| Charlie Kirk | The Separation of CHURCH and STATE |

WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT, TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 30TH 2025

| Charlie Kirk | The Separation of CHURCH and STATE |

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Isaiah 16:5 ~
"In mercy The Throne will be established; and One will sit on it in truth, in the Tabernacle [Tent] of David, judging and seeking justice and hastening righteousness."

You were born for such a time as this.

Have you noticed that purple has become the predominant color of this season? There's a reason for that. God is emphasizing royalty. Both His royalty as the supreme King, but also the delegated royalty of His own people. We tend to think of King of kings to mean that He, Jesus , is the King over all NATURAL or earthly kings. Like leaders and presidents and prime ministers etc. He is the Ruler of rulers. The President and presidents. The Leader of all leaders. And that is certainly true. There is no earthly king that He is not the king over. Yet, it is much more than that.

The Bible calls us kings and priests unto our God. This is easily established in the Word of God. What is not so easy is our recognition and confession of that. Without pride we humbly must say that we are kings because he has made us to be kings. If we do not believe it, we will not act like it. We will not live out what we refuse to believe is true about ourselves.

Revelation 19:16 ~
"And He has on His Robe and on His thigh a Name written, 'KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.'"

Revelation 1:6 ~
"And has made us Kings and Priests unto God and His Father; to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen."

No one has ever done Church and State well. We actually fought a war over this among other issues with Great Britain. There was a time in which the United Kingdom had a governmental Church. It was called the Church of England. And it became oppressive. And this was part of the reason our Puritan forefathers left that land to come to a new geographical area called the Americas. They were fleeing persecution both political and religious.

So for now, we do not have a state sanctioned religion. At least not in this Country. What we do have is the freedom OF religion. As opposed to freedom FROM religion.

We get to choose what we believe in this Country, without the government stepping in and saying what we can or can't believe or practice. Every man woman and child has the right to believe what they want to believe. It is written in our Constitution that government will make no law pertaining people's religious beliefs:

The US Constitution addresses the relationship between government and religion in two key places:

THE FIRST AMENDMENT: This amendment contains two crucial clauses related to religious freedom. THE ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE, AND THE FREE EXERCISE CLASS.

1. The "Establishment Clause" prohibits Congress from making laws that establish a National Church or prefer one religion over another.

2. The "Free Exercise Clause" prevents the government from interfering with an individual's right to practice their religion (with limits).

Article VI: This article states that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States," meaning the government cannot require a specific religious affiliation or test for public office holders.

In essence this ensures the Constitution of the United States government, cannot establish a National Church or impose a particular religion on its citizens.

Freedom to Practice Religion: Individuals have the right to practice their chosen religion without undue interference from the government.

No Religious Tests for Office: Public office holders cannot be required to adhere to a specific religion or take a religious test to hold office.

The phrase "Separation of Church and State" comes from a letter written by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802. In this letter, Jefferson used the phrase "separation of church and state" to explain the intent of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the US Constitution.

Jefferson's phrase has since become widely used to describe the relationship between government and religion in the United States, emphasizing the idea that the government should not favor one religion over another or impose religious beliefs on its citizens.

It was not intended to protect the state from religion, but to protect religion from the state.

So where did the phrase chome from? From Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptist Association:

"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state."

The key phrase is: "thus building a wall of separation between church and state."

According to Isaiah 16:5 and other scriptures, there will come a day when the Lord himself will establish a government that is based out of the truth of who he is and what he is designated in the scripture. Until then there is no human government that will be able to do this successfully.

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