The Charlie Kirk Show - The Gospel on Good Friday

Episode Date: April 3, 2026

"Who would believe what we have heard? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?" The Scripture readings associated with Good Friday are some of the most important in all of Christianity. To mark the second most important date of the Christian calendar Andrew and Blake read through excerpts from Isaiah and the Gospel of John, with an assist from Charlie himself as well. Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com!    Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We believe as Christians that today is the day that Jesus took our sin upon him, though he lived a perfect life and lived without sin, that he took our sins upon himself and paid for those the ultimate sacrifice of his life. And that culminated with the crucifixion. And so we want to take some time to remember this and to remember what Charlie said about his faith in Jesus Christ. Good Friday, because it is probably, besides Easter, the most important day on the Christian calendar.

I think so. I mean, yeah, I would go for that. But obviously you don't get Easter without Good Friday. And I was praying about this and thinking about what I wanted to do and what I wanted to say, especially everything that we've lived through. This is obviously our first Easter season without Charlie. And I think of him still the first thing I think about in the morning is Charlie. And the last thing I think about before I go to bed is usually Charlie. And I think a lot of you out there probably feel the same way I do.

And we still live in the shadow of our great friend who is a Mark. martyr, a Christian martyr. And his example is powerful, and it looms large over my life. And so we want to, we want to give this day to the Lord. And I want to read a verse from Isaiah 53. And when I think about what Good Friday means to me, this is what Good Friday is. And I think, especially everything that happened to Charlie, I think that he embodies so much of the Christian ethic and the life well-lived. So Isaiah 53, written before the time of Jesus on this earth, and yet it points directly to him. Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot and like a root out of dry ground.

He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by mankind. man of suffering and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces, he was despised and we held him in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds, we were. are healed. And that is essentially the core of the Christian message on Good Friday. And we don't say

good in a celebratory sense. We say good in sort of the old English sense, pious, holy. It is a day to solemnly reflect on the sacrifices our Savior has made. Yeah, I was actually had it open for mine. It was slightly different wording because we use a different translation of the Bible, but they do read that in Catholic services on Good Friday every year. Basically, the whole, of that that keeps going. You might remember, though he was harshly treated, he submitted and opened not his mouth.

Like a lamb led to the slaughter or a sheep before the shearers. He was silent and opened not his mouth. Oppressed and condemned, he was taken away. And who would have thought any more of his destiny when he was cut off from the land of the living and smitten for the sin of his people? A grave was

assigned him among the wicked and a burial place with evildoers. Though he had done no wrong nor spoken, any falsehood and it continues from there. And we have other special readings that we do. Usually you don't have a verse that you read. You'll, you'll, in an unusual Catholic service, it's first reading, Psalm, second reading, gospel.

But they also incorporate a special verse just before they read the gospel, which is on Good Friday, it's always the passion according to John. And they say, Christ became obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly exalted on him, and bestowed on him the name which is above every other name. That's from Philippians. Hi, folks, Andrew Colvett here.

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They say, oh, Easter is pagan. Hold on a second. The term Easter was a pagan term that was redeemed. but no, Easter itself is actually always aligning with the Jewish Passover, Pesca, which is happening this week as well, that those two things are always overlaid with one another. And the resurrection and the promise of Jesus, honestly, can be best described as a fresh start, as a reset. It's a beautiful idea, and it's a tourism that has captivated billions of people throughout time. It is really an amazing part about Easter, the Easter season.

and how it overlays with the Passover because obviously the Passover comes from the Genesis story of the Jews putting... Exodus story. Exodus, I'm sorry, the Exodus story where the Jews put the blood of a lamb over their doors so that the angel of death would pass over their house.

And Jesus is our Passover lamb. And so it is the perfect embodiment of that story. And I love how scripture tends to echo, right? We see different themes and ideas that are once told in the Old Testament. You see them reflected or embodied perfectly in the life of Jesus. One of my favorite images of the that comes out of Good Friday and what it represents. It's from a church in modern-day Istanbul. It's called the Cora Church.

Throw up that image I sent you guys. And it's an image of what we believe Jesus was doing during the harrowing of hell, we call it, which is he dies, he resurrects a few days later. And what he is doing is he descended into hell. And what he did is, that is what the redemption of Christ means. What that image is is that is Jesus bursting open the coffins that hold Adam on one side and Eve on the other. That's Adam and Eve.

That they have been separated from God for untold generations because of their sin. And that Jesus is bursting them out and he is liberating them so that they can be taken up to heaven with him. He can redeem them for paradise. And it's one of the most powerful images you can have of what Jesus was accomplishing. Beautiful.

There is another clip of Charlie with you, so I've got to play it. Sop three. All right, have a great Easter weekend. Thank you, Blake, very much. Remember, he has risen. Please observe Good Friday and understand the significance of the suffering of our Lord.

And I am not Catholic, but I will be doing the stations of the cross tonight. They have an outdoor stations of the cross in Arizona, actually. It's really neat. It kind of probably looks a little bit like Judea. Yeah, exactly. God bless everybody, Shabbat Shalom, and have a wonderful Easter. That's the perfect, like, sort of ecumenical clip of Charlie,

the evangelical doing the Catholic Stations of the Cross, signing off with Shabbat Shalom. He had his very special way of approaching. He did. Faith matters. And Blake, you inspired me because you said the Catholics read, from John, the crucifixion story from John, so I figured we should do that. This is from John chapter 19, verse 17. And he says, And he, bearing his cross, went out to a place called the place of the skull, which is called

in Hebrew Golgatha, where they crucified him and two others with him, one on either side, and Jesus in the center. Now Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross, and the writing was Jesus of Nazareth, the king of the Jews. Then many of the Jews read this title for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. Therefore, the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, do not write the king of the Jews, but he said, I am the king of the Jews. Pilate answered, what I have written, I have written. Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts

to each soldier apart and also the tunic. Now the tunic was without seam woven from the top in one piece. They said, therefore, among themselves, let us not tear it, but cast lots for it of whose it shall be, that the scripture might be fulfilled, which says they divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots. Therefore, the soldiers did these things. And then Jesus, it's an ode to Mary, which I wanted to keep in here. Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopis, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing by, he said to his mother, woman

behold your son. Then he said to the disciple, behold your mother, and from that hour, that disciple took her into his own home. After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished that the scripture might be fulfilled, said, I thirst. Now a vessel full of sour wine was sitting there, and they filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on hyssop, and put it to his mouth. So when Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, is finished and bowing his head he gave up his spirit powerful moment to reflect on on good friday and we think it's important to read directly from scripture because god said it best listen if faith and values are important to you they should be a part of how you date it's that simple

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This is from Josh Howardton, Sot 1. When Jesus was on the cross, he cried out, It is finished. That's how it gets translated in English. But that was just a translation of the Greek word to Telestai. There was a word that was used in a business context on ancient receipts in the New Testament Bible times to indicate that literal debt had been paid in full. It was also used in a judicial context in a court

when a sentence was fully served, completely and fully once and for all served. The word Teletestai was also used in a military context, meaning that a battle had been won. It was a word of like triumph and victory. When Jesus hangs on the cross and he cries out, Tettelestai, it is finished. He was declaring, the debt of your sin is fully paid. The judgment for your sin has been fully served. And the spiritual war against death, sin, and Satan has been completely won in Christ.

The work of salvation, victory, reconciliation, and a new life is fully. It is finished. Amen. Also, as Jesus said, that he had come to fulfill the law. It kind of means that as well. It is fulfilled. Yeah, absolutely. I love that the Catholics read from John. There's many interesting parts about it. One of the most interesting to me is when you do readings in church, all of the gospel readings are, they're done by the priest. exclusively by the priest and the one exception is during the passion readings where they actually will have the audience take part of it

and you're taking the part of the mob of the crowd which goes in the story so when they say the one that's really memorable I can't remember if this is in let me see do they have it in John or is it only in

uh yeah the memorable one when they say take him away they cried out he says hold your king and then they cry out and this is the audience in the service will say this take him away take him crucify him pilot said to them shall i crucify your king and the chief priest answered and then this is everyone says we have no king but caesar and it's an audience that says that it very much drives home our collective sin our collective guilt yeah and it's our sin that held him there on that cross he was crushed for our

iniquities. He was punished for our iniquities crushed for our sins. It personalizes it in a really powerful way. Yeah, I love that. And I love so much of the ancient liturgy and the rituals. This is the Charlie Kirk show. He loved talking about these things. Let's go ahead

and play more of Charlie in his own words reflecting on his faith sought for. The modern gospel is God has this beautiful, amazing, wonderful life for you. And if you give your life to Christ, your life will infinitely improve. That is somewhat true, but it's very misleading because you're basically trying to sell people on Christianity of a life without difficulty where the better way to teach the gospel is here's the Ten

Commandments. How many of these are you violating? Oh, you deserve to go to hell. And you probably will, unless you give your life to Christ. That is the proper way to evangelize. And so I realized the stakes in fifth grade. I was like, oh my goodness, I'm a sinner. I'm selfish. I'm broken. And only thanks to Jesus's perfect sacrifice coming and living a perfect life that I get something I do not earn but has been given to me this free gift of eternal life so good so good good good good job team we've got all these tweets of charlie's too he says this is from april 18th 2025 he says today is good friday thank you jesus for your amazing and unthinkable sacrifice you died so that we would have life and life in abundance and then he quotes scripture from mark 15 it was nine in the

morning when they crucified him. The written notice of the charged against him read the king of the Jews with a loud cry Jesus breathed his last. The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom and when the centurion who stood there in front of Jesus saw how he died. He said surely this man was the son of God. We got more. Do you want to read the next one? You know, this one's very long. So I don't think we can complete it. But I would encourage you guys to search it on X. It's from April 20th of last year. so Charlie's last Easter with us. And he said, today we celebrate the resurrection of Christ, a real event of history.

He has risen and he lists 10 historical facts to back the resurrection of Christ. The first of them is just that he was crucified under Pontchus Pilate. I love to mention to people, this is a name that is in the creed that most Christians will recite. He was crucified under Pontius Pilate. This is a statement of historical fact that this was a real person who was involved in it. He was buried in a known tomb. The tomb was discovered empty by women.

Christianity's fiercest enemies became some of its loudest witnesses. And he goes on with ten other things. And Charlie was very important. He was such a witness to the gospel. And he was such a powerful promulgator of it in its most direct sense. I just loved that where he said that, where you don't give this touchy-feely thing. You say, you are,

a sinner and you require salvation for your sins or it's going to be very bad. Repent for the kingdom of God is near. And amen. All right. That was our Good Friday episode. I hope you guys spend some time in prayer and remembrance of the sacrifice that Jesus Christ has made for you. He died on the cross today.

And we want to take that seriously. And hopefully you got inspired and you're going to spend time with family at church. and in prayer and scripture. God bless you. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.