Oh beloved, if you didn’t understand the greatness of God’s love before, it’s okay. You can now.
- If you didn’t understand the truths that the followers of Jesus Christ spoke, stood for, and were martyred for before, it’s okay. You can now.
- If you didn’t understand the truth about abortion, marriage, gender, sexual sins, and other right vs. wrong issues, it’s okay. You can now.
- If you didn’t understand the need for salvation from Jesus Christ before, it’s okay. You can now.
- If you didn’t understand why believers in Jesus around the world are grieved for the loss of Charlie Kirk, while at the same time, rejoice that He is with Jesus in the glory of Heaven, it’s okay. You can now.
Let me explain: The Love of God
There is a richness to the love of God that words can’t adequately express. It’s a deep knowing that the Creator of the universe made you, sees you, knows you, and invites you to follow Him. His love takes you through this life and into eternity.
Nothing can separate the believer in Jesus from the Love of God: neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.(Romans 8)
Charlie Kirk evidenced the love of God to others, lived with purpose and boldness, and is now in the presence of Jesus Christ. The longing of all who know Jesus is to walk with Him in this life and throughout eternity. We understand that our lives are not about what we want, but God’s will being done in and through us. Those who are followers of Christ understand that Charlie is with Jesus and he did well in running his race by fully living out the calling of God on His life.
Let me explain: The Kernel of Wheat
Those who follow Jesus understand the principle of the kernel of wheat and you are seeing this around the world in vigils, marches of millions, online posts and videos. This is why more people are rising up and proclaiming the truth of God’s word. People are inspired by how Charlie Kirk lived for and desire more of God. The Kernel of Wheat principle is found in the Book of John and Jesus is speaking about Himself going to the Cross. However, this same principle can also be seen anytime a servant of the Most High is persecuted for righteousness sake or dies as a martyr:
Unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me. (John 12)
You will see many more people get inspired by the life Charlie lived and the message he upheld. These will raise their voices to share the love of God, lift up the standard of God’s Righteousness and Holiness, and invite whosoever will to come to Jesus. These precious believers are unafraid to boldly stand for God’s standard of right over wrong, good over evil. For those who follow Jesus, our belief is to Live is Christ, to die is gain. This is living a surrendered life.
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An Invitation to Follow Jesus
Your heart longs for Truth, Light, and the Way. Jesus is all of these things! Come unto Him all you who are burdened, struggling, and in need of purpose, and He will give you rest. He will wash all of your sins and none will be counted against you. His blood He gave on the Cross will cover you and cleanse you from all evil, darkness, and anything you’ve been bound with. Jesus’ love surpasses all understanding.
It’s isn’t too late. You haven’t done too much wrong. You can be forgiven, even now by the Lord of Heaven and Earth, by the one who breathed life into you when you were conceived in your mother’s womb. The Lord can restore and renew your weary heart. You can become a new creation in Christ Jesus, even now. Romans 10:9 says, “If you confess wit your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”
He is a righteous God who calls all to come to Him, find rest, and go and sin no more. Be deceived no longer on issues of right vs. wrong. Know the truth of what God says is righteous vs unrighteous living by reading Galatians 5:1-26 below.
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith….
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, avriance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
In the Book of Romans 8:1-39, it says:
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.
You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ. 10 But if Christ is in you, then even though your body is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness. And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you.
Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
As it is written: ‘For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.’
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”