1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, on this most holy day of the year, 2 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:06,400 Speaker 1: I wanted to share an episode I did about why 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 1: I'm a Christian, why I believe what I believe the 4 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 1: Gospel and four words, three words, two words, one word, 5 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: Jesus took my place him for me, substitutionary atonement, and grace. 6 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:18,200 Speaker 1: I go through a rational logical argument why you should 7 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:20,800 Speaker 1: believe that Jesus Christ is the savior of the world, 8 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: Why he died and rose again, Happy East for everybody 9 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 1: he has risen. Share this with your friends so that 10 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: they two may believe enjoy. My name is Charlie Kirk. 11 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:37,519 Speaker 1: I run the largest pro American student organization in the country, 12 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:41,519 Speaker 1: fighting for the future of our republic. My call is 13 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 1: to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most 14 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 1: important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going 15 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 1: to end up miserable. But if the most important thing 16 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 1: is doing good, you'll end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. 17 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:56,880 Speaker 1: You got to stop sending your kids to college. You 18 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:58,920 Speaker 1: should get married as young as possible and have as 19 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 1: many kids as possible. Go start attorney point us say 20 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,399 Speaker 1: college chapter. Go start attorney point you say, high school chapter. 21 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:06,680 Speaker 1: Go find out how your church can get involved, sign 22 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:08,720 Speaker 1: up and become an activist. I gave my life to 23 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:11,960 Speaker 1: the Lord in fifth grade, most important decision I ever 24 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 1: made in my life, and I encourage you to do 25 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:18,280 Speaker 1: the same. Here. I am Lord, use me buckle off everybody. 26 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 1: Here we go. Noble Gold Investments is the official gold 27 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 1: sponsor of The Charlie Kirk Show, a company that specializes 28 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:35,680 Speaker 1: in gold iras and physical delivery of precious metals. Learn 29 00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: how you could protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments 30 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: at Noblegoldinvestments dot com. That is Noblegoldinvestments dot com. He 31 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 1: is Risen. What does that even mean? He is Risen. 32 00:01:53,080 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 1: I'm doing this podcast on Easter Sunday to communicate to 33 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 1: everyone who's listening, obviously, but to Christians, non believers, atheist 34 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 1: people in the secular world. I think we as Christians, 35 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: and yes I am a Christian'm a proud Christian. We 36 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: don't talk about why we believe what we believe enough 37 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 1: and exactly what does Easter mean and the gift that 38 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 1: it is to every single person in the world. I 39 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:20,919 Speaker 1: mean no offense by anything I'm going to talk about 40 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 1: in this podcast at all, but I'm going to give 41 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 1: you a very rational, analytical, fact driven, compelling case of 42 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 1: why you should believe in Christianity. I'm gonna start with 43 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:37,919 Speaker 1: talking about the spiritual side and the argument for an 44 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:41,520 Speaker 1: existence of the Almighty, and then I'm gonna get pretty granular. 45 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:44,080 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get pretty technical. I'm going to talk about 46 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: the one thing that the entire Christian faith hinges on, 47 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 1: and that's the thing that we're celebrating today on Easter Sunday, 48 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 1: which is the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, who was killed, 49 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:02,240 Speaker 1: executed for three days from the dead. So we as 50 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:05,640 Speaker 1: Christians believe that Jesus is the son of God. We 51 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:08,680 Speaker 1: believe that Jesus was the fulfilling of a promise and 52 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 1: a fulfilling of the Covenant. If you're familiar with the 53 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 1: composition of the Bible, it is the greatest book ever 54 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:17,119 Speaker 1: to exist in the history of the world, the most 55 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 1: important book ever to exist in the history of the world, 56 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:21,880 Speaker 1: and I believe it is the Word of God, not 57 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 1: just a piece of literature. It has sixty six books 58 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:27,799 Speaker 1: and thirty five authors. From my Catholic friends out there, 59 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: they have a higher number than that, And we have 60 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,680 Speaker 1: a lot of respect for the Catholic faith and tradition, 61 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: and we had a great conversation with Michael Moles in 62 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 1: a previous podcast. But in the beginning portion of the Bible, 63 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: we call it the Old Testament as Christians, talks a 64 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:46,120 Speaker 1: lot about God promising that a Messiah will come and 65 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: save the Jewish people and the people of the world. Specifically, 66 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 1: you can go to Isaiah fifty three, which is some 67 00:03:53,920 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: of the most explicit imagery of the Messiah coming like 68 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: a root out of dry ground, and you go through Ezekiel, 69 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 1: you can go through Daniel, and a lot of the 70 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 1: prophecy of the Old Testament, through the major and minor prophets, 71 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: talked about that there would be a Messiah that would 72 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: come to save the people of Israel, God's chosen people, 73 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:19,960 Speaker 1: but also save the people of the world. And for 74 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:22,200 Speaker 1: those of you that just might dismiss this podcast as 75 00:04:22,200 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 1: being all this is just another religious talk, bear with me. 76 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:29,680 Speaker 1: Just let the podcast run and listen to it, even 77 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:32,040 Speaker 1: if you don't think you'll be convinced, which hopefully I'll 78 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 1: be able to convince some people. And if there's Christians 79 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:36,600 Speaker 1: listening to this podcast, I hope I can strengthen you 80 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: in your faith and fasten you in your faith throughout 81 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:43,600 Speaker 1: this podcast. But even if you don't think you'll be convinced, you, 82 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:47,200 Speaker 1: as an informed citizen of America, should know all of 83 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:50,719 Speaker 1: these things. You should know the arguments for and against 84 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 1: the authenticity of Jesus Christ, the execution, and so on 85 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:56,559 Speaker 1: and so forth of Jesus, and so on and so forth. 86 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 1: So we believe that Jesus Christ was a gift from God, 87 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:04,279 Speaker 1: that when Jesus was brought into this world, it was 88 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 1: the fulfilling of the covenant, fulfilling of the promise, and 89 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 1: a new covenant was made. Now we as Christians, first 90 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 1: you have to realize that accepting a gift can be 91 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 1: really hard. Jesus Christ lived a perfect life. Yes he 92 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 1: was a teacher, Yes he was a rabbi, and he 93 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 1: was a carpenter too. That's a little fast fact for 94 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:28,720 Speaker 1: you around the Easter dinner table. Yes Jesus was all 95 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:33,240 Speaker 1: of those things. But he was also a sacrifice, a 96 00:05:33,279 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: sacrifice in a gift that we do not deserve, We 97 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 1: did not earn, we did not work for it, and 98 00:05:38,839 --> 00:05:41,279 Speaker 1: we won't even act well enough to get even close 99 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:44,799 Speaker 1: to it. So everyone listened to this podcast, I'm sure 100 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 1: many of you have looked up to the stars or 101 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:49,719 Speaker 1: looked up to the moon. Then sometimes you just ask 102 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: very simple philosophical questions. Who am I? What happens when 103 00:05:55,560 --> 00:06:00,919 Speaker 1: I die? How should I act? How should society be organized? 104 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 1: Does God exist? Is love something more than just a 105 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 1: chemical reaction? Why are we here? What matters? Well? We 106 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:15,039 Speaker 1: as Christians actually have answers for every single one of 107 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 1: those questions. I won't be able to answer all those 108 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 1: questions in this podcast today on Easter Sunday, but I 109 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:22,720 Speaker 1: am going to get to the most important question that 110 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 1: any human being can ask themselves. And we have answered 111 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: those questions in the Holy Bible. We have an answer 112 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 1: answer to the question of who you are? Does God exist? 113 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:34,720 Speaker 1: What is love? How should society be organized? How should 114 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 1: I act? We have answers to all those questions. But 115 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:40,280 Speaker 1: the one that is more important than any other, the 116 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:44,080 Speaker 1: one that is the top of the tributary that flows 117 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 1: to every other question, is the question of who is 118 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. Was Jesus Christ just a rebellious Jew that 119 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:56,240 Speaker 1: kind of overstepped his bounds and was killed by conscious 120 00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:59,479 Speaker 1: pilot the Roman governing authority at the time Because of 121 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 1: the orders of the Sanhedrin and the ruling class, if 122 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 1: you will, of the Jewish intelligentsia. 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The apologist Lee 156 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:06,679 Speaker 1: Strobel talks about this better than almost anyone else, and 157 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:11,200 Speaker 1: his own personal faith journey was around him as an 158 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 1: atheist and a Chicago Tribune Legal Award winning reporter trying 159 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 1: to disprove Christianity, and he zeroed in on the entire 160 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:27,520 Speaker 1: question as if I can disprove the resurrection, I can 161 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:33,640 Speaker 1: disprove Christianity. Easter Sunday, everybody, our whole faith, the faith 162 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: of over a billion people worldwide hinges on this day. 163 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 1: This is the most important day in Christianity and the 164 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 1: most important day in the history of the world. Whether 165 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 1: or not a miracle working individual who is wrongly executed 166 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:56,120 Speaker 1: rose from the dead or not. The Gospel and fourwards, 167 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:59,200 Speaker 1: three words, two words and one word, we as Christians 168 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:04,080 Speaker 1: believe that yes, Jesus took my place. Four words, three 169 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:09,679 Speaker 1: words him for me. Two wards substitutionary atonement, one word grace, 170 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 1: so that when Jesus came here and died for our sins, 171 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:15,600 Speaker 1: it was something that we didn't work for. It's something 172 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:18,040 Speaker 1: you have to surrender and accept. I'll get more into 173 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 1: that in just one second. But why Charlie, You're so rational? 174 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:27,480 Speaker 1: I love listening your podcast because you're so fact driven. 175 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 1: We get a lot of those emails, we get a 176 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:32,800 Speaker 1: lot of that feedback, and I get just hear right 177 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:35,240 Speaker 1: now people saying, oh, here goes Charlie into that hocus 178 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:40,559 Speaker 1: pocus mysticism mythology. I think Charlie's out on a reservation 179 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:44,680 Speaker 1: here and convincing himself of something that isn't true. Well, 180 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 1: let me make the case for you. Humor me give 181 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:51,080 Speaker 1: me a couple of minutes. We of course have the 182 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 1: four Gospels. The first three gospels are called Synoptic Gospels. 183 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:57,880 Speaker 1: They were written roughly in the order of Mark, Matthew, 184 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 1: then Luke than John debated whether or not Matthew or 185 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:05,600 Speaker 1: Mark came first. I can tell you and make the 186 00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:11,120 Speaker 1: case for Christianity by using the three ease and will 187 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:14,800 Speaker 1: go one by one. First and foremost, we have to 188 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 1: dispel this myth that, well, maybe Jesus didn't actually die. 189 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 1: Maybe Jesus was wounded, put inside of a tomb and 190 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 1: then he came out afterwards. But between independent scholars, there 191 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 1: is no dispute that Jesus actually died. Did you know 192 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 1: that we have five ancient non biblical sources from Tacitus, Josephus, Lucian, 193 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 1: and even the Jewish Talmud that does not dispute the 194 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:51,559 Speaker 1: fact that Jesus was executed, that Jesus died. This dispels 195 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:57,160 Speaker 1: the idea that Jesus was just wounded in the Bible. 196 00:11:57,160 --> 00:12:01,440 Speaker 1: It tells us Christians that Christianity must be an investigative faith, 197 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:03,640 Speaker 1: that the more we look into it, the more we 198 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 1: are going to find that this is true. In John 199 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:12,280 Speaker 1: ten thirty, Jesus Christ said that I am the Father 200 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:15,839 Speaker 1: are one. What Jesus was really saying is that I 201 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 1: am the divine. This is what caused so much backlash 202 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:27,120 Speaker 1: and eventually led to the execution of Jesus Christ the 203 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 1: next e if you will, if we accept that, Okay, 204 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:33,440 Speaker 1: Charlie got it, Jesus was executed, and to go even 205 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 1: a step back, just you understand some of the nonsense 206 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 1: that is taught about Christianity. There is a Jesus Truther 207 00:12:39,480 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 1: movement that even questions whether or not Jesus Christ exists 208 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 1: that at all whatsoever, This is total balderdash and nonsense. 209 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:52,400 Speaker 1: We have multiple ancient sources just to put this into perspective. 210 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:55,480 Speaker 1: Not only do we have Tacitus, Josephus, Lucian, and the 211 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:59,240 Speaker 1: Talmute independent outside of the Bible, but we have the 212 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 1: four Gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John that were written 213 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 1: by Jews, mind you, that had no reason to go 214 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 1: out of their way to try to defend the veracity 215 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 1: and the authenticity of the story of Jesus Christ. So 216 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 1: this idea that Jesus didn't exist. Some people believe it. 217 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 1: Even true committed atheists say, okay, I'll give you Jesus existed, 218 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: but to give you some context for how much ancient 219 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:31,080 Speaker 1: sources we have to corroborate the story of Jesus Christ. 220 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:35,440 Speaker 1: Do you believe Alexander the Great existed? Do you believe 221 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:39,079 Speaker 1: Alexander the Great did what you're taught in school? Well, 222 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:42,360 Speaker 1: did you know that the first biography of Alexander the 223 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:46,840 Speaker 1: Great was not written until four hundred years after his death. 224 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:50,600 Speaker 1: Yet we accept the teacher. Yeah, Alexander the Great, young 225 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 1: ruling king. He was taught by Aristotle, didn't really take 226 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:57,439 Speaker 1: his teachings, and four hundred years later we write the book. 227 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 1: Yet with Jesus Christ, this is then next early. We 228 00:14:01,920 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 1: have early accounts that Jesus rose from the dead. This 229 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:08,320 Speaker 1: dispels the whole idea that it was a legend and mythology, 230 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:12,000 Speaker 1: and it grew over time. Within one to three years 231 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:17,520 Speaker 1: after the execution and resurrection of Jesus Christ, Paul converted 232 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:20,160 Speaker 1: to Christianity, who wrote the majority of the New Testament. 233 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:24,120 Speaker 1: Paul then went to Jerusalem and met with Peter and James, 234 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 1: who were eyewitnesses too the resurrection. We'll get to eyewitnesses 235 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:33,720 Speaker 1: in just one second. The reports are early. Some skeptical 236 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 1: scholars say, well, Jesus wasn't actually buried. You know, they 237 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:40,240 Speaker 1: used to let people on crosses just be eaten by 238 00:14:40,280 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 1: the crows. They just let them to just stay on 239 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 1: the cross. By the way, a crucifixion was the most brutal, 240 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 1: public awful way of killing somebody of that era. 241 00:14:55,920 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 2: All right, I'm so excited. The weather is finally warming up, 242 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:02,880 Speaker 2: which means grilling season is basically here and sorry, if 243 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:04,960 Speaker 2: you live in a colder part of the country where 244 00:15:04,960 --> 00:15:07,680 Speaker 2: I'm at, it's grilling season. 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Good ranchers dot 261 00:15:57,680 --> 00:15:59,760 Speaker 2: com American Meat delivered. 262 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 1: But even the enemies of Jesus Christ during the time 263 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:09,400 Speaker 1: admitted that he was put in the tomb. Why well, 264 00:16:09,440 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 1: because the Pharisees and the members of the Sanhedrin, they 265 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 1: didn't say that, oh, the tomb was never filled with anyone. Instead, 266 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:20,280 Speaker 1: they said, oh, the disciples probably stole the body. So 267 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 1: even the early accounts when they tried to discredit the resurrection, 268 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 1: they said, no, no, no, no, the tomb had somebody 269 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 1: in it, but the disciples came and stole it. But 270 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:34,520 Speaker 1: it's important to remember that this disciples didn't have the 271 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 1: means to even go and do this. It was a 272 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:42,880 Speaker 1: heavily guarded tomb by the modern day equivalent of the 273 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:47,360 Speaker 1: Roman Secret Service was protecting this tomb. You're trying to 274 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:48,840 Speaker 1: tell me that former fishermen in the middle of the 275 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:53,920 Speaker 1: night challenged the Roman Secret Service and rolled away a 276 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:57,680 Speaker 1: multi ton rock stole Jesus without any of the Roman 277 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 1: soldiers able to tell about it. I don't think so. 278 00:17:01,880 --> 00:17:04,200 Speaker 1: Another theory out there is that the Roman soldiers were 279 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:08,600 Speaker 1: paid off well. The disciples were notoriously poor, and also 280 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 1: the Roman soldiers were super well compensated by conscious pilate, 281 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:17,199 Speaker 1: and they were not motivated and incentivized to try to 282 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 1: allow the narrative of a stolen Jesus or resurrected Jesus 283 00:17:21,480 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 1: to continue. This goes to the next e which I 284 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:29,800 Speaker 1: think is the most compelling of them all, which is eyewitnesses. Now, 285 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:33,840 Speaker 1: who is the first person to see Jesus Christ alive? 286 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:35,879 Speaker 1: According to the Bible? Who are the first people to 287 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:40,120 Speaker 1: see Jesus Christ alive? It was women? Now, if I 288 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:42,720 Speaker 1: was trying to create something that wasn't true back then, 289 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:45,840 Speaker 1: would I use women as a way to try to 290 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:50,879 Speaker 1: create a narrative? Course not. Women were widely discredited in 291 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:54,879 Speaker 1: a court of law equivalent back in Jesus's time, women 292 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:59,360 Speaker 1: were not taken seriously, women were considered to be secondary 293 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:05,840 Speaker 1: in societ. It was a highly misogynistic or chauvinistic way 294 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:09,040 Speaker 1: of structuring society back then. So if I was trying 295 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:13,000 Speaker 1: to falsify a narrative to say that Jesus Christ was 296 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:16,960 Speaker 1: risen from the dead, I wouldn't use women witnesses at all. 297 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 1: I would stay away from women witnesses. Those were the 298 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:23,399 Speaker 1: first eye witnesses of Jesus, did you know? According to 299 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 1: biblical and non biblical accounts in the four Gospels, Jesus 300 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:32,359 Speaker 1: Christ was seen by over five hundred and fifty people 301 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:36,360 Speaker 1: over a dozen times, by men, by women, in daytime 302 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:39,560 Speaker 1: and night time, all across Today and Samaria. There was 303 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:42,120 Speaker 1: no rhyme or reason to the people that saw Jesus 304 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:45,360 Speaker 1: after he was killed the resurrect to Jesus. So if 305 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:48,560 Speaker 1: I was trying to create a conspiracy, it'd be really 306 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:51,119 Speaker 1: hard to get five hundred and fifty people to agree 307 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:54,119 Speaker 1: to that, especially men and women in daytime and night time. 308 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:58,920 Speaker 1: Nine ancient sources corroborate the different eyewitnesses that said they 309 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:02,480 Speaker 1: saw Jesus. Now, a skeptic would say, Charlie, people believed 310 00:19:02,520 --> 00:19:06,119 Speaker 1: silly stuff all the time. Yeah, maybe, they saw Jesus, 311 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:08,440 Speaker 1: but maybe they really wanted to use this as a 312 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:11,679 Speaker 1: way to enrich themselves, as a way to get power. 313 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:16,439 Speaker 1: That that argument might stand with some footing if the 314 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:21,479 Speaker 1: new founded religion of Christianity was met with wealth and power, 315 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:27,440 Speaker 1: prestige and royalty. Instead, early Christians were persecuted and murdered 316 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 1: for what they believed. Even worse than that, the individuals 317 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:34,440 Speaker 1: that believed it most fervently, that were spreading the good 318 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:38,400 Speaker 1: news of Jesus Christ, the disciples, almost all of them, 319 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:42,959 Speaker 1: died a brutal death. So it's one thing to believe 320 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:46,920 Speaker 1: a why, But who would willingly die for a why? 321 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 1: Who would willingly go to the very last breath and 322 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:54,359 Speaker 1: be given a chance to denounce something they knew was 323 00:19:54,400 --> 00:20:00,360 Speaker 1: a falsehood? We also know in One Corinthians fifteen three, 324 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:04,439 Speaker 1: the immediate creed of the early Christians, where they recited 325 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:08,760 Speaker 1: over and over again, Jesus Christ died for our sins, 326 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:13,200 Speaker 1: and he was risen from the dead. Early the eyewitnesses 327 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:16,960 Speaker 1: that said they believed in Jesus and they saw Jesus 328 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:22,480 Speaker 1: rise from the dead, suffered a brutal and horrible demise. 329 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 1: Why would anyone die for something that you know, is 330 00:20:25,840 --> 00:20:30,000 Speaker 1: a lie. So when you talk about ancient sources, see, 331 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:34,679 Speaker 1: we don't debate the authenticity of Socrates, Plato, or Aristotle, 332 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 1: or the autobiography of Alexander the Great. We don't debate 333 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:44,240 Speaker 1: Homer's work the Odyssey. We might debate the contents, but 334 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 1: we don't debate that's what they wrote. We don't debate 335 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:50,160 Speaker 1: that that's what Homers it was actually the one that 336 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:53,840 Speaker 1: said these things or believed these things. When it comes 337 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:57,640 Speaker 1: to the Bible, we have by far the most independently 338 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:06,920 Speaker 1: corroborated and authenticated sources of any considered ancient document to exist. 339 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:15,080 Speaker 1: Early eyewitnesses the resurrection was Jesus, who he said he was. Well, 340 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 1: he definitely did something that no other historical figure ever 341 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 1: did in the history of the world. He rose from 342 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:25,320 Speaker 1: the dead. And not only that, we had eyewitnesses. We 343 00:21:25,359 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 1: have eyewitnesses that went on the record to go and 344 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:31,479 Speaker 1: prove it. So now another skeptic argument is, well, Charlie 345 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 1: the Bible, Matthew, Mark Luke, and John we can't really 346 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 1: trust it. We can't really trust when it was written 347 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 1: and how it was written. And I have a lot 348 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:45,439 Speaker 1: of respect for Joe Rogan, but Joe Rogan miscategorized the 349 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:47,199 Speaker 1: Bible in one of his podcasts where he said, well, 350 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:49,840 Speaker 1: it was written hundreds of years after Jesus's life. That's 351 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:53,560 Speaker 1: just not true. The letters that Paul wrote were in 352 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,640 Speaker 1: the early Church as soon as a decade or two 353 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:00,639 Speaker 1: decades after the death of Jesus Christ. The Gospel of 354 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 1: Matthew and Mark were written thirty or forty years after 355 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:08,639 Speaker 1: the death of Jesus Christ. So that would basically be 356 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 1: like somebody writing today a book about Ronald Reagan. They 357 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 1: would get a lot right about Ronald Reagan if they 358 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:17,800 Speaker 1: were in their twenties, if they serve the administration under 359 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:23,439 Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan. 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These 382 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 2: are great people and we're so glad to be working 383 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 2: with them again. 384 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: So that's just a small picture of the evidence that 385 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 1: we have of just the resurrection, and I went through 386 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:50,760 Speaker 1: some of the skeptical arguments, but it gets to something 387 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 1: deeper than that. That's about the resurrection, But for some 388 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:56,560 Speaker 1: people listening to this podcast, I hope that was instructive. 389 00:23:56,560 --> 00:24:01,000 Speaker 1: I hope that was informative. But the other question is, well, Charlie, 390 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:02,920 Speaker 1: how could I believe in that if I don't even 391 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 1: believe in God? And I commonly say I don't have 392 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:09,600 Speaker 1: enough faith to be an atheist. So I come from 393 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:13,639 Speaker 1: the belief that there is a God. And then I 394 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:17,399 Speaker 1: ask myself, when has God revealed himself before in the 395 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:21,119 Speaker 1: world and where do we have firm documentation of that 396 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:23,520 Speaker 1: revelation of himself? And that's why I believe the Bible. 397 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 1: And then I also ask myself the question what makes 398 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:30,960 Speaker 1: Christianity different than all these other religions in the world. 399 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,560 Speaker 1: And I'm sure many of you have that question, because 400 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 1: when it comes to religion, you have to have origin, meaning, morality, 401 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,320 Speaker 1: and destiny. Those are the four things you have to have. 402 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:47,119 Speaker 1: And people say, well, Christianity is similar to Buddhism, Christianity 403 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 1: is similar to all these other world religions. I'm going 404 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:53,159 Speaker 1: to tell you how Christianity is different. Christianity is different 405 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:56,800 Speaker 1: because every other religion in the world is about what 406 00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:01,720 Speaker 1: you do to grow closer to God. In Buddhism, it 407 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:05,480 Speaker 1: is the multi levels of enlightenment as you try to 408 00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:09,879 Speaker 1: get up to the Buddha. In Islam, it is following 409 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 1: the commandments that are put forward, whether it be praying 410 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:18,639 Speaker 1: five times a day or honoring hallal, whether it be 411 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 1: implementing Sharia law in certain practices of Islam in Hinduism, 412 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,199 Speaker 1: It's all about performing good enough in this life so 413 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:29,760 Speaker 1: that in the next life I can get to a 414 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:35,560 Speaker 1: better cast centrally, a spiritual caste system. What's so different 415 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:39,720 Speaker 1: about Christianity is, of course God gives us specific ways 416 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:44,160 Speaker 1: of how we should act. Jesus was explicitly clear about 417 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 1: how you should treat the least of these and you 418 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,280 Speaker 1: should tell the truth and the type of thoughts that 419 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:53,000 Speaker 1: you should have and not have. God is explicitly clear 420 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 1: of that in the Bible. But it's not a tally 421 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:02,639 Speaker 1: card for you to accept. Jesus Christ. I'm a sinner, 422 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,680 Speaker 1: broken by sin, and if you're listening to this podcast 423 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:10,440 Speaker 1: right now, you're also a sinner. Have you, guys, felt 424 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,080 Speaker 1: like you're not enough at times? Have you guys felt 425 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:16,600 Speaker 1: like you're just barely keeping it all together? Trust me, 426 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:21,280 Speaker 1: we've all been there. Are you feeling that? Man? How 427 00:26:21,280 --> 00:26:24,160 Speaker 1: many more times do I just have to search through 428 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:30,520 Speaker 1: that next high, whether that be drinking alcohol or doing drugs? 429 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: Or going after other nefarious activities, and it just you 430 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,600 Speaker 1: might have come to the conclusion recently. Man, this is 431 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:40,040 Speaker 1: not making me happy or fulfilled. The more I choose 432 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:41,800 Speaker 1: to do this stuff, the more I suffer that you 433 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 1: choose to sin, you choose to suffer. Well, there's a 434 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:49,960 Speaker 1: gift waiting for you, a real thing that happened in 435 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:54,480 Speaker 1: the world, not a hocus pocus Rapunzel story, but something 436 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 1: that actually happened. When you go to Jerusalem, you can 437 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:02,280 Speaker 1: literally go and walk the Mountain of Olives where Jesus 438 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:06,399 Speaker 1: Christ walked. You can literally go to the Church of 439 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:10,120 Speaker 1: the Holy Sepulcher where Jesus was buried. You can go 440 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,920 Speaker 1: walk the stations of the Cross. This is a real 441 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:18,760 Speaker 1: thing I'm talking about. And yes, Jesus represents metaphorically things 442 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:23,639 Speaker 1: as well, but there is actual blood spilled for you. 443 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:26,480 Speaker 1: And I'm sure some of you say, oh, Charlie, I 444 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,840 Speaker 1: can get to that religion thing later. I've never really 445 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,919 Speaker 1: heard of a great response to that other than you're wrong. 446 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:35,960 Speaker 1: No one knows where their time is, especially during this 447 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:40,280 Speaker 1: time where we see such unpredictable amount of death happening 448 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,440 Speaker 1: around all of us. But even beyond that, it's either 449 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:48,000 Speaker 1: you have to come to the internal decision that I 450 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,560 Speaker 1: am not the most important thing ever to exist in 451 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,720 Speaker 1: the history of the world, that I'm not enough. And 452 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:55,720 Speaker 1: I can tell you this and this is more just 453 00:27:55,760 --> 00:28:02,600 Speaker 1: a personal testimony. When you accept Jesus Christ your life, 454 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:08,240 Speaker 1: you get less angry, things start to actually make sense. 455 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:13,679 Speaker 1: There's a harmony to the world. There's a rhythm that 456 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:17,399 Speaker 1: begins to be a parent to you. People say, Charlie, 457 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,680 Speaker 1: how do you stay so still when these leftists comes 458 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,879 Speaker 1: and scream in your face? And the honest truth of 459 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,639 Speaker 1: it is, there's a stillness when you accept Jesus as 460 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,199 Speaker 1: your Lord and savior. Of course, I still lose my 461 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:34,280 Speaker 1: temper at times. Everybody does. You're going to sin, but 462 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,720 Speaker 1: you're going to then revert back to the salvation that 463 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:42,760 Speaker 1: you have within you, which is Jesus Christ. So here's 464 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:46,840 Speaker 1: what we believe as Christians. Every single person listeners podcast 465 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 1: can accept Jesus Christ right here and now. And maybe 466 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,160 Speaker 1: some of you aren't ready to do that yet. That's fine. 467 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:58,560 Speaker 1: I just recommend then just read the Bible for five minutes. 468 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:00,680 Speaker 1: If you think you're better than the Bible, you're not. 469 00:29:00,920 --> 00:29:03,400 Speaker 1: It's the most important most instructive of most informative book 470 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 1: ever to exist in history of the world. Just read 471 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:06,760 Speaker 1: the Bible for five minutes to night, and then ask 472 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:09,640 Speaker 1: yourself the question, how could these authors be so committed 473 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,560 Speaker 1: that this is true and I could be on the 474 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,440 Speaker 1: opposite side of it. Maybe there's something that's in it 475 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:20,000 Speaker 1: that's true. But the most important question about Christianity for 476 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,760 Speaker 1: all of this, for skeptics out there, is would you 477 00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:26,920 Speaker 1: believe it if it was true now? The obvious answer 478 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:30,760 Speaker 1: should yeah, of course. Really, you would change your life 479 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,240 Speaker 1: right now if I could show it to you that 480 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:36,680 Speaker 1: it was true. That's the most important question. 481 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:41,360 Speaker 2: If you're a parent, you don't need to be told 482 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,400 Speaker 2: that online safety is important. That's why TikTok has over 483 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:48,320 Speaker 2: fifty pre set safety and privacy settings, and beyond that, 484 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,959 Speaker 2: parents can set up family pairing to help shape their 485 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,200 Speaker 2: teens experience on the app. With family pairing, parents can 486 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,959 Speaker 2: get visibility into their teens followers and who they follow, 487 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,640 Speaker 2: help restrict content that's not right for them, and set 488 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 2: screen time limits. Parents can also set restricted times so 489 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:07,240 Speaker 2: they're not on TikTok when they shouldn't be. Because feeling 490 00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:10,040 Speaker 2: good about the time your team spends online shouldn't come 491 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 2: with guess work. In addition to the already built in 492 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:16,000 Speaker 2: safety and privacy protections, family pairing gives parents more tools 493 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 2: to shape their teen's online experience based on what's right 494 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:23,480 Speaker 2: for their family. Remember when safety comes first, discovery and 495 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:27,200 Speaker 2: creativity can follow. Learn more by going to TikTok dot 496 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 2: com slash Guardian's Guide. 497 00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 1: Most people have been talked out of Christianity because most 498 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:40,560 Speaker 1: people have never been talked into Christianity. My great friend 499 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 1: Frank Turrek says that a lot on his podcast Cross Examined, 500 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:47,920 Speaker 1: and we're gonna have on our podcast sometime soon for 501 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:52,400 Speaker 1: every skeptic question you have about Christianity, there are really 502 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:54,080 Speaker 1: good answers about it. But I think a lot of 503 00:30:54,120 --> 00:30:57,680 Speaker 1: the reasons why people don't accept Christianity is outside of 504 00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:01,720 Speaker 1: the technical, rational, historical, archaeological mountain of evidence that out there. 505 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,040 Speaker 1: Quite honestly, it's people that don't want to change their 506 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 1: own specific lifestyle and get on their knees and just say, 507 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 1: I've been really screwing this whole parade up. I surrender, 508 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:17,400 Speaker 1: help me. And what Jesus did when he died on 509 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:21,240 Speaker 1: the cross for us is he allowed us to say, 510 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:27,400 Speaker 1: I'm never gonna get there. See, Jesus took a symbol 511 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:31,320 Speaker 1: of death and public mockery and has turned it into 512 00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:36,720 Speaker 1: a symbol of a gateway to eternity. How's that for 513 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:46,040 Speaker 1: the greatest irony of Middle Eastern Roman Jewish rule? Totally 514 00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:48,440 Speaker 1: changing a symbol that was the cross, which was meant 515 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,840 Speaker 1: to be nothing more than the symbol of the greatest 516 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:53,880 Speaker 1: shame of a criminal. When you put someone up on 517 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,320 Speaker 1: that cross that never committed a crime and didn't sin ever, 518 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,480 Speaker 1: and you turn that into a gateway to acceptance and righteousness. 519 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:05,920 Speaker 1: So what does happen when you die? Well on Good Friday? 520 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:10,280 Speaker 1: We are told, and we learn that salvation can be 521 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,320 Speaker 1: given to you in a moment's notice if you truly 522 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:17,080 Speaker 1: accept Jesus Christ as God and as king, a king 523 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:22,400 Speaker 1: over a dominion building his kingdom. Next to Jesus on 524 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:26,120 Speaker 1: the cross was a bad guy, and that thief next 525 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:32,360 Speaker 1: to Jesus lived a immoral life, and Jesus granted him 526 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:36,520 Speaker 1: acceptance into eternity. So the stakes are pretty high with 527 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:40,959 Speaker 1: all this. And I can assure you and guarantee you 528 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:45,000 Speaker 1: that when you strip down all the earthly ambitions and 529 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 1: dust around us, because everything, if you're an atheist or 530 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:51,680 Speaker 1: a secularist, and I don't mean this by any offense 531 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:55,280 Speaker 1: at all, whatsoever comes down to nothing more than a 532 00:32:55,280 --> 00:33:01,240 Speaker 1: specific subset of chemical composition and dust. That's all it is. Love, 533 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,920 Speaker 1: Your chemicals got really excited and moved faster than any 534 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:08,240 Speaker 1: other time. Oh you think that there's a higher purpose 535 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:12,320 Speaker 1: and meaning, No, you don't. But for those of us Christians, 536 00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:17,480 Speaker 1: we believe in an omniscient, omnipotent, generous, gracious, good God 537 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,840 Speaker 1: that has given you a gift that's right on the table, 538 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,160 Speaker 1: and I encourage and I pray that every single person 539 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,760 Speaker 1: listening to this podcast takes that gift. It's a gift 540 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:32,520 Speaker 1: we don't deserve, a gift of the ultimate sacrifice of suffering, 541 00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:37,640 Speaker 1: not just in the moment of the crucifixion, but the 542 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:41,400 Speaker 1: unburdening of all the sins, all the mistakes that you've 543 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,600 Speaker 1: ever made, and the mistakes you're going to make tomorrow 544 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:48,560 Speaker 1: because you're going to continually and repeatedly sin. It's changed 545 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:57,080 Speaker 1: my life. I've seen Christianity transform people from alcoholic, self centered, angry, 546 00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:05,520 Speaker 1: bitter people into loving, generous, gracious, compassionate christ following servants. 547 00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:08,760 Speaker 1: The gift is there for the taking. He has risen 548 00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:17,760 Speaker 1: Jesus was executed. It spread early throughout Juday and Samaria. 549 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:22,880 Speaker 1: Five hundred and fifty eye witnesses saw Jesus Christ after 550 00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:30,200 Speaker 1: he was resurrected from the grave. He took your place 551 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:37,160 Speaker 1: him for me substitutionary atonement and grace. The argument hinges 552 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:40,960 Speaker 1: on whether or not Jesus rose from the dead. I 553 00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,360 Speaker 1: know he did. That's why today is a day of 554 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:48,279 Speaker 1: celebration of revival, of resurrection. And for those of you 555 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:51,080 Speaker 1: that are unsettled about the greatest questions that human beings 556 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:55,680 Speaker 1: ask themselves, there's a book for that. There's a path 557 00:34:55,719 --> 00:35:00,160 Speaker 1: for that. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. 558 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,920 Speaker 1: Only those that go through Jesus Christ can get to 559 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:08,279 Speaker 1: the Father. And according to the Bible, those who don't, 560 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,480 Speaker 1: it says, it does not end very well for those 561 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:16,680 Speaker 1: individuals that do not make that decision. So accept the 562 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,920 Speaker 1: good news he has risen. God bless you guys, God 563 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:23,840 Speaker 1: bless our country. This is why I believe what I believe. 564 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:29,000 Speaker 1: It's also what informs my politics, It's what informs my 565 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:33,560 Speaker 1: base philosophy. Our country is founded by a group of 566 00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:37,120 Speaker 1: people that believe this, that Christ, that Christianity is true, 567 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:41,799 Speaker 1: and that Easter is the most important day in the 568 00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:44,440 Speaker 1: history of the world. That the resurrection of the Christ 569 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:49,440 Speaker 1: is something that must be celebrated and told to every 570 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:54,440 Speaker 1: individual all across the world. Jesus is King, Jesus is 571 00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,520 Speaker 1: the savior of the world. It's a gift for the taking. 572 00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,680 Speaker 1: I encourage you to do it. Thank you guys so much. 573 00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:03,920 Speaker 1: I have a wonderful Easter. God bless you, God bless 574 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,600 Speaker 1: our country. Stay safe and be back to you soon. 575 00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:10,800 Speaker 1: Thanks so much. For more on many of these stories 576 00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:13,320 Speaker 1: and news you can trust, go to Charliekirk dot com.