Honoring Charlie Kirk's Legacy Through Action: Pastor's Message on Faith, Politics, and Spiritual Warfare

[00:04] Hello. I wanted to address the Charlie

[00:07] Kirk situation just for a few moments.

[00:09] Now, I will tell you, I've waited

[00:11] literally a week to do this because I

[00:14] was seeing so many people just kind of

[00:15] jump on the bandwagon, so to speak, and

[00:18] just coming out and saying things. And,

[00:21] you know, there's a lot of u afterward

[00:24] prophets of people, oh, I prophesied

[00:26] this and I saw that. And be very honest,

[00:29] uh I just don't want to be classified in

[00:30] any of that. And I don't look for every

[00:34] opportunity to just jump on because

[00:36] that's the current uh buzzword or or

[00:39] topic. But I do want to address

[00:42] something about Charlie Kirk. Uh Charlie

[00:44] Kirk was an amazing man. Obviously, I've

[00:48] I was probably listening to him for the

[00:49] last two or three years. I guess

[00:50] probably three years. And to be honest,

[00:53] I don't remember ever hearing anything

[00:54] that he said that I would literally

[00:56] disagree with. Uh he was a number one a

[01:00] Christian, a godly man. He was a a

[01:05] husband, a godly husband, an example of

[01:07] how to be a husband. He was a godly

[01:09] father.

[01:11] He his views on uh parenting uh were

[01:15] truly amazing and accurate biblically.

[01:19] and many of the things that he said. And

[01:21] you know the thing about Charlie is that

[01:23] uh from my point of view anyway and I'm

[01:25] no expert. I didn't know him other than

[01:27] by his videos. Uh but his death

[01:32] impacted me very similarly to the way

[01:34] that Chris Kyle's death impacted me

[01:37] several years ago. Uh this is one of

[01:40] those things where you know you hear

[01:41] about people dying, you hear about

[01:42] people even getting killed. Um this was

[01:46] different. It affected people different,

[01:49] affected me different. And this is one

[01:52] of those things where just like with

[01:53] Chris Kyle, you just say this shouldn't

[01:56] have happened. And so I just wanted to

[01:59] take a few moments. Now, one of the

[02:01] things about Charlie, uh, literally

[02:04] there's a lot of very smart people in

[02:07] the conservative

[02:09] branch of politics,

[02:11] uh, even specifically in the Republican

[02:14] party. But I will tell you, Charlie was

[02:17] the brains of the conservative movement.

[02:20] And I pray to God that now God will

[02:24] raise up others very similar to him in

[02:27] their intelligence, but also in their

[02:28] courage and in their ability to really

[02:32] relay in simple principled terms

[02:37] the principles of Christianity. One of

[02:41] the things about Charlie, you know,

[02:42] there's a lot of people that are either

[02:44] preachers or politicians.

[02:46] What made Charlie stand out was the fact

[02:49] that he was able to live

[02:53] his Christianity as a and apply it to

[02:57] his political positions and he literally

[03:01] let his Christianity

[03:03] form and dictate his political

[03:07] positions. So again, I don't want to

[03:09] take a lot of time about this, but there

[03:11] are some other things that I want to

[03:12] bring out. Number one, there are people

[03:14] that have been saying, "Oh, if your

[03:15] church hasn't mentioned Charlie

[03:17] literally on the first Sunday after his

[03:19] assassination, then you should leave

[03:22] that church." That is wrong. That is

[03:24] wrong. People don't always realize what

[03:26] goes on and the process of being able to

[03:29] address these things that sometimes it

[03:31] does take some time. As a matter of

[03:33] fact, myself, I was on the road heading

[03:36] to Colorado whenever we heard the news

[03:40] alerts that Charlie had been shot and

[03:42] then later that he had died. So, I was

[03:45] not able to be at my church on that

[03:47] Sunday to mention this. So, you don't

[03:50] leave a church because they don't

[03:51] mention someone. Uh that that is not

[03:55] even the way Charlie would operate. And

[03:57] so I think we need to honor uh Charlie

[04:00] obviously. At the same time, we also

[04:03] need to recognize that our faith in

[04:06] Christ should make us stable and and not

[04:10] quick uh to move on something that we

[04:13] don't have all the details with. And so

[04:15] many times we make those moves and we do

[04:18] wrong things and we say wrong things.

[04:20] So, I'm just saying you should not leave

[04:22] a church just because they didn't

[04:23] mention Charlie on the first Sunday

[04:26] after his death. Now, should there be

[04:28] something said? I believe yes. I believe

[04:31] that this is going to awaken a lot more

[04:34] of the Christians

[04:36] that have hidden their political

[04:39] beliefs. And as we can see around the

[04:41] world, this is not just revival breaking

[04:44] out. I firmly believe we're seeing an

[04:46] awakening both here in America and

[04:49] around the world. And there's a lot of

[04:51] other aspects of this that I'll probably

[04:52] talk about later on. But the main thing

[04:55] I wanted to get to, you know, today

[04:58] is that

[05:01] we need to stay focused on what we are

[05:04] supposed to be doing. The one thing that

[05:06] stood out to me about Charlie was he

[05:08] didn't say just know this, have this

[05:10] information, uh quote unquote believe

[05:12] this. He said, "You have to live your

[05:15] beliefs." And the the real truth is

[05:17] people do live their beliefs. And if

[05:19] you're not living the way that you think

[05:22] you should, you're not living your

[05:25] beliefs. So you should be living out

[05:28] what you believe and you do live it out.

[05:30] So if you're not living it out, it's

[05:32] maybe because you don't believe it

[05:33] strong enough. So what I'm saying today

[05:36] is this, and it's something that I have,

[05:37] you know, preached for 25 years.

[05:39] Basically, it's this that the knowledge,

[05:42] your knowledge of Christ, your

[05:44] relationship with him,

[05:46] there should be no question that your

[05:48] relationship and your knowledge of him

[05:50] should lead you to live a life of

[05:52] action, putting into practice the

[05:55] principles of the word of God. Now,

[05:57] saying all of that, listen,

[05:59] it is obvious that and and I'd really

[06:03] like to show you even another uh picture

[06:05] showing the difference of how people

[06:09] respond when someone like Charlie is

[06:12] killed

[06:14] uh by having prayer vigils and peaceful

[06:17] gatherings as opposed to what happened

[06:20] when you have a George Floyd or

[06:21] something like that where there's

[06:23] rioting and burning. And it shows the

[06:25] difference of the mental and spiritual

[06:28] state of the people that follow these

[06:34] different personalities.

[06:36] Uh even Charlie said at one point that

[06:38] you can tell the character of a man by

[06:40] who his enemies are. And so I just

[06:42] wanted to say with everything going on,

[06:45] yes, uh, the assassin andor assassins of

[06:49] Charlie Kirk

[06:52] should pay the full price for what they

[06:55] did. And at the same time, we have to

[06:59] realize that Charlie Kirk's death, it

[07:02] didn't it shouldn't stop things. And as

[07:06] you can see, it's actually starting

[07:08] things, but we have to remain focused on

[07:11] what we as Christians are supposed to be

[07:14] doing. Now, I I just want to show you an

[07:17] example of how Jesus responded to a

[07:20] similar situation in Matthew chapter 14

[07:23] and in Luke chapter 9, it gives us a

[07:26] story of how Herod beheaded John the

[07:31] Baptist. Now, John the Baptist was a

[07:34] preacher. He was a prophet.

[07:37] But he didn't stick to preaching

[07:41] Bible as far as scripture and stay out

[07:43] of politics. He got involved in

[07:45] politics. His religious beliefs

[07:50] pushed him and caused him to have to

[07:53] speak up about a political situation

[07:56] which was of course Herod's marriage uh

[07:59] to his brother Philip's uh wife. John

[08:02] the Baptist got involved in politics.

[08:04] That was the legal system of the time.

[08:06] The law of Moses was the legal system.

[08:09] It was the political system even uh in

[08:12] the Jewish community. And so John the

[08:16] Baptist being a preacher preached

[08:18] against what Herod had done. And Herod

[08:22] had him killed, had him beheaded. Now

[08:25] Jesus, as we know, was John the

[08:28] Baptist's cousin, six months younger

[08:31] than John the Baptist. So obviously when

[08:33] when John the Baptist was murdered by

[08:37] Herod, obviously there would be emotions

[08:41] in Jesus about that. That was his

[08:43] cousin. That was the person that knew

[08:45] who he really was and knew what he was

[08:48] there to do. And yet notice Jesus didn't

[08:52] rise up and

[08:55] kill Herod. He didn't he didn't even go

[08:57] to John and you know Jesus put Malchus's

[09:00] ear back on. Is there anything

[09:02] impossible with God? Maybe he could have

[09:03] put his John the Baptist head back on

[09:05] and brought him back to life. But all

[09:07] I'm saying is that he didn't do those

[09:09] things. What did he do? See, Jesus

[09:12] believed the scripture because he was

[09:14] the scripture personified. What does the

[09:17] scripture tell us to do?

[09:20] The scripture is very plain that we do

[09:22] not return evil for evil. The scripture

[09:24] tells us very plainly that we wrestle

[09:27] not against flesh and blood. Herod or

[09:31] the people that killed Charlie. But we

[09:34] wrestle against spiritual forces. And

[09:37] you can find this in Ephesians chapter

[09:38] 6. But we wrestle against these

[09:40] spiritual forces. There is a war between

[09:42] good and evil. The our our

[09:45] representatives in government cannot

[09:48] legislate morality. They keep making

[09:51] more and more rules thinking people will

[09:54] just line up. And all they're doing is

[09:55] in many cases creating more criminals

[09:57] because people don't line up with the

[09:59] laws they put out. You cannot legislate

[10:02] morality. The church has to wake up and

[10:05] win the souls, the minds, the spirits of

[10:08] people that are opposed to the gospel.

[10:11] Our job is to preach the gospel. Our job

[10:13] is to make disciples.

[10:15] Our job is not to come against people.

[10:19] There's these words being thrown around

[10:21] about uh it being Islam. or

[10:24] Islamophobic, uh, xenophobic, uh, trans

[10:27] phobic. None of those apply to me. Why?

[10:29] Because I'm not afraid. I'm not phobic

[10:31] of anything. I am anti-vil,

[10:34] and I am pro-righteousness.

[10:36] And so, my job is to help equip people

[10:41] to live the gospel. Now, in saying that,

[10:44] I want to show you what Jesus said in

[10:46] and what he did in Matthew 14 and in

[10:48] Luke chapter nine. You can look these

[10:49] up. Herod has John the Baptist beheaded.

[10:54] Now watch what Jesus does. It says

[10:57] in verse 10, Matthew 14:10, "And he sent

[11:01] and beheaded John in the prison, and his

[11:03] head was brought in a charger and given

[11:05] to the damsel, and she brought it to her

[11:07] mother." Now watch. And his disciples

[11:09] came and took up the body and buried it,

[11:11] and went and told Jesus.

[11:15] When Jesus heard of it,

[11:18] he departed thence by ship into a desert

[11:20] place apart. There's a time for

[11:23] grieving. There's a time for folks. It's

[11:25] one of the reasons why I haven't come

[11:26] out earlier. I there's two things I have

[11:28] to know. God, do you want me to address

[11:30] this? And number two, if so, how do you

[11:34] want me to address it? And that's why it

[11:36] took me about a week to come together

[11:37] praying and saying, God, what do you

[11:39] want me to do? Well, here's what Jesus

[11:41] did. He went into a desert place apart.

[11:43] And when the people had heard thereof,

[11:45] they followed him on foot out of the

[11:48] cities. And Jesus went forth and saw a

[11:51] great multitude, and was moved with

[11:53] compassion toward them, and he healed

[11:55] their sick.

[11:57] Jesus didn't go into Jerusalem or

[12:00] anywhere else and preaching against

[12:04] Herod's politics or his practices.

[12:07] Instead, Jesus went out and hit the

[12:10] devil, who was behind Herod's killing of

[12:13] John the Baptist. He went out and hit

[12:15] the devil where he knew it would hurt

[12:16] him the most. He went out and fed the

[12:17] hungry, and he went out and healed the

[12:20] sick. Those were aggressive tactics by

[12:23] Jesus to fight against the kingdom of

[12:25] darkness. Beloved, we've been training

[12:28] people for 25 years. Absolutely. This

[12:31] year

[12:32] we have

[12:35] actually according to statistics we have

[12:37] millions of people around the world that

[12:39] we have trained either personally or by

[12:41] video. We we get testimonies from all

[12:43] over the world. I could go into more

[12:45] detail on this but this isn't about

[12:46] that. All I'm trying to get to is this.

[12:48] We have been training people how to do

[12:51] the works of Jesus to counteract and to

[12:55] attack the the kingdom of darkness. if

[12:57] you want to say, "Well, now is the time

[12:59] to do that." If you're grieving over

[13:01] Charlie Kirk, you cannot honor him in a

[13:04] better way than to live your faith. Be

[13:07] vocal about your faith, which should

[13:10] influence your politics. And as you go

[13:12] out and then you hit the dark kingdom

[13:16] with the power of God and you heal the

[13:19] sick, you raise the dead, you cast out

[13:21] devils, you do the works of Jesus, you

[13:24] live the gospel that Jesus died to give

[13:27] us. That will honor Charlie Kirk more

[13:30] than anything else you can literally do.

[13:31] Now, should you rise up and speak about

[13:33] politics? Absolutely. Your voice should

[13:35] be heard. We have that right and the

[13:37] Bible is not against that. But you have

[13:39] to realize that our first and foremost,

[13:42] we cannot get angry and upset and hate

[13:45] people. We've got to be angry at what

[13:49] God is angry at. And he is angry at the

[13:51] devil and his works. And he wants us to

[13:55] finish undoing the works of the devil by

[13:58] doing the works of Jesus. So please

[14:01] channel that anger. channel that I don't

[14:04] want to say despair because we're not

[14:05] despairing, but channel that that that

[14:08] that feeling of grief and turn it to

[14:11] good. I had to do this 40 some odd years

[14:14] ago when my daughter died and I

[14:16] channeled it and I got mad at the devil

[14:19] and I went out and started practicing of

[14:21] laying hands on the sick. So, I'm all

[14:24] I'm saying is practice what you believe.

[14:26] That will honor Charlie more than

[14:28] anything else. But more importantly than

[14:30] that, it honors the Lord and Savior that

[14:33] Charlie also honored by his life. It's

[14:36] time to rise up. It's time to be the

[14:39] people of God, to be vocal, no matter

[14:41] what it cost us.

[14:44] Charlie paid with his life. Some of us

[14:46] may pay with ours, but we have to be

[14:49] able to speak what is true, what is

[14:51] righteous, and not be afraid to open our

[14:54] voices and not give in to the cancel

[14:57] culture.

[14:59] and not be angry at people,

[15:02] but do what you're supposed to be doing.

[15:05] Stay focused on the job at hand. If

[15:08] you're noticing, there is a great

[15:09] revival going on all over the world

[15:11] right now. Millions are being swept into

[15:15] the kingdom of God right now. To me,

[15:17] that's saying that something is up that

[15:20] in the very near future, something else

[15:22] may be happening and people may not have

[15:25] that chance to turn to Christ. So don't

[15:28] wait if you're listening to me and maybe

[15:29] you're non Christian, maybe you've been

[15:32] more political and I'm saying right now

[15:35] you heard Charlie. Charlie was able to

[15:37] speak with boldness, with fearlessness,

[15:40] with truth because he knew his savior.

[15:44] And I'm telling you that same savior

[15:46] right now will accept you if you will

[15:49] turn from your sin. Come to him, accept

[15:52] him as your substitute that he died for

[15:54] you and make him your Lord and then do

[15:57] what he tells you to do. You know, I saw

[16:00] a video recently of Charlie where he was

[16:02] telling a 12-year-old little boy, I

[16:04] think it was 12, and the little boy

[16:06] said, "What advice can you give me for

[16:08] my life?" And Charlie said three things.

[16:13] He said, "Read the Bible." Then he said,

[16:16] "Do what the Bible teaches you to do."

[16:18] And third, tell others what the Bible

[16:22] says. Wow. Most preachers can't even get

[16:25] it that simple. So, beloved, all I'm

[16:27] saying is that's what I'm asking you to

[16:29] do today. Honor Charlie's memory.

[16:33] Read the Bible. Do the Bible. Tell

[16:36] others what the Bible says. Again, we're

[16:40] praying for Charlie's wife, Erica. We're

[16:43] praying for his family, his children. So

[16:46] please also join prayers for that

[16:49] family. They have suffered a great loss.

[16:52] So please pray for them also in Jesus

[16:56] name. God bless you.