Charlie Kirk’s Legacy: A Prophetic Vision and a Call to Rise | John Giftah Podcast

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0:49 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

0:51 Speaker 2: the Soul with John Gifta podcast. This is a special edition.

0:54 Speaker 2: As you could see that we're just trying to honor

0:58 Speaker 2: the life and legacy of Charlie. Just the heads up

1:01 Speaker 2: that you know, this is not just talking about you know,

1:05 Speaker 2: the fact that you know this was an amazing man

1:07 Speaker 2: of God who you know, was a light in the

1:10 Speaker 2: darkness who made such a great positive impact and somebody

1:14 Speaker 2: that I, uh, you know, I've admired a lot, especially

1:17 Speaker 2: the way he used his gifts and talented against all

1:21 Speaker 2: oughts to go into, you know, really different and difficult

1:26 Speaker 2: and challenging places and defend the Gospel, defend uh the

1:31 Speaker 2: Word of God, defend righteousness, and speak about social evils,

1:36 Speaker 2: whether it was about the pro life moment and abortion

1:40 Speaker 2: or the transgender issues, and you know so many other

1:44 Speaker 2: issues that are you know, cropped up into this world.

1:46 Speaker 2: And this he's someone I've ald defend. I've really admired

1:52 Speaker 2: a lot, and I'm so grateful for his life and

1:54 Speaker 2: you know, to realize that, you know, he's of the

1:57 Speaker 2: same age group as I am. You know, he is

2:00 Speaker 2: a millennial and the way he was able to sway persuade.

2:05 Speaker 2: I'm so grateful for his life and a legacy and

2:08 Speaker 2: this ministry. And at the same time, I just want

2:12 Speaker 2: to let you know, you know, even if you are

2:14 Speaker 2: of a different political spectrum, you know, I want you

2:17 Speaker 2: to put off your political lenses. You know, even there

2:21 Speaker 2: may be disagreements. You know, as as Christians, we can

2:24 Speaker 2: all have disagreements. You know, there's if the appostle Paul

2:28 Speaker 2: and Bernabas could have disagreements. But yeah, yet God used

2:31 Speaker 2: both of them. Yet they both were powerful in their

2:34 Speaker 2: own way. So you know, you can have some disagreements.

2:37 Speaker 2: But if you are saying, you know what, I hate

2:39 Speaker 2: him politically, so I'm happy that you know he was assassinated.

2:44 Speaker 2: I'm sorry that doesn't sound like a true Christian. So

2:47 Speaker 2: I want you to have your lens of humanity. Uh,

2:51 Speaker 2: you know, especially when I saw his little children and

2:55 Speaker 2: his wife, and you know, my heart just breaks out,

2:59 Speaker 2: and you know, I really I really could not resist

3:02 Speaker 2: but talk about this. So I'm going to just share

3:05 Speaker 2: a personal thing that happened. This happened during the day

3:10 Speaker 2: in the United States of America, but it was during

3:12 Speaker 2: the night here in India. And I got this vision

3:16 Speaker 2: where Charlie Kirk came to me and said, I have

3:21 Speaker 2: fought the good fight of faith. Now you go do

3:25 Speaker 2: the same without fear. He says this to me, and

3:29 Speaker 2: he just retracts himself, and I saw him ascending into

3:32 Speaker 2: heaven and I just take out my phone and I

3:36 Speaker 2: check that he just passed away. This is the vision

3:40 Speaker 2: or the encounter I had. And I was really overwhelmed

3:43 Speaker 2: because all I could think of was all the countless

3:47 Speaker 2: videos I've seen, the way he used to debate and

3:50 Speaker 2: you know, tackle difficult, challenging topics and questions and how

3:55 Speaker 2: people used to put him on the spot and yet

3:57 Speaker 2: he used to, you know, answer in a very match

4:00 Speaker 2: your way. And I could just think about all of that,

4:03 Speaker 2: as well as his family, his his his children growing

4:07 Speaker 2: up without your dad, and I was like, God, what

4:10 Speaker 2: is happening? You know, it just stirreded my spirit up

4:14 Speaker 2: you know where. Because some of you follow me closely

4:17 Speaker 2: know this that I recently had an Indie experience when

4:20 Speaker 2: I just saw myself leaving my body and I'm going

4:24 Speaker 2: and the Lord says, your time hasn't come, go back

4:27 Speaker 2: to your body. And I was immediately reminded of how

4:32 Speaker 2: you know, for me, God said, you know, your time

4:34 Speaker 2: hasn't come, go back to your body. And somebody on

4:36 Speaker 2: a very similar age range loses his life, you know,

4:42 Speaker 2: for the same faith, and that really put me in

4:44 Speaker 2: a spot where I was like, you know what. You know,

4:47 Speaker 2: a lot of times people tell me, you know, first

4:49 Speaker 2: settle things down in your life, you know, get you know,

4:52 Speaker 2: like with regard to your job, your career, your life,

4:55 Speaker 2: your your life, partner getting married, and you know, get settled.

4:58 Speaker 2: And sometimes especially in a typical Indian scenario, they say,

5:01 Speaker 2: you know, you should do focus on ministry after you

5:05 Speaker 2: retire from your job, you know, first focus on everything

5:08 Speaker 2: and then you come to ministry. But you know what

5:10 Speaker 2: I was thinking, somebody you know, on the same date

5:13 Speaker 2: range passed away or was assassinated, you know, preaching the

5:17 Speaker 2: word of God. What is the guarantee that I'm going

5:20 Speaker 2: to live, you know, till after my retirement for me

5:23 Speaker 2: to come into ministry, you know what I mean. You know,

5:25 Speaker 2: this is a word for some of you who are

5:27 Speaker 2: you know, on the sideline saying, you know what, let

5:29 Speaker 2: me fix things up, Let let let things get settled,

5:33 Speaker 2: and then I will focus on the things of God.

5:35 Speaker 2: Then I will do some ministry stuff, or then I

5:37 Speaker 2: will for you know, I'll just you know, be passive

5:39 Speaker 2: with regard to ministry. Just go to church at in

5:41 Speaker 2: the camp or just do some you know stuff. But

5:45 Speaker 2: this is a call for some of you to say,

5:47 Speaker 2: you know what, if today is your last day, unplaneter,

5:50 Speaker 2: what is the impact you would have made. When I

5:54 Speaker 2: look at the legacy of Charlie Kirk, I'm like, wow,

5:57 Speaker 2: you know, he has shaken nations. He has made an

6:00 Speaker 2: impact in the culture and the political systems, and he

6:04 Speaker 2: has made such a glass difference you know, in drawing

6:09 Speaker 2: or persuading the you to come towards righteousness and holiness.

6:12 Speaker 2: And I'm like, God, you know what if someone can

6:15 Speaker 2: do it at this young age, you know you and

6:19 Speaker 2: I need to be whether whatever age you are in,

6:22 Speaker 2: whether you're young or old, this is a word for you.

6:25 Speaker 2: This is the day that you have. You do not

6:28 Speaker 2: have the guarantee of tomorrow. My challenge is that you

6:31 Speaker 2: will go and fight the good fight of faith, that

6:35 Speaker 2: you will speak for righteousness, that you will go and

6:38 Speaker 2: preach the gospel, whether in season or out of season,

6:41 Speaker 2: that you will say, you know what, if Charlie Kirk

6:45 Speaker 2: fulfilled his purpose for this generation, it is time for

6:48 Speaker 2: me to go and fulfill my purpose for this generation.

6:52 Speaker 2: Of course, everybody, you know you cannot do the same

6:55 Speaker 2: thing that Charlie Kirk did. But that's one of the

6:57 Speaker 2: reasons I know I reenterate andallenge based on my book

7:01 Speaker 2: and really a purpose. I encourage you to check that out.

7:03 Speaker 2: I want to tell you that I keep saying that

7:05 Speaker 2: you know, every one of us are called to be

7:07 Speaker 2: the light in the darkness, to preach the gospel in

7:09 Speaker 2: the space or the unique calling that God has given

7:12 Speaker 2: us like doctor Billy Graham fulfill his purpose for his generation,

7:15 Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk fulfill his purpose for his generation. It is

7:18 Speaker 2: time for John Gifta to fulfill his purpose for his generation.

7:22 Speaker 2: It is time for you, wherever you're watching or listening from,

7:25 Speaker 2: it is time for you to fulfill your purpose for

7:28 Speaker 2: this generation. Stop putting things off, stop giving excuses, stop saying,

7:34 Speaker 2: oh I can't do this, I don't have this. I

7:36 Speaker 2: want to sit in my comfort zone. This is your

7:38 Speaker 2: day to set up, you know, because if you came

7:41 Speaker 2: face to face with death, now are you ready to

7:43 Speaker 2: meet your creator? Can you hear the words of God

7:47 Speaker 2: saying well done, my good and faithful servant. Or is

7:49 Speaker 2: he going to say, oh I never knew you. You wicked?

7:55 Speaker 2: Think about this? What is your stand? What are you

8:00 Speaker 2: going to do? You know? The message was very clear.

8:04 Speaker 2: And when he said, you know, you know like I

8:07 Speaker 2: fought my you know, good fight for faith. Now you

8:10 Speaker 2: go do it. This is the word. And it was

8:12 Speaker 2: stirring up in my spirit so much because I was

8:15 Speaker 2: like so disturbed, and I was just speaking in tongues.

8:18 Speaker 2: I was just praying and and and then the word

8:20 Speaker 2: that came to me, I just want to challenge you guys.

8:22 Speaker 2: You know, Charlie Kirk went to be with the Lord

8:27 Speaker 2: and he he had the assurance of salvation. So today

8:30 Speaker 2: my challenge, first of all, is if you do not

8:32 Speaker 2: have the assurance of saluation, this is your day to

8:35 Speaker 2: make things right with God. This is your day to

8:37 Speaker 2: accept Jesus as your Lord in person savior, because Jesus

8:40 Speaker 2: is the only way truth in life. There's no other

8:42 Speaker 2: way to the Father except through him. And this is

8:45 Speaker 2: your moment to make Jesus as your Lord and savior

8:48 Speaker 2: and say, Lord, I want to take your things. Seriously,

8:50 Speaker 2: I'm done with playing games. I'm done with me, you know,

8:53 Speaker 2: taking the sidelines. So I'm done with you know, just

8:55 Speaker 2: being a nominal Christian. This is your moment to make

8:59 Speaker 2: a change that you will be radical for your faith

9:01 Speaker 2: in Jesus' name. Now listen to this. I'm speaking to

9:05 Speaker 2: you from Philippi and chapter one, all right, verse twelve nts.

9:08 Speaker 2: And I'm reading to you from the Nalty version, and

9:10 Speaker 2: this is what it says. And I want you to know,

9:12 Speaker 2: my dear brothers and sisters, that everything that has happened

9:14 Speaker 2: to me here helped in spreading the good news I

9:18 Speaker 2: want you to understand that, yes, what happened to Charlie

9:21 Speaker 2: Kirk is really sad, and especially his family, his kids.

9:24 Speaker 2: It's really really sad, and it just breaks my heart

9:27 Speaker 2: to see what happened. This was evil in pure sight.

9:31 Speaker 2: But God is a specialist in turning what the enemy

9:35 Speaker 2: meant for harm for good right. He knows how to

9:38 Speaker 2: turn things around and the appostle policying. Even though I'm

9:42 Speaker 2: in a bad spot, even though what is happening to

9:44 Speaker 2: me is unfair, God is using it to help spread

9:47 Speaker 2: the good news. And listen to this verse thirteen. For

9:50 Speaker 2: everyone here, including the whole palace guard, knows that I'm

9:53 Speaker 2: in change because of Christ. Everybody knows that if Charlie

9:57 Speaker 2: Kirk was living a nominal life, if he didn't care

10:00 Speaker 2: about his calling, if he lived a normal, mediocre life,

10:04 Speaker 2: he would still be alive. Nobody would be bothered about him.

10:08 Speaker 2: The reason the enemy attacked him was because he was

10:11 Speaker 2: a consequential person. My question to you is I use

10:14 Speaker 2: someone who is willing to stir the boat, who was

10:17 Speaker 2: willing to you know, stir things up and stepping out

10:21 Speaker 2: of your comfort zones to go into the enemy's territory

10:24 Speaker 2: to you know, to make an impact for the Kingdom

10:26 Speaker 2: of God. Charlie Kirk did it, would you? And I

10:33 Speaker 2: love the next verse, Guys, this is so important verse fourteen.

10:36 Speaker 2: And because of my imprisonment, not because of my sermons,

10:41 Speaker 2: but because of my imprisonment, most of the believers here

10:44 Speaker 2: have gained confidence to boldly speak God's message without fear.

10:50 Speaker 2: This is the message. Guys, Listen more than the Apostle

10:54 Speaker 2: Paul's sermons, what happened to him made a greater impact,

11:00 Speaker 2: more than I mean, even if you're someone who has

11:02 Speaker 2: not listened to Charlie Kirk's sermons that much, or his

11:05 Speaker 2: debates that much. I watched here and there a lot

11:08 Speaker 2: of them. But even if you're not listen to this

11:12 Speaker 2: more than his actual sermon or his actual work, or

11:16 Speaker 2: what he spoke, or what his response was, more than

11:19 Speaker 2: what he actually did, what happened to him, Like what

11:23 Speaker 2: happened to the apostle Paul, led to more people being

11:28 Speaker 2: bold in preaching the gospel. See, the enemy thought he

11:31 Speaker 2: could silence the Apostle Paul by chaining him, but that

11:36 Speaker 2: in turn led to more people actually going and preaching

11:39 Speaker 2: the gospel. If the appostle Paul was free, it would

11:41 Speaker 2: have been only the Apostle Paul going and preaching the gospel.

11:44 Speaker 2: But because of his imprisonment, more people went around preaching

11:47 Speaker 2: the gospel. Are you get what I'm saying? So on

11:50 Speaker 2: a similar note, if as long as Charlie Kirk was alive,

11:54 Speaker 2: you know, even I would be like, oh, you know what,

11:56 Speaker 2: he's doing a fantastic job. He's doing a fabulous job.

11:59 Speaker 2: But the fact that you know what he passed away

12:02 Speaker 2: or what happened to him, this should drive more people

12:07 Speaker 2: to say, you know what, I'm gonna step into this.

12:10 Speaker 2: I'm gonna be more firm on my faith. I'm gonna

12:13 Speaker 2: get into the enemy's territory and I'm gonna win souls,

12:16 Speaker 2: and I'm going to be more radical. I'm going to

12:19 Speaker 2: defend my faith. I'm going to speak up for righteousness,

12:21 Speaker 2: and I'm gonna do what God has called me to do.

12:25 Speaker 2: Are you getting what I'm saying? More people said yes

12:29 Speaker 2: to sharing God's word without fear because of what happened

12:33 Speaker 2: to the Apostle Paul. Let more people rise, Let the

12:37 Speaker 2: church arise. It's time for the church to rise from slumber.

12:42 Speaker 2: It's time for the church or the Christians who are

12:44 Speaker 2: nominal Christians, It's time for you to say, you know what,

12:47 Speaker 2: enough of sitting in my comfort zone. It's enough of

12:50 Speaker 2: me just living a mediocre life. It's time for me

12:53 Speaker 2: to make a difference. It's time for me to break

12:56 Speaker 2: out of my barriers. It's time for me to step

12:59 Speaker 2: into you know, levels that are unthinkable and unchattered territories.

13:05 Speaker 2: It's time for me to step into places that you

13:07 Speaker 2: know what I said, you know what, that's carry I

13:10 Speaker 2: shouldn't do. I should sit in my comfort zone. It's

13:12 Speaker 2: time for you to say, you know what, if Charlie Kirk,

13:17 Speaker 2: you know, was able to get into the enemy's territories

13:19 Speaker 2: and you know, defend the faith, It's time for you

13:23 Speaker 2: and I to get into the enemy steritories to preach

13:26 Speaker 2: the gospel, whether in season or out of season, where

13:29 Speaker 2: things are going finding your life or not finding your life.

13:32 Speaker 2: It's time for you to say, I'm gonna step in,

13:35 Speaker 2: and I'm gonna fill in h step into his shoes.

13:39 Speaker 2: I'm gonna, you know, carry this mantle and I'm gonna

13:42 Speaker 2: step in to make a positive impact. I'm gonna build

13:46 Speaker 2: the Kingdom of Gord Now, No, I know, for a

13:49 Speaker 2: fact that everybody cannot do the exact thing that Charlie

13:51 Speaker 2: Coirk did, even if you ask me honestly, i'm debates.

13:55 Speaker 2: It's not my gifts. Okay, I can't do debates. Okay,

13:58 Speaker 2: don't invite me for a debate. Debate is not my gift.

14:01 Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk had that gift. It's not my gift. That's

14:03 Speaker 2: why I challenge, based on my book The unraili a

14:06 Speaker 2: purpose that every one of us have, a unique calling,

14:08 Speaker 2: a unique gift, a unique set of strengths, a unique purpose.

14:13 Speaker 2: It's time for us to use that. This is the

14:16 Speaker 2: gift I have, whether it's my podcast, to stop ranking

14:19 Speaker 2: where my voice through my socials. Just yesterday I came

14:24 Speaker 2: to know that my YouTube channel is ranked among the

14:28 Speaker 2: top three person YouTube channels of all. Out of over

14:32 Speaker 2: one fifty million YouTube channels out there, mine is along

14:35 Speaker 2: the top three point five percent. Okay, it may not

14:40 Speaker 2: be huge in the side of you know, the world,

14:41 Speaker 2: like oh, with millions of views and all of that,

14:43 Speaker 2: but I was like wow. You know, when I saw

14:46 Speaker 2: the ranking, I was like, wow, that's a voice. I'm

14:49 Speaker 2: able to use my YouTube channel against all arts. I'm

14:52 Speaker 2: able to use the podcast. I'm able to use my

14:55 Speaker 2: you know, the preaching opportunities. I'm able to use unique

14:59 Speaker 2: you know, like the Scooby Last, the aspect of life

15:02 Speaker 2: and all of those things to reach people. It's time

15:05 Speaker 2: for you also to do the same. And that's the challenge,

15:09 Speaker 2: right The best way to honor the legacy of Charlie

15:12 Speaker 2: Kirk is to say, if he fought the good fight

15:16 Speaker 2: of faith, I need to go fight the good fight

15:18 Speaker 2: of faith.

15:19 Speaker 1: And I want to.

15:19 Speaker 2: Challenge each one of you to do that. This shall

15:22 Speaker 2: be the voice that you know what one voice was

15:26 Speaker 2: taken away by the enemy. Let multiple voices raise in

15:30 Speaker 2: the name of Jesus Lord. I want to pray for

15:33 Speaker 2: this in the name of Jesus Christ. Right now, I

15:35 Speaker 2: want you to stretch your hands wherever you are and

15:37 Speaker 2: just just just just imagine, you know, the family in

15:40 Speaker 2: front of you, and just pray over them, Pray over

15:42 Speaker 2: the kids, you know, pray over his wife. I pray

15:46 Speaker 2: in the name of Jesus Christ for the peace that

15:48 Speaker 2: surpass it all understanding to reign over them. In the

15:51 Speaker 2: name of Jesus. I want to pray for you know

15:55 Speaker 2: that you know the children, that their future God, you

15:59 Speaker 2: know what he martyred for your faith. He martyred for

16:04 Speaker 2: for you. And I pray in the name of Jesus

16:07 Speaker 2: because he was a martyr for you. And I believe

16:09 Speaker 2: that you know what he stood up for you, you stand

16:12 Speaker 2: up for his kids, and I know that you will,

16:15 Speaker 2: you will honor them. And and and at the same time,

16:17 Speaker 2: I want to pray for you know, the nation of

16:21 Speaker 2: the United States. I pray for healing over the land

16:25 Speaker 2: in the name of Jesus. I speak against divisiveness and

16:28 Speaker 2: I speak unity in the name of Jesus, that every

16:31 Speaker 2: force of darkness, every force of evil. Even recently there

16:36 Speaker 2: was a shooting that killed two children in the church

16:40 Speaker 2: in the campus Uh. There was there was there was

16:43 Speaker 2: this uh young twenty three year old Ukrainian refugee who

16:47 Speaker 2: also lost her life in in Uh in the subway

16:51 Speaker 2: or the bus. I forgot that exact detail. And I

16:55 Speaker 2: want to pray in the name of Jesus God, you

16:56 Speaker 2: know what, there will be no more strive. That will

16:59 Speaker 2: be peace in the land in the name of Jesus.

17:01 Speaker 2: There will be hunity, There will be the peace of

17:04 Speaker 2: God there that will give that protection for people and

17:09 Speaker 2: make a difference in the lives of people, and I

17:11 Speaker 2: pray that the nation that honors you as they step

17:14 Speaker 2: into the two fiftieth year. I pray that you know

17:17 Speaker 2: you will bless this nation in an amazing way. In

17:20 Speaker 2: the name of Jesus, I pray Amen.

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