging in a theological debate without ever actually admitting it.
00:07:29.000And this is what happens on our college campuses and our high schools every single day.
00:07:33.000We are in the midst of a theological debate right now in our country.
00:07:36.000And the theological debate is very simple.
00:07:38.000I don't mean eschatology versus Arminianist.
00:08:22.000Everyone knows that sometimes you have to take sometimes the advice you give, including to your children and people around you.
00:08:27.000And so I have fun with atheists, and I start with, and people come up to me.
00:08:30.000And by the way, atheism is a religion.
00:08:32.000I think we have to be more clear about this.
00:08:34.000Not every Christian agrees with me when I say this, but they have a code of beliefs.
00:08:38.000They try to proselytize non-believers.
00:08:40.000They are fervent about their belief in nothingness.
00:08:44.000And they organize themselves all the time to try to get people to their side.
00:08:49.000And so one of the first things I always try to say to people that have committed their life to believe in nothing is that, well, without God, there would be no atheists.
00:08:57.000And that one just like really, like, what are you talking about?
00:11:17.000That's basically part of what college morality teaches you: is that we have advanced so far as a species.
00:11:23.000And kind of our job, those of us that believe in eternal truths, the things that do not change, is kind of to slow down and say, hold on a second, we're just as broken and in need of a savior today as human beings were 1500 years ago or 2,000 years ago.
00:11:39.000That human beings are just as desiring for power, just as treacherous, just as deceitful.
00:11:46.000And that's a really important argument to engage in.
00:11:50.000Because if you all of a sudden say that somehow modernity is making human beings so much better, now don't get me wrong, some of our circumstances have improved, of course, but that doesn't mean our human nature has improved.
00:12:02.000There's a difference between the framework, our laws, and our circumstances, and actually who we are.
00:12:08.000And so we were made in the image of God, and then there was a fall, a separation.
00:12:12.000Sin is the separation from God, and we have a tendency to keep on wanting to separate from God.
00:12:18.000And the story, the first 11 books of Genesis, is kind of how do we reconcile with this?
00:13:59.000And we have four gospels written by four different people that never contradict themselves.
00:14:07.000With even the idea of archaeological texts, it is the most verifiable, reinforced, from a purely historical standpoint, idea of what we can prove.
00:14:18.000There's never been archaeological discovery that has disproven a truth of the Bible.
00:14:22.000We believe that Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle wrote what they wrote, yet we have 1,000 times more archaeological and literature evidence to reinforce the truths of the Bible.
00:14:35.000You could go there, you could touch it, you could see it, you could walk through it.
00:14:38.000And yes, Jesus Christ was a real person who turned water into wine, who actually manifested himself to be amongst one of us, to be a human being, lived a perfect life, resisted the temptation of Satan, taught us how to live, literally rose the dead, and then was tried, accused, and accused, tried, and crucified for something he didn't do, died, and then rose again.
00:15:02.000And that was the fulfillment of something we don't deserve, which is eventually eternal life if you accept him into your life.
00:15:08.000Now, this is the truth that we all need to get out.
00:15:11.000And around that truth is then this idea of a call for us that are Christians to try to contest for that truth in every single arena.
00:15:19.000And that's why we're all here tonight.
00:15:21.000And so I'm always struck by the people, and I'm not to say that you can't be an atheist and also run a pregnancy crisis center.
00:15:28.000But I am struck that almost every single pregnancy crisis center is run by Christians.
00:15:34.000And I have a whole other shtick on like big families.
00:15:36.000I'm still looking for an atheist family with eight children.
00:16:06.000Why would you do a pregnancy crisis center?
00:16:09.000And their answer to that question is because you've been given that grace, you've been born new, and now you feel so charged and reborn that you want to go give life to somebody else, even if it's in a little bit of a glimpse, because you've been given life by your creator.
00:16:31.000I'm willing to get yelled at, whatever, all this stuff, because if I could just save one life, I then can give back to what I've already been given.
00:16:40.000Who's your wireless provider, ATT Verizon, T-Mobile?
00:16:43.000What if I told you Peer Talk USA uses the exact same network as one of those carriers?
00:16:46.000Same towers, same exact coverage, but literally costs you half.
00:17:50.000But this is really a question of morality and ethics.
00:17:54.000And so if there is no transcendent order, if you do not believe that there is something greater than you, then all of a sudden, life, and yes, abortion becomes a utilitarian debate.
00:19:30.000If you want to turn people into little Nero's and into like the 19-year-old equivalent of Caligula, then of course you're going to have them believe they're the most important thing ever.
00:19:43.000And so I never got the self-esteem movement thing until my friend Dennis Prager explained it to me.
00:21:14.000And instead, we've created this entire young men and women, but men especially really, really yearn for a challenge and they desire pressure and they desire to be pushed.
00:21:24.000We put this society where it's like, you're perfect the way you are unless you're a man and then you must apologize for your entire life.
00:21:30.000You must apologize for it in your entire life.
00:21:31.000And so, but it really struck me, like, how important do you actually think you are?
00:21:36.000Well, if education was actually working properly, you would think you're not very important.
00:21:42.000You're not very wise, but you want to do everything you possibly can to try to figure out about the God that put you here.
00:21:49.000And you are thankful that you even have breath in your lungs and you desire to understand beauty at all costs.
00:23:03.000And I just want to say what this pregnancy crisis center does is it solves the problem of what I consider to be the greatest criticism of the pro-life movement.
00:23:10.000And we talked about this on the phone, which is the pro-life movement has to do a much better job of having grace and compassion, healing, and openness for women that are pregnant or have had abortions and not make them the target of your virtue signaling or your condemnation.
00:23:27.000If a woman had an abortion, they deserve grace that only Christ can provide.
00:23:31.000If you're looking for someone to exhaust your frustration, go after the abortionists or the professional abortion incorporated lobby, not the women that were lied to or propagandized in those clinics.
00:23:49.000And so this is the real debate that's happening here.
00:23:54.000And I think that it's actually a debate that we are going to win.
00:23:58.000And so I want to encourage you, that those of us that care about life, and we believe every single life is worthy and deserving of protection, I want you tonight to dismiss one thing that I know all of you have had come across your radar screen, metacynicism.
00:24:17.000The abortion lobby, they get pills on demand.
00:24:21.000We're just, we're going to do all we can, but I don't think we can think transformationally.
00:24:24.000I want to encourage you that we have to think bigger than ever.
00:24:28.000I want to encourage you that we can actually turn the corner on this, big time.
00:24:33.000And I believe that the biggest issue, and you saw it in this video, the biggest issue was not the question of whether or not we have the truth.
00:24:42.000The question is whether or not, can we get a pregnant mother to look at an ultrasound screen?
00:24:53.000The barrier is whether or not a mother is actually understanding the full facts and knowledge around that very specific decision.
00:25:00.000And so when we talk about this issue and actually building a culture of life and some of the arguments that are made, I'm going to tell you one thing that I think is a couple of things that are super important.
00:26:26.000And so I'm making the moral argument not to have that person exist.
00:26:30.000So don't assume just because you can win people over that that's a human being, that that is actually going to be applicable in this kind of new morality that we live in.
00:26:40.000And so it all comes back to this idea of who are you and why are you here and in whose image are you made.
00:26:47.000And that really is a theological debate.
00:27:09.000And we also know, and this is a very, very important point, that when people are actually able to see the entire complexity of the argument, their life is never the same.
00:27:19.000Do you notice that we have nothing to hide as pro-lifers and they are always hiding something?
00:28:37.000Happened through mass media, private conversations, telling the truth, being unafraid to engage on the civic and the law side, which I'm going to get to in a second, because sometimes pro-lifers don't want to get involved in the laws of things.
00:29:16.000And like, of course, they're right, but the example they're like, we used to ride around on the back of a pickup truck with a 12-gauge and a camel.
00:30:36.000And by the way, they drink white wine while they're doing some things that David DeLeiden caught on camera.
00:30:41.000And please keep David DeLeiden in your prayers, by the way.
00:30:43.000David DeLeiden caught on camera the incredible criminal enterprise that existed in this state of the aborting of children, the selling of their baby parts for cash.
00:30:52.000Those videos have been wiped from the internet.
00:31:35.000Is that we're only gonna change things when you have the courage and the confidence and the clarity of thought to be willing not just to post a tweet, not just give money to this, but sit around the table with your relatives and your cousins and have that tough conversation.
00:31:49.000I'll give you one great example of a conversation starter, and it was from an eight-year-old at the March for Life.
00:31:54.000Anyone been at the March for Life before?
00:33:36.000We're just barely touching the surface of the combined wisdom of this entire country and planet, by the way, because of how many, you know, God forbid, people that we have unfortunately discarded.
00:33:45.000The point is that we need better arguments and we need to be unafraid to be at the table to make those kind of arguments and ask questions in the pursuit of truth.
00:33:53.000So what I'm really saying is that this is no longer a spectator sport.
00:33:58.000And so when I ask you to support this center tonight, you need to do that generously.
00:34:02.000But then you have to say, hey, who in my life and my circle am I bringing to go see the pro-life cause correctly?
00:34:09.000Because I can tell you that's what they're doing on their side.
00:34:11.000They're doing everything they possibly can to do pamphlets and leaflets.
00:34:15.000They're well funded by taxpayer dollars.
00:34:17.000They get $500 million a year of federal taxpayer dollars go for Planned Parenthood's overhead.
00:34:23.000That's just for their overhead budget.
00:34:26.000Not to mention the small dollar donations they get, the celebrity donations, the massive foundations.
00:34:31.000They got more money than they know what to do with.
00:34:33.000And then there's all the other different ones that they incorporate around that.
00:34:37.000And so that's the call to action for all of us.
00:34:42.000In 20 years from now, when I'm 47, not 27, are we going to have a culture where we have less abortions and we have laws that reflect God's eternal truth?
00:34:55.000Or are we going to keep on doing the we got us?
00:35:09.000The centers are the well, we are center.
00:35:12.000And every single one of you are part of that.
00:35:15.000And this is the, I'm gonna tell you the thing that bothers me the most that I hear when people say, hey, Charlie, how's it going out there?
00:35:21.000It's like, what am I, like a running back for the Los Angeles Rams or something?
00:35:34.000There's nothing special about what I do except that I decided to try to do it and I got really lucky and the Lord blessed me along the way.
00:35:40.000And I have some incredible people that have tried to support me.
00:35:46.000It is, and in a different variety of ways.
00:35:49.000It's not for everyone to go up and speak and do all this, but for some people, it might be, man, I feel really called to do 10% more in that area.
00:35:57.000Maybe it's becoming a sidewalk counselor, which I got a crash course in tonight.
00:36:01.000And I want to, I can't remember your name.
00:36:03.000Tant saved the life in the last 48 hours of a woman that was going to an abortion clinic in just the last two days.
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00:39:10.000It's a lot more complex than that, but that's kind of the spark notes version of the most important book ever to exist in the history of the word.
00:40:11.000That is never, ever, anywhere in the Bible or anywhere in biblical truth.
00:40:16.000Are we supposed to weigh the odds of whether or not we think we should do something that is righteous and obedient?
00:40:22.000That is not what we're supposed to do.
00:40:24.000But let me tell you something about this beautiful nation that we live in, the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:40:30.000We believe that our rights come from God, not from government, a republic of, by, and for the people, separation of powers, consent to the governed, independent judiciary, a constitutional republic that is enshrined based on biblical and eternal and divine truths.
00:40:43.000Let me tell you something about this country.
00:40:45.000This country has withstood the test of time and has been tried through a lot of things throughout our history.
00:40:50.000And there's something unique that is almost in the soul and the spirit of our nation.
00:40:54.000It's resilience, perseverance, grit, the ability to overcome the impossible, to shoot for the stars and sometimes actually land there on the moon, to build an interstate highway, win two world wars on two different fronts.
00:41:06.000And there's a story that I think embodies this better than any other.
00:41:09.000When you think things can't get any worse, and I know a lot of you have probably been watching television, you just close it, you're like, I just can't take it anymore.
00:41:16.000I just feel like it is nothing but darkness and doom and gloom.
00:41:20.000Let me tell you a story about one of the darkest days in American history, a day that was, quote, that will always live in infamy.
00:41:27.000I'm talking about Pearl Harbor when Japan preemptively striked us on a sunny day in Hawaii and they sunk the entire Pacific Fleet.
00:41:35.000Thousands of American soldiers died in 30 minutes or less.
00:41:39.000We did not declare war on the Japanese.
00:42:31.000He walked into his war cabinet, probably on two hours of sleep with a little bit of whiskey and a little bit of a cigar, the way Winston Churchill always would.
00:42:38.000A smile a mile wide, you'd think would be Christmas morning.
00:42:41.000And his war cabinet was distraught, almost crying.
00:42:45.000And they said, Prime Minister, have you lost your mind?