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Charlie Kirk to posthumously receive the Medal of Freedom · The Daily Article

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Good day and welcome to the daily article podcast from Denison Forum.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I am narrator Chris Elfkins, giving voice to today's daily article written by co-founder Dr. Jim Denison.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Charlie Kirk would have turned 32 years old today.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Instead, his life and death will be remembered this evening when President Trump posthumously awards him the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Charlie's widow, Erica, will join the President for the ceremony in the East Room of the White House.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As I heard a commentator say, Charlie died for what he believed in, but he's being honored for what he did.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And God continues to work in response to his tragic death in remarkable ways.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For example, the former Navy SEAL and number one New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr said that Charlie's assassination is prompting him and his family to return to church and to, quote, make some changes in their lives.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, despite tonight's honor and remarkable spiritual responses to Charlie's death, the fact remains that his widow is a widow raising their children without their father, and the world will miss all Charlie could have done in the decades he would have lived.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In other news, Israelis continue to rejoice in the return of their hostages.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: More than 500,000 Palestinians have returned to Gaza City and aid to Gaza is significantly increasing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, challenges remain.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Hamas is reportedly attempting to reassert control in Gaza and punishing those its suspects of collaborating with Israel.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Its geodist ideology remains prevalent in the region.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and geopolitical expert Richard Hoss warns, quote, Hamas has not accepted that it must disarm, and even if it did, there is no way to monitor or verify the handing over of its weapons.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Hoss adds that, Hamas can be denied a formal role in Palestinian governance.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: but it will still have influence perhaps more than any other actor, in quote.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In his address to the Kinesi yesterday is Rayleigh Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quoted from the book of Ecclesiastes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is because Monday was the seventh day of Sukho, the Jewish festival known as the Feast of Tabernacles or Feast of Booths, noted in Leviticus 23 versus 42 and 43, during which it is traditional to read the book.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Mr. Netanyahu quoted the famous third chapter, a time for war and a time for peace, from Ecclesiastes 3 verse 8.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, the latter cannot come unless both sides refuse the former.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In the epigraph to his latest book, The Future Of Truth, a claimed film maker, Warner Herzog, tells what he calls a Persian legend,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He writes, God had a great mirror, and when God looked in that mirror, he saw the truth.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One day, God dropped the mirror and the mirror shattered into a thousand pieces.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Men fought to secure a piece of the mirror for themselves.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They all looked into their own shards, saw themselves.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and thought they saw the truth.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Asaf, the Solmus did the same after complaining in Psalm 73 verse 12 that the wicked around him are always at ease and increase enriches.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He commented on what he saw in his own mirror in verses 13 and 14 of Psalm 72.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: for all the day long, I have been stricken.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I would imagine that Erica Kirk can resonate with ASS's reflection as can the hostages and their loved ones, and especially those grieving those they lost on October 7th and the cause of October 7th.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: as can you and I, whenever we face challenges and trials that are not our fault.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, for those who trust in God, the bad news is never the last news.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In ACF's case, he reports later in Psalm 72, verse 16 and 17,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a worrisome task, until I went into the sanctuary of God, then I discerned their end.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Their inverse 18, he saw that God set them in slippery places and will make them fall to ruin so that in verse 19, they are destroyed in a moment.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: By contrast, ASF prays in verses 23 through 26, I am continually with you and you hold my right hand.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You guide me with your counsel and afterward you will receive me to glory.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Who have I have in heaven but you?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And there is nothing on earth that I desire beside you, my flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God's omnipotence and omnipotence had not changed, but A.S.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: went into the sanctuary of God, where he shifted his soul's mirror from himself.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then he saw the reality that was there all along.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is why we need to trust God more on those days when we want to trust him least.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The Bible is not true because it works.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It works in God's providence because it's true.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If God is the God of the Bible, He is quoting St.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Anselom, that then which nothing greater can be conceived.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This means that, by definition, His ways are higher than our ways, in his thoughts than our thoughts, announced in Isaiah 55 verse 9.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If we could understand him, either we would be God, or he would not be.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Consequently, the days when our pain and suffering seem to demand that we reject a supposedly all-loving, all-powerful God, are the very days we need his love and power the most, the sicker the patient, the more essential the physician.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So let me invite you to take your mirror into the sanctuary of God in your heart and point it at your father.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Remember your personal encounters with the grace you see reflected there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The sins he has forgiven.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The needs he has met.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The prayers he has answered.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The salvation he has purchased for your eternal soul.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: then decide to emulate the courage for which Charlie Kirk wanted to be remembered the courage of Eli Sharabi and the other hostages displayed through their ordeal, decide to use your obstacles as opportunities for faith that show a skeptical world, the reality and relevance of your Lord.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The greater our need for courage, the greater the need our courage will meet.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Faith is to believe what you do not see.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Will you believe in the one you do not see today?