Top 3 Things Every Christian Must Demand Of Their Government
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Hey, everybody.
I gave a very important speech in Albuquerque, New Mexico at my friend's church, Steve Smotherman's Church, all about what's happening in our country.
Where do we find moral courage?
Has this ever happened before?
We dive into a lot.
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Buckle up, everybody.
Here we go.
Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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Thank you guys.
Thank you.
It's great to be here in person, our peaceful protest.
That's what we're calling it, right, Steve?
I really enjoyed last evening.
If you tuned in or you were there, there will be a little bit of overlap, but we're going to talk about some new things today in every single one of the services.
First of all, I just want to say all of you that go to this church, maybe you're guests at this church, this man right here is passing the test.
This is a courageous man.
And also, it's not just him, but it's his whole team that has been working through this in the last year.
Because I could tell you, I've traveled the country.
You know, our podcast is doing very well.
We get thousands of emails.
And what people are saying more than anything else in the Christian world is, why is my church not open?
Why is my pastor not standing?
Why can Steve open and my church not be open?
And the answer is because moral courage is very rare right now.
Moral courage is very rare right now.
And Steve and this church has decided to do the right thing.
Not the easy thing, but the right thing.
So there's a couple protesters outside, a little disappointed.
It's only about 10.
Usually I'm able to draw a lot more than that.
And here's how you know you're doing the right thing.
What does it say in the book of James?
Consider it a pure joy if you are persecuted for the name of Jesus.
If you're not under attack right now, you're doing something wrong.
If you are not receiving backlash, then you are not in the sweet spot.
And so there's a couple things I want to talk about.
And I think that we fail to realize as Christians that we're in the midst of a big theological debate in our country.
And it's a theological debate that the media and the politicians don't want to admit.
This last year has really exposed it.
So we have to be very careful and specific the way that we describe what has happened in the last year.
For example, people say the virus has caused a rise in suicides.
People say the virus has caused small businesses to close.
That's incorrect.
The virus has killed people.
The virus is a real thing.
We know how it works.
We know how it operates.
Take proper precautions.
Act responsibly.
Use your liberty for good.
You could use your liberty for bad.
There's plenty of ways to do that.
But the virus did not get rid of the small businesses.
The lockdowns got rid of the small businesses.
The lockdowns have negatively impacted students across the country in a way that's hard to even comprehend.
And so for the governor and her team, and I mean this non-sarcastically, I don't remember her name because she is not doing anything worthy of me to remember her name.
Seriously.
No, seriously, I mean that.
And I say this.
In the Bible, names mean a lot, right?
Names are important.
She doesn't have a name worth remembering.
She's done nothing but abuse your freedoms and liberties, and she's part of the ruling class.
I'll get to that in a second.
So I have a message for her and for all the lockdown politicians in both parties, but mostly in one party.
And this is exactly what the Bible tells us, and it's more applicable today than ever before.
Number one, there is a God, and you are not him.
It's that simple.
And what these governors don't understand, what your governor in particular does not understand, is what is the compact that we're in in this country?
What's the relationship that we enter into?
And so a line of attack towards this church and your pastor is that you are violating the orders.
You've heard this before, right?
You're violating.
I've been told we're only allowed to be 33% open.
So look around.
It looks like we're violating, right?
Looks like we're violating.
Anyone who says that, anyone who believes that, has no idea what makes the American experiment so different.
You understand how exceptional this country is.
This is the greatest experiment in civil government in the history of the planet.
This country, I truly believe, is a gift from God, and we're currently squandering it.
And so what makes this country different is the consent of the governed.
They require our permission.
But even more than that, it's a simple recognition of where do rights come from.
See, if our children were being educated properly, which they generally aren't, this is one of the most important things that you could teach a young person.
Where do rights come from?
You hear people all the time, well, I have a right to this and I have a right to that.
Slow down.
Who gives you your rights?
God gives you your rights.
You're exactly right, not government.
And so when they say that you are violating the government's order, it's the exact opposite.
The government is violating your freedom to worship your creator.
They're violating you.
You're violating nothing.
What makes this country different and what we must defend at all costs, and I mean that, because the stakes have never been higher, is the government is supposed to work for us.
We're not supposed to work for the government.
Going back to the Greek word of citizen, it means co-ruler.
If you're a citizen, you are a co-ruler, the consent of the governed.
So if you read the U.S. Constitution, which is the greatest political document ever written in the history of the world.
Now, why is the Constitution so amazing?
The Constitution is so amazing, and it's the longest-lasting political document because it was not written for the times.
It was written to stand the test of time.
So it wasn't written just for one period of time.
And so the founding fathers were so brilliant, and they understood that the raw material that they were dealing with was terrible.
The raw material, we're human beings.
We're pretty awful.
We're terrible, actually.
So when you deal with the raw material of selfish, sinful, broken human beings, and you're able to create anything that is at least better than awful, you're doing okay.
So the founding fathers knew this verse, Genesis 8.
Now, any Christian who says that human beings are naturally good is ignoring this truth in the Bible.
And when the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma, the Lord said in his heart, quote, I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth.
Neither will I ever again strike it down every living creature as I have done.
What is the Lord saying?
We're screwed up from the moment we're born.
Natural sin, original sin.
That's who we are in the state of nature.
Founding fathers understood this.
They said, we're not going to be able to create perfect people.
What made the founders so different, which is why the Constitution is more relevant today than ever before, is they knew the worst thing that could possibly happen was not singular evil.
It wasn't just one person murdering another person.
That's very bad.
It wasn't one person stealing a single thing.
It wasn't one person telling one lie.
No, no, no, there's something much worse than that.
This is a great question to ask a young person in a civics course, right?
Again, if our teachers were doing their job, they'd be taught to teach this, which is what's the worst thing you could do?
What's the worst thing you could do?
People might say, murder, lie.
Oh, that's all bad.
But what's worse than that?
The collectivization of that.
Where all of a sudden, not just there's a singular theft, but ultimate power, government becomes entrenched towards lying, stealing, murdering, killing.
That is far more evil than a single person doing that.
So the founding fathers realized that if we don't prevent against that collectivization of evil, tyranny, then all the freedoms that we momentarily enjoy will disappear.
That's why what you are doing today, worshiping our Creator, getting closer to the person who brought you to this planet, who made you in his image, is constitutionally protected twice in the U.S. Constitution.
The Establishment Clause and the Free Expression Clause.
The Founding Fathers were so clear about the role of the church, the role of worship, that they went out of their way to say that government has no right, no power to ever get into the church.
And as Steve said, we touched on this a little bit yesterday.
People say, separation of church and state.
Who's heard this before?
All the time.
Do you know that's nowhere in the Constitution?
Nowhere.
It's not in the Constitution.
It's in a single letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Convention.
One letter.
And they took it.
It's immoral.
It's unconstitutional.
It's unbiblical.
But let's pretend the fools are right.
Let's pretend that separation of church and state is the way we should live.
Then government bureaucrats have no business ever stepping foot in a church.
Keep the state out of the church.
So why is it, and this is worth thinking and contemplating, why is it that they're so focused on the church?
Do you notice how obsessed they are about the church?
BLM Inc. walks through the streets and they riot and they, no social distance, and they say that's okay.
Abortion clinics remain open.
Cannabis dispensaries remain open.
Yet it's the church that they're obsessed with.
Why?
Because every tyrant, and I'm going to dive into that word because it's a very important word, is threatened by the gathering and the organizing of citizens, co-rulers, that recognize something is more important than them.
What you're doing today, whether you realize it or not, is you are saying, hey, governor, whatever her name is, I answer to a higher power than you do.
That's what you're saying today.
And they don't like that.
That drives them mad.
They want to get rid of it.
Look at all the tyrants in the Bible.
Murdering of infants.
Going after anyone that might challenge their authority.
This pattern replicates itself.
Now, we as Christians have to do a better job of explaining what is happening in our country is a war on human nature.
You could have new phones, new technology, faster cars, better airplanes.
Human beings are not going to change.
The gospel is as relevant today as it was when it was first spoke, when it was first written down.
It's just as relevant.
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So in my spare time, I read Aristotle, and I encourage all of you to do that.
I'm half kidding.
But no, I was reading this the other day from a really brilliant guy, Dr. Larry Arne, who was doing a lecture from Hillsdale College, great place.
And I was reading this after the lecture, and I could not believe this.
And I'm going to read this from you.
And if you don't know it, Aristotle is one of the great classics who's taught by Plato, and one of the main reasons why the gospel spread in the first place.
And I think that if you really want to dive deep into the scriptures, understand ancient Greek.
It's a very important thing.
But I read this and I said, this is exactly what is happening right now.
So he wrote a book called Politics.
It's one of the most 2,400 years ago.
And do you know what he warned against?
I'll read it.
Tyrants preserve themselves by not letting there be any schools or collegial gatherings for leisured pursuits and doing everything that will keep all people as unknown to one another as possible.
Since familiarity breeds a greater degree of mutual trust.
That one sentence has more wisdom than the entire University of New Mexico.
It's true.
That one sentence.
Let's read this slower, piece by piece.
And by the way, Aristotle was not a Christian.
He actually was on earth before Christ ever came to be.
But Aristotle's thinking, writings, and influence paved the way for Christ's ministry.
And also, his reemergence with Thomas Aquinas allowed the gospel to spread.
So some Christians say, Charlie, why are you quoting a non-Christian in church?
I think that's a very sloppy accusation.
But if that's what you're thinking, there's a lot of wisdom.
Aristotle makes the argument that there is a God and he's worthy of exploring.
Okay, let's go through this again.
Tyrants preserve themselves by not letting there be any schools.
Why?
Education, the pursuit of truth, challenges tyrants' power.
Education comes in the Latin word to lead forth.
They don't want children to be led forth in the pursuit of truth to defend liberty, keep people locked down in their homes, looking at a computer screen, addicted to TikTok, no friends, no contact.
We'll get that in a second.
Other collegial gatherings.
What just happened there?
We were just worshiping.
Beautiful worship, by the way.
It's really good.
Why do tyrants hate that?
Because you're actually enjoying yourself.
Tyrants need you to be miserable.
They do.
The happy you are, the less relevant they are.
The happy you are, the less likely you are to listen to that woman from Santa Fe that just goes endlessly about whatever she has to say.
And doing everything, this is very important.
Tyrants, this is 2,400 years ago.
Things don't change.
You have new technology.
You could talk faster, whatever.
Human beings are exactly the same, carbon copied.
And this is something the left does not believe, by the way.
The left believes that human beings are malleable, yet you could change them.
Good luck.
We'll get to that.
That will keep all people as unknown to one another.
How do you keep people unknown to one another?
You make them all wear masks all the time.
And again, if you're wearing a mask here, I am mask agnostic.
I mean that.
I really am.
Agnosis means without knowledge.
They might work, they might not work.
And you should not make fun of people that wear masks.
I mean that non-sarcastically.
And you shouldn't condemn people that don't wear them.
No, I mean that.
Seriously.
However, the mask mandate, mandate, I'm totally against.
I'm not agnostic on that.
The mandate where I'm going to make you feel uncomfortable.
And I've come under great accusation for this, so bring it on.
I think that the Muslim veil dehumanizes people.
And I think the mask mandate dehumanizes people.
I'm going to say that publicly.
It does.
I think that God gave us a face for a reason.
And I think it's child abuse to have three-year-olds walking around with masks on.
I really do.
I think it's child abuse.
Oh, they're going to love that.
You're welcome, Steve.
Again, this is 2,400 years ago.
There's so much wisdom that came before us and the nonsense they teach our kids in these schools today.
You know, one thing, and I study the left because they follow me around the country so angry.
Do you notice how angry they are?
I thought they won every election.
They're the angriest winners I've ever seen in my life.
No, seriously.
They're always angry.
They're burning and they're yelling.
Anyways, we're happier and we lost.
It's like we have more cheerful.
And I'll get to that.
Cheerfulness.
Yeah, I know, I know.
Cheerfulness is actually the product of wisdom.
We'll get to that in a second.
That's why Christians are happier people.
Okay, so as possible, since familiarity breeds a greater degree of mutual trust.
Why is trust important?
Well, trust means that you don't have to live in a gated community.
Trust means that you're okay walking into a public event and not thinking you're going to be mugged outside.
Trust is all that keeps you from living in an endless paranoia hell.
It's trust.
And what we've grown accustomed to in America, and those of you that have visited the third world, you know that's not the case.
Is those little pieces of trust, it's not the norm in most countries around the planet.
It's not.
That if you have any sort of success, you're in gated communities, armed guards, chauffeured, in the house by the sun goes down.
You're not going out.
Trust is important.
Why do tyrants not want you to be able to trust other people?
It makes them more important.
And so, not letting there be any schools.
The fact that we've closed schools in our country permanently is going to be one of the greatest moral injustices ever done in the history of our country.
Ever.
The closure of schools was an unbelievable mistake.
Rise in suicide, opioids, mental health problems, child developmental problems.
I understand a couple weeks of school closures.
We didn't know what we were dealing with.
I get it.
Even a month.
Then you kind of roll into the summer.
Fine.
But then the fall, and then all the way to now, we are seeing a lost generation.
We are going to see millions of people.
You know, there are millions of people, according to independent study, that have never logged into a Zoom class.
They needed to be able to go to a class.
They needed to be able to held accountable.
What's going to happen to those people?
They'll get lost in the system.
They'll be more likely to go to prison, commit crimes, fall off the grid.
Why?
Well, because we were told to trust the science.
It's a lie.
What they meant and what they should say, what the governor should say, is, no, no, no, trust the scientists I like.
Big difference.
If we were to say trust the science, we'd say there is a portion of the American population that should take this very seriously.
Over the age of 60, underlying health conditions, comorbidities.
Focus on therapeutics, vitamin D, zinc.
Socially distant, stay at home if you have to.
We will take care of you.
The science says schools must be open.
The science says that businesses need to be open.
The science says that when you try to kill a mouse with a tomahawk missile, which is what we've done, you're going to uproot all of decent civil society and bring us in a direction that no one likes.
That's what the science says.
But they've politicized science.
Why?
Because they see an opportunity to make America in their image.
That's why.
And I hate to be this blunt and this cynical.
There is no other explanation for the lockdown of America beyond what they did.
Zero.
The states that are the most lockdowns are worse than the states that are opened up when it comes to virus rates, hospitalization rates, and death rates.
They're worse.
Not to mention all the other issues that they're going to have to deal with.
Now, the science tells us that children in schools are not contributing at all to community spread.
With the flu, that actually is not the case.
Believe it or not, children are spreaders of the flu.
For whatever reason, the Chinese coronavirus, which by the way, that's what everyone should call it, the Chinese coronavirus, no such spread.
And so this is a moment where we have to take a step back over this last year and we have to ask ourselves the question, how did this happen?
Because what just happened is going to take decades of work to reverse, if we even want to reverse it.
The inflation that's about to come, the money we created out of thin air, the schools, the closures, the mental health issues, the opioid addiction, and it's all self-imposed, almost all of it.
And so, how did this happen?
Well, number one, I'm going to read you a quote from George S. Patton, another person that isn't taught in our schools.
In fact, he's called the white supremacist, which is just so terrible.
And this describes your pastor perfectly.
Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men.
Courage, what your pastor has and what you have, is one of the most absent characteristics in America.
It is.
Why?
In the social media era and what we're in, it's nothing new.
People are afraid, understandably, of the cost that comes with speaking out publicly.
Now, if you don't believe in Jesus and you don't believe the Bible is the word of God, I actually judge you at a different degree here.
I do.
But if you believe that Jesus is king of the world, if you believe that Jesus is an equal part of the Godhead, if you believe that you're born new and you have everlasting life waiting for you, and somehow you're in a position where you're like, I'm scared of what people will think about me.
I think to myself, and I struggle to say this, do you actually believe that?
Because if you believe that you have everlasting life, if you've been born new, then what should be stopping you from speaking with courage and getting out into the public square?
Nothing.
And I'm not here to judge people's own walk and all that.
That's not my place.
It's not.
What I am saying, though, is, where's the fruit?
American Christianity has more higher budgets, bigger buildings, and more baptisms than ever before.
Yet we abort more children.
We have transgender bathrooms.
We're legalizing drugs as far as the eye can see.
More children are going to be raised out of wedlock than with stable families, 52% divorce rate.
And we look around and we say, what is the imprints that American Christianity has made on the world?
Bigger budgets, bigger buildings, more baptisms.
I'm all for that.
Trust me.
The parable of the talents, I think, is the best application for this.
In short, the wisdom of the parable of the talents is that if you are given more, you're expected to multiply what you've been given and you will be judged accordingly.
That's the short wisdom of it.
We live in the wealthiest, freest, most prosperous country in the history of the world that was founded by Christian men and women inspired by the Bible of activist preachers of the black robe regimen after the first great awakening from the teachings of the Bible.
What did they put on?
This is how I knew the founding fathers are brilliant.
They put Leviticus on the Liberty Bell.
That's how you know they're just awesome.
And, you know, people like Andy Stanley, megachurch pastor from Georgia, says, you know, we shouldn't teach the Old Testament.
That's complete nonsense.
No, it's true.
This is what most Christians are talking about right now.
And I'll get to that in a second.
We're going to be judged on whether or not we preserve this gift called the United States of America, or at the very least, if you try to do something about it.
Remember the raw material we're working with.
You know, I always love these campus leftists.
They say human beings are basically good.
And I say, only someone who has never studied human history can believe something like that, truly.
Look at the legacy of slavery.
Look what we're doing right now, a million abortions every single year in our country.
The Holocaust, Auschwitz, 50 million people killed between Mao China and the USSR.
And we're supposed to believe that human beings are basically good?
No.
So what makes America different is the first ever benevolent superpower in the history of the world, ever.
Show me another time where a country has had as much power as we have had and generally always striving to do the right thing.
We have power that could conquer an entire continent.
But generally, we care more to liberate than to occupy.
For example, show me another country that has committed so much for the liberation of people that were ensuring them or in bondage.
South Korea exists because of the United States of America.
We call it the Forgotten War.
The Korean War.
The communists were marching all throughout the Korean Peninsula.
They were going to occupy the entire Korean peninsula.
It would all be North Korea, the whole thing.
We send hundreds of thousands of our troops who are war-weary already after World War II, push back the communists to what is now the DMZ, and then a new country was formed, South Korea.
100 million people live free today in South Korea because of the selfless sacrifice of the United States of America.
100 million people.
And by the way, I'm a critic of many foreign policy decisions of the United States in the last couple hundred years.
I have never made the argument that America is perfect.
Of course not.
You're dealing with human beings.
But we are excellent.
It's a big difference.
And what did we ask for in return in South Korea?
Do we colonize them?
Do we ask for ports of entry?
5% tax?
All we asked for was land to bury our dead.
That's all we asked for.
He said, give us the land so we could bury the people at sacrifice so you could live free.
What other country has done that?
You think the Soviet Union went around to other countries liberating people from bondage?
They did the opposite.
They occupied, they controlled, and they terrorized.
This country shatters, the gospel will shatter alongside of it.
It will be the greatest deathblow to religious freedom in world history.
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There is a serpent that is going around the American church.
America's a racist country.
America's a terrible place.
Why do you love your country?
This is a lie.
First of all, it tells you in the scriptures to pray for the peace of the city of which you are in, to care for the nation of which you're in.
What is a nation?
Where do we get the idea of a nation?
The Bible.
The idea of a nation, borders, values, laws, people who govern.
That's a biblical idea.
Nation versus kingdoms, big difference.
So we get this idea of a nation from the Bible.
America falls, the world will fall alongside of it.
And some Christians and some pastors are going alongside, and they're saying, what's the difference?
This country's not that great.
There's nothing special about us.
We're not exceptional.
That's what they're talking about.
And what unbelievable pride and foolishness, a terrible combination, I might add.
Deceitfulness, arrogance, and resentment.
The three worst things someone in public life could be.
And the American church right now is currently failing that test.
And they're not failing in a little bit.
They're failing in a lot.
There are three different types of churches in America when it comes to this.
The first is the church that you're in.
Wide open, great pastor, unapologetic, very courageous.
The second type of church is scared and complacent.
I'm going to offer some grace to them.
I don't think they've ever been trained or prepared for this moment.
I really do.
I think there are good pastors here in this general area that are completely taken by surprise.
Someone wants to shut us down?
I thought the church was always something that was going to be protected.
And I think some of them are good people that are kind of paralyzed in inaction.
And we need to go to those pastors and say, hey, lead, follow, or get out of the way.
It's really that simple.
And go follow people like Pastor Steve if you want to actually pursue what is right.
But the last type of church is the one that I've dedicated plenty of my time, energy, and public platform vocalizing towards.
And that's the complicit church.
This is a very big problem.
I'm talking about the church that embraces BLM Incorporated.
I'm talking about the church that says that America is not a country worth saving or preserving.
I'm talking about someone like Rick Warren, who played an impact on my life growing up, wrote a great book, Purpose-Driven Life, but he's not finishing well.
He's not.
In fact, it really is sad.
Rick Warren is not finishing the race well.
Remember, it says in the Bible that this is a long journey.
This is a marathon.
And if we all know that if you don't finish well, what good is the whole race, right?
It doesn't matter how strong you start.
This is a long arc.
And finishing well is tough.
You guys know that that are runners.
I used to run before I had a terrible back injury.
Finishing well takes, you got to dig deep, right?
That's where you really find out who you are, finishing well.
That's where all of a sudden the head games start to, you know, for those of you that have run marathons before, mile 20, mile 21, that is not a physical game, right?
It's all up here.
So a lot of these pastors are not finishing well.
Rick Warren comes out and he says, God doesn't care how you vote.
And he says, there's really no difference between the two.
Christine Kane said the same thing.
Doesn't matter who's in charge.
Now, to believe that God doesn't care about anything that you do is so unbelievably unbiblical.
God cares about everything that you do.
He cares about who you marry, how you act, where you work, where you spend your money, even how you eat, all of it.
God cares about all those things.
But to say that God is somehow morally indifferent, that he kind of takes a neutral position on the issue of abortion.
So I have three rules.
Three rules of how Christians should vote.
And it's not even right versus left.
It's this simple.
That every Christian, first of all, must vote.
Every Christian, and that's the least that you should do.
Like the very minimum.
All throughout the Old Testament, people we view as heroes were involved in secular government for God's purpose.
Esther, Mordecai, Daniel, Jeremiah, Nehemiah, Joseph, you name it.
They were the counselor to the king for God's purpose.
Three rules.
It's very simple.
And if any Christian violates these when they vote, then I believe that they're pursuing some form of an Eastern religious Christianity that is a complete and total deviation from the word of God.
Number one, it's pretty simple.
It starts and finishes with what you are willing to do with those that can't protect themselves, the issue of life.
If you do not vote for life and vote against the massacre of the unborn in our country, then you're not actually following the gospel.
Now, I will say that sometimes the pro-life movement needs to do a better job of advertising, advocating, and living out adoption.
I've said this before.
However, Pastor Rob McCoy, my pastor from Calvary Chapel Thousand Oaks, has a public challenge the last 20 years.
He says, Any member of our community that is thinking of having a child, I will adopt that child for you instead of you having an abortion.
Never been taken up on that offer, right?
And so I do, we have to do a better job of that.
And a culture of all of life.
Now, let me tell you what bothers me the most is the serpent in the church says, oh, you only care about pro-birth.
Heard this before.
Every public policy position that I articulate and that I believe in is for a culture of life.
I want more police officers because I want less children to be shot on the way to school.
I want school choice so minority kids can learn to read.
I want strong borders so women aren't sex trafficked across our southern border.
I don't want drugs to be legalized so that our teenagers aren't addicted to opioids.
Every position that we articulate is a pro-life position.
Every single one.
I want people to get married before they have kids because they're less likely to go into poverty when they have a mother and a father in the home.
So do not allow anyone to say, oh, you only are pro-birth.
Every position that I believe in and that you should believe in too is around a culture of life, the protection of the innocent, the elevation of the human being.
Not addicting them to government programs or government welfare, but giving them the tools, the skills, the education, which remember means to lead forth to be able to be self-sufficient and to succeed.
Number two, no Christian can ever be supportive of the destruction of the truth that there are only two genders.
And I never thought this would be an issue.
This is a new phenomenon.
If I would have said this 20 years ago, you guys would have been like, yeah, okay.
Chaos.
Confusion.
They're tools of the enemy.
Jesus brings truth.
When you have truth, what do you have?
Clarity, stability, and direction.
You ever try to drive somewhere without a map?
GPS goes out?
Chaos.
What are you willing to do when you're lost?
Anything.
Pay for directions.
Anything.
When you're lost, you panic.
What happens when you panic?
You're easier to control.
Chaos is a gateway to allow people to control you.
Gender, chaos, and confusion.
What's happening in our country is one of the most immoral, not talked about issues in our country.
I've gone all in on this issue.
There are only two genders, man and woman.
Science says this.
The Bible has said this.
It's a truth very early on in Genesis.
It doesn't take us that long to find it.
Why is this important?
It's important not just to try to stem the rise of chaos and confusion, but it's also important for something much more simple than this, which is, as soon as you can't define something as scientifically simple as an XX or an XY chromosome, what else are you all of a sudden start to not define?
For example, they are now saying that math is racist.
I'm not kidding.
It's a new thing.
That 2 plus 2 does not equal 4.
As soon as you have a war on objectivity as something as similar, as a chromosomal structure of how God made you, it all goes.
Number three, every Christian must vote and support candidates who believe that the church is the most essential institution in the country.
They work for us.
The church should never be closed again, ever, for the future of America.
Learn this lesson and say, you're going to have to come and arrest us all.
Now, I remember one of the skinny gene-wearing pastors from New York, he gave this long sermon about we need to have a Daniel moment in the church.
This is before the lockdowns, right?
When you have a Daniel moment, whole thing about Daniel, all this.
And I love the book of Daniel.
It's actually a beautifully written book.
And part in Daniel, Daniel, and I'm paraphrasing this story, was basically conspired against and put into a trap where basically if he was going to pray, he was going to be violating the law.
So what does Daniel do?
Daniel hears the order, understands the punishment, doesn't do anything violent, goes back to his home or his place of worship, opens up the windows towards the city for everyone to see, and conducts his prayer.
That's a Daniel moment that all of you are passing and your pastor is passing, where most pastors are saying, oh, I'm not allowed to gather.
Okay.
Shut it down.
Let's just become a YouTube channel.
That's what they're saying.
Remember what Aristotle said?
Not letting there be any schools or other collegial gatherings for leisured pursuits as possible since familiarity breeds a greater degree of trust.
What's happening here today?
There are people that are going to need to see friends that are going to need to be around other human beings.
I reject this movement that we are nothing more than automatons looking at a screen all the time.
That we're still human beings that need social gatherings, that needs to be around other heartbeats, that needs to be around other souls, that we're more than just the lens that we look through.
And for people watching at home, I understand that people have to make different decisions.
I've watched church on YouTube before.
It's fine.
It's not an accusation towards them.
The point is, don't disallow people from doing this.
That's called liberty.
So those are the three things.
It's more than that.
I mean, I could go into socialism on how it's directly against two out of the ten commandments: thou shalt not covet, thou shalt not steal.
I could go through all of it.
But those three things are non-negotiables.
You say you're a Christian, and yet you want to go vote for a million abortions a year, the destruction of gender, and a non-essential church.
Those are the three non-negotiables, and I could build all of it out even further than that.
So, what do we do about it?
What are the action steps?
First and foremost, let me tell you this: this state is ready for an awakening.
It really is.
That what you are doing here is going to send shockwaves throughout the entire state.
It really is.
And lean in on that.
Run for local office.
Take the education of your children seriously.
And the tyrants are getting nervous.
And they should be.
The tyrants have abused their power for too long.
And people of all different backgrounds are going to be looking at the church to guide them.
They're going to be looking at the place that communicates truth to guide them.
And so, in your own individual life, there's three types of people: the people that do nothing.
Forget about those people.
The fighters and the people that help the fighters.
And the fighters and the people that help the fighters are moral equivalents.
I mean this.
Not everyone can do what I do.
I get it.
Armed security, protests everywhere I go, death threats, you name it.
I live it.
And I do not play a victim.
That is not why I'm saying it.
I don't even want your sympathy with it.
It's part of the game.
It's a promise that Jesus made.
Blessed are you persecuted in the name of me.
And I mean that.
And I actually believe it.
But I understand That we have a diversity of ways that people are going to pursue this truth.
So, maybe you're a person, you're like, boy, if anyone found out I was even a little bit supportive of what he said, I'd lose my job, lose my career, I get it.
Then be someone that helps the fighters.
Be someone that is praying, active, and supportive of the people that are sticking their neck out.
Or maybe someone here is like, you know what?
I've been quiet for long enough.
I'm in a position of authority.
I'm a boss.
I'm a manager.
I'm a pastor.
And I am going to start speaking out.
And I don't care about the cost.
Be one of those two categories.
But the key is courage.
Courage is hard.
The best way to tell anyone to do anything is to show people that are doing it, like your pastor.
So people say, well, what does courage look like?
That's what courage looks like.
So I'll close with this.
I don't want to, I'm like right on time, right?
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And if everyone in this room did that, we would beat the New York Times and the podcast charts, which I would love to be able to do by tomorrow morning.
But the last thing is this, and then I'll hand it off to Steve.
There's a God who made you in his image.
He wants to get back in a relationship with you.
He has a way for you to do that through his son, a perfect sacrifice.
I gave my life to Jesus many years ago, and it's the greatest decision I ever made.
Maybe you're new to the church.
Maybe you've never been here before.
Maybe you just came for politics.
Then I highly, not just highly encourage, I plead with you to do that.
And that's really the why in what we do, isn't it?
And that's the why in what I do.
God bless you guys.
Thank you so much.
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