Charlie Kirk is Gone. What Do We Do Now?!

Do you hear me? This is your moment. You can't change the world. You can't do that. That when we live for his purpose, it means that when we're living to seek and save the lost, that was God's purpose. That's why he came to earth. He created us for heaven. He created us for heaven not earth. And he gives us this brief moment in time to figure out who he is and decide whether or not we want to serve him or ourselves or the world. Welcome to the Ignite with Barry McGuire podcast where Barry's book and passion for spreading God's love are guaranteed to ignite your life. Now listen in and prepare to have your life ignited. Hi everybody. Like most of you, I'm still reading from Charlie's passing. I was on a plane on a approach to Orange County Airport by phone rang while I'm on the plane. And I answered it. It was my assistant. Katie says something and I didn't listen. I said, you can't call me now. I'll call you back. Okay. I got one of the planes. You got to hear this. I said, no, I'll call you back. Just Charlie's been shot. What? How bad? She says, he's dead. She knew it. She'd been watching it live. She knew he's gone. And the shock of that destroyed me. We landed. I couldn't get out of the chair and well, I got up. I didn't think I could stand. I was dizzy. I'm fighting at the car. I just sit there. It's like. It's impossible. It's just impossible. He's the rock. He's going decades from now. Charlie's still going to be our rock. You know what I mean? And the comprehension that he would not be there. Quite frankly, and honestly, it's sick me to my core. I knew Charlie for 10 years. We were friends. I knew his heart. There was patient. I watched that organization grow to what it is today. And what? We got home and went in and turned the TV on. And like many of you, I just had to mobilize for the next few hours piece by piece by piece. And my knee jerk was, of course, okay, what do you have to God? I talk about it all the time. When things go wrong, God is in it. I speak that I have had that happen in my life. Every bad thing has happened to me and I won't go into that now. But every time I say, okay, God, I know you're here. You have a lesson for me. If somebody will be talk to you. So I knew he was in it. I knew that. As I ponder that, even with the horses of the news, the dread of the news, I kept looking for the good news. We already that. But things go bad. Don't waste that moment because God is there. He never leaves us. We do know that that Satan doesn't trump God. Okay. Nothing happens to us unless God makes it happen or he allows it to happen for his purpose. And that's exactly what has happened. By the next morning, we started getting all the reports of the global, the global shaking, the shaking of this earth. Every 14 countries holding visuals, one parade, a visual really was like three million people in England, a godless country. That's what's pouring out all over it. We've seen it. It hasn't stopped. It hasn't stopped. It didn't take long until that second day. I realized we realized, Karen and I that God knew exactly what he was doing. This infinite wisdom. He knew that Charlie would be multiplied a million times over by this tragic instance that Satan meant for bad, but he used to forget it. He always does. So I won't go in and repeat what so many people have talked about it. I've listened to so many reports and love them all and said, yeah, amen. I just give you my take hunter right quick. It's good. By Friday, after Charlie's death, I was out in the van with Jack Kibs and I went over to Jack and I said, why am I feeling you're for you overtaking my sorrow? Like, I feel guilty. He's very, it's incredible. It's global revival has been praying for us. Yes. Thank you for affirming that. God didn't let Charlie suffer for a moment. He was doing what he loved to do more than anything else. He did that one moment and the next one he was God. And at a heartbreak for Erica and the kids and that's going to take some miracles and loving people and God's the fatherless. I should say God is the father to the fatherless and he'd be with Erica and she's risen up. Oh my goodness. And we were we had opportunity to be down in front for that service and incredible service. And we prayed and prayed for so many of you. God let this be a message of love to the world. The greatest evangelistic event in the history of the world is about to happen. Make it make it be one of love. They shout God's message of love to the masses. It's an idea. It's an idea. I think even dollars you've got and and since a really wonderful scriptural thing. It was just amazing. And then Erica that moment, the pressure was on her, but she was focused and God was usually heard. And she got closer closer to addressing the perpetrator, the one who pulled the trigger. We prayed for days. Could it be that Erica somehow reaches out to this young man and forgives him? Could it be that we can, I can see the salvation of this young man for the whole world to see. And she came up to that moment and she got closer to her. She was like, say it. Say it. And then she said, this young man, that man, this young man. And she struggled with it, of course, but she said, for the bottom of her heart, I forgive you to the world. I mean, that's not you can't do that within yourself. That's the Holy Spirit. That's God working through you and shouting to the world to perhaps more than a hundred million people. God is love. He's not vengeance. He's not hate. He's forgiveness. And the ones who are most injured, probably is that young man is in his corrupted mind. Can you imagine the misery is going through and the parents, what the misery they've gone through, perhaps for years. You got to pray for them, folks. I know you are, but there's no room for hate in this world. We have to stop the violence. God puts that back. He's the light. It's love. It's God's love flowing through us to the masses. That brings down to personal. Okay. And that's the message I want to get here today. We got to stop hating people, folks. We got to stop hating people in government. And the ones that don't look like us and shaking our fists and damning them. And yes, hating them. And you know what's saying? We can't do that. You do understand that God loves the people we hate. There's nothing in the gospel that gives us opportunity, gives us the license to hate. We can't do that. God forgives us. As he forgives us, we've forgiven those around us. And if we don't do that, we're in trouble. And we are in trouble. Because if you love people, you're going to tell them about Jesus. If God is number one in your life, you're going to tell people, whatever you're excited about, you're going to talk about it. If you're not talking about Jesus all the time, then you're not really in love with Him. You may be on your way to heaven. I'm not saying that. But you're not in a throw with Him like you were when you were first saved. And Jesus says to us in the letter of the Church of Ephesus and Revelation chapter 2, I know you're going to church and you're doing all the right things. Give me money. You know, good teaching. You're a bad brother. I have to see it's you. You've loved me as your first love. What do you have in your life that you love more than God? What do you talk about? What feels your prayers? Where is your heart? What are you living for? The opposite of love is not hate. It's apathy. In our ministry for years, we've been holding services. And we pour out our hearts and at the end of the service, five, six people come up and the rest just walk out and moved. But there's five or six that are broken or touched by the message. Why are they leaving? We explain we're surrounded by the loss. They're lost because we're not telling them how are they going to know unless somebody tells them. And nobody's telling them. Only one percent of us would you believe it? Are actually intensely sharing our faith that day-to-day base. That's the reason we're in this trouble. We've been going this to the end of this path for 60 years for evangelizing the world. Thank God. God's blessings on us because of how we've been a blessing to the world. Funding world evangelism five times more than all the other countries in the world. I mean, it's phenomenal. That's why he loves us. But at home we've gone dark. We've gone silent. And 9% of the people run you every day or lost. Do you ever think about their soul, their eternity where they're going? So what do you do about that? It's so easy folks and we've been sold a bill of goods and it's hard and you're going to be a first kid. I've been sharing my faith for 50 years. I've never been persecuted. It's early hands, but he's put himself into the dialogue in the main table where he attracts those people to reconcile with them and to sub them. And let me just say very quick. Our ministry, the focus, the theme of the ministry has moved everybody every day closer to Jesus. And that was Charlie's model. He didn't say it. He didn't use that. We talked about it a lot. He never articulated that, but he articulated it with his life every moment of every day. He was focusing on the staff, on his family, on everybody, particularly those who oppose him to move them closer to Jesus. It's only by his coach every day. That's God's calling. Most of you are living in fear. The statistics are also about 70% of Christians are living in fear. When you're living in fear, you're not living in faith. And James one says, if you're wavering in your faith, don't expect me to answer your prayers. You've got to answer your prayers. You've got to direct yourself, trust the Lord with your whole heart. It is this whole heart thing that's critical. Charlie was all in. He said, what am I most, what are we known for? Because of my faith, my unwavering faith. I have faith in God. And he loved to share his faith and everything he did. He did that. And God blessed him. Look at the ministry. It's there. And now look at a hundredfold. I mean, it's going crazy. We've never had a moment like this, folks. Never in our lives. Never in the history of the world. Has there been world revival ignited like the passing of Charlie Kirk? It's global. I can't believe the last two weeks. Everywhere I go, everyone wants to know. Tell me about it. Come on. I need to talk to you. Everybody wants to know. And we have the answer. We have this answer. What trope was reelected. It was proclaimed, okay, God's given us a reprieve. My pastor told me by that said, but are we going to take advantage of it? Or we're going to use it. We're just going to let it slide in quite frankly. We're almost a year into trans presidency. And the church is not not winning any more to the loss. There is revival. I must say among the young people. Thank God for that. But where are they going? Most of the churches are woke. They go to church. 90% only 10% of our churches are preaching the gospel. So it's up to us. We're the living word. We are it. We are their best hope. What are we doing about it? And the answer is nothing. God help us. This is our moment. To you hear me, this is your moment. You can't change the world. You can't do that. You're worried about all kinds of things. You can't possibly change. You can't change your world every day. By moving everybody every day closer to Jesus. And when you do that, you're living for God's purpose. His purpose is to seek and save the Lord. You heard me say that so many times. I'm just going to repeat it for those who haven't heard it. That when we live for his purpose, it means that when we're living to seek and save the loss, that was God's purpose. That's why he came to earth. He created us for heaven. He created us for heaven, not earth. And he gives us this brief moment in time to figure out who he is and decide whether or not we want to serve him or ourselves or the world. And for those of us most university right now, we've chosen him. From that moment forward, the only thing of eternal significance is souls. I do lots of things. I'm a busy guy. I have a business. I do all kinds of things. But when it gets down to it, the only thing will matter when we get to heaven. The only thing will matter is how many people are in heaven because of your influence. That's the only thing that matters, folks. The only thing. First off, when you receive it and you receive Jesus Christ, you save your Lord. So you have not done that yet. That's the first step. But it's the first step. It's a big one. That gets you into heaven to receive the forgiveness. Jesus gave us by shedding His blood on that horrible cross. And acknowledging Him as our savior. As He saved us from hell. That's a real place. And honoring is the Lord of our life. And if He's the Lord of our life, we're going to live for Him every moment of every day. By moving everybody, every day, closing to Him. And when we do that, we're on His team. And He says, when you do that, oh, when you do that, I'll make everything in your life work together for good. You can't get any better than that. More importantly, when you do it, when you do it, and you say, oh, I can't do it. I don't have the tools. I don't know the scriptures. It's nonsense. The most ferocious faces are new Christians, so they don't even know scripture. And I started when I was an extrovert. I hid behind me. I didn't have any kind of outgoing personality. There are no excuses. He said, go. Not all you were touted or whatever, he just said, go. But here's how he said to do it. He said, they'll know your mind just by your love. By your love. Now, that's it. And when you love on people, and mostly more and more pretty good to those that don't look like you, I love that. You love it, everybody. And almost everybody around you is hurting right below their laughter, right under that veneer. There's tears. And when you love on them, they break. And you walk away and say, what if I hadn't talked to that person? They would not know anything about God loving them. God, thank you for giving me that opportunity. And the best part is you don't have to come up with the words. You don't have to prepare because the Holy Spirit gives you the words. That's this promise of Luke 12. He gives you the words to say when you need them. And when you know God speaking through you, you realize he just organized that conversation. You're right where he wants you to be. And he's giving you the words, say, the life in praise being changed. As you talk to them, that's supernatural. That's intimacy with God. And that's why he said it. I say it. 4 to 3 to 10. I apologize. I wouldn't so that you believe. This is how you believe. This is how you know that you know that you know that Jesus is Lord. And I'm on my way to heaven. And I'm right where he wants me to be. Folks, the message of Charlie's passing is this. The world is hungry. And I don't care how bad they are. They're looking around right now. They know this is not right. The distance between life and death has gotten a whole lot closer. And they want answers. Seriously, folks, they want answers. They're begging for answers. They're looking over 80% of the church are looking for answers right now. And you have the answer. You have the answer. It's in your hands. Would you... If you love Charlie and you'd like to honor him back. If you'd like his death to have meaning in your life. Let pray with me right now. I think I'm just going to pray with you right now. Let me just pray that it's a guy that I want to start living for you right now. And I can start moving everybody every day closer to Jesus. We have a book called Ignite your Life. It'll help you with all kinds of scriptures. We have a website at igniteamerica.com. We'll give you all the background and help. But you don't need any help. You just need to do it. Okay? It's so easy. And when you do it, I promise you. Ignite your life. It eliminates fears. You want to live life, freedom. Knowing heaven. God is directing your steps. Everything you're doing. He's answering your prayers. He's giving you joy. And these are all the problems. They all come real. Come alive. When you get off the bench and get into the game. And praying becomes easy reading your scriptures. It becomes easy because you're compelled to do with all with... Because you're in the game. You're answering questions. You need to answer questions. You're being asked. Do you get the point? This is the beginning of your Christian walk. I'm not talking about your Christianity, but your Christian walk. I'm becoming a Christian. I'm making a difference. It's called us to be salt and light. Do you know what they have in common? Those two things, salt and light. They both change their environment. The question is, is the world changing? Is the world the environment changing you? Or are you changing your environment? When you get to heaven. Are your rewards going to be nobody in heaven because of you? Or are there seven? Going to be crowded because of you. I love it. Charge to the arm. My business is making heaven crowded. You want to fulfill Charlie's dream? Love everybody. Forgive everybody. No, they're lost. And it's our job to get them saved and leave them to Jesus. Father, God, we love you. We are out of you. And it's torn apart. We've just gone through. It's marked our lives with an exclamation point that will never be as pronounced as it is right now. Help us not to waste it. Help us not to waste this moment. Help us. Call the God. All of us who are Christian. Now it's time to mobilize and church. It's game on. We're seeing spiritual warfare like we've never seen before. The hate, the violence, the vile things we said about Charlie. And every Christian, it's uncorked. It's unreserved. It's just going for us. But greater are you who are in us than in the world. God, you are the greater force. But we can't let it sit here. We got to explode. We got to let it flow through us. God, I pray with everyone listening to my voice right now. I pray that everybody listening to my voice right now will pray with me. Father God, I want to make a difference. I love you. I want to honor you. I want the world to be better. And I understand that it depends on me and all of us. But God, help me, help me to be your ambassador. God, help me from this moment forward to move everybody every day closer to Jesus. May that be the cry of my heart, whether I'm on the tennis court in the ballroom of in a restaurant, in a family activity, in a sports event. Wherever we are, everything we do would say bring glory to you and attract people to you because of our heart and your love flowing through us to them. God, make that so. And the hearts and minds of everybody are listening to me right now. I pray. Jesus. If you enjoyed today's episode, let us know. And don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review to help us reach more listeners. Remember, sharing your faith, ignites your faith. See you next time on The Ignite with Barry McGuire Podcast.