The tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk seems illogical to the world. However, to Christians it makes complete sense. Because we know the world hates truth to the point of killing to make it go silent. This is why Charlie Kirk was murdered. He spoke truth and through his debates, showed man’s depravity and their desire to cling to their sin. He was eloquent, intelligent, kind, gentle, and humble as he spoke truth. Just as Christ the Savior said we should be, and just as the world hated Christ for doing so, it hated Charlie for doing so as well. Jesus told his disciples in Matthew 10:22, “And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.” Charlie’s death was a testament to how much the world hates truth and to what lengths it will go to try and have it silenced.

In Genesis we are given the creation account. Seven days, with each successive day building upon the previous day’s creation. God is an exact God and earth’s creation was no exception. He exactly created everything the previous day which the current day would need, and the current day’s creation would be exactly what the next day would need to be sustained. After each day’s creation the Bible says God called it good. Even the word good is an exact word to describe the newly created earth and the creations it contains. However, when Adam and Eve rebelled eating the sinful fruit, sin entered the world. The first man and woman disobeyed the only command God had given them. But God, instead of killing them instantly, showered them with mercy delaying their deaths allowing them to live long lives bearing multiple children. Their long lives would now be lived in a sin cursed world and not in the perfect garden they had been created and sustained in. The consequences of their rebellion reached across the whole earth.

God cursed the ground so that Adam would have to sweat as he worked the ground to grow crops. Childbirth would be painful with possibility of death. The created order of marriage was now turned on its head, Eve would desire to rule over Adam instead of humbly submitting to his authority. Animals which were once tame and loving toward each other and humans, were now deadly and sought to kill for food. In fact, the first murder happened because a person was faced with the truth. Cain slew Abel, his brother, because God faced him with the truth about his offering. That it was not pleasing to God because it was not what God demanded. God demanded a blood sacrifice like Abel had offered. Instead, Cain gave him vegetables of the ground, an offering he chose to give God. Because Cain was faced with the naked truth of his sinful offering, he became jealous and slew his brother. Again, God showed great mercy in allowing Cain to live. The world is broken because everything is sin cursed, including humans and the demons who influence sinfulness.

When Satan fell, due to his pride and desire to be as God, a host of angels fell with him and became demons. Satan controls these demons and the unregenerate (those who have not repented). Therefore, Satan controls sin and how it is influenced. In John 12:31 Jesus calls Satan the “prince of this world” denoting he right now rules the earthly matters of the world. He is the “spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience” as Paul states in his letter to the Ephesians (Eph. 2:2). He controls man’s thoughts and desires. He influences their fleshly wants and encourages them to fulfill every ounce of them through the things of the world. Because he hath so blinded men to the truth twisting it to suit man’s need to fulfill their fleshly lusts, Paul also called him the “god of this world.” Despite being the express image bearers of God, Satan using worldly things has attempted, since his fall, to remake man in his image. This is how much Satan hates God and hates the truth. That he would twist the truth making it into a lie so that God’s apex of creation would be more like him than like God.

Because of this, the world hates truth. Just as Satan hates truth. Evil hates truth. Jesus stated this very fact in John 3:19-20, “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds be reproved.” The light these verses is talking about is Jesus. John 8:12 says, “Then spake Jesus again unto them saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” Jesus also states in John 14:6, “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me.” So, not only does the world hate spoken truth, but it also hates truth incarnate, Christ himself. Why? Because the world loves darkness and itself. The truth about sin exposes who people really are, evil. This is why they desire the darkness. No one likes to be exposed as a sinful person. Everyone likes to think of themselves as good and deserving of Heaven more so than the guy next to them. This is why when anyone speaks truth, as Charlie Kirk and numerous martyrs have done, they are despised, rejected, and yes even killed for doing so. The world hates truth.

The man who assassinated Charlie Kirk and those who murder Christians throughout the world hate truth. The evidence shows. To murder someone shows you have no love of others. 1 John 2:11 states, “But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.” Satan is this darkness. He is the “god of this world” that “hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them” (2 Corinthians 4:4). Satan may have blinded those in the world, but the gospel of God can open their eyes. This is why Satan seeks to use whatever influence he can to attempt to destroy those who speak truth, the gospel. For as Paul says in Romans 1:16, “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.”

For those who continuously follow Satan and hate their fellow man due to any kind of reason and those who would go so far as to kill a person due to this hate does not love his brother and abides in death. This death is spiritual death. This means the person who hates their brother (fellow man/woman) has not trusted Christ for their salvation. Therefore, they are still abiding in spiritual death which is an eternal death. And yet, there is a hope for those who are abiding in death. It is the gospel of Christ. 

What is the gospel? It is simply this, Christ died on the cross bearing our sins taking on the full wrath of God, that we may be forgiven and made righteous in the sight of God who is holy. Jesus rose again on the third day defeating death eternally for those who believe in him. Even though death is the penalty for sin, and every man and woman shall die because of sin, those who have placed their faith solely in Christ for salvation shall not die eternally. But they shall live eternally with the one whom died for them. John 3:16 states, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Those who trust in the gospel for their salvation will pass “from death unto life” and will have a love for their brethren (1 John 3:14) and for the truth.