The Charlie Kirk Show - November 06, 2022


What the Scriptures Reveal About Voting for Imperfect Candidates


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On today's episode, Pastor Charlie Kirk and Steve Smotherman discuss the upcoming mid-term elections and what Christians should be doing on Tuesday to make sure they have a voice in the process. They also discuss the question of whether or not the church should be deemed "nonessential" in the eyes of the Constitution.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, happy Sunday.
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00:00:18.000 We go.
00:00:19.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:21.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.
00:00:23.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:26.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:30.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:31.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:32.000 His spirit, his love of this country.
00:00:34.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.
00:00:39.000 Turning point USA. 0.65
00:00:40.000 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.
00:00:49.000 That's why we are here.
00:00:53.000 Thank you, everybody.
00:00:55.000 Thank you.
00:00:56.000 Please be seated.
00:00:57.000 Thank you.
00:00:57.000 Happy Sunday.
00:00:58.000 It's been a long month this week for me.
00:01:00.000 I've been crisscrossing the country.
00:01:02.000 If you didn't know, there's something happening Tuesday, which is going to be very interesting and important.
00:01:08.000 I made a promise to Pastor Steve that I would never forget about New Mexico.
00:01:12.000 I love New Mexico, and I have a heart for this state.
00:01:18.000 And I told Steve, I said, I know, I know, I got to come back, I got to come back.
00:01:22.000 And the stars disaligned.
00:01:23.000 And here we are right now, right before Tuesday, and honored to be here.
00:01:27.000 And I'm going to talk a little bit about New Mexico, but I'm also going to talk about things that are happening across the country.
00:01:32.000 As I know a lot of people are watching on the live stream, and we're going to talk about some of the dynamics unfolding and really kind of address it head on.
00:01:40.000 How should Christians think about the election?
00:01:43.000 How should we think about what's happening on Tuesday?
00:01:45.000 Are you even allowed to talk about it in church?
00:01:47.000 Now, we are a legacy church with Steve Smotherman.
00:01:50.000 So I think a lot of you have already had a fair dose of truth here over the last couple of years.
00:01:55.000 But it's important that we talk about this and we discuss it because this is something that has really been, in my opinion, misrepresented in the media and misrepresented by a lot of churches.
00:02:06.000 And so let's talk about it.
00:02:08.000 So coming up on Tuesday, of course, at the midterm election, this state is right in play.
00:02:13.000 I got to tell you, this is something that's very important.
00:02:16.000 You have a governor that I would not give a very good grade to.
00:02:20.000 Let's put that way on a lot of different things.
00:02:24.000 But should we as Christians care about it?
00:02:26.000 Should we show up and vote?
00:02:27.000 So first and foremost, I believe if you look at the scriptures, Jeremiah 29, 7, it says, seek the welfare of the nation that you are in because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare.
00:02:38.000 Now, you could also interpret it as demand the welfare or require the welfare.
00:02:43.000 We as Christians are called to care about our city, our county, our nation, and our state.
00:02:48.000 We are not called to just sit on the sidelines and not have a heart for the people that are suffering under these ideas and the policies and the bad decisions around us.
00:02:56.000 In fact, there is a heresy that has happened in the American church where people say, you know, I just don't care.
00:03:01.000 As a Christian, I don't care what happens politically.
00:03:04.000 Now, let's be very clear.
00:03:05.000 It is not the most important thing.
00:03:07.000 Jesus is the most important thing, and the spreading of the gospel is the most important thing.
00:03:12.000 That's the most important thing.
00:03:13.000 But honestly, you could argue that this is the second or third most important thing because if you don't get this right, then you can't do the first thing.
00:03:21.000 And by the way, let me prove it to you.
00:03:23.000 This church, of course, defied the governor's orders back in 2020, thanks to the courageous leadership of Steve Smotherman.
00:03:29.000 And you should just be so thankful you have a leader like him.
00:03:33.000 But why did we ever put up with the church being deemed or labeled non-essential?
00:03:39.000 That's the first thing.
00:03:40.000 What is on the ballot on Tuesday?
00:03:42.000 The question of whether or not we are going to allow the church to be deemed non-essential.
00:03:46.000 Now, some of you might say, well, Charlie, I believe in separation of church and state.
00:03:51.000 Well, that's not in the Constitution.
00:03:52.000 It's not in the First Amendment, but let's pretend that it's actually the law of the land.
00:03:56.000 Let's pretend that's a real thing, even though that's a single letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Convention.
00:04:01.000 It's not in our laws.
00:04:03.000 If we really believe in separation of church and state, then why is it that the state was allowed to come into the church and try to shut us down?
00:04:11.000 I thought the two are supposed to be separate.
00:04:13.000 Where they mandated masks and they mandated vaccines and they do all these different things.
00:04:18.000 No, instead, what we need to send a message on Tuesday as Christians is one thing: like, look, strip clubs, alcohol stores, drug dispensaries, and abortion clinics are not more essential than the American church, and we're never going to allow that to happen again. 0.50
00:04:34.000 And this governor, more than almost any other leader in America, was so hostile, was so harsh in locking down the church.
00:04:43.000 That's number one.
00:04:44.000 The number two, and so there's three things that I think we as Christians must pray about and we must think about as far as our biblical posture coming into Tuesday.
00:04:52.000 That's the first one: that the church is essential.
00:04:54.000 Number two, God created man and God created woman.
00:04:58.000 We don't have to overthink this. 1.00
00:04:59.000 There's not 500 genders. 0.97
00:05:01.000 There's not 200 genders.
00:05:02.000 God made you a certain way.
00:05:04.000 And just because you feel a certain way does not mean you get to suddenly change your gender.
00:05:08.000 And you certainly don't get to force other people to then accommodate to that.
00:05:13.000 And even worse, you don't get to teach children that in our schools. 0.71
00:05:21.000 God created man and God created woman.
00:05:23.000 And finally, as we are tragically here in the late-term abortion capital of the world, life begins at conception.
00:05:32.000 It's that simple.
00:05:33.000 And we should not shy away from this issue: that life is wonderfully and beautifully made by the Lord because we are image bearers of God.
00:05:41.000 We are made in his image.
00:05:42.000 And we as Christians have an opportunity to send a message on Tuesday of what we think a human being is.
00:05:48.000 Do you think a human being is just a clump of cells and an accident of evolution?
00:05:53.000 Do you think a human being just came through millions of years of mistakes and finally became what we are today?
00:05:58.000 Or do you think a human being is designed by a creator who loves you?
00:06:03.000 That matters because if you think a human being is just a clump of cells, why shouldn't you be able to terminate that being?
00:06:08.000 But if you think the human being has a soul, then everything changes.
00:06:12.000 And that's all of a sudden what comes into this very contentious abortion debate.
00:06:16.000 And some people here might say, you know, Charlie, I'm tired of hearing about it and all that.
00:06:19.000 That's perfectly fine.
00:06:21.000 But God's not tired of hearing about it because God wants every single being that comes to an existence at conception to be able to have life, to have breath, and to have a beautiful, flourishing future.
00:06:34.000 That is the question in a lot of different ways coming on Tuesday.
00:06:36.000 Do we think that the strong should be able to crush the weak at a whim?
00:06:41.000 No, we as Christians think that if you have strength, you should be able to use your strength to then protect the weak.
00:06:47.000 In fact, we are morally commanded to do that, to care for the least of these.
00:06:51.000 And the people that can't defend themselves are the 1 million human beings that get massacred in the womb every single year in America.
00:06:58.000 It is a question of the church of whether we care about that or not.
00:07:02.000 And so I'll go through the list again.
00:07:03.000 The church is essential and will never be labeled non-essential by the government again.
00:07:07.000 God created man and woman, and life begins at conception.
00:07:10.000 When I say this Tuesday, we must vote biblically, those three things, I think you could choose very wisely amongst those three things very, very clearly.
00:07:20.000 So we see this throughout the Bible, that a perfect God accomplishes his perfect will through imperfect people.
00:07:28.000 And we're going to talk about that in a second because I hear quite often they say, Charlie, I don't like this candidate.
00:07:33.000 They're not as good of a person as I am.
00:07:35.000 And I'm sure you've heard that a lot, right?
00:07:37.000 I don't like this person.
00:07:38.000 I don't like this person.
00:07:39.000 Let me just comment on that.
00:07:40.000 You know, every so often I get a complaint from somebody and they say, Charlie, you know, for example, let's just pick a random politician that people don't like.
00:07:47.000 How about Donald Trump?
00:07:48.000 Okay?
00:07:49.000 Out of thin air.
00:07:50.000 They say, I don't like him.
00:07:51.000 He's too braggadocious. 0.98
00:07:52.000 He's too narcissistic. 0.99
00:07:53.000 He's too self-centered. 0.90
00:07:55.000 All these different things.
00:07:55.000 I've heard everything you could possibly imagine.
00:07:57.000 But boy, is he an imperfect vessel that accomplished something rather heroic when he put Kavanaugh, Amy, Coney, Barrett, and Gorsuch on the U.S. Supreme Court that gave us the reversal of Roe versus Wade.
00:08:09.000 That's an amazing thing.
00:08:12.000 Okay, so there's some people probably in the audience right now on the other side of the spectrum where they say, Charlie, I'm not going to vote because I believe my vote's going to be stolen and thrown away and shredded.
00:08:23.000 I know you're out there.
00:08:24.000 I see you.
00:08:24.000 You're probably like, I'm not going to vote because what's the point?
00:08:27.000 Now, this is logically insane.
00:08:30.000 It just is.
00:08:30.000 Okay.
00:08:31.000 Now, I'm not guaranteeing your vote is going to be counted beautifully and wonderfully, but not voting guarantees there's a 0% chance that you have any voice, okay?
00:08:41.000 So there's no argument not to show up.
00:08:43.000 And by the way, they say, well, Charlie, I don't have time.
00:08:45.000 Okay, so I just drove through Albuquerque and we passed by Starbucks, where people are willing to wait 10, 15, 20 minutes for a Frappuccino or some $9 drink.
00:08:55.000 You have time throughout your entire life to probably collectively sit in lines to go get sugar and fat and to get closer to diabetes and heart disease, and you can't wait 20 minutes in line to fill out a piece of paper to defend the unborn.
00:09:12.000 I don't have time.
00:09:13.000 I'm sorry, I'm not buying it, okay?
00:09:15.000 And they say, well, you know, I'm just too busy.
00:09:17.000 You had all voting months, okay?
00:09:19.000 There's unlimited ways to vote.
00:09:21.000 There's more secure ways than other.
00:09:23.000 I prefer voting in person on election day, looking somebody in the eyes and actually seeing it voted and processed.
00:09:29.000 Who's planning to vote tomorrow?
00:09:31.000 Raise your hand.
00:09:31.000 Just curious.
00:09:32.000 Who's already voted?
00:09:33.000 Raise your hand.
00:09:34.000 Awesome.
00:09:34.000 That's terrific.
00:09:35.000 So a lot of early voters here in New Mexico.
00:09:37.000 That's great.
00:09:38.000 So, but look, the fact that some people say, it just doesn't matter.
00:09:42.000 I'm just not going to, you know, I don't think my vote's going to be counted in any way, shape, or form.
00:09:47.000 I just don't buy it at all.
00:09:48.000 Okay.
00:09:48.000 But here's the thing: we should not be surprised when non-believers act like non-believers.
00:09:54.000 What should surprise us, though, is when believers don't do what Christ expected us to do.
00:10:01.000 And this is what always bothers me: is that there's been this big mandate in the last couple of decades.
00:10:05.000 Charlie, we have to have Christian music.
00:10:07.000 Charlie, we have to have Christian movies.
00:10:09.000 Charlie, we have to have Christian social media. 0.57
00:10:11.000 We have to have Christian schools.
00:10:12.000 I love all of that.
00:10:13.000 But do we have a little bit of a moment in time where we say, hey, what are we going to do in our government?
00:10:18.000 Are we going to have our values actually try to put forward to defend those that can't defend themselves?
00:10:23.000 And they say, oh, Charlie, you got to keep your Christianity out of our government.
00:10:27.000 I say, wait a second.
00:10:29.000 Putting all that aside, without the anchor of a belief in a God, how do you know what is right or wrong?
00:10:35.000 It is nothing more than your opinion.
00:10:37.000 It's nothing more than a power play.
00:10:39.000 You see, how do you know a line is crooked if you do not have a straight line to compare it to?
00:10:45.000 And look, New Mexico, I just want to speak to you, and I love this state.
00:10:48.000 I have a heart for this state.
00:10:49.000 You guys fight so hard.
00:10:50.000 You show up to school board meetings.
00:10:52.000 You guys fight for every inch.
00:10:54.000 It is, I think we could all agree what is happening in the state with the crime, the homelessness, the drugs, it is out of control.
00:11:01.000 You guys deserve better.
00:11:03.000 And your leaders need to start to listen to their voters and not put up with this culture of crime and vagrancy.
00:11:10.000 I mean, it's, I'll be very honest, driving just in on, you know, formerly Route 66, right?
00:11:15.000 Right in, this is, it's very sad what's happening here.
00:11:19.000 It is.
00:11:19.000 It is aesthetically sad.
00:11:20.000 It is visually sad.
00:11:21.000 It's morally sad.
00:11:22.000 And I've been coming here for 10 years.
00:11:24.000 And I think you would all agree it's actually deteriorating in real time.
00:11:27.000 Do you guys agree with that?
00:11:28.000 That it's getting worse.
00:11:30.000 And we as Christians should be extra concerned about that.
00:11:34.000 Because guess what?
00:11:34.000 The secular world, they fly in Joe Biden to tell us everything's actually just fine.
00:11:40.000 And that's an insult to all of you.
00:11:41.000 You know why?
00:11:42.000 Because I care for the person that I drove by that's addicted to drugs right there.
00:11:46.000 You know what?
00:11:46.000 It's actually not good for them to actually act as if that's okay.
00:11:49.000 And they stay on the side of the street and to allow drugs and fentanyl to pour across the southern border that could likely kill them through an accidental overdose.
00:11:56.000 It's not okay to allow the child sex trafficking to continue to come through Albuquerque or up to Santa Fe.
00:12:01.000 It's not good for anybody, actually.
00:12:03.000 But the secular world just kind of rolls their eyes.
00:12:05.000 And this is the lesson that we have throughout history.
00:12:08.000 If Christians don't care, then who's actually going to care? 1.00
00:12:12.000 And that's where it comes down to the church, which is we are the ones that have to speak out when others will not.
00:12:18.000 So then some people say this: they say, Look, Charlie, I think this is all overwhelming.
00:12:23.000 I mean, I voted, but why should I get other people to vote for the polls?
00:12:27.000 Here's the cool thing: there's an end date.
00:12:29.000 After Tuesday, I'm not going to be bothering you about this for about another year.
00:12:33.000 The point is that this is the time to not just vote yourself, but get 5, 10, 15 other people to be able to do the same.
00:12:40.000 And so, look, it's really not about us either.
00:12:42.000 You know, some people say, well, Charlie, you know, how does it impact me?
00:12:47.000 Well, first of all, I don't really care how it impacts you.
00:12:48.000 I care how it impacts our children.
00:12:50.000 I care how it impacts our grandchildren.
00:12:52.000 If you're only voting for yourself, you are voting for the wrong things.
00:12:56.000 You should vote for those that actually don't yet have a voice.
00:12:59.000 And look, as Jesus said in Matthew 5, 13 through 16, you are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its taste, how shall saltness be restored?
00:13:09.000 It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet.
00:13:13.000 Now, when you think about salt and light, those two things in common, when you think about them, they change the environment that they come in contact with.
00:13:23.000 They are by definition game changers.
00:13:25.000 So when we are called to be salt and light, we are called to go into an environment and make it better, to make it brighter or in this analogy, to make it saltier.
00:13:34.000 So we look at what's happening in Albuquerque.
00:13:36.000 We are called to try to say, you know what, let's try to fix the homelessness issue.
00:13:39.000 Let's try to reduce the amount of drug usage.
00:13:41.000 Let's try to make it no longer the late-term abortion capital.
00:13:44.000 We're here to change the environment in which our things can actually are happening.
00:13:48.000 And boy, if there's ever been a fight of light versus dark, of being light, it's happening right here in this state in more ways than one.
00:13:57.000 And I think all of you guys feel that.
00:13:59.000 Jesus also said, you are the light of the world.
00:14:02.000 A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.
00:14:04.000 Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand.
00:14:08.000 And it gives light to all in the house.
00:14:10.000 In the same way, let your light shine before others so that you may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
00:14:18.000 And so when you think about it, you have to go into the darkest places.
00:14:21.000 And right now, we're actually in a place where the politics are pretty dark right here, right now.
00:14:26.000 And sitting at home and not voting or not getting your friends to vote is the opposite of being the light that we need to be.
00:14:32.000 Now, look, so in John 16, 33, Jesus said, to those who are disheartened by the trouble in the world, we tell them to take heart because Jesus has overcome the world.
00:14:42.000 And this should give you peace.
00:14:43.000 Jesus has already won the battle, okay?
00:14:46.000 And that should lower your anxiety about Charlie.
00:14:48.000 What if they do this and all this and the machines and the ballots and all of this?
00:14:51.000 And they're zapping in votes from China.
00:14:53.000 I'm like, okay, Jesus has already won the battle, everybody, okay?
00:14:56.000 The battle is won by Jesus.
00:14:58.000 We know how the story ends.
00:15:00.000 Now, some people will say, but Charlie, Jesus wasn't political, okay?
00:15:04.000 Like, this is all nice, but I think it's wrong the Sunday before an election that you aren't just talking about the gospel.
00:15:10.000 You know, they say this is, they say this is a waste of time.
00:15:13.000 We shouldn't do this.
00:15:14.000 I'll say it again.
00:15:15.000 If you don't get involved in politics, politics will get involved in you.
00:15:19.000 When you do not get involved in politics, the government is able to come to the church and say, non-essential, you have to stay at home, shut down Christian schools, shut down homeschooling.
00:15:27.000 So that's number one.
00:15:28.000 Number two, though, I have a broader question.
00:15:30.000 Can anyone find an example in the scriptures where God encourages us to ignore what is happening in the world around us?
00:15:38.000 Can anyone find that Bible verse where it says, go into the hills and put your head down and ignore everything around you?
00:15:44.000 No, it's the opposite.
00:15:46.000 In fact, we are called to lean into the most difficult things happening around us.
00:15:50.000 In fact, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was an amazing pastor who was killed by the Nazi regime, he said, silence in the face of evil is evil itself.
00:15:59.000 God will not hold you guiltless.
00:16:02.000 Not to speak is to speak.
00:16:04.000 Not to act is to act.
00:16:07.000 You see, we're not allowed to just sit on our hands.
00:16:09.000 As Christians, we're not allowed to just allow the kind of things to happen.
00:16:13.000 What I mean by allowed is God will hold you at a different accountability if all of a sudden you had the truth and you are born new and you just sat idly by and did nothing.
00:16:22.000 And so here's another question, which is how many people do you know could have used their voice or can use their voice for impact this election cycle to then further his kingdom.
00:16:34.000 In Matthew 28, 19, go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
00:16:42.000 Mind you, it is disciples of all nations, not just converts of all nations.
00:16:46.000 Discipleship goes deep and cares about everything that is happening in the world to be salt and light.
00:16:51.000 And yes, in music, in culture, in film, in education, and of course, in elections and in politics.
00:16:58.000 And this is what's so incredible: we must go out into the world to do this.
00:17:02.000 And this is another thing people say: they say, well, Charlie, I don't like my options because this person is awful and this person is more awful.
00:17:10.000 It's a lesser of two evils.
00:17:12.000 You will always be voting for the lesser of two evils unless Jesus Christ was on the ballot. 0.85
00:17:16.000 Okay?
00:17:17.000 You will always be voting for the lesser of two evils.
00:17:19.000 We are all sinners. 0.93
00:17:20.000 You are a sinner. 0.87
00:17:21.000 I'm a sinner. 0.98
00:17:22.000 We all are broken.
00:17:23.000 But you know what is not broken?
00:17:25.000 The policies and the ideas that they might or hopefully will enact once they get into office, if they're rooted in truth.
00:17:33.000 And they say, well, Charlie, you know, the differences aren't very clear to me.
00:17:36.000 Here's the thing.
00:17:37.000 If you stand for late-term abortion, okay, the differences are pretty clear to me.
00:17:41.000 Now, we are seeing right now the downfall or the side effect of wicked and godless governments.
00:17:48.000 And so in Proverbs 14, 34, it says, righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.
00:17:57.000 Now, if you read Proverbs and you read Leviticus and you read Deuteronomy and you read many of these books, they're talking about how to improve your country.
00:18:05.000 This is a lie when people say Christians shouldn't care about this.
00:18:08.000 There are entire books talking about the type of government we should have, like Isaiah 33, 22, or all throughout the type of structure.
00:18:15.000 Do you know the founding fathers, the number one book that they quoted out of any book, any book, secular or religious, was the book of Deuteronomy.
00:18:25.000 More than any other book, it was the book of Deuteronomy.
00:18:28.000 Now, again, some people will say, but Charlie, I'm looking at my ballot and they aren't Christian enough for me. 0.98
00:18:34.000 You know, they don't listen to worship music and they don't pray and fast like I do and they don't show up to every side.
00:18:39.000 They've never even been to a midweek service, okay?
00:18:41.000 They're just not as good as I am.
00:18:43.000 I say, hold on a second.
00:18:44.000 Let's look throughout the Bible.
00:18:46.000 God always used imperfect vessels for his glory and for his purpose.
00:18:50.000 How about this?
00:18:51.000 Joseph was terribly abused.
00:18:53.000 Job, he lost everything. 0.89
00:18:55.000 Samson was a womanizer and a lot more than that. 0.95
00:18:58.000 Let's just put it that way. 1.00
00:18:59.000 Rahab was a prostitute. 0.99
00:19:01.000 The Samaritan woman was divorced. 1.00
00:19:03.000 Noah could be argued to be a total drunk.
00:19:05.000 Jeremiah was young. 0.85
00:19:07.000 Two young people said Jacob was a cheater. 0.98
00:19:10.000 David was arguably a murderer and an adulterer. 0.89
00:19:14.000 Jonah ran from God. 0.98
00:19:15.000 Naomi was a widow.
00:19:17.000 Peter denied Jesus truth and the divine in flesh three times.
00:19:22.000 Martha was worrying about everything all the time.
00:19:26.000 Zacchaeus was small and money hungry and was a lover of earthly things.
00:19:31.000 Paul was a Pharisee who persecuted Christians.
00:19:33.000 And I go through that list.
00:19:34.000 Joseph, Job, Samson, Rahab, the Samaritan woman, Noah, Jeremiah, Jacob, David, Jonah, Naomi, Peter, Martha, Zacchaeus, and Paul.
00:19:42.000 If those people were good enough for God's purpose, then maybe we can suck up our own pride and vote for somebody that might be an imperfect vessel to accomplish God's purpose in an election.
00:19:55.000 And so, look, I travel the country and I've seen so many different things.
00:19:58.000 I feel that there is a movement happening in America that is very profound.
00:20:02.000 I think Arizona is about to elect Carrie Lake as the next governor, and she's a special candidate, isn't she?
00:20:09.000 She does such an amazing job.
00:20:10.000 I see it happening and I see all of a sudden a parents movement that is taking hold in a very sizable and a very significant way all across America.
00:20:20.000 But it all comes down to the church.
00:20:22.000 It always comes down to where we are right now.
00:20:25.000 And I'm not saying that if Tuesday is this resounding win and everyone shows up and it's this amazing thing, that all of our problems are going to be solved.
00:20:33.000 That is not what I'm saying.
00:20:34.000 Is that the church and the Bible and the gospel need to always remain the center of it?
00:20:39.000 But if we study any 20th century history, if we study any history at all, apathy and sitting on the sideline and just looking inwardly as a church and saying, oh, they're never going to come after me, is that that is the worst thing you could do.
00:20:52.000 Somebody out here right now probably says, Charlie, I'm hearing you sort of, but politics is too messy.
00:20:57.000 It's too divisive.
00:20:59.000 It gets too excited at times.
00:21:00.000 I just don't like it.
00:21:02.000 It's not for me.
00:21:02.000 My heart is for missions.
00:21:04.000 My heart is for helping the poor.
00:21:06.000 My heart is for educating.
00:21:07.000 My heart is just for going and being an evangelist.
00:21:10.000 And guess what?
00:21:11.000 God bless you.
00:21:12.000 We need every single, the kingdom and what we are doing right now.
00:21:15.000 There's people with different talents and different interests and different desires.
00:21:19.000 But here's my biggest ask for the Christian out there, which is I will support all of that mission work.
00:21:25.000 I will support the evangelism.
00:21:26.000 I'll support the altar calls.
00:21:28.000 I'll support the, you know, the big concerts and you should too.
00:21:32.000 I'm just asking for one day out of two years, you support the ministry to try to fight back against evil and darkness in America because we need every single level of these things.
00:21:42.000 It's so critically important.
00:21:44.000 And so it's an exciting time when you really look at it.
00:21:46.000 Our founding fathers gave us such a profound gift in the American Constitution and in citizen government and in consent to the governed and in separation of powers and in all these amazing different things.
00:21:58.000 And elections, when you think about it, are something that we did not earn and we do not deserve.
00:22:03.000 The fact is that most countries, most civilizations, most people ever to exist usually were not able to be citizens.
00:22:11.000 I'll talk about that in a second.
00:22:13.000 Most people were serfs, they were slaves, or they were subjects.
00:22:17.000 In fact, said differently, most people ever to exist were always dominated by the few dominated the many.
00:22:27.000 It was almost always that way.
00:22:28.000 It was an oligarchy, a kleptocracy, or a dictatorship.
00:22:32.000 The American founding fathers reversed the entire game.
00:22:36.000 They said, we believe that the many should give the orders to the few.
00:22:41.000 And they did that through elections.
00:22:43.000 And that's what Tuesday is.
00:22:44.000 And it drives me so nuts when people say, oh, I just don't believe in voting.
00:22:48.000 I'm cynical.
00:22:49.000 Now, the world is able to say that because they're still searching for Jesus and they're searching for truth.
00:22:55.000 But my other challenge for you is if you know one Christian out there and they say, oh, I just don't want to vote. 1.00
00:22:59.000 Oh, that's the other thing.
00:23:00.000 Some people say, Charlie, I don't want to vote because Jesus, he's coming on Friday.
00:23:06.000 You know that, right?
00:23:07.000 And they say, Jesus is going to zap us all up and the end is coming.
00:23:11.000 Now, look, you very well might be right.
00:23:13.000 You know, your eschatology might be spot on and Jesus might be coming next Saturday.
00:23:17.000 But isn't that a reason to want to spread as much salt and light before Jesus comes, not just run to the hills and do the least amount of work?
00:23:25.000 Shouldn't that be a call to action to lean in and do more?
00:23:28.000 And so some people say, well, Charlie, America is like every other country ever to exist in the history of the world. 0.98
00:23:34.000 This is rubbish. 0.96
00:23:35.000 Read the Declaration of Independence. 0.98
00:23:36.000 It is a moral argument where it says when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands that have tied them to another, deriving from the equal but separate station of power.
00:23:48.000 And it goes on to finally say the laws of nature and nature is God.
00:23:51.000 And it says, we hold these truths to be self-evident.
00:23:55.000 That's such a beautiful phrase, isn't it?
00:23:57.000 The founding fathers were talking about eternal wisdom.
00:24:00.000 They were talking about things that are always true.
00:24:02.000 And do you notice that the Constitution, despite being around for so long, was not written for the times.
00:24:08.000 It was written to stand the test of time.
00:24:10.000 Why?
00:24:10.000 Because they took a biblical view of human nature.
00:24:13.000 They knew that people were broken and they needed Jesus.
00:24:16.000 They knew that God should be the center of it all.
00:24:18.000 You see, in Isaiah 33, 22, it says that God is the executor, the lawmaker, and the interpreter of the law.
00:24:24.000 Otherwise, that is the legislative, executive, and judicial branch, the three branches of government that we now enjoy.
00:24:30.000 And so here we are right in front of us, an election that is just hours away.
00:24:36.000 And you're in a state that the rest of the country is going to be looking at.
00:24:39.000 I get emails from all the time.
00:24:40.000 People say, Charlie, do you really think that they can get rid of that governor in New Mexico?
00:24:44.000 And I say, when I go to legacy church, they send me a very big message that I think there might be something happening on Tuesday.
00:24:57.000 But if every person that hears my words here on the live stream across the country said, I'm going to get three, maybe five, maybe 10 people, boom, it happens.
00:25:06.000 This state is, as you know, the population center.
00:25:09.000 This is going to be on the margins.
00:25:10.000 So we have a couple thousand people here.
00:25:12.000 If you've got the live streams, other satellites and all this, if everyone said, I'm going to bring three more people that haven't already voted to the polls or get them out, boom, that's the multiplication effect that they can't factor in the polls.
00:25:21.000 That's the multiplication effect that they can't possibly interpret, that they can't possibly be able to understand.
00:25:26.000 And so my final call to action here is to kind of summarize this all together, is that, look, we must never lose sight that in the church, Jesus is the center of it all.
00:25:35.000 We want to make sure that we increase the attendance list in heaven.
00:25:39.000 That's why we're here.
00:25:40.000 That's why we do our ministry.
00:25:41.000 That's why we do all of this.
00:25:43.000 But whenever there are things of evil, as it says in Ephesians 5, 2, do not tolerate the evil acts of darkness, but call them out and to be able, and I'm paraphrasing, but to educate people of what they are.
00:25:54.000 This is what we're living through.
00:25:56.000 This is what's happening all around us.
00:25:57.000 When they are teaching this perverse gender theory to our children, when they are talking about medically mutilating our kids and telling 11-year-olds that they're women and boys and boys and girls and vice versa, that's where we need to rise up more than ever before.
00:26:10.000 We have a republic.
00:26:11.000 We're not a democracy.
00:26:12.000 We are a republic.
00:26:13.000 And there's a big difference.
00:26:14.000 A republic means that there are truths that are self-evident that never change.
00:26:19.000 Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, separation of powers, this beautiful Constitution.
00:26:24.000 But a republic gives you a chance, a pressure release valve.
00:26:27.000 A republic allows you an opportunity to say, you know what, I've had enough.
00:26:31.000 And what's happening on Tuesday is us Christians, we have kind of taken it on the chin, haven't we?
00:26:36.000 They've locked us down.
00:26:37.000 They've indoctrinated our kids.
00:26:38.000 They've pushed pornography on eight-year-olds.
00:26:40.000 They medically mutilate them. 0.57
00:26:42.000 The late-term abortion.
00:26:43.000 And we've kind of waited our turn, haven't we?
00:26:45.000 We've kind of been waiting, circling the date on the calendar and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting.
00:26:50.000 But guess what?
00:26:51.000 The founding fathers gave you this opportunity as a Christian to be salt and light in a couple hours to say, you know what?
00:26:57.000 I have had enough.
00:26:58.000 I'm going to press that pressure release valve and I'm going to send a resounding message to Santa Fe, to Washington, D.C., and to the rest of the world that the American citizen, the American church, and the American Christian is rising and we're not going to take it anymore and we are going to be salt and light.
00:27:15.000 God bless you guys.
00:27:16.000 Thank you so much.
00:27:23.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:27:25.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:27:28.000 Thank you so much for listening.
00:27:29.000 God bless.
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