Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago

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Charlie Kirk’s death is not in vain.
That’s the conviction I want to give you right now.
Some are calling him a martyr and maybe you think that’s going too far.
But what is a martyr, really? Surely it is someone who dies on account of their testimony of the faith and of Christ?
Charlie’s testimony of the faith was in his words. His testimony of Christ was in his character.
Now, politics is not Christianity. That’s important to note. But Christianity has something to say to politics. And Charlie said it as best he could… and went even further, using his platform to discuss matters of salvation too.
And the cause of his death is probably impossible to disentangle from his good testimony.
Politics is not the only place you can have a good testimony. You can do it wherever you are. And you should.
But he has been murdered, and we must answer this question: what can be the point of such a tragedy?
Well, we know that a death like this, though tragic, is never fruitless.
The miracle of God’s sovereignty is not that He spares us from all evil, but that He causes evil to confound itself. He makes it so that the works of evil end up being causes of their own destruction.
This is what Joseph recognised when he said, “What you intended for evil, God intended for good.” He looked back and saw that evil was done, but that it only undermined its own agenda in the long-run.
Jesus predicted this very dynamic would play out in his own death by using the image of a grain of wheat, saying, “Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces much fruit.”
Everyone thought that the powers of evil reigned supreme the day Jesus died. But as usual they were actually destroying themselves. To say much fruit ultimately came in is an understatement.
This wheat metaphor is the Biblical basis behind an old quote you might have heard, that “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.” See, evil ends up confounding itself, especially in circumstances as nasty as martyrdom.
The assassin’s bullet, in the long-run, only serves to injure his own cause.
Because the very thing he thought he killed and finished off bears much fruit.
Revelation speaks of those who overcame evil in this way: they overcame by the word of the blood of the lamb, and the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives even unto death.
God uses the most unlikely methods to destroy evil, in the long run.
And as for Charlie, remember the words of Jesus, “Your brother will rise again. I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.”
So, we wait expectantly for fruit ultimately to come in. And meanwhile, we do not shrink back in fear, but realise some things truly are worth doing. And we still do those things.