Message: Our condolence to Charlie Kirk and his family by Rev.Katherine Liu Bruce

 Message: Our condolence to Charlie Kirk and his family

 By Rev.Katherine Liu Bruce 

Christian Arts Ministries: Biblical Precepts & Gospel music              Date: September 13, 2025     

 

  Our condolence to Charlie Kirk and his family, it was a horrifying assassination on Wednesday, September 10, 2025. He was shot and killed by a valence young man Tyler Robinson during a campus event at Utah Valley University (UVU) in Orem. When we watched TBN program at 7:00pm, and heard the news, we were shocked and heartbroken by this tragic loss of Charlie Kirk who was only 31 years old, a passionate young brother, who expressed and defended the Word of God and debated for the conservative ideology and notion, he also hosted a TV program in TNB. We pray for Charlie Kirk’s soul to find rest and peace in the arms of God. And the Word of God and his faith in Jesus Christ will be the firm foundation of his salvation; Jesus will face to face meet him, and give him an answer why this tragic loss happened to him?   

In John 17:14 Jesus said, “I am coming to you now, but I say these things while I am still in the world, so that they may have the full measure of my joy within them. I have given them your WORD and the WORLD has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world.”(John17:13-14).  Jesus Christ does not teach withdrawal from the world but that Christians should be in the world but not of it (vv.14-16). Jesus prayed, “My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. They are not of the world even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; your WORD is truth. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world.” (John17:15-18).

            Jesus encourages His disciples and followers in Matthew 10:28-29; Luke10:18-20; Revelation 21:4, it states, “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.” (Matt.10:28-29).  “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy, nothing will harm you. However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you but rejoice that your names are written in heaven. (Luke 10:18-20).  He will wipe every tear from their eyes; there will be no more death or mourning, or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. (Rev.21:4)

Darkness never overcomes the Light of Christ. The suspect in the Charlie Kirk murder has been identified as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson. Robinson is a Utah resident. President Trump announced that an arrest had been made in the manhunt for Charlie Kirk's murder. By the helper of Tyler Robinson’s father who recognized his photo and confronted him, Tyler Robinson confessed to his father about the killing, and his father encouraged him to turn himself in, and reached out to a youth pastor who knew someone who works in the U.S. Marshals service, the suspect was arrested on Friday. 

 When Jesus said, “I have told you these things so that in ME you may have peace, in this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world (John 16:33). There are three aspects of this consequence.

First, general trials that come simply because we live in a sinful world (Rom.8:35-36). But in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loves us. If God is for us, who can be against 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.”

 Second, afflictions that God allows to come into our lives (2 Cor.12:7). There was given Apostle Paul a thorn in his flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment him. Three times he pleaded with the Lord to take it away from him. But the Lord said to him, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Paul views physical affliction, (Migraine headaches, eye trouble (ophthalmia), malaria and epilepsy have been seriously suggested (Gal.4:12-15)) as the work of Satan, permitted by God for a good purpose (keeping him humble) it could not be relieved through prayer.(2Cor.12:8).

 Third, Chastisement that comes more directly from God (Heb.12:6) because the Lord disciplines those He loves, and He punishes everyone He accepts as a son. As Esau (Gen25:33) though he may not have been immoral in the physical sense, Esau was immoral in the spiritual sense, being worldly and materialist

          Today, we take heart! For we know that Jesus has overcome the world. The intercession of the son of God- Jesus had prayed for us 2000 years ago, He prayed for our protection, sanctification, glorification, and unification.

         First, He said, " Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name- the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one, while I was with them, I protected them and kept them safe by that name you gave me."

        Second, “My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the EVIL ONE. They are not of the world even as I am not of it. Sanctify them by the truth; your WORD is TRUTH. As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world. For them I sanctify myself, that they too may be truly sanctified."

        Third, "My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.  I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one, I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

           Christians in this generation, what is the most challenging lesson?  Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount about the characteristics of disciples in Luke 6:22-36 is the most difficult lesson, and challenges disciples to be the doers perfectly as Father is perfect in heaven. How many believers can be perfect to fulfill what Jesus commanded? You may answer “none of us”, for it is too hard to do that, especially when you get hurt. But the Holy Spirit is able to transform your inner being day by day, year after year. Your heart of attitude will be changed by His divine power; the matter is that you are willing to turn your hearts to Jesus Christ and surrender your hurts to the Lord; the Lord will heal you in His time. For by His stripes, you will be healed. 

         This is the great Sermon of Jesus,

         “Blessed are you when men hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man. Rejoice in that day and lead for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their fathers treated the prophets.” (Luke 6:22-23) 

        “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you.” (Luke 6:27-31)

         If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners’ do that. And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full. But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. (Luke 6:32-36).