Virgil Walker | Sola Veritas, 9/16/25
Charlie Kirk is dead because he refused to play chaplain to a collapsing culture. He would not call evil good or good evil. He was hated because he stood where every Christian is commanded to stand — in the crosshairs of a world at war with Christ. His assassination was not an accident of politics. It was the inevitable collision between light and darkness.
The Puritan William Gurnall saw it clearly: the Christian is a soldier, a warrior in a world aflame with conflict. He warned believers to expect nothing less than daily combat — not only against their own sin but against Satan and the world itself. That’s not a metaphor. That’s the reality Charlie stepped into. And when the battle came, he stood.
Scripture told us to expect this. “Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted” (2 Tim. 3:12). Jesus said, “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you” (John 15:18). The hatred is not new. It’s the same rage that nailed Christ to the cross.
The World’s Hatred Is Our Inheritance
Richard Sibbes put it plainly: “God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world; He permits the world to condemn them, that they may not love the world, the world hates them….”
The world’s hatred is not an accident. It’s a safeguard. God uses opposition to keep His people from settling into the world’s arms. That’s why the apostles rejoiced when they were counted worthy to suffer for the name. Hatred from the world is a strange mercy — it reminds us we don’t belong here.
The Deadly Embrace of a Tame Christianity
Thomas Watson cut through the fog when he warned: “The world is a flattering enemy, it kills by embracing. Whom the world kisses, it betrays.”
That’s exactly the danger facing the modern church. Instead of preaching Christ with boldness, we are told to “build relationships” indefinitely — as if friendship alone could replace proclamation. Or worse, we hide behind the coward’s slogan: “Preach the gospel, and if necessary, use words.”
Both are pragmatic gobbledegook. The gospel is words — God’s words about Christ’s death and resurrection, spoken into a hostile world. Silence is not evangelism. Hiding behind endless “relationship building” is not love. It’s betrayal.
This is why the culture yawns at much of the American church. We have traded the trumpet blast of truth for the soft hum of respectability. We think we’re winning people by avoiding offense, but what we’re really doing is withholding the very message that could save their souls. That’s not compassion; it’s treason dressed as love.
Christianity as a Threat
So let’s be clear: real Christianity is always a threat. Not to your neighbor’s good, not to peace or order, but to rebellion, idolatry, and sin. The world cannot abide a faith that unmasks its lies, exposes its idols, and declares that Jesus Christ is Lord of all.
Paul asked the Galatians, “Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?” (Gal. 4:16). That question has echoed through every century of the Church. Speak the truth, and the world will brand you an enemy. Tell men what God says about sin, marriage, life, and eternity, and they will treat you with contempt.
Charlie Kirk’s death is proof. He was hated not because he invented new ideas, but because he held to the old truth — that God is sovereign, truth is unchanging, and Christ is King. The world could not endure it, so it silenced him.
But silencing the messenger will not silence the message.
The Call to Boldness
The hour is late. The lines are drawn. The world is not waiting for a winsome Church to earn its respect. It is sharpening its knives.
Now is not the time to whisper. Now is the time to roar. Put away the coward’s gospel of silence and respectability. Clothe yourself in the armor of God. Take up the sword of the Spirit. Preach Christ crucified and risen, even if the world calls you its enemy.
If your Christianity is no threat to rebellion, then it is no Christianity at all.
Better to be hated with Christ than applauded without Him. Better to fall in battle than live in betrayal. The crown comes only after the cross. And the King is worth it all.
The Call to Boldness
The hour is late. The lines are drawn. The world is not waiting for a winsome Church to earn its respect. It is sharpening its knives.
Now is not the time to whisper. Now is the time to roar. Put away the coward’s gospel of silence and respectability. Clothe yourself in the armor of God. Take up the sword of the Spirit. Preach Christ crucified and risen, even if the world calls you its enemy.
If your Christianity is no threat to rebellion, then it is no Christianity at all.
Better to be hated with Christ than applauded without Him. Better to fall in battle than live in betrayal. The crown comes only after the cross. And the King is worth it all.
I’d say we need to be more discerning concerning those who call good evil and vice versa because no one does that. Instead, they already believe it and act upon it.
Charlie Kirk’s killer said he’d had enough of Charlie’s hatred. Robinsin was inferring from Charlie’s stand for righteousness, which proceeds from moral order, that Charlie was an evil hater in his morally disordered and depraved mind.
The Commiecrats take that same view when they accuse law-abiding Christian Americans of being Nazis and fascists from their own morally disordered and depraved minds. Nazis and fascists were never Christians since those ideologies always excluded and punished Christians. Nevertheless, they pick the worst political ideologies to throw at us because politics is all they have to make good look like evil.
But hey, they’ll lie like the Devil because they’re in his pocket. Conscience?.. good character?.. good conduct?.. what’s that to them?
In trying to make sense of our evil times I’ve come to see these morally upside-down and inverted people as evil harbingers of the very end when once again the world will be full of evil and evil people.
I heard on the Fox Weather Channel about the heavy rains in your area. I sure hope you folks aren’t being threatened by flooding.
Thank-you for thinking about us. It rained for two days and nights. But we were blessed by light-medium rain, no winds, and no lightening. The remnants moved out last evening and today it will be sunny skies.
Thank God for that.
By the way, I rarely visit Facebook anymore. I did that yesterday and saw that Gary’s birthday was on Sept. 15. Please wish him a Happy belated Birthday for me, if you would.
“For he’s a jolly good fellow…”.
Gary said ‘thanks’ and gave a thumbs up 🙂
I might’ve said “Happy belated Birthday Sir”. I’ve been a civilian for a long time, but I might still blurt that out as reflex. ;>)
Like you, I’ve also strived to make sense of the major malfunction we’ve experienced, which is in large part why I’m here: to solve a puzzle, to solve for “x” if you will. Being a culture-wide phenomenon, the answers didn’t come easy.
Being a Christian was what provided the answers, since that’s what provides the proper moral bearings.
It shows that the Godless heathen world has lost it’s bearings, it’s moral compass, and can’t distinguish good from evil or right from wrong. They’re so lost that their morals are immoral and turned backwards: evil is good and wrong is right. That’s why they favor immoral criminals and not the moral law.
It’s moral corruption behind their major moral malfunction, or dysfunction if you like. The result is a criminal enterprise in the general population and an immoral malfeasance on the part of some authorities like the previous Biden administration who would lie, steal, and cheat. They’re okay with immoral sexual perversion as well.
Thus far, they’re okay with unrighteous Sharia Law too. One wonders how NYC will deal that when their socialist-elect are replaced by Muslims?