Christian Persecution

Matthew 10:16-23 (NKJV) “Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils and scourge you in their synagogues.

You will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. But when they deliver you up, do not worry about how or what you should speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak; for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

“Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death. And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.

When they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For assuredly, I say to you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes."

"Prove Me Wrong" is a powerful rebuttal to lies and political propaganda. How can a Christian support, vote, and justify abortion, lawlessness, courts releasing criminals but jailing the righteous, changing genders, sexual immorality, dope, drugs, and alcohol? If you claim to be a true believer in Christ, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 is clear.

1 Corinthians 6:8-10 (NKJV) "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God."

For a few years now, we've warned that persecution will manifest, however, the old playbook is seen. Kill, vilify, jail, and persecute the messenger of truth.

Truth offends everybody. It's impartial. It cares nothing about your status. The truth will offend everybody but God because God is truth. Therefore, truth comes from God and when you can't handle the truth, you will kill the messenger and think that it's over. Nope. Truth never was killed. Just the vessel speaking the truth.

Free speech is gone in Britain but 3 million supporters of Charlie Kirk showed up in a peaceful rally.

Many of you will remember Kim Davis, the clerk that was sent to prison because she refused to sign her name and affix her seal on a marriage certificate of two homosexuals. She was imprisoned because she didn't agree with two men being married. She was deliberatley targeted.

She was exercising her right under the First Amedment of the Constitution. "Congress shall make no law respecting and establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."

Kim's First Amendment rights were violated. We must understand that should the 1st and 2nd Amendment be done away with, true believers in Christ must and will tell the truth of the gospel of Christ, even if it means jail or certain death.

During the Obama administration in 2015, in a landmark ruling by the Supreme Court, homosexual marriage became legal. Clearly, Kim Davis was deliberately targeted to make her an example to other Christians that if you don't violate the Constitution and give us what we want, you will be punished.

Obama isn't a Christian because if he were a Christian, he would have ended federalized abortion and the landmark ruling on homosexuality. Trump isn't a Christian but he's against transgenderism and lawlessness.

The homosexuals and transgenders declared that if you don't agree with our sin, you will be punished.

Just because something is made "legal" it doesn't make it moral.

Homosexuality is an abomination or is disgusting before God because of the Word of God in Genesis 1:26-27, Leviticus 18 and Romans chapter 1.

Homosexual "marriage" isn't in the text of the US Constitution. Thus, they've made homosexuals a class of people. It's common sense to realize that men with men or women with women can't copulate to create children. So they turn to the education system to indoctrinate young impressionable minds.

They've taken it further to snatch children away from their parents to mutilate them to become a gender that's opposite of their biological makeup.

Many of you will also remember Cakes By Melissa. The owners were also targeted by homosexuals to make a cake in honor of two men being married. They refused and were persecuted. Persecuted for practicing their religion of Christianity that prohibits homosexuality.

They were compelled by local law to serve homosexuals but they've refused and paid a price.

During Covid 19, Jews and Christians were persecuted. And those that rejected the jab that were not Christians were equally persecuted into accepting by mandate all of the rules or they wouldn't be paid, they would lose their jobs, and be ridiculed.

Churches were ordered to close or be fined, until the Jews went to the Supreme Court and prevailed. Doctors offering alternative medicine were censored. Truth in the media was censored.

Main stream media was the only voice everyone should listen to until private individuals replaced the "trusted name in news."

Communism/socialism was slowly taking control over people until the Democratic leaders were caught violating their own mandates.

Add it up. The Democrats have killed more people. It's a lie that it's both Democrats and Republicans spew equal violent rhetoric.

Truth isn't rhetoric.

Rhetoric against truth is designed to silence truth. That's evil. Vilifiying the truth is evil. Calling people vicious names because you can't succeed in the argument is evil.

Trump has called people names. However, when your fruit is Marxist, it’s not a vicious name calling. It’s identifying the fruit that dropped from the tree.

Jesus called religious leaders snakes, hypocrites. Jesus even called Herod a “Fox.”

Why? Their fruit identified them.

When you call a person “Hitler,” what fruit did you see that warranted calling a person “Hitler?”

Truth is supposed to get under your skin because you can't let the lie live.

You have to keep lying to keep the first lie alive, but the truth stands forever.

Truth is never afraid of the lie. The lie and the liar is always afraid of the truth.

The liar censor the truth, The truth never censors the liar because the truth is confident that it will succeed on the merits. One truth can knock down the house of cards. One lie can't destroy the building of truth. The "ekklesia (called out ones) is the pillar and ground of the truth."

Charlie Kirk spoke truth, not rhetorical talking points that the Democrats (aristocrats) use when they can't compete with truth. Truth convicted them. It exposed the lies. The Lord Jesus used truth and the Sanhedrin had the Romans do the dirty work of killing Him.

Kirk wasn't responsible for his death. That's a lie of the devil. A sinner practicing sin, convicted of sin carried out his hatred in the murder of an innocent person just speaking the truth. We must never get it twisted.

Cain hated his brother because Abel brought what the Lord demanded. Stephen in Acts 7 spoke truth to a radical bunch of Jews. All Stephen did was recite the Jewish history of rebellion against God and they couldn't stand the truth so they've stoned him. Paul spoke truth to the Jews and the Jews sent him to Rome to be killed.

Blind rage is what blinds a person's judgment and before you know it, hatred emerges as the only reason unjustified actions happen.

James 3:13-18 (NKJV) "Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.

For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace."

So Paul quoted this "Be angry, but don't sin." and "Put away anger..."

Never let your ego take you into anger and then act out that anger in violence, evil rhetoric, strife, envy, and jealousy. Political points of view under a civil discussion is good and civil disagreement is acceptable but when you take it up to wicked rhetoric, inciting and encouraging violence, and hatred, it's not the love of God. Yet sinners want to lecture the Body of Christ on the "love of God."

They cry for Christians to be tolerant but they're intolerant of anyone that speaks the truth in love from the Word of God.

The Democrats are the ones that raised the temperature. Not the Republicans. Democrats call for assaults, looting, robbery, immoral sex, killing, vandalism, and non peaceful protests that turned into riots displayed by the burning buildings and cars.

When terrorists burned Tesla cars, it showed that the argument of climate change was a lie. When Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom in California allowed houses to burn, where were the environmentalists? Climate change is a confirmed hoax designed to control people.

The Democrats claim that J6 was our Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Well let's do the math. Pearl Harbor. 1500+ deaths. 9/11, 2900 deaths. J6, 1 death by a Democrat that killed Ashley Babbitt. Make it make sense.

Assassination attempts on a former president Trump. Make it make sense.

During covid, we can't go to church or synagogues but we were allowed to go to baseball games, shop at Home Depot and Walmart, go to restaurants and bars, but you can't exercise. Make it make sense.

But the next level has arrived once again because Democrats can't succeed on their arguments in a civil debate. The orders are clear. Kill anyone that stands against homosexuals and transgenders.

Charlie Kirk was assassinated by a roof top sniper on September 10, 2025 in Utah because he was a Christian with political views that was in harmony with the Bible. Turning Point USA was a very effective tool to galvanize college aged people to think rationally about the Bible and politics. Truth is hate. To speak the truth is considered hatred.

According to the Democrats, truth is not love.

1 Corinthians 13:6 (NKJV) "[Love] does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth..."

Charlie's approach to confront, in debate form and to have meaningful conversations, impacted the world.

Free speech challenges arguements that lacks common sense. But you're not allowed to speak freely. You're prohibited from telling the truth. Lies must be accepted as the truth and because “I said so,” it's the only truth allowed.

Then we're all robots, programmed to speak lies and reject truth. Make it make sense.

The combination of Charlie's young great wit, common sense, and Biblical foundations inspired a lot of young people to become believers in Christ and on the political perspective, reject the Democrats platform to become Republicans.

My purpose isn't to make you become Republicans but to be true to faith in Christ, the truth alone, abhor that which is evil and cling to that which is true and good.

Luke 21:12-16 (NKJV) "But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons. You will be brought before kings and rulers for My name’s sake.

But it will turn out for you as an occasion for testimony. Therefore settle it in your hearts not to meditate beforehand on what you will answer; for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to contradict or resist."

Charlie, like Ben Shapiro, and others had a mouth and wisdom that their adversaries couldn't contradict or resist.

It's common sense to understand that when something is effective, if it clearly refutes any argument to sustain sin, you will be persecuted. There's no doubt that he received death threats and Erika, Charlie's widow, knew that something would happen.

2 Timothy 3:12 (NKJV)

"Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution."

Charlie had the whole package. His Christian ethics, his drive for the truth, a family, and a zeal for Christ. It couldn't be refuted. He had no skeletons in the closet.

He and Turning Point USA was a major threat to those that were clearly against what he presented. The Democratic left was losing badly and something had to be done to stop it.

He unashamedly represented his Lord, the Lord Jesus Christ.

John 15:20-21 (NKJV) "Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also."

Truth had to be killed but you can't kill truth.

You might silence the voices of truth but someone will rise up and speak truth.

satan's only resort is to kill anyone that's against his evil agenda.

Cain killed Abel because Abel's sacrifice was accepted and Cain's offering was rejected. God gave Cain the solution to his anger but Cain refused the Word of God and killed his own brother. Cain couldn't kill God so he killed his own brother.

Much like with Charlie's approach to bring truth, a hater of truth, a practicing homosexual with a transgender biological male had to do something to silence truth.

With Turning Point USA truth was accepted and lies were rejected.

In the 2024 presdential election, more young people voted for Trump than for Kamala Harris. The Democrat's strategy to galvanize young people by indoctrination on the college campuses backfired and the numbers reflected the undeniable results.

It's a common mistake that satan makes all of the time. satan killed Jesus at the hands of the Jews and Romans, but Christ was raised from the dead and the 12 disciples carried on.

satan is a liar and a murderer according to Jesus in John 8:44.

There were 70+ other disciples of Christ. Paul was called into the ministry after being a Pharisee.

After Christ, Paul was one of the most effective apostles of all time. Having ministered in Asia Minor for almost 30+ years.

2 Corinthians 13:8 (NKJV)

"For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth."

Paul was assassinated in Rome by the hands of the Jews and Romans around 67 AD, 3 years before the Temple was destroyed by the Romans.

But what happened? Christ's gospel spread further.

As always, satan and his children miscalulated and now, Turning Point USA will move into an area of dominance for some time to come.

Individuals are raising booths around the nation to have "Prove Me Wrong" conversations on other college campuses.

The sad thing is that many people that want sin smiled and laughed on the day that Charlie was assassinated. It's proof that people are demonically possessed but they can be saved (see 2 Peter 3:9).

So where do we go from here?

The Scriptures gives us the answer on how we should respond.

Evil will eventually be completely subdued but until then, evil must be confronted.

We continue to speak the truth in love in the fear of the Lord. Don't be afraid of their faces.

We don't retaliate with evil. We do the unexpected.

We pray for and bless those that insist on evil.

The gospel is the only answer to the woes of man.

However, evil will one day end and sinners will be punished at the hand of God on judgment day. Judgment day is the reckoning.

Please keep Erika, her two beautiful children, and Turning Point USA in your prayers. The days ahead for them will be challenging.

Pray to the Lord in Jesus' name that they would be comforted with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted.

Persecution will continue so ask the Lord for grace to sustain us all that are in Christ Jesus.

Charlie Kirk will not be the last martyr.

Around the world, in the Congo, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria and other places, Christians are losing their lives for the Lord for preaching the truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Pray that the gospel of Jesus Christ would continue to be preached and that people would come to their senses, repent of sin, and place faith on Christ alone.

Matthew 5:43-45 (NKJV) “You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you,

do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust."

Romans 12:14-21 (NKJV) "Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep. Be of the same mind toward one another.

Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own opinion.

Repay no one evil for evil. Have regard for good things in the sight of all men. If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men.

Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord.

Therefore “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; If he is thirsty, give him a drink;

For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.”

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."

1 John 3:10-23 (NKJV) (Matt. 22:39)

"In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another, not as Cain who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him?

Because his works were evil and his brother’s righteous.

Do not marvel, my brethren, if the world hates you. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death.

Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him.

For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence toward God.

And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.

And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment."