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In the last year and a half, I've felt more and more called to speak at churches all across the country. I've had a unique opportunity to speak at over 50 churches from all across the country, from Maine to California to Texas to Arizona. I grew up in a Bible believing church in the suburbs of Chicago. I'm an Evangelical Christian. It's the most important thing in my life. But it's always been a frustration of mine being in the political space, looking into the Christian world, saying why are churches not more involved in offering moral clarity to what's happening in our country. And I just wanted to say your church and your pastor is one of the few that's actually doing the right thing in that regard. And this church will be blessed because of that. And so I'm sure some people here today or some people watching the live stream are kind of quietly saying, you know what? I'm going to hear this guy out. But I don't like the political thing. I just want to get away from politics. Well, let's just start very plainly and simply. Some people say, I don't want the church to get involved in politics. I don't think the church should ever be. I just want to talk about the gospel. You've heard this before. Some pastors say that. Well, look, I will make the argument, just to start here, that we as Christians are called to get into all spheres of influence, including the political space and our values. The values the gospel. Looking at. Looking after the people that can't defend themselves, looking after people that do not have the same rights and privileges we have. What better space to contend for that than in the political space? Let's even take a broader picture, though. How are we supposed to make sense of people like Esther and Daniel and Mordecai and Joseph and Nehemiah and Jeremiah, people that we look to in the Old Testament as biblical heroes that got involved in secular government for God's chosen purpose? In order to say that the church shouldn't get involved in politics, you'd have to ignore huge parts of the Bible. The entire country we live in was founded on biblical principles. You see? You know how I knew the Founding Fathers were awesome? And they were awesome in so many different ways. They chose to use a verse from Leviticus on the Liberty Bell, like, who does that? Leviticus. And it's actually one of the reasons my fiance has an amazing clothing line. You guys should check it out. All made in America. I'm sporting it today. Proclaim. Proclaim Ministries. But the verse on the Liberty Bell is, and I'm paraphrasing, you will proclaim liberty throughout the land. The founding fathers understood this, and they understood the idea of three branches of government comes from the Torah, comes from the Old Testament. The idea of private property where you own something because you worked hard and you should keep it, comes from Abraham. When Abraham went down to Hebron, he didn't go, say, this is mine, I want it. He said, no, he purchased it. The idea of commerce and trade, a man's wage is worth the work he puts in from Proverbs, all these ideas that we take for granted in Western society, it stems from. From a singular source. And also, Jesus Christ himself said we should get involved in politics. That's right. The opposite will be told in most churches across the country. Most people say, you know, there's a pastor from California who was very influential growing up. And I've been so saddened seeing his fall in the last couple of years because he says, you know what? God doesn't care how you vote. That's what he said. I thought about that. I said, well, first of all, the theology I have is God cares about everything you do, everything. Like he cares about what you eat. He cares about how you interact. This idea that God kind of gives you a permission slip for any course of action is bizarre to me. But what he's really saying is, your vote is really not a reflection of your values. Basically, he's arguing that voting is no different than just choosing Chili's or Outback or Olive Garden or Red Robin. Right. It's like, not that big of a deal. That's the argument this guy's making. And it's Rick Warren. And, you know, I've emailed him back and forth, and he's just been such a disappointment. I only mention his name because he has a big platform and, you know, he can handle it. And. No, I mean that. I lovingly say that, and I think he's done some wonderful work for the kingdom, but he's really misleading people right now. And he said, God doesn't care how you vote. And I say, wait a second. You're trying to tell me God is apathetic when it comes to abortion? Like that's what we're supposed to believe, that God just doesn't really care about whether or not we build a society to defend those that can't defend themselves. That that's something that we're supposed to believe, that God cares about how you marry who you marry. God cares about whether or not you tell the truth. God cares about how you manage your finances. God cares about whether you tell the truth. But when you go in the voting booth, we're supposed to believe that all the laws of the Bible, all that is not really applicable. But even deeper than that, one of the most quoted verses that all of you know is when Jesus went up to Caesarea Philippi, and he told his disciples, he said, on this rock build mine, we say church, right? Well, the word in koine Greek is ekklesia. So he said, on this rock build my ekklesia. What is an ecclesia? Now, the filler word is church. But, well, William Tyndale, who was the original translator of the Bible, he was the guy that gave us the Bible that we have today. He went back into the Koine Greek and he discovered, because in Latin, it was a little bit. It was a little bit ambiguous. It wasn't clear that ekklesia was a secular Greek term. It's what we're doing right now. Ekklesia was a government political meaning. So think about it. In the original Koine Greek, it wasn't on this rock build my synagogue. It wasn't on this rock build my temple. Now why would that be? Because I always love looking at the Scriptures and I love saying, why does it say this and not say something else? It's a very fulfilling and way to read the text. And I'll get into some examples of that and how they apply today, which I think is really interesting. Maybe because Jesus wanted comprehensive Christianity, not compartmentalized Christianity, maybe Jesus was saying, you know what? Take this light to every sphere of influence. I'll be very honest with you guys. My life would be easier if I avoided politics. I completely admit that the reason why pastors don't do it is because you want to talk about the most brutal, emotional friendship, crushing division. It's politics, not religion. Religion does not crush friendships anymore. Politics does. That's why pastors avoid it. They avoid it because they think they're going to lose tithes and offerings, which is not true. But who cares if you do? All of a sudden you're some sort of business model, as if you have to have a certain occupancy rate like you're running a bed and breakfast. You speak the truth. God will take care of the rest. It's not that hard. And so I get the idea that the church should be a place that is a refuge for all people. I completely understand that. I understand that some people think politics in general is nothing but division and people pitted against each other. I understand that the church is all supposed to be a place of truth. And if we as Christians make the decision, which we have in America, by the way, majority of Christians do not take stances on moral issues. Can I speak plainly to you guys? Our offices are here in Phoenix, Arizona. Spending a lot of time here in Arizona. Arizona elected two Democrat senators because the church was silent. That's why it happened. And it was on the margins. If pastors in this state went to their congregation and was okay with, with getting a couple angry emails, but stood on what the word of God says there would be two Republican senators and the state wouldn't have voted for Joe Biden. Now I'm not saying Republicans are anointed by God. I'm not saying that. What I am saying though is an agenda that wants to destroy the rule of law, get rid of the police, tolerate post term abortions, attack religious liberty, smear innocent men like Justice Brett Kavanaugh. That is not even close to what the scriptures are talking about. And some people say, well, it's the lesser of two evils. Of course it is. Look what kind of conver. Everything is the lesser of two evils. We're all fallen, we're all broken. Of course it is. The question is what agenda, what set of policies is closer to biblical truth? How about this? Joe Biden, a couple days into his presidency signs an executive order saying that men who think they are women should be able to compete in women's sports. No one who reads like the first six verses of the Bible can say that that is within biblical truth. It's that simple. Maybe the first 14 verses of the Bible, it's, it's not that hard. God created man and God created woman. Well, that's not that hard. But you know what the real problem is is that too many pastors are starting to say, you know, the Bible is like a self improvement book. It's not the word of God. It's kind of like a, it's kind of like a thing where you can, it's an allegory, right? It's kind of, it's not true, but it has some truths in it. And so as the church has stopped going verse by verse and chapter by chapter of the word of God, then all of a sudden you start getting stuff of well, maybe God is a gender neutral God, maybe men and women is actually just a phallologocentric power structure that was formed. You get into chaos very quickly. And so the reason why I'm here today and the reason I'm going to speak at every single church that will have me and not every church will by the way, so you guys deserve great credit for that by the way, Is I believe, and let's just be very honest, the tech companies are lost, the colleges are lost, our high schools are lost, almost all local government is lost. We have two Democrat senators here. Every institution in the country is basically controlled by secular nihilistic leftists. There's only one place left in this country and that's the church. In our fast paced world, it's tough to make reading a priority. At least it used to be. Use what I use to digest big ideas quickly at thinker.org charlie T-H-I n k r.org they summarize the key ideas from new and noteworthy nonfiction, giving you access to an entire library of great books in bite sized form. 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Even Stalin allowed a national church to exist. Even Stalin allowed certain people in the Christian tradition as long as they never gave a sermon or they never gave any teaching that went against Stalinism, that went against the Soviet Union because he knew that if he obliterated quickly, people would retaliate. And so now we are going to see one of the most anti nature, anti laws of nature agenda ever implemented. You get the government that you deserve, we'll get into a lot of that other stuff that contributed to it. But that's the way it is. And so the question is, what will the church do? I know what this specific church will do, but the better question is what will the people that go to church do? So for some of you here, this is not your home church, right? Some of you guys have other churches. If your pastor is not fully open, if your pastor is not telling you at least once a month what it means to be an involved citizen of this country, you got to start putting the pressure on. You got to start writing emails and say, dear Pastor Smith, this church right here is wide open. No social distancing, no masks they trust their congregation to be able to make the right decisions. Liberty, it's such an amazing thing. If you feel unsafe to come here, then watch on the live stream, but then don't prevent other people from coming here. Such a bizarre thing. And so. But that's what you have to do now. You write your pastor tonight, lovingly. You say, hey, I went to this. I've gone to your church for a decade. You've helped me with my marriage, you've helped me with this, you helped me with that. But why is it you're not speaking out against abortion, speaking out against the transgender executive order? Why didn't you give out voting guides? Why don't you register your. And they say, well, we don't do politics in this church. And what they're saying is, oh, so you don't fight for what's right when it's really hard? See, it's easy in the church to say, you know what we have, you know, child sex trafficking, recovering ministries. Those things are agreeable, right? What's difficult is saying, well, maybe we should have a government that actually wants to contest for those things. And so the guide should always be the word of God. Always. And we've gotten away from that so much in our country. I'll give you a great example of this. So we have statues being taken down all across the country. They're renaming schools in San Francisco, and one of my favorite is they're renaming a school in San Francisco the Abraham Lincoln School, Right? Because they're saying, he did not adequately fight for black lives. One of the most absurd things, right? And this is what your. Your children are learning in school, by the way. But let's go back to the Bible as a reference guide for this. There's a wonderful verse. It's one of the first couple chapters of the Bible where it says, noah was a righteous man amongst his generation. And so you should take a pause and it says, wait a second. Why doesn't it just say that Noah was a righteous man? Maybe because if you compared Noah with Elijah, he wouldn't be that righteous. The Bible tells us you always judge people based on the time that they're in. Maybe a hundred years from now, people will say, huh, they still had abortion back then. They were all terrible. The point is this. Abraham Lincoln, first of all, was a hero, one of America's greatest presidents, but you judge him on the time that he was in. Abraham Lincoln was a righteous man amongst his generation. Thomas Jefferson was a righteous man amongst his generation. Yes, Thomas Jefferson owned slaves, but Thomas Jefferson also wrote in the original draft of the declaration condemning slavery to the King of England, go figure that one out. It's as if we human beings know nothing about sinful contradiction, right? As if we say one thing and do another. The moral righteousness that has seeped into the left wing decision makers in our country. This. Anyone who came before me is a bigot. And there is no wisdom that predated me. It's one of the most dangerous things that's happening in our country. And so they're doing this through renaming and they're doing this through canceling, and they're doing this through all these sorts of things. And what's so amazing to me is how many Christians remain completely silent on this. And I'm gonna be very honest, this is a Calvary chapel. Oh, by the way, I have to get into the Calvary thing. This is so funny. So I don't know if you guys saw this or not. This week. It was phenomenal. It's one of the greatest moments ever. And none of the media is covering it. And this was a great opportunity for pastors to rise up and just talk about how incredibly dishonest and illiterate and how low quality our political elite is. You probably didn't even hear about this. It's wonderful. So you had Eric swat. You probably might not hear this. Eric. Eric Swalwell comes up. Wonderful guy, right? So he's got a lot of stuff going on anyway. Yeah, you guys can figure that one out. He never should have been a House impeachment manager. So he comes up to try and attack former President Trump, and he comes up and he says, look at this tweet by Jennifer Lynn Lawrence. Not that Jennifer Lawrence, different Jennifer Lawrence. And he says, she tweeted out that the Calvary are coming, right? And so all the people gasp and the CNN commentators say, that's terrible. They're bringing in the infantry, the militia, and all this stuff. So for those of us that have actually existed outside of San Jose and Menlo park and have been to a church or read the scriptures, know that there's a difference between Calvary and Calvary, right? So on the House floor, he is going after former President Trump, making this elaborate case about how she was signaling about bringing militiamen. She brought a prayer Vigil to Washington, D.C. calvary is what she tweeted. But to him, he knows no difference. Now, I want you to understand, this is not just him, right? He's worthy of criticism because he's, you know. Anyway, the point is, it's not about him. The point is that the dozens of people that reviewed these briefs before they went public, no one noticed it. Not one expert thought to say, wait a second, why is it spelled C A L? Not C A V? They thought, oh, she's such an idiot that she doesn't even know how to spell it. No, no, no, she spelled it perfectly. And so anyway, Calvary's been in the news lately and I just think it's a perfect moment to notice. So all of you here, according to the Democrats, are actually some form of a paramilitary group or something going on here? Calvary Chapel. Not Calvary Chapel. Okay. Anyway, so I don't know how I got onto that, but so the, the trend of the country that I think that is most, that is most important for us to recognize and realize is if we take a step back, one of the biggest lies taught to our kids is that America was founded on just secular secularism. This is in our public schools. I'm sure a lot of you guys hear it. And you cannot get to the founding of our country at the Black Robe Regiment. Without William Blackstone, without Whitfield, without Jonathan Edwards, without activist preachers and pastors, it's impossible. America was the great leap forward. America changed the world. Our founding was absolutely incredible. Our founding fathers are mischaracterized as being bitter slave owning bigots. And that is a complete misrepresentation of their life and their brilliance and their genius. Remember, you must always judge people of the time the that they are in. Right. Noah was a righteous man amongst his generation. I'm sure that if we just said if all of a sudden we dissected Noah's behavior, all of a sudden, is he really worth looking at? Well, there was a lot of other stuff even worse happening around him. So he was after God's favor. Thomas Jefferson, for example, owned slaves. Released him upon his deathbed. As I mentioned, he repudiated slavery in the first draft of the declaration. They got rid of it for some compromise. But even beyond that, Thomas Jefferson being the third American president, at the first moment he had an opportunity to do so, signed an executive order as president saying no new slaves allowed into the United States. Thomas Jefferson contested in the Virginia House of Commons to abolish slavery. He was unsuccessful. So that kind of nuance is pretty important, isn't it? This is a guy that was actually wrestling with a couple thousand year old sin. America didn't found slavery. America didn't master it or create it. They were born into this evil, awful tradition which by the way was in the Bible as well. And by the way, there's more slaves on the planet today than there were back then. So before we get on our moral high horse factors of, we've abolished every single square inch of this earth. That is not true. Go throughout Africa, you go throughout the Asian world. Slavery is still alive and well today. And a soft form of slavery exists in this country in sex trafficking and child sex trafficking. And so. But why would Thomas Jefferson be someone important to study? And why are they trying to get rid of it? Get rid of him? If you study Thomas Jefferson, you study George Washington, you study James Madison, you study John Adams. Every single one of them believed that there was no document, no text even close to the Bible. And you understand that their plan is they know if they can remove God from the equation, then they're able to get whatever power they desire. It's really interesting. I visit college campuses. I know that a lot of you guys come in contact with University of Arizona around here. Sorry about that. Do we have any people around here? Yeah. So very, very liberal. I think Noam Chomsky still literally teaches there. Is that right, Noam Chomsky? Yeah. I don't know if you guys know who that is. So one of the reasons why universities have become these hotbeds of indoctrination and quite honestly, places where they are teaching things so destructive and so corrosive. It's an Old Testament verse. Without the fear of God, there is no wisdom. There's no God at these universities, so there's no wisdom. So they're teaching kids that men and women are exactly the same. They teach things that men can become pregnant and menstruate. It's just, this is what your children are being taught. And then we wonder by the time they turn 25, why they're so confused and why they're so miserable. Like, I wonder why the next generation can't find direction. Well, they can't find direction because you sowed chaos intentionally into their life. It's very interesting. An attribute of the left is pride and is this belief that if you just give us enough power, we can sort this whole thing out. They are totalitarian in nature. They demand power because in some ways they see themselves as wanting to become God or the ruler over other people. And so if you do not have a vertical relationship in your life like we do, then all of a sudden it becomes very tempting to want to do that. Right? Like, let's get rid of all these other people's ability to congregate and to speak and to be able to speak freely. That's exactly right, because that's a threat to us. And so there's only two ways to govern people. One way to govern people is through force. We know how that works. The other way is through speech, dialogue, persuasion. That's the Christian ethic. How did Jesus spread truth? Did he go raise an army? Did he go conquer lands? He's the most influential person in the history of the planet, regardless if you believe he's the son of God or not. I do. And he did that not through what Muhammad did, which is years of conquest, but instead through speech. Instead through truth, through speaking ex nihilo, speaking out of existence. Right. What does it say in Genesis 1? God spoke it into existence. Right. God spoke it into existence. So when we speak, we are embodying how truth itself came to this world. That's why they want to get rid of speech so bad. That's all of a sudden why they want to say, you can't say that on social media. You can't say that on a college campus. Because speaking is all that prevents us from tearing each other apart. We take this for granted because when you speak, something interesting happens. Nuance ends up happening. You. You're able to actually understand the humanity in somebody else. One of the lessons from Christ is he was never afraid to talk to anyone, ever, about anything. They thought they could trip him up. They thought they could put him in some sort of logical trap. He was always 10 steps ahead. Go figure. Right? And what's the lesson for us on that? It's that the Christlike way is to never be afraid of a discussion or a dialogue. Who's afraid of discussion right now? The predominant power structures in our country. You can't talk on digital social media without getting kicked off anymore. Can't talk on a university campus. You can't even talk to a neighbor or a friend anymore. Right. Without losing those friendships, without someone calling you an awful name. Why? It's because they know that as soon as that conversation happens, their narrative might disappear. Their narrative is very simple. Half the country are racist white supremacist militia people, and they must be destroyed at all costs. It's that simple. When you start talking and you start having dialogue and conversation, a lot of that extremist belief actually just kind of fades away. That's why I'm a free speech absolutist. I believe no matter. Unless you are actually inciting, not this ridiculous new threshold of inciting imminent harm, you should be allowed to say it regardless of how nasty or how awful it is now. It's so interesting, and you guys remember this back in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, is that liberals used to be on the side of that. They used to be the ones that say, you know what? We should be able to put a crucifix in a jar of urine. Like, awful things. Right? No, this is. Remember, that was the. Those are the lawsuits they used to fight for because they're like, all speech is important. That was always a lie. They did that as a way to get into power. They never believed in freedom of speech. Now that when you want to become a Christian or you want to speak out for your Christian faith or conservative values, then they want to use the power they have to silence you. So there's a couple different ways I could take this, and I do want to take some questions. I don't want to, you know, meander. Okay, that's fine. So I could meander all day. Yeah. So thank you. So the interesting thing here is what we as believers have to do in this moment. So in James 1, it says, basically, you should rejoice in persecution. Not because of the. Not like, not this, not that. Oh, yes, I'm so happy I'm suffering. But be rejoice that the persecution is a test of your faith, and that will produce more faith. And so this is a moment for us, for the church that we should be leaning into. And I'm seeing a lot of pastors, my pastor, Rob McCoy, out in Calvary Chapel, Thousand Oaks, who's doing an amazing job of this. And let me prove to you how important politics is. If some of you are still on the fence, like, I don't know how important politics is. It's just kind of all the same. You know, everyone's the same. Let me prove it to you. What you're doing right now would result in millions of dollars of fines to a fellow Calvary Chapel pastor right now in San Jose. So Calvary Chapel, San Jose. Mike McClure is facing $1.7 million in fines. The bank pulling his note. All because every single city council around, council member, around him, the governor, the supervisor of the county, believed that it should be illegal for the church to meet. But BLM Incorporated, abortion factories and cannabis dispensaries, all fine. Liquor shops, home improvement stores. So what does Mike McClure decided to do? Mike McClure, Calvary Chapel, San Jose. Continues to meet. Continues to meet. Now, some people say he's in Defiance to Romans 13, which says to submit to all rulers of authority. Hold on a second. Who's the sovereign in our country? We are. We don't have a King Nero or Julius Caesar. So as soon as our rights get violated, our natural rights, they're the ones that are violating Romans 13. We aren't. It's the supervisors, it's the local city council. But here's the difference that politics makes. If you are in San Jose versus Tucson, I know it might feel the same sometimes, but you guys in this state have still made better choices over the last couple decades. You'd have police officers for a different reason. Outside of the door, you know what the police officer would be here doing? They'd be taking your license plate numbers. You're like, oh, wow, that's terrible. Yeah. You know how many Calvary chapels have stood up for Mike? Like 10. There's hundreds and hundreds of Calvary chapels. Most Christians don't care. They don't. Most Christians don't care that Mike McClure is being persecuted for millions of dollars for doing what you're doing right now. And so this is going to be a reckoning moment right now in American Christianity. And I think God is. He's calling our number. You know what that is? I have blessed you with budgets, baptisms and buildings. You guys talk about how much you believe in faith and you're ready for the persecution. Let's see it. And guess what? We are miserably failing. Miserably. I tell you right now, there are more people that are secular, that are standing up in defiance to tyrannical government than Christians. And I struggle with that. I really do. Because I say, aren't we as Christians supposed to be the ones that don't actually care if we get persecuted? We know how this story ends. And I think the reason is this, that there's this belief that we're supposed to be non confrontational at all costs. That's number one. That's not biblical in any way, shape or form. That doesn't mean you have to be a jerk. I try to embody that in my videos and what I do on college campuses. You could speak truth and be willing to endure whatever might happen to you because of that. But the second part is this. And I will offer some grace. I think a lot of Christians don't know how to engage in the political space. I think some Christians are intimidated by the political space. So here's something that I think that every church in the country should do, and this church is already doing this. The podcasting, the events with Gruber and all this is that the church needs to become the drumbeats of freedom in the country. It needs to be the place where. It's all we have left, literally. And so we're seeing three different types of churches in the country right now. Number one is churches like this. And my encouragement to you guys is grow this. Make it a monthly meeting where you call it an ecclesia night, where you talk about the news of today and how it compares to the Bible. Oh, transgender. That one's not that hard, right? You know, rule of law. That one's. You know what I'm saying? You go through and you just say what's in the news? And how does it compare to that? The second form of a church is the apathetic church, where they just don't care where they're saying, yeah, it's not up to us. It's up to us now to encourage those churches to lovingly look those pastors in the eye and to hopefully get them into an active posture. But the third type of church I wish was apathetic. And this is a very important thing. You see, there are more politically left wing churches than politically conservative churches in the country. And that might be stunning for you to hear, but I visited churches all across the country and I go from the Chattanooga to Bangor, Maine to Wisconsin to Texas, and I say, what's happening politically in your churches? And they say, well, one of the few that are open and speaking against this, but 90% of all the churches in our area are teaching critical race theory, BLM incorporated, LGBT nonsense. And I say, I totally believe you. So there's two viruses happening in the country right now. There's the Chinese coronavirus and there's the critical race theory virus. The critical race theory virus has infected the American church. The critical race theory virus is this is that they believe firmly it's a pathogen that started in the 1960s and 70s from a guy named Herbert Marcuse. All your kids are learning this, by the way, in elementary school, in high school and college. And it is a racist idea. This has infected corporate America. This has infected our political dialogue, our churches, our seminaries. And it is a belief that of a couple things, the first of which is that everything is actually racist. Everything. And this might be something you actually, I'm starting to see them communicate to you, but that this whole country is a white supremacist project. The whole country. And there is no way to undo it unless there is massive revolutionary Marxist policies. This is being taught to kids that are 4, 5, 6 years old now, by the way. They don't ever Teach the actual history of our country, that we are the ones that led the abolition movement against slavery. That we are the ones that led the liberation of people of all colors and men and women. That sort of history is never taught. Instead, the entire way they teach history is through an oppressor and an oppressed lens. And it judges people based on skin color. Look, a lot of you guys have had Mike Lindell's back. 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I'm going to kind of give it back. I'm going to first tell you what the problem is. I'm going to tell you kind of how we got there. It's so sick. When I grew up in America, I was taught by my teachers in a liberal high school that skin color doesn't matter. It was this amazing thing. I went to a majority Hispanic high school in the suburbs of Chicago. 53% English as a second language. Spanish was the predominant language at my high school. And my teachers said, your skin color means nothing. That how you act means everything. Your character and your values matter. And guess what? We never had any racial problems in our school. We had blacks, we had Hispanics, we had Asians, we had people from all across the world and we all got along. And there were some kids that of course said maybe jokes they shouldn't have said. You, you know how they wronged, you know how they remedied that. They went to the Person who looked them in the eyes and they apologized like what a 15 year old would do. They didn't have white privilege. Robin Diangelo White Fragility Seminars it worked. I could tell you it worked. So now fast forward nine years later, for the first time in your life and my life, we are now making racial regression in our country where now that very same high school and what's happening in our country. We are now judging people based on skin color. Let me be very clear. Your skin color means nothing to me. Nothing. Your melanin content is irrelevant. They don't believe that. They believe that if you are a melanin content like I am, that I have privilege that I don't even realize. I must apologize endlessly. I must participate in the redistribution and I must atone for that. This is so against the teaching of the Bible. In fact, it's antithetical to the Bible which says clearly, never slave nor Greek nor Jew. We're all free and the same in Christ Jesus. Now why would they do this? Why? Because for good reason, they're using the Christian ethic against us. Here's why. Because I grew up in America believing that being called a racist was the worst thing you could be called. And that's probably right. It really is. It's probably one of the worst things that you can be and be called. And so my whole life was believing that I don't want to be called the R word. I'm sure a lot of you have felt this. At all costs, I don't want to be called the R word. And so then they realized that there was a supply and demand problem for racism in our country. An incredible demand to find racist, but a very, very low supply. It's an inverted problem, like there must be racism everywhere. You can't find it that often because we're actually more decent than you might think. Look at this church. It's a multiracial church and people get along. It's amazing. They don't actually believe something like this can exist. And so then they said they, I mean the left and the Democrats and the academics realized that a way to get power is to use that fear of being called the R word in a totalitarian way at all costs. Vote for us, give money to our corporations, put us in power, or else we're going to call you the R word. And that's exactly where we are today for good reason. You don't want to be called that word. But now it's baseless and, and it is without evidence, just because of your existence. And it's an amazing thing. How do you prove a negative? I've had a kid at a college campus say, charlie, prove to me you're not a racist. I see. What do I. I have to show every action I've ever done in the history of my life. It's this guilty until proven innocent thing. How can I prove that I'm not something? It's like, prove to me you're not, you know, a dinosaur. Like, I can't, right? It's metaphysically impossible. Instead, I always say, well, prove to me I am. And they say, no, your existence as a white Christian straight male means you are automatically a racist until you prove otherwise. And I say, okay, wait a second. So I'm a racist unless I vote Democrat. Let me just make sure I'm clear. That's the only way to cleanse yourself of the accusation. And it's true. That's how they get power. A lot of well meaning people are now being bullied into behavior they don't believe because they don't want to be called the R word. And now let me be very clear. There are racists in this country. I've dealt with them. Some of them have come to my events and I've confronted them in viral fashion, I might add. And I have humiliated some of. They're very far and few between, let me tell you. Because the same people kept on showing up at the same events. I'm not minimizing it. I'm not saying that we should validate it. I'm saying the opposite. I'm actually saying we're much more decent than we give ourselves credit for. And let's get to the other part of it is the system. The broader indictment than they say is, okay, it's not about as much you, because, Charlie, I can't prove it's the system you represent. It's free markets that are racist. It's conservative values that are racist. It's Christianity that's racist. It's the whole American way of life that is racist because it was founded by racists. We've already been through some of the incredibly important nuance when we talk about that. But then why is it when Martin Luther King did the Civil Rights act speech, he said, I am here to cash in a promissory note from the Declaration of Independence. Martin Luther King didn't say, this declaration is a racist document. Let's shred it. He said, I want to fulfill the ideas. I'm here to cash in on it. He leaned on the founders. He didn't stray away from it. You look at just what's happening in our country right now. A young black kid who is born to a two parent household is much more likely to succeed than a white child raised by a single mother. I think single mothers are modern day heroes. But the biblical nuclear family is the greatest way to keep children out of poverty, period. Do you notice how we never talk about that anymore? Do you notice how all we talk about is invisible racism? As if we have to go look Ghostbusters, we have to find things that can't exist. Instead, there's something so obvious in front of us that 84% of black kids are being raised without fathers in the home. 84%. Now, some people say, well, it's because of our racist white supremacist construct that that's the case. I'll give you 24% of that. Let me tell you why. When the Civil Rights act was passed, black single motherhood was at 24%. Okay, I'll give you Jim Crow, segregation, poll tax, racism in the south that contributed 24% of Black single motherhood. I will agree to that. Explain to me the rest of the 60% that as America got less racist, more black kids were raised without fathers. How did that happen? A couple reasons. We subsidized single motherhood through the Great Society Act. Number two, we glamorized and glorified a lifestyle that was, let's just say, promiscuous in nature, of all races and cultures and creeds against the Bible. And number three is that we never focused on it from a public policy position as the greatest way to prevent poverty in our country. And so people, you could blame 24% of it for that. Here's another good question that should be asked, and I already said that a black child raised by a mother and a father nuclear family, much higher likely to succeed than a white kid raised by a. If America was so unbelievably racist, which we're not, why is it that more black people have immigrated legally to this country since 1970 than ever came here as slaves? Maybe because they see that there might be some form of opportunity here. If America was so unbelievably racist, why is it that the blacks in our country are the 18th largest economy in the world, regardless of skin color? If you make three or four very basic decisions, you can succeed. Now, I admit that there are problems to be able to get people to make these decisions, and I'll get into that in a second. But the decisions are find a job any Job, get married before you have kids, don't commit heinous crimes. Right. And graduate high school. That's about it. Those four things now, what allows those things to happen? Well, we know that when you have a mother and a father, they're an accountability measure and a disciplinary measure to make you do those things. And that's less likely in the current environment. So instead of saying we need a multi trillion dollar reparation bill in our country, which by the way, it always. I never understood how the reparation argument can work. They say that voter ID is racist, yet they think that you can go back nine generations of paperwork and play and claim that you came from slaves. Like, you can't show an ID to vote, but somehow you could show the paperwork to prove that you're nine generation removed. Like, isn't that racist to ask for that kind of. What about the recent African immigrants they now have to go pay reparations to? The whole thing's what if you're half black, half white, you pay yourself. Like, the whole thing is totally screwed up. Right? So that's completely illogical. It is. It's not rational. Nothing the left talks about is rational. So instead of saying we have to redistribute $84 trillion, whatever, how about this? Let's get single motherhood from the Black community from 84% to 50%. That would be an admirable moonshot goal. Right? I'm telling you right now, crime, education rates, everything starts to autocorrect as soon as you bring fathers back into the home. And let me be clear, part of this is on the fathers for being cowards, for abandoning the women that they were with and they should be treated as such and confronted in their communities and saying, why are you walking away from a decision that you made and you're leaving it to a woman that has to raise this child alone. And so the other part of this that I think is very interesting is the hyper fixation on things you cannot change. The Bible tells us clearly that you should not focus on things that you cannot change. Your skin color, your parents, where you come from. Instead it's who are you? And if we are now wanting to make a decision as a society that who you are is how you look like, that is such an unbelievable disservice to the America that I grew up in. And I'm 27 years old. So how did we get here? That's the question. So I'm going to give some tough love and then we can do some questions. Okay? But I Mean this lovingly. When the Berlin Wall fell, I was not even born yet. You guys remember when the Berlin wall fell, George H.W. bush made a mistake. You know what he did after the Berlin Wall fell? Nothing. His advisors later said to Peggy Noonan that he did not give a speech celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall because he didn't want to rub it in. Think he made a terrible mistake because that at that moment, in my opinion, was one of the climaxes and high thresholds of American life. We had defeated multiple totalitarian authoritarian governments throughout the 20th century, the last one without having to go to war, without having to fire nuclear missile. And our ideas won and our values won. And we saw the Berlin Wall fall. But what happened is this, is that my parents generation and many people and you guys in this room, when that Berlin Wall fell, you celebrated, you enjoyed and you said, okay, we won. I can go back to my life, that our ideas are superior. We have the greatest country. We're going to enjoy the 90s. We're going to build families. I was born in 93. I know a lot of you were too. What did the left do as soon as that Wall fell? They took advantage of our complacency and our apathy. They knew that American conservatives, you guys were in a posture for action in the 80s. Reagan was keeping that drumbeat going, right? You guys were doing even bomb drills all throughout the 70s and early 80s. But as soon as that wall fell, you said, we won against communism and socialism, we have nothing to worry about. And in the 90s, you were right. They didn't control anything. In the 90s. Colleges were bad, but they weren't like they were now. Colleges were still a place where you have ideas and conservative professors and the Constitution was respected. How about corporations? Corporations were on the conservative side in the 90s. Tech companies, Internet companies, they were generally free market. Silicon Valley had little to no power. 27 years later, from when I've been born, we are now living in the America that the left created, that we let them. We did not run for school boards. We did not take these positions seriously. We, we sent our kids to college on asking the right questions. And now we're living in that America. So now we have to take a pause. We have to say, boy, that's a long strategic plan to implement, isn't it? Oh, yeah. One of the problems of how we do politics is instant gratification. I expect results. I expect it right now. And so the question is, what are we now going to do to rechart our course so now, maybe 27 years from today, we still have a country. I don't say that lightly because that's the America that my generation and the kids younger than me are going to have to live in. So what are the decisions we're making right now? Like the decisions they made after the wall fell? Because this is our wall falling moment. Trump loses, you lose the Senate, you lose the Senate seats here. That's the equivalent of the depression that the Bolsheviks felt when the wall fell. So now what are we doing about it? Well, tough love. I find a lot of people giving up, and I get it. Just cut it out. Seriously. If I get one more email from somebody saying I'm giving up on all this, I say move to Paris. That's all they do. Okay, seriously. They have a whole culture around celebrating surrender. Seriously. That's what they've invented. Two things in France, the tourniquet and the white flag. You can go there and really. No, seriously. And really, really bad philosopher philosophy and bad ideas. We here in Americas have always been different. We've always been people that have understood a threat, took a pause, analyzed the landscape and went after it. So what does that look like? That's again why I'm here today. The left fears an act of church. They know the numbers. They're not dumb. There's a reason why Biden over religilized his swearing in ceremony, Right? There's a reason why Biden was careful not to go after religion as much as the other Democrats. He knows if he can hedge 6 or 7% of the Christian world in his way about being the nice guy, they're in power indefinitely. But he also knows that if that thing swings 10 or 15%, they're never going to win anything ever again. So the question is, this is, what do we do? It's from the education of our children, from building new things, being active in our communities, and getting our churches and our pastors to be activists. And that's exactly why I'm here today. So let's do some questions. Is that okay? So, okay,