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Erick Stakelbeck: Remembering Charlie Kirk | Stakelbeck Tonight

September 11, 2025 | 29:58

During this episode of Stakelbeck Tonight, Erick Stakelbeck reflects on the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk.

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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: Remembering Charlie Kirk | Stakelbeck Tonight | September 11, 2025

Charlie's memory.
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Welcome to stackelbeck. tonight i am eric
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Stackelbeck. i am in washington, dc for a very special edition
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Of stackelbeck tonight. folks. it's been over 24 hours now
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Since a lion fell. the one and only charlie kirk, our dear
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Friend, a tbn programmer, a bold voice again, a lion for
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The gospel above all, charlie kirk assassinated yesterday in
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Cold blood. it's over 24 hours later. like you, i'm still
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Trying to process it. it doesn't seem real. charlie kirk
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Was a larger than life figure. brilliant. a force of nature in
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Every way. and now he's gone. the good news is, he's in
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Heaven. and the lord greeted him with, well done, my good
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And faithful servant. that gives me comfort. i know it
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Gives his wife, erica, comfort his family and all his many,
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Many friends and folks. look, he had immediate friends.
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Obviously he was close to president trump and jd vance,
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The vice president, and others. but millions upon millions of
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Americans nationwide of all age groups, all ethnicities,
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Denominations. it felt like they knew charlie. that's why
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This hurts so bad. because even if you never met charlie face
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To face, and i did. i was honored and privileged to to
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Know him, to meet him, to interview him. even if you
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Never did, you felt like you knew him because charlie was
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Viral. there's that word that my daughter, my 18 year old,
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Always uses. he was viral across tiktok and instagram,
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Youtube, all these social media platforms. everyone knew who he
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Was. he became, i would say, one of the most recognizable
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Faces in america, bar none. and those clips that we're talking
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About, the reason you felt like you knew him was because
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Charlie was number one, one of the most brilliant minds in
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America, one of the most brilliant people i've ever
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Interviewed. but you felt like you knew him because he had
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Such grace. he had a twinkle in his eye when he debated on
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College campuses, and he never returned anger with anger. he
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Walked the christian walk in public for all to see. never
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Returned. anger with anger won. every debate with a smile came
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Off as a normal, average guy because he was. but he was so
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Much more. he was brilliant. he was a follower of jesus, a
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Champion for the lord, for the gospel. president trump today
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Spoke about this very heavy loss of charlie kirk. take a
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Look. charlie was a giant of his generation, a champion of
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Liberty and an inspiration to millions and millions of people.
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Our prayers are with his wonderful wife, eric and his
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Beautiful children, fantastic people they are. we miss him
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Greatly. yet i have no doubt that charlie's voice and the
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Courage he put into the hearts of countless people, especially
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Young people, will live on. i'm pleased to announce that i will
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Soon be awarding charlie kirk posthumously, the presidential
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Medal of freedom. the date of the ceremony will be announced,
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And i can only guarantee you one thing. that we will have a
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Very big crowd. won a much deserved honor awarded to
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Charlie after his death. the presidential medal of freedom,
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A medal of honor. and to give you an idea of his impact, my
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18 year old daughter, who was pretty apolitical for years,
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Called me last night crying, devastated when she heard of
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Charlie's death and said, dad, i watched charlie every single
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Day. his clips motivated me, inspired me, educated me, and
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She would debate in classes at school with people with a left
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Wing liberal, maybe an anti-christian worldview. and
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She said i would use what charlie taught his talking
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Points, his teaching, so to speak, and she made out pretty
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Darn well in those debates. needless to say, with charlie
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And the lord jesus as her guide, this was a guy who was anointed
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From the lord, filled with the holy spirit, a bold lion for
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The faith. and we're all asking. it's one of those days where we
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Ask each other, where were you when it happened? where were
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You when you heard about the assassination, the cold blooded
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Murder of charlie kirk? for me, i was here in washington, d.c.
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You see the white house behind me. flags are at half mast, and
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They will be until saturday. i was in d.c. i was at the white
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House. i had just wrapped up an interview with tom homan, the
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Border czar. you'll see that interview coming up on
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Stackelbeck tonight, next week. but his team said, oh my gosh,
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Charlie kirk has been shot. that's where i heard it. i was
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Standing in the white house, a building where charlie kirk has
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Spent so much time, and really he was an individual along with
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Elon musk, i would say, who flipped the 2024 election in
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President trump's favor. i think president trump would say
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Without charlie kirk, i wouldn't have won. that's how
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Profound his influence was. in particular, turning generation
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Z to a conservative and a christian viewpoint. who knows?
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Charlie knows now in heaven, he's inside the gates, and now
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He knows the impact he had. he's seeing it all. all the
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Souls he won for jesus. but what an impact. what a life.
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And a quick note here that the shooter is still on the run as
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I come to you here live. but there is a person of interest
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Who has been identified by the fbi, law enforcement
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Authorities. the hunt is on. so pray for his capture and that
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Justice is done. but know this also. we have reports the rifle
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Was recovered. the shooter fled from the school through a
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Wooded area behind the university where charlie was
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Shot. and he left the gun. he left a rifle, a bolt action
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Rifle, and reportedly on that rifle was pro transgender
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Ideology scribbled on there, engraved and quote unquote
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Anti-fascist, as the left would call it, ideology, because
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Charlie kirk was apparently a fascist. he was a nazi, in
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Their view, because he spoke the truth about biological
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Reality. men are men and women are women. and he professed the
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Gospel and he believed in faith, family and freedom. that made
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Him an avowed enemy of the radical left. we'll have more
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Details, god willing, very soon about the shooter and that he's
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Brought to justice. but in the meantime, i mentioned this was
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A day where you will always remember where you were. it's
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One of those turning points. ironically enough, that was the
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Name of charlie's organization, turning point usa. this is a
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Turning point. this is a hinge moment. i believe in american
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History. and i'll break that down more in a minute. but
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Another day where look, we all know where we were nine over 11
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In all the understandable furor over the assassination of
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Charlie kirk, it's kind of been forgotten a bit. maybe that
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Today is the 24th anniversary of the nine over 11 attacks,
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And secretary of war pete hegseth talked about charlie
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And the anniversary of nine over 11 today. take a look. the
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Life example and even death of christ follower and american
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Patriot, charlie kirk. give me hope. sheer courage. no matter
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The arena. charlie, we love you. we know that you have heard the
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Lord's words. well done, good and faithful servant, full
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Heart, clear eyes like those on nine over 11. he will never be
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Forgotten. 24 years. can you believe it? since the nine over
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11 attacks, now we have. september 10th is a date that
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Lives in infamy. the assassination of charlie kirk
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Right next to, obviously, september 11th, nine over 11
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Today, a very hard to believe. and again, as i said at the top,
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If you're just joining us, it's still hard to believe and hard
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To process that charlie kirk is gone. a lion, a larger than
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Life figure who stood for all that is good and true. and i
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Really believe, folks, we had a live special. we had live
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Coverage last night in the wake of charlie's murder. live
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Coverage here on tbn. and sheila walsh and i both said,
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We strongly believe that the devil has severely overplayed
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His hand here because this was a work of the enemy, no doubt
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To snuff out the voice of a generation, charlie kirk of
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Generation z in particular. as i said, the influence he had on
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Young people, my own daughters. i can speak from personal
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Experience. so the devil thought that he snuffed out the
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Voice of a generation. and look, charlie kirk, 31 years old and
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Again, a father, a husband, two young children, three and one
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Years old, folks pray for his beautiful wife, his family.
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Right now, charlie kirk very likely would have been the
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President of the united states one day. i do not say that
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Lightly. i don't understate his influence, his impact, and the
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Brilliant mind that god almighty gave him. just a
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Tremendous individual in every way and guided by the holy
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Spirit. best of all, you were looking at a future president
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Of the united states. the enemies of freedom and the
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Enemies of god knew that. so the enemy himself directed
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Their steps and they thought they snuffed charlie out. but
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Here's the deal. his message i believe in life. he reached so
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Many countless millions in america around the world. but
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Folks, in death, if it's possible, i believe charlie's
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Influence will expand exponentially even greater. he
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Is indeed a martyr, a martyr for the faith, a martyr, a
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Patriotic american who died for all that's good and true about
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This country. defending the ideals, the principles this
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Nation was founded on at the end of the day, godly
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Principles. i talked to charlie about that a few months ago in
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Dallas, texas, for stackelbeck tonight for this program. take
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A look. charlie. you've called them out. i mean, for years,
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Really. the silence in pulpits on sundays and wednesday nights
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When it comes to the training of kids, men and women sports,
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These are issues of great, obviously great effect for the
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American people. but this is pure evil. and if a pastor
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Won't call it out, who will? actually, people are calling
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Out people like elon musk and joe rogan and podcasters who
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Aren't known as traditional christian voices, but they're
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Kind of stepping up and filling the vacuum where the church, it
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Seems, has abdicated. in a sense, it has abdicated. i mean,
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We look kind of at the modern landscape of the american
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Church. there's three types of churches. there's true churches
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That are really adhering to god's word, and they're
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Governing their church in a biblical way. then there are
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Trembling churches. they're shaking like a leaf. they're
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Always worried about who they're going to offend. they
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Know the truth, but they don't speak the truth. and then there
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Are traitorous churches. that's a small number of churches,
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Though. those are ones that are saying the old testament
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Doesn't matter, and they're constantly questioning the
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Inerrancy of scripture. they're a minority. i don't even want
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To talk about those. the issue is the trembling churches, and
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It's because they have a misunderstanding or a failure
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To articulate what the church actually is. what is the church?
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The church is not just an assembly. it's not just a place
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With organized parking and good coffee. it's not just the place
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Where you hear a ted talk and a rock concert. the church is the
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Place where, of course, the word of god is spoken. but most
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Importantly, the people of the of the nation of the community
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Come to learn how they can impact their community impact
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Through love and grace and all that they do in truth and grace
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And all that they do. and the pastor needs to use the
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Scriptures as a baseline to get that done. yes. and the failure
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To recognize, understand what the church actually is, is the
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Baseline failure of the modern american church. amen. and
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Folks, remember, that was a 31 year old that you just saw with
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That kind of wisdom, that biblical wisdom and that
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Discernment. and look, charlie was intellectually curious, a
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Voracious reader. and someone said to me yesterday, people
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Don't read books anymore. well, not charlie kirk. this was a
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Man who was so well read, a student of history. and what i
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Loved the most about charlie was his grace towards others.
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He loved people, yes, including people he disagreed with. he
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Didn't have to go to college campus after college campus
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Across the united states and engage with people who hated
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Him. look, if you watch the clips, he had people cursing
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Him, taunting him, physically threatening him again and again,
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And he always returned those attacks with a smile. and not
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Only that, many times he confronted by a student, hey,
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When you're 18, 19, 20, 21 years old, you know it, all
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Right? in many cases, you think you have all of life's answers,
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And they would come at charlie and try to one up him and
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Create a viral moment where they bested charlie kirk. it
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Never happened. charlie would listen patiently and with grace
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And with a smile on his face. a happy warrior as ronald reagan
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Was once called, and he would slowly, just and brilliantly
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And eloquently disassemble their argument in an amazing
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Way. here's charlie kirk talking about grace, which he
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Showed many times. take a look. you have an opportunity. the
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Gospel in four words is jesus took my place. three words is
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Him. for me, two words is substitutionary atonement, and
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One word is grace. grace. you cannot earn grace. you do not
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Pay for it. doesn't matter how much money you give to the
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Hospital, it doesn't even matter how many doors you knock
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On for trump. and i hope you knock on a lot of doors for him.
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You can't earn. it doesn't matter if you're a good person.
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It doesn't matter if you have always done the best you can.
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Because what's different about christianity is that it's a
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Gift for all of humanity to receive, regardless of
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Everything that we have done, and your life will be
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Transformed. you will be born again. you will be born again.
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Truer words never spoken. and you know, i saw charlie's
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Trajectory and we saw it here on tbn. of course, he was a
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Programmer here. we were honored and privileged to have
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Him, even for a brief time here on our network. but i first met
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Charlie, i guess 2017, 2018. gosh, he was probably 23 years
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Old. he was this young, fiery, enthusiastic, bold,
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Conservative activist. and amen, i loved it, but i watched him
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Over the years and folks, year by year as the years progressed.
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And again, still very young, 31 years when he was taken out of
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All of our lives. but to see his faith grow in a public
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Space very publicly, you could see charlie grow and grow and
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Develop into a mighty man of god. hey, we can have political
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Revival all day long. and look, in my view right now, we've got
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That. we've got amazing things happening here in washington,
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Dc with president trump and his team. no doubt we cover it
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Every night here on stackelbeck tonight, and that's great. but
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Ultimately we need revival in this land. spiritual revival.
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Political revival could be a short thing. maybe there's just
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A window, but a spiritual revival, a collective turning
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Back to god that makes all the difference. charlie recognized
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That he had his foot in the political world. clearly.
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Obviously, no one smarter as a political operative, but he had
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His foot in the spiritual. it was all from an
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Unapologetically biblical perspective. hey, we've got a
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Montage here. you've heard me talk about it, and we'll talk
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To our good friend dinesh d'souza in a minute. more about
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His experiences, his recollections, his memories of
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Charlie, what charlie meant to this country, and where do we
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Go now? the key question probably at this point. but
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First, here's a bit of a highlight of charlie kirk's
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Life, his work and the man he was. take a look. hello,
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Everybody. charlie kirk here. you may know me from turning
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Point usa or from our podcast or radio show, but i'm here
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Tonight to share a couple things with you. first, i just
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Want to share my personal faith walk with you. i gave my life
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To the lord in fifth grade. it's actually a christian
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Heritage academy in the suburbs of chicago. many of you may
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Have heard of it, and when i came in contact with a couple
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Of teachers that told me that i needed to give my life to
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Christ, it just spoke to my heart. and every year as i have
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Got older, my walk with christ has strengthened and has meant
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More to me every single year. i'm focused on the second most
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Important thing that i think i think a human being can focus
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On. so then of course, everyone says, well, what's the first
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Thing? well, okay. well, the first thing is winning souls
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For jesus christ. the most important thing. well then,
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Charlie, what's the second thing to make sure you can do?
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The first thing. charlie was a believer, a follower of jesus
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Christ. charlie was bigger than life. his voice unbelievable.
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He's this beacon of light. he's such a brilliant mind. he was
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Able to bring light in the midst of darkness. for the most
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Charitable, generous, productive, open minded,
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Accepting country in the history of the planet. see? i
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Think we're exceptional. america's a great country. wow.
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That the constitution is a beautiful document. god will
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Never forsake his children when you obey his commands. and
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That's a very important thing. charlie is graduated today.
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He's in the presence of almighty god. he's there
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Because he put his faith and trust in jesus christ. a great
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American patriot, number one, a friend, an absolute warrior for
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Christ. a warrior for this country, bold, unashamed of the
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Gospel. the church is the place where, of course, the word of
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God is spoken. but most importantly, the people of the
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Of the nation of the community come to learn how they can
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Impact their community impact through love and grace and all
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That they do. it's really important that we as christians,
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As it says in jeremiah 29 seven, demand the welfare of the
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Nation that you are in because your welfare is tied to your
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Nation's welfare. we try to make it easier for you on the
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Charlie kirk show here on tbn every day. governor huckabee,
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Welcome to the very first episode of my new daily tv
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Program, charlie kirk. today, evening television viewing is
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About to get a whole lot better than it was with me. well,
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Thank you, and it's a great honor, but very, very big shoes
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To fill. i will never fill them completely. and i love tbn and
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Can't wait to reach this audience. i want to be
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Remembered for courage, for my faith. that would be the most
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Important thing. to. that was a
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Beautiful piece. and folks, please remember we have so many
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Mighty intercessors and prayer warriors watching here on tbn
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Right now and every night. please remember to pray for
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Charlie's wife, his widow erica, his two young children, three
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Years old and a one year old. his family, all his friends.
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This is a spiritual battle that we are locked in. no doubt this
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Is good and evil. you're seeing it play out in real time before
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Our very eyes. our good friend dinesh d'souza knows that very
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Well. best selling author, filmmaker, activist, voice for
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Faith, family and freedom. dinesh, thanks so much for
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Joining us. my friend. and i know that you knew charlie very
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Well. first thoughts here. we lost a lion. we lost a force of
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Nature, forgotten country, quite literally. first thoughts
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Here as we're still trying to process the death of the one
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And only charlie kirk. i was thinking about eric, why
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Charlie was shot in the neck or in the throat. and i think the
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Answer there's a kind of symbolism here that we can't
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Miss, and that is that he was shot because somebody wanted to
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Silence his voice. charlie was a voice for faith and for
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Conservatism, and he was doing it to young people. he was he
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Was offering them a forum for their beliefs and their
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Convictions. now, on the left, the activists like to think of
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Themselves as progressive. they like to think that they own the
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Future. they're happy to concede to conservatism in the
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Past, but they want to be the party of the young people and
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Of tomorrow. charlie cook threatened that dominance. he
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Basically said, no, i'm going to fight for the souls of young
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People. i'm going to bring him over to the other side. i think
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This is what made him such a threat. and this is why you had
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This targeted political assassination. yeah, dinesh,
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That's exactly what it was, a targeted political
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Assassination. tell us more about charlie, the man you knew
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Personally. i think charlie's real gift was that he had an
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Ability to see political possibilities, and and
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Capitalize on them in a remarkable way. the thing about
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Charlie, he didn't go to college, and yet he could spar
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With the best of the college students. and he immediately
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Recognized what their vulnerabilities were. i
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Remember one student saying to charlie, well, you didn't go to
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College, and you don't even know half of what all the
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People here in this audience know. so how do you presume to
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Come and lecture us? and charlie says to him, he says,
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Well, if i don't know anything about about college, he goes,
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Who's milton friedman? who's hayek, who's solzhenitsyn? and
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Of course, the student is like, i don't know, i don't know, i
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Don't know. so charlie's like, well, i actually know more than
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You do and more than that. i've built a huge company. i raised
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Tens of millions of dollars. i am an entrepreneur. so in other
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Words, what charlie was saying is that that i have the kind of
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Job that you may aspire to when you're 60, but i've already
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Done it, and i'm not even i'm just 30. and second, what
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Charlie realized is that these liberals and these leftists
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Inhabit their own bubble. they don't know conservative ideas,
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Whether it be margaret thatcher, ronald reagan, hayek or edmund
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Burke. and so by bringing up those names, charlie was pretty
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Confident this guy would be, you know, would respond with
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Gaping ignorance as he did. yeah. no doubt. dinesh, we only
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Have about a minute 30 left. i'm so sorry, my friend. you're
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Coming back next month. by the way, you have an incredible new
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Film coming out called the dragon's prophecy coming out in
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October. we're going to talk about that with you very soon.
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In the meantime, about a minute or so left. minute 15. where do
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We go from here? this should be a wake up call, i think, for
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Every american. where do we go moving forward now, in the wake
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Of this, the goal of the shooter was not merely to
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Silence charlie, which he has done in a way, but to
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Intimidate all the rest of us. anyone who speaks the kind of
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Ideas that charlie does, the idea is to put fear into those
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People. this could happen to you. you could be next. so i
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Think it's important to magnify charlie's influence. we saw
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With the left how effective they are in taking even a
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Suspect character like george floyd. they have memorials,
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They have monuments. they are all doing, all going down on
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Their knees. i think what we need to do is magnify, charlie.
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We need a charlie monument. we need to give the guy the medal
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Of freedom. we need to do what the left does in building up a
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Genuine hero like charlie kirk, in somewhat the same way that
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The left was able to build a spurious hero like george floyd,
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George floyd. dinesh. so well said, as always for charlie,
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That's be our motto going forward. and he would again, as
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You said, dinesh, he would want us to be bold. he was bold as a
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Lion. this should galvanize all of us to speak out even more,
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And to stand for all that's good and true. more than ever,
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I feel highly motivated right now, needless to say. and
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Dinesh, thank you so much. we will see you again soon. the
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Dragon's prophecy out next month. we'll break that down
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With you very soon. dinesh. god bless. we'll see you again soon.
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And folks, dinesh makes great points all across the board.
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Resilience. galvanize is a word that i've thought about a lot
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Over the past 24 hours or so. in the wake of this horrific
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News about charlie. i'm galvanized. i will not remain
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Silent. i will not hold my peace. this is no time to mince
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Words. this is it. we are locked in a battle for the soul
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Of our nation. and charlie kirk, although he was just 31 years
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Old, knew that very well, knew it better than anyone. that's
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Why he fought so hard. i don't know if he slept very much. he
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Was a tireless warrior for truth and for the lord. you saw
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Those incredible testimonies we shared from charlie earlier,
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Talking about grace, talking about the growth of his faith.
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An amazing individual is gone. but guess what? again, the
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Devil overplaying his hand because there are now millions
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Upon millions of people who are deeply and profoundly affected,
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Touched, educated by charlie kirk. and they will fan out now.
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They will not remain silent. so be encouraged. god almighty is
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Still on the throne. hey, tomorrow night a good friend,
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Jeremiah johnston, is with us to remind you god's on the
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Throne. some amazing archeological discoveries he's
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Going to bring to us from israel and beyond. you won't
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Want to miss that. coming up to our good friend, pastor allen
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Jackson, host of allen jackson. now he's next! a very special
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Episode in memory of charlie kirk. a special episode of
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Praise. you know, charlie was scheduled to speak at pastor
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Allen's church in murfreesboro, tennessee, in the coming weeks.
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What a blow. it's a blow for all of us. but pastor allen's
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Feeling that i know as well. he knew charlie, and charlie loved
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Pastor allen jackson. he talked very highly of him. so coming
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Up, a full hour special coverage. pastor alan jackson,
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Host of allen jackson. now, a special coverage of the death,
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The life, the legacy of charlie kirk and how we move forward.
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Hey, let's say a quick prayer, right? that's the great thing
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About tbn. we can pray and we're unashamed, just as
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Charlie was. that's why he was such a great fit on our network
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And why he will be so sorely missed. father god, we just
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Bring before you a grieving nation right now in the name of
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Jesus. we pray healing on the land. there's evil in the land,
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Lord, but you're greater than it. god, heal the land. we pray
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Comfort for erica, charlie's wife, for his beautiful
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Children. lord god, comfort them. we pray for peace, lord,
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The peace that surpasses all understanding on all charlie's
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Friends, all his loved ones. god. and may his legacy live on
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His legacy for you. we know he's with you now. we pray it
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All in jesus mighty name. hey folks, take heart, take heart.
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God is in control again. pastor alan jackson, coming up next,
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Special one hour coverage of the death of charlie kirk and
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His life and legacy. don't miss it tomorrow night, jeremiah
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Johnson. until then, god bless you and we'll see you soon.
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