Dr. Ben Carson Honors Charlie Kirk's Legacy at Memorial Service in Glendale Arizona

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[00:11] Hello and welcome to another episode of

[00:13] Common Sense with Dr. Ben Carson. I'm

[00:16] your host, Ben Carson. On Sunday, I was

[00:19] honored to speak at Charlie Kirk's

[00:21] memorial service in Glendale, Arizona.

[00:24] It was incredible to see thousands of

[00:27] folks come together to honor Charlie's

[00:30] legacy. Out of this tragedy has emerged

[00:34] a revival.

[00:36] People are giving their lives to Jesus.

[00:40] They are turning to their communities

[00:42] and their families with a different

[00:44] posture.

[00:46] This is what Charlie stood for and that

[00:49] is what he would want us to do. This

[00:52] week, I'm pleased to share these remarks

[00:54] with you. ACI will continue its

[00:57] partnership with Turning Point, and I

[00:59] know God has amazing things in store. As

[01:03] we mourn the loss of Charlie, honor his

[01:06] legacy, and pray for Erica and all our

[01:09] colleagues at Turning Point. We know

[01:12] that God is in control, and trust him to

[01:15] guide our paths. God bless you, and may

[01:19] God bless the USA. Please welcome to the

[01:22] stage Dr. Ben Carson.

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[01:37] Thank you. It's wonderful to see so many

[01:39] people out here for such a sad but also

[01:43] a wonderful purpose. You know, we at the

[01:46] American Cornerstone Institute grieve

[01:49] with everyone as we think about the loss

[01:51] of our friend and partner Charlie Kirk.

[01:55] But did you hear a political figure last

[01:59] week saying that Charlie Kirk was

[02:02] ignorant because he didn't have a

[02:05] college degree? I've seen him run

[02:08] circles around people with college

[02:09] degrees.

[02:11] You know, I wonder

[02:18] I wonder if that political figure

[02:20] realizes that most of learning and life

[02:24] comes outside of the classroom.

[02:27] And I am delighted to see the young

[02:29] people of our land

[02:33] merging with the older people like me

[02:35] and moving in the same direction and

[02:38] understanding that our nation was

[02:40] founded upon the kind of principles that

[02:43] allowed us to rise from nothing to the

[02:46] pinnacle of the world in record time.

[02:49] That was no accident. That was because

[02:51] of what we believed, including our

[02:52] Judeo-Christian beliefs, that our rights

[02:56] come from our creator and not from

[02:59] government.

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[03:07] Now, for many decades, there have been

[03:11] people who are trying to fundamentally

[03:13] change who we are. And there was a man

[03:17] by the name of Cleon Scousson who wrote

[03:22] a book called The Naked Communists in

[03:26] the 50s.

[03:28] And he exposed the things that were

[03:30] being done by the Marxists to gain

[03:33] control of our country. such things as

[03:36] gaining control of the public education

[03:39] system and the teacher unions so that

[03:41] you could infiltrate and indoctrinate

[03:45] our young people. It was

[03:49] a a radical leftist

[03:52] who said, "Give me your children to

[03:55] teach for four years and the seed that I

[03:58] sow will never be uprooted." That's why

[04:01] that's what's going on. They also had a

[04:04] goal of gaining control of the media and

[04:07] Hollywood so they could change the

[04:08] culture in America, making sexual

[04:11] perversion normal, natural, and healthy.

[04:14] And speaking of that,

[04:17] pushing God out of our society and

[04:21] changing the gospel to the social

[04:23] gospel. Have you noticed that a lot of

[04:25] preachers don't want to talk about

[04:27] what's in the Bible if it's counter to

[04:30] the social gospel?

[04:32] Well, I challenge the ministers out

[04:35] there to talk about what the Bible says

[04:38] and not what the leftists say

[04:48] and and get on board get on board of the

[04:54] revival that is coming. We are not going

[04:57] to be able to stop it. You see evidence

[04:59] of it right here in this stadium. We're

[05:02] all going to be a part of it. I love the

[05:04] fact that Erica is going to take over

[05:08] and uh we're going to grow the turning

[05:10] point to a very significant level. And I

[05:14] want us all to remember you cannot be

[05:17] the land of the free if you're not the

[05:19] home of the brave. You got to stand up

[05:21] for what you believe in.

[05:28] And in

[05:30] in closing,

[05:32] I want to read a passage from John

[05:37] 12:24.

[05:40] Remembering that Charlie was shot at

[05:43] 12:24

[05:45] p.m.

[05:47] Verily, verily, I say unto you, this is

[05:49] Christ speaking, except a corn of wheat

[05:53] fall onto the ground and die, it abideth

[05:56] alone. But if it die, it bringeth forth

[06:00] much fruit. And I want to thank Charlie

[06:04] for his sacrifice because much fruit is

[06:07] going to be realized. Thank you.

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