################################################################################ START OF FILE: 2025-10-19 - In Honor Of Charlie Kirk - .txt ################################################################################ SERMON DETAILS ======================================== Date: 2025-10-19 Title: In Honor Of Charlie Kirk Speaker: Church: What Do You Mean By Type: Short Clip Duration: 36m Language: English URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbDZsQ4SpcM ======================================== Description: These are some stories that I posted on Instagram the day that Charlie died and the day after TRANSCRIPT ======================================== Well, this is the time to pray. We're Christians. Everything's going to be all right. We're Christians. But I want to say this. Why did they shoot Charlie Kirk? Why? Brother Brandham said that when you speak negatively about another brother or sister and you kill their influence by speaking negatively about them, you might as well just kill them. So we are seeing the literal manifestation of that. someone who hates what someone says so much they'd rather kill them than discourse honestly. And I would say this, any person that would rather speak negatively about me or this podcast or anyone else or even themselves, by the way, is yielding to the same demon spirit that shot Charlie Kirk. It's the same one. And it's nonsense. That's what it is. It's a refusal to be accountable to truth. [Music] I have a new rule for people when they say things about me. If someone isn't willing to come to me privately, but they're willing to go to everyone else but me, I don't care what they think of me. I care what Jesus thinks of me. So, yes, I'm using this thing as to try to prop up some things because Jesus died in the cross for you and for me, didn't die and send us a message that we'd trash each other in group chats. It's about time someone said it. Yes, we have a message so great we can shout. We also have a message so great that we stop this nonsense of gossiping about each other all the time. I don't care what your last name is. I don't care how popular you are. Gossip is wrong. And it's the thing that caused this thing with Charlie Kirk. Is it really worth it to say negative about people all the time and never go to them privately because that's what caused this, too. Is it really worth it? I know it's popular to say that you're never the problem and everyone is always terrible and every everyone else is the problem. Sometimes you're the problem. And that's the message of the hour. It's the same demon spirit. Oh, did you hear negatively about David Cusheen? Did you hear this about his podcast? Did you hear this? I don't care what your last name is. Run. You say, "Oh, David, you're using this shooting to talk about yourself. It's the same demon spirit." Charlie Kirk, who is he? A political activist. What am I? A message of the hour activist. someone who speaks truth and doesn't care if he's controversial because truth is controversial. And when you say negative about me in this podcast, you're doing the same thing that they did to Charlie Kirk. The same thing. And I'm not saying this this way to yell at people. I'm trying to wake you up. These are demon powers doing this. Demon power. It's all that it is. Wake up. Yeah, I'm intense. I'm a son of God. The same Jesus Christ that said, "Come unto me all ye that are heavy laden, and I will give you rest," is the same one that flipped tables and said, "You have made the house of God into a den of thieves." I'm afraid some of these people around the message have made the name of the message to be identified with some of the worst gossip I've ever heard. And you're killing the per people, the preachers, and the people you're talking about with your words every time you do it. It's not concern, it's gossip. Where are you getting this from? Because I'm getting calls from young men around the message saying, "David, how's your podcast so good when so many popular, revered, and and well-known preachers and pastors have so many negative things to say about it?" That's why it's the same demon spirit. I'm not speaking against people. I'm speaking against yielding to demon power. I don't care who you are. Run. What is gossip? It's a perversion of the divine power of prayer that God gave his people, his bride. Run from gossip. Run from this spirit that refuses to go to someone privately. Run. Run. Oh, I didn't shoot anybody. But if you said negative about me or even negative about yourself, by the way, you did the same thing. The same thing that whoever did that to did to Charlie Kirk. I am brother Brandhamstead a man running from the presence of the Lord. What did every preacher and every prophet do in every age? They cried out against the evil for their age. And that's what I'm doing. I have no regrets. Yes, I'm intense. But when you say negatively about someone in a group chat or at a dinner table somewhere on a phone call and you have no willingness to go to them privately, you're doing the same thing they did to Charlie Kirk. Oh, your tone is off here. This is that Shut up. [Music] I'm a son of God. We're placed here to win. We're in the greatest message that ever hit the face of the earth. If you can stand and clap at a service, but you haven't listened to one tape in the past month, you're a hypocrite. And so am I. If I do that, we have a message so great we can jump. We have a message so great we can shout. We also have a message so great we can stop long tonging each other. And we can stop with this gossip and we can stop making group chats just to make fun of others. And we can stop holding grudges. That's how great the message is. So, I don't care how popular you are, how popular someone is, how revered. The same spirit that killed Charlie Kirk, the same one that does gossip. It starts with like, "Ooh, I didn't like what they said. Ooh, but never going to them privately." So, uh, please say pause each other. Run to Jesus Christ. Run away from this nonsense. Yeah, I'm intense. I'm a son of God. Souls literally hang in the balance. If you can find me any preacher of any age that wasn't controversial, I'll quit the whole podcast. Controversy is good. It's what truth means. No, I don't actually aim for controversy. But by design, all truth is controversial. And if it's if it's not clothesline preaching, it ain't preaching. Anyway, that's what a prophet of God said anyway. But I love you. Run to Jesus. run away from this nonsense of gossip and pray for Charlie Kirk. He needs it. That same voice that would gossip about Charlie Kirk or that would gossip about me, podcast, whatever, about each other or about yourself is the same one that could pray for him to make a change. So you pray with all your heart. If we put as much prayer into helping others as as as as we do sometimes into speaking negative about each other, we might actually already be in the rapture. And I would say this to any person watching this that has heard negative about me or my podcast. If you hear negative and you've never went to me privately, spoke to me on the phone or been honest about it, you but you've made a judgment call about it. You are willfully choosing to believe a comfortable lie than to face an uncomfortable truth. And that's the truth. So I it's been brought to my attention that I may that I may have not given enough context for my reaction yesterday and why I was talking with such intensity. The reason why is because I watched one of the I believe my Baptist counterpart, a man that believed in the Bible, preached Jesus Christ, and people either absolutely love him, absolutely hate him, or they don't know what to think, much like me. I mean, my my views are in the millions, but his are in the billions. Get shot in the neck and blood pours out. And that is what caused the reaction. And then when my mind when I believe God showed me the connection between shooting someone and then when brother Brandham said if you speak negatively about someone you might as well just kill them especially a preacher then that uh that connects with my mind and people think oh I'd never actually shoot somebody well if you say negative about them you are shooting them it is the exact same thing and when you say negative about a preacher it's worse than actually shooting them that's why brother Ben that you might as well just shoot them because they can't be effective anymore and they can't help save souls. So, in some ways, if you want to say negative about a pre about a preacher, you're better off just shooting them in the neck [Music] because now Charlie Kirk and his videos are going to be way more effective. And he's a murderer. And imagine that with a preacher. You're saying negative about them. You haven't went to them privately. You don't even know if what you're saying is true, but you just whatever that it is. And you say those things and someone else hears them and they don't even know the full truth. But when they go to listen to that preacher, they won't listen because they think negatively about them about what you said. And now that preacher can't reach that person's soul. But if instead of that you hired a hitman to kill that preacher, that preacher's words would become immortal, they would become a lot more effective because he's a martyr. That's why brother Brandham said, "You're better off just shooting them, or you might as well just shoot them." Because their message would be more effective if they were assassinated with the bullet than if they were assassinated with the bullet of your words. And I said it with such intensity because someone I respected I literally uh scrolling yesterday on Facebook unintentionally. I saw the video of him getting shot and the blood was going out. I've seen a lot of rough things in my life to where stuff like that. It takes something like that to actually get to me a little bit and even then I'm just kind of desensitized because of the the things I've went through in my life. I'm not a victim. I've got XP. I don't like saying, "Oh, I went through trauma. I didn't go through trauma." Battle points, experience points, helping others. It's great. But, you know, you help your you help your older sister not kill herself constantly from ages 11 to 21 and you'll you'll see it the way I do. Um, but that was intense because of that. Like, I don't think I've ever talked that way like I did yesterday on this podcast. Maybe a couple times. And you say, "Well, what would cause you to talk like that?" Charlie Kirk getting assassinated. That's why. And then God showing me I believe that connection. When you say negative about someone or even negative about yourself, by the way, you are assassinating others with your words and yourself. You're assassinating them. You're killing their influence, which is actually worse than just shooting them in the neck. So if you think, "Oh man, what happened to Charlie Kirk is so terrible. I would never do that." But you say negatively about others, you're doing the same thing then that that shooter did to Charlie Kirk. And I use my podcast and me as one of the examples. I also listed other people and even yourself. If you say that you're ugly and you're worthless and whatever, you're talking in the devil's language. Now conviction is, "Hey, I'm doing something dumb. I got to stop and go back to Jesus." But condemnation is I'm doing something dumb. I'm I'm done over and I can never go back to God again because grace is done. But conviction says, "Hey, come on back. What you did was dumb, but come on back." Condemnation says you could never go back. So that's what I was saying. And yes, it is a strange thing to speak with such intensity out of nowhere. I know. I'm aware. And the thing that caused that was watching someone I looked up to get assassinated. And if that's not just cause for that, I don't know what would be. And it's not just him getting shot, but it's also me realizing, I believe God's showing me that happens with preachers a lot of times is that if you if weighed in the balance and we said, "Okay, if we want to kill someone, if we want to put a bunch of things, it's like, oh, well, killing someone saying negative is is not the same thing. One's way worse than the other." No, they're not. Because we have the prophet of God came to this age. He said, "If you speak negatively about a preacher and you kill his influence, you might as well just shoot him." Why? Because shooting him would ironically give him more effectiveness as a preacher, than you speaking negatively about him. So, I would even say that speaking negatively about someone else, whether they're a preacher or a girl or a guy or whatever, or even about yourself, by the way, with no desire to help them or to change, is worse than hiring a hitman to assassinate them. [Music] The Bible says that death and life are in the power of the tongue. And I know that when I say things with intensity and then I go back to being calm, it does something. It draws in your attention. And that's what I want. That's why yesterday I went from calm to intense to calm to intense to calm again. It was on purpose. It was to get your attention cuz this is a problem. Gossip is a problem regardless of where it's from. Regardless of who's doing it, gossip is wrong. And it's of the same spirit that killed Charlie Kirk. The spirit that would call someone wrong and instead of talking to them, assassinate them, whether with words or with bullets. And with words is worse than with bullets. Because with bullets, at least the message is still effective. But with words, you're making them where they can't actually save souls anymore because they're not effective. So, let me say it very simply for you. Any person that willingly gossips and says negative and it's not confirmed, you don't know it for sure, but you says negative about a preacher or about uh yourself even honestly to yourself or to others. Selfex terrible or to others, anybody else, you are doing to yourself and to others and to preachers and pastors worse than what that assassin did to Charlie Kirk. That's what I was saying. And that is why I said it with such intensity. It was to get your attention so that you listen. I said it twice. I'll say it the third time. I'm not talking against people. I'm talking against demon spirits. And if you yield to demon power with gossip, you are what's known as wrong. And if you or me or anyone else says negative about someone else and has not gone to the private leap but would rather believe a uncomfortable or believe a comfortable lie than to investigate the uncomfortable truth, you and I would be doing worse with our words than that assassin did with that bullet. And that's why I said it with such intensity is because death and life are in the power of the tongue. The final voice of the final age is the is the bride. And when God gave us prayer, he gave us the most powerful weapon he could give us. Because our words, the same words that can that can cure cancer are the same words that can cause someone to kill themselves or can or you can ruin a preacher's influence to where he can't actually save souls anymore because you said a bunch of negative things about him. Well, you said so many negative things about my podcast, I can't help people anymore. [Music] You know, my podcast is just an example, but many things. Or you say negative things about yourself to yourself so much that you end up thinking you're worthless when Jesus Christ said that you are fearfully and wonderfully made. You know what those words mean in the Greek and the Hebrew? They mean unique and set apart. So when you girls go plastering makeup all over your face like you're a pancake, a pancake, you are telling Jesus Christ that what he made isn't good enough for what you think of yourself. And when us boys think of the connection here when us boys would uh speak negatively about each other or or when negative talk about boys do is very rapid actually. When you say negative about yourself, you are telling Jesus Christ that what he did for you isn't enough. Because it it's the difference because you can say, "Oh, well, what about when I do wrong?" Well, conviction says, "Yeah, you did wrong, but come back to Jesus because it's better." Condemnation says, "I'm worthless. I'm terrible." And you stay that way. So, I'm trying. Honestly, it just killed me what happened to Charlie Kirk. And then it killed me even more when I realized that when we say negative about others or even about ourselves to ourselves, we're committing a worse assassination than was done on Charlie Kirk. Sure. I know it's it's uh how do I say it? Um I know it's not typical. I know it's unorthodox the way that I do things, but I'm trying. Hey, if I'm getting it wrong, then I would ask you this. Would you pray for me? Maybe I am too intense. Maybe I'm not doing it all right. But I pray that you pray for me cuz I want to get it right. And if I'm wrong, then I'd love to know what the right way looks like. Sure, I'm trying. I'm trying to bleed and to be vulnerable with you guys to show you that I love you. And if I have to crucify my ego live to do it to help, so be it. I'm trying. If you think I'm wrong, please tell me. I would love to improve. I would love to get better. I don't want to be right all the time. Pray for Charlie Kirk's family. He leaves behind his two little daughters and his wife. I believe that God gives every preacher a a funeral sermon to preach. I know brother Donnie Reagan's is uh that we feel sadness and all that because of the contrast between the two dimensions and that's his and I'll probably do mine tomorrow night for the podcast and I'll go more into detail tomorrow night but the basic premise is this. The title is heaven and hell because hell isn't just burning fire. It's an eternal separation from God. And God loved us so much that he ensured that we could be eternally connected with him because if hell is eternal separation, heaven is an eternal connection. And we feel so even though we've never met Charlie Kirk, even though we don't even know him, we feel such sadness because the feeling you feel for Charlie Kirk and his family is that separation. And that's the same feeling that Jesus had when he was separated from us in the Garden of Eden. And that's why he died for us, so that he could be eternally connected to us. And on this side of time, we are disconnected from Charlie Kirk. And that's why it hurts so much. It's because is because to be disconnected from the people that we love, it's literally hell. That's why it hurts so much. It's because when you are separated in any way from the people you love, you are experiencing what hell is like. Hell isn't just a lake of fire. It's being eternally disconnected from God. And then heaven is eternally connected with God. So that's why it hurts is cuz those two little girls and that wife and those audiences are disconnected now and they can't be connected again in the present with Charlie Kirk. And when you say negative about yourself, you are disconnecting yourself from the vision that God has of you. And when you say negative about someone else, you are disconnecting yourself from the truth. You are literally putting yourself through hell and others. and I be as vulnerable as I can. I yell, I cry, I do everything I can. There's going to be a you just you just wait. There's more to come, guys. But I want to do everything I can. I've been God gave me a gift to speak and to sing and to articulate ideas. And I want to give all that I can to his people because being connected to God is amazing. And when you gossip or you throw yourself under the bus and you speak negatively of what God created, you are choosing hell over heaven and Satan over Jesus Christ. See you guys in the episode tomorrow night and I would add this too to it. Lord please help me to say this in the right way in Jesus name. Amen. If any person says negatively about me, my podcast, themselves, or each other, that person [Music] is loading the gun, pointing it at my neck and pulling the trigger or at their own neck or at the necks of others. And the nuance is is that if you do that and you don't go to me privately, but you're willing to talk to everyone else all these negative things about yourself or others or me and you talk all these things and you never go to me privately. You never speak to me on the phone and you just don't want to, you are spiritually assassinating me. And when you speak negatively about yourself, you are spiritually assassinating yourself. And when you speak negatively about others and you won't go to them privately and you don't even know if it's true or not, you are ass you are assassinating them with your words. And you're actually it'll have a more of a negative impact than that bullet did to Charlie Kirk because that bullet made him a martyr. But your words make them not effective spiritually, which is even worse. And believe me, this isn't about me. You know, a part sure certain stuff hurt me sometimes, sure, but like more about you. When people say negative or there's group chats or whatever, even not about me, about others, whatever. I'm not even upset or part of it, sure, is like the hurt that it causes me, but what about the hurt that it causes you, right? If you s look looked yourself in the mirror in your spiritual mirror and every time you said negative about yourself, others or me or whatever, you could see your spiritual self loading a gun and pointing it at yourself or me or others. Would you still do it? Probably not. But that's what you're doing. Every time you say negative and it's not confirmed, you have refusal for truth. That's the same thing. So, uh, you know, I I know when people are like, "Oh, you're just thinking about how it's hurting you." I'm not that selfish. Okay? I'm thinking about how it's hurting you. I'm thinking about what it's what it's doing to you. You're like, "Oh, I got to find my purpose. I better start calling God's creation non terrible or anybody, you know, you speak negative about yourself or others or me or whatever." No, it's uh it's like when Job 38 when God told Job, who is this that darkeneth uh who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? That's what gossip is. Words without knowledge, you don't know what you're talking about. So, like, it's not about me, man. It's about what you're doing to yourself. And if you say negative about me or any other preacher or whatever, you're killing my influence. You're assassinating my influence. And I can't save souls as effectively on this podcast. So, that's what it's about. >> I come to say goodbye. Where are you going? >> My sound a little trip. >> Oh, Charlie, I'll miss you. >> Yeah, I'm I'll miss you, too, Squeaker. >> Charlie, will I ever see you again? >> Sure. Sure you will. >> You know, goodbyes aren't forever. >> Then goodbye, Charlie. God bless you. Wanted to add this. I just think it's something those of you that are like, "Oh, well, why would we care about this Charlie Kirk guy dying and say this? Imagine that when brother Brandham was alive, Brother Billy Graham was assassinated." Except imagine that Bill, Brother Billy Graham got 10 times more views than he did when he was alive and got assassinated. Imagine how brother Brandham would feel. And if that analogy does not explain it for you and you're still bitter and you're still resentful, you either need the baptism of the Holy Ghost or refilling of it. But that should explain it for you if you don't already understand. Praying for you guys and I hope that you're praying for me. It's really hitting me hard because Charlie Kirk and I both have the same approach to truth as far as just proving emotional truth such as I I believe that, you know, because the the core tenant of this of this podcast is to ask the question, what do you mean by that? Because I believe that many times a lot of people when they say things, it isn't because they actually believe it. is because they want it to be true or because they feel it and because they're hypocritical in their reasoning and they don't want to admit it. Also, it's because I might be wrong, too. And I'm happy to be proven wrong. Which is literally why I say, "Hey, please prove me wrong." So, that's really hitting me hard. I I'm I tried to I sang a song this morning and I sang uh I pledge allegiance to the Lamb. I could I could barely even sing it at all. So, I may share that. I don't I don't know yet. So, give his family a prayer and just know he's in the same boat as we are trying to prove truth. That's what I'm trying to do. Wanted to speak on something to try and help where I can here. The reason why you ask some people about the Charlie Kirk death and they tell you, "Oh, I just don't get involved in that stuff. I didn't really know." The reason why they do that is because if they actually engage with the real situation itself, they can't bear the grief or they don't want to. And they're also the reason why people are saying, "Uh, oh yeah, well, his death is tragic, but he said things I disagreed with that makes him a bad person." The reason why they do that is because people that tend to avoid accountability, they do that by finding it in others. And so God created us to go through cycles of repentance and growth. And when we refuse to take accountability in ourselves, repentance still needs to happen. Like change still needs to happen. And so we get that. And in order for something to mean something, there must be suffering. There must be a weight and a cost. And for the kind of person that thinks it's okay to kill a baby in the womb, their weight and cost is hatred for other people and also the uh the insistence that other people hate them because unless they can paint Charlie Kirk as someone that hated other people, then they unless they can do that because if they didn't do that, they would have to confront within themselves that the thing within themselves that think it's that thought that was actually okay to do that is because the reason why someone would try to prove something like that like oh well yeah I mean it was wrong it's bad that he died but let's not pretend he wasn't a racist this and that what they're doing is they're trying to feel better about uh about themselves because they know that part of themselves hated them and they'd rather demonize them than to realize what really happened. Also remember this. Anybody that wants to say that it is a truth that Charlie Kirk was a misogynist or a racist or any of these other things, they don't know the truth of the gospel. Cuz I don't care who you are. When you were in Christ, you may have done bad things. You may have stolen, but you're not a thief. They're not in Christ. They don't know. Got to have compassion for them. They're not at home super happy. They're depressed. And when something super tragic happens, they've got to try to rationalize it somehow to avoid that grief because their whole accountability pattern is by blaming, deflecting, and avoiding actual issues. So, just remember those that try to say, "Well, he he died in his tragic, but let's not pretend he didn't deserve it. He was a bad guy." They're doing that because it's the only way they can justify not grieving his death. It's because they don't know Jesus. That's why. Would you pray for me? I've never felt grief like this in my life. as far as the approach to truth where where Charlie would say things like, "What do you mean by that?" which he asked all the time. That's the name of my podcast to try to prove to someone that, "Hey, I don't believe that you actually think what you think you believe. You don't believe that. You just feel a certain way. And your feelings are not actually supposed to be the main way you decide what the truth is. The truth is the way you're supposed to do it." And he wanted to help people with that. It's the same way that I I do it. You know, if you were to ask, you know, Charlie Kirk is a podcaster and all that and controversial figure and does his best to stand for truth. What's the equivalent of that in the message? It's me. The same thing they accused him of. Some of the same things are the same thing they accuse me of. It's too intense. It's confrontational. It's controversial. I would say he's misunderstood a lot. So, it's really taking a toll on me. And I've never went through this before, so I don't know all the things I'm supposed to do. So, I'm doing my best to still sing and preach. But I'll upload that clip of me trying to sing I pledge allegiance to the Lamb from earlier.