Ironically, through the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the world meant to silence the name of the Lord, much like in Acts 6-7 with the martyr Stephen. The assassination has prompted all Christians to question how committed they are to their faith. Is the Gospel of Jesus Christ worth their own lives? America has been a somewhat safe place for the Gospel to flourish, and now that the luxury of our freedom from persecution has broken down, so has our false sense of security. Now, there will be a process that sorts through lukewarm Christians. Formerly, many Americans claimed to be Christian because it was the cultural norm; however, now with the reality of persecution, they will either dig deeper into their faith or forfeit their "faith" and cling to earthly security and treasures.
I was faced with this dilemma as well. I asked myself, "If not Christ, then what?" That's the ultimate question. When the enemy attempts to frighten us away from our faith, we must ask, "What shall I cling to instead?" Culture, modern academia, and media charge us that there is no God. When the practice of science began, science wasn't a tool used to discontinue belief in God. Early pioneers of the exploration of science held deep religious convictions. Galileo once said, "The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics." Sir Isaac Newton once said, "He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God."
However, a change occurred during the Enlightenment, when science began to explain the natural world without the bias of assuming a Creator. Inadvertently, this adds a preconceived bias to the study of science by assuming there is no Creator. Therefore, modern academia and scientists are left to explain new findings through untestable and unobserved theories, which defeats the purpose of abandoning the preconceived bias of God. Subsequently, this leaves discoveries to be influenced by biased, untestable theories, which are then propagated through universities to young intellectuals as truth.
For example, modern science claims that the universe is 13.8 billion years old. The discovery of the expanding universe, the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics indicates that the universe had a beginning. Therefore, it abolishes a previous argument that the universe had always existed. Instead of confronting the truth, mainstream science quickly attempted to pivot from the obvious explanation by affirming that this universe indeed had a beginning; however, the beginning of this universe was only a byproduct of a multiverse. The multiverse is an unobserved and untestable theoretical hypothesis that attempts to reconcile the universe's inception without the inclusion of a Creator. The abandonment of God is the abandonment of truth and rational thinking.
If there is no God, then there is no hope. This message serves as the epicenter of the enemy's plan; he desires that you be hopeless. Don't be overcome by the plans and desires of the enemy, for they are lies. We aren't the byproducts of chance and randomness. We aren't only bags of water, blood, and tissue. Our minds aren't the byproduct of evolution and electrical fizz in our brains. We are unique in nature, Scripture tells us in Genesis 1:27-28, that we are created in the image of God. Our uniqueness allows us to have dominion over God's creation and have a relationship with God. We are the pinnacle of God's creation; we think critically, have morality written on our hearts, and long for eternity and purpose. Christ is the only one who will satisfy our desires, the only reason we should never fear death, our only hope, and the only source of truth. There will always be those, like Romans 1:18 mentions, who are unrighteous and will suppress the truth, this being until Christ returns to judge the world.
Nonetheless, Christ is true and worthy of any suffering that we may endure for His name's sake. He holds the keys to heaven, and He will not leave or forsake His flock. The Lord says in Isaiah 41:10, "Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous hand." Now, we have a choice to make. Follow a hopeless, purposeless, biased, unobserved, and untestable hypothesis, or follow a self-evident, omniscient, omnipotent, intelligent, involved, loving, evidence-supported, self-sacrificial God in Jesus Christ. Who was given glory by the most powerful earthly leaders last night at Charlie Kirk's moving memorial service. Why? Because He is worthy of it all.
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