Some Thoughts on the Charlie Kirk Assassination
Some of you have asked my thoughts on the death of Charlie Kirk. I have followed Charlie for several years, cannot really pinpoint a starting point, but I have followed many conservative internet folks for some time. I realize within myself that I am angered and grieved over the assassination of Charlie and the rhetoric that I believe had a role in that assasination. While one individual may be responsible for pulling the trigger, he was certainly “triggered” by the political rhetoric of calling people like Charlie a “threat to democracy”, “fascist”, “racist”, and all the other leftist rhetoric. You will see listed below a phrase about those “who accuse others of the very evils they themselves are committing”. This, I believe, is precisely what the left does, projecting upon genuine truth tellers what is actually true about themselves. Their accusations are confessions and projections. My thoughts below are, as I have stated, generated partly out of anger and grief. But, I have thought these thoughts long before September 10, 2025. The assassination has simply amplified and confirmed the truth of Scripture in defining the condition of those who oppose the truth of and about God and His Word.
Let’s start with Isaiah 5.20, Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
“Woe” = watch out, dire consequences ahead, judgment forthcoming, repent or face the consequences.
God’s Word does not shy away from warning people of the consequences of their sin. If we seek to do the same we most likely hear the famous retort, “Who are you to judge?” Well, we are the people who carry the name of Christ, the One who will judge all and it is out of love that we come before others to say, “Woe to you who call evil good and good evil, who call men women and women men, who call Charlie Kirk evil and George Floyd good, who claim the baby in the womb is nothing more than a parasite, who think that we can do socialism better than those in the past, who call Christians fascists and bigots, who repeat lie after lie until they get others to claim it as truth, who accuse others of the very evils they themselves are committing, who call people seeking dialogue a threat to democracy, who silence or kill those who speak truth to wokeness and leftist ideologies. ‘Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight’ (Isa 5.21)! Woe to you, for Jesus, the Way and the Truth and the Life, is coming again.”
From the Apostle Paul – Romans 1.24-25, Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
We are prompted to ask if God has already given some people up to the lust of their hearts. Are some like Pharaoh, hard hearted and therefore being left to their own evil? It looks obvious, even more so after the assassination of Charlie, that so many have exchanged the truth about God for a lie and they are doubling down on the lies every day. They practice an idolatry of the worship of self. They are like those of Proverbs 26.11, “Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.”
Isaiah knew it long ago. Solomon knew. Paul knew it after them. We know it today. Those who put darkness for light and light for darkness are evil. They are at least self-deceived and at worst fully aware of their evil rhetoric and actions.
How then shall we respond? First, proclaim the Gospel, call people to repent and believe the Good News of Jesus Christ. Second, continue to tell the truth, to proclaim truth, to call out the lies of cultural totalitarianism (woke, leftist ideologies that destroy). Third, expose the darkness for what it is, evil. Let your yes be yes and your no be no (Matt 5.37). One of the reasons for the decline of the church is the unwillingness to say no to the cultural lies and yes to the truth of God. Fourth, 1 Peter 3.15, “prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect.” Yes, it will be difficult to say “Woe to you” in a gentle way! But it needs to be said. “No” needs to be said. No more will we sit back in “niceness” and let people put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Fifth, pray for our enemies. We pray for them when we share the gospel, when we tell the truth, when we expose the darkness, when we send out the warning of “woe”. It is our hope that the enemies will come to know Christ, to know the truth, to know that we are intolerant of non-biblical behavior, not because of hate, but from love. “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” (Matt 5.44).
Know that I have debated in my heart and mind whether or not to post this reflection.
But then I thought — Charlie Kirk had the courage to say it.
Do we?
Come, Lord Jesus!
Pastor Ed
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