The Charlie Kirk Show - "Here I Am, Lord. Send Me." — Charlie's Call To Action For All Believers
Aired: 2025-09-28
Duration: 18:12


=== Repeating the Love of God (06:29) ===

[00:00:08]  Let's give it up for that worship one more time.
[00:00:10]  Was that not amazing, everybody?
[00:00:11]  That's not easy to do.
[00:00:14]  Look at this turnout, everybody.
[00:00:15]  Wow, this is amazing.
[00:00:18]  So, welcome, everybody.
[00:00:20]  I am thrilled.
[00:00:21]  This is the first year that we're doing it at this scale and this size.
[00:00:24]  And, you know, we have TP USA Faith, and it is growing like crazy right now.
[00:00:28]  And we have pastors from all across the country, and it is just incredible.
[00:00:33]  You guys having a good time at America Fest?
[00:00:38]  I'll say it again.
[00:00:39]  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.
[00:00:45]  And just have grace on them.
[00:00:48]  Just smile and say thank you because they are working so hard to serve you.
[00:00:52]  And I think they're doing a really, really great job.
[00:00:55]  Wouldn't you agree?
[00:00:55]  They're doing a great job.
[00:00:59]  So the spirit of this night is all about worshiping our Creator.
[00:01:02]  Now, some of you here tonight might have some ideas about Christianity.
[00:01:06]  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.
[00:01:13]  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.
[00:01:26]  Those three things.
[00:01:28]  That there is a God, you are not him, and that God loves you.
[00:01:31]  Those three things.
[00:01:32]  Now, as you can see in my shirt here, here I am.
[00:01:35]  It is something that we are repeating at TPUSA Faith.
[00:01:38]  And, you know, I listen to podcasts and read the word and I just was thinking, I was like, boy, what does God want this theme of 2024 to be?
[00:01:48]  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.
[00:01:57]  Here I am.
[00:01:59]  Lord, use me as an instrument for your will.
[00:02:03]  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 do his will here on earth.
[00:02:17]  And all of us together, if we have a posture of the willing, and there's different categories for all of us.
[00:02:22]  You see, some of you, I just, I love the Bible.
[00:02:25]  Don't we love the Bible, everybody?
[00:02:26]  It is just.
[00:02:29]  And I want to riff on this a second.
[00:02:31]  I spoke about this in the Turning Point Academy breakout, which is, what is your owner's manual instruction manual for life?
[00:02:38]  If it's not the Bible, I want to hear it.
[00:02:39]  You can email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:02:42]  Is it pray, eat, love, or whatever that book is?
[00:02:46]  Or I do yoga meditations.
[00:02:48]  It's fine.
[00:02:49]  Whatever it is.
[00:02:50]  You have to have some instruction manual that you reference.
[00:02:54]  Am I acting correctly?
[00:02:55]  Am I marrying correctly?
[00:02:57]  Am I living life well?
[00:02:59]  You see, for me, and for those of us that call ourselves born-again Christians, it's the word of God.
[00:03:05]  It is the Bible.
[00:03:06]  It is the totality.
[00:03:07]  It answers every question.
[00:03:09]  Why are we here?
[00:03:11]  In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
[00:03:13]  Boom.
[00:03:14]  Your existence is not a mistake, everybody.
[00:03:17]  And are you a clump of cells that accidentally came into existence over millions of years of Darwinian evolution?
[00:03:25]  Genesis 1.26 and 127.
[00:03:28]  And God made us in his image.
[00:03:31]  We are image bearers of the divine.
[00:03:34]  And therefore, by the way, that means every single life born and unborn must be protected, regardless of how big that life is.
[00:03:43]  And let me say this.
[00:03:44]  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.
[00:03:59]  Okay.
[00:04:00]  So we know why we're here.
[00:04:02]  Bereshit in the Hebrew.
[00:04:04]  In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
[00:04:07]  We know what a human being is.
[00:04:09]  Now, what is good or evil?
[00:04:11]  And a lot of people say, you know, I know good and evil through common sense.
[00:04:14]  I know it just because I trust my gut.
[00:04:16]  Bad idea, everybody.
[00:04:18]  You need something to tell you that.
[00:04:19]  And you're like, oh, I know it because what my parents taught me.
[00:04:22]  Where'd they learn it from?
[00:04:23]  Oh, their grandparents.
[00:04:23]  Where'd they learn it from?
[00:04:25]  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.
[00:04:33]  And if we're serious about saving this country, we need to get back to the source of where that inheritance came from.
[00:04:40]  The word of God and our true citizenship, which is in heaven.
[00:04:46]  So I love the Bible.
[00:04:48]  And even if you're not convinced, I ask you to spend one hour a week and read the Bible.
[00:04:55]  Because you know what I love about the Bible?
[00:04:56]  The more you read the Bible, the more it reads you.
[00:04:59]  It reads you back.
[00:05:00]  It talks back to you.
[00:05:01]  I've never found a book like that, ever.
[00:05:04]  It answers every single question.
[00:05:06]  Infinite about wisdom in Proverbs.
[00:05:09]  Psalms about worshiping God in times that you are having difficulty and heaviness.
[00:05:15]  What happens when we die?
[00:05:17]  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.
[00:05:24]  But also, is murder wrong?
[00:05:27]  Should we honor our parents?
[00:05:29]  Should we care about our country?
[00:05:31]  Jeremiah 29, 7, demand the welfare of the nation that you are in because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare.
[00:05:37]  Every major question you might be wrestling with, there is an answer in the word of God.
[00:05:41]  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.
[00:05:46]  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.
[00:05:53]  The first time it appears in the scriptures, one of the best known stories.
[00:05:57]  The story of Abraham and Isaac.
[00:06:00]  Now, just by backstory, for those that don't know the Bible or might have forgotten, that's okay.
[00:06:04]  It's all good.
[00:06:05]  Abram is called by God in Genesis 12.
[00:06:07]  We have no idea why Abram was chosen.
[00:06:09]  We don't know anything about this guy.
[00:06:11]  He's just living with his dad.
[00:06:12]  He's a type of a person, honestly.
[00:06:13]  But he was willing.
[00:06:18]  He was not talented.
[00:06:19]  He was not handsome.
[00:06:21]  He wasn't necessarily courageous, but he was the most important thing for a believer.

=== God's Testing Ground (03:52) ===

[00:06:27]  He was willing.
[00:06:28]  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?
[00:06:37]  No, no, no, no.
[00:06:37]  And by the way, the whole story of Genesis 22 is really about Jesus.
[00:06:41]  The whole story is about Jesus as the true sacrifice.
[00:06:44]  But it says right there in Genesis 22 that God was testing Abraham.
[00:06:49]  But the angel of the Lord, the messenger of the Lord, called to him from heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham.
[00:06:54]  And how does Abraham respond?
[00:06:57]  Here I am.
[00:06:59]  Send me.
[00:07:01]  Tell me, God, what to do.
[00:07:03]  And you might say, yeah, yeah, you know, I'm ready.
[00:07:06]  Abraham, all of a sudden, they said, okay, you got to sacrifice your son.
[00:07:11]  The son, by the way, that he never thought he would have.
[00:07:15]  What was his son's name?
[00:07:17]  Which means laughter.
[00:07:19]  Why'd they name him laughter?
[00:07:21]  Because they laughed at the prospect that they would ever have a kid.
[00:07:25]  This is a kid they could not believe actually existed.
[00:07:28]  The kid they said, come on, I'm like 195 years old.
[00:07:31]  You know, Sarah's not going to have a kid.
[00:07:34]  They have this son that's literally called laughter, and God says, Do you really follow me?
[00:07:40]  Do you really follow me?
[00:07:41]  And Abraham says, here I am.
[00:07:44]  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.
[00:07:53]  The covenant that leads all the way to Jesus Christ in an uninterrupted line that leads us here tonight.
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[00:09:10]  Abraham was tested.
[00:09:12]  Many of you are going through a test right now.
[00:09:14]  I guarantee it.
[00:09:15]  You might have gotten a diagnosis from a doctor.
[00:09:17]  That's not that great.
[00:09:19]  Your spouse might be dealing with something.
[00:09:20]  You might be going through a divorce.
[00:09:22]  You might say, I don't need this here I am stuff because my life is too hard.
[00:09:26]  What did Abraham say when his life was hard and he was tested?
[00:09:28]  Here I am.
[00:09:30]  Every single one of us goes through times of tests and trials.
[00:09:34]  And you say, God, use me.
[00:09:35]  What do you want from me during this trial?
[00:09:38]  The second of which is Jacob, which ends up to be Israel.
[00:09:43]  So Jacob, literally, very, very interesting character.
[00:09:47]  Jacob means usurper or heel and redeemer because he literally was holding on to Esau's heel as he came out of the womb.
[00:09:54]  They were twins.
[00:09:56]  And it's very simple.
[00:09:57]  The angel of God said to him in a dream, Jacob, and he said, Here I am.

=== Moses' Call (08:02) ===

[00:10:01]  And from that point forward, the nation of Israel was born.
[00:10:04]  The willingness of Jacob turned in to the nation of Israel to go build something.
[00:10:09]  Some of you here tonight are being called to build something new.
[00:10:14]  And this is going to speak to some of you.
[00:10:15]  Is God whispering with his Holy Spirit in your ear to start a new business, to start a family?
[00:10:22]  That spirit of Jacob of, here I am, here I am, Lord.
[00:10:25]  I'm going to build something new.
[00:10:27]  Now, my favorite one, because this is most of you, is Moses.
[00:10:32]  Moses had it all.
[00:10:34]  He had a comfortable life.
[00:10:35]  He got along with his father-in-law, Jethro.
[00:10:39]  He was living in Midian.
[00:10:40]  He was living the high life.
[00:10:42]  And he all of a sudden stumbles upon a burning bush.
[00:10:45]  And his life was not easy after that.
[00:10:47]  He had to lead, without a doubt, the least impressive group of people in the history of the ancient world, the Hebrews.
[00:10:54]  God bless them, but they complain all the time and they were slaves to be a great nation.
[00:10:58]  And what did Moses say?
[00:11:00]  It's one of the most powerful scriptures.
[00:11:03]  Now, Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian.
[00:11:07]  He had it all.
[00:11:08]  Imagine some of you right now are how Moses was.
[00:11:11]  You got a good business.
[00:11:13]  You don't speak out about politics.
[00:11:16]  You got lots of friends.
[00:11:17]  You go to a country club.
[00:11:19]  You're well-liked.
[00:11:20]  You're Moses.
[00:11:21]  I'm good.
[00:11:22]  Everything's right.
[00:11:23]  But maybe God's whispering in your ear.
[00:11:25]  Are you ready?
[00:11:26]  Are you ready?
[00:11:28]  Are you ready to leave comfort and go on an adventure?
[00:11:32]  Are you ready to leave the nice pleasantries?
[00:11:35]  Guess what?
[00:11:35]  None of that stuff matters.
[00:11:36]  Country clubs, going on nice vacations and wealth.
[00:11:40]  You know what matters more?
[00:11:41]  Eternity matters a lot more than that.
[00:11:43]  A lot more than that.
[00:11:44]  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 the Horeb, the mountain of God.
[00:11:53]  And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush.
[00:11:56]  And he looked and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.
[00:11:59]  Then Moses said, I will turn aside and see this great sight.
[00:12:02]  Why is the bush not burning?
[00:12:03]  And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called out to him and said, Moses, Moses.
[00:12:09]  And he said, here I am.
[00:12:13]  At that moment, Moses was saying, all right, God, I'm going to leave the cushy job.
[00:12:20]  I understand that if I speak out for my faith or speak out politically, I might lose my job.
[00:12:25]  But here I am.
[00:12:27]  Comfort and Christianity sometimes come to a head.
[00:12:33]  In fact, we are called to get uncomfortable as believers and Christians.
[00:12:38]  If you are comfortable, you're not doing Christianity right.
[00:12:43]  Then Samuel, this one applies to a lot of you.
[00:12:45]  I love this one.
[00:12:47]  Samuel, now a boy, was ministering to the Lord in the presence of Eli.
[00:12:51]  He was a child.
[00:12:53]  He was young.
[00:12:54]  Turning point USA students, where are you guys?
[00:12:57]  You guys are all over the place here.
[00:12:59]  This one is for you because some of you might say, I'm too young to be used by God.
[00:13:03]  This here I am thing.
[00:13:05]  Now Samuel says, here I am the most of any person in the Bible.
[00:13:08]  He keeps on saying it.
[00:13:09]  Here I am.
[00:13:10]  The eagerness of the youth activist.
[00:13:13]  It reminds me of seeing these turning point USA kids running all over the place here.
[00:13:17]  All ages, all backgrounds can be used by God.
[00:13:20]  Let me say that again.
[00:13:21]  All ages, all backgrounds can be used by God.
[00:13:24]  And Samuel, of course, was then led.
[00:13:25]  And the Lord said, Samuel, Samuel arose and went down and he says, Here I am, for you called me.
[00:13:32]  And Samuel was then called to amazing and great things.
[00:13:36]  How about Isaiah, Isaiah?
[00:13:38]  Of course, one of the major prophets, Isaiah literally means God is my redeemer.
[00:13:42]  I heard the voice of the Lord saying, whom shall I send and who will go for us?
[00:13:45]  Then he said, Here I am, send me.
[00:13:48]  And through Isaiah, we get the fulfillment of the promise that is Jesus Christ.
[00:13:52]  And finally, my favorite, because this one applies to every single person, which is Anias.
[00:14:00]  And you might say, who is this?
[00:14:01]  Ananias.
[00:14:02]  Ananias is a character in the book of Acts written by the Apostle Luke.
[00:14:07]  He continues by saying in Acts 9, 10, it's incredible.
[00:14:11]  So an angel of the Lord, it's a lot of angels going around here.
[00:14:14]  And the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias, and he says, Hinani, here I am.
[00:14:20]  Now here's some context.
[00:14:20]  I'm going to read it like this.
[00:14:22]  The Lord said to him, Rise and go to the street called Straight, the house of Judas.
[00:14:26]  Look for a man of Tarsus named Saul.
[00:14:30]  For behold, he is praying and he has seen a vision of a man named Ananias.
[00:14:33]  Come in and lay hands on him.
[00:14:34]  Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to your saints in Jerusalem.
[00:14:39]  Okay, here's the context.
[00:14:41]  Saul was a bad dude.
[00:14:43]  He was not doing good.
[00:14:44]  And God called Ananias to go and confront him.
[00:14:48]  And he's like, I don't want to do that.
[00:14:50]  He's mean.
[00:14:52]  But he was more than mean.
[00:14:53]  He was going and killing people.
[00:14:54]  How many of you here tonight know somebody that you need to confront that is doing evil?
[00:15:00]  How many of you here tonight know a professor that is abusing their authority?
[00:15:05]  How many of you know tonight a neighbor that is just terrorizing people based on politics?
[00:15:10]  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?
[00:15:27]  Now, whether it be Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Samuel, Isaiah, Ananias, the here I am is when legendary things happen in the Bible.
[00:15:37]  Six people that are some of the most important instruments for God's will here on earth.
[00:15:43]  And I'm just going to close with this.
[00:15:45]  That is my phrase going into 2024 I'm going to use.
[00:15:48]  I hope it is for you as well.
[00:15:49]  Because every single one of you need to say, God, I am willing.
[00:15:52]  Use me.
[00:15:54]  Use me for your purposes.
[00:15:55]  Liberty is God's idea, not man's idea.
[00:15:58]  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.
[00:16:10]  We believe in a strong church.
[00:16:12]  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.
[00:16:25]  It's like, what are you talking about?
[00:16:26]  Well, Kirk means church in Scotland, and Charlie means strong man or strong church, strong church.
[00:16:33]  So I didn't do that intentionally for the record.
[00:16:36]  But we do need a strong church, everybody.
[00:16:38]  And it starts with all of you.
[00:16:41]  Look, for those of you that are not yet believers, it's very simple.
[00:16:44]  You're going to have a court date.
[00:16:45]  We all die.
[00:16:46]  And you're all going to meet the supreme judge of the universe.
[00:16:50]  Justice is getting what you deserve, which is going to a not-so-good place.
[00:16:54]  We're all sinners and we all fall short of the glory of God.
[00:16:57]  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 could live forever.
[00:17:06]  At that moment, we're about to get that sentencing into eternal damnation.
[00:17:10]  Somebody says, I don't know.
[00:17:11]  I know him.
[00:17:13]  I know her.
[00:17:15]  Welcome to eternal life.
[00:17:17]  You have an opportunity.
[00:17:18]  The gospel in four words is Jesus took my place.
[00:17:21]  Three words is him for me.
[00:17:22]  Two words is substitutionary atonement.
[00:17:24]  And one word is grace.
[00:17:25]  Grace you cannot earn.
[00:17:28]  Grace you do not pay for.
[00:17:31]  It doesn't matter how much money you give to the hospital.
[00:17:33]  It doesn't even matter how many doors you knock on for Trump.
[00:17:36]  And I hope you knock on a lot of doors for him.
[00:17:40]  You can't earn it.
[00:17:41]  It doesn't matter if you're a good person.
[00:17:42]  It doesn't matter if you have always done the best you can 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.

=== The Most Important Decision (00:23) ===

[00:17:53]  And your life will be transformed.
[00:17:55]  You will be born again.
[00:17:58]  Grace is not earned.
[00:17:59]  It is given by a God who loves you and wants to spend eternity with you.
[00:18:03]  It is the most important decision you can make in your life.
[00:18:09]  Here I am.
[00:18:10]  God bless you guys.
[00:18:11]  Thank you so much.