Charlie Kirk Shares His Fifth Grade Testimony and Answers Students' Questions on Christianity, Politics, and Faith

[00:00] I'm Xander. I am a high schooler in the

[00:02] area and I was assigned a project to

[00:05] prove how Christianity is the only true

[00:07] religion and I'd like to hear your

[00:08] standpoint on that.

[00:10] >> Um, yeah. First, the Bible is the most

[00:12] verified, authenticated historical

[00:14] document in history. Um, it is it is

[00:18] self-evident that I believe there is a

[00:20] God outside of our atheistic friend. Um,

[00:22] and we see in more ways than one how

[00:26] Jesus Christ liberates us from our sins.

[00:28] And the promise of Christianity is

[00:30] different than any other world religion.

[00:32] Every other world religion is about you

[00:34] getting trying to go closer to God.

[00:35] Christianity is God coming closer to

[00:37] you.

[00:37] >> So for context, I'm a devoted Catholic.

[00:40] I'm a devoted Catholic. So I respect you

[00:42] and in that matter. Um, but I feel like

[00:45] and I also have a verse if that's okay.

[00:47] Okay. So Mark 3:24-25 says, "If a

[00:50] kingdom is divided against itself, that

[00:52] kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is

[00:54] divided against itself, that house will

[00:55] not be able to stand." So I'm not a

[00:58] political person and I feel like there's

[01:01] so much division here and there's so

[01:03] much hate. So my question is, um,

[01:08] with the rise of political tension, is

[01:10] this turning Americans away from God?

[01:13] >> It is. I think the way we solve our

[01:14] political tension is we have to try to

[01:16] point people to Jesus. And Jesus is the

[01:19] great healer of all of our divides.

[01:21] >> I I will say that Jesus did say equally,

[01:25] I did not come to unite the world, but I

[01:27] came to divide the world. It's a very

[01:29] difficult teaching to kind of

[01:30] internalize. The truth sometimes can

[01:32] divide, but we must always bring people

[01:34] back to our Lord Jesus Christ. That's

[01:36] the most important message I have for

[01:38] you today, especially going through this

[01:40] Advent and Easter season. That

[01:42] [cheering]

[01:43] there's a God who loves you. The gospel

[01:46] in four words is Jesus took my place. In

[01:48] three words, it is him for me. In two

[01:51] words, it's substitutionary atonement.

[01:53] And one words, it's grace. You do not

[01:55] earn a place in heaven. You do not do

[01:58] good things to go to heaven. It's by

[02:00] grace. God gave you a gift. He lived a

[02:02] perfect life. He sent his son on a

[02:04] rescue mission who then showed us how to

[02:07] live, died the most cruel death in the

[02:09] history of man to then rise on the third

[02:13] day so that we can live forever and pay

[02:15] off our sins. Thank you so much.

[02:17] >> I wanted to ask you if you would um mind

[02:19] sharing your testimony with us and how

[02:22] Christ saved you.

[02:23] >> I uh I gave my life to the Lord in fifth

[02:25] grade in the cyber of Chicago Christian

[02:27] Heritage Academy. It was presented

[02:29] incredibly well. I knew the stakes. I

[02:31] understood the consequences that I don't

[02:33] earn salvation. I don't do good things

[02:35] to get to heaven. But I am so broken. I

[02:38] fall short of the glory of God every

[02:39] day. I covet. I envy. I have jealousy.

[02:43] And we have a fleshly nature because we

[02:45] are postgarden that we need Jesus. And I

[02:48] gave my life to the Lord and made Jesus

[02:49] Christ the chairman of the board of my

[02:51] life in fifth grade. And every year as I

[02:53] grow that means more to me. The more I

[02:55] realize how broken and how sinful I am

[02:57] and how much the world needs Jesus. Um,

[03:00] and the more I study the word and I

[03:02] study the scripture, the more I want to

[03:03] bring it to people that are lost. And

[03:05] you might be here on this campus. And

[03:07] it's a little different here in Oklahoma

[03:08] because in some ways you guys might feel

[03:10] inundated because you're in the Bible

[03:12] belt. Um, and you guys all might, you

[03:14] know, grow up around Christianity and

[03:16] Charlie, you've heard enough of this

[03:17] Jesus thing. I would just say for you

[03:19] guys, especially in college, pursue a

[03:21] relationship with Jesus Christ more than

[03:23] anything else. Look at Jesus as someone

[03:25] in a personal and intimate relationship.

[03:28] understand the character and this is

[03:30] what makes this is what makes our Lord

[03:32] and Savior so different is that he was

[03:34] 100% grace and 100% truth but also fully

[03:37] man and fully God. I mean that's a

[03:39] mind-blowing proposition, right? And so

[03:42] that Jesus Christ walked on this earth

[03:45] as a human being and went through some

[03:47] of the same struggles that you went

[03:49] through is a remarkable thing. But

[03:51] that's not to say though that he affirms

[03:52] your sins or that he will say that it's

[03:55] okay that you're watching pornography or

[03:57] you're sleeping around or anything.

[03:59] Instead, he understood the temptation

[04:01] and he is there to challenge you and

[04:03] elevate you to live a godly and moral

[04:05] life. And so I know a lot of people

[04:08] might be a little sour on religion. I

[04:10] actually love the world word religion. I

[04:12] can't stand when people say, "Well, I'm

[04:14] spiritual, not religious." You need

[04:15] religion because that's structure and

[04:17] that's order. It's a whole separate

[04:18] topic. I'm happy. But in college at the

[04:21] LA, the one thing you need is a

[04:23] relationship. Make Christ a rel have a

[04:26] relationship with Jesus Christ. Invite

[04:28] him into your life. Read the word every

[04:30] single day. Know what he believed and

[04:32] know what he said.

[04:33] >> Amen.

[04:33] >> Thank you.

[04:34] >> Hey, Charlie. Uh thank you for

[04:36] everything you do. You're one of the

[04:37] reasons I started going to the church

[04:39] this year. Um as someone who didn't grow

[04:41] up with religious uh religion, what

[04:43] advice would you give to someone who's

[04:45] trying to welcome religion into their

[04:46] life and find their faith? I love that

[04:49] question. Read your Bible every single

[04:50] day. Um, fight your flesh. Your flesh is

[04:54] going to want to do easy and immediate

[04:55] things like drink and go out and do

[04:58] stuff. Find your aim as a as a man and

[05:01] point everything you can towards it. And

[05:03] spread the good news of God and Jesus

[05:05] Christ in every possible way that you

[05:07] can and put Jesus first in everything

[05:09] that you do.

[05:10] >> Awesome. Thank you. Hi, Mr. Kirk. My

[05:12] name is Max.

[05:14] You aware that today is April Fool's

[05:16] Day?

[05:17] All right. Well, I'm also aware that

[05:20] it's April Fool's Day, and I have an

[05:22] opinion of somebody who's a fool, and I

[05:24] think you would agree with it. Somebody

[05:26] who worships the creation rather than

[05:29] the creator,

[05:30] >> like Romans 1.

[05:31] >> Like Romans 1. That's what's on my sign.

[05:33] Here, let's let everybody see it. Um, I

[05:37] do have a point though. As a Christian,

[05:40] I want to see everyone here's hearts

[05:43] turn from the creation to the creator.

[05:44] Maybe they're worshiping themselves, but

[05:46] I want to see them turn to the creator.

[05:48] And I think you you think something

[05:50] similar. And when I look at the New

[05:51] Testament, I see that the way that's

[05:54] going to come about is through preaching

[05:55] the gospel, right? But I also want

[05:58] society to change. So my question for

[06:01] you is more of an advice question. um as

[06:03] a Christian who wants to see the world

[06:05] changed through the death and

[06:06] resurrection of Jesus, how much of my

[06:08] effort should be put towards

[06:11] preaching the gospel and how much of it

[06:13] should be spent lobbying for policies.

[06:15] What's more effective? And you know,

[06:17] maybe it's not an either or thing. Yeah.

[06:18] >> But I think a lot of times uh especially

[06:20] conservative Christians will uh take the

[06:23] policies without ever telling anybody

[06:25] about Jesus.

[06:26] >> Well, we need both, right? So, first and

[06:27] foremost, uh thank you. Everyone should

[06:29] give their life to Jesus. is the most

[06:30] important thing that anybody can do

[06:32] [cheering] in your life. Number one,

[06:34] [applause]

[06:36] we we have seen a hyper feminized gospel

[06:39] the last 20 or 30 years and it's a big

[06:41] problem. We need a resurgence of a

[06:42] masculine gospel, which is one that is

[06:44] unafraid of telling the consequences of

[06:46] sin, right? Well, the sin and hell. So,

[06:49] we talk a lot about a savior, but how

[06:51] can you possibly know you need a savior

[06:53] if you don't talk about sin? And so, how

[06:55] do you know you need a savior if you

[06:56] don't know what you're being rescued

[06:57] from? And so we need to instruct and

[07:00] talk about how we all for all of us

[07:02] myself included all of us on a daily

[07:04] basis fall short of the glory of God. We

[07:06] are violating many of the ten

[07:08] commandments almost every single day.

[07:10] And we need Jesus to save us from our

[07:12] wretched depraved natural nature of um

[07:16] being broken. So what does that mean for

[07:18] you? Well, we we need all parts of the

[07:20] body. The first of which I believe in

[07:22] Galatians 3 it says that the law is a

[07:24] guardian or a school teacher to Christ.

[07:26] that for some people they are going to

[07:28] come to Christ by first thinking through

[07:30] conservative values and principles and

[07:32] seeing it make sense and once they start

[07:33] drinking from the streams of liberty

[07:35] they're going to want to find its source

[07:37] because liberty is not man's idea

[07:39] liberty is God's idea

[07:40] >> and for other people though it's

[07:42] outright preaching the gospel here's my

[07:44] last piece of advice though do not just

[07:46] preach the gospel and try to get

[07:48] converts of all nations we are called to

[07:50] make disciples of all nations which

[07:52] means you must go deep you must preach

[07:54] the entirety of the word of God every

[07:56] word. You must be expositional in the

[07:58] way that you do it, but you must make

[08:00] people understand that there is a

[08:02] judgment coming for all of them. There's

[08:04] a God who loves them that sent his son

[08:06] on a rescue mission to save us from

[08:07] that. Amen.

[08:08] >> And it's not just it's not just all

[08:10] rolling hills and loveydovey messaging.

[08:13] >> I'm with you. Thank you.

[08:14] >> Thank you, man. God bless you. Thank

[08:15] you. [cheering and applause]

[08:17] >> Hi. So I am a Catholic and I put a lot

[08:22] of um love for Christ in his teachings.

[08:26] And so since he says to render under

[08:28] Caesars that which is Caesars's and unto

[08:30] God which is God's, my fear is that we

[08:33] can often render unto Caesar what

[08:35] actually belongs to God. So I was hoping

[08:37] you could clarify for us and also for

[08:39] the people who are shouting against you

[08:42] in the back. Could we clarify like what

[08:44] like what is the social reign of Christ?

[08:46] What does it look like? what's your

[08:48] vision for it and how has your faith

[08:50] impacted your political beliefs?

[08:52] >> Yeah, that's that's a great question.

[08:54] Um, there is no such thing as separation

[08:57] of morality and state. It does not

[08:59] exist. Every law is a reflection of some

[09:01] agreed upon morality. I believe the

[09:03] teachings of Christianity as the

[09:05] founding fathers did instruct our basic

[09:08] moral code. The decalogue is a great

[09:09] place to start. The ten commandments is

[09:12] the is the decalogue. I believe that

[09:14] Christ though is even above our

[09:16] government. who says his kingdom is not

[09:17] of this world. But we should contest in

[09:19] the public square to do what Christ

[09:22] wanted us to be, which is salt and light

[09:24] in every domain and arena. That means

[09:26] protecting the unborn. That means making

[09:29] sure that crime is not, you know, our

[09:31] streets are not riddled with crime. And

[09:33] also the ideas of private property, the

[09:35] ideas of freedom of speech, the idea,

[09:37] these are all biblical ideas at their

[09:39] core. I think the American founders

[09:41] struck it correctly, which is that it's

[09:43] a Christian foundation with a free

[09:45] society that grows out of it.

[09:48] >> Okay. I just wanted to hear that. Thank

[09:49] you very much.

[09:50] >> God bless. God bless you. Thank you.