The Charlie Kirk Show - “Here I Am, Send Me” — The Free Gift of Salvation
Aired: 2023-12-24
Duration: 18:33


=== Comfort Meets Christianity (12:31) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey everybody, happy Sunday.
[00:00:01]  My conversation at the Amfest Strong Church.
[00:00:04]  Here I am.
[00:00:05]  I think you're going to really enjoy it.
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[00:00:27]  Freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:00:29]  Buckle up, everybody.
[00:00:30]  Here we go.
[00:00:31]  Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
[00:00:33]  Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
[00:00:35]  I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
[00:00:38]  Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
[00:00:42]  I want to thank Charlie.
[00:00:43]  He's an incredible guy.
[00:00:44]  His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.
[00:00:51]  Turning point USA.
[00:00:52]  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.
[00:01:01]  That's why we are here.
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[00:01:13]  Welcome, everybody.
[00:01:15]  I am thrilled.
[00:01:15]  This is the first year that we're doing it at this scale and this size.
[00:01:19]  And, you know, we have TPUSA Faith, and it is growing like crazy right now.
[00:01:23]  And we have pastors from all across the country, and it is just incredible.
[00:01:27]  You guys having a good time at America Fest?
[00:01:32]  I'll say it again.
[00:01:33]  When you see a Turning Point USA staffer, just pray for them because they're not sleeping, they're running around, they're solving problems.
[00:01:40]  And just have grace on them.
[00:01:42]  Just smile and say thank you because they are working so hard to serve you.
[00:01:47]  And I think they're doing a really, really great job.
[00:01:49]  Wouldn't you agree?
[00:01:50]  They're doing a great job.
[00:01:53]  So the spirit of this night is all about worshiping our Creator.
[00:01:57]  Now, some of you here tonight might have some ideas about Christianity.
[00:02:01]  It's like, oh, I grew up in a Christian school and I don't like the rules and I like this, but Charlie told me to show up and I'm just going to sit here.
[00:02:08]  So tonight, I want you to open your heart and open your mind and say, I'm going to entertain, even just because somebody told me this idea that there is a God and you are not him and that God loves you.
[00:02:21]  Those three things.
[00:02:22]  That there is a God, you are not him, and that God loves you.
[00:02:26]  Those three things.
[00:02:27]  Now, as you can see in my shirt here, here I am.
[00:02:29]  It is something that we are repeating at TPUSA Faith.
[00:02:32]  And, you know, I listen to podcasts and read the word, and I just was thinking, I said, boy, what does God want this theme of 2024 to be?
[00:02:42]  And has kept on repeating and repeating and repeating as I would read in my devotionals and read in my Bible this idea of Lord use me.
[00:02:52]  Here I am.
[00:02:53]  Lord, use me as an instrument for your will.
[00:02:57]  Now, one of the things that I think is so important to remember as we just had that incredible worship is that we worship a loving God who allows us to be here on this planet to have to do his will here on earth.
[00:03:11]  And all of us together, if we have a posture of the willing, and there's different categories for all of us.
[00:03:17]  You see, some of you, I just, I love the Bible.
[00:03:20]  Don't we love the Bible, everybody?
[00:03:21]  It is just.
[00:03:23]  And I want to riff on this a second.
[00:03:25]  I talked, I spoke about this in the Turning Point Academy breakout, which is what is your owner's manual instruction manual for life?
[00:03:32]  If it's not the Bible, I want to hear it.
[00:03:34]  You can email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:03:36]  Is it pray, eat, love, or whatever that book is?
[00:03:40]  Or I do yoga meditations.
[00:03:42]  It's fine.
[00:03:43]  Whatever it is.
[00:03:45]  You have to have some instruction manual that you reference.
[00:03:48]  Am I acting correctly?
[00:03:50]  Am I marrying correctly?
[00:03:51]  Am I living life well?
[00:03:53]  You see, for me, and for those of us that call ourselves born-again Christians, it's the word of God.
[00:03:59]  It is the Bible.
[00:04:00]  It is the totality.
[00:04:02]  It answers every question.
[00:04:04]  Why are we here?
[00:04:05]  In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
[00:04:07]  Boom.
[00:04:08]  Your existence is not a mistake, everybody.
[00:04:11]  And are you a clump of cells that accidentally came into existence over millions of years of Darwinian evolution?
[00:04:19]  Genesis 1, 26 and 127.
[00:04:22]  And God made us in his image.
[00:04:25]  We are image bearers of the divine.
[00:04:28]  And therefore, by the way, that means every single life born and unborn must be protected, regardless of how big that life is.
[00:04:37]  And let me say this.
[00:04:38]  If you are a pastor and you are not speaking out for pro-life ideas and policies and politicians, you should resign from the ministry because every pastor needs to be speaking out about abortion in their church.
[00:04:53]  Okay.
[00:04:55]  So we know why we're here.
[00:04:56]  Better sheet in the Hebrew.
[00:04:58]  In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
[00:05:01]  We know what a human being is.
[00:05:04]  Now, what is good or evil?
[00:05:05]  And a lot of people say, you know, I know good and evil through common sense.
[00:05:08]  I know it just because I trust my gut.
[00:05:10]  Bad idea, everybody.
[00:05:12]  You need something to tell you that.
[00:05:14]  And you're like, oh, I know it because what my parents taught me.
[00:05:16]  Where'd they learn it from?
[00:05:17]  Oh, their grandparents.
[00:05:18]  Where'd they learn it from?
[00:05:19]  You go to other countries, you realize what we take for granted is right and wrong is a Christian inheritance that has been passed down through many years.
[00:05:27]  And if we're serious about saving this country, we need to get back to the source of where that inheritance came from.
[00:05:34]  The word of God and our true citizenship, which is in heaven.
[00:05:40]  So I love the Bible.
[00:05:42]  And even if you're not convinced, I ask you to spend one hour a week and read the Bible.
[00:05:49]  Because you know what I love about the Bible?
[00:05:50]  The more you read the Bible, the more it reads you.
[00:05:53]  It reads you back.
[00:05:54]  It talks back to you.
[00:05:56]  I've never found a book like that, ever.
[00:05:58]  It answers every single question.
[00:06:00]  Infinite about wisdom in Proverbs.
[00:06:03]  Psalms about worshiping God in times that you are having difficulty and heaviness.
[00:06:09]  What happens when we die?
[00:06:11]  The answer is: if you give your life to Jesus, you have life and life everlasting, which is the greatest hope for all of us.
[00:06:18]  But also, is murder wrong?
[00:06:21]  Should we honor our parents?
[00:06:24]  Should we care about our country?
[00:06:25]  Jeremiah 29, 7, demand the welfare of the nation that you are in because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare.
[00:06:31]  Every major question you might be wrestling with, there is an answer in the word of God.
[00:06:35]  And so there's this phrase I'm just going to keep on repeating, here I am, the first time it appears in the Bible.
[00:06:41]  And this will apply to every single one of you because none of you get an excuse not to leave here tonight to say, here I am.
[00:06:47]  The first time it appears in the scripture is one of the best known stories.
[00:06:51]  The story of Abraham and Isaac.
[00:06:54]  Now, just by backstory, for those that don't know the Bible or might have forgotten, that's okay.
[00:06:58]  It's all good.
[00:06:59]  Abram is called by God in Genesis 12.
[00:07:01]  We have no idea why Abram was chosen.
[00:07:03]  We don't know anything about this guy.
[00:07:05]  He's just living with his dad until he's like 85.
[00:07:07]  He's kind of a bum, honestly.
[00:07:09]  So if you think that millennials won't leave their parents' basement, it's been going on well since Abram, everybody, okay?
[00:07:17]  By the way, this is before video games, before smart.
[00:07:20]  What is this guy doing in his dad?
[00:07:22]  And literally, God says, leave your father's home and go on an adventure.
[00:07:26]  And we have no idea why God chose him.
[00:07:27]  We have no idea.
[00:07:28]  He's not that impressive of a person, honestly.
[00:07:30]  But he was willing.
[00:07:35]  He was not talented.
[00:07:36]  He was not handsome.
[00:07:38]  He wasn't necessarily courageous, but he was the most important thing for a believer.
[00:07:44]  He was willing.
[00:07:45]  It says in Genesis 22, and it's one of the least understood stories in the Bible, where, you know, some people say, oh, did God want Abraham to kill his son?
[00:07:54]  No, no, no, no.
[00:07:54]  And by the way, the whole story of Genesis 22 is really about Jesus.
[00:07:58]  The whole story is about Jesus as the true sacrifice.
[00:08:01]  But it says right there in Genesis 22 that God was testing Abraham.
[00:08:05]  But the angel of the Lord, the messenger of the Lord, called to him from heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham.
[00:08:11]  And how does Abraham respond?
[00:08:14]  Here I am.
[00:08:16]  Send me.
[00:08:18]  Tell me, God, what to do.
[00:08:20]  And you might say, yeah, yeah, you know, I'm ready.
[00:08:23]  Abraham, all of a sudden, they said, okay, you got to sacrifice your son.
[00:08:28]  The son, by the way, that he never thought he would have.
[00:08:32]  What was his son's name?
[00:08:34]  Which means laughter.
[00:08:36]  Why'd they name him laughter?
[00:08:38]  Because they laughed at the prospect that they would ever have a kid.
[00:08:42]  This is a kid they could not believe actually existed.
[00:08:45]  The kid they said, come on, I'm like 195 years old.
[00:08:48]  You know, Sarah's not going to have a kid.
[00:08:51]  They have this son that's literally called laughter, and God says, do you really follow me?
[00:08:57]  Do you really follow me?
[00:08:58]  And Abraham says, here I am.
[00:09:01]  Now, Abraham passed that test, and that is the reason eventually that we know that God, Abraham, means father of nations, that the covenant was started.
[00:09:10]  The covenant leads all the way to Jesus Christ in an uninterrupted line that leads us here tonight.
[00:09:16]  Abraham was tested.
[00:09:18]  Many of you are going through a test right now.
[00:09:20]  I guarantee it.
[00:09:21]  You might have gotten a diagnosis from a doctor that's not that great.
[00:09:24]  Your spouse might be dealing with something.
[00:09:26]  You might be going through a divorce.
[00:09:27]  You might say, I don't need this here I am stuff because my life is too hard.
[00:09:31]  What did Abraham say when his life was hard and he was tested?
[00:09:34]  Here I am.
[00:09:36]  Every single one of us goes through times of tests and trials.
[00:09:39]  And you say, God, use me.
[00:09:41]  What do you want from me during this trial?
[00:09:43]  The second of which is Jacob, which ends up to be Israel.
[00:09:48]  So Jacob, literally, is a very, very interesting character.
[00:09:52]  Jacob means usurper or heel and redeemer because he literally was holding on to Esau's heel as he came out of the womb.
[00:10:00]  They were twins.
[00:10:01]  And it's very simple.
[00:10:02]  The angel of God said to him in a dream, Jacob, and he said, here I am.
[00:10:06]  And from that point forward, the nation of Israel was born.
[00:10:09]  The willingness of Jacob turned in to the nation of Israel to go build something.
[00:10:15]  Some of you here tonight are being called to build something new.
[00:10:19]  And this is going to speak to some of you.
[00:10:21]  Is God whispering with the Holy Spirit in your ear to start a new business, to start a family?
[00:10:27]  That spirit of Jacob of, here I am, here I am, Lord.
[00:10:31]  I'm going to build something new.
[00:10:32]  Now, my favorite one, because this is most of you, is Moses.
[00:10:37]  Moses had it all.
[00:10:39]  He had a comfortable life.
[00:10:41]  He got along with his father-in-law, Jethro.
[00:10:44]  He was living in Midian.
[00:10:45]  He was living the high life.
[00:10:47]  And he all of a sudden stumbles upon a burning bush.
[00:10:50]  And his life was not easy after that.
[00:10:53]  He had to lead, without a doubt, the least impressive group of people in the history of the ancient world, the Hebrews.
[00:10:59]  God bless them, but they complain all the time and they were slaves to be a great nation.
[00:11:04]  And what did Moses say?
[00:11:05]  It's one of the most powerful scriptures.
[00:11:09]  Now, Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian.
[00:11:13]  He had it all.
[00:11:13]  Imagine that some of you right now are how Moses was.
[00:11:16]  You got a good business.
[00:11:19]  You don't speak out about politics.
[00:11:21]  You got lots of friends.
[00:11:22]  You go to a country club.
[00:11:24]  You're well liked.
[00:11:25]  You're Moses.
[00:11:26]  I'm good.
[00:11:27]  Everything's right.
[00:11:28]  But maybe God's whispering in your ear, are you ready?
[00:11:32]  Are you ready?
[00:11:33]  Are you ready to leave comfort and go on an adventure?
[00:11:37]  Are you ready to leave the nice pleasantries?
[00:11:40]  Guess what?
[00:11:40]  None of that stuff matters.
[00:11:41]  Country clubs, going on nice vacations and wealth.
[00:11:46]  You know what matters more?
[00:11:47]  Eternity matters a lot more than that.
[00:11:48]  A lot more than that.
[00:11:50]  Moses says, Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he fled his flock to the west side of the wilderness in Cave to Horeb, the mountain of God.
[00:11:58]  And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush, and he looked and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.
[00:12:04]  Then Moses said, I will turn aside and see this great sight.
[00:12:07]  Why is the bush not burning?
[00:12:08]  And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called out to him and said, Moses, Moses.
[00:12:14]  And he said, here I am.
[00:12:18]  At that moment, Moses was saying, All right, God, I'm going to leave the cushy job.
[00:12:25]  I understand that if I speak out for my faith or speak out politically, I might lose my job.

=== The Power of Here I Am (03:18) ===

[00:12:31]  But here I am.
[00:12:32]  Comfort and Christianity sometimes come to a head.
[00:12:38]  In fact, we are called to get uncomfortable as believers and Christians.
[00:12:44]  If you are comfortable, you're not doing Christianity right.
[00:12:48]  Then Samuel, this one applies to a lot of you.
[00:12:51]  I love this one.
[00:12:52]  Samuel, now a boy, was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli.
[00:12:57]  He was a child.
[00:12:58]  He was young.
[00:13:00]  Turning point USA students, where are you guys?
[00:13:02]  You guys are all over the place here.
[00:13:04]  This one is for you because some of you might say, I'm too young to be used by God.
[00:13:09]  This here I am thing.
[00:13:10]  Now, Samuel says, here I am the most of any person in the Bible.
[00:13:13]  He keeps on saying it.
[00:13:14]  Here I am.
[00:13:16]  The eagerness of the youth activist.
[00:13:18]  It reminds me of seeing these turning point USA kids running all over the place here.
[00:13:22]  All ages, all backgrounds can be used by God.
[00:13:25]  Let me say that again.
[00:13:26]  All ages, all backgrounds can be used by God.
[00:13:29]  And Samuel, of course, was then led.
[00:13:30]  And the Lord said, Samuel, Samuel arose and went down.
[00:13:34]  And he says, Here I am, for you called me.
[00:13:38]  And Samuel was then called to amazing and great things.
[00:13:41]  How about Isaiah?
[00:13:42]  Isaiah.
[00:13:43]  Of course, one of the major prophets, Isaiah literally means God is my Redeemer.
[00:13:47]  I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send and who will go for us?
[00:13:50]  Then he said, Here I am, send me.
[00:13:53]  And through Isaiah, we get the fulfillment of the promise that is Jesus Christ.
[00:13:57]  And finally, my favorite, because this one applies to every single person, which is Anias.
[00:14:05]  And you might say, who is this?
[00:14:06]  Ananias.
[00:14:07]  Ananias is a character in the book of Acts written by the Apostle Luke.
[00:14:13]  He continues by saying, in Acts 9:10, it's incredible.
[00:14:17]  So an angel of the Lord, it's a lot of angels going around here.
[00:14:20]  And the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias, and he says, Hinani, here I am.
[00:14:25]  Now here's some context.
[00:14:26]  I'm going to read it like this.
[00:14:27]  The Lord said to him, Rise and go to the street called Straight, the house of Judas.
[00:14:31]  Look for a man of Tarsus named Saul.
[00:14:35]  For behold, he is praying and he has seen a vision, a man named Ananias, come in and lay hands on him.
[00:14:39]  Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to your saints in Jerusalem.
[00:14:44]  Okay, here's the context.
[00:14:46]  Saul was a bad dude.
[00:14:48]  He was not doing good.
[00:14:49]  And God called Ananias to go and confront him.
[00:14:53]  And he's like, I don't want to do that.
[00:14:56]  He's mean.
[00:14:58]  But he was more than mean.
[00:14:59]  He was going and killing people.
[00:15:00]  How many of you here tonight know somebody that you need to confront that is doing evil?
[00:15:06]  How many of you here tonight know a professor that is abusing their authority?
[00:15:10]  How many of you know tonight, a neighbor that is just terrorizing people based on politics?
[00:15:15]  How many of you know a weak pastor that needs to be confronted by a believer and say, either you need to lead, follow, or get out of the way and preach the word or not be a pastor any longer?
[00:15:32]  Now, whether it be Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Samuel, Isaiah, Ananias, the here I am is when legendary things happen in the Bible.
[00:15:43]  Six people that are some of the most important instruments for God's will here on earth.

=== Jesus Took My Place (02:44) ===

[00:15:49]  And I'm just going to close with this.
[00:15:50]  That is my phrase going into 2024.
[00:15:53]  I'm going to use.
[00:15:53]  I hope it is for you as well.
[00:15:55]  Because every single one of you need to say, God, I am willing.
[00:15:58]  Use me.
[00:15:59]  Use me for your purposes.
[00:16:01]  Liberty is God's idea, not man's idea.
[00:16:04]  We will never allow the church to be called non-essential again as they allowed strip clubs and marijuana dispensaries and convenience stores to remain open.
[00:16:15]  We believe in a strong church.
[00:16:17]  Now, for those of you that are really wonky, one of my board members came up to me and said, Charlie, it's really bold naming a whole thing after yourself.
[00:16:30]  What are you talking about?
[00:16:32]  Well, Kirk means church in Scotland, and Charlie means strong man or strong church, strong church.
[00:16:38]  So I didn't do that intentionally for the record.
[00:16:41]  But we do need a strong church, everybody.
[00:16:44]  And it starts with all of you.
[00:16:46]  Look, for those of you that are not yet believers, it's very simple.
[00:16:49]  You're going to have a court date.
[00:16:50]  We all die.
[00:16:51]  And you're all going to meet the supreme judge of the universe.
[00:16:56]  Justice is getting what you deserve, which is going to a not-so-good place.
[00:17:00]  We're all sinners, and we all fall short of the glory of God.
[00:17:03]  But thanks to the cross, a perfect, loving God who came down in human form, human flesh, lived a perfect life and died for us so that we can live forever.
[00:17:13]  At that moment, we're about to get that sentencing into eternal damnation.
[00:17:16]  Somebody says, no, no, no.
[00:17:18]  I know him.
[00:17:20]  I know her.
[00:17:21]  Welcome to eternal life.
[00:17:23]  You have an opportunity.
[00:17:24]  The gospel in four words is Jesus took my place.
[00:17:27]  Three words is him for me.
[00:17:29]  Two words is substitutionary atonement.
[00:17:30]  And one word is grace.
[00:17:32]  Grace, you cannot earn.
[00:17:35]  Grace, you do not pay for.
[00:17:37]  It doesn't matter how much money you give to the hospital.
[00:17:40]  It doesn't even matter how many doors you knock on for Trump.
[00:17:42]  And I hope you knock on a lot of doors for him.
[00:17:46]  You can't earn it.
[00:17:47]  It doesn't matter if you're a good person.
[00:17:48]  It doesn't matter if you have always done the best you can.
[00:17:51]  Because what's different about Christianity is that it's a gift for all of humanity to receive, regardless of everything that we have done.
[00:17:59]  And your life will be transformed.
[00:18:01]  You will be born again.
[00:18:04]  Grace is not earned.
[00:18:05]  It is given by a God who loves you and wants to spend eternity with you.
[00:18:09]  It is the most important decision you can make in your life.
[00:18:15]  Here I am.
[00:18:16]  God bless you guys.
[00:18:17]  Thank you so much.
[00:18:19]  Thanks so much for listening.
[00:18:20]  Everybody, email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:18:23]  Thanks so much for listening.
[00:18:24]  God bless.
[00:18:29]  For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.