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Hi everybody, like most of you, I’m still reeling from Charlie’s passing.
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I was on a plane. I approached George County Airport. My phone rang while I’m on the plane, and I answered it. It was my assistant, Katie, says something, and I wouldn’t even listen. I said, you can’t call me now. I’ll call you back. Oh yeah, I’m on the plane. She’s, you got to hear this. I said, no, I’ll call you back. She’s Charlie’s been shot.
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What?
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How bad? She says he’s dead.
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She knew it. She had been watching it live. She knew he was gone. And the shock of that destroyed me.
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We landed. I couldn’t get out of the chair, and when I got up, I didn’t think I could stand. I was dizzy. I
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tried to get the car. And sitting there, it’s like,
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it’s impossible. It’s just impossible. He’s the rock.
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Decades from now, Charlie is still going to be our rock, you know what I mean, and the comprehension that he would not be there,
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quite frankly and honestly, it shook me to my core.
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I knew Charlie for 10 years, we were friends. I knew his heart.
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He was patient. Watch that organization grow to what it is today and
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what
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we got home and went and turned the TV on, and like many of you, I just had to mobilize for the next few hours, piece by piece by piece. And my knee jerk was, of course, okay, what are you up to God?, I talk about it all the time. When things go wrong, God is in it. I speak that I have. I’ve had that happen in my life. Every bad things happen to me, and I won’t go into that now, but every time I say, okay, God, I know you’re here. You have a lesson for me. You have somebody you want me to talk to. So I knew he was in it. I knew that
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as I ponder that even with the harshness of the news, the dread of the news, I kept looking for the good news, we already do that when things go bad, don’t waste that moment, because God is there. He never leaves us. We do know that, that that Satan doesn’t trump God, okay,
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nothing happens to us unless God makes it happen, or he allows it to happen for His purpose. And that’s exactly what has happened. By the next morning, we had started getting all the reports
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of the global, the global shaking, the shaking of this earth.
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14 countries holding vigils, one parade vigil really was like 3 million people in England, a godless country
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as what’s pouring out all over and we’ve seen it. It hasn’t stopped; has it hasn’t stopped.
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It didn’t take long until after that second day I realized, we realized, Karen and I that God knew exactly what he was doing, and his infinite wisdom, he knew that Charlie be multiplied a million times over by this tragic instance that Satan meant for bad, but he used to forget. He always does. So I won’t go in the repeat of what so many people have talked about, and I’ve listened to so many reports and loved them all, and said, yay, and amen, I just give you my take on it right quick.
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It’s good.
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By Friday night after Charlie’s death, I was at an event with Jack Hibbs, and I went over to Jack, and I said, why am I feeling euphoria overtaking my sorrow like I feel guilty? He’s very, it’s incredible. It’s global revival. It’s what I’ve been praying for. Yes, thank you for affirming that. I mean, God, God didn’t let Charlie suffer for a moment. He was doing what he loved to do more than anything else that did that last he, he did that one moment, and the next morning, it was God.
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And at our hearts break for Erika and the kids, and it’s going to take some miracles and loving people, and God’s the fatherless. I should say God is the father to the fatherless, and he’ll be with Erika and she’s risen up and, oh my goodness.
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And we were, we had opportunity to be down in front for that service, that incredible service, and we prayed and prayed with so many of you. God, let this be a message of love to the world. I could the greatest evangelist event in the history of the world was about to happen. Make it. Make it be one of love. They shout God’s message of love to the masses.
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Even, even dollar Junior got in and said, it’s a really wonderful scriptural thing. It was just, just amazing.
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And then Erika.
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That moment, the pressure was on her, but she was focused, and God was using her, and she got closer, closer to addressing the
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perpetrator, the one who pulled the trigger. And we prayed for days. Could it be that Erika somehow reaches out to this young man and forgives him. And could it be that we could, I could see the salvation of this young man for the whole world to see?
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And she came up to that moment, and she got closer, say it, say it. And then she said, this young man,
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that man, this young man,
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and she struggled with it, of course, but she said it from the bottom of her heart, I forgive him,
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to the world. I mean, that’s not you can’t do that within yourself. That’s the Holy Spirit. That’s God working through you and shouting to the world, to perhaps more than 100 million people. God is love. He’s not vengeance, he’s not hate. He’s forgiveness.
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And the ones who are most injured probably is that young man in his in his corrupted mind, that can you imagine the miseries going through, and the parents, what the misery have gone through, perhaps for years, you just, you got to pray for them, folks. I know you are, but there’s
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no room for hating this world. We have to stop the violence, and God puts that back. He’s the light. It’s love. It’s God’s love flowing through us to the masses. That brings it down to personal okay? And that’s the message I want to get here today. We
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got to stop hating people folks. We gotta stop hating people in government and the ones that don’t look like us, and shaking our fists and damning them, and yes, and hating them, and you know, and saying we can’t do that.
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You do understand that God loves the people we hate.
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There’s nothing in the Gospel that gives us opportunity, gives us license to hey, we can’t do that.
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God forgives us as He forgives us. We forgive those around us. And if we don’t do that, we’re in trouble. And we are in trouble,
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because if you love people, you’re going to tell them about Jesus. If God is number one in your life, you tell people whatever you’re excited about you’re going to talk about. If you’re not talking about Jesus all the time, then you’re not really in love with him. You may be on your way to heaven. I’m not saying that, but you’re not enthralled with him like you were when you were first saved.
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And Jesus says to us in that letter to the church at Ephesus in Revelation, chapter two, I know you go to church and you’re doing all the right things, giving money, you know, good teaching, but bad brother, I have this against
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you. You’ve left me as your first love.
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What do you have in your life that you love more than God? What do you talk about? What fills your prayers? Where is your heart? What are you living for?
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The opposite of love is not hate, it’s apathy.
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And our ministry, for years, we’ve been holding services, and we pour out our hearts, and at the end of the service, five six people come up, and the rest just walk out unmoved. But there’s five or six that are broken. They’re touched by the message. Why are they leaving?
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We explained, we’re surrounded by the loss. They’re lost because we’re not telling them. How are they going to know unless somebody tells them, and nobody’s telling them, only 1% of us would you believe it, are actually intentionally sharing our faith that day to day basis. That’s the reason we’re in this trouble. We’ve been going this, down this path for 60 years. We’re evangelizing the world. Thank God. God’s blessings on us, and because of, of how we’ve been a blessing to the world, funding world evangelism five times more than all the other countries in the world. I mean, it’s phenomenal. That’s why he loves us. But at home, we’ve gone dark, we’ve gone silent,
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and neither percent of the people around you every day, are lost. Do you ever think about their soul, their eternity, where they’re going?
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So what do you do about that? It’s so easy, folks, and we’ve been sold a bill of goods, that it’s hard and you’re gonna be persecuted. I’ve been sharing my faith for 50 years. I’ve never been persecuted. Charlie has, but he’s put himself into the dialog in the mainstay where he attracts those people to reconcile with them and just love them and, and let me just say, very quick, our ministry, the focus, the theme of our ministry is, move everybody, every day, closer to Jesus. And that was Charlie’s model. He didn’t say it. He didn’t use that. We talked about it a lot. He never articulated that, but he articulated it with his, with his life, every moment of every day he was focused to the staff, on his family, on everybody, particularly those who oppose Him, to move them closer to Jesus, if only by his ghost, every day. That’s God’s calling.
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Most of you are living in fear. The statistics tell us about 70.
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Percent of Christians are living in fear.
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When you’re living in fear, you’re not living in faith. And James one says, if you’re wavering in your faith, don’t expect me to answer your prayers.
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Well, God answer your prayers. You want God to direct your steps. Trust the Lord with your whole heart. It is this wholehearted thing that’s critical.
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Charlie was all in he said, what am I most what are we known for? Because of my, my faith, my unwavering faith. I have faith in God. And he loved to share his faith in everything he did. He did that, and God bless him. Look at the ministry. It’s there. And now look at a hundredfold. I mean, it’s going crazy, isn’t that something we’ve never had a moment like this, folks, never in our lives, never in the in the history of the world, has there been world revival ignited like the passing of Charlie Kirk. It’s global. I can’t believe the last two weeks. Everywhere I go, everybody wants to know. Tell me about. Come on, I need to talk. Everybody wants to know, and we have the answer. We have this answer.
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When Trump was reelected,
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it was proclaimed, okay, God’s given us a reprieve.
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My pastor Tommy Barnett said, but are we going to take advantage of it? Are we going to use it? We’re just going to let it slide. Quite frankly, we’re almost a year into Trump’s presidency, and the church is not, not winning anymore to the loss. There is revival, I must say, among the young people. Thank God for that. But where are they going? Most of the churches are woke.
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They go to church. 90% only 10% of our churches are preaching the gospel.
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So it’s up to us. We’re, we’re the living word. We are it. We are their best hope. What are we doing about it? And the answer is, nothing. God help us.
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This is our moment.
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Do you hear me? This is your moment. You can’t change the world. You can’t do that. You’re worrying about all kinds of things you can’t possibly change. You can change your world
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every day by moving everybody every day closer to Jesus. And when you do that, you’re living for God’s purpose. His purpose is to seek and save the lost. You heard me say that so many times. I’m just going to repeat it for those who haven’t heard it, that when we live for His purpose. It means that when we’re living to seek and save the lost, that was God’s purpose. That’s, that’s why He came to earth. He created us for heaven. He created us for heaven, not earth. And he gives us this brief moment in time to figure out who he is and decide whether or not we want to serve him or ourselves or the or the world, and for those of us most unity right now, we’ve chosen him. Okay. From that moment forward, the only thing of eternal significance is souls.
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I do lots of things. I’m a busy guy. I have a business. I do all kinds of things, but when it gets down to it, it’s the only thing will matter when we get to heaven. The only thing that matters. How many people are in heaven because of your influence, that’s the only thing that matter, folks, the only thing
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First off, when you when you receive and you receive Jesus, Christ, your Savior, Lord, some of you have not done that yet. That’s the first step. But it’s just the first step. It’s a big one that gets you into heaven to receive the forgiveness Jesus gave us by shedding His blood on that horrible cross
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and acknowledging Him as our Savior, as he saved us from hell, that’s a real place, and honoring you as the Lord of our life. And if he’s the Lord of our life, we’re going to live for Him every moment of every day by moving everybody every day closer to Him. And when we do that, we’re on his team. And he says, when you do that, oh, when you do that, I’ll make everything your life work together for good. You can’t get any better than that. More importantly, wouldn’t you do it? Wouldn’t you do it? And you say, oh, I can’t do it. I don’t have the tools. I don’t know the Scriptures, nonsense.
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The most ferocious face shares are new Christians, and they don’t even know Scripture. And I started when I was an extrovert. I hid behind me. I didn’t, I didn’t have any kind of outgoing personality. There are no excuses. He said, Go. Not all you are talented or whatever. He just said, Go. But here’s how he said to do it. He said, they’ll know you’re my disciple, by, by your love,
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by your love. Yeah, that’s it. And when you love on people, and I and most, more and pretty good to those that don’t look like you, I love that
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you’re loving everybody, and almost everybody around you is, is hurting right below their laughter, right the right under that veneer, there’s tears. And when you love on them, they break
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and you walk away. Say, what if I hadn’t talked to that person that would not know anything about God loving them? God, thank you for giving me that opportunity.
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And the best part is you don’t have to come up with the words. You don’t have to repair because the Holy Spirit gives you the words. That’s this promise in Luke 12:12.
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He gives you the words to say when you need them
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and when you know God speaking through you, you realize he just organized that conversation.
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You’re right where he wants you to be, and he’s giving you the word saying, The Life and praise being changed as you talk to them. That’s supernatural, that, that’s intimacy with God, and that’s why he said in Isaiah, 43:10 I appointed my witness so that you believe. This is how you believe. This is how this is how you know that you know, and this you know that Jesus is Lord, and I’m on my way, and I’m right where he wants me to be. Folks,
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the message of Charlie’s passing is this,
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the world is hungry
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and the heat. I don’t care how bad they are. They’re looking around right now. They know this is not this is not right. The distance between life and death has gotten a whole lot closer. And they want answers. Seriously, folks, they want answers. They’re begging for answers. They’re looking over. 80% of the church are looking for answers right now, and you have the answer.
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You have the answer. It’s in your hands.
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Would you if you if you love Charlie and you’d like to honor him back,
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if you’d like his death to have meaning in your life?
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Then pray with me right now. I think I just got to pray with you right now. We just pray that say, God, I want to start living for you right now, and I can start moving everybody, every day closer to Jesus.
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We have a book called Ignite your life. It’ll help you with all kinds of scriptures. We have a website, igniteamerica.com we’ll give you all the background and helps, but you don’t need any help. Just need to do it. Okay? It’s so easy, and when you do it, I promise you, it’ll ignite your life. It eliminates fears you want to live. Life freedom, knowing heaven. God is directing your steps. Everything you’re doing, he’s he’s answering your prayers. He’s giving you joy. These are all the promises. They all come real, come alive when you when you get off the bench and get into the game and praying becomes easy, reading your scriptures becomes easy because you’re compelled to do with all with because you’re in the game, you’re answering, you need to answer questions. You’re being asked. What do you get the point? This is the beginning of your Christian walk. I’m not talking about your Christianity, but your Christian walk of becoming a Christian. I’m making a difference. It’s called us to be salt and light. Do you know what they have in common those two things, salt and light, they both change their environment.
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The question is, is the world changing? Is the world the environment changing you or you changing your environment.
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When you get to heaven,
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are your rewards going to be nobody in heaven because of you or the or is heaven going to be crowded because of you? I love charging. Are my business getting making heaven crowded? You want to you want to fulfill Charlie’s dream.
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Love everybody, forgive everybody. Know they’re lost, and it’s our job to get them saved, to live to Jesus, Father God. We love you, we honor you.
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And it’s tore us apart,
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what we’ve just gone through. It’s marked our lives with an exclamation point that will never be
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as pronounced as it is right now. Help us not to waste it. Help us not to waste this moment. Help us, Father God, all of us who are Christian. Now it’s time to mobilize the church. It’s game on. We’re seeing spiritual warfare like we’ve never seen before, the hate, the violence, the vile things we’ve said about Charlie and every Christian. It’s uncorked. It’s unreserved. It’s just going for us. But greater are you who are in us than in the world? God, you are the greater for us. But we can’t let it sit here. We got to explode. We got to let it flow through us. God, I pray with everyone listening to my voice right now.
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I pray that everybody listening to my voice right now will pray with Thee, Father, God,
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I want to make a difference. I love you. I want to honor you. I want the world to be better, and I understand that it depends on me and all of us.
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But God help me. Help me to be your ambassador. God help me from this moment forward, to move everybody, every day, closer to Jesus.
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May that be the cry of my heart, whether I’m on the tennis court, in the ballroom, in a restaurant, in a family activity, in a sports event, wherever we are, May everything we do and say bring glory to you and attract people to you because of our heart and your love flowing through us to them.
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God, make that so
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in the hearts and minds of everybody are listening to me right now I pray
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in Jesus name, amen.
