Charlie Kirk Reveals How Satan Penetrates Your Mind and How to Fight Back

[00:00] [Applause]

[00:01] So now let's talk about how does Satan

[00:03] actually get penetration in your mind

[00:05] because that's where this is happening

[00:07] right now. The scriptures promise us a

[00:09] sound mind. But we have to understand

[00:11] that sometimes we make the entry points.

[00:13] We make the ability for Satan to take we

[00:16] do his work for him. In fact, we build

[00:18] the on-ramps for him. Sometimes we're

[00:20] basically like, you know what? Let me

[00:21] construct a special exit where you can

[00:23] just come straight into my

[00:24] consciousness. And sometimes we do this

[00:25] without realizing it. And so first we we

[00:28] must realize what the scriptures tell us

[00:30] about how Satan acts. Be alert and of

[00:32] sober mind. Alert. I feel as if this

[00:34] church is an alert church. You're aware

[00:36] what's happening in your schoolboards.

[00:38] You're aware of what's happening with

[00:39] all the things around you. An alert

[00:40] church is a church that is contesting

[00:42] for the kingdom. Now alert end of sober

[00:44] mind. Those are the sober mind is a

[00:46] different, you know, different message

[00:48] for a different time. But your enemy,

[00:49] the devil, prowls around like a roaring

[00:52] lion looking for someone to devour.

[00:55] Resist him. standing firm in faith

[00:57] because you know that the family of

[00:58] believers throughout the world is

[00:59] undergoing the same kind of sufferings.

[01:01] Don't feel sorry for yourself if Satan's

[01:03] harassing you. If your fellow believers

[01:05] don't always talk about it, they also

[01:07] are harassed at some point. They're also

[01:09] hearing those negative thoughts, those

[01:10] 10 things that are happening, then

[01:11] they're constantly under attack. So, how

[01:13] does Satan get penetration into your

[01:15] mind? There are three ways. This is this

[01:16] is what the Bible tells us both in James

[01:18] and in Matthew. It was written by James

[01:20] and said by Jesus was this idea that I

[01:23] never thought about very much. And then

[01:24] a really really wise pastor walked me

[01:26] through the significance of how we

[01:29] create these vectors for Satan to come

[01:31] into our own life which is number one is

[01:33] by vows. That's what Satan did. I will.

[01:36] I will. I will. I will. I will. Five

[01:38] times. Now vows, earthly vows that

[01:40] they're of the world. They But we do

[01:42] this all the time. I'm never going to

[01:43] take a drink again. I'm not going to

[01:45] visit this website. I'm stronger than

[01:47] this. I'm going to stop gossiping. And

[01:48] how many times we fall short all the

[01:50] time. Do you know why? As soon as we

[01:52] write that vow and Jesus said, "Let your

[01:53] yes be yes and your no no be no." And

[01:55] then the rest come through Jesus Christ.

[01:57] Why is that? As soon as you say that,

[01:59] Satan's like, "Ah, now I got a reference

[02:01] point to harass you with." You think

[02:02] you're so strong, you think you can

[02:04] endure it. I'm going to taunt you with

[02:05] this. You see, you wrote right here that

[02:07] you're not going to go to this website.

[02:08] You wrote right here that you're not

[02:10] going to go into credit card debt. You

[02:11] wrote right here that you're like, I'm

[02:12] going to harass you with it. And most

[02:13] times we fail because the way we're

[02:15] actually instructed to do it is the

[02:17] exact opposite. It's not that I will, I

[02:18] will, I will, I will, I will. It's Jesus

[02:20] did, Jesus is, and he's the, he is the

[02:23] chairman of the board of my life, and he

[02:24] will protect you at that moment. It's

[02:26] totally different. Let me be clear.

[02:28] Every person in this room will lose on

[02:30] your own against Satan. Every single

[02:32] person, myself included. You, I'm not

[02:34] telling you you have to fight this war.

[02:35] We're in the midst of this war, and some

[02:36] of us are trying to fight it for

[02:37] ourselves, right? And sometimes we go to

[02:39] earthly means to do this, right? We go

[02:41] to yoga class. We try like all these

[02:43] different substances. All I'm saying is

[02:44] you keep on going into the earth to try

[02:46] to defeat the king of the earth, which

[02:48] is Satan, you're going to lose.

[02:50] >> So instead, you just got to step out of

[02:51] the way and you just got to worship and

[02:53] say, "Jesus, can you just take care of

[02:54] this, please? Can you just come in here

[02:55] and slay this for me and take care of

[02:57] this for me and win this battle for me?"

[02:59] That's what you got to do. And he will

[03:02] never ever forsake you or abandon you.

[03:04] Now, so vows are the first way. And

[03:06] that's not to say that you shouldn't

[03:07] identify your sin. That's not to I say

[03:09] you shouldn't identify where you're

[03:10] falling. But if you one Christian said

[03:12] to me once, he said, 'You know, I am a

[03:14] master of self-control. And one thing I

[03:16] don't think the Bible talks about enough

[03:17] is my ability to conquer my own, you

[03:20] know, my own devices. I say,

[03:21] self-control, that's interesting. Where

[03:22] do you think you get self-control from?

[03:24] And I say, I also want to tell you about

[03:26] humility. Um, like that would be another

[03:28] one. I I it's so funny. He's like, "Oh,

[03:29] yeah. I'm I'm this this guy's all right.

[03:32] He's he's the L the Lord transforms all

[03:34] people. This person would definitely be

[03:35] evidence of that." And so you always be

[03:37] like, "Yes, you know, I'm so handsome,

[03:38] creative, generous, successful,

[03:39] benevolent, and forward thinking. No one

[03:41] ever talks about how humble I am, you

[03:42] know?" I'm like, "Okay, great." The

[03:43] point is that where do you think you get

[03:44] self-control from? It's a fruit of the

[03:46] spirit. We don't talk about that one as

[03:47] much, right? Patience. I need that one.

[03:48] Oh my goodness. With what I have to do,

[03:49] Jesus. Goodness, kindness, graciousness.

[03:51] But then self-control. That's that's not

[03:52] of your own devices. That is a gift from

[03:55] the Lord. That is the spirit filling

[03:57] you. And so vows is number one. Number

[03:59] two is your environment. Satan gets an

[04:01] on-ramp based on who you surround

[04:03] yourself with, the music you listen to,

[04:05] and what your environment is. And Jesus

[04:07] proved it. Jesus said, "If it causes you

[04:09] to sin, cut off your arm. Get rid of it.

[04:12] Make your environment reflective of the

[04:14] type of worship you want to engage in."

[04:15] Now, psychology tells us this, and you

[04:17] should all do this tonight. Write down

[04:19] the five people you spend the most time

[04:20] with, cuz that's who you are. You become

[04:23] the moving average of the five people

[04:24] you spend the most time with. Do you

[04:25] notice you start saying oneliners, the

[04:27] kind of the five people you start

[04:28] spending time with? You notice you kind

[04:29] of start like dressing. Yeah, I kind of

[04:31] see that around here at this church. So

[04:33] that's fine. You guys dress great. I'm

[04:35] not as cool as them, right? So I just

[04:36] kind of threw this together. I figured

[04:38] if I I figured that if I did the uh if I

[04:41] did the you know when I speak at Baptist

[04:42] churches, it's three-piece suit, right?

[04:43] Full tie, right? You By the way, there

[04:46] is this, you know, the idea of worship

[04:47] is like like that. That's like feeling

[04:48] the Holy Spirit.

[04:53] I'm kidding. I love them. It's great.

[04:54] And so I speak I speak at all sorts of

[04:55] different type of church. It's actually

[04:56] nice cuz I'm able to move around. But if

[04:58] I ever left the box of this, like it

[05:00] might have screwed up all the energy,

[05:01] right? Um, but you become who you spend

[05:03] the most amount of time with, right?

[05:05] >> And so you ask yourself, am I spending

[05:07] people am I around gossipers? Gossip is

[05:09] terrible. I can't stand it. Am I around

[05:10] people that are constant trying to bring

[05:12] down others? Am I around people that are

[05:13] always telling halftruths late to

[05:15] meetings kind of sending text messages

[05:17] that are always on the end? Am I around

[05:19] people that are kind of talking about

[05:20] superficial material stuff? Am I around

[05:22] people that are kind of putting points

[05:24] on the board of how rich they are, how

[05:25] big their, you know, how fast their cars

[05:26] are, how many vacations they take, or

[05:28] talking about deeper and more meaningful

[05:29] things? Am I around people that are

[05:30] filled with scorn and bitterness and

[05:32] revenge and anger on people that are

[05:34] filled with peace and love? Your

[05:35] environment is one of the ways that

[05:37] Satan finds an on-ramp and including

[05:38] your music, too. For me, in the work

[05:40] that I do, I I've caught out almost all

[05:41] secular music. And and by the way, I'm

[05:43] not saying that if you listen secular

[05:44] music, you're a bad person. But for me,

[05:46] music is one of the ways that I really

[05:47] am able to kind of get incantations of

[05:49] truth. I'm like, you know what? I just

[05:50] need to listen to praise music and

[05:52] scripture music. Too much going on. I'm

[05:54] not going to be able to handle all this

[05:55] other stuff. And for young people in

[05:56] particular, that's important. Same thing

[05:57] for, and we all know this. There's a

[05:59] television show, a movie, a comedian, a

[06:02] YouTube series that all of us could

[06:03] identify right now that is an on-ramp

[06:05] for Satan. All of us. We could all we

[06:07] could all pick one, right? One one of

[06:08] those things where all of a sudden

[06:09] you're like, "Yeah, you know, that that

[06:10] puts me in kind of a little bit of a

[06:12] state of disobedience to the Lord." And

[06:13] that's not to say you can't have any

[06:14] fun. That's not to say that you have to

[06:16] always just kind of shield yourself at

[06:17] all times from everything always out

[06:18] there, but just ask God for wisdom. I'll

[06:20] give it to you generously in James 15.

[06:22] But I you guys, you know exactly those

[06:23] types of those things that you have to

[06:25] remove from your life for those on-ramps

[06:26] for Satan. The third thing, and this is

[06:28] an important one, which I think that

[06:29] this church does a good job of, but the

[06:31] general American corporate Christianity

[06:33] does not do a good enough job of because

[06:34] they're afraid people are just going to

[06:35] walk out of, which is Satan loves to

[06:38] seize on unrepented sin, especially

[06:40] sexual sin and sin of the flesh, which

[06:43] is sins of the flesh is where Satan is

[06:45] the master, right? Where it be sins of

[06:48] things you can touch and you can feel.

[06:50] And remember, Satan loves to hold that

[06:52] against you, right? The serpent in the

[06:54] grass loves to say like, "Man, your your

[06:57] failure time and time again shows that

[07:00] you should you might as well just give

[07:01] it up and just get drunk every single

[07:02] night." He wants to bring you down by

[07:04] how awful and terrible that that you

[07:07] believe you are. But you know what's

[07:08] amazing is that once Jesus Christ

[07:10] forgives your sins at that moment, he

[07:12] will never mention that sin to you

[07:13] again. He will never hold that against

[07:15] you. He will never say that you are

[07:17] anything but a son of his and that you

[07:20] are born into eternity. It is ne it is

[07:21] wiped clean.

[07:23] And so the devil isn't like that. The

[07:26] devil will hold that fourth grade

[07:28] blender of spilling orange juice on your

[07:29] friend against you. That becomes your

[07:31] identity and you'll never get past that.

[07:33] And he uses it as a means of control, as

[07:36] a way to keep you in a perpetual open

[07:38] air prison sentence. And so the but in

[07:41] 1,000 times in the Old Testament is

[07:42] repentance. 1,000 times. I think that

[07:45] the church has to get more serious about

[07:47] repentance. I think that we have to get

[07:48] more serious about repenting our own sin

[07:50] and things we've done wrong. It doesn't

[07:51] have to be done publicly, but it but

[07:52] repentance is some of the most it's it's

[07:54] so freeing and it's liberating and it

[07:56] closes off the on-ramps because you

[07:59] remember Satan is the master of lies.

[08:01] Are you lying to yourself about a sin

[08:03] that you're committing? Are you lying to

[08:05] yourself about a pattern that you're in

[08:06] that you know deep down is not good for

[08:07] you, but then all of a sudden you kind

[08:08] of do the justification thing. Yeah, I

[08:11] mean it's it's fine that I get drunk

[08:12] every single night. I provide for the

[08:14] family and like it's whatever, right?

[08:15] It's not a big deal. It's okay that I

[08:17] swear all the time or I gossip because

[08:18] I'm a good person. Are you kind of in

[08:20] that moral justification range? You're

[08:21] like, "God, man, I I I need your mercy

[08:23] and your grace. I'm not even close to

[08:24] where I need to be right now." Satan

[08:26] doesn't like that. As soon as you

[08:27] repent, you are building a wall that

[08:29] makes it harder for Satan to take sea of

[08:31] your mind and to capture where you are.

[08:36] So now, let's talk about in closing. I'm

[08:38] going to go a little over time, just a

[08:39] little bit, not a lot. How do we counter

[08:41] it? What can we do? So, those are three

[08:43] ways Satan takes hold of our mind in

[08:44] this spiritual war. And what what else

[08:46] can we do to actually be able to achieve

[08:51] a peace of mind and a sound mind? And I

[08:53] want to just reiterate our goal. Then

[08:54] the devil left him. How many of you

[08:56] right now would love to have that happen

[08:57] for you right now? I'm sure there there

[08:59] are seasons, right? There's seasons

[09:01] where we feel more at peace than others.

[09:03] There's season because that Satan is not

[09:05] constant, right? But God is constant. So

[09:07] a couple things of how we can counter

[09:08] it, which is number one is prayer. This

[09:11] church is a great prayer church. In

[09:12] fact, I want to compliment you and

[09:14] encourage you. You are a phenomenal

[09:16] prayer church and you need to do more of

[09:17] it and continue to do what you're doing

[09:19] because again if if we do not get in

[09:21] this position of vulnerable prayer of

[09:23] letting the Lord just capture who you

[09:26] are and your spirit then we're always

[09:27] going to be bonded to the earth. Now my

[09:29] favorite prayer in the entire Bible is

[09:32] three words. It was said by one of the

[09:33] women that Jesus healed and it was very

[09:35] simple. Lord help Lord help me. That's

[09:36] it. Now let me be be very clear. Your

[09:38] prayers must be sincere. They do not

[09:40] have to be sophisticated. You do not

[09:42] have to write a doctoral thesis.

[09:44] submitted to Stanford with citations and

[09:46] footnotes of all the different biblical

[09:49] citations. It has to be just Lord help

[09:51] me Lord help me. And that that's that

[09:54] sort of sincere broken down prayer is

[09:56] exactly one of the ways that we counter

[09:58] this onslaught of spiritual warfare.

[10:00] Number two is dig into the word and know

[10:02] it is the word of God. And this right

[10:04] here is a USB drive waiting to be

[10:07] inputed and downloaded into your

[10:10] operating system to protect you from the

[10:12] ransomware and malware attacks against

[10:15] the enemy. It's waiting for you. It says

[10:18] please download it. Please. It's waiting

[10:20] for you just to download it because as

[10:22] soon as you do, you start memorizing

[10:23] scripture. You're filled with the word

[10:24] all I know what's happening here. You

[10:26] start to understand the terrain of which

[10:28] this battle is being fought on. Then

[10:30] number three, which is very, very

[10:32] important, which is James 4:7. Submit

[10:34] yourselves then to God and resist the

[10:36] devil and he will flee from you. Not

[10:37] that he will walk away, not that he'll

[10:40] just kind of like, "Okay, what a flee."

[10:41] Whoa. When you flee, you're in danger.

[10:43] That means submission to the Lord,

[10:44] obedience to his commands. He flees and

[10:46] he runs. Adios, Satan, have a nice day.

[10:49] Like, gets out. Now, understand, you are

[10:51] not, again, you are not going to be able

[10:53] to do this, but submission and obedience

[10:54] to the Lord. Follow his commands. You

[10:56] are going to fall short. But here's my

[10:58] one challenge to you. In the next day or

[10:59] two days, can you try your best, and

[11:02] you're going to fail at this, we all

[11:03] will, to try to make your sins

[11:05] accidental sins. To try to make your

[11:07] sins missteps, not deliberate

[11:09] pre-planned and purchase sins. What do I

[11:11] mean by that? Like, for example, if you

[11:12] all of a sudden have your buddies

[11:14] together and you're like, "Hey, we're

[11:15] going to go on a trip. We're going to

[11:16] visit a strip club. We're going to get

[11:18] really drunk." And you plan it out. That

[11:19] is pre-planned. That is just like, but

[11:22] all of a sudden, if you're doing

[11:22] something and you have a thought and you

[11:24] messed up, those are accidental. Those

[11:25] are understandable. The point is don't

[11:26] build those on-ramps. Try your best to

[11:28] be obedient to the Lord in every single

[11:30] capacity. And then the last thing is

[11:32] this, which is the best news of all. And

[11:33] then I'm going to talk about an earthly

[11:35] example of what we need to do right here

[11:37] in this moment, which is despite what

[11:39] the devil might be telling you, despite

[11:41] what those thoughts might be weighing

[11:42] down on you, we are promised victory.

[11:45] This is why Satan hates the book of

[11:47] Revelation. He will be thrown into the

[11:49] lake of fire and he will burn forever.

[11:51] That's his destiny. the harasser, the

[11:53] tormenter, the liar, the serpent, the

[11:55] mocker, he will be thrown into the lake

[11:57] of fire. That battle is over and it is

[11:59] done. We are simply just temporary

[12:01] physical manifestations of that

[12:02] spiritual war. The scriptures say very

[12:04] clearly that that but the Lord is

[12:07] faithful and he will strengthen you and

[12:08] protect you from the evil one. It says

[12:10] in John 16:33, I have told you these

[12:12] things that you may have peace.

[12:14] >> But then all of a sudden there's a part

[12:16] of the scriptures that we don't talk

[12:17] about. In this world, you will have

[12:18] trouble. In this world, you will have

[12:20] trouble. In this world, you will have

[12:21] trouble. Jesus is saying you're going to

[12:22] have trouble. If you think it's unique

[12:24] that you're being harassed right now by

[12:25] the evil one, it's not unique. He said

[12:27] you're going to have trouble. But then

[12:28] Jesus says, "But take heart. I've

[12:30] overcome the world." Take heart. I've

[12:32] overcome the current governor, mayor,

[12:35] president of this earth. That's called

[12:37] say, "I've overcome all of that."

[12:39] And now I'm going to close on what we

[12:41] have to do right now because we not just

[12:43] have to pray and repent and read, but we

[12:46] have to be aggressive and offensive to

[12:47] launch a counteroffensive against what

[12:50] Satan has done here. Which may and some

[12:52] some people here today might say,

[12:53] Charlie, this message doesn't really

[12:54] apply to me. Charlie, I don't quite get

[12:55] it. And you know what? Maybe it's

[12:57] because you've already been doing all

[12:58] these things and you've been walking in

[12:59] obedience. Or maybe you're not taking

[13:01] enough terrain and Satan doesn't deem

[13:02] you a threat. Not every person is

[13:04] harassed equally. Not every person is

[13:06] harassed equally because he's got

[13:07] limited resources. And the people that

[13:09] are harassed the most are the ones that

[13:10] are taking the most ground. If you're

[13:12] not harassed, maybe you've mastered all

[13:14] this and I got a lot to learn from you.

[13:15] Or maybe this is a reason for you to get

[13:17] more in the fight and go take more

[13:18] terrain from the enemy.

[13:25] So, let me close with this. Only two

[13:27] minutes over time. Let me close with

[13:28] this. The type of counteroffens

[13:30] offensive that we need to launch can

[13:32] best be metaphorically depicted in World

[13:35] War II at a certain moment. World War

[13:38] II, I believe, was one of our nation's

[13:39] greatest moments where we sent hundreds

[13:42] of thousands of our own citizens to

[13:44] never fight on our own land or our own

[13:46] soil, but for the betterment and for the

[13:48] good of the world and for other nations.

[13:50] Outside of Pearl Harbor, no part of

[13:52] World War II was fought on our on our

[13:53] own shores. And that was preempted

[13:54] against us. And so what after D-Day,

[13:57] Allied forces of the French and the

[13:59] British, Canadians and Americans, we

[14:01] were on the march. We were liberating

[14:02] French town after French town. I'm sure

[14:04] this church has felt on the march at

[14:05] some time, right? Building auditoriums.

[14:07] Look around you. How blessed blessed you

[14:09] are. It's unbelievable. Winning souls

[14:11] for Christ. You have force equals mass

[14:13] times acceleration is momentum, right?

[14:15] Where you have mass and you are moving

[14:16] fast. We all know a season where we have

[14:18] momentum. That's what was happening

[14:20] right after we won on D-Day. the bad

[14:22] guys, the National Socialist Worker

[14:24] Party, they were on defense. They were

[14:25] losing town after town after town after

[14:27] town. In fact, it looked as if victory

[14:29] was inevitable. We were heading into the

[14:30] winter. It looked like no way are they

[14:32] not going to wave the surrender flag.

[14:34] George Patton was so confident confident

[14:35] of this, he went to Paris just to kind

[14:37] of go enjoy Paris because we liberated

[14:38] Paris. But evil hates it when they get

[14:41] put on defense. Evil as soon there's

[14:43] going to be a moment where all of a

[14:44] sudden the Allied forces thought they

[14:45] were going to enjoy Christmas. Allied

[14:47] forces thought they were going to be

[14:48] able to enjoy Belgium and and northeast

[14:51] France and just have a nice little

[14:52] chance to take a breath and maybe not

[14:55] have to lose their friends or lose their

[14:57] loved ones. But then the most unexpected

[15:00] allout counter offensive from the enemy

[15:03] towards the good guys occurred in the

[15:05] Arden Forest which is known as the

[15:07] Battle of the Bold. outnumbered 10 to1

[15:09] full out blitz creek the leader who I

[15:11] refuse to say his evil name of the

[15:13] national socialist workers party who

[15:15] might be the closest to the devil

[15:17] incarnate that we can look at in the

[15:18] next hundred years who basically

[15:20] satisfied every single one of those

[15:21] things that executed a plan and

[15:23] methodical mass and mechanized murder of

[15:25] a certain type of people and also God's

[15:27] chosen people hated it when he got put

[15:29] on defense hated it when all of a sudden

[15:30] terrain was taken he said that's it I'm

[15:32] going to try to take every single one of

[15:33] them down with me his generals thought

[15:34] he was nuts now remember a sound mind is

[15:36] not something that is a characteristic

[15:37] of Satan. He said, "I don't care. Go

[15:39] after the Ardan. We're going to go

[15:40] retake the port city in Belgium. We're

[15:42] going to turn the course of the war.

[15:43] They will never take Germany." American

[15:44] forces were put on defense. They're put

[15:45] on their heels. I'm sure a lot of you

[15:46] feel this way right now where all of a

[15:48] sudden it's under attack, under attack.

[15:49] And even though you know you're going to

[15:51] win, it's really awful. So, they knew

[15:53] they were going to win. They knew that

[15:54] it wasn't a matter of whether or not

[15:55] Victor was there. It was why are you

[15:56] harassing