Rob McCoy Calls Charlie Kirk the Moses of Our Generation at Memorial Service
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Rob McCoy Calls Charlie Kirk the Moses of Our Generation at Memorial Service
Pastor Rob McCoy delivers a powerful eulogy comparing Charlie Kirk to Moses, describing him as the most misunderstood missionary in Christendom who liberated a generation of young Americans from secular indoctrination. McCoy recounts their six-year friendship, Charlie's reluctance to preach in churches because he was "too political," and how Kirk sparked the largest conservative movement among 18-30 year olds in U.S. history. Speaking before a packed memorial service, McCoy condemns churches that remained silent about Charlie's death, celebrates Erika Kirk's strength in carrying on his mission at Turning Point, and declares that when a martyr dies, his power multiplies. This tribute frames Kirk's political activism as missionary work that gave America's most indebted, drug-addicted, and depressed generation a vision of freedom and identity.
Charlie was the most misunderstood missionary in Christendom. There's churches in America last Sunday that didn't even speak a word about him. I saw a poster that some children made that said, "Not all heroes wear capes." And they had a picture of Charlie. And I thought to those little ones, Charlie's not wearing a cape, but in accordance with Revelation 6:11, he's wearing the white robe of a martyr.
I look at him as the Jim Elliott of our time and I see Erika as the Elizabeth Elliott of our time. That woman is tough and she's strong. I'm so glad they gave her that position at Turning Point because nobody knows the heart of Charlie like Erika Kirk.
You see, when a tyrant dies, his power dies. But when a martyr dies, his power multiplies.
A Six-Year Friendship That Changed Everything
I was texting with a pastor of a very large church who said, "You know, we didn't really do anything last Sunday, but we're going to carry the memorial service at our Sunday night service, but I see all these political leaders speaking. Is the gospel going to be preached?" And I said, "Well, I will and I know Erika will." And he says, "It seems like it's just all political." That's old wine skins. They're so lost in the church today.
You know, the reason why Charlie and I got connected is I was moved by him. My son had told me about him and I didn't do social media and I didn't follow YouTube and I was in an event speaking and he was in the wings and at the time I was the mayor of the city of Thousand Oaks in California and also a sitting pastor and it was pastors in politics and I was on the panel with Jack Hibbs and pastor Tim Thompson and they were asking us questions and pastor Jack kept deferring them to me because I was the only elected official and then we finished the panel and I'm coming down off the steps and there's Charlie and I knew my son liked him. I figured I'd take a picture with him and I said, "Can I take a picture for my son?" He goes, "Yeah, but first of all, I didn't know a guy like you existed." And I go, "What's that?" And he goes, "A pastor in politics." And I said, "I didn't know a guy like you existed." And he goes, "What do you mean?" I said, "A young conservative."
And that began a six-year friendship that I will forever be grateful for.
Too Political for the Church
I invited him to come preach at the church, and he says, "No, I don't preach in churches." I said, "Why is that, Charlie?" And he said, "Because I'm too political and churches don't want me." I said, "Charlie, politics is the highest form of community. It combines morality with sociability. If God didn't intend us to be in politics, he wouldn't have invented marriage.
You see, the church of America has become modern-day gnostics. It's heresy. They say, "I just preach the gospel. I don't do politics." As though they can separate the holy from the tainted. The word polus means city, the affairs of the city. Last time I checked in Jeremiah 29, it says, "Pray for the peace of the city in which you dwell. For in its peace, you'll have peace." Jesus even said that the first great commandment to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength, mind. Love your neighbor as yourself. Don't you want your neighbor's kids to grow up knowing there's only two genders? Don't you want your neighbors kids to grow up knowing the truth that the truth would set them free?
When Jesus said it'd be better for you to have a millstone tied around your neck to cause one of these little ones to stumble than and I would say to them, "What are you going to say to Chloe Cole who had a double mastectomy at 15?" And she's looking at this generation saying, "Where were you when they lied to me?" Oh, I don't do politics. Politics is dirty. And I look at those pastors and I say, "The church is dirty. What's your point?" And they say, "Well, I'm tired of voting for the lesser of two evils." Unless Jesus Christ is running for office, you're always voting for the lesser of two evils.
You see, it's an excuse of laziness. They don't want to understand the issues. They want to make their job easy. They're making converts, not disciples.
The Great Commission Includes Nations
Jesus said, "Go into all the world, all heaven." He says, "All authority has been given to me on heaven and on the earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, commanding them to obey all that I've commanded them, baptizing in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Lo, I'm with you always, even to the end of the age." Of all nations, nations are boundaries, borders, compacts, constitutions. We'll be judged individually on whether or not we've received Christ as our savior. But nations will be judged on whether or not their citizens had access to truth and the ability to seek the living God.
In this nation that was conceived next year, 250 years we've been under one article of incorporation, the Declaration of Independence. You see, I can live my whole life in Japan and never be a Japanese citizen. I'll never be Japanese. Even though I can become a citizen of Japan, I'll never be Japanese. You see, America is not an ethnicity. It's an idea. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. Among those being life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. For this reason, governments were instituted among men. It's in that order. You see, liberty and happiness are scarce little value if you're dead. We're a nation of life in the womb and out of the womb.
A Constitutional Republic Founded on Scripture
And when this nation was conceived with that understanding and they established a constitutional republic, the book that they studied the most was the Bible. And the book of the Bible they quoted the most was Deuteronomy and they wanted to understand civil law. And when they developed this nation, they made the sovereign the people in the preamble of the constitution. We the people of the United States in order for a more perfect union do ordain and establish. They allowed us to elect only one branch of government. It was the lower house of the legislature. And they made that the most powerful branch because they gave them the purse strings. And those congress members would elect the two senators from their state. And then those Congress members through the electoral college would appoint the president in the early design of it. And then the president would appoint the judiciary.
And they took this most powerful branch of government that was directly accountable to us because we'd elect them and the beautiful aspect of the Declaration of Independence, which is poetic and lovely, and then the preamble, which is the same, but then you look at the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment. It's almost prohibitive and angry. The first 16 words, Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Don't you dare get in the way of the citizens of this nation worshiping God ever.
You see, as John Adams said, only a moral and religious people can govern a republic.
The Biblical Blueprint for Government
Our founders got this design of the republic from the children of Israel in the wilderness. They even came up with this idea when Jethro said to Moses, "Appoint godly men who are not covetous over thousands, hundreds, 50s, tens, federal, state, county, local." The psalmist would write, "The Lord is our king, our lawgiver, our judge, legislative, executive, judicial branch. And all of this came about as I studied the scriptures and put together this nation that represents only 4% of the world's population. Yet we've had more Nobel Peace Prize winners, more symphonies, more patents, more accumulation of wealth than any other nation in the 6,000 years of recorded history.
You fly in an airplane, it was invented by an American. You ride in an elevator, it was invented by an American. You enjoy air conditioning, it was invented by an American. You enjoy the internet, it was invented by an American, not Al Gore. Not because we have more natural resources. Canada surpasses us as does South America. Because we have freedom. Freedom. And freedom we must be vigilant to protect.
A Generation Abandoned by the Church
And the pulpits of America have lulled the sheep to sleep by truncating the gospel and embracing gnosticism. And Charlie, as I said, was the most misunderstood missionary in America because he saw politics as an on-ramp to Jesus. He contended for this young generation that had been saddled with the debt of the large living of the previous generations. I'm the tail end of the boomers. I'm the last part of the pig and the python. And we've saddled this generation with $37 trillion of debt. It was when I was young and newly married that it took three times my income to buy a house. Now seven times an annual income.
These kids are the most indebted, drug-addicted and depressed generation in America. And we've abandoned them because we don't do politics and good government happens with good people. And the churches haven't discipled the people to engage in a representative form of government to protect that freedom. And these kids woke up to Charlie coming and saying, "We can turn this around." Because if Charlie didn't do what he did, those kids would move to Ilhan Omar and AOC and they'd be burning cities.
And he gave them a vision and reminded them of who they are and what this government means. And he did this in such a unique way that in the next six minutes I'm going to do my best.
Charlie Was a Moses
You see Charlie was a Moses. Moses at 80 years of age confronted Pharaoh because God told him to and said, "Let my people go." And like any tyrant, Pharaoh said, "Who is God that I should obey him?" And one man and God constitutes a majority. And the 10 plagues and then the last one was a Passover, the Pesach. And Pharaoh relented and let the Hebrew slaves go and parted the Red Sea, drowned the Egyptian army, and they ended up in the wilderness. And by Moses's faithfulness to God, manna was provided, water was provided, quail was provided, their shoes didn't wear out, their clothes didn't wear out, and he took a nation that Abraham had heard from God was prophesied. They'd been enslaved. They had forgotten God.
And he absolutely re-educated an entire generation of people to understand, no, your God isn't small G like the ones that we just obliterated with the 10 plagues. Your God is the one who holds the heavens in the span of his hand. Your God is the one who created this earth. He created you. He created family.
The Moral Law Downloaded from Heaven
And he went up on Mount Sinai and God gave him a downloaded moral app. Joshua went with him. Joshua didn't get to go into the presence of the Lord, just wandered around while Aaron and Hur were fashioning a golden calf and having a rave party down in the base and Moses goes in and God gives him the decalogue. I have a children's book and you're going to want it for your kids because God commanded you teach your children and I'd be hard-pressed if 10% of the people in this room know the moral law of God. The law doesn't save, but it's a school teacher to point us to Christ until faith comes. Galatians 3. And it was intended for all generations.
Hold up one finger, please. Say, "One God." Take two fingers. Bend the second one. No idols. Don't bow down. Take three fingers, put it over your mouth. Don't take the name of the Lord your God in vain. Four fingers, make a pillow. Honor the Sabbath. Five fingers, salute. Come on. Honor your mother and father. Go well with you. You'll live long in the land in which I've given you. Six, don't murder. Seven, do this. There's only two in a marriage, not five. Don't commit adultery. Eight, hide your thumbs because if you steal, we'll cut them off. Don't steal. Nine, it's five, not four, it's four, not five. Don't bear false witness. And 10, do this. Don't covet. You learned it. That was 4 seconds.
The Greatest Miracle: A Society Governed by God's Law
Moses comes down from Mount Sinai, places that law in the center of the community, educates the children and generations to come. And for 40 years, this is the greatest miracle of all. For 40 years, 3 to 5 million people live together without a police force or a standing army. They were accountable to God and accountable to each other. And the moral law is critical. From the moral law came the civil law. Moses educated them on marital law, civil law, common law. They would wake up and he'd be there. And when he'd move at night, the pillar of fire would travel. And when Moses would move during the day, that the pillar of smoke would follow.
And then he died. 30 days they wept. The man that had re-identified and re-educated and redefined an entire generation, he's gone.
Liberation from Secular Slavery
These kids in America who were trapped in the pagan education of secular education, being indoctrinated by this stupidity, were set free from captivity and slavery by this modern-day Moses who showed them you are a child of the living God. And you're in the freest nation on the face of the earth that liberty is one generation away from being obliterated. And they—it used to be me and Charlie and a couple of folks and a sea of detractors. And at the end of his life, it was Charlie, a handful of people, and a sea of red hats and kids coming to Christ all over the country.
18 to 30 year olds, the largest move of conservativism in the history of the United States. These kids have been imprinted like a chick with a mother hen. They'll vote conservative the rest of their lives. And more importantly, I am Charlie Kirk is what they're all saying.
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