The Danger of Political Conflation in the Pulpit

• [Romans 13](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+13&version=KJV) and Civil Authority [00:09:35 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor explains that Romans 13 commands submission to authority for the common good, but this submission is not unlimited; when authorities cease to do good, they cease to be legitimate authority.
• Historical Harmony and Conflict [00:37:53 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor traces the history of American harmony through conflict, citing John Newton's 'Amazing Grace' and Julia Ward Howe's 'Battle Hymn of the Republic' as examples of how resolution to conflict produced cultural and moral harmony.

• Sermon Illustration [00:00:18 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor recounts a personal story about his friend Charlie Kirk, who refused $15,000 in cash from a Canadian fan, demonstrating humility and a lack of interest in glory or money, which the pastor uses to illustrate Charlie's character and the 'TPUSA faith' of engaging pastors.

• Pastoral Charge [00:03:39 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor challenges the congregation to recognize that the church is the proper sphere for civic and moral engagement, countering the idea that politics and faith are separate.
• Pastoral Charge [00:46:07 ▶️ 📄]
  > Stand for truth, read the Bible personally, and avoid laziness in spiritual engagement.
• Pastoral Charge [00:46:33 ▶️ 📄]
  > Older members are called to actively invest in and mentor the younger generation rather than withdrawing from church life.

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[00:00:00] Get up on your feet and let's give it up for Pastor Rob McCoy.
[00:00:18] That was a very warm welcome. Thank you. Pastor Troy, I was telling him in the first service, I do remember that meeting. I was in a dining room with glass windows and it was a room full
[00:00:30] of pastors and we were presenting TPUSA Faith to y'all and Charlie and I were sharing. And at the time I was kind of serving Charlie as a body man, just meaning, you know, helping him out because
[00:00:42] his life was so busy. And I saw some guy wandering out on the other side of the glass. I thought, this is kind of concerning. Should I let security know? I go out and I greet the guy and he's from
[00:00:52] Canada. And I share this because there's three things that would bring a guy like Charlie Kirk down, gold, glory, or girls. And I had made a point to travel with him because my son was a big fan of Charlie's and I didn't know who he was other than my son telling me.
[00:01:11] and through a series of events, I got to know him. And, um, and then I started traveling with him, observing his life and his relationship with Erica was unbelievable. It was just completely pure. And then watching him as people would give him compliments and he would deflect it all the
[00:01:30] time. It wasn't about glory. He was, he was very, um, humble. And then the gold was one. Um, so this guy's pacing outside and I go and I greet him. He's from Canada. And he said, look,
[00:01:42] I just sold some Bitcoin, and I'm a big fan of Charlie's, and I wanted to give him some money.
[00:01:49] And he shows me this wad of cash. I mean, it was like $15,000 in $100 bills, and the rubber band was about to snap. And I'm like, he's not going to take it. He goes, would you just ask him? I go,
[00:02:01] I'll ask him, but he's not going to take it. And I go in, and I was assuming he wasn't going to take it. I didn't know, because everything I'd seen about his life was so upstanding. And there
[00:02:11] there's a part of me like, I don't even know if I should tempt him with it. And I walk in, I go, Charlie, there's a guy out there. He's a big fan of yours from Canada. He sold some Bitcoin. He
[00:02:20] wants to give you $15,000 in cash. And Charlie goes, no, I don't do that. I don't take money.
[00:02:27] If he wants to donate and give it to Turning Point, I don't deal with money. Every pastor in the room except for you said, I'll take it. So that should give you an idea of Charlie's
[00:02:41] character. Amazing man. He called me his pastor and I called him my friend. And the reason why he called me his pastor is because I was the first church to invite him to come and speak.
[00:02:54] And I'll never forget his response. We'd done 11 states in nine days and we had an opening on a Sunday. And I said, hey, look, we're going to be in California. And if you want to come to God speak,
[00:03:03] you're welcome to speak. He goes, I've never spoken in church. I don't speak in churches.
[00:03:09] And I was taken aback by his response.
[00:03:11] I said, why?
[00:03:13] He goes, because churches don't want me.
[00:03:14] I'm too political.
[00:03:16] I go, Charlie, at the time I was the mayor of the city of Thousand Oaks.
[00:03:19] I go, Charlie, I'm the mayor.
[00:03:21] And I'm also the senior pastor.
[00:03:24] And I go, Charlie, if God didn't want us in politics, he wouldn't have invented marriage.
[00:03:30] Let that ruminate in your mind a little bit.
[00:03:34] And then I told him something that I'd learned taking the Hillsdale Online courses from Dr. Larry Arnn.
[00:03:39] I said, politics is the highest form of community.
[00:03:42] It combines morality with sociability.
[00:03:46] Charlie, a church is where you're supposed to be.
[00:03:49] And he was taken aback by it.
[00:03:50] And he said, all right, I'll do it.
[00:03:53] So that Sunday, we were in the wings waiting for the announcements to conclude.
[00:03:56] And I was going to introduce Charlie.
[00:03:57] And I'd been with him at that point, watching him speak probably 50 times, coffees in people's houses, larger venues, big venues.
[00:04:06] And I was there when he was getting death threats.
[00:04:09] And he was never scared, never nervous.
[00:04:11] and we'd be on campuses and I mean, it'd be people yelling at him and throwing stuff at us.
[00:04:17] And he just was just unfazed. And that Sunday, I'm in the wings with him getting ready to announce and he's shaking. And I'm like, are you okay? Do you need some like juice or something? Are you
[00:04:27] having a sugar low? He's like, no, I'm nervous. I go, you're nervous? He goes, yeah, I've never spoken in church and I just don't want to fail the Lord. I go, you're not going to fail the Lord.
[00:04:39] Charlie, you deal in truth.
[00:04:41] Just share what's on your heart.
[00:04:44] And I was touched by that.
[00:04:46] He had more of a reverence for the pulpit than most pastors do.
[00:04:49] And he stepped out that Sunday, and I kid you not, he hit the ball so far out of the park, it's still going.
[00:04:55] And then Monday morning, I get a call from Jack Hibbs, who's a pastor of a very large church in California, about 15,000 people, and weekly online presence, about 3 million.
[00:05:04] And he says, hey, Rob, will you fill in for me on Wednesday night?
[00:05:06] And when you get invited by Jack Hibbs, you've arrived.
[00:05:09] and I'm like, yes. And I, and I knew I couldn't say yes. And I go, Jackie, thank you for the invitation. You don't want me. You want this guy named Charlie Kirk. He goes, he's any too
[00:05:20] political. I said, listen to his message this last Sunday. And you tell me, and you know, bless Jack Hibbs. He's busy as a one-arm wallpaper hanger. And he, he listened to it. He called me
[00:05:31] back. He says, let's have him. And, and, and, and Charlie slayed it that Wednesday, the place was packed out and Jack gave him a platform that launched him into the stratosphere. Now I've never been invited back to speak at Jack's church, but the fact he called me his pastor when Jensen
[00:05:48] Franklin and, and Alan Jackson and Troy Maxwell and, and, you know, Jack Hibbs, all these guys, Barnett's, he called me his pastor and it's because he is loyal. And, uh, you know, and I gave him this idea of, you know, TPUSA faith by engaging pastors. And it was just an idea. And
[00:06:08] within three months, he implemented it and became the largest parachurch ministry in America.
[00:06:13] Charlie, amazing man, amazing man. And people say, thank you for pouring into Charlie's life.
[00:06:25] You know, first of all, he was a terrible congregant. He was only in church three times, and that was to speak. The guy was on the road 320 days a year. I will say he tithed,
[00:06:38] which is pretty remarkable. And, you know, I could live a thousand lifetimes and never repay him for what he did for me and my family. I found myself crying at like three o'clock in the morning
[00:06:53] for about a week after he was murdered. And I wasn't crying because I was sad. I was crying because I was so thankful that the Lord allowed me to meet such a man as him. You know, a guy like
[00:07:02] that comes along one in a thousand years. And why me, Lord? Why me? And I remember the last directive he gave me was to start Turning Point Israel. And we went, Michelle and I went out in
[00:07:22] June and we scouted out the land and put a budget together. And we were just about to resolve all that and do it. And he agreed to speak at my, what I call retirement, where I became pastor
[00:07:33] emeritus and my assistant pastor took over so i could do turning point israel and he came and he spoke this is hard to say because he said you know i he says rob forgive me if this sounds like a
[00:07:53] eulogy and i'm sitting with all the people that i've been with for 25 years pastoring this fellowship and to hear my life expressed from the vantage point of a man like charlie and what he thought
[00:08:08] of me. I was taken aback by it. And then to realize come September and then I'd be speaking at his funeral, just grateful to have known him. And though we didn't start Turning Point Israel
[00:08:30] because Charlie was the most pro-Israel person at Turning Point and he's gone and they've kind of taken a different direction. I've just taken it upon myself to do what I've always done and what Charlie appreciated about me. And, and I thought, you know, after becoming pastor of
[00:08:46] Meredith, first I thought it meant Latin for you pay me till I die. And then I get a drink with an umbrella on a beach somewhere, but I've never been busier in all my life. And, and before I
[00:08:59] begin the message, I just want to say this about pastors Troy and Penny. You know, when, when I contended with what I call governor new Salini and, and kept our church open during COVID in the People's Republic of California.
[00:09:16] We got $300,000 in fines.
[00:09:18] I got two contempt charges.
[00:09:19] Every Sunday, I thought I was going to go to jail.
[00:09:22] The people who came after me were pastors saying I'm violating Romans 13.
[00:09:28] And I go, no, you're violating Romans 13.
[00:09:31] Yeah.
[00:09:35] For those of you who don't know Romans 13, it says God appoints all positions of authority in order to submit to that authority.
[00:09:40] But it also says, as Jonathan Mayhew, a preacher prior to the War of Independence, he exegeted Romans 13. And it was John Adams who said he was the inspiration to the war of independence. He coined the term disobedience to tyrants is obedience to God. And he said in
[00:10:00] Romans 13, he said that we're to submit to authority, but it's not unlimited submission to tyranny because the passage says that those authorities are there for our good. And when they cease to do good, they cease to be the authority. And a lot of the pastors were Calvary Chapel guys.
[00:10:17] and you know troy you and i aren't cut from the same theological cloth but we're brothers for life and and um you stood when the other sat and you know back then you could count on one hand who
[00:10:34] was standing with you now they've all come around they're like martin e moeller to dietrich bonhoeffer they came around and i'm glad about that and then that's what charlie was committed to and and he's created an awakening in america which we haven't had since 1870 and now because
[00:10:51] of charlie the largest segment in the church evangelical church in america is 18 to 30 year old males a revival is where people come to christ and an awakening is where they change the culture we haven't had a change of culture since 1870 and it used to be early on with the
[00:11:09] revivals that they would disciple because the it says in matthew 28 all authority has been given to me in heaven and on the earth go therefore make disciples not converts disciples of all nations baptizing them in the name of the father the son and the holy spirit and teaching them to
[00:11:23] obey all and the word in the greek for all means all that i have commanded you and lo i'm with you always even to the end of the age one in a thousand christians can recite the moral law which is the
[00:11:35] foundation of western civilization the foundation of western civilization the greatest miracle in the wilderness wasn't that three to five million Jews were delivered from Egypt with 10 plagues, parting of the Red Sea, drowning of Pharaoh's army. Their clothes didn't wear out for 40 years,
[00:11:53] their shoes didn't wear out for 40 years. They left with the wealth of the Egyptians.
[00:11:57] He provided manna, which was a food that knew the day of the week, where there was no food in the middle of the desert, water out of rocks, blow quail off course so that meat comes out of their
[00:12:06] nostrils. That wasn't the greatest miracle. The greatest miracle is Moses went up on Mount Sinai, got this downloaded moral app the decalog came down and put it in the center of the community instructed the children and and the adults and three to five million people lived together for
[00:12:21] 40 years without a police force or a standing army and we don't disciple in america anymore we just teach people how to evangelize how to convert it's like evangelists come into town and their spiritual gigolos they birth all these babies and they leave it for somebody else to raise
[00:12:42] and one in a thousand Christians can recite the 10 commandments from memory and order.
[00:12:49] That's the foundation of Western civilization. When the moral laws applied to civil law becomes the wise restraints that make men free. The first five commandments is our relationship with God.
[00:12:58] Second five commandments, our relationship to each other. If you're abiding by those government is limited, but if you don't have the moral law, the civil law becomes a weapon to enslave you. You're non-essential. Gay marriage is ordered. You don't have body autonomy and we
[00:13:20] get to inject you with an experimental mRNA. But when the moral laws applied to civil law becomes a wiser strength to make men free. And that's how they lived together for 40 years without a police
[00:13:31] force or a standing army. That's how 4% of the world's population under the moral law, which our founders believed and were educated and discipled in and applied it to civil government, educated by Jonathan Mayhew, Jonathan Edwards, Reverend Duchesne, Reverend Hooker, George Whitefield,
[00:13:52] discipled them, not on how to evangelize. They had a news aggregate and everything that their neighbors were dealing with, they would teach what the Bible had to say on transportation, on earthquakes, on immigration, on tariffs, on marriage. And Christians are woefully ill-equipped
[00:14:10] today because they haven't been discipled. Not in this church. This church is a discipling church.
[00:14:16] Pastor Matt, Pastor Diana, bless you guys. You're slaying it. And here we are. Every revival ended in a great awakening, created the freest form of government, 4% of the world's population, but we have more Nobel Peace Prize winners, more symphonies, more accumulation of wealth.
[00:14:33] than any other nation in the history of the world. You ride in an elevator, it was invented by an American. You enjoy air conditioning, it was invented by an American. You enjoy the light bulb, it was invented by an American. You fly in an airplane, invented by an American. You enjoy
[00:14:43] the internet, it was invented by an American, not Al Gore. But in 1870, it all changed. It didn't become about discipleship, it became about evangelism. It's called the idol of evangelism.
[00:14:57] You just preach the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. You believe in your heart, confess through the tongue, Jesus Lord, you will be saved, the glory of the Father. And that's great. I do that every Sunday when I'm preaching. But that's where it begins. That's the beginning. Now go
[00:15:11] make disciples. And you don't disciple them on how to evangelize. You disciple them on the whole counsel of God's words, especially the Decalogue. One God, no idols. Don't take the name of the Lord your God in vain. Honor the Sabbath. Honor your mother and father. Don't murder. Don't commit
[00:15:24] adultery. Don't steal. Don't bear false witness. And don't covet. I know it. My kids know it.
[00:15:31] my church knows it because from the moral law comes civil law that's discipleship in 1870 became about evangelism we haven't had an awakening since then case in point calvary chapels were started in 1968 by chuck smith he avoided politics because all these young people had been burned out all
[00:15:51] their political heroes had been murdered reverend dr martin luther king jr 68 murdered on the balcony of a hotel in memphis bobby kennedy was shot at the hilton hotel by sirhan sirhan We had the My Lai Massacre, the Tet Offensive.
[00:16:07] Our country was invaded by communism.
[00:16:09] Our schools of higher learning were all infiltrated by socialism and communism, sound familiar?
[00:16:15] It was on the rise.
[00:16:17] Our nation was in a bloodless civil war.
[00:16:20] Young people were dying in hamlets and villages of the names they couldn't pronounce in a country they didn't even know existed in Vietnam.
[00:16:27] And so they checked out of the church that wasn't dealing with discipleship and they checked into Eastern religions and experimental drug use and they ended up awash on the shores of California.
[00:16:36] And so Pastor Chuck saw all these hippies burned out and he began to teach the Bible verse by verse, chapter by chapter, book by book, but avoided politics because he just knew these kids were burned out.
[00:16:48] And I'm thankful for what Pastor Chuck did in my life.
[00:16:50] And I have taught through all 66 books of the Bible, I have a working knowledge, expository teaching because of that man.
[00:16:56] And I'm grateful.
[00:16:58] And God used him to create one of the largest church movements in American history.
[00:17:02] there's now, it had 10,000% growth since 1968. In 1968, California had Reagan as governor.
[00:17:10] It was a red state. We were the state of the future. We had just completed the California aqueduct, which took the snowfall from the Sierras and to the most fertile farmland in America that produces more cotton than the entirety of the South combined. We had the
[00:17:26] fifth largest GDP. We were the state of the future, but we experienced 10,000% growth.
[00:17:33] and the lion's share of those Calvary chapels are in California because they were all surfers and from Van Nuys in LA down to the Mexican border it's estimated there's more Calvary chapels than there are Dunkin Donuts at one point four of the 10 largest churches in America were
[00:17:48] Calvary chapels but we avoided politics and we preached the gospel and it was conversion growth not transfer growth so how did it change the state of California avoiding politics but preaching the gospel just doing evangelism and and the discipleship was on how to evangelize and of course
[00:18:06] the whole council of god words but avoiding politics well california no longer has a fifth largest gdp we have the sixth maybe seventh we have the highest gas tax sales tax income tax corporate tax we leave the nation in debt you combine the next four largest states debt it
[00:18:21] doesn't equal the debt of california where the authors of no fault divorce that reagan signed in 69 became law in 70 and decimated marriage across the country he regretted it till the day he died for the authors of transgender bathroom bills and the most secular progressive sexual
[00:18:37] education curriculum ever devised so vile you can't read a page of it in church and here's a kicker we've aborted more babies than any other state in the union worse abortion was legal long before 73 in california and it's estimated in totality that california in totality has aborted
[00:18:59] more children than the current population of canada we don't just rip the baby apart in the womb of its mother and flush its parts into the sewer system of the state we harvest its organs
[00:19:10] on the downbeat of the heart. We make Nazi Germany look like Girl Scouts. Where's the power of that gospel? You say, I don't do politics. I just preach the gospel. You're a Gnostic. And if it
[00:19:22] hurts, faithful are the wounds of a friend. You separate the tainted from the holy as though somehow you're more morally superior because you don't delve in politics. You see, pastors are mistaken to think that peace is the absence of conflict. It's not. It's the presence of Christ
[00:19:37] in the midst of the conflict. Pastors think that politics is poly meaning many and tics meaning blood-sucking parasites that's not the word politics comes from the word polis which is city it's the concerns of the city you invoke jeremiah 29 11 i invoke jeremiah 29 7 pray for the peace
[00:20:01] of the city in which you dwell for in its peace you'll have peace you say i don't do politics politics is dirty well your life is dirty and so is a church and you're trying to improve both so
[00:20:10] what's your point i'm tired of voting for the lesser two evils unless jesus is running for office, you'll always be voting for the lesser of two evils. Again, what's your point? Why are you making excuses? Because in Matthew 22, when Jesus was confronted first by the Sanhedrin and he
[00:20:29] eviscerated them, the Pharisees sent their best attorney to go try to trip them up. And he came to Jesus and said, Rabbi, what's the greatest commandment? And Jesus said to love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. And the second is like it. Love your
[00:20:45] neighbor as yourself on these two commandments, hang the law on the prophets. I would pay attention to that. If you're going to, you know, obey all that he's commanded to love your neighbors yourself. Question for those of you who don't believe in politics, which is the concerns of
[00:21:02] the city, your neighbors. Do you want your neighbor's kids growing up in a world? Because of course you love your neighbor's kids as much. You love your, do you want your neighbor's kids growing up in a world? And do you want your own kids growing up in a world where there's two
[00:21:15] genders? Anyone born on your birthday? Is anyone alive in here? Do you want your children going up, growing up in a world where there's two genders? Do you believe it's loving to lie to a child and tell them they can become the opposite sex while you mutilate their body and give them
[00:21:34] hormone blockers? So inhumane, you wouldn't give them to a serial rapist in prison, but you'll give them to a 15 year old without parental permission. Is that loving that loving them more than yourself? Where were the people when Chloe Cole had a double mastectomy at 15 and she
[00:21:50] goes into detransitioning and she's speaking and no pulpit in america will give her access except for charlie and the church is affiliated with turning point riley gain stands up and says women in in women's sports and and they wouldn't feature her is that loving your neighbor is
[00:22:08] yourself oh oh i'm sorry you don't do politics because you're agnostic and by the way fear of man is a snare and you're not courageous and the number one qualification for the lake of fire in
[00:22:21] Revelation 21 is cowardice. You know what it is? We're all scared. You're just afraid of man and you don't want to deal with him. So you just say, I just preach the gospel. What gospel doesn't love
[00:22:33] their neighbor and contend for them in the public square, especially in a constitutional republic where we have the freedom of speech and the freedom of religion to contend for the welfare of our neighbors. And I share this because Charlie discipled all these kids in these
[00:22:52] indoctrinations that they called universities, but they're indoctrination centers. And he went in and a missionary goes where he's not loved but needed and leaves when he's no longer needed but loved. And I remember early on, it'd be Charlie, a handful of us, and a sea of people
[00:23:04] throwing stuff at us, urine, fecal matter, blood. They would throw things at us. Charlie was fearless, undaunted. At the end of his life, it was Charlie, a handful of people in a sea of red
[00:23:17] hats, and they were chanting his name. He went into these institutes of indoctrination, and he gave every one of these young people a Christian worldview on topics no pastor would touch.
[00:23:28] Abortion, gay marriage, tariffs, immigration. And he showed them what the Bible, he instructed them, he discipled them. And these 18 to 30 year olds was his mission field. He would spend the first part of his morning in God's word and then two hours studying topics pertinent to 18 to 30 year
[00:23:47] olds. He loved the lost boys of the West is what he called them. And then he was murdered. And the Sunday after he was murdered, these young people came to church in massive droves. And the pastors
[00:24:01] of those churches not only wouldn't invoke Charlie's name, they wouldn't touch the topics that they had been taught on with a biblical perspective because Charlie loved his neighbor.
[00:24:12] They just love the idol of evangelism because it's easy. And I know I'm getting a golf clap because this is hard to stomach, but it's the reality. And here's the point. The Jesus revolution happened in the 60s coinciding with the sexual revolution. Over 80% of Christian women who've
[00:24:37] had an abortion did so after they became a Christian. There's been no cultural change.
[00:24:45] This is the first time in American history since 1870 that these young people have been discipled and now are positioned for an awakening. They saved the last election. They came out and voted in droves and the nation is divided right now and the target is these young people they're coming
[00:25:07] after them and and repackaging all these these old lies from eastern europe about jews they've been indoctrinated to hate jews now and hate israel 30 of the electorate are evangelical christians 70 of the republican party are evangelical christians first time in the history
[00:25:23] of our nation we've been split over jews it's in vogue now to hate jews charlie called it lazy intellectualism. Six degrees of separation to blame a Jew for anything. And they're easy to blame. They got their tassels and their schmoidels and their thing and their homogenous. And they
[00:25:40] don't trust anyone because six and a half million of them, of the 15 million, six and a half million were gassed and incinerated. And people reject that as having never existed, although we have copious evidence. You know why they pick on Jews? There's seven and a half million of them in
[00:25:55] Israel. They pick on them the same way when I was in the second grade and my father was a naval officer in DC and he got transferred to a new duty station in California. We moved late summer.
[00:26:06] I didn't have time to make any friends. I show up at school in the second grade, first time wearing East coast clothes, major faux pas in California. And they all start laughing at me in class. I
[00:26:15] wasn't raised in a Christian home. I don't, I never went to church. Never remember praying with my family. I show up and these kids are laughing at me. This is going to be a long school year and
[00:26:23] I'm not going to put up with it. And I know how to adapt. So I scanned the room and I'm not proud of it. And I hate revisiting the story. It nauseates me, but my past and my present belong
[00:26:33] to the Lord. And the Lord showed me this. I scanned the room and I found a redheaded kid with Coke bottle, thick glasses, stains on his shirt, runny nose, boogers, old bit.
[00:26:43] I started making fun of him to the point where all the other kids were laughing and the pressure was off me. I'm ashamed of it. I picked on him in the second grade, third grade, fourth grade,
[00:26:54] fifth, by the sixth grade, he was invisible. You could walk by him in the hallway, lift your hand.
[00:26:58] And he would, he would cringe because he thought you were going to hit him. And I scratched my head and everybody laughed. It sickens me. When I became a Christian in college and I was reading
[00:27:09] in Matthew, it says, if you go to offer your sacrifice to the Lord and there realize that you've offended your brother, go and be reckoned, leave your sacrifice and go be reconciled. Then come back. I said, Lord, is there anyone I need to do that with? He reminded me of this kid.
[00:27:22] So I went to our all class reunion at the golf course in Coronado, July 3rd, ran into some classmates. I said, do you know where so-and-so is? He goes, you haven't heard.
[00:27:29] I said, no, where is he? He goes, he committed suicide. Brings the whole passage to light when Jesus said, you've heard that it said thou shall not commit murder, sixth commandment. But I say, if you say to your brother, rock or fool, you're in danger of the fires of hell. You don't need a
[00:27:48] gun to kill someone. Your words will do just fine. Watch your mouth. If I could go back in time and take it back, I would. God's forgiven me. If you haven't, that's between you and the Lord.
[00:28:04] But here I stand today and I'm going to tell you something. You're picking on 15 million people worldwide. You know why? Because you're a bully picking on the redhead with the thick glasses.
[00:28:14] You forget the 2 billion Muslims and you want to talk about genocide? 52 nations that are 85% Muslim or more with Sharia law. Where are the indigenous people in those countries now? They don't exist. There used to be massive amounts of Christians and Jews throughout the 1040 window,
[00:28:33] longitude and latitude, where 90% of the Muslim world exists. They're not there anymore.
[00:28:38] They've been massacred.
[00:28:40] And you want to call Gaza genocide?
[00:28:44] 70,000 people have died in a nation of more than a million.
[00:28:48] And many of them civilians, true.
[00:28:53] How many people died in Pearl Harbor?
[00:28:56] A little over 3,000.
[00:28:58] How many Japanese citizens did we kill with the firebombing of Tokyo?
[00:29:02] Over a million.
[00:29:04] How about the firebombing of Dresden?
[00:29:05] And Germany didn't even attack us.
[00:29:08] We killed six times more civilians than soldiers.
[00:29:13] And you want to stand in judgment of the only democracy in the 1040 window?
[00:29:19] You say, well, they're prosecuting.
[00:29:20] They were invaded on October 7th.
[00:29:23] They killed 1,500 of their citizens and took another 300 captive.
[00:29:29] And this is hard to stomach, but bear with me.
[00:29:32] They took another 300 captive.
[00:29:34] They were invaded.
[00:29:36] And they took them under tunnels in Gaza.
[00:29:39] Doctors without borders don't even go into Gaza anymore because Hamas hides behind hospitals.
[00:29:47] And if you're irritated, I know exactly what sources you've been reading.
[00:29:52] By the way, I've been there 33 times, and I know the first thing you're gonna say, oh, you're paid for by Israel.
[00:29:56] All you can do is add homonym attacks.
[00:29:58] I've never received a dime from Israel.
[00:29:59] Bear me with your endless stupidity.
[00:30:06] You see, let me put it in context.
[00:30:13] 1,500 people murdered.
[00:30:15] Their sovereign borders invaded.
[00:30:19] And I'm not a starry-eyed Zionist.
[00:30:21] I disagree with the Likud party, and Netanyahu. I see Ezekiel 37. They're a political nation first, a spiritual nation second. I don't buy into your idea of Revelation 2 and 3 that they're the synagogue of Satan
[00:30:36] because they haven't received Christ. Does that mean in Galatians where it says, Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, if you don't receive Christ, you're not a woman or you're not a Greek? Come on, really? And you say, oh, they're not real Jews because you have Eskenazi
[00:30:50] and Sephardic. Oh, okay. And listening to Tucker debate with Ambassador Huckabee, they need a DNA test. And I told Mike, I go, you should have said, should we do the Michelin test, Tucker? You know what the Michelin test is? It's what Hitler used
[00:31:06] to justify if they were Jewish enough to gas and burn. Maybe it would be sufficient to allow them to occupy their ancestral homeland. They have the oldest title deed in world history, 1947 Dead Sea Scrolls. You can read it there. You can dismiss it. Play your games.
[00:31:24] But you're just picking on the redheaded kid.
[00:31:27] You don't go after Islam.
[00:31:28] You go after Islam, you'll be dead.
[00:31:32] But it makes you feel better.
[00:31:34] And you know why?
[00:31:34] Diversity, equity, inclusion, and critical race theory.
[00:31:37] White heterosexual males are put at the bottom of the totem pole and they're looking around for the redheaded kid to pick on.
[00:31:41] They make you feel tough.
[00:31:43] And look, I get it.
[00:31:45] They're weird people.
[00:31:46] I've been there a number of times.
[00:31:49] But it doesn't mean you get to kill them all.
[00:31:53] And the equivalent in America, seven and a half million people lose 1,500 by murder and another close to 300 that were kidnapped, raped, brutalized, and starved.
[00:32:07] The equivalent in America, population 370 million, would be the equivalent of a Sinaloa jihadi cartel crossing Mexico into Texas, going to the University of Texas during a concert like they did at Novo, and murdering 35,000 University of Texas students.
[00:32:27] And then on their way back across the border, they stop at SMU and they kidnap the entire freshman class and put them under 500 miles of tunnels while they rape and abuse them.
[00:32:36] Question, what would America do?
[00:32:41] Mexico would be glowing right now.
[00:32:44] And you say, well, why are they prosecuting the war so long?
[00:32:47] And let's not forget, they took out Iran's air defense system in 72 hours.
[00:32:51] They could end the war.
[00:32:53] They are prosecuting it slowly because they're hiding behind civilian targets.
[00:32:57] And you call it a genocide when they put in 700 million tons of food, or excuse me, 70 million tons of food and medical equipment. That's a strange way of a genocide.
[00:33:10] A genocide is there were 60,000 Jews in Poland. Now there's like 6,000. Egypt used to have a ton of Jews. There aren't any more there. There's like six remaining. That's genocide. So quit picking on the redheaded kid. Charlie saw that. And the young people of America are the targets of it.
[00:33:39] I'm just telling you that. Now we come to this part that I just want to share with you briefly.
[00:33:49] King David was told by Samuel that he was the next king of Israel. Prior to that, the reason why that occurred is because Saul disobeyed the Lord. He told him to wipe out the Amalekites,
[00:34:03] everyone. Saul didn't do it. He lied, tried to blame the people. And God took the kingdom from him and said, I'm giving it to another. Saul had gotten word that David had been anointed by Samuel
[00:34:17] so he tried to kill David and hunted him like a wild animal and of course Saul fighting God caused Israel to fall into a basically a civil war and bloodshed occurred which always happens when we disobey God's word Saul and Jonathan would end up dead at the hands of the Amalekites
[00:34:38] the one that they were unwilling to kill and Israel suffered greatly and then under David all the tribes of Israel reunited they'd gone through war and they'd realized we had been misled and we were wrong. They repented and unified, and you can see that in 1 Chronicles
[00:34:56] chapter 12. And because of that, David wrote this song. It was a harmony. You see, dissonance, discord, enmity. There might be that in the room right now. All of us at one point or another were
[00:35:18] at enmity with God. We were at war with him. There was dissonance and discord. And for people to be reconciled, someone has to die. Christ died, so we've been reconciled to the Father.
[00:35:31] Ishmael and Isaac were at war with each other.
[00:35:32] They came together because Abraham died.
[00:35:36] And when you come together and you repent, the conflict is resolved and then harmony ensues.
[00:35:45] And that's why Christians sing, because there's harmony in our hearts.
[00:35:49] We've been made one with the Lord.
[00:35:53] These dissonant sounds become harmonious.
[00:35:57] And David from 1 Chronicles 12 was so moved by Israel coming together, unified under the commandments of the Lord that he wrote Psalm 133, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.
[00:36:13] It's like the precious oil upon the head running down the beard of Aaron, running down to the edges of his garments.
[00:36:21] His unity comes from heaven and falls upon his people.
[00:36:27] Unity is the physical expression of the musical expression of harmony.
[00:36:35] One is the why and the other is the what.
[00:36:38] Harmony.
[00:36:39] our nation is a dissonance and discord right now young people are hating jews it's in vogue the church is divided over whether or not to participate in contending for their neighbor churches are torn between evangelism or discipleship socialism is on the rise and it's
[00:37:06] becoming in vogue again with young people socialism responsible for over a billion people dead worldwide they go no no it's not socialism it's democrat socialism oh whatever socialism is a pile of manure and democrat socialism is sprinkles on the manure it's just repackaged
[00:37:24] and it's enslaving and it makes government your god and we're discord and will the churches rise and will the body of christ disciple these these young people will there be an awakening will there be a change of culture when that occurs when there's resolution to the conflict harmony ensues
[00:37:53] this isn't the first time that the nation's been at war with one another one of the anthems of harmony that came about through courage was amazing grace written by john newton who was a slave
[00:38:08] trader his mom had instructed him in the things of the lord and she died when he was 11 and he went to sea with his father who was terrible man and he became a cussing sailor and was kicked out
[00:38:20] of the British Navy and then ended up a slave trading captain on a ship and then was in a storm for seven days off the coast of Ireland and came into conflict with God who brought him to his
[00:38:30] knees in fear and the resolution came when he humbled himself before the Lord and repented of his sins and walked away from being a slave trader and became one of the greatest abolitionists in the British empire. He discipled a young man by the name of William Wilberforce, who was
[00:38:45] used in the English parliament to deliver England, the British empire from slavery 35 years before America did without a shot being fired. And it was John Newton who wrote this harmonious song when his heart was in resolution with God. Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved
[00:39:10] a wretch like me i once was lost but now am found was blind but now i see it inspired an entire generation of abolitionists and america would fight to establish a nation though slavery was
[00:39:31] in vogue to put a sunset clause by the three-fifths compromise and the northwest ordinance that no state entering the Union could have slaves. Of course, darker forces rose with John Calhoun and Andrew Jackson, who stacked the Supreme Court, and slavery ensued until the 1860s,
[00:39:51] where we would lose 650,000 soldiers on a field of battle before we would remove slavery from the warp and the woof of the fabric of our country. But there was a diminutive woman by the name of Julia Ward Howe, who on November 19th, 1861, was in the Willard Hotel in D.C.
[00:40:11] and was awakened by the Lord with a tune of John Brown's body rolling in her head and she hated the song and her hand was moved and the verses were moved that she began to write as though God were guiding her hand
[00:40:22] and she penned what would be the anthem for the union forces that would declare that this war wasn't about states' rights.
[00:40:29] It was about the abolition of slavery to imprison another human being based on their melanin content.
[00:40:34] It was a moral war and she penned these words and when she was finished and it was sung before Abraham Lincoln. When the song was concluded with tears in his eyes, he said, sing it again. He said to that young, that diminutive woman, this tiny woman has saved
[00:40:52] the union. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored. He is loose the faithful lightning of his terrible
[00:41:06] swift sword his truth is marching on glory glory hallelujah glory glory hallelujah glory glory hallelujah his truth is marching on the third stanza says in the lily of the valleys christ was born across the sea with a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me as he died to make
[00:41:34] men holy, let us live to make men free. His truth is marching on. Harmony through conflict and resolution, united with the purposes of God. And then I conclude with one last song. This song, interestingly enough, came about in November 11th, 1938, 20 years earlier, been written by a
[00:42:05] Jewish man, a Jewish composer because of first world war. But when it was concluded, he put it in his drawer and it remained there for 20 years. But in November of 1938, as a Jewish man, he
[00:42:22] watched Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass where 14,000 Jewish businesses in Europe had been burned and looted and 40,000 Jewish men were carted off to concentration camps. Europe had fallen to the nazi regime england was holding on by a thread german u-boats were off the coast
[00:42:42] of florida we had the 22nd largest military by december of 1941 half our naval fleet would be at the bottom of the pacific ocean and everyone was scared and frightened they didn't know what would happen to america this jewish composer pulled out that song he gave it to a woman by
[00:43:04] the name of Kate Smith, and she said she would perform it before America, the largest radio audience in the history of our country, live on CBS radio. She sang this song, but people don't know that the song begins as a prayer. While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,
[00:43:26] let us swear allegiance to a land that's free. Let us all be grateful for a land so fair as we raise our voices in a solemn prayer and then it goes like this god bless america
[00:43:47] land that i love stand beside her and guide her through the night with the light from above from the mountains to the valleys to the oceans white with foam god bless america my home sweet
[00:44:12] home the proceeds of that song would never profit the composer he would donate all the proceeds to boy scouts of america to this day it's their largest revenue generator his name was irving Berlin. That song inspired America to engage in a two-fronted war against two fascist nations,
[00:44:31] brought them to their knees. We lifted that fleet from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, floated it into Tokyo Harbor to accept the surrender of the Japanese. We came back after the war, started the greatest industrial revolution in the history of the world,
[00:44:46] and America became a superpower. And now we're again in a winter season where there's an unraveling and there's fear and there's division and dissonance but it's time for americans to stand and contend for truth when i perform a wedding according to western tradition there's
[00:45:06] a segment in the wedding that i still perform to this day a lot of pastors have neglected it i say if there's anyone who has an issue with this couple being married speak now your silence is consent your silence in the face of evil is consenting with evil
[00:45:28] When Christians are silenced, evil reigns.
[00:45:33] When Christians speak, as Charlie did, you may die, but the nation will live.
[00:45:47] This is a time for courage.
[00:45:50] And in the absence of courage, truth is an orphan.
[00:45:54] And God hasn't given us a spirit of fear.
[00:45:58] And for you young people, don't take the bait.
[00:46:03] Don't be the bully.
[00:46:04] Don't pick on the redhead.
[00:46:07] Stand for what's right.
[00:46:08] Read your Bible.
[00:46:10] Look what it has to say, not what someone else has to say about it.
[00:46:12] do your homework don't be lazy and you older folks it's not time to retire and go at a buffet in vegas it's time to pour into this next generation you may wish you'd been born at
[00:46:33] another time and you may despise america and i'll just simply say this to you churchill said that the man was cursed to have been born in uninteresting times that's not true for you and me we're alive for the most critical moment in american history and god's placed you in a church
[00:46:50] that's making an enormous difference.
[00:46:53] Participate, pick up your corner of the stretcher.
[00:46:57] And look, you say, I don't have any talents.
[00:46:59] It's not your ability, it's your availability.
[00:47:03] At 18 years of age, without a college degree, one young man started a table on a campus and created the largest conservative youth movement in the world and the largest parachurch ministry in America.
[00:47:15] And by the time God took him home at 31, he changed the landscape.
[00:47:20] All of you have the ability to do it.
[00:47:22] and you've been appointed for such a time as this, may the Lord empower you, give you strength to do

[00:47:27] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:47:27] that in Jesus name. Amen. Come on up. Thank you. Thank you, Pastor Rob. So everything has a foundation. Everything is built on something. And Charlie, everything he did and everything that continues to move on is built on the love and hope of Jesus Christ. Um, yes, there's things
[00:48:07] that laws and situations and people that need to be addressed for the here and now, but the root of it all is based on that. God, he loves the world so much that he sent his only son to die
[00:48:20] for us. And that if you believe in that, if you choose him as your savior, if you accept and acknowledge that then you will too will be free. So I don't know the answers for where we go in
[00:48:32] America. I don't, Pastor Rob has forgotten more than I'll ever know in my lifetime. Um, but one thing I know is true is that everything goes back to the foundation that Jesus is Lord. He is King
[00:48:47] and he reigns. So with every head bowed and every eye closed, if you're here today and maybe you've never made that decision. Maybe you're here because you heard pastor Rob was coming. Maybe you've seen them on social media. Maybe you're here because, you know, you saw a viral clip of
[00:49:06] Charlie engaging with someone on a campus and it sparked some curiosity in you. And maybe you feel like you're, you align more with conservatism than you do Christianity. I would just encourage you now, maybe there's the Holy spirit's just kind of working on you and tugging on you. Everything
[00:49:24] that Pastor Rob said today is based on a moral foundation that Christ is King, that Jesus is King, that he was sent here to die, to be put on a cross. And he rose again three days later so that
[00:49:37] you too could be free, so that you could be free, free from the gates of hell, free from sin, free from an eternity separated from God. And if you want to make a decision and now a choice
[00:49:52] to change that, I just want to offer an opportunity for you just to raise your hand on the count of three. If you'll just acknowledge here before God that you have made that decision.
[00:50:05] One, two, three, just lift your hand so I can see it so that we can pray for you.
[00:50:10] Saying, God, I don't know much about what to do in this world, but I know and I receive you as Jesus Christ. I know that you love me so much that you sent your son. Thank you, Jesus. Now,
[00:50:22] And for everyone in the room, I want to lead those who made that decision in a prayer.
[00:50:27] And I want us to join with them and say it loud and audibly so you can hear it with your own ears.
[00:50:32] Say, Heavenly Father, I believe that you are maker and creator of heaven and earth.
[00:50:39] I believe that you love me so much that you sent your only son to hang on a cross, to die and to raise from the dead for me.
[00:50:52] I believe that his blood was shed for me.
[00:50:57] I received that gift right now.
[00:51:01] Father, wash me clean.
[00:51:03] Make me a new creation.
[00:51:06] Give me a new heart so that I can march out your will for my life until we meet again.
[00:51:14] I say these things in Jesus' mighty name.
[00:51:19] Amen.