Artwork by Douglas Kallerson
Freedom in the Balance – Charlie Kirk’s Life and Sacrifice
As sad as what happened on Wednesday is for those who love freedom in its many areas of our lives: religion, political leanings, public discourse, employment choices, etc., it would be a mistake to assume that what took place in the assassination of Charlie Kirk was the silencing of a voice.
Rather, his voice will be multiplied through the event in many ways. His proclamation of Christian principles, combined with reasonable, moral, political conservatism, will come, once again, to the forefront of the American public. How the public embraces it is the big question.
We tend to become fickle rather quickly. In World War II, we used our intelligence and resources to develop a weapon that was capable of ending the war and saving, what is believed to be, millions of lives.
In a short span of time, those who second-guess every choice or who disapproved of the way the action was taken infiltrated the media, condemning the nation while continuing to enjoy the benefits that are derived from it.
After the attack on 11 September 2001, the nation flew flags everywhere. Wherever you were, little flags adorned cars in the streets, and people stood in unity against what happened. No sooner had we as a nation met the enemy, engaging those who attacked us, than the usual voices were raised about how terrible we were for doing so.
After the horror of 911, Pat Tillman of the Arizona Cardinals was impelled to leave his beloved and lucrative game to join the US Army. He served honorably in Iraq and Afghanistan, but was killed by friendly fire in 2004. Morally deficient voices on the left openly applauded his death as if he were the enemy.
Just 24 years after the Islamic attack, New York City is facing its greatest crisis ever with the prospect of electing a communist as its mayor. He openly rejects the core principles of our nation, arrogantly rejects the law set in place to protect its citizens, and ludicrously denies that he is one of the privileged he claims to be opposed to.
How quickly we forget the efforts of those who brought us to where we are at any given time! Instead, we accept the lies of those who intend real harm to our society, assuming that because they are in positions of power or influence, they should be trusted.
Rather, they eloquently project their own wickedness on others in an effort to hide who they really are. We need clarity of thought to see through what they are doing, something lacking in the masses who are busily engaged in work, family, and living their daily lives.
Charlie Kirk possessed this clarity and, without malicious words or demeaning conduct, he clearly stated what is right, moral, and proper. This cost him his life, but it will cause others to speak out more boldly, offering an alternative to the unbelievably vile hatred and evil-speak of those on the left.
Of those rabid voices, thousands upon thousands of gleeful social media posts rejoicing in Charlie’s assassination have filled the internet. The democrats in the US Congress actively booed the call for, and then tried to kill, a moment of silence to remember Kirk’s life and death.
The legacy media openly reveled in his execution on numerous occasions, claiming that Charlie’s “violent rhetoric” brought about his murder – just desserts for spewing so-called “hatred.”
Two of hundreds of vile news articles will give you a sense of this, and who is behind it in this nation:
Survey Finds ONE IN THREE College Students Think Some Level of Violence is Acceptable to Stop Campus Speech They Don’t Like
Young Woman Who Witnessed Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Says Liberals in the Crowd Were CHEERING After He Was Shot
How did we come to the point in this nation where this type of vile conduct has come about? Each year or so, for many years, I have revisited the words of Florida US Congressman Syd Herlong’s extension of remarks read into the proceedings of the US House of Representatives on 10 January 1963 entitled Current Communist Goals.
In his remarks, he cited 45 points by which the communists planned to overthrow the government of the United States. Rather than a shooting war they could not win, they understood the vacillating nature of the American public and set forth a long-term agenda to obliterate the fundamental underpinnings of our nation.
A majority of those goals have been realized. Several of them were overcome by events on the world stage. Rather than reading the list, a mere four of them will explain to you what the impetus behind Charlie Kirk’s assassination was –
- Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
- Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, and healthy.”
- Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social’ religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a “religious crutch.”
- Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
A fifth point was steadily pursued, and it was successfully realized in the past 20 years, becoming a major part of this political assassination –
- Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
Charlie Kirk was first and foremost a Christian. However, if he were just sitting in the pews on Sunday morning, no attention would have been focused on him. Sunday morning Christians are not the problem, and they can be dealt with easily enough when full communism has taken over the nation.
Directives to kneel, followed by an inexpensive bullet to the back of the head, will take care of such people if they refuse to recant. This has occurred millions of times in communist countries. Anyone who thinks this won’t happen here does not understand the nature of the spiritual and political battle being waged.
Along with being a Christian, Charlie Kirk was as much of an educator as he was anything else. He may not have been in a classroom teaching, but he was actively engaged in debating the religious, moral, and civil conduct of the people of this nation.
Innumerable times during the previous democrat administrations, conservative personalities who were scheduled to speak at colleges and universities have been shouted down, riots have taken place, sit-in protests have been held – all to keep these conservatives from being able to engage in public discourse.
The democrat party applauded the “bravery” of these miscreants while the wholly-infiltrated administrations, the DoJ, and the FBI did nothing to stop these violations of the rights of those conservative speakers. With a new administration completely set against this communist agenda in place, and with high fines and penalties for such conduct, universities have been forced to allow these voices to speak.
Unfortunately, the educational system has so brainwashed the youth of this nation, that they now feel their only remaining recourse is to climb on top of a building, point a gun at the head of the lover of freedom, honor, morality, and dignity, and pull the trigger, thus silencing the voice who simply wants to debate the moral ramifications of people’s decisions.
Charlie Kirk’s educational aspect focuses on just that, meaning the morality and civil dignity of humans. But standing against “homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as ‘normal, natural, and healthy’” cannot be tolerated in a society racing towards a supposed communist utopia.
Those who think this way don’t realize that right after the Christians, it is those who practice homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity who will be the next ordered to kneel as the brave new society spends another five cents on each bullet used to eliminate them. Useful idiots, as Vladimir Lenin called them.
These communist points for taking over the nation were exactly what Charlie Kirk spoke against. And yet, being 31 years old, he probably wasn’t even aware of Syd Herlong’s extension of remarks. He probably died without realizing the magnitude of the forces set against what he stood for.
Of all of Syd’s points, the most important of them was number 27, “Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with ‘social’ religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a ‘religious crutch.’”
This is something Alexis de Tocqueville carefully warned America about in his study Democracy in America. He stated that religion “should be considered the first” of the nation’s “political institutions,” urging the necessity for Americans to “maintain Christianity…at all cost.”
Whether Charlie Kirk knew of Tocqueville’s writings or not, he understood this as an absolute necessity for the nation to survive. Unfortunately, “religion” under the umbrella of Christianity does not necessarily mean moral, biblical, God-honoring religion.
This is what the communists understood. And so they have taken full advantage of infiltrating first the seminaries and then the churches of the nation. During the sixties, the infection of this agenda slowly crept into America’s schools. By the time of the Vietnam War, the left had so taken over the minds of many young people that they were unwilling to identify with the nation at all.
Many headed north to avoid the draft. But many of them found a way of avoiding the draft while still benefiting from life in the United States. By entering the seminary, they were exempt from the draft. And so, an entire generation of ideologically perverse people was being led by professors who never cared at all about the cause of Jesus Christ.
What does one do when he graduates from seminary? He becomes a pastor, preacher, or priest. The churches who pay well belong to the larger denominations. Free housing, congregants who idolize their spiritual leader, susceptible sheep willing to listen without checking, and a steady paycheck. The recipe for disaster was set.
Since the 1970s, all large denominations have been partly or completely overtaken by these moral minuscules. Many denominations are Christian in name only. Their message is one of presenting “homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as ‘normal, natural, and healthy.’”
If you don’t believe it, drive by any church in the modern “mainstream denominations. The chances are high that along with an American flag (well, often not even that) there will be a “pride” flag, a trans flag, BLM flags, etc.
Every un-American, anti-God value that can be snuck into Sunday’s sermon is introduced. Adherence to biblical values is non-existent, and the name of Jesus Christ is blasphemed as the person in the pulpit, wholly unqualified to be there, by the way, preaches “tolerance” as if it is an all-inclusive virtue. Charlie Kirk’s assassination, and ten thousand other abominations against faithful Christians, say otherwise.
Jesus, citing Isaiah, said of the foes of rightness at His time –
“These people draw near to Me with their mouth,
And honor Me with their lips,
But their heart is far from Me.” Mark 15:8
This is what we see in modern, mainstream, denominations. In undermining the Bible, Christianity itself is undermined. The worship of Jesus Christ is no longer the preeminent factor of going to church. Rather, social justice and progressive liberalism have replaced that. Their day of judgment will not be pleasant. Again, as Isaiah said –
“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!” Isaiah 5:20
A disastrous day lies ahead for these people.
Though it is unlikely that those on the left will ever cede an inch, it does not mean that faithful Christians should give up. It is our responsibility to continue to press forward. And more, it is a sacred obligation.
Jesus didn’t get to Calvary and call down twelve legions of angels to save Himself. The eternal destiny of all of humanity was on the line. That truth has not changed to this day. Though the act is accomplished, the path is clear, and access is available, unless it is proclaimed, no change will take place in the human heart.
Christians cannot sit idly by and remain silent. Having said that, there are others who will peevishly stand down from speaking out. It is sad but true. The opportunists of the world will be vocal until the time of persecution comes. When it does, they will fade into the background, never having really believed in, or maybe cherished, what they espoused.
For such, their supposedly deep moral convictions come down to safety, a reasonable stream of income, a position of power or influence, or a combination of any or all of these. Remove the true inspiration for their “moral stand,” and they will quickly bolt from it.
In politics, Dick Cheney is a great example. He was supposedly a sound, moral, Republican who would never have tolerated what the left pushed on the American public… well, until his younger daughter came out as a lesbian. Then his true moral soundness began to be revealed.
When his older daughter participated in one of the greatest attempts at overthrowing our government in the history of this nation, he fully revealed where he stood in his moral thinking. Is allegiance to family members where our morals are derived from?
Congress is elected for a reason. We vote for our representatives and senators based on what they say. Unfortunately for those on the right, what they have said and what they then did have almost always been completely at odds.
This is obviously true with most presidential candidates as well. They move to the center, lie as much as possible concerning what type of a president they will be, and they then immediately begin to reveal their true colors when they enter into office.
The greatest deceiver of them all was the one who, though untruthful in everything he said, mostly just avoided talking about his agenda. The things he said on the campaign trail were platitudes intended to lull the public into thinking he was the right guy for the job.
In fact, if you listen to his speeches, yes he lied, but he did it in a way that could be excused as typical political jargon. But this Satan of the political realm was elected, taking his oath of office (and I gag at even saying that) on 20 January 2009.
The son of a dyed-in-the-wool communist, and one who spent his life pursuing the communist agenda, took care of the things that were partially accomplished or wholly left undone as detailed in Syd Herlong’s list. He pursued them with reckless abandon.
Probably never in the history of the world, to include Sodom and Gomorrah or ancient Greece, were the forces of perversion and moral turpitude opened up in a society as they were under him. The power of the presidency was brought to bear against the foundational principles of the nation he swore to defend.
To him, the constitution was a “living organism” that meant whatever he decided. It was at this time that the true character of the democrat party began to be seen. A political party had, in fact, been captured – communism had taken it over. Unfortunately for them, the American public had had enough and chose a different path in 2016.
However, because of the pen of Barack Obama, the government itself had become so infested with those who swore allegiance to the cause he espoused, that it was not difficult to completely hamper the progress of the then-sitting president, Donald Trump.
An entire agenda of fabricating evidence against him was enacted from the Obama White House before he departed. The highest form of treason our nation could experience was realized. From that steppingstone, the power of the democrat-led Congress continuously stymied President Trump’s ability to enact any meaningful change in this nation.
In just four years, and with the ability to sway the next election through deception on a scale never before imagined, Obama would, once again, be in power. With the ability of big tech, and a CDC so sold out to the democrat party that its employees openly wept the day Donald Trump was elected, a plan was devised.
I need not tell you what it was. We all lived through it. Billions of people were utterly deceived over an event that changed the course of world politics and defined just how far governments could go to restrict the rights of their citizens. A global test case on how to control the masses.
The inevitable loss of the presidency for Donald Trump followed, and the lawfare began. Any other person in history would have signed the document, surrendered to the golf course, and kept his mouth shut until he died. But Donald Trump is not a normal person.
He is sold out to the American dream. All you need to do is go back and watch the innumerable videos of his younger years, and you will understand the man. He has his piece of the pie, but he wants it for everyone in this nation.
And so, while Barack Obama was enjoying his third term as president, presiding over a person that Donald Trump called braindead during the 2020 elections (so obvious it was even then), Trump was fighting off the power of the entire US government that was directed against him.
In case after case, he was vindicated. During this period, the left was certain of two things: 1) Joe Biden could not last a second term, nor could he win a second term, and 2) Kamala Harris was as sold out to the Obama agenda as anyone on the planet.
The gamble was made, the cards were laid down, and Joe Biden put his pen to a few of the only pardons that bore his actual signature out of the 4,245 that bear his name. He then submitted his removal from the ballot and frittered away his final days in office while Barack Obama prepared for his fourth term in office.
Donald Trump, however, spurred the masses on, telling them that they needed to come out in such numbers that even cheating couldn’t win. And he did. He won. The left underestimated his ability to stir the people, and they way overestimated the abilities of the wholly inept Kamala Harris.
When Obama walked into the Capitol Rotunda on Inauguration Day 2025, he whispered words to George W. Bush that were supposedly secret, but … well, there are lip readers at every such event. He said to Bush, “How do we stop this?” Bush laughed and knew that things were going to change. If you doubt this, go watch the video.
And there is a change in how President Trump has dealt with his second term, isn’t there? With a Republican House and Senate, the left can do pretty much zero to stop the tide of good news that has spread across our government for these past nine months.
And, as I noted before, congress is elected for a reason. Many on the right have frittered away the years, getting rich while squandering our heritage. They would be doing that right now, but the overwhelming tide of President Trump’s abilities have forced them to finally align with the values of those who voted for them.
At the same time, those on the left – every single one of them with the surprising exception of John Fetterman – have proven several things. There is not a single stand that they hold to –, moral, judicial, civil, or political – that is in line with the founding principles of this nation. They have fully revealed what they believe, what they want, and what is necessary to attain their goals.
Stopping here for a moment, one might say, “What is a pastor doing giving a political speech from the pulpit while discussing the assassination of the chief executive officer of Turning Point USA? If you think this is a political speech, you have not been paying attention.
Christianity is a religion, the one true religion, BTW. It stems from God, who ordained Jesus Christ to go to the cross before the foundation of the world. From there, the message has gone throughout the world. But the world is divided by people groups, cultures, and nations.
These were ordained by God, and they exist by His will. Daniel 2:21 says that God removes kings and raises up kings. God has ordained that we live in a world of this design. We as people cannot disassociate our religion from our existence within a society, which includes civil, judicial, and moral precepts.
Alexis de Tocqueville understood this. Many past presidents understood this. And Charlie Kirk understood this. He was fully aware of the fact that he was a target for assassination. It was made known to him again and again. But he knew that his voice in speaking out was more important than whatever would happen to him. In his life, he was the Lord’s. In his death, he is the Lord’s.
As for President Trump, I personally question if he is truly saved or not. Recent comments tell me that if he is, he is theologically confused about his state of salvation. That is easy enough to correct if someone would just sit down with him for fifteen minutes with the intent of smoothing that issue out for him.
Regardless of his personal state, he fully understands that the Christian message is the binding tie between the nation and its citizens. In nine months, he has done more to restore the Christian message and the Christian faith within the government than anyone in generations, maybe since our founding as a nation.
Our ability to freely exercise our faith was under such heavy attack since the inauguration of Barack Obama that, were it not for the Supreme Court of the United States, preaching from the full counsel of Scripture would no longer be tolerated in this nation.
Hence, there has been a continuous call over the past four years, even within the administration, to either dismantle or pack the Supreme Court. That was a step that the left realized may lead to their own termination at the rising up of Christians, and so it didn’t happen. But we are one election away from facing exactly that.
How does God raise up kings and establish nations? He does it through people. That was clearly evidenced in the writing of Thomas Jefferson and signed by a group of men on August 2, 1776, at the Pennsylvania State House, now known as Independence Hall.
Brave men, mostly led by Christians, either from the pulpit or from soap boxes, have spurred the nation to act time and again during periods of war or national crisis. Today, we are in a national crisis, but the forces of evil are not found attacking from without. They are attacking from within.
Donald Trump understands this. Charlie Kirk understood it, and his stand cost him his life. His wife will not see him again this side of glory, and his children have been bereft of their father because he understood and acted.
And he understood it exactly as I just explained it. We as Christians cannot separate our faith from the environment in which we live. When that happens, the results are evident from a mountain of past nations that have done just that.
The people either hide from the inevitable persecution they will face, give up on their faith because there is no one willing to stand and defend it, or they nobly and resolutely get on their knees and await their execution, something that has happened hundreds of thousands of times in Africa in recent years.
It has happened throughout the world, in fact. The great purge of Christians among peoples and nations, and even within the church itself, is a testament to our need to never give up in the face of iniquity. Just minutes before he was shot, Charlie Kirk was handing out MAGA hats.
As much of a political movement as it is, MAGA in the United States today is the only thing that has spared Christianity from the machinations of Barack Hussein Obama and those allied with him. Their idea of democracy is to remove the rights of those they disagree with so that their idea of democracy can exist.
If you don’t believe this, you haven’t been reading the quotes of people on the left, including politicians and media personnel, over the past four days. The execution of Charlie Kirk has been a cry for more. What was Rolling Stone’s Response to this? People Are Losing Their Jobs for Criticizing Slain ‘Free Speech’ Advocate Charlie Kirk.
The only people losing their jobs are those who either don’t have the right to say what they say while in their particular job, such as members of the US military, or those who work for people who will not tolerate threats against other human beings, finding them incompatible with the values of whatever entity the individual works for.
Charlie Kirk had nothing to do with this. Their own inability to realize that what they are peddling is not acceptable is what caused those people to lose their jobs. This is evident from the subtitle to their article, “Journalists, publicists, and college faculty have been fired after calling the right-wing influencer a divisive figure and making light of his assassination.”
A company, news media, or school cannot promote such speech without paying dearly for it. But this is how the left thinks because they have been steeped in communist ideology for over sixty years now.
Whether you agree with my words today or not, Charlie Kirk died because he believed in the agenda of Donald Trump. And the reason he believed in it is because Donald Trump is the only man to have the intestinal fortitude to do what he has done.
If you are to believe Scripture, then you must avow that God raised up Donald Trump for a time such as this. Charlie Kirk understood, he accepted God’s hand in the process, and he joined it to secure a safer, more promising future for Christians in this nation.
His death may have exactly the opposite effect. Only time will tell how the left will respond to the momentum of President Trump’s push to restore our nation. And it may be that the US House or both bodies will be lost in the next election.
If so, the nation will come to a screeching halt as innumerable, bogus counts for impeachment are brought to bear against the president once again. No wonder he is working feverishly to control and restore the electoral process that has been so stunningly manipulated by the left, even since the time of John Kennedy’s win over Richard Nixon.
Chicago’s dead were raised to vote democrat in that election. That has increased to a nationwide phenomenon, which was multiplied to an astonishing number in 2020, something not repeatable in 2024 because the receipts were in. But unless the voter rolls are secured, it will inevitably happen again.
In 1 Timothy 1, Paul says –
“But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully, 9 knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10 for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine.” 1 Timothy 1:8-10
Think about what Paul says. The law is not made for a righteous person. The law, any law, is given to secure the unrighteous, ungodly, profane, murderers, and so forth. This is just why the left has been so blatant in ignoring the laws of the United States over the past four years and why they continue to do so today.
What Joe Biden did concerning immigration was unlawful. What the sanctuary cities have done and are doing is unlawful. What DAs and prosecutors are doing in liberal cities is unlawful. What schools are doing with our own children in these same cities is unlawful.
These things are not just ignoring what is commonly held as good or moral. They are violations of existing laws. In ignoring the laws, they are attempting to absolve themselves of the responsibility for their murders, thefts, ungodliness, and so forth.
However, this is the reason for government. It is intended to enforce the laws that exist. Donald Trump is not violating anyone’s rights by rounding up illegal aliens. Rather, he is enforcing the law. It is the same law that was broken by the previous administration, and which nobody on the left even thought about condemning.
Why? Because in agreeing with the agenda, they solidify power, prepare to assume total control, and then rid themselves of those who disagree with them. One five-cent solution at a time until they have cast off their foe. And in casting them off, they no longer have the accusing finger of the Creator pointing at them from the pulpit each Sunday.
Well, at least the pulpits that are willing to steel themselves against the onslaught of wickedness, perversion, and assassination coming against them. Charlie Kirk was a man of principle. His principle was in conformity with the morally proper ideology of Donald Trump in relation to the running of this nation.
If you want to know why Charlie Kirk died, it is because they missed twice with President Trump. Charlie Kirk had the freedom to engage in public discourse because decisions to change the moral direction of this nation came down from the top of our government. By now, the left would have eliminated Charlie’s ability to meet as he did this past week.
And the top of our government, whether you like it or not, was directed by God in accord with His sovereign rule over the nations. On July 13, 2024, President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt while speaking at an open-air campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania.
We can certainly glean two things from that event. First, that God wanted him alive for His purposes. Second, every time Donald Trump looks in the mirror or scratches his right ear, he is reminded of that fact. Charlie Kirk’s time is over. But his memory will be long in being forgotten.
Donald Trump’s time continues, and with the resolve of the sacrifice of Charlie Kirk to bolster him, he will continue to press on in securing the freedoms we possess as Christians and as citizens of this nation. May God protect and bless him, and may God bless and protect this nation according to how we honor Him.
That is a scary petition when we were so close to having lost our right to do so because of those who hate Him, despise His word, and revile the name of His Son, the name which is above every name, and the name to which all knees will bow – Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
