Charlie Kirk's Memorial Service Reached Over 100 Million Streams as Erika Kirk Forgave the Killer

[00:01] Lord Jesus, take the wheel. It's going

[00:04] to be a day. It's going to be a year.

[00:08] It's going to be a lifetime.

[00:11] What is going on? I just I know what's

[00:14] going on because as Christians,

[00:16] we know what's going on. And there's a

[00:18] comfort in that, but it's also it's just

[00:21] it's a lot. It's a lot. This this this

[00:24] has been one of the most

[00:27] insane five weeks of my life. And then I

[00:30] think for everyone as Americans, it's

[00:32] been the most insane. Like 11 days, it's

[00:35] just been it's just the word I keep

[00:38] coming to the two words because it's not

[00:39] one word. For all you grammar nerds,

[00:42] it's a lot. I have this. It is 200

[00:45] milligrams of caffeine and it is 3:30

[00:48] p.m. I also I have my baby monitor here

[00:51] with me. This is the life of a

[00:54] stay-at-home mom who tries to have

[00:56] hobbies on the side of moming so I can

[00:59] see if my child wakes up. And I have my

[01:02] extra caffeine. So, this is the way.

[01:08] But I wanted to talk about the memorial

[01:09] service for Charlie Kirk yesterday. I

[01:11] thought it was so beautiful. Andrew

[01:14] Culvent, I think is his name. So, he's a

[01:16] TPUSA spokesman. and he has said some BS

[01:18] stuff at times, but I really like this

[01:21] tweet. I thought that this just showed

[01:22] the impact of the Charlie Kirk memorial

[01:25] service. People were watching it all

[01:26] over the world. Our production and

[01:27] streaming partners tracked over a 100

[01:29] million overall streams for today's

[01:31] tribute to Charlie. This is just what

[01:33] they know about. It is likely larger.

[01:36] Over a 100 million people have heard the

[01:37] gospel proclaimed again and again by

[01:39] speaker after speaker. Truly remarkable.

[01:42] Think about the impact of someone's life

[01:44] where when you're murdered in a

[01:46] terrible, horrifically violent, hateful

[01:49] way, people tune in either on the left

[01:51] side or the right side from all over the

[01:53] world from country after country to hear

[01:56] what your loved ones and what the

[01:58] politicians who you supported have to

[02:00] say about your life and the impact you

[02:02] had. And instead of talking about all of

[02:04] the money you had, instead of talking

[02:06] about your properties and the books that

[02:07] you wrote or all the scandal behind your

[02:09] name, they literally just talk about

[02:12] your faith and that faith is filled with

[02:15] love. And obviously the part where Erica

[02:17] Kirk forgave forgave the killer. That

[02:20] was a lot. I might have sobbed. I sobbed

[02:23] a couple of times, but that was one of

[02:25] them. And I loved what Tucker had to say

[02:27] about the fact that, and this is true,

[02:30] Christians are hated. Jesus Christ was

[02:32] hated for speaking the truth, not for

[02:35] being violent, but for simply pointing

[02:37] out that we are sinful and there's a

[02:40] better way that we need to abide by.

[02:42] People hate that. There was actually a

[02:44] Muslim woman who responded to this. I

[02:46] can pull up her tweet in a bit, but she

[02:48] actually responded to the Charlie Kirk

[02:50] memorial and said like, "I am a woman of

[02:52] faith in the Muslim belief system, but

[02:54] I'm in awe that this is a memorial

[02:57] service for a Christian leader." And she

[02:59] said that she actually was envious of

[03:02] this the way people viewed eternity and

[03:04] death as Christians. You know, there is

[03:07] hope in the afterlife and there's beauty

[03:10] in it and you can see that God works out

[03:12] all things for his glory and for our

[03:15] good and God's name is being glorified

[03:17] in this death. It's just a really unique

[03:19] faith. Another element here that I

[03:20] thought was beautiful and this happened

[03:22] over the weekend. So, it says Charlie

[03:24] Kirk's widow, that would be Erica, will

[03:26] not be pushing for the death penalty for

[03:28] the murder suspect. So, it's not

[03:30] something that she's vying for. If you

[03:31] pay attention to others out there who

[03:33] have seemed really depressed recently, I

[03:35] I know that they get a ton of death

[03:37] threats and their families have been

[03:38] threatened. And so, I think people are

[03:40] feeling really they're just kind of

[03:42] feeling dark. But Matt Walsh was

[03:43] basically arguing that the government is

[03:46] allowed to take a strong hand with evil.

[03:48] The government is the one that is

[03:50] supposed to take a strong hand with

[03:51] murder with murderers and rapists and

[03:54] pedophiles. But Erica Kirk is allowed to

[03:56] both live within that government and

[03:59] forgive her killer. I don't know where I

[04:01] stand with death penalty. That's a whole

[04:03] another that's a whole another thing.

[04:05] But there are people out there who don't

[04:06] know the Christian faith, who have been

[04:08] told absolute lies about the Christian

[04:10] faith, who themselves have hated

[04:12] Christianity, and maybe are now getting

[04:13] a time, a moment to be introspective and

[04:15] think like, why have I decided to walk

[04:17] away from this faith? Why why did I not

[04:20] want to be a part of this? Is it my own

[04:22] pride? Is it my own, you know,

[04:23] deceitfulness? Is it my own covetousness

[04:25] that is making me not want to cling to

[04:28] Jesus Christ and his teachings? So, I'm

[04:30] really glad people like Erica are out

[04:32] here being a testimony. She says, "I've

[04:35] had so many people ask, do you feel

[04:36] anger towards this man? Do you want to

[04:38] seek the death penalty? I'll be honest.

[04:41] I have told our lawyer, I want the

[04:43] government to decide this. I do not want

[04:45] that man's blood on my ledger because

[04:48] when I get to heaven and Jesus says,

[04:50] "Oh, an eye for an eye. Is that how we

[04:53] we as Christians, is that how we do it?"

[04:55] And that keeps me from being in heaven,

[04:57] from being with Charlie. And I love that

[04:59] one. She's talking about personal

[05:00] responsibility. that does play a part in

[05:03] Christianity. Your actions have an

[05:06] impact. She mentioned how Charlie has

[05:08] this journal. And in his journal, he

[05:11] wrote that everything we do has a mark

[05:14] on our soul. And that's very Christian.

[05:17] You know, what you speak that speaks to

[05:19] what is in your heart. But she's also

[05:21] talking about bless those who persecute

[05:23] you, pray for those who hate you. Um

[05:25] it's very contrary to Judaism. It's very

[05:28] contrary to Islam. It's, you know, all

[05:30] about loving the people that spite you,

[05:34] that have contentment for you. That's

[05:36] why you haven't been seeing conservative

[05:38] Christians going out and rioting, going

[05:41] out and killing people and hurting

[05:43] people and taking their rage out on

[05:45] their communities because that's not

[05:47] conservative Christianity isn't that. I

[05:49] would love to live in a society where I

[05:50] can go out and wear a MAGA hat and not

[05:52] be thinking about the fact that people

[05:54] will shoot me for it. Um that that would

[05:57] be really nice. And it does make me sad

[05:59] sometimes thinking about the fact that

[06:00] like I voted for this person, 50% of the

[06:02] country voted for this person. We should

[06:04] be able to wear the stupid hat. And you

[06:06] can't we got to fight the doomer

[06:07] mentality. I constantly have to fight

[06:10] being doomer. But it's important to

[06:12] realize that this is not the majority of

[06:15] the world. And we have to remember it's

[06:17] it's easy for me to escape either into

[06:20] doomer world and hide and be angry and

[06:22] bitter and want to just escape from the

[06:23] world. Um, and it's also easy to go into

[06:26] another side where everything is fine,

[06:28] everything's good, daisies, roses, no

[06:31] one's being persecuted, no one's being

[06:32] shot in front of hundreds and thousands

[06:34] of people online. No one's celebrating

[06:36] that. What are you talking about? There

[06:38] are people who are not celebrating this

[06:40] memorial service. There are people who

[06:42] still continue to call Christian white

[06:45] conservatives strictly for those three

[06:47] labels. They are calling them Nazis. And

[06:50] when they'll ever come up with a new

[06:51] unique name, I'll be excited to hear it.

[06:54] But they still have just a very, very

[06:57] erroneous view of who we are. And it's

[07:00] just sad. But there is a post that said,

[07:02] "Charlie Kirk's memorial revealed the

[07:04] radical direction of Trump's Republican

[07:06] party." One of the main comments in this

[07:08] post was, "This is bat crap." The other

[07:12] word insane. Someone said, "For real,

[07:15] having an effing funeral in a sports

[07:17] arena, five hours, it's so effing

[07:19] obnoxious. Certain lives are more

[07:21] important than others. It's

[07:23] embarrassing." That had 2,000 up votes.

[07:25] So, they don't see that this was

[07:27] actually an opportunity to share the

[07:28] gospel. This was actually the

[07:30] opportunity to celebrate this life. This

[07:32] was actually the opportunity to worship

[07:35] God, our creator, and to find the good.

[07:37] Jesus Christ is king. And as Christians,

[07:40] we get to embrace that world view, which

[07:43] is we can be optimistic. We can see the

[07:46] light. The the cup is always half full

[07:48] and it's half full with the Holy Spirit.

[07:50] That's even better. You know, Turning

[07:52] Point USA is seeing this as an

[07:53] opportunity for people to see their

[07:54] organization as something hopeful, as

[07:57] something that reignites the family.

[07:58] That that's the purpose, right? Is to

[08:00] talk about the family and faith. The the

[08:02] two Fs, those are much better F-words

[08:04] than the one being used in this comment.

[08:06] Family and faith. I prefer those words.

[08:08] Here's another post. It said, "Charlie

[08:09] Kirk Memorial, US President Donald Trump

[08:11] tells crowd, I hate my opponents after

[08:13] Erica Kirk says she forgives the

[08:14] shooting suspect, declines to give

[08:16] message of unity." So, people really

[08:19] missed all of that. I think people are

[08:22] just reading that quote and they're not

[08:23] actually seeing what it was about.

[08:24] Donald Trump is literally saying, "I

[08:26] know it's wrong. I'm not supposed to

[08:29] hate my opponent. I think that they're

[08:32] far-left radicals. Charlie said I was

[08:34] wrong. Charlie, he said Charlie's

[08:36] probably right." that they're not

[08:38] far-left radicals, that they're just on

[08:40] the left, that they're just

[08:40] misunderstood, that they're just lost

[08:42] men, right? Charlie just wanted to help

[08:45] and save every lost man that didn't have

[08:47] the faith, that didn't have hope for a

[08:49] family in his future. And Donald Trump

[08:51] is literally saying, I'm pro I'm

[08:53] probably wrong, and Charlie was probably

[08:55] right. But right now, I am not as good

[08:57] as Erica and Charlie Kirk. I'm not able

[08:59] to forgive. I do hate what these people

[09:02] do, and I hate who they are. And that's

[09:04] honesty, and I appreciate that. And I

[09:06] felt like there was a lot of humanity

[09:08] there. The man has a lot of flaws.

[09:10] There's a lot of frustration that I

[09:12] think everybody feels about politics and

[09:14] government, but I felt like this was one

[09:15] of his most real, honest moments where

[09:18] he was admitting that he's not supposed

[09:19] to feel this way, but it's just where he

[09:21] is right now. And that's where I am.

[09:23] Like there will be times where I come

[09:24] into the I come into my husband's office

[09:25] and I'm like I just rant. I'm so upset.

[09:28] I feel so hopeless. I just feel like

[09:30] everything everything is going wrong.

[09:33] And he's just like, "No." He points me

[09:34] back to Jesus. points me back to what's

[09:36] right. We are going to struggle with

[09:37] this like sin nature that we still have

[09:39] here on earth, but you need people who

[09:41] are going to redirect you. And he said,

[09:42] "Maybe Erica can talk to me and change

[09:45] my mind about these feelings, but this

[09:46] is just where I am." It is crazy that

[09:49] people are seeing this as like he wants

[09:51] disunityity. He's, you know, he's so

[09:53] hateful. He's so blah blah blah. They

[09:55] can't see the humanity in it. In all

[09:57] sincerity, I cannot understand how

[09:58] anyone thinks that this guy is a real

[10:00] leader. I just cannot fathom this. Who

[10:02] voted for this?

[10:04] guilty. I've had so many people

[10:08] lose relationships with their parents or

[10:11] with loved ones or with spouses or

[10:14] friends because they said like, "Yeah, I

[10:16] can't agree with you on this, but I I

[10:18] because of my faith, right? Because of

[10:20] my faith, I can't agree." And these

[10:21] people just lose um precious

[10:24] relationships over it. And and some

[10:26] people get freaking shot in the neck

[10:28] over it. though. And then this was from

[10:31] our feminism. Heated debate after viral

[10:34] claims after viral claims. Is viral a

[10:38] person?

[10:39] I don't know. Internet speak. And uh

[10:41] Erica Kirk ended the feminist movement.

[10:43] The top which is stupid. Obviously she

[10:45] didn't. Obviously the radicals are still

[10:46] going to still going to be chilling. But

[10:48] yep, she did it. Hundreds of years of

[10:50] organized development absolutely

[10:51] demolished by one woman with a Bible.

[10:53] Amen. These women sound so spiteful.

[10:56] Blessed be the fruit. Oh Lord. Okay.

[10:59] She's not really a feminist. Yes, we

[11:02] know that. She's a capitalist.

[11:06] So, this is how people feel. She looks,

[11:08] if you saw her before her husband was

[11:10] murdered in front of the entire world,

[11:12] she was like this plump, rosy, joyful,

[11:16] sweet person that looked so innocent.

[11:17] And now when you look at her, even with

[11:19] all of the makeup and the attempt to

[11:21] make her look strong and put together, I

[11:24] see just such deep sorrow and despair in

[11:28] her. But she has to keep it together

[11:30] because she is the face of this

[11:31] organization. She represents now her

[11:34] whole family because her strong leader

[11:36] of a husband has been murdered. I do not

[11:38] envy her for a second. It just seems it

[11:41] seems really hard to be in her shoes.

[11:43] How how these people see it when you're

[11:45] filled with like this world view and you

[11:48] don't have Jesus Christ. You say things

[11:50] like she's an she sees an opportunity to

[11:52] make even more money and she's taking

[11:55] it.

[11:58] Okay, I'm not even going to attempt to

[11:59] debunk. I just I I don't have the time.

[12:03] I don't have the energy. I don't have

[12:05] the energy.

[12:08] All right, let me check in on the baby.

[12:11] All right, we're still sleeping. Let's

[12:13] keep it going. Here's what I want to

[12:15] say.

[12:18] Obviously, there are people living in

[12:21] deep-seated hate and rage and anger.

[12:26] Rage and anger are the same thing. Let's

[12:28] come up with a different adjective. I

[12:29] took a note here. I wrote a note down.

[12:31] People are lonely and they're deeply

[12:33] confused and they're spending all of

[12:35] their time in these echo chambers of

[12:38] tunnel vision hate. They are just as

[12:40] sinful as you and me. They are just as

[12:42] prone to becoming Tyler Robinson or

[12:47] whoever. Here's my conspiracy theorist

[12:49] part coming out. Whoever killed Charlie

[12:51] Kirk. We are just as capable of becoming

[12:53] like these underground commie types who

[12:56] just covet and envy people who have more

[12:59] than them. We are capable of horrible

[13:02] things and none of us are above that. We

[13:05] have to keep talking to them. Beat bad

[13:06] ideas with good. It is important to know

[13:08] that the darkness is out there. It is

[13:10] important to remember that there are

[13:12] hurting people who are so deeply wounded

[13:14] by their own ideology, by the echo

[13:18] chambers that they sit in online, by the

[13:20] people that they surround themselves

[13:21] with. And they need prayer and patience.

[13:24] And they need to know that there is

[13:26] another way, right? Listen well, but

[13:30] speak truth. And people will hate you

[13:32] for it. They will reject you for it. But

[13:34] luckily, our acceptance, our identity

[13:36] does not come from some other ideology.

[13:38] It doesn't come from our sexual

[13:39] orientation. It doesn't come from our

[13:42] politics. It doesn't come from who we

[13:44] vote for. Right? Trump has disappointed

[13:46] me in many ways and will continue to

[13:49] disappoint me. But he is not my hope and

[13:52] my salvation. Jesus Christ is. And I

[13:54] have that. And that's that's such a gift

[13:56] and it should be shared. Do not stop

[13:59] talking. Beat the bad ideas with good

[14:01] ideas and have the debate. Have the

[14:04] discourse. Okay.

[14:07] All done. As my 2-year-old says, "All