Charlie Kirk Shares His Fifth Grade Salvation Story and Why Christianity Needs Both Grace and Truth

[00:00] I wanted to ask you if you would um mind

[00:02] sharing your testimony with us and how

[00:05] Christ saved you.

[00:06] >> I uh I gave my life to the Lord in fifth

[00:08] grade in the cyber of Chicago Christian

[00:10] Heritage Academy. It was presented

[00:12] incredibly well. I knew the stakes. I

[00:14] understood the consequences that I don't

[00:16] earn salvation. I don't do good things

[00:18] to get to heaven. But I am so broken. I

[00:20] fall short of the glory of God every

[00:22] day. I covet. I envy. I have jealousy.

[00:25] And we have a fleshly nature because we

[00:28] are post garden that we need Jesus. And

[00:31] I gave my life to the Lord and made

[00:32] Jesus Christ the chairman of the board

[00:33] of my life in fifth grade. And every

[00:35] year as I grow that means more to me.

[00:37] The more I realize how broken and how

[00:39] sinful I am and how much the world needs

[00:42] Jesus. Um and the more I study the word

[00:44] and I study the scripture, the more I

[00:45] want to bring it to people that are

[00:47] lost. And you might be here on this

[00:49] campus and it's a little different here

[00:50] in Oklahoma because in some ways you

[00:52] guys might feel inundated because you're

[00:54] in the Bible belt. Um, and you guys all

[00:56] might, you know, grow up around

[00:58] Christianity and Charlie, you've heard

[00:59] enough of this Jesus thing. I would just

[01:01] say for you guys, especially in college,

[01:03] pursue a relationship with Jesus Christ

[01:06] more than anything else. Look at Jesus

[01:08] as someone in a personal and intimate

[01:10] relationship. Understand the character.

[01:12] And this is what makes this is what

[01:14] makes our Lord and Savior so different

[01:16] is that he was 100% grace and 100% truth

[01:19] but also fully man and fully God. I mean

[01:21] that's a mind-blowing proposition,

[01:23] right? And so that Jesus Christ walked

[01:27] on this earth as a human being and went

[01:30] through some of the same struggles that

[01:31] you went through is a remarkable thing.

[01:33] But that's not to say though that he

[01:35] affirms your sins or that he will say

[01:38] that it's okay that you're watching

[01:39] pornography or you're sleeping around or

[01:41] anything. Instead, he understood the

[01:44] temptation and he is there to challenge

[01:45] you and elevate you to live a godly and

[01:48] moral life. And so I know a lot of

[01:50] people might be a little sour on

[01:52] religion. I actually love the world word

[01:54] religion. I can't stand when people say,

[01:56] "Well, I'm spiritual, not religious."

[01:58] You need religion because that's

[01:59] structure and that's order. It's a whole

[02:01] separate topic. I'm happy. But in

[02:03] college at the LA, the one thing you

[02:05] need is a relationship. Make Christ a

[02:08] rel have a relationship with Jesus

[02:10] Christ. Invite him into your life. Read

[02:12] the word every single day. Know what he

[02:14] believed and know what he said.

[02:16] >> Amen.

[02:16] >> Thank you.

[02:17] >> Hey Charlie, uh thank you for everything

[02:19] you do. You're one of the reasons I

[02:20] started going to the church this year.

[02:22] Um as someone who didn't grow up with

[02:24] religious uh religion, what advice would

[02:26] you give to someone who's trying to

[02:28] welcome religion into their life and

[02:30] find their faith? I love that question.

[02:32] Read your Bible every single day. Um,

[02:35] fight your flesh. Your flesh is going to

[02:37] want to do easy and immediate things

[02:38] like drink and go out and do stuff. Find

[02:42] your aim as a as a man and point

[02:44] everything you can towards it. And

[02:46] spread the good news of God and Jesus

[02:48] Christ in every possible way that you

[02:50] can and put Jesus first in everything

[02:52] that you do.

[02:53] >> Awesome. Thank you. Hi, Mr. Kirk. My

[02:55] name is Max.

[02:57] You aware that today is April Fool's

[02:59] Day?

[03:00] All right. Well, I'm also aware that

[03:02] it's April Fool's Day. And I have a an

[03:04] opinion of somebody who's a fool. I

[03:07] think you would agree with it. Somebody

[03:09] who worships the creation rather than

[03:12] the creator.

[03:13] >> Like Romans 1.

[03:14] >> Like Romans 1. That's what that's what's

[03:15] on my sign here. Let's let's let

[03:17] everybody see it. Um I do have a point

[03:20] though. As a Christian, I want to see

[03:24] everyone here's heart turn from the

[03:26] creation to the creator. Maybe they're

[03:28] worshiping themselves, but I want to see

[03:29] them turn to the creator. And I think

[03:32] you you think something similar. And

[03:33] when I look at the New Testament, I see

[03:35] that the way that's going to come about

[03:37] is through preaching the gospel, right?

[03:39] But I also want society to change. So my

[03:43] question for you is more of an advice

[03:44] question. um as a Christian who wants to

[03:47] see the world changed through the death

[03:48] and resurrection of Jesus, how much of

[03:50] my effort should be put towards

[03:54] preaching the gospel and how much of it

[03:56] should be spent lobbying for policies.

[03:58] What's more effective? And you know,

[03:59] maybe it's not an either or thing. Yeah.

[04:01] >> But I think a lot of times uh especially

[04:03] conservative Christians will uh take the

[04:06] policies without ever telling anybody

[04:08] about Jesus.

[04:08] >> Well, we need both, right? So, first and

[04:10] foremost, uh thank you. Everyone should

[04:12] give their life to Jesus. is the most

[04:13] important thing that anybody can do in

[04:15] your [cheering] life. Number one,

[04:19] we we have seen a hyper feminized gospel

[04:21] the last 20 or 30 years and it's a big

[04:23] problem. We need a resurgence of a

[04:25] masculine gospel, which is one that is

[04:27] unafraid of telling the consequences of

[04:29] sin, right? Well, the sin and hell. So,

[04:32] we talk a lot about a savior, but how

[04:34] can you possibly know you need a savior

[04:35] if you don't talk about sin? And so, how

[04:38] do you know you need a savior if you

[04:39] don't know what you're being rescued

[04:40] from? And so we need to instruct and

[04:43] talk about how we all for all of us

[04:44] myself included all of us on a daily

[04:47] basis fall short of the glory of God. We

[04:49] are violating many of the ten

[04:50] commandments almost every single day.

[04:52] And we need Jesus to save us from our

[04:54] wretched depraved natural nature of um

[04:59] being broken. So what does that mean for

[05:01] you? Well, we we need all parts of the

[05:03] body. The first of which I believe in

[05:04] Galatians 3 it says that the law is a

[05:07] guardian or a school teacher to Christ.

[05:09] that for some people they are going to

[05:10] come to Christ by first thinking through

[05:13] conservative values and principles and

[05:14] seeing it make sense and once they start

[05:16] drinking from the streams of liberty

[05:18] they're going to want to find its source

[05:20] because liberty is not man's idea

[05:22] liberty is God's idea

[05:23] >> and for other people though it's

[05:25] outright preaching the gospel here's my

[05:27] last piece of advice though do not just

[05:28] preach the gospel and try to get

[05:31] converts of all nations we are called to

[05:33] make disciples of all nations which

[05:35] means you must go deep you must preach

[05:37] the entirety of the word of God every

[05:39] word. You must be expositional in the

[05:41] way that you do it, but you must make

[05:43] people understand that there is a

[05:45] judgment coming for all of them. There's

[05:47] a God who loves them that sent his son

[05:48] on a rescue mission to save us from

[05:50] that. Amen.

[05:51] >> And it's not just it's not just all

[05:53] rolling hills and loveydovey messaging.

[05:56] >> I'm with you. Thank you.

[05:57] >> Thank you, man. God bless you. Thank

[05:58] you.

[05:59] >> [cheering and applause]