Charlie Kirk, Honored and Remembered by His Friends

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Speaker 1 ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Pastor Rob McCoy.

Speaker 2 Good morning, everybody.

Speaker 2 Thank you for coming out to honor Charlie Kirk. God bless all of you and all of you tuning in online around the world.

Speaker 2 I know you're all wondering who is he and why is he here? And I'm asking myself the same question.

Speaker 2 Charlie Kirk called me his pastor.

Speaker 2 I called him my friend.

Speaker 2 I was with Charlie about

Speaker 2 a little over two weeks ago in Korea

Speaker 2 as he was supporting the persecuted Christians over there as they're raiding churches and imprisoning pastors.

Speaker 2 And he spoke to the youth there that now are chanting on the streets, I am Charlie Kirk standing for freedom across that country.

Speaker 2 In a conversation with Charlie in the green room in Korea, he said something to me that he'd said a number of times. He said,

Speaker 2 He kept calling me his pastor, and I stopped him. I said, Charlie, since the president's gotten elected, your stock has risen through the stratosphere,

Speaker 2 and I don't see much of you. I mean, he wasn't a very good congregant, he was on the road 320 days a year.

Speaker 2 But he said, Rob, not only are you my pastor,

Speaker 2 but you're America's pastor. And I said, Charlie, if we were at a tabling event on a campus where you had the table and said, prove me wrong, I'd win.

Speaker 2 And he looked at me with that sheepish grin that he always has.

Speaker 2 Doggone it if he wasn't right. I mean, I wasn't America's pastor two minutes ago, and I won't be after this, but for right now,

Speaker 4 he proved me wrong.

Speaker 2 In a moment, you're going to hear

Speaker 2 from the most powerful political

Speaker 2 people in the free world.

Speaker 2 You're going to hear from the who's who.

Speaker 2 And they're going to assemble in this place to talk about what Charlie Kirk did in 31 years on this earth.

Speaker 2 He had more lifetimes in 31 years than all of us have in the entirety of our own.

Speaker 2 And as I was thinking about that,

Speaker 2 to recount all that he's accomplished in 31 years is quite a feat.

Speaker 2 I mean I was just telling the turning point staff as I walked in here

Speaker 2 Everyone is worried that the turning point isn't going to be successful.

Speaker 2 And I looked at each and every one of them. And for those of you who are

Speaker 2 negative,

Speaker 2 without Charlie Kirk's presence, they pulled off the largest event in turning point history.

Speaker 2 Let's thank them.

Speaker 2 Turning point is alive and well.

Speaker 2 All right.

Speaker 2 I appreciate that, but you're taking my time here. Sit down.

Speaker 2 I want to do two things, and then I want to do what I've been called to do. First of all,

Speaker 2 I was thinking of Abraham Lincoln when I was reflecting on Erica

Speaker 2 and their two children, and for Charlie's parents and his sister,

Speaker 2 Abraham Lincoln said to Mrs. Bixby when she had lost sons in the Civil War, he wrote these words,

Speaker 2 I feel how

Speaker 2 weak and fruitless must be any word of mine

Speaker 10 to beguile you

Speaker 2 from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.

Speaker 2 We can't bring him back, but we thank you for raising him.

Speaker 2 We thank you for loving him. Erica, for being the strength in his life.

Speaker 2 And we pray for this family. We ask God's comfort and peace upon you.
In Jesus' name, amen.

Speaker 2 Now my responsibility, entrusted to me by my friend and his wife,

Speaker 2 You're going to hear of what Charlie did, but I'm here today to tell you the why in what he did.

Speaker 12 The why brought him the courage.

Speaker 2 The why brought him the wisdom and the strength.

Speaker 2 The why

Speaker 2 is the one that Charlie wanted to welcome as the guest of honor.

Speaker 2 The guest of honor, his resume is long.

Speaker 6 He's the king of glory.

Speaker 2 He's the prince of peace.

Speaker 2 He's the savior of the world.

Speaker 2 He's the living God.

Speaker 2 He's the God of all mercy and grace.

Speaker 2 The total embodiment of love. The total embodiment of truth.
And he's here today to call his children back to him.

Speaker 2 From the thin veil of heaven, Charlie declares to all earthly powers and principalities who will gather here.

Speaker 2 They have come into the presence of the God of all creation.

Speaker 2 Charlie wanted his Savior to be the guest of honor. He wanted all of you to receive this gift from him, the why and what he did.

Speaker 2 Charlie was never afraid because he knew his life was secure in the hand of God.

Speaker 2 Jesus left the glory of heaven's throne for the humiliation of an earthly cross.

Speaker 2 He was fully tempted, yet was without sin.

Speaker 2 For those of you who struggle with the word sin, it's real simple. It's an archer's term.

Speaker 2 Where the bullseye is and where the arrow lands, that's called the sin distance, how far you've fallen from perfection. And there are none righteous, no, not one.

Speaker 2 We've all missed the mark, the bullseye.

Speaker 2 And we try to get to God by our efforts, but there is no effort that will bring us back into the presence of a righteous God.

Speaker 2 You see, the wages of sin is death. Charlie knew this, and at an early age, he entrusted his life to the Savior of the world.

Speaker 2 Jesus came to this earth, was tempted in all ways, yet was without sin, was crucified upon a cross. His blood was poured out because blood must be shed for the remission of sins.

Speaker 2 And his death upon that cross was sufficient for all the world's sins, but only efficient for those who, like Charlie, would receive him as their Savior.

Speaker 2 Jesus has come to seek and save that which is lost.

Speaker 2 And I would say this to all of you.

Speaker 5 The Lord loves you.

Speaker 4 He wants to save you.

Speaker 2 He wants to give you

Speaker 8 a new life.

Speaker 2 He wants to cover the multitude of your sins by the blood he shed upon the cross.

Speaker 2 The Bible says, If you believe in your heart and you confess with your tongue Jesus is Lord, you will be saved to the glory of the Father.

Speaker 2 You see, Charlie looked at politics as an on-ramp to Jesus. He knew if he could get all of you rowing in the streams of liberty, you'd come to its source, and that's the Lord.

Speaker 2 In the time time I have remaining,

Speaker 2 I'm going to ask all who profess Christ as their Savior to remain seated.

Speaker 2 The Bible says, if you profess me before man, I'll profess you before my Father in heaven. It requires an act of faith.

Speaker 2 You stand.

Speaker 2 That's what Charlie did every day on campus with death threats. He stood because he knew in whom he had trusted.

Speaker 2 And he wants to give you the gift of the why and what he did, and that is his Savior Jesus.

Speaker 8 While believers are seated, if there's any in this room and across the globe

Speaker 2 that would desire to receive Jesus as their Savior, as Charlie did as a young man,

Speaker 2 and now is in the presence of His Savior,

Speaker 2 I'm going to ask you to put action to your faith.

Speaker 2 And I'd ask you to stand right now to receive the Lord. Don't be ashamed.
Stand.

Speaker 8 Amen.

Speaker 8 Amen.

Speaker 8 Amen.

Speaker 2 The Bible says

Speaker 2 the Bible says that when one sinner gives their heart to the Lord, the angels in heaven rejoice.

Speaker 2 And I got to tell you, there's one up there right now, Charlie Kirk, he's stoked and he's excited about your commitment to a Savior.

Speaker 2 For this remaining moment, if you've given your heart to the Lord and someone is seated next to you, I want that person who's a believer to stand and pray with you.

Speaker 2 And please, up on the screen, I want you to take a picture of this QR code. We are going to give you everything you need to walk this walk with Christ.

Speaker 2 Faith comes from hearing and hearing from the Word of God. And it's time to get into a Bible-believing church.

Speaker 2 And pastors, if you didn't want to give Charlie Kirk the time of day, these folks are going to be showing up at your church and they're there because of his life.

Speaker 8 God bless you and may the Lord keep you.

Speaker 2 Amen.

Speaker 1 Please welcome to the stage Rebecca Dunn.

Speaker 14 Charlie Kirk was scheduled to speak at my husband's upcoming memorial.

Speaker 14 Instead,

Speaker 14 I am here speaking at Charlie's memorial.

Speaker 14 It means a lot to share my story.

Speaker 14 Almost 12 years ago,

Speaker 14 I met this bright young man filled with optimism about his plan to reach young people.

Speaker 14 I was so impressed that I invited him to come to our home and tell my husband and me more about his organization.

Speaker 14 That young man, of course, was Charlie Kirk, and his organization was Turning Point USA.

Speaker 14 Charlie told us how he wanted to start two chapters in North Florida. When asked how much money it would take, he told us he thought it would take about $50,000.

Speaker 14 Not knowing anything about this young man except that he sounded impressive,

Speaker 14 we told him that if he could raise the first half, we would give him the remaining $25,000.

Speaker 14 Two days later,

Speaker 14 Charlie called to say that he had raised the money.

Speaker 14 He was not in his hometown.

Speaker 14 He was not even in his home state.

Speaker 14 He was 20 years old,

Speaker 14 and yet yet he met our challenge.

Speaker 14 I laughed and I told him, I said, well, Charlie, I guess we owe you a check.

Speaker 14 That was Charlie Kirk's first challenge grant.

Speaker 14 After that initial grant, we followed suit. with multiple challenge grants,

Speaker 14 each one larger than the previous, eventually growing into the millions.

Speaker 14 In the early days, Charlie felt like a son to me.

Speaker 14 More recently,

Speaker 14 I was the one looking up to him.

Speaker 14 Charlie never disappointed.

Speaker 14 He met every challenge with optimism and grit.

Speaker 14 Today,

Speaker 14 I feel like Charlie is challenging us.

Speaker 14 Will we meet his challenge to fight for freedom,

Speaker 14 for family, for faith?

Speaker 14 More importantly,

Speaker 14 will we do this the way that Charlie did

Speaker 14 with a heart that loves God?

Speaker 14 Before you answer that question,

Speaker 14 I would like to share something else with you.

Speaker 14 Shortly before I met Charlie, I had become very discouraged about the atmosphere in our country. I even suggested to my husband that maybe we should stop trying.

Speaker 14 It seemed that the money and time we were giving to freedom causes did not seem to be making a difference.

Speaker 14 Bill asked me to read an article by Larry Reed.

Speaker 14 The essence of the article said this:

Speaker 14 If we truly believed in freedom,

Speaker 14 we must never stop trying to preserve it.

Speaker 14 We had a moral obligation to fight for freedom,

Speaker 14 and as long as there is a breath in our bodies,

Speaker 14 we must fight.

Speaker 14 By encountering Charlie,

Speaker 14 we met a true freedom fighter.

Speaker 14 Today, there is no doubt that Charlie Kirk fought for freedom with the last breath in his body.

Speaker 14 Thank you, Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 14 And thank you to everyone who will not stop fighting. To all who will meet the challenge Charlie gave us.
Thank you.

Speaker 1 Please welcome to the stage Larry Arne.

Speaker 16 Good morning.

Speaker 16 We had the pastor. I'm the school teacher.

Speaker 16 I have one short story to tell you about Charlie Kirk, my friend. He became a friend of mine because I interrogated him one time.
19-year-olds are my specialty.

Speaker 16 I asked him some questions he couldn't answer. And he was already becoming famous.

Speaker 16 And I noticed his reaction. He said, what should I do? And I said, well, you have to suffer.
If you want to grow, you have to suffer.

Speaker 11 Hard to learn.

Speaker 16 Into the night. Crackle dawn in the morning.
Start with the Bible. Read the classics.

Speaker 16 Study the founding of America.

Speaker 16 In those places, you will find

Speaker 16 that there's a ladder that reaches up toward God.

Speaker 16 And at the bottom of it is the ordinary good things that are around us everywhere. If we can call them by their names, they have being.

Speaker 16 And the beings of the good things are figments of God.

Speaker 5 You will find that article in Aristotle.

Speaker 16 You will find it in the Bible.

Speaker 16 You will find it in Madison and Jefferson.

Speaker 16 How do I learn that? He said. I said, you have to suffer.

Speaker 16 You have to study.

Speaker 4 You have to think.

Speaker 16 I thought I'd never hear from him again.

Speaker 16 Within a month, he got hold of my cell phone number and he texted me a copy of a certificate of completion of a Hillsdale College online course.

Speaker 16 He would go on to do that 31 times.

Speaker 6 I keep a list in my head.

Speaker 16 of the six or eight young people and I'm very privileged I get to know many inspiring young people

Speaker 16 who are the best I ever saw.

Speaker 16 Charlie is the only one who was never a full-time student at Hillsdale College who was on that list.

Speaker 16 We will miss him dearly.

Speaker 16 He can't be replaced.

Speaker 16 You know, a good thing is a thing that has being.

Speaker 16 An assassin is not a thing that has being.

Speaker 16 The assassin must give up his humanity to destroy something that has being.

Speaker 2 Charlie lives on.

Speaker 16 The assassin will die.

Speaker 16 My wife, who's here with me today,

Speaker 16 and I have set up a scholarship in the hope that Charlie's children will go to a good college.

Speaker 16 I have one in mind.

Speaker 16 And this May the 9th,

Speaker 16 Erica doesn't know this yet, we are going to give Charlie and Erica the greatest respect a college can give,

Speaker 16 an honorary degree.

Speaker 16 Charlie, you see,

Speaker 16 has suffered enough.

Speaker 16 He's gone to the Lord.

Speaker 16 He deserves his reward.

Speaker 16 Thank you.

Speaker 1 Please welcome Mikey McCoy, Stacey Sheridan, Tyler Boyer, and Justin Strife.

Speaker 19 Hello, everyone. My name is Mikey McCoy.

Speaker 19 I had the unique honor, blessing, and privilege of a lifetime to not only call Charlie a precious friend, mentor, but to travel with him literally everywhere.

Speaker 19 The first time I met Charlie was when I was driving him and his then-girlfriend Erica to the airport after he had spoken at my father's church.

Speaker 19 The entire car ride, he was grilling me on Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, American history. At the end, he said, don't go to college, come work for me instead.

Speaker 19 At 18, I canceled my college plans, moved to Arizona. My life was forever changed by Charlie.

Speaker 19 All of us in this room have that in common.

Speaker 19 My first day working at Turning Point, I met an incredible girl who Charlie was interviewing on his podcast, sharing the story of her family who had survived a totalitarian regime, whose grandfather was imprisoned in the gulags for 10 years for preaching the gospel.

Speaker 19 Elizabeth and I were married a year later.

Speaker 17 Thank you, Charlie.

Speaker 19 When Charlie would speak on college campuses, he'd often wear t-shirts with inspiring taglines like, here I am,

Speaker 19 never surrender,

Speaker 19 freedom.

Speaker 19 But as I've watched back so many clips these past 11 days, My favorite and so often worn by him was live free.

Speaker 19 11 days ago, my friend was martyred for using his voice to engage in peaceful dialogue. Charlie's assassin thought that he could steal and silence his voice by putting a bullet in his neck.

Speaker 19 In the words of Soren Kiergaard,

Speaker 19 the tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule has just begun.

Speaker 19 Charlie was not silenced. His movement is only beginning.
The voices of millions globally have been awakened, furthering his cause and mission far beyond anyone's comprehension.

Speaker 19 We won't cower in fear.

Speaker 17 We will never surrender.

Speaker 19 We are resolved to live free from lies and seek out what is true.

Speaker 19 We will respectfully, boldly, challenge what is accepted by culture in order to seek out what is true and acceptable to God Almighty alone.

Speaker 12 To everyone here today,

Speaker 8 live free.

Speaker 19 True freedom is not found in doing whatever we want, but pursuing Christ in doing what is right.

Speaker 19 In Charlie's words, get married, have more children than you can afford, build a legacy, pass down your values, pursue the eternal, seek true joy.

Speaker 19 Charlie led by example.

Speaker 19 It's not only seen in the incredible wife Erica Kirk, his two beautiful children, the legacy he built, his values, his love of God, and true joy he found in his Savior, Jesus Christ, but in countless people, especially young people like Elizabeth and I, whose very lives are the fruit of Charlie's example of faithfulness.

Speaker 17 Charlie,

Speaker 19 it was the honor of my life to serve you as you serve Jesus.

Speaker 19 And now we will all continue to serve you as we continue to serve Jesus. Thank you so much.
I love you, Charlie.

Speaker 17 I can't wait to see you again.

Speaker 19 God bless Erica Kirk, CEO and chair of Turning Point USA, the Kirk family, and God bless America.

Speaker 17 Oh my goodness.

Speaker 17 Charlie's having some serious heavenly FOMO right now.

Speaker 17 Look at this. You have no idea how much Charlie Kirk wants a bullhorn down here right now.

Speaker 17 He always said to me, if we could just figure out how to bring the Holy Spirit into a Trump rally,

Speaker 17 I think you've done it.

Speaker 17 My name is Tyler Boyer.

Speaker 17 I was the CEO of Charing Point USA and now the CEO of Turning Point Action.

Speaker 17 You may know me from the Charlie Kirk Show or our weekly podcast Thought Crime with Charlie, Jack, Blake, and Andrew, but I'm also the longest tenured employee at Turning Point.

Speaker 17 I met my friend Charlie in 2014. We connected when Turning Point USA was just in its infancy, sharing a vision for what the conservative movement should be.

Speaker 17 Charlie was just a kid then.

Speaker 5 I was a little older.

Speaker 17 We had a lot in common. I didn't like rhinos.
He didn't like rhinos.

Speaker 17 I was the youngest guy at Tea Party meetings. He was the youngest guy at Tea Party meetings.

Speaker 17 Charlie didn't go to college. I went to ASU, so I basically didn't go to college.

Speaker 17 You're welcome, Dr. Crow.

Speaker 17 We went to work every day on a 24-hour clock. When Charlie turned 21, he didn't have a home.
Turning Point USA was in his first year of raising real money.

Speaker 17 He was just a kid to me. But donors would ask him where he lived, and he took personal offense to the suggestion he still lived in his parents' basement.

Speaker 17 Although his parents probably wanted him to be there all the time.

Speaker 17 He was a grown 21-year-old man, after all. He was rarely home in Chicago.
He lived on a plane and zipped back and forth as Turning Point USA became his life.

Speaker 17 All his personal mail came to a little detached garage at 217.5 Illinois Street, whereas Charlie would constantly remind you, like every good startup, Turning Point USA was founded.

Speaker 17 So anyways, we worked 24-7.

Speaker 17 He would tell every supporter of ours between me and him, we were a team that was never off the clock.

Speaker 18 Full coverage.

Speaker 17 I would usually stay up till 2 or 3 in the morning working on the next big turning point USA project and text Charlie reports of what our team that day had accomplished. It was like this every day.

Speaker 17 Work, report, and wait to see my text messages to Charlie flip from delivered to red as soon as he woke up on the East Coast so we can be firing away feedback, thoughts, and a flurry of brilliant Charlie Kirk ideas as soon as he opened his eyes.

Speaker 17 I'm not kidding you, this was every single day.

Speaker 17 And it takes is, all it takes is two dudes to dream up big stuff and talk each other into really insane ideas, which Charlie and I did often to one another.

Speaker 17 We would go back and forth with those ideas, perfecting them, turning into bigger, more insane and impactful things, and of course expensive concepts. The ideas literally never stopped.

Speaker 17 It was a round-the-clock problem solution chat that worked to dream big for the conservative movement. Come up with new ideas, plan new things, fix all problems.

Speaker 17 My job was to turn it into proposals and presentations, and voila, we would work to execute.

Speaker 17 Charlie would take red-eyes from coast to coast, going all over the country like a crazy man on any and every possible donor, meeting with every possible donor who would take a meeting so our ideas and fixes for the conservative movement could help young people once and for all.

Speaker 17 I oftentimes would go with him and marvel at the deranged 22-year-old lifestyle of bathing in airport bathrooms. eating full plates of vegetables and meat at 10 p.m.
at night after a long day's work.

Speaker 17 He was the best at doing all of it. Our success gave me the job of a lifetime, and I'm grateful for it for the rest of my life.

Speaker 17 I got really good at recruiting the best young talent in the country to come work for us, and it was non-stop. We were a hell of a team.
And that's how it worked.

Speaker 17 Turning Point USA was built, and the Charlie Kirk vision was delivered. I had the special honor at Charlie and Erica's wedding to give a toast speech for Charlie the groom.

Speaker 17 It was significantly less pressure than this room. An incredibly beautiful wedding, but small and important room of people.

Speaker 17 I can admittedly say I didn't think that I would have to give another Charlie Kirk speech this soon.

Speaker 17 At his wedding, I told the story of talking Charlie into moving to Arizona. He was an adamant Chicago boy.
I needed to break that.

Speaker 17 Selfishly, I wanted him to love Arizona because I had recently convinced him to move Turning Point USA to Arizona. It was a hard sell at first, and that was until I hosted the first Trump rally

Speaker 17 in Trump rally history right here in Arizona in 2015.

Speaker 17 I got a call.

Speaker 17 I got a call from Miss Erica Kirk. Miss Arizona, 2012.
I just want to help, she said. So naturally, I put her right behind the president at that first rally.

Speaker 17 After that, we talked. It was obvious she was the perfect person for the job that Charlie and I had devised in one of our 24-hour planning sessions.
sessions, I wanted to hire her.

Speaker 17 I only had one problem: Charlie Kirk wanted to date her.

Speaker 17 Long story short, I was very worried he was going to scare her off and screw it up. And I was going to lose this incredible prospect.

Speaker 17 Like all things he put his mind to, Charlie accomplished everything he put his mind to. They immediately fell in love, and I lost an employee.
But now she's my boss.

Speaker 2 I'm sure you've heard.

Speaker 17 We love Erica Kirk.

Speaker 17 Over the years, we built a lot of things. The largest field operation of the Conservative movement between high school, college, faith, and action.

Speaker 17 The first ever ballot chase operation that won the election for President Trump.

Speaker 17 The largest events of the Conservative movement, most of which have been huge, but in convention centers.

Speaker 17 In 2021, in the aftermath of COVID, we weren't sure if society was ever going to bounce back and ever get back to normal. So we began planning what was one of the crazy ideas known as America Fest.

Speaker 17 I hope you'll all be there this year.

Speaker 17 We decided to move it to Swing State, Arizona, and hope and pray that this would work after the world shut down for so long.

Speaker 17 Charlie, like all our 24-7 ideas sessions, texted me and our VP of events, Lawrence Honsich, late at night, and he showed us and said, this is my vision. It was an image of a full stadium.

Speaker 17 A few seconds later, he sent these images of full stadiums of people, hoping for that to be a future turning point event. Well, Charlie, my friend, I'm happy to report we're standing in your vision.

Speaker 17 You did it, buddy.

Speaker 3 We love you.

Speaker 17 You are sitting in the vision for Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 20 God bless.

Speaker 11 My name is Justin Streif, and I'm the Chief Operating Officer for Turning Point USA.

Speaker 11 Since September 10th, my thoughts keep returning to one thing, and that's time.

Speaker 11 Charlie lived only 31 years.

Speaker 11 Yet when I reflect on those years, I see more impact and more courage and more achievement than most men accomplish in a lifetime.

Speaker 11 I've known Charlie for a decade, and I'd like to share a little of what I learned from him.

Speaker 11 Charlie often said that having courage is one of the easiest things in the world because all it requires is you to say yes.

Speaker 11 Courage does not require talent, it does not require natural ability. Courage requires a personal decision.

Speaker 11 It's interesting that people often describe Charlie as completely fearless, but the truth is simpler and much more profound.

Speaker 11 Charlie simply refused to let fear stop him from carrying out God's will for him and his life.

Speaker 11 His courage, his courage was a daily choice, a yes, no matter the cost, and it cost him his life.

Speaker 11 This truth forced me to reflect on what we can't control, time.

Speaker 11 It's fleeting, it's fragile, and it's sacred. Charlie knew this better than anyone else.
He didn't waste time. He lived every moment with conviction.

Speaker 11 He lived as a man of character and truth and courage. And he taught us not just through words, but through actions.

Speaker 11 Charlie was the same same person in private as he was in public. And that's why we trusted him.
That's why we loved him. That's why we all feel this loss so deeply.

Speaker 11 His honesty, his compassion, and his insistence on truth drew people in, even those who disagreed with him.

Speaker 11 Charlie stirred patriotism in us, but more deeply he stirred our hunger to live united under God.

Speaker 11 He told us to stop and think, to use common sense, to grow up and pitch in.

Speaker 11 He asked us to hear the words that God wrote on our hearts. I am the Lord your God, and you shall have no other gods before me.

Speaker 11 This is not a message of comfort or safety or peace. It's a message of love, a love of God's will.

Speaker 11 Charlie's life was anchored by that love. Every day he left his home, the comfort of it, his wife, his children, to face criticism and threats and angry mobs and ultimately death.

Speaker 11 He loved God more than he loved safety or applause or even his own life.

Speaker 11 That's because the last 31 years weren't his career, they were his calling.

Speaker 11 Charlie's legacy is this: he showed us how to be better people, he gave voice to truth, and he followed God's will.

Speaker 11 He started with nothing more than

Speaker 11 an idea and a folding table. And over 13 years, with time and courage and faith, he built a movement that changed the world.

Speaker 11 Now that Charlie's gone,

Speaker 11 what happens next?

Speaker 11 It's up to us. Time is fleeting, but the decisions we make here, right now, are eternal.

Speaker 11 So let us honor Charlie by doing what he did.

Speaker 11 Stand for truth, confront evil, live courageously,

Speaker 11 and we do it the way that Charlie did.

Speaker 11 With compassion, but never compromising on truth. Demanding the best from ourselves, from each other, and from our country.

Speaker 10 Charlie reminded us that courage requires only a yes, and he said yes every single day.

Speaker 11 And now it's our turn.

Speaker 11 It's our turn to say yes, to speak boldly,

Speaker 11 speak honestly, to fight for our families, to love our country, to honor God,

Speaker 11 and to wisely use the time that we've been given.

Speaker 11 And it's to

Speaker 11 do for the next generation what Charlie did for us. Because this, all of this, right here and right now, is our turning point.

Speaker 11 We love you, Charlie, and we won't let you down.

Speaker 21 My name is Stacey Sheridan. Eight years ago, I met Charlie in a crowded ballroom in West Palm Beach at a David Horowitz Freedom Center event.

Speaker 21 We spoke briefly, we exchanged cards, and I thought nothing of it.

Speaker 21 What ultimately

Speaker 21 made me want to join Charlie's cause and Charlie's team, because he began a quest to hire me after meeting me.

Speaker 21 I was reluctant at first,

Speaker 21 but it was his naive audaciousness

Speaker 21 to change the world that ultimately sold me.

Speaker 21 It was the best decision I've ever made, and I've never looked back.

Speaker 21 Yes, technically, Charlie was my boss, but it really never felt that way.

Speaker 21 Far more than my boss, I felt like he was my little brother.

Speaker 21 So the guys that went before me

Speaker 21 spoke about him as a boss and a leader. I'm going to speak about him from my heart as a family member.

Speaker 21 In 2022, my husband Mike became sick with cancer. Two years later, that cancer took his life.

Speaker 21 Throughout those two years, Charlie called me consistently to ask how he could help us.

Speaker 21 At one point, he had critical medication and an oxygen machine sent to my doorstep without my knowledge. I still to this day have no idea how he made that happen.

Speaker 21 But that was Charlie.

Speaker 21 He did the right thing. There was no limit to how far he'd go to help a friend.

Speaker 21 He wasn't looking for publicity or credit.

Speaker 21 He did it because that's what a leader does.

Speaker 21 That's what a friend does.

Speaker 21 And that's what a Christian is supposed to do.

Speaker 21 Sometimes I would express guilt to Charlie that I couldn't do my job at 100%.

Speaker 21 Charlie's response every single time

Speaker 21 was, family first.

Speaker 21 When Mike ultimately passed away, Charlie and the entire team were there for us yet again.

Speaker 21 They helped my daughter Grace through the unbearable tragedy of losing her father on her ninth birthday.

Speaker 21 But Charlie's help didn't stop there.

Speaker 21 This January, I lost my home in the Pacific Palisades fire.

Speaker 21 Charlie's response was very clear and very direct.

Speaker 21 This is a sign you and Grace belong in Arizona now.

Speaker 21 Within a few months, we moved here, and Charlie and Erica welcomed us into their family.

Speaker 21 While While enduring our various tragedies, my daughter Grace would ask me at least once a day,

Speaker 21 why would God do this to us, Mom?

Speaker 21 My honest and only answer was, someday we will look at each other and instantly know why all of this had to happen.

Speaker 21 And it will be for something far greater than we can ever imagine.

Speaker 21 In my first conversation with Grace after Charlie's death, Grace said to me me through tears over the phone, Mom,

Speaker 21 this is the answer to my question.

Speaker 21 This is our wife.

Speaker 21 Now we can be there for Erica and Gigi and Mac the way they were there for us.

Speaker 21 Looking back today, it's so so clear to me that Grace was right. I know for certain that my late husband Mike, Charlie, and God were guiding us here for this very moment in time.

Speaker 21 It was always written.

Speaker 4 Erica,

Speaker 21 Grace and I will support you and your babies the way you and Charlie were there for us in our darkest days.

Speaker 14 Charlie,

Speaker 21 we will miss your words of wisdom,

Speaker 21 your high-pitched laugh, which is kind of awkward,

Speaker 21 and the way your voice would always soften when you spoke to Erica and your children.

Speaker 21 And I promise

Speaker 21 we're going to make

Speaker 21 TPUSA so big that it reaches you in heaven.

Speaker 21 Everything Charlie prayed for in his life, a restoration of faith, a rebirth of patriotism, is coming to fruition in his death.

Speaker 21 And right now, he is beaming at us from heaven.

Speaker 21 The fact that we pulled this off in seven days is a miracle that only Charlie Kirk can deliver, by the way.

Speaker 21 So, in Charlie's words, let's get to work, everybody. We have a country to save.

Speaker 21 Thank you.

Speaker 15 Well, you're about to embark on something that is much bigger than yourself.

Speaker 15 So check your ego at the door. This is not about you, okay?

Speaker 15 I don't care about your feelings. If you're having a bad day, you know, go figure that out yourself.
This is about us. This is about the country.

Speaker 15 And the eyes of the whole nation are again on Turning Point.

Speaker 15 We do the best events in the movement. In fact, we do the only event.
Are there any other events in the movement? No. We've kind of put everyone else out of business, right?

Speaker 15 So we are the only standard of excellence. And so we hold ourselves to a higher standard.
We don't do mediocre around here.

Speaker 15 We try to raise the level of excellence because we are constantly trying to push the conservative movement and the country to a place it's never been before. You guys know this.

Speaker 15 Turning point USA is the most important organization in the country, period.

Speaker 15 Find me another organization that's been able to move millions of people the way that we have, that does the events, that does training.

Speaker 15 Nobody does what we do at Turning Point USA, but it starts with all of you.

Speaker 15 We're building something bigger than you, bigger than me. We're building experience to help save the country.
And if this type of intensity bothers you, well, then don't go work for Turning Point USA.

Speaker 15 You can go work for the Department of Labor or something, okay? Because here we do excellent things. We do big things.
We make history here at Turning Point USA.

Speaker 15 It's going to be early mornings.

Speaker 15 It's going to be late nights, but you all get to know that you're doing something rewarding that is not just, oh, a career, and you check the box, but lives will be changed.

Speaker 15 And how blessed are we that we get to be here celebrating the country and this is our job? It's pretty awesome.

Speaker 15 There's the one thing that I hear from speakers throughout all the years. Your team is so impressive and they're so young.
Why is it, everybody? Because for us, we hold ourselves to a higher standard.

Speaker 15 This is not just another DC dig. This is about saving Western civilization.
We are the most important organization in the country. You are part of it.
It's something bigger than all of us.

Speaker 15 And it will have ramifications across the country. I'm so thankful for you guys.
You guys have really defied gravity and let's continue to make history here.

Speaker 1 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Andrew Colvet.

Speaker 10 Just give us a moment.

Speaker 4 Hello.

Speaker 10 My name is Andrew Colvet.

Speaker 10 I am spokesman for Turning Point USA. I'm a business partner of Charlie's.

Speaker 10 I was the executive producer, I am the executive producer of the Charlie Kirk Show.

Speaker 10 But most of all, I'm a longtime friend of Charlie's.

Speaker 10 Charlie and I

Speaker 10 built the show over eight years,

Speaker 10 brick by brick,

Speaker 10 and I'm so proud of what we accomplished together.

Speaker 10 And these wonderful people standing behind me are the geniuses, the camera ops, the board ops, the producers, the editors, and the social media team who made the show happen every single day.

Speaker 10 You preempted my applause line, so let's we're gonna do it again. They deserve it.

Speaker 10 They have performed their duties heroically

Speaker 10 this last week. So please join with me in a big round of applause for them.

Speaker 10 It's been

Speaker 10 excruciating

Speaker 10 to do this show the last week.

Speaker 10 But we knew it's exactly what Charlie would have wanted.

Speaker 10 And I want to thank you, the audience. You've helped us work through our grief and our broken hearts, live on camera, streaming everywhere.

Speaker 10 And I hope that we've been able to help you do the same in some small way.

Speaker 10 But I will tell you something.

Speaker 10 It's remarkable that in the midst of everything else Charlie had going on in his life, fundraising, traveling, speaking, running two organizations, that he even had time to fit in a daily radio show and podcast.

Speaker 10 But I'll tell you something. That show became the favorite part of Charlie's daily routine.

Speaker 10 It was his one constant amid never-ending change.

Speaker 10 Even when he was on the road, even when he was overseas, even during Amfest or our conferences, we did the show.

Speaker 10 But mostly, it worked because Charlie loved you,

Speaker 10 the audience.

Speaker 10 He read every single email you all sent to him.

Speaker 10 That's why he said every single day, send us an email at freedom at charliekirk.com. Send us your thoughts.
If you agree, you disagree, and we want you to keep sending us those emails.

Speaker 10 I have no idea how he did it, but he really read every single one of them. And this is a true story.
At the end of every show, I had a little ritual of my own.

Speaker 10 I would go into the sent folder of freedom at charliekirk.com,

Speaker 10 and sure enough, every single show, I would find debates that he was having with his audience that disagreed on some minor point.

Speaker 10 There would be email chains six or seven emails long, all while Charlie Kirk was hosting his own show. It's truly remarkable.

Speaker 10 And you, his audience, the grassroots, the muscular class,

Speaker 10 you all were his firewall for freedom. You were his North Star.

Speaker 10 When he met fancy elites who tried to take him off course and try and tell him what regular people really cared about, he knew better because he knew all of you.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 10 He knew he had a secret weapon, and it was you, and he never forgot about you because he loved you and he respected your wisdom.

Speaker 10 You see, it's only now that I'm beginning to realize what was going on all these years that I spent with Charlie.

Speaker 10 We called them campus tours.

Speaker 10 Now I know they were really tent revivals complete with a tent.

Speaker 11 Amen.

Speaker 10 We call it the Charlie Kirk show,

Speaker 10 but it was really just Charlie confronting the lies in the culture and pointing to the truth day in and day out and millions of you tuned in.

Speaker 10 You see, I see it now clearly that Charlie Kirk was a prophet.

Speaker 10 Not the fortune-telling kind that could predict the future, but the biblical kind.

Speaker 10 He confronted evil and proclaimed the truth and called us to repent and be saved.

Speaker 10 Amen.

Speaker 10 And he wasn't mean about it. He was kind and he was loving.
And you could hear in his voice that he desperately wanted the best for you and for all of us.

Speaker 10 So, friends,

Speaker 19 look around you.

Speaker 10 We've been worshiping, we've been singing, we've been joyful. Our hearts are grieving, but we do not grieve as the world grieves.

Speaker 10 Because it says in Scripture, O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?

Speaker 2 Christ has overcome death.

Speaker 10 And Charlie,

Speaker 10 we are so grateful for the harvest that your life and legacy is producing all around us.

Speaker 10 And you can see it. The workers.
There's a whole lot more workers than there were before.

Speaker 10 And so let me leave you with this. For all the fans of the Charlie Kirk Show out there, you'll know the line.
We will see you Monday. Until then, buckle up.

Speaker 23 Here we go.

Speaker 10 Thank you. God bless you.

Speaker 1 Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Benny Johnson.

Speaker 18 Fight for Charlie Kirk. Who feels the Holy Spirit in the house tonight?

Speaker 18 Who can feel that revival happening right now?

Speaker 18 How does it always work?

Speaker 18 What man intends for evil, God intends for good.

Speaker 13 Evil thought that there would be a funeral today.

Speaker 18 God has created a revival right here, in this house, right now.

Speaker 17 Charlie always had that revival energy, didn't he?

Speaker 18 When Charlie first met me, I was a degenerate loser. I'm still a loser, but I was addicted to alcohol.
I had no wife. I had no kids.
I had nothing going for me.

Speaker 18 After 10 years of work with Charlie Kirk, after his witnessing to my life,

Speaker 18 I have become a Christ-centered man. I am happily married to the woman of my dreams sitting right there with our youngest son who just turned eight today,

Speaker 18 eight months.

Speaker 18 And he's wearing ducks for Charlie's beloved Oregon ducks today. That's baby Whitaker in honor of Charlie.

Speaker 18 All of you had a Charlie moment in your life, didn't you? Raise your hand if Charlie Kirk centered you a little closer to Christ.

Speaker 18 Did Charlie help you achieve your American dream a little bit more?

Speaker 17 Did Charlie have that effect?

Speaker 2 Look at every single hand.

Speaker 18 Stand up. Say amen if Charlie Kirk had that effect on your life.

Speaker 18 Look at this.

Speaker 18 100,000 Americans, millions watching online, standing up and saying that is the revival spirit of Charlie Kirk's life.

Speaker 18 And that is the power of martyrdom.

Speaker 18 Because Charlie Kirk is a martyr in the true Christian tradition.

Speaker 18 If you take out a tyrant,

Speaker 18 his power goes away.

Speaker 12 You cut down a martyr, his power grows.

Speaker 18 And that's what we see time and time again. We're seeing it across this country.
Who's seen the full churches, the full parking lots? Who knows somebody now who's a Satanist or an agnostic?

Speaker 18 who's now looking at Charlie's life in this revival moment in our country and going,

Speaker 18 maybe I got it all wrong. Maybe I do need to Christ-center my life.
This is what Charlie always wanted. This is how he wanted to be remembered

Speaker 18 in the mold of Stephen, the first martyr.

Speaker 18 Stephen was killed for speaking the truth about Christ, much like Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 18 The martyr Stephen was the same age as Charlie Kirk when he was martyred.

Speaker 18 At that time, Christianity was just a few very scared Christians in Jerusalem.

Speaker 18 And after Stephen's martyrdom, Christianity

Speaker 18 spread throughout the known world.

Speaker 24 The power of martyrdom.

Speaker 18 This is how God and Christ always advances his kingdom, and he's doing it right now with Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 18 It is a wonderful thing to see. We were all witness

Speaker 18 to a miracle.

Speaker 18 Charlie's life was a miracle. We could all see it.
Those who worked up close and those who watched from far away

Speaker 18 We got to witness a miracle in Charlie's life

Speaker 18 someone who was there

Speaker 18 That day when Stephen was martyred was Saul Saul was the one who was taking the garments so that Stephen could be killed and through Stephen's martyrdom the Apostle Paul was reached by Christ to go out and write the majority of the New Testament.

Speaker 18 There is no one who is irredeemable.

Speaker 18 And that is what Charlie would have wanted us to know about his faith in Jesus Christ.

Speaker 18 The power of Christ's blood and the power of martyrdom speaks through Charlie.

Speaker 18 The Apostle Paul would go on to write the book of Romans.

Speaker 18 And I'd just like to close with this.

Speaker 18 In Romans 13, the Apostle Paul talks about a godly government instituted by our Lord and Savior. And what does he describe?

Speaker 18 The Apostle Paul describes how God establishes the rulers of the nations.

Speaker 18 In the audience right now, there are rulers of our land. Represented right here is the State Department, the Department of War, the Department of Justice, the chief executive.
God has instituted them.

Speaker 18 God has given them

Speaker 18 power over our nation and our our land.

Speaker 18 God

Speaker 18 saved our president, President Trump, from an assassin's bullet for this moment.

Speaker 18 And what

Speaker 18 does the Apostle Paul in Romans say about a godly leadership?

Speaker 5 He says that rulers wield the sword

Speaker 18 for the protection of good men

Speaker 18 and for the terror of evil men.

Speaker 18 May we pray that our rulers here, rightfully instituted and given power by our God, wield the sword for the terror of evil men in our nation in Charlie's memory.

Speaker 18 I want to live in a country where the evil are terrified and where the good and the faithful and the moral people of our nation can live in peace, debate in peace, disagree in peace, and start families in peace.

Speaker 18 And so we want to thank the administration for being here and carrying out that godly mission of wielding the sword against evil.

Speaker 12 In conclusion,

Speaker 18 I'd be remiss if I didn't say this to all of the young men in the audience, and I can see so many young men out there.

Speaker 18 Charlie really reached young men and women, but this is the advice that Charlie gave me:

Speaker 18 center your life on Christ, fall in love,

Speaker 18 Get married. Have a million kids.

Speaker 18 And live out your American dream. And by doing that, we can create millions and millions and millions of Charlie Kirks.

Speaker 18 And we can save our land. That will be our turning point.
God bless you.

Speaker 18 And God bless Charlie Kirk. He's looking down on us, smiling from heaven.

Speaker 18 God bless you. Thank you.

Speaker 1 Please welcome to the stage Dr. Ben Carson.

Speaker 25 Thank you. It's wonderful to see so many people out here for such a sad but also a wonderful purpose.

Speaker 25 You know, we at the American Cornerstone Institute grieve with everyone as we think about the loss of our friend and partner, Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 25 But did you hear a political figure last week saying that Charlie Kirk was ignorant because he didn't have a college degree. I've seen him run circles around people with college degrees.

Speaker 25 You know, I wonder,

Speaker 25 I wonder if that political figure realizes that most of learning in life comes outside of the classroom.

Speaker 25 And I am delighted to see the young people of our land

Speaker 25 merging with the older people like me and moving in the same direction and understanding that our nation was founded upon the kind of principles that allowed us to rise from nothing to the pinnacle of the world in record time.

Speaker 25 That was no accident, that was because of what we believed, including our Judeo-Christian beliefs, that our rights come from our Creator and not from government.

Speaker 23 Now,

Speaker 25 for many decades there have been people who are trying to fundamentally change who we are.

Speaker 25 And there was a man by the name of Cleon Skousen who wrote a book called The Naked Communists in the 50s.

Speaker 25 And he exposed the things that were being done by the Marxists to gain control of our country.

Speaker 25 Such things as gaining control of the public education system and the teacher unions so that you could infiltrate and indoctrinate our young people. It was

Speaker 25 a radical leftist

Speaker 25 who said, give me your children to teach for four years.

Speaker 25 and the seed that I sow will never be uprooted. That's why that's what's going on.

Speaker 25 They also had a goal of gaining control of the media and Hollywood so they could change the culture in America, making sexual perversion normal, natural, and healthy. And speaking of that,

Speaker 25 pushing God out of our society and changing the gospel to the social gospel. Have you noticed that a lot of preachers don't want to talk about what's in the Bible?

Speaker 25 if it's counter to the social gospel.

Speaker 4 Well,

Speaker 25 I challenge the ministers out there to talk about what the Bible says and not what the leftists say.

Speaker 25 And

Speaker 25 get on board,

Speaker 25 get on board of the revival that is coming. We are not going to be able to stop it.
You see evidence of it right here in the stadium. We're all going to be a part of it.

Speaker 25 I love the fact that Erica is going to take over and we're going to grow the turning point to a very significant level.

Speaker 25 And I want us all to remember: you cannot be the land of the free if you're not the home of the brave. You got to stand up for what you believe in.

Speaker 25 And in

Speaker 25 closing,

Speaker 25 I want to read a passage

Speaker 25 from John 12, 24.

Speaker 25 Remembering that Charlie was shot at 12.24 p.m.

Speaker 25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, this is Christ speaking, except a corn of wheat fall onto the ground and die, it abideth alone. But if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

Speaker 25 And I want to thank Charlie for his sacrifice because much fruit is going to be realized.

Speaker 4 Thank you.

Speaker 1 Please give a warm welcome to Congresswoman Anna Polina Luna.

Speaker 22 I just want to start out by saying there would be no Congresswoman Luna without Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 22 I still remember the phone call that changed my life. Hey Anna, it's Charlie.
I'd like to offer you a job as TPUSA's National Hispanic Outreach Director.

Speaker 22 Charlie believed with every fiber of his being that the youth of this nation would save it.

Speaker 22 His fierce patriotism, his unyielding boldness, his prophetic foresight, these were the sparks that lit the path for me on the eve of my departure to medical school to decide to change course and join TPUSA, where I could help Charlie battle the socialist indoctrination on college campuses.

Speaker 22 The year I spent at TPUSA traveling with Charlie is where I honed my voice in the crucible of politics and ultimately forged the path that led me to Congress.

Speaker 22 I saw Charlie grow from a young man with conferences of a few hundred people to one of the most powerful men in the world, walking alongside presidents and titans.

Speaker 22 I saw him grow a beautiful family, all the while remaining a humble leader who quietly raised up others to forward the movement.

Speaker 22 Today, we honor a patriot whose love of this nation burns as brightly as the founding fathers during the birth of our republic.

Speaker 22 Like George Washington, who sacrificed his peaceful life at Mount Vernon to lead a militia and a small army army against the mightiest empire on earth, risking everything, his fortune, his family, his very life, to secure liberty for generations unborn.

Speaker 22 Charlie poured out his youth, his energy, and his unshakable resolve to awaken America's youth from the slumber of complacency and to mobilize millions this past election cycle to reclaim the principles of truth and self-governance that define our exceptional nation.

Speaker 22 His name will stand etched in the history besides the likes of JFK, who boldly challenged a generation to ask what they could do for their country amid the shadows of the Cold War, and Dr.

Speaker 22 King, who marched into the jaws of hatred, sacrificing his safety and ultimately his life to bend the arc of history towards justice.

Speaker 22 These giants, Washington forging a new nation from revolution, JFK inspiring the innovation and resolve, and MLK redeeming it through moral courage, changed the outcome of eras just as Charlie altered the trajectory of our modern fight against cultural decay and ideological tyranny.

Speaker 22 He didn't just speak of patriotism. He lived it.

Speaker 22 giving everything to ignite a movement that turned the tide for conservatism, empowering young voices to challenge a status quo and to secure a brighter future for America.

Speaker 22 And as I stand here today, looking at thousands of young people in this crowd, I realize that Charlie's vision is ablaze in every single one of you.

Speaker 22 The generation that he entrusted to restore the soul of this nation.

Speaker 22 So I ask you,

Speaker 22 will you live boldly as Charlie did?

Speaker 22 Will you rise to the challenge as Charlie did?

Speaker 22 Will you speak truth without fear as Charlie did? And will you pray with unwavering faith, as Charlie did?

Speaker 22 If one man can awaken a generation and save a nation, imagine what 10,000 can do. And we are all Charlie Kirk now, and his legacy has just begun.

Speaker 22 God bless all of you and these great United States of America. Thank you.

Speaker 22 With this bread,

Speaker 22 with this bird,

Speaker 1 Please welcome to the stage Jack Pasovic.

Speaker 3 Charlie Kirk was my friend.

Speaker 3 Charlie was my brother.

Speaker 3 And Charlie was my commanding officer.

Speaker 3 And we will never, ever let the left, the media, or the Democrats forget the name of Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 3 The Bible, we'll get there, hold on, we'll get there.

Speaker 3 The Bible tells us

Speaker 5 that on his last day,

Speaker 3 Moses climbed to the top of the mountain and he looked across the River Jordan

Speaker 3 and he saw the promised land.

Speaker 3 He led the people there,

Speaker 3 but he did not cross himself.

Speaker 3 For he was taken and he died on that mountain.

Speaker 3 And he was brought to God's kingdom.

Speaker 3 On his last day, Charlie Kirk was on the top of a mountain. And Charlie Kirk led us there.
And Charlie Kirk has brought us to the promised land.

Speaker 5 Charlie's death was not just a murder.

Speaker 10 The true word for what Charlie did

Speaker 3 is sacrifice.

Speaker 3 You see the difference between murder and sacrifice is that sacrifice is a gift.

Speaker 3 Sacrifice is that last full measure of devotion for God, for country, and for his people,

Speaker 3 and for his family.

Speaker 3 Charlie Kirk died for all of you.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 Charlie Kirk's gift of his sacrifice means

Speaker 3 that Charlie Kirk will live forever. Not just for all of us, not just for his family and Erica and for his children, but for all future generations of Americans.

Speaker 3 And the question of our time.

Speaker 3 Will Western civilization endure?

Speaker 3 Or will it fracture in two like so many predict?

Speaker 3 Will I say to you

Speaker 3 that a century from now, when they write of the two or three pivotal moments that led

Speaker 3 to the saving of Western civilization,

Speaker 3 they will write that the sacrifice of Charles James Kirk was the turning point.

Speaker 19 And the ugliness

Speaker 3 that has been revealed by Charlie's murder

Speaker 3 will be and is already being overcome by the beauty of the outpouring of love and prayer around the world. Seas of a thousand candles that have been litten from coast to coast

Speaker 3 for Charlie's sacrifice for all of us. We will overcome their evil

Speaker 3 and Charlie's

Speaker 3 and Charlie's sacrifice

Speaker 3 has given us all and I see it in your eyes I see it in the eyes of every man woman and child who has come to me since this unspeakable evil happened

Speaker 3 we have it now

Speaker 3 Charlie gave it to us.

Speaker 3 He gave us that last bit of courage, that last bit of fight, that last bit of grit and resolve to say no more.

Speaker 3 We are done.

Speaker 3 We are done with all of it and we will now stand and fight because if you took Charlie Kirk off that line, then every single one of us will rise up and we will replace that line and we will be there and we will remind them what they did for Charlie, what they did to Charlie, and we will never, ever let them forget the name, Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 12 Our civilization will endure.

Speaker 23 The United States of America will endure.

Speaker 12 For Charlie, we will continue the mission.

Speaker 3 For Charlie, we will end the evil disease that split us and took Charlie from us. And for Charlie, turning point USA will last forever.

Speaker 3 And we will come to find,

Speaker 9 we will come to find that in the final moment

Speaker 3 that Western civilization was saved through Charlie's sacrifice in the only way possible

Speaker 3 by returning the people to Almighty God.

Speaker 9 For greater love hath no man than this

Speaker 3 than he who laid down his life for his friends.

Speaker 3 Are you ready to continue the mission?

Speaker 13 Are you ready to fight back?

Speaker 13 And are you ready to put on the full armor of God and face the evil in high places and the spiritual warfare warfare before us.

Speaker 27 Then put on the full armor of God.

Speaker 23 Do it now.

Speaker 26 Now is the time.

Speaker 13 This is the place.

Speaker 26 This is the turning point for Charlie.

Speaker 3 God bless to all of you.

Speaker 3 God bless to everyone, to Charlie's family, to all the families

Speaker 3 and Charlie

Speaker 3 until we meet again, brother.

Speaker 1 Please welcome to the stage Frank Turek.

Speaker 7 Erica wanted me to share with you what happened after that shot rang out on September 10th.

Speaker 7 I was standing 25 feet from my beloved friend just off his right.

Speaker 3 Why was I there?

Speaker 7 About five years ago, Charlie asked me if I would mentor him in the Evidence for Christianity

Speaker 7 because that's one of the things I do. Now

Speaker 7 It's going to be difficult to mentor someone smarter than you.

Speaker 4 However,

Speaker 7 the only thing that surpassed Charlie's intellect was his humility.

Speaker 7 And so the few things I knew that he didn't, he wanted me to share with him.

Speaker 7 When that shot rang out, I took a step toward him, but his security team was on him immediately.

Speaker 7 And so,

Speaker 7 Charlie,

Speaker 7 being like a son to me,

Speaker 7 I ran toward the security team and we ran to the SUV together.

Speaker 7 No father would stand back and go, no, you just take my son. Take him.
I'll meet you at the hospital.

Speaker 7 I got into the back of the SUV and let me tell you something. His team was amazing.

Speaker 7 When this full investigation is done, I think you're going to see that his team did everything they were supposed to do.

Speaker 7 In the car, Justin was driving. driving.
Dan was in the front with the GPS.

Speaker 7 Rick was to my left. He had Charlie's head.
And Brian was at Charlie's feet. And Charlie's so big, we couldn't even shut the door.
He's so tall.

Speaker 7 And

Speaker 7 I'm perched over the back seat.

Speaker 7 And while they're administering all sorts of first aid, apparently my skill, my job was to yell.

Speaker 7 I was doing a lot of yelling.

Speaker 7 And I want you to know that we did everything we could to save Charlie.

Speaker 7 But Charlie was already gone.

Speaker 7 His face was looking at mine, but he wasn't looking at me. He was looking past me right into eternity.

Speaker 7 And if it's any comfort at all, I learned later that Charlie felt no pain.

Speaker 7 He died instantly.

Speaker 7 But we had to try and bring him back. We couldn't.
We couldn't save him. Now I want you to know that Charlie right now is in heaven not because

Speaker 7 he was a great husband and father, not because he saved millions of kids out of darkness on college campuses, not because

Speaker 7 He changed minds and chased votes to save the country. Not because he sacrificed himself for his Savior.

Speaker 7 Charlie Kirk is in heaven because his Savior sacrificed himself for Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 27 Now look,

Speaker 7 there's only two things you can get in the afterlife. You can get justice or you can get grace.

Speaker 7 Ladies and gentlemen, does anyone in here, does anybody out there watching around the world want justice from an infinitely just being?

Speaker 7 I don't want justice, I want grace. Well, the only way to get grace for an infinitely just being

Speaker 7 is for him to punish an innocent substitute in our place. Where can he find an innocent substitute among us? He can't.
We're all fallen. So what does this infinitely just and infinitely loving God do?

Speaker 7 He adds humanity to his deity.

Speaker 2 He comes to earth.

Speaker 7 He allows the creatures that rebelled against him to torture and kill him

Speaker 7 so he could place their punishment upon himself and then by trusting in him every one of us can be forgiven and then given his righteousness.

Speaker 7 Ladies and gentlemen, this is the greatest story ever told and it happens to be true.

Speaker 7 There's evidence for this and Charlie knew it.

Speaker 7 Watch his videos.

Speaker 7 Charlie knew that life wasn't just about money, it wasn't just about sex, it wasn't just about power, it wasn't just about prestige.

Speaker 7 He knew that the purpose of life is to know Jesus and to make him known, to make heaven crowded.

Speaker 7 Charlie's eyes were fixed on eternity.

Speaker 7 Where have your eyes been fixed? What have you been doing with your lives?

Speaker 9 What have you been doing?

Speaker 7 What are you going to do now?

Speaker 7 You know, in every evil, God brings forth some ripples of good. In this case, He's bringing a tsunami of good.

Speaker 20 Look around.

Speaker 3 You're seeing it.

Speaker 7 And if you think a martyrdom is going to stop this movement,

Speaker 7 well, we all know Charlie was inspirational.

Speaker 7 But Erica Kirk is a force of nature.

Speaker 7 You're going to see her later today.

Speaker 7 In fact,

Speaker 7 I know what's going on in the spiritual realm right now. Every morning, Erica gets up, the devil shrieks, Oh no, she's awake again.

Speaker 7 And ladies and gentlemen, let's honor Jesus. Let's honor Charlie.

Speaker 7 Let's honor Erica

Speaker 7 so that when we wake up every morning, the devil shrieks, Oh no, they're awake again, they're born again.