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Speaker 3: It is Good Friday, and it is a solemn day
Speaker 3: of remembrance of what our savior, our Lord Jesus Christ
Speaker 3: did for us and for all of you. And we're
Speaker 3: going to take time to remember that starting now.
Speaker 2: Welcome Blake, Howdy. So what is Good Friday exactly? It is,
Speaker 2: like I said, It's a.
Speaker 3: Solemn observance of Jesus's suffering, his trial, his crucifixion, his
Speaker 3: sacrificial death, his atoning death on the cross for our sins.
Speaker 3: We believe as Christians that today is the day that
Speaker 3: Jesus took our sin upon him, though he lived a
Speaker 3: perfect life and lived without sin, that he took our
Speaker 3: sins upon himself and paid for those the ultimate sacrifice
Speaker 3: of his life, and that culminated with the crucifixion. And
Speaker 3: so we want to take some time to remember this
Speaker 3: and to remember what Charlie said about his faith in
Speaker 3: Jesus Christ. Good Friday, because it is probably, besides Easter,
Speaker 3: the most important day on the Christian calendar.
Speaker 4: I think, so, I mean, yeah, I would go.
Speaker 3: But obviously you don't get Easter without Good Friday. And
Speaker 3: I was praying about this and thinking about what I
Speaker 3: wanted to do and what I wanted to say, especially
Speaker 3: everything that we've lived through. This is obviously our first
Speaker 3: Easter season without Charlie, and I think of him still.
Speaker 3: The first thing I think about in the morning is Charlie,
Speaker 3: and the last thing I think about before I go
Speaker 3: to bed is usually Charlie. And I think a lot
Speaker 3: of you out there probably feel the same way I do.
Speaker 3: And we still live in the shadow of our great friend,
Speaker 3: who is a martyr, a Christian martyr, and his example
Speaker 3: is powerful and it looms large over my life. And
Speaker 3: so we want to give this day to the Lord.
Speaker 3: And I want to read a verse from Isaiah fifty three.
Speaker 3: And when I think about what good Friday means to me,
Speaker 3: this is what good Friday is. And I think, especially
Speaker 3: everything that happened to Charlie. I think that he embodies
Speaker 3: so much of the Christian ethic and the life well lived.
Speaker 3: So Isaiah fifty three written before the time of Jesus
Speaker 3: on this earth, and yet it points directly to him
Speaker 3: who has believed our message, and to whom has the
Speaker 3: arm of the Lord been revealed. He grew up before him,
Speaker 3: He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and
Speaker 3: like a root.
Speaker 2: Out of dry ground.
Speaker 3: He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
Speaker 3: nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He
Speaker 3: was despised and rejected by man kind, a man of
Speaker 3: suffering and familiar with pain, like one from whom people
Speaker 3: hide their faces. He was despised, and we held him
Speaker 3: in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain and
Speaker 3: bore our suffering. Yet we considered him punished by God,
Speaker 3: stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for
Speaker 3: our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment
Speaker 3: that brought us peace was upon him, and by his
Speaker 3: wounds we are healed.
Speaker 2: And that is essentially the core of the Christian message.
Speaker 3: On Good Friday. And we don't say good in a
Speaker 3: celebratory sense. We say good in sort of the old
Speaker 3: English sense, the pious holy. It is a day to
Speaker 3: solemnly reflect on the sacrifices our Savior has made.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was actually had it open from mind. It
Speaker 4: was slightly different wording because we use a different translation
Speaker 4: of the Bible, but they do read that in Catholic
Speaker 4: services on Good Friday every year basically the whole of
Speaker 4: that that keeps going. You might remember, though he was
Speaker 4: harshly treated, he submitted and opened not his mouth, like
Speaker 4: a lamb led to the slaughter, or a sheep before
Speaker 4: the shearers. He was silent and opened not his mouth.
Speaker 4: Oppressed and condemned, he was taken away, And who would
Speaker 4: have thought any more of his destiny when he was
Speaker 4: cut off from the land of the living and smitten
Speaker 4: for the sin of his people. A grave was assigned
Speaker 4: him among the wicked, and a burial place with evildoers,
Speaker 4: though he had done no wrong nor spoken any falsehood.
Speaker 4: And it continues from there, and we have other special
Speaker 4: readings that we do. Usually you don't have a verse
Speaker 4: that you read. You're an unusual Catholic service. It's first
Speaker 4: reading Psalm, second reading Gospel. But they also incorporate a
Speaker 4: special verse just before they read the Gospel, which is
Speaker 4: on Good Friday. It's always the Passion according to John,
Speaker 4: and they say Christ became obedient to the point of death,
Speaker 4: even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly
Speaker 4: exalted on him and bestowed on him the name which
Speaker 4: is above every other name. That's from Philippians.
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Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: And it wouldn't be the Charlie Kirk Show without Charlie
Speaker 3: reflecting on Easter.
Speaker 2: The team pulled this clip not.
Speaker 1: To I love Easter, I love the Resurrection. And also,
Speaker 1: just so everyone's clear, they say, oh, Easter is pagan.
Speaker 1: Hold on a second, the term Easter was a pagan
Speaker 1: term that was redeemed. But no, Easter itself is actually
Speaker 1: always aligning with the Jewish passover pesca, which is happening
Speaker 1: this week as well. That those two things are always
Speaker 1: overlaid with one another, and the resurrection and the promise
Speaker 1: of Jesus honestly can be best described as a fresh start,
Speaker 1: as a reset. It's a beautiful idea and it's a
Speaker 1: torurism that has captivated billions of people throughout time.
Speaker 3: It is really an amazing part of about Easter, the
Speaker 3: Easter season, how it overlays with the passover, because obviously
Speaker 3: the passover comes from the Genesis story of the Jews
Speaker 3: putting Exodus Exodus im sorry, the Exodus story where the
Speaker 3: Jews put the blood of a lamb over their doors
Speaker 3: so that the Angel of Death would pass over their house.
Speaker 3: And Jesus is our passover lamb, and so it is
Speaker 3: the perfect embodiment of that story. And I love how
Speaker 3: scripture tends to echo, right, we see, we see different
Speaker 3: themes and ideas that are once told in the Old Testament,
Speaker 3: you see them reflected or embodied perfectly in the life
Speaker 3: of Jesus.
Speaker 4: One of my favorite images of the that comes out
Speaker 4: of Good Friday and what it represents.
Speaker 2: It's from a.
Speaker 4: Church in modern day Istanbul. It's called the Kora Church.
Speaker 2: Throw up that.
Speaker 4: Image I sent you, guys, and it's an image of
Speaker 4: what we believe Jesus was doing.
Speaker 2: During the Heroine of Hell.
Speaker 4: We call it, which is he dies, resurrects a few
Speaker 4: days later, and what he is doing is he in
Speaker 4: the he descended into Hell and what he did is
Speaker 4: that is what the redemption of Christ means. What that
Speaker 4: image is that is Jesus bursting open the coffins that
Speaker 4: hold Adam on one side and Eve on the other.
Speaker 2: That's Adam and Eve. That they have.
Speaker 4: Been separated from God for untold generations because of their sin,
Speaker 4: and that Jesus is bursting them out and he is
Speaker 4: liberating them so that they can be taken up to
Speaker 4: Heaven with him, that he can redeem them for paradise.
Speaker 4: And it's one of the most powerful images you can
Speaker 4: have of what Jesus was accomplished.
Speaker 3: There is another clip of Charlie with U's they got
Speaker 3: to play it top three.
Speaker 1: All right, have a great Easter weekend. Thank you Blake
Speaker 1: very much. He remember he has risen. Please observe good
Speaker 1: Friday and understand the significance of the suffering of our Lord.
Speaker 1: And I am not Catholic, but I will be doing
Speaker 1: the stations of the Cross tonight. They have an outdoor
Speaker 1: Stations of the Cross in Arizona. Actually it's pretty really neat.
Speaker 4: It kind of probably looks a little bit like Judea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, God bless everybody. Shabbat Shalom and have a
Speaker 1: wonderful Easter.
Speaker 3: That's the perfect like sort of ecumenical clip of Charlie
Speaker 3: the Evangelical doing the Catholic stations of the Cross, signing
Speaker 3: off with Shabbat Shalom.
Speaker 4: He had a very special way of approaching he faith matters.
Speaker 3: And Blake, you inspired me, and she said, the Catholics
Speaker 3: read from John the crucifixion story from John, so I
Speaker 3: figured we should do that. This is from John chapter nineteen,
Speaker 3: verse seventeen, and he says, and he bearing his cross,
Speaker 3: went out to a place called the Place of the Skull,
Speaker 3: which is called in Hebrew Golgatha where they crucified him,
Speaker 3: and two others with him, one on either side, and
Speaker 3: Jesus in the center. Now Pilot wrote a title and
Speaker 3: put it on the cross, and the writing was Jesus
Speaker 3: of Nazareth, the King of the Jews. Then many of
Speaker 3: the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus
Speaker 3: was crucified was near the city, and it was written
Speaker 3: in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. Therefore, the chief priests of
Speaker 3: the Jews said to Pilot, do not write the king
Speaker 3: of the Jews. But he said, I am the king
Speaker 3: of the Jews. Pilot answered what I have written, I
Speaker 3: have written. Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus,
Speaker 3: took his garments and made four parts to each soldier apart,
Speaker 3: and also the tunic. Now the tunic was without seam,
Speaker 3: woven from the top in one piece. They said, therefore
Speaker 3: among themselves, let us not tear it, but cast lots
Speaker 3: for it, of whose it shall be that the scripture
Speaker 3: might be fulfilled, which says they divided my garments among them,
Speaker 3: and for my clothing they cast lots. Therefore the soldiers
Speaker 3: did these things, and then Jesus it's an ode to marry,
Speaker 3: which I wanted to keep in here. Now there stood
Speaker 3: by the cross of Jesus, his mother and his mother's sister, Marry,
Speaker 3: the wife of Clopus, and Mary Magdalen. When Jesus therefore
Speaker 3: saw his mother and the disciple, whom he loved, standing by,
Speaker 3: he said to his mother, woman, behold your son. Then
Speaker 3: he said to the disciple, behold your mother. And from
Speaker 3: that hour that disciple took her into his uh in
Speaker 3: his own home. After this, Jesus, knowing that all things
Speaker 3: were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, said
Speaker 3: I thirst. Now a vessel full of sour wine was
Speaker 3: sitting there, and they filled a sponge with sour wine,
Speaker 3: put it on hissop, and put it to his mouth.
Speaker 3: So when Jesus had received the sour wine, he said,
Speaker 3: it is finished, and bowing his head, he gave up
Speaker 3: his spirit powerful moment to reflect on on Good Friday.
Speaker 3: And we think it's important to read directly from scripture
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Speaker 3: though a little bit on what it is finished, and
Speaker 3: I saw this great clip that I wanted to share
Speaker 3: with all of you guys on the different meanings of
Speaker 3: what this means. This is from Josh Howardton sought one
Speaker 3: when Jesus.
Speaker 5: On the cross, he cried out it is finished. That's
Speaker 5: how it gets translated in English. But that was just
Speaker 5: a translation of the Greek word to telesty.
Speaker 1: There was a word that was.
Speaker 5: Used in a business context on ancient receipts in the
Speaker 5: New Testament Bible times to indicate that literal debt had
Speaker 5: been paid in full. It was also used in a
Speaker 5: judicial context in a court when a sentence was fully served,
Speaker 5: completely and fully, once and for all served. The word
Speaker 5: to tell sty was also used in a military context,
Speaker 5: meaning that a battle had been won. It was a
Speaker 5: word of like triumph in victory. When Jesus hangs on
Speaker 5: the cross and he cries out to tell sty it
Speaker 5: is finished. He was declaring the debt of your sin
Speaker 5: is fully paid, the judgment for your sin has been
Speaker 5: fully served, and the spiritual war against death, sin and
Speaker 5: satan has been completely won. In Christ. The work of salvation, victory, reconciliation,
Speaker 5: and a new life is fully yours.
Speaker 2: It is finished. Amen.
Speaker 4: Also, as Jesus said that he had come to fulfill
Speaker 4: the law, kind of means that as well it is fulfilled.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm, yeah, absolutely. I love that the Catholics read
Speaker 3: from John.
Speaker 4: There's there's many interesting parts about it. One of the
Speaker 4: most interesting to me is when you do readings in church,
Speaker 4: all of the gospel readings are they're done by the priest,
Speaker 4: exclusively by the priest. And the one exception is during
Speaker 4: the passion readings where they actually will have the audience
Speaker 4: take part of it, and you're taking the part of
Speaker 4: the mob of the crowd which goes in the story.
Speaker 2: So when they say.
Speaker 4: The one that's really memorable, I can't remember if this
Speaker 4: is in let me see, do they have it in
Speaker 4: John or is it only.
Speaker 2: In uh Okay, the memorable one?
Speaker 4: When they say take him away, they cried out. He says, behold,
Speaker 4: you're a king. And then they cry out, and this
Speaker 4: is the audience in the service will say this, take
Speaker 4: him away, take him away, crucify him. Pilot said to them,
Speaker 4: shall I crucify your king? And the chief priests answered,
Speaker 4: and then this is everyone says, we have no king
Speaker 4: but Caesar. And that audience that says that, it very
Speaker 4: much drives home our collective sin, our collective guilt.
Speaker 2: And it's our sin that held him there on that cross.
Speaker 4: He was crushed for our iniquity, he was punished for
Speaker 4: our iniquities crushed for our sins.
Speaker 2: It personalizes it in a really powerful way. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I love that, and I love so much of the
Speaker 3: ancient liturgy and the rituals. This is the Charlie Kirk show.
Speaker 3: He loved talking about these things. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 3: play more of Charlie in his own words, reflecting on
Speaker 3: his faith sought.
Speaker 1: For the modern gospel is God has this beautiful, amazing,
Speaker 1: wonderful life for you, and if you give your life
Speaker 1: to Christ, your life will infinitely improve. That is somewhat true,
Speaker 1: but it's very misleading because you're basically trying to sell
Speaker 1: people in Christianity of a life without difficulty. Where the
Speaker 1: better way to teach the gospel is here's the ten commandments.
Speaker 1: How many these are you violating? Oh, you deserve to
Speaker 1: go to hell, and you probably will unless you give
Speaker 1: your life to Christ. That is the proper way to evangelize.
Speaker 1: And so I realized the stakes in fifth grade. I
Speaker 1: was like, Oh, my goodness, I'm a sinner, I'm selfish,
Speaker 1: I'm broken, and only thanks to Jesus's perfect sacrifice, coming
Speaker 1: and living a perfect life that I get something I
Speaker 1: do not earn, but has been given to me this
Speaker 1: free gift of eternal life.
Speaker 3: So good, so good, good job team, We've got all
Speaker 3: these tweets of Charlie's too.
Speaker 2: He says.
Speaker 3: This is from April eighteenth, twenty twenty five. He says,
Speaker 3: today is good Friday. Thank you Jesus for your amazing
Speaker 3: and unthinkable sacrifice. You died so that we would have
Speaker 3: life and life in abundance. And then he quotes scripture
Speaker 3: from Mark fifteen. It was nine in the morning when
Speaker 3: they crucified him. The written notice of the charged against
Speaker 3: him read the King of the Jews. With a loud cry,
Speaker 3: Jesus breathed his last. The curtain of the temple was
Speaker 3: torn in two from top to bottom. And win the
Speaker 3: centurion who stood there in front of Jesus saw how
Speaker 3: he died. He said, surely this man was the son
Speaker 3: of God.
Speaker 2: Got more to read? You want to read the next one?
Speaker 4: Now, this one's very long, so I don't think we
Speaker 4: can complete it, but I would encourage you guys to
Speaker 4: search it on exits. From April twentieth of last year,
Speaker 4: so Charlie's last Easter with us, And he said, today
Speaker 4: we celebrate the resurrection of Christ, a real event of history.
Speaker 4: He has risen, and he lists ten historical facts to
Speaker 4: back the resurrection of Christ. The first of them is
Speaker 4: just that he was criscified under ponscious Pilot. I love
Speaker 4: to mention to people, this is a name that is
Speaker 4: in the Creed that most Christians will recite. He was
Speaker 4: crucified under ponscious Pilot. This is a statement of historical
Speaker 4: fact that this was a real person who was involved
Speaker 4: in it. He was buried in a known tomb. The
Speaker 4: tomb was discovered empty by women. Christianity's fiercest enemies became
Speaker 4: some of its loudest witnesses. And he goes on with
Speaker 4: ten other things. And Charlie was very important. He was
Speaker 4: such a witness to the Gospel, and he was such
Speaker 4: a powerful promulgator of it in its most direct sense.
Speaker 4: I just loved that where he said that where it's
Speaker 4: you know, you don't give this touchy feely thing. You say,
Speaker 4: you are a sinner and you require salvation for your sins,
Speaker 4: or it's going to be very bad.
Speaker 3: Repent for the Kingdom of God is near. And amen.
Speaker 3: All right, that was our good Friday episode. I hope
Speaker 3: you guys spend some time in prayer in remembrance of
Speaker 3: the sacrifice that Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: Has made for you. He died on the cross today
Speaker 2: and we want.
Speaker 3: To take that seriously and hope hopefully you got the
Speaker 3: got inspired and you're gonna spend time with family at
Speaker 3: church in prayer and scripture.
Speaker 2: God bless you.
Speaker 4: For more on many of these stories and new you
Speaker 4: can trust, go to Charliekirk dot com.