The Charlie Kirk Show - A New, Great Awakening to Stop the Great Reset
Aired: 2022-03-09
Duration: 36:41


=== Tech Issues and Cyber Attacks (02:42) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk show.
[00:00:01]  My remarks at Dream City's conference was really amazing.
[00:00:06]  There's been lots of tech issues happening in the country.
[00:00:08]  Facebook is down, Spotify is down.
[00:00:10]  Our ability to do podcasts was actually interrupted.
[00:00:14]  Lots of different potential cyber attacks that are happening.
[00:00:16]  So we're airing this episode for you.
[00:00:18]  Never been heard before.
[00:00:19]  It was a private conversation.
[00:00:20]  I think you'll really enjoy it.
[00:00:22]  Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
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[00:00:32]  Here we go.
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=== Dream City Church Event (03:10) ===

[00:02:42]  Thank you, Luke.
[00:02:43]  It's great to be here.
[00:02:44]  Please sit, everybody.
[00:02:45]  I want to tell you about Dream City Church, and Luke and Angel have heard me say this a couple times.
[00:02:51]  This is a very special church, and it is an unusual church in more ways than one.
[00:02:57]  I first got connected to Luke and Angel Barnett on a cross-country flight from Miami to Phoenix.
[00:03:03]  Now, by connected, I mean that Angel kept on coming back to the exit row, waiting for me to stop napping to try to say hello to me.
[00:03:11]  Relentlessness is a virtue.
[00:03:13]  I don't think it's a fruit of the spirit, but it's close.
[00:03:17]  And we connected and I came to service here, and I was so moved by this church and just how big the impact was in more ways than one.
[00:03:26]  And Luke and I really hit it off.
[00:03:28]  And so we were planning an event, and it wasn't like any sort of event in 2020.
[00:03:34]  Our organization, Turning Point USA, we had the opportunity to host the then president of the United States in Phoenix.
[00:03:40]  We only had a couple weeks' notice.
[00:03:42]  And I reached out to the Barnetts.
[00:03:44]  I said, hey, you know, can we rent out your facility and do the event here?
[00:03:48]  And they were enthusiastic in support of it.
[00:03:51]  And things, you know, started to, let's just say, escalate in the coming weeks.
[00:03:56]  It was during a lot of lockdowns.
[00:03:58]  We lost insurance.
[00:03:59]  The mayor said, Don't host the event.
[00:04:01]  A lot of things were happening at the moment.
[00:04:04]  And I remember getting a call from Angel, and I looked at the caller ID.
[00:04:08]  And I've never been so wrong in my life, and I'm proud to talk about it.
[00:04:11]  Where I turned to my team, I said, You guys see this right here?
[00:04:14]  This is them probably going to cancel our event because you get so used to it, right?
[00:04:18]  You get so used to people just kind of walking away, their knees start quivering.
[00:04:22]  I'm so sorry, Charlie, we're with you, but we're not really with you, and maybe we can help you find another place to do your event.
[00:04:26]  I've heard it so many times.
[00:04:27]  And I answered the phone call: I said, Hey, Angel, how are we doing?
[00:04:31]  Said, Charlie, we're under a lot of pressure.
[00:04:33]  Some staff are resigning.
[00:04:34]  People are walking out.
[00:04:36]  People are saying they're never coming to the church again.
[00:04:38]  And we can't wait to host the event at Dream City Church.
[00:04:40]  I said, I was.
[00:04:51]  And in the months that followed, and I was so blown away.
[00:04:54]  And I believe Dream City was blessed for that obedience, blessed for the courage.
[00:04:59]  And the months that followed, we had lunch, you know, not too far after when Luke had the horrible Boulder incident.
[00:05:08]  And I remember, it's a different story for every time, but we had this amazing lunch, and Luke was like, Hey, Charlie, I feel really moved to try to do something for our local area.
[00:05:19]  And it was just the perfect time to collaborate.
[00:05:22]  I said, Hey, why don't we do a monthly gathering at the church on Tuesday nights where we open it up to the whole community and talk about what's happening in the city and in the nation around us?
[00:05:34]  And so we started Freedom Night in America back in May of last year, not missing a month, and it has grown in attendance and influence.
[00:05:41]  And now I'm proud to say we've done it at Steve Smotherman's Church, we're doing it at Troy Maxwell's Church, and we're expanding it across the country.
[00:05:49]  And we'll dive more into what that actually means.

=== Truth in the American Church (14:43) ===

[00:05:53]  So, for those of you that might not follow the work that we do or kind of have any understanding what I focus on, my day job is focused on the second most important thing a human being can focus on.
[00:06:08]  So, whenever I say that, someone says, Well, what's the first thing?
[00:06:10]  Okay, the first thing is the most important thing.
[00:06:13]  The most important thing is winning souls for Jesus Christ, expanding the church, and spreading the gospel.
[00:06:21]  It's number one.
[00:06:22]  So, what's the second most important thing?
[00:06:25]  Make sure you could do the first thing.
[00:06:29]  Now, this gathering around us, we all have a certain type of privilege right now, not white privilege.
[00:06:36]  Nope.
[00:06:36]  We have American privilege right now.
[00:06:39]  Luke, try to do this conference in Ottawa right now.
[00:06:45]  We could have a truck parade maybe in Ottawa.
[00:06:47]  They're arresting pastors all across Canada because they have a different political document than we do.
[00:06:53]  And so, I have to be told by pastors, like, hey, we don't do politics, we don't do that.
[00:06:56]  I get it, it's messy, it's divisive, which always makes me chuckle.
[00:06:59]  They say, Yeah, we don't focus on divisive stuff at our church.
[00:07:02]  Well, do you mention eternity?
[00:07:03]  Because that can kind of be divisive.
[00:07:06]  Yeah, you're going to hell forever.
[00:07:08]  That's not divisive, though.
[00:07:09]  You know, it's we're here.
[00:07:10]  Okay, sure.
[00:07:14]  It's not divisive.
[00:07:15]  But no, look, I get it, it can be unclear at times.
[00:07:18]  Let's put it that way.
[00:07:19]  But I think there is a moment that's happening in the American church where I know that the Holy Spirit is speaking to so many pastors and church leaders right now in this audience who are like, You know what?
[00:07:32]  You're right.
[00:07:33]  The difference between having a government that is run by citizens or one that is run by unaccountable rulers is the difference between Justin Trudeau or Ron DeSantis.
[00:07:45]  And it directly impacts the American church.
[00:07:47]  So, Archer Pavlovsky, who's a pastor in Canada, has now been arrested multiple times for opening his church.
[00:07:55]  But it happens here in America as well.
[00:07:57]  Of mine, Pastor Mike McClure, San Jose, California, is facing $6 million in fines and personal seizures of his own property for opening the church.
[00:08:06]  You see, for years, we have done nothing as the church or done very little because we've believed the separation of church and state.
[00:08:14]  Now, I could get into that at a different time if you guys want.
[00:08:17]  It's actually not in the Constitution.
[00:08:18]  It's nowhere in the founding documents.
[00:08:20]  It's a single letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to the Danbury Baptist Convention.
[00:08:24]  But let's pretend it's correct.
[00:08:26]  Let's just pretend for a second that is the law of the land and we should live under the separation of church and state.
[00:08:32]  Well, then let's keep the state out of the church.
[00:08:35]  What is it that a public health authority has the right to shut down a church?
[00:08:40]  Why does a bureaucrat we didn't vote for all of a sudden say, you know what?
[00:08:43]  You're not allowed to have Easter service.
[00:08:48]  It pains me how many millions of Americans, especially in places like New York and Los Angeles and Chicago, have not been able to go physically in church the last two years.
[00:08:58]  Now, some people say, well, Charlie, it's online.
[00:09:00]  Look, watching online church is like watching a fireplace on your TV, okay?
[00:09:05]  You get everything except the warmth.
[00:09:09]  Now, how deep do I need to dive into the scriptures?
[00:09:12]  Do not forsake the gathering of believers.
[00:09:24]  It matters.
[00:09:25]  Jürgen, you could go back to Australia right now.
[00:09:28]  I don't think you would have an open church.
[00:09:29]  You'd be in prison and it would be an amazing prison ministry.
[00:09:33]  I know it.
[00:09:36]  It's true.
[00:09:37]  The type of government you have matters.
[00:09:39]  And it's time for the church to talk about good government versus bad government.
[00:09:42]  Now, let me be very clear.
[00:09:44]  I'm not even going to mention political parties at all in this entire speech.
[00:09:46]  You can fill in the gaps, okay?
[00:09:48]  I'm not going to say one gap is better than the other.
[00:09:50]  I'm going to say right from wrong because the scriptures tell us right from wrong.
[00:09:54]  Now, some pastors will say, okay, Charlie, nowhere in the scriptures does it say we should care about that.
[00:09:59]  Well, the Lord, not anyone, not Paul, not Peter, the Lord in Jeremiah 29, 7 said, demand the welfare of the nation that you are in because your welfare is tied to the nation's welfare.
[00:10:13]  That's God speaking.
[00:10:14]  You are commanded to care about what's happening around you.
[00:10:18]  And so some people say, well, Charlie, it's unclear what the right way forward is.
[00:10:23]  I say, okay, well, you're a Christian.
[00:10:24]  You believe in the Bible.
[00:10:25]  Let's agree on maybe two basic things.
[00:10:27]  Let's start with this.
[00:10:28]  God created man and God created woman.
[00:10:30]  How about that?
[00:10:31]  Let's start with that.
[00:10:33]  And if the church can't take a stand on that issue, it's like, well, that's too controversial for us.
[00:10:40]  No, many, some pastors will say that.
[00:10:42]  And then we actually get to a deeper, more revealing point, which is if you believe the scriptures are the inerrant perfect word of God, then all of a sudden that shouldn't be that big of an issue.
[00:10:53]  But bad theology leads to bad politics.
[00:10:57]  If you believe the scriptures are just kind of, it's a suggestion manual, like that's a good starting point.
[00:11:01]  No, it's the word of God.
[00:11:04]  It is the beginning of the end.
[00:11:05]  It's the alpha and the omega.
[00:11:06]  It's not like, well, God created man and woman and these other 25 other genders that you could kind of have a fluid scale on.
[00:11:14]  No, it's actually really clear.
[00:11:16]  And if the church is not going to be the communicators of order in a chaotic world, then who?
[00:11:22]  So it's easy for the church to retreat.
[00:11:24]  And I get it.
[00:11:25]  I'm sure there's a thousand different eschatologies in the audience right now.
[00:11:28]  I'm not going to get into it, okay?
[00:11:30]  Charlie, you pre-trib or post-trib.
[00:11:32]  I don't get into that.
[00:11:33]  Okay, pantrib.
[00:11:33]  It's all going to pan.
[00:11:34]  Okay?
[00:11:35]  We'll figure it out later.
[00:11:36]  So I know I offended somebody by saying that.
[00:11:37]  Couldn't care less.
[00:11:38]  Okay.
[00:11:39]  My eschatology is very simple.
[00:11:40]  Occupy till he comes, and the hour and the day is unknown.
[00:11:43]  Okay?
[00:11:44]  Here's why it matters.
[00:11:45]  Some people say the world is ending.
[00:11:47]  Jesus is coming next Thursday.
[00:11:49]  It doesn't matter.
[00:11:51]  It's like Jesus is going to zap us up.
[00:11:53]  He's going to get us out of all this chaos.
[00:11:55]  It doesn't matter.
[00:11:56]  That is a temptation you cannot fall victim to.
[00:12:00]  Never does it say, like, hey, it looks like things aren't falling apart.
[00:12:04]  They're falling into place.
[00:12:05]  I can just kind of retreat to the hills.
[00:12:06]  House is on fire.
[00:12:07]  Let's get the kids out.
[00:12:08]  Well, if the house is on fire, why don't you put the fire out?
[00:12:11]  If things around you are deteriorating, if we have truth and light, we should be advancing that where it matters most, not running away from the fights and the battles that are happening around us.
[00:12:22]  Now, why do I mention the eschatology?
[00:12:24]  Because so many churches now say there's nothing we can do.
[00:12:28]  But instead, the scriptures tell us to fight for truth and righteousness and to expel the darkness from our land.
[00:12:37]  And so when you have, for example, in the state of Oregon, a teenager can get sexual reassignment surgery paid for by the taxpayers without parental consent, and the church is like, yeah, we don't take a stance on this, then what exactly are you taking a stance on that is significant?
[00:12:54]  Because without the church, who is going to call right from wrong?
[00:12:59]  Here's one of your thought crimes.
[00:13:00]  You guys can write this down.
[00:13:01]  Without a belief in God, right and wrong is merely an opinion.
[00:13:06]  Now you might say, well, Charlie, how can you say such a thing?
[00:13:08]  I visit college campuses and you don't.
[00:13:10]  When you don't believe in God, right and wrong is merely in an opinion.
[00:13:14]  If you go to Columbia, Yale, Stanford, UCLA, and you try to talk about morality, they say, well, that's just your morality.
[00:13:20]  My morality is I believe that I can do whatever I want, whatever I want to do it.
[00:13:24]  Absent the laws of nature and nature is God, as articulated in the Declaration of Independence, absent a divine truth giver, you are going to descend into moral and societal chaos.
[00:13:36]  And this is the struggle of the church right now because this is why I think so highly of Dream City and Troy and Steve Smotherman and Keith and so many people here because the easy way out in the last two years was to do what most American churches did.
[00:13:54]  So there are three types of churches and pastors in America.
[00:13:57]  First, I just want to reinforce the type that we should all want to be, the courageous church and pastor.
[00:14:03]  Okay?
[00:14:03]  That is the goal.
[00:14:05]  But it is very rare.
[00:14:07]  A vast majority of churches would quasi-apologize for even mentioning some of the things I just said.
[00:14:14]  They would do what I call the half-truth sermon.
[00:14:16]  You guys ever hear this sermon where they spend half the sermon apologizing in advance?
[00:14:20]  I know there's a lot of people out there that might disagree and that's fine and you might leave, but please don't throw things at me.
[00:14:25]  Don't leave.
[00:14:25]  Please keep tithing and offering.
[00:14:26]  And it's like, okay, I got it.
[00:14:27]  After about 30 minutes of half apologizing, if it's in the Bible, you have nothing to apologize for.
[00:14:35]  Courageous is the goal.
[00:14:36]  But the middle part, which I think is most pastors, and maybe this is one of you, maybe church leaders, is the uncertain.
[00:14:44]  Some would call them cowardly.
[00:14:46]  Some would call them confused.
[00:14:48]  I think that's a fair way to say it.
[00:14:50]  Where they say, Charlie, I know something's wrong.
[00:14:53]  I just don't know what to do about it.
[00:14:56]  I don't know how to make sense of all these different types of issues.
[00:15:00]  I have half of my church saying that critical race theory is terrible and the other half of my church that says it's the best thing ever.
[00:15:07]  And I have decided to just kind of do nothing and just preach the gospel.
[00:15:13]  I'm sure you've heard this one to 500, 1,000 times.
[00:15:16]  So the churches that do nothing have made a decision.
[00:15:20]  They have decided to tell their congregants, you don't matter enough to me for me to actually make sense of things that matter to you.
[00:15:26]  So let me make sense of this.
[00:15:27]  We have financial counseling ministries.
[00:15:29]  We have marriage ministries.
[00:15:30]  We have teenage youth ministries.
[00:15:32]  We have every type of ministry you can imagine.
[00:15:35]  But most churches do not even say to their congregants, like, hey, I can help make sense of that from a biblical perspective for you.
[00:15:42]  Because here's what it says to the mom that all of a sudden her 15-year-old daughter comes home and says, hey, I think I'm a man.
[00:15:50]  Which, by the way, is happening at an increasing rate.
[00:15:52]  40% of our nation's young people, according to Arizona Christian University, identify as LGBTQ, whatever.
[00:16:00]  And one in 10 in certain communities are transgender, according to the recent study.
[00:16:06]  But if the church says, yeah, we don't do that, then basically you're telling that teenage mom, go somewhere else to go find your morals.
[00:16:13]  And guess what?
[00:16:13]  They will.
[00:16:14]  They'll go to CNN.
[00:16:16]  They'll go to any, they'll go to Facebook, they'll go to Instagram.
[00:16:19]  The church is basically like, hey, we don't want to get engaged in this for whatever reason.
[00:16:24]  And the answer is very clear.
[00:16:26]  We all know this.
[00:16:27]  The answer is, unfortunately, too many churches have fallen in love with the business model of modern American Christian Incorporated.
[00:16:35]  Now, this is what's so amazing about Dream City.
[00:16:38]  Dream City is a big church.
[00:16:40]  Costs a lot to keep these lights on.
[00:16:42]  If they could take a stand on these issues, your church could take a stand on these issues, okay?
[00:16:49]  Because it's one of those things like, hey, I'm going to lose tithes and offerings.
[00:16:55]  Who cares?
[00:16:58]  We're going to lose attendance.
[00:16:59]  Refiners fire.
[00:17:00]  Gideon's army got smaller before they got stronger.
[00:17:03]  Who cares?
[00:17:03]  But here's the thing: it's all lies from the enemy.
[00:17:06]  It's all lies.
[00:17:08]  Every pastor that I know that has taken a stand last two years has more tithes, more offerings, more people attending.
[00:17:15]  They're taking more stances than ever before.
[00:17:18]  Every single church.
[00:17:22]  But then there's one more category we got to talk about, which is the complicit church.
[00:17:27]  Now, I struggle here.
[00:17:28]  I'll be very honest.
[00:17:30]  I got all my wonderful pastor friends that can help me through all this.
[00:17:34]  I struggle.
[00:17:35]  I struggle when a church flies the gay pride flag.
[00:17:41]  I struggle when a church has the big thing outside, Black Lives Matter, whatever.
[00:17:46]  I struggle with that.
[00:17:49]  I struggle when a church decides to be not confused, which I think we need to have loving encouragement and shepherd those people towards truth.
[00:17:58]  I struggle, though, when the church is actively complicit in a lot of these things.
[00:18:04]  Because you look at a lot of these different types of things.
[00:18:06]  I listened to one of these sermons the other day where a pastor in New York City said that the American church is the number one communicator and purveyor of racism in America.
[00:18:16]  The American church is what he said.
[00:18:20]  And I could go one after the other after the other.
[00:18:23]  And these sorts of pastors, unfortunately, I think have a couple of different things going on in these churches going on.
[00:18:28]  Number one, I don't think they were corrected early.
[00:18:30]  So this is a good kind of lesson for us.
[00:18:32]  If you see someone straying early, intervene.
[00:18:36]  If there was one lesson from COVID, it's early intervention matters.
[00:18:40]  And the same can exactly be said for bad theology and bad governmental views.
[00:18:45]  When someone says, hey, you know, Jesus was a socialist, be like, yeah, we got to get lunch like now.
[00:18:51]  Like, your schedule is done.
[00:18:54]  We got to get lunch now.
[00:18:55]  Or like, yeah, I just read an article for Huffington Post, and I think we should get rid of all private property and universal health care, and there's no genders, open up the borders, take the guns, shred the Constitution.
[00:19:05]  Thomas Jefferson's a racist, and I'm non-binary, and my pronouns are on it.
[00:19:09]  Like, yeah, again, like coffee now.
[00:19:11]  You intervene.
[00:19:12]  You do not allow lies to go in your life without you confronting them.
[00:19:18]  How many pastors that are in the woke crowd, how many pastors out there that were spewing this nonsense when people who love them let them continue to talk in a sea of lies?
[00:19:29]  Now, maybe they'll keep on going that way, but we have a moral obligation to lovingly correct these people.
[00:19:36]  And I know it's tempting.
[00:19:37]  Oh, I've wrote that pastor off.
[00:19:39]  I've wrote that church off.
[00:19:40]  I will say this: there's a lot of pastors that are privately seeking repentance for some of the stands they've took over the last couple years.
[00:19:47]  They are.
[00:19:48]  They look back like, man, what was I thinking?
[00:19:50]  What was I thinking saying that only vaccinated people are allowed in my church?
[00:19:53]  What was I thinking?
[00:19:55]  And they might feel so uncomfortable.
[00:19:56]  And what a great opportunity for us to offer forgiveness, right?
[00:19:59]  What a great opportunity for us to be like, I get it.
[00:20:03]  I know you misstepped, and you are forgiven.
[00:20:05]  And let's try to get you better educated so it doesn't happen again.
[00:20:09]  Now, that's one thing, but there's other ones that just dig in more.
[00:20:12]  And they just say, hey, you know what?
[00:20:13]  This church, we are going to be the woke church.
[00:20:16]  We are going to do all this sorts of things.
[00:20:18]  In fact, I could go peace, I could go example by example by example, but let me give you one example of it's in secular society, but it's still one that people are surprisingly silent on.
[00:20:29]  In the suburbs of Portland, they're opening up a new charter school in September, but only black kids are allowed to go to the charter school, right?

=== Liberty and History's Lesson (15:21) ===

[00:20:36]  But they say it's separate but equal, so it's all good, right?
[00:20:40]  Now, you should, that should horrify you, right?
[00:20:42]  After Brown versus the Board of Education got rid of separate but equal.
[00:20:46]  Now, most of the churches in Portland wouldn't dare speak out against a black-only school because they say you're a racist if you dare hate the fact that we're using racism to try to get rid of the alleged racism that exists today.
[00:20:58]  Now, it's very simple.
[00:20:59]  Two verses.
[00:21:00]  In 1 Samuel, God does not care about the exterior.
[00:21:02]  He cares about that which's in the heart.
[00:21:05]  In the New Testament, very clear, neither slave nor Greek nor Jew.
[00:21:08]  We are all one in Christ Jesus.
[00:21:11]  And let me just say this.
[00:21:13]  If the church does not stand up against the institutional racism that is CRT, this is going to take over the entire country.
[00:21:20]  This is a moral obligation for us to stand up against the people that wish to put us back in the tribes, that wish to put us back into different corners and turn people against each other.
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[00:22:37]  And so those are the three different types of categories.
[00:22:39]  Now, maybe you're listening to this and you're not quite doing what you think you need to do.
[00:22:45]  So let me just tell you more about what we've been able to partner with here at TPUSA Faith and what we're doing.
[00:22:50]  We're doing this once a month here in Phoenix.
[00:22:52]  I'm personally traveling the country to churches to try to inspire pastors and faith leaders to take stands on these topics and issues.
[00:23:00]  Here's the thing.
[00:23:01]  If you are not Creating biblical citizens, creating and educating biblical citizens, I believe you are allowing Satan to continue to gain territory in our country.
[00:23:11]  So, what is a biblical citizen?
[00:23:13]  Learning about the documents, learning about the Federalist Papers, learning about the Ten Amendments, learning about the founding of our country, knowing about your rights and what you can do about it.
[00:23:22]  Diving deep into these.
[00:23:23]  Again, it doesn't have to be a political thing, but if you have someone in your church who's like, oh, yeah, I don't like the fact that we're going to be talking about the Constitution.
[00:23:30]  I think at some point you've got to be willing to let a little bit go to go gain a lot.
[00:23:35]  And so, what we are doing, and we have a table out here that I want to encourage all of you guys to go out to, our TPUSA table.
[00:23:41]  I'm going to go, I'm actually going to go there after this speech to go speak with you guys and just, you know, meet you with you guys, is we're trying to create a buffet line in kind of a metaphorical buffet line in conjunction with a lot of people here, which is, hey, you want a go-to sermon on these 10 topics?
[00:23:56]  Here you go.
[00:23:58]  You want to get connected with 20 other pastors that are also going through the same things you're going through?
[00:24:02]  Here you go.
[00:24:03]  And this is the type of resource network.
[00:24:04]  There are so many church leaders and pastors that feel as if they're alone.
[00:24:08]  Like, well, I'm the only pastor in this city that's taking a stance on this.
[00:24:11]  It's like, actually, we might know four or five other people.
[00:24:14]  But the point is this: that courage will spread once you start to take that stand.
[00:24:19]  That courage will spread like a wildfire.
[00:24:22]  And understand, at the end of it, you are contesting for liberty.
[00:24:26]  And liberty is not man's idea.
[00:24:29]  It is God's idea.
[00:24:30]  And once you start to get your congregation to drink from the streams of liberty, people are going to want to know its source.
[00:24:37]  And do you want to know the amazing thing that we started to do here at Freedom Night in America?
[00:24:40]  And Pastor Luke will attest to this.
[00:24:43]  We have been able to pinpoint hundreds of people that now attend Freedom Night in America that were not going to church at all.
[00:24:49]  This is a ministry opportunity for you.
[00:24:51]  This is an opportunity for you to open up the doors of your church to people that believe in the Constitution.
[00:24:56]  They believe in our history.
[00:24:57]  They know something's wrong with the country.
[00:24:58]  And guess what?
[00:24:59]  You have to go to church.
[00:25:00]  You got to hear a direct call to Jesus and you got to hear kind of a sermon type message and then we can get into it.
[00:25:06]  And all of a sudden, we have people giving their life to the Lord in record numbers.
[00:25:08]  It's the opposite of what we were taught, right?
[00:25:10]  We were taught if you take stances on these issues, you're going to turn people off.
[00:25:14]  When in reality, like, oh, wow, there's 72 million people in this country that believe in liberty in one way or the other.
[00:25:19]  What's the church doing to reach out to them every single day?
[00:25:21]  What's the church doing to say, hey, at least we have something in common?
[00:25:24]  We believe rights are naturally granted by God, not by government.
[00:25:27]  How are we reaching out to those people to do the most important thing, which is bring them to Jesus?
[00:25:32]  And what we're finding is churches that are taking these stands, they're expanding in such record numbers and amazing capacity and strengthening from the bottom up.
[00:25:42]  And so we look at the scriptures, we look at Daniel, Jeremiah, Nehemiah, Esther, and Mordecai, all people that took stands for God in secular government.
[00:25:53]  There are many more examples beyond that.
[00:25:55]  But we must take a step back as the church and ask ourselves, why is it that we live and we still do live in the freest country on the planet?
[00:26:04]  Is it because of our documents?
[00:26:06]  Our documents are great.
[00:26:08]  It's part of it.
[00:26:09]  But if you just take the U.S. Constitution and you put it into a random country, it doesn't mean anything.
[00:26:14]  We tried it in Iraq.
[00:26:17]  And it's like, okay, the Constitution, I can't do self-government here because I don't have the history.
[00:26:23]  I don't have the culture that can kind of mesh with it.
[00:26:25]  So what is it that made America the most prosperous, wealthy, and generous country in the history of the world?
[00:26:33]  And this is something where all of a sudden we say, oh, well, first of all, it was the church that founded America.
[00:26:37]  Let me say that again.
[00:26:38]  It was the church that founded America.
[00:26:40]  Now, a lot of the secular historians that you might send your kids to college with will disagree with that.
[00:26:45]  Jonathan Whitfield to Jonathan Edwards, George Whitfield, the Jonathan Edwards, the Jonathan Mayhew, were the American founding pastors that preached in the American colonies that laid the philosophical and moral foundation that led to the founding of this country.
[00:27:01]  It was a great awakening that led to the American Revolution of people that were saying, I want liberty.
[00:27:06]  I no longer want to live under King George.
[00:27:09]  Now, that was the first moment in American history.
[00:27:13]  The second, of course, was the church rose up in the 1820s when America was slipping a little bit.
[00:27:19]  Moral decline, widespread alcoholism, questionable behavior.
[00:27:22]  It was the church that aggressively inserted itself to make sure America did not fall.
[00:27:28]  I want you to think of it almost as a trust fall, right?
[00:27:31]  America goes into a trust fall.
[00:27:33]  The only institution that has successfully ever caught America when it's falling is the church, the only institution.
[00:27:39]  In the 1860s, when America was tearing itself apart, it was the church that was the administration of healing and for abolishing slavery.
[00:27:49]  How about in the 1950s?
[00:27:51]  Someone that all of us will agree was probably one of the greatest communicators and pastors in American history.
[00:27:57]  He himself said, quote, communism is the religion of Satan.
[00:28:04]  How many of you would feel uncomfortable saying that today?
[00:28:06]  Probably a lot.
[00:28:07]  Billy Graham said that 500 times in 1953, 1954, and 1955.
[00:28:13]  He said, I will not allow, as a Bible-believing, spirit-filled Christian to allow my kids and grandkids to live in a secular communist society while the word of God is under assault in the spiritual domain.
[00:28:24]  If Billy Graham can talk about this, you could talk about this.
[00:28:30]  Every time America falls, it is the church that brings it back into alignment.
[00:28:36]  Now, some of you might say, I don't care.
[00:28:38]  I get these messages all the time.
[00:28:39]  I don't care.
[00:28:40]  I'm going to ignore Jeremiah 29, 7.
[00:28:42]  I'm going to ignore the pray for leaders by name in 1 Timothy.
[00:28:45]  I don't care.
[00:28:46]  I'm going to do whatever.
[00:28:47]  We're just going to kind of do our thing, and we're not going to get involved.
[00:28:50]  That's what we would call imprudent.
[00:28:53]  Imagine the world without America.
[00:28:55]  What's the gospel look like without America?
[00:28:58]  The answer is very simple.
[00:28:59]  And every Christian got to get really educated on this.
[00:29:02]  It's called the Great Reset of the World Economic Forum.
[00:29:05]  Now, some people say, well, Charlie, this is end time stuff.
[00:29:08]  Where does it ever say you should try to bring the end times forward?
[00:29:13]  Like, oh, no, no.
[00:29:14]  Yeah, we should try to accelerate the great reset so we can get zapped up.
[00:29:17]  So you get to face your creator.
[00:29:19]  Like, yeah, yeah, you know, I wanted it to happen so that I wanted the suffering to actually accelerate.
[00:29:24]  This is the argument that some people make when they say that.
[00:29:26]  Borderless society, godless society, no private property, no rights.
[00:29:30]  I want you to imagine this.
[00:29:31]  Imagine like Justin Trudeau with a lot more power.
[00:29:34]  Okay?
[00:29:35]  Now, some people say, well, Charlie, we can't challenge our government because in Romans 13, it says that we must submit to our government authorities.
[00:29:44]  How many of you heard this argument at least 10 times in the last two years?
[00:29:47]  Yeah, all the time.
[00:29:48]  So this is what happens when pastors don't know civics.
[00:29:54]  I'm going to say this lovingly, okay?
[00:29:56]  Most pastors know nothing about civics.
[00:29:58]  They might know a lot about theology, they know nothing about civics.
[00:30:01]  Okay.
[00:30:01]  Well, it says we must submit to our government rulers.
[00:30:05]  Okay.
[00:30:05]  Who's the rulers in America?
[00:30:08]  The people.
[00:30:08]  So they must submit to us.
[00:30:11]  We don't submit to them.
[00:30:12]  The governors submit to us.
[00:30:14]  They are violating Romans 13.
[00:30:16]  We are not violating Romans 13.
[00:30:19]  Only a constitutional republic would give dissent to be the biblically sound thing to do.
[00:30:26]  They're representatives, not rulers.
[00:30:28]  We're the rulers.
[00:30:29]  We're the sovereign.
[00:30:30]  What you have seen in the last couple years from the governor of New Mexico, still can't remember her name, to Governor Newsome or whatever, they're in violation of this.
[00:30:40]  But so many churches were paralyzed, like we can't open because we want to be compliant with Romans 13.
[00:30:45]  Read the first three words of the U.S. Constitution.
[00:30:49]  It does not say we the bureaucrats, we the public health officials, we the rulers that are untouchable.
[00:30:56]  It's we, the people, and when our rights are violated, then we have a moral obligation to push back.
[00:31:04]  Let me close with this.
[00:31:06]  And then we're going to call up Pastor Luke and Pastor Juergen and Pastor Steve for a QA.
[00:31:11]  And the reason is, all three of these men, I've spoken at least three to four times at their churches in the last year.
[00:31:16]  We are having massive crowds of new people coming to the church.
[00:31:20]  They're all doing a version of Freedom Night in America at their wonderful church.
[00:31:24]  And we want to try to encourage you to do the same.
[00:31:28]  We want this movement to spread like wildfire to your churches.
[00:31:31]  And again, it's not about right versus left or political parties.
[00:31:35]  It's very simple.
[00:31:36]  Are you going to equip your congregates and your fellow believers in Christ to be biblical citizens?
[00:31:43]  And at the end of the bottom of this, which is we know at the basis, this is a spiritual battle.
[00:31:48]  We know it.
[00:31:49]  We know that the invisible is now impacting the visible.
[00:31:53]  So if we know that, then the church must be willing to launch the most aggressive counterattack spiritually that we've ever seen in our nation's history.
[00:32:04]  But here's the good news, everybody.
[00:32:06]  I know I've been kind of somewhat lovingly critical.
[00:32:08]  Is that fair?
[00:32:10]  Okay.
[00:32:11]  They said I could go even further.
[00:32:12]  I think we're good.
[00:32:12]  I think we're good.
[00:32:13]  So, which is this: you are living through a massive political, governmental, economic, and spiritual realignment that will be one of the greatest moments in the history of humanity.
[00:32:29]  You are seeing media companies that once seemed to be untouchable shatter into a million pieces in front of you.
[00:32:34]  You are seeing tech companies that seem to be once untouchable be confused and disarray.
[00:32:39]  It is the Genesis 11 moment of Tower of Babel.
[00:32:43]  That which tries to build to challenge God, He will scatter into places of confusion.
[00:32:56]  And the regime, as I call it, which is a kind of set of forces all together, is starting to crumble.
[00:33:03]  You're seeing it all around you.
[00:33:06]  And Europe, you might be a pastor right now and you might be on the fence, but here's what I could tell you: your congregants right now, they're fighting for their liberty every single day.
[00:33:15]  I guarantee you, if you're hearing this and you have not yet spoken about this or you've not done it the way that you probably might, and I was like, I don't know.
[00:33:21]  I guarantee you, your congregates are showing up to school board meetings.
[00:33:24]  Your congregants are now deciding to homeschool and they are fighting for liberty.
[00:33:29]  And deep down, they are praying.
[00:33:31]  And they say, I just want for one Sunday a year for my pastor to give me just a minute of affirmation to say, Good for you.
[00:33:40]  You're standing up against tyranny.
[00:33:41]  You're pushing back against the bad guys.
[00:33:43]  You're doing the right thing.
[00:33:45]  And you could this Sunday, next Sunday, next month, three months from now, be the spark plug that could give your congregants the reinforcement and the encouragement they need to be informed and active citizens.
[00:33:58]  So the regime as we know it right now is falling apart and the citizen is rising.
[00:34:05]  There's only a couple ways human beings can live under government.
[00:34:11]  You can live as a serf, you can live as a subject, you can live as a slave, or you can live as a citizen.
[00:34:18]  Citizenship is a very unique thing.
[00:34:20]  It is a biblical idea, by the way.
[00:34:23]  The first functioning nation of citizens was the nation of Israel.
[00:34:27]  No prison, no police force.
[00:34:29]  The law was the center of their community and they enforced it themselves.
[00:34:33]  Those are citizens.
[00:34:35]  Because they were once slaves.
[00:34:37]  They were slaves in Egypt.
[00:34:39]  And that tension between human nature and what God wants for us, God does not want you to live in slavery.
[00:34:44]  He will deliver you from slavery.
[00:34:46]  He wants you to live as a citizen.
[00:34:47]  He wants you to live as informed.
[00:34:49]  He wants you to know what's happening around you.
[00:34:51]  He doesn't want you to be in Egypt just because the meat is better.
[00:34:58]  And that's what they said.
[00:34:59]  They said, Who's this Moses guy who delivered us from slavery?
[00:35:02]  Take us back to Egypt, despite the fact that quail's getting blown off course and man is coming from heaven.
[00:35:08]  At least we ate meat in Egypt.
[00:35:10]  What am I getting at?
[00:35:11]  Liberty can be uncomfortable.
[00:35:14]  It's easier to just go make bricks all day in the sun, eat meat, go to bed, and do it all over again.
[00:35:19]  It's easier to do that.
[00:35:21]  But God doesn't want you for that.
[00:35:23]  The message of the gospels is to set the captives free, free from the stranglehold of Satan, free from addiction, free from alcoholism, free from tyranny, free from bad politics and bad government, and to set the people free.
[00:35:36]  And every single one of us have not just an opportunity, but dare I say, we have a commandment to do so.
[00:35:44]  And it is a spiritual war raging around all of us.
[00:35:46]  So all of you, most of you, you're focused on the first thing, and you should bring people to Jesus.
[00:35:51]  It's awesome.
[00:35:52]  I talk about Jesus at least once a week in my podcast, and we're bringing people to Jesus.
[00:35:56]  But that is not my full-time job.

=== Setting Captives Free (00:42) ===

[00:35:58]  I do that when I can.
[00:36:00]  But I'm going to keep on staying in the second most important thing.
[00:36:03]  But here's my challenge to you: dedicate a little bit, a fraction, a minuscule, a decimal of your energy, your resources in the second thing.
[00:36:13]  Because if there is no second thing, then there will be no first thing.
[00:36:18]  And that's my challenge to all of you.
[00:36:19]  Thank you, guys.
[00:36:24]  Thank you so much for listening.
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[00:36:33]  Thank you so much for listening.
[00:36:34]  God bless.
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