Charlie Kirk on Faith, Family, and Living a Life That Honors Jesus Christ Above All

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[00:15] What would you actually want to tell me

[00:16] if I have 30 seconds left to live?

[00:18] >> Um, boy, you got 30 seconds. In 30

[00:20] seconds, you're about to meet eternal

[00:21] judgment. And there's only one way that

[00:23] you can get bailed out of that. It's not

[00:24] all the good things you did or the moral

[00:26] scorecard. It's whether or not you have

[00:28] Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.

[00:30] And that's the only thing that's going

[00:32] to matter. And so, you got 10 seconds

[00:34] left. You're dying from a gunshot wound.

[00:36] And you ask the question, who is Jesus

[00:38] Christ? And the answer to that singular

[00:39] question, who is Jesus Christ? Is the

[00:42] most important question for everyone in

[00:43] the audience. Not how much money you

[00:45] have, not how much good stuff you do. It

[00:47] is who is Jesus Christ? You might say,

[00:48] oh, Jesus was, you know, a teller of

[00:50] good tales or Jesus was a good person or

[00:52] Jesus was a historical figure. None of

[00:54] that's going to cut it. It's whether or

[00:55] not you repent and you ask Christ to

[00:58] come in as your Lord and Savior. That's

[01:00] the only thing that will save you from

[01:01] eternal damnation.

[01:02] >> He is risen.

[01:03] >> He is risen indeed. Bill,

[01:04] >> why do we say that in the present tense?

[01:08] >> Because it is a it is a constant truth

[01:10] in our life.

[01:10] >> He is risen. I always noticed that that

[01:12] that was interesting to me that it was

[01:14] >> that's a really important question

[01:15] actually.

[01:16] >> It is. Tell me.

[01:17] >> Well, because the fact that he is risen

[01:20] transcends time.

[01:22] It's not just in the present sense. It's

[01:24] that of all time that promise is

[01:26] accessible to all of us. And so it's a

[01:29] proclamation to all people cuz if you

[01:30] said a he was risen, it's like it's just

[01:33] merely a historical event. It almost

[01:35] underplays the metaphysics of it.

[01:37] There's a reason why the dress for the

[01:40] man is the same at a wedding and a

[01:42] funeral because you're saying goodbye to

[01:45] your previous self.

[01:48] The woman is the the icon, the symbol of

[01:52] beauty. almost always in all white,

[01:55] right? Ascendants. The man is usually in

[01:57] black and white like he's attending

[02:00] somebody's death because it is his

[02:02] death. No, but think about it.

[02:06] It's the death of the bachelor mindset.

[02:09] It's the death of promiscuity. It's the

[02:12] death of the wandering eye. It's the

[02:14] death of immoral behavior. It's the

[02:17] death of texting girls casually. It's

[02:20] the death of I get to do what I want to

[02:23] do. It's the death of just going to the

[02:24] bar with friends. It's the death of

[02:26] acting like an infant. It's the death of

[02:28] playing video games till 1:00 a.m. And

[02:30] it's the birth of a man. Number one,

[02:33] you're God must always come first from

[02:35] your spiritual disciplines. Honor the

[02:37] Sabbaths and turn off your phone for one

[02:39] day a week. Go to a church, a good

[02:41] Bible-based church. We have many of the

[02:42] pastors here that teach the word of God

[02:44] verse by verse. And also understand that

[02:46] it's external things of the flesh like

[02:49] alcohol or porn or drugs or other

[02:52] temptations that will take down your

[02:54] marriage. You as the husband must

[02:56] constantly be at guard of things and

[02:58] also over shopping, overindulgence, too

[03:01] much credit cards, idolatry of

[03:02] vacations. You must guard the family

[03:05] from those things seeping in. So

[03:07] understand the order. It's God and then

[03:09] the marriage. And those things will

[03:11] bless your marriage from the devil who

[03:12] tries to undermine it and usurp your

[03:14] holy union.

[03:28] >> That is the best.

[03:29] >> Which one matters more uh great family

[03:31] or great career?

[03:32] >> Family.

[03:33] >> Great family. You should want to meet

[03:35] your future husband that will be able to

[03:37] make enough money that you can quit.

[03:39] >> Okay. That would be my advice. My number

[03:41] one thing I'm obsessed about. I want to

[03:44] live in a country where if a woman does

[03:47] not want to go to work having to have a

[03:49] kid, she does not have to go to work and

[03:51] she could stay at home and raise those

[03:52] kids.

[03:52] >> Are you a Christian by any chance?

[03:54] >> Very, very much so.

[03:55] >> Like, why is that exactly?

[03:56] >> Oh, Jesus saved my life. I'm a sinner.

[03:58] Gave my life to Christ. Most important

[04:00] decision I ever made.

[04:01] >> So, you believe the Bible is real?

[04:02] >> Yes, I believe the Bible is true and

[04:04] real.

[04:04] >> Why is that?

[04:05] >> Well, I could give you the technical

[04:06] answer. There's never been an

[04:07] archaeological discovery that has

[04:08] contradicted the truth of the Bible. And

[04:10] then of course the wisdom. There is not

[04:11] a truth of the Bible that if you apply

[04:12] to your life, your life does not improve

[04:14] dramatically. And then finally, uh we

[04:16] have the most accurate and transparent

[04:18] historically robust account that one can

[04:21] have of the most important figure ever

[04:23] to live in the history of the world.

[04:24] Jesus of Nazareth. And the resurrection

[04:26] is the is the pinpoint of my belief that

[04:29] Jesus did rise from the grave so that we

[04:31] may live.

[04:31] >> What makes Christian mythology real?

[04:33] >> So that's not mythology, but that is

[04:35] theology. If Genesis 1:1 and the

[04:37] resurrection is true, anything in the

[04:39] Bible is possible. You're looking at the

[04:41] greatest miracle. The greatest miracle

[04:43] is creation. And then the fact that

[04:45] Jesus rose from the dead. I say, "How do

[04:46] you know that Jesus rose from the dead?"

[04:48] Well, show me another historical piece

[04:50] of a story where so many people

[04:52] willingly died a brutal death for a lie.

[04:56] Every single person around him had

[04:58] everything to lose. And yet they went to

[05:00] the absolute death from Paul to Peter to

[05:02] the halfbrother of James saying that

[05:04] Jesus is Lord. Jesus rose from the dead.

[05:06] Not to mention, if you were going to

[05:07] fake a story, you would not use female

[05:09] witnesses in the ancient world. In the

[05:10] scriptures, it said that the fe the

[05:12] women were the first one to see Jesus

[05:14] Christ. If you're trying to fake a

[05:15] story, you would never do that. Not to

[05:16] mention the 500 people that saw Jesus

[05:18] after he rose from the dead. And then

[05:19] the later church that lived under

[05:20] persecution under the belief that Jesus

[05:22] Christ was the son of God.

[05:25] >> I love you.

[05:26] >> I love you, too.

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[05:33] Gigi, you don't just get to get

[05:34] everything you want.

[05:38] >> Okay. Well, you have to be on very good

[05:41] behavior to get such a thing like this.

[05:44] Okay.

[05:45] >> Hold on. Hold on.

[05:48] You have to behave well.

[05:49] >> Did you earn it?

[05:51] >> Yeah,

[05:52] >> I know. But what did you do for it?

[05:57] Have you been a good girl?

[05:58] >> Yes.

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[06:03] >> Okay, I'll get it for you.

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[06:15] >> If everything

[06:17] completely goes away, how do you want to

[06:19] be remembered?

[06:20] >> If I die, everything just goes away. How

[06:22] would you if you could be associated

[06:24] with one thing, how would you want to be

[06:25] remembered?

[06:26] >> I want to be I want to be remembered for

[06:28] for courage for my faith. That that

[06:31] would be the most important thing. Most

[06:32] important thing is my faith in my life.

[06:36] >> Looks like we have a a Satanist to

[06:38] begin.

[06:39] >> Yes.

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[06:51] I I in in the name of Jesus, I repudiate

[06:55] this unclean spirit.

[07:00] >> Get out of here, brother.

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[07:09] >> Was that your question?

[07:14] Jesus is the way, the truth, and the

[07:17] life.

[07:20] >> Not today, Satan. Not today at Illinois

[07:23] State University.

[07:24] >> What is your best What do you think is

[07:26] the best way to prevent our children

[07:28] from being influenced from those ideals

[07:30] and growing up in a with the proper

[07:33] Christian ideals, even though we keep it

[07:35] in our household, they're still exposed

[07:37] to it outside?

[07:38] >> Yeah. First of all, don't send your kids

[07:39] to government schools. That's number

[07:41] one. Number two, have a very robust

[07:43] church life and attend church regularly.

[07:45] Honor God in all that you do. And also

[07:47] marry a godly man that was willing to

[07:50] defend your kids and to wall off all of

[07:53] the negative poisonous content that

[07:56] might come after your future children.

[07:58] And if you are called to be a

[08:00] stay-at-home mom, that's a beautiful

[08:02] thing. You don't have to go into the

[08:04] workforce to be a godly woman. In fact,

[08:06] I recommend being a stay-at-home mom.

[08:08] It's one of the most underappreciated

[08:09] elements of American life. Thank you.

[08:11] So, John 8, if I'm drawing from memory

[08:13] correctly, best embodies both Christ's

[08:16] mercy and love, but also his commitment

[08:19] to truth. And sometimes in the modern

[08:22] gospel, we overemphasize the grace and

[08:26] we underemphasize the truth.

[08:28] >> And so, we are far too willing to say,

[08:30] hey, Jesus loves everybody, but we don't

[08:32] get to the second part of the

[08:34] conversation that says Jesus doesn't

[08:35] want you to live in sin.

[08:37] >> So, this is in John 8, it's best

[08:38] embodied, right? Almost every Christian

[08:40] in this audience would be able to tell

[08:41] you the first part of this, which is a

[08:43] bunch of Sadducees and Pharisees who are

[08:44] sitting around standing around with

[08:46] rocks and they're about to stone um the

[08:48] prostitute woman. And Jesus comes up and

[08:50] says, "Let the first among you without

[08:51] sin cast the first stone." And everyone

[08:54] starts dropping the rocks. But what

[08:56] comes next shows that Christ is not just

[08:58] grace focused. He's simultaneously truth

[09:01] focused. He goes up to the woman who had

[09:04] a career in selling herself for sex and

[09:07] said, "Sin no more." Now, imagine today

[09:11] how much trouble you would get in if you

[09:13] would go up to somebody and say, "Stop

[09:15] sinning." That Oh, you're being too

[09:17] judgmental. No, no, you're actually

[09:19] being Christlike. So Jesus stood, he was

[09:22] 100% grace and truth. And that tension

[09:25] is very hard in a modern world because

[09:27] we want to overemphasize grace when in

[09:29] reality Christ loves us too much to have

[09:32] us continue to live in sin. He wants us

[09:34] to try to elevate our actions to glorify

[09:37] God in all that we do. You are commanded

[09:39] to go do something productive with your

[09:42] life. Wow.

[09:42] >> To go give and to produce and to risk

[09:46] and to then go sew into other people.

[09:48] That is a biblical idea that has made

[09:50] the world a profoundly better place.

[09:53] Beautiful

[09:58] for spacious

[10:02] for

[10:04] waves of grain.

[10:08] Four purple

[10:11] mountain

[10:12] mesties

[10:15] above the fruited

[10:19] plain.

[10:22] America,

[10:25] America

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[10:43] to shining

[10:45] sea.

[10:50] So, how how did I do? You did

[10:52] excellently.

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[11:37] Charlie and Erica, I love you.

[11:40] Erica, our entire team

[11:44] is ready to help you

[11:47] continue and expand Charlie's legacy to

[11:51] make heaven crowded. The Lord will

[11:54] prevail.

[11:56] We're ready. Let's go.