From the Archive: “As Long as the Lord Gives Me Breath in My Lungs” — Charlie’s Call to Christians

00:00:03 Speaker 1: My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter. Go start a Turning Point USA high school chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life. And I encourage you to do the same. Here I am. Lord, use me. Buckle up, everybody. Here we go. 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I see my good friend Bill Federer who's doing some of the most important work in the country. The people teaching your children think that display was ugly. I want you to think about that. You want to know why this country's divided? Because the people running your colleges and high schools think what you just saw was inappropriate. You know what's inappropriate? Drag queens in front of 12-year-olds is inappropriate. That's beautiful. And, you know, someone just said, why? How on earth could they think that's ugly? Well, because they believe that that flag right there represents evil, colonialism, racism, misogyny. If you don't believe it, come to one of these college campuses and I'll show it to you. In fact, I recently did a visit at University of California, Davis, our mostly peaceful college campus visit, where they came with weapons and they tried to disrupt us. And Riley Gaines, the great Riley Gaines, we hosted at a Turning Point event, and they tried to hold her hostage and kidnap her. And this is why what American faith is doing is so important, because we're not debating policy anymore. We're going to decide whether or not we want this country to continue to exist. And I'm not being hyperbolic. I'm not exaggerating. It's the question of is this flag, our traditions, our customs, our history, is it worth continuing? I believe a majority of Americans enthusiastically say yes. But then what is the issue? And this is really why what we're doing tonight is so important. The issue is many things. But if I had to simplify it, if I could wave a magic wand and fix one thing, it would be this. I wish we had elites that loved the country. That is what is so unbelievably unique about what we're living through, is that this is a top-down revolution. The people with the money, the wealth, the prestige, and the power are the ones crushing the normal people. We've never lived through anything like this before. You know, if you send your kid to government school, they'll hear that Andrew Carnegie and Rockefeller are the worst people ever, the Gilded Age. They all had problems. We're all human beings. We're all flawed. But at least Carnegie and Mellon and Rockefeller, they loved the country that made them a lot of money. These current oligarchs hate the country and they want to spend their resources and their money and their time and treasure to make it unrecognizable. There's another unique thing that we're living through is that it's the first ever revolution where the people who want to assume control of the country hate the country they want to assume control of. It's paradoxical. We've never seen, even the Bolsheviks said they loved Russia when they wanted to take over Russia from the czars. It's, I think America's racist and awful and evil and homophobic, therefore give me power. And that's largely insane because why should we give you power of the very idea and the very place that you say is bitter from the beginning? Maybe you should leave that place if you hate it so much, not try to take it over. But here's how you know we live in a great country. America is such a great country that even those who say they hate it refuse to leave. And they keep on wanting to bring more people in. We do have a beautiful country. And yeah, we're at the risk of losing it. I'm a different type of speaker. And in the sense, I don't do hopium. I tell you the truth. I'm not a fatalist, by the way, either. So I don't believe that we're going to lose or win. I'll get into this in a second. I tell you exactly how it's going. And guess what? We're losing. We are losing. American faith is going to give us a chance to win. Turning Point USA will give us a chance to win. But the score is we're losing. It's not insurmountable, but if we had a scoreboard, it's like, yeah, we're behind. And let's talk about tonight how we can win that back because we can do some things measurably and in a real sizable way. And one of the reasons why we're losing is because the American church has not done what it's needed to do over the last couple decades. And God bless America. Influence Church and Jack Hibbs and so many of the other great leaders in this area, but they are rare. A vast majority of the American Christian pastors are weak and they are cowards. I'm sorry, I might get in trouble for talking like this. Yeah, okay, well, very good. They are cowards. It's California. I can't get in trouble for that? Well, let me prove it to you. What percentage of pastors gave a sermon after the reversal of Roe v. Wade thanking the Lord for his divine intervention into our land? Less than 5% of American pastors even mention it from the pulpits. Less than 5%. I had a pastor recently ask me, Charlie, when is God going to intervene in the country? I said, oh, he has. For my whole life, I was told Roe versus Wade would never be repealed. I was told that it was the law of the land. Don't even question it. Don't think about it. Don't pray about it. Don't whisper about it. And here Roe versus Wade is repealed thanks to the prayers, the fasting, the activism of generations of Christians. And God looks from the heavens and most of his pastors say, nah, I'm not interested. Why should we expect God to act when we don't say thank you when he does? It's worth thinking about, right? Jeremiah 29, 7, it says, demand the welfare of the nation that you are in because your welfare is tied to your nation's welfare. We are biblically commanded to care about the nation that we are in. And America is not like any other nation. Bill Federer is the world's expert on this. I'm going to do my poor man's version of it. We are the only nation alongside Israel to be founded on eternal biblical truths. 55 out of 56 of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were Bible-believing, church-attending Christians. We're a nation that understood the laws of nature and nature is God. The end of the Declaration of Independence could be interpreted as a prayer to the divine, a prayer to the Lord, pleading for God to allow us separation from tyranny. So we have this special thing, we call it America, and it's more than just the country, it's our home. And it's being bitterly destroyed by people who hate your values and hate your customs. And I want to challenge a thing I hear far too often, and I don't know if anybody here believes it tonight, but if you do, I want to challenge it, because it's very, very prevalent in Christian circles, which is this One-liner, which is, Charlie, why can't things go back to the way they used to be? That's not going to happen anytime soon. And that is an uncomfortable thing for people to hear. It's going to take a lot of little victories over a long period of time. They have been doing this for well over 100 years. The progressives have been working for quite some time. Another thing I hear is, Charlie, we want the same thing as the other side. We just have different ways of getting there. I never want to hear that again. The other side does not want what we want. They think it's okay to have drag queens in schools. We do not. We believe that 5,000 illegal people crossing the southern border is wrong. They think it's admirable and wonderful. We believe that there is a God. They believe they are God. We believe that life begins at conception. They believe that it's nothing more than a clump of cells that they can eliminate at any time. We believe the Constitution is the greatest political document ever written. They think the Constitution is bitter and racist and should be shredded and rewritten. I never want to hear again that we want the same thing. We want something the polar opposite of these people. Therefore, therefore, let's stop negotiating, quote unquote, in good faith with these people. We must defeat them. Now, what does that look like? It looks like a change of attitude that I know you guys have here tonight, American faith, but I'm here to remind you. You know, sometimes people say, Charlie, why do you preach to the choir? Because the choir forgot the melody over the last 30 years. The choir needs to wake up and start fighting. We've got to remind ourselves, how do we beat these people? It's a change of attitude. The attitude is the same type of attitude that Winston Churchill said, is that we're going to fight you in every sphere, man. We're going to fight you in the schools. We're going to fight you in the churches. We're going to fight you on social media. We're going to fight you Wherever it takes. What I mean by fight, I don't mean violent confrontation. That's them. They're coming after us violently. I mean that we're going to prove you wrong. We're going to increase our ranks. We're going to recruit more people. We're going to push more young people into our value system, and we're not going to let up. Every single hour of every single day, and this is not for the faint of heart. I'm dedicating the rest of my life to this fight. I'm 29 years old, and I've seen my beautiful country in 11 years become unrecognizable. Some of you say, Charlie, you think it was bad then? I get it, okay? So you just got to sign up and say, as long as the Lord gives me breath in my lungs, I'm going to do my duty. I'm going to do my part. I'm going to be obedient. You are not expected to win it. God will do that. You're expected to be obedient. It's a big difference. Are you going to use as an act of worship to the divine that I'm going to do my part? And everybody's going to be called to do a different part. That is the parable of the talents. If you're given a lot, then a lot's going to be expected out of you. you're getting a little then do a little with a little and multiply it the Lord has blessed Turning Point USA significantly over the last decade if I would have had that mentality when we had nothing no money no connections no idea what I was doing I would have said what's the point you know this fight is too big then the amazing movement that we've been blessed with of hundreds of thousands of young people and well over 1,600 high school and college chapters across the country never would have existed so we all have to do our part and who knows what the Lord's going to do with American faith Who knows what the Lord's going to do at the Lincoln Club? Who knows? You've got to serve. You've got to be obedient. You've got to get other people enlisted and involved. So let me give you a couple pieces of hope because you need it, I can tell. Number one, scoreboard, we're losing. But what do we have that we have not yet utilized? We actually outnumber the bad guys. I refuse to believe a vast majority of Americans are okay with chemically castrating 11-year-olds. I refuse to believe that. That is a radical fringe, alphabet mafia, rainbow jihadi belief. Where they believe they can go after our children in a groomer, pervert, freak way. And we should say, you are not touching our kids any longer. If there is a line, that is the line, everybody. We're not going to put up with it. And people don't like it when I say, well, Charlie, you know, that's not very loving of you. It's very interesting. Psalm 9710. If you love God, you must hate evil. If I were to give some very loving feedback to the American church, I think we're doing a great job serving coffee in our lobby of our churches. We're doing a great job wearing skinny jeans and doing TED Talks. We're doing a great job of building big buildings and filling them half empty, right? Half filled. We're doing a poor job as American Christians as hating evil right now. We're doing a real bad job. 00:13:10 Speaker 2: I want to talk to you about an issue so many Americans face, and that's health insurance. There's an organization I really, really appreciate called Christian Healthcare Ministries. CHM is a faith-based alternative to health insurance. And this is real stuff, folks. You've got to listen in. With CHM, you're not paying into a company's profit margin. You're investing in a community with less overhead than the competition. You get reliable support through the giving and prayer of fellow members. Members contribute every month to help pay for each other's medical bills, allowing believers to afford the care they need. Because they're not insurance, you get access to your preferred doctor or hospital without network restrictions. You heard that right. 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Well, if you only do the gospel, how effective will you do be sharing the gospel from prison? I do what I do to make sure you can keep on doing what you do, Mr. Wokey Man. Because they're coming after all of us. Religious liberty under attack. Religious conscience under attack. Religious expression under attack. The most important thing in the world that you could do is to get more people to believe in Jesus Christ. The second most important thing is to make sure you could do the first thing. And most pastors are uninterested in that. What else do we have working for us? The other side, they are the most unhappy. Paranoid, frenetic, and neurotic winners in the history of politics. These people are never happy. And it's so interesting, right? They've taken over everything. They control the CIA, the FBI, Stanford, Harvard, Google, Goldman Sachs, Citibank, the 100 biggest corporations. They control our schools, the California teacher unions, and yet they're relentlessly unhappy. Maybe because they have a soul problem going on, maybe. But let me tell you why. I have hope. A paranoid... Organization is not an organization that can hold on to power for a long time. These people are constantly paranoid. I know it because they've come after many people in this room that try to shut down your church and mask your congregation and force vaccines on you. Where Gavin Newsom was really worried that a couple people were meeting here or there. These people want total and complete conformity. And because they're paranoid, they know that what they're doing is not going to last forever. You see, everybody here tonight, we have two things in common. We believe there is a God and we are not him. The left believes neither of those things. They don't either believe there's a God. If there was a God, they would be the God. You see, if we look at the scoreboard and we say, okay, we're losing, what else can we do to try to increase our probability of victory? The other thing that I know that they are counting on, if you say, Charlie, what do they think their death shot is? And I know this from their propaganda, from all of it. It's very simple. They will win if we do one thing, if we give up. Everything they are trying to do is trying to invoke your surrender. Their entire campaign is to try to tire you out. I have people come up to me tonight, Charlie, I'm tired and worn down, aren't you? Of course I am. So what are you going to do about it? 00:17:07 Speaker 2: Give up? 00:17:07 Speaker 1: Complain? The rest of your life, you're going to have to fight these people. If that is not a message you like to hear, then you're living in Narnia. The rest of your life, I'm ready and you should be too. And we're going to have fun because we have the truth on our side. And we have a new generation of young people ready to scrap for every inch. You know the best thing about being surrounded is? You can shoot in any direction. You throw a rock on the highway and I'll pick a woke corporation that we can go after. Pick anyone. I've got 16 of them if I pass to your exiting. I've got nothing but terrain to take back or new businesses to start. New families to build. New churches to launch. Stop thinking fatalistically. Let's start thinking like entrepreneurs to build new, big, beautiful things. That's how our founding fathers thought when it looked overwhelmingly tyrannical. Yes, these are bad guys. Yes, they control a lot. They'll fight amongst themselves. You heard me right. They will fight amongst themselves. Look what they're doing in the California Senate primary right now. You got Katie Porter who's like a monster who throws potatoes on people. Is that her name? Katie Porter, right? She's a real gem. And you got Adam Schiff and you got all these people. He's like, wow. And they're just fighting amongst themselves. 00:18:29 Speaker 2: Let them. 00:18:29 Speaker 1: It's like Game of Thrones, Red Wedding on repeat every day. The Democrat primary. It's really amazing. It's only going to amplify. We build. They'll fight amongst themselves. We build. What does that mean? More young people, more institutions. And yes, the place that we have to keep on coming home. And I'm going to challenge some of you tonight. If you go to a church that is being led by a coward, After you confront that coward and they continue to remain cowardly, leave that church. Stop supporting cowardly churches. Again, how do you know if you have a cowardly church? The Roe versus Wade is one example. Another example is, did your pastor mention in the last 30 days that there was a hate crime against Christians in Nashville perpetrated by somebody infected by the social contagion of trans ideology from the pit of hell? If your pastor has not mentioned it, your pastor is a coward. He might be a nice coward. He might be a loving coward. He might be an effective coward at preaching the gospel. Stop supporting them. It's wartime language right now, everybody. This is Bonhoeffer times. I'll close with this. I don't know how I'm doing on time, but I'll do a pastor's close, so I got 45 minutes. I'll do a couple thoughts, because supporting American faith is very, very important. I mean that. It's very important. So am I optimistic? Am I pessimistic? We're losing, right? So if I told you I was optimistic, you would go home and say, I don't got anything. I have nothing to do. Charlie said we're going to win. If I said I was pessimistic, you'd go home and say, I got nothing to do. Charlie said we're going to lose. You see, The challenge of that question, and let me be very clear, I am eternally optimistic because the battle is already won. Jesus will retake his throne eventually. I'm talking more in the immediate, right? The answer, I think, is we don't know. And I think there's actually some excitement in that. I actually think the thrill of the blessing the Lord has given us is the mystery of how this thing is going to end. I do not like it when somebody comes up and they say, Charlie, you know, any day now, The whole country will be taken back. And we have people that are going to arrest all these people in Washington, D.C. And they're going to go to Gitmo. And I'm like, you've got to read American Faith because I don't know what you are reading. You've got to get off the message boards. It's not true. Not true at all. Get off that. Not true. Or people say, Charlie, it's all over. No chance. We're all done. Jesus is coming next Thursday, and I'm ready. And I said, are you sure it's not next Friday? That's what I always say. Now, by the way, if you believe that Jesus is coming next Thursday, let me just say this to all my wonderful Calvary friends out there. I'm sorry. That's just where I get it the most. Love you guys. But Jack Hibbs agrees with me on this. Do not allow your eschatology to be an excuse for inaction. Do not believe your eschatology to be an excuse to not fight evil today. Because you might be right. We might be in the end times. Not my subject matter expertise. But do not allow that to all of a sudden say, I'm going to do nothing because I believe. certain things are happening as history unfolds. Instead, I think we're in the mystery of we don't know how this is going to immediately end. And boy, what if this is a time where God is testing his flock to say, I gave you this beautiful thing founded on eternal principles and the forces of hell are infiltrating it. What are you guys going to do? You guys have more buildings, bigger budgets, more influence than ever before, my church. What are you going to do about it? And right now the answer is I don't care. Not you guys care, obviously, but most Christians don't. If we double the amount of Christians that care about this, the whole game changes overnight. Overnight. If you double the amount of pastors speaking out about it. You know how I know this? George Soros pumps tens of millions of dollars into the churches every year trying to infect them with woke ideology, nonsense, leftism. So I don't know how this is going to end. I just know the most important question for all of you tonight and for me, I know what I'm going to do. I'm going to keep on waking up early and doing three podcasts a day and three radio shows a day. I'm going to keep on giving hundreds of speeches a year. I'm going to keep on visiting college campuses so you don't have to. I'm going to keep on hiring our staff and scaling on high school and college campuses. Long story short, I'm going to keep on doing my role, my task to fight these people. That's the answer. Some of you are not convinced. I can tell. Arms crossed. You're saying, Charlie, I've done everything that's been asked of me. I watched Tucker Carlson. I bought the pillow. By the way, promo code Kirk at MyPillow.com, just so we're clear. I got Relief Factor. I bought a lot of gold. Charlie, I've done everything that's been asked of me. Right, Teresa? She's checked all the boxes. Emergency preparedness, Relief Factor, she's got it all. 10 out of 10. Here's how you know if you're in the arena or if you're a spectator. And as Teddy Roosevelt said, who is definitely a mixed bag, but I love Teddy Roosevelt a lot of things. The man in the arena is what counts. Here's how you know if you're an arena or if you're a spectator. If you have not lost something significant over the last year and a half because your political beliefs, you're not in the arena. It's that simple. I had a pastor who came up to me once. He saw me in an airport And he said, Charlie, you know, you talk a lot about spiritual warfare because I believe everything is spiritual manifesting in the physical, right? He says, I just don't feel that spiritual warfare. I just don't. He's like, and I said, well, are you taking a stand for the unborn? Are you standing against transgenderism? I said, no. He said, yeah, Satan's not going to waste his time with you. Like, you're not making a difference. No, it's the pastors that are taking the boldest stands that have the most spiritual warfare and disruption in their ranks. So look, support American faith. I consider this to actually be a very hopeful time. Because I get to be alive in a time where America's not dead yet. I don't know how it's going to end. I know how it started. How this unbelievable group of men and women said, when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands that have tied them to another, deriving but a separate but equal station of powers, goes on to say, the laws of nature and nature's God. A paragraph that changed the world, rooted in eternity, eternal truths. That's just as true today as it is then. So when in the course of human events... That means it's true today. It's a call for courage, a call for action. And those were Christians who wanted to act. Why not us? I'm here to win. I hope you guys are too. God bless you guys. Thanks so much. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.