A Real Turning Point: Charlie Kirk & the Death of the Left

Introduction
Bald-faced evil is always shocking. But this just hits harder.

The crack of a rifle and the slumping over of a 31-year-old husband and father, who has given his life to going to college campuses to engage in open dialogue, free speech, and Christian persuasion – is simply a horrific, unspeakable evil. A good man was intentionally murdered in what appears to be a well-planned assassination in broad daylight, in front of a crowd of thousands, and then, if that were not all evil enough, eruptions of gleeful, frenzied, and delirious celebrations of the murder. A young man willing to talk to anyone, answer anyone’s questions in good faith, and the determination of someone or several someones that it had to be silenced permanently, cheered on with ghoulish delight. 

Evil has tried this before many times, and it has failed every time. It has celebrated with similar repulsiveness. But it still knocks the wind out of you.

Ultimately, what the shooter and his demonic cheerleaders are aiming at is the Triune God. What this Devilish evil really wants is to pull Christ down from His throne and try to crucify Him again. But they can’t, and so they put bullets in the necks of His faithful servants and bay at the moon. But they still haven’t succeeded. Charlie Kirk is more alive now than ever. He was welcomed to the great cloud of witnesses in Heaven. And the Spirit that cleansed and animated him is alive and well in all who believe. Not only that, we know that Christ takes these kinds of attacks personally. When Jesus confronted Saul on the road to Damascus, He asked, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” In the immortal words of Johnny Cash, “Sooner or later, God’ll cut you down.”

You Done Messed Up A-Aron
Right after the obvious grief and sorrow, my next thought has been to think that the Murderous Left has just shot itself. I do not mean that we do not still have much work to do: beef up security, punish crime swiftly, execute murderers, root out all the corruption, defund every vestige of DEI communism, clean up our cities. But I suspect that this evil act will do far more to wake up the Conservative Christian Church than perhaps anything else could. When a young husband and father cannot go on college campuses and share the gospel and talk culture and politics without getting shot, none of us are safe. As a number of people have pointed out, Charlie stood for ordinary Christian Americans; he stood for us, and the Murderous Left just made it clear that they want us all dead-silent.

But there’s no chance of that. The Conservative Christian movement just got ten times stronger, maybe many factors more. And the way that many on the Murderous Left are openly celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death or justifying the violence publicly is only many more nails in their cultural coffin. They will be fired, cancelled, and exiled from polite society. Careers are ending, public shame will descend, and one hopes and prays that at least some of them are delivered from the demonic rage and restored to their right minds through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ. Different points of view vigorously defended and debated are welcome — even really wrong ones; celebrating political violence publicly because someone holds a different point of view is nothing short of yelling “fire!” in a crowded theater and ought to be prosecuted as such.

Speaking of our language, we need to keep our eye on this ball. They hate us because of Jesus Christ and His truth. Yes, they are fixated on race and ethnicity and sexuality and income and oppression because they are committed to their atheistic and materialistic religion, but we must not be lured into their rhetorical traps. We can certainly answer their folly, but the fundamental divide is between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent, the children of Abraham and the sons of the Devil. And if Charlie had been black, they would have killed him just the same. They want Clarence Thomas dead too. They hate white people because as it happens the Christian West has been largely white.

Conclusion
We know God doesn’t allow these things without very good reasons. On the one hand, nothing can give a young wife and mother her husband back; nothing can replace the father of two young children, and yet, Jesus Christ is the resurrection and the life. His peace passes all understanding, and He is our infinitely wise Lord and King. We are His servants, His soldiers, and where He commands, we willingly go. And as we go, faith seeks understanding. There will always be elements of providence that we will never understand until we stand before His majesty in glory, but nevertheless, faith leans forward, looking to see what our King is doing. And I think we can see just a little bit at the moment.

Charlie was a good man and a Christian man, and he was at the forefront of engaging our dark culture (college campuses) with the light of Christ. He was hated because of that, and he was killed because of that. And therefore, he should rightly be considered a Christian martyr and a true patriot. He died for his faith in Jesus Christ and his love of our Christian nation.

The first martyr Stephen was killed in Jerusalem, and the disciples were scattered preaching everywhere. The very thing that the Jewish leaders were trying to silence, went viral. And that is what I anticipate here. Nothing can replace Charlie Kirk. He was a unique human being who was a beloved husband, father, son, friend, and leader – whose presence will be sorely missed. But we serve the God who always turns what wicked men mean for evil into astonishing good. And it’s not even close. He is working for us an exceeding and eternal weight of glory. 

Jesus said that unless a seed goes into the ground and dies, it will not bear much fruit. And so I am praying that this is a real Turning Point, what Charlie gave his life for, a moment where America turns back to Christ in an unmistakable way, rejects every vestige of the false idol of secular neutrality, decisively rejects and drives all evil and lies from this land, and insists that we are a Christian nation, a Christian people, under God and His good law, which Charlie spent his life insisting, is the only basis for a truly free and prosperous society.