The hour is late. The lines are drawn. The world is not waiting for a winsome Church to earn its respect. It is sharpening its knives. If your Christianity is no threat to rebellion, then it is no Christianity at all.

Charlie Kirk is dead because he refused to play chaplain to a collapsing culture. He would not call evil good or good evil. He was hated because he stood where every Christian is commanded to stand—in the crosshairs of a world at war with Christ. His assassination was not an accident of politics. It was the inevitable collision between light and darkness.

The Puritan William Gurnall saw it clearly: the Christian is a soldier, a warrior in a world aflame with conflict. He warned believers to expect nothing less than daily combat—not only against their own sin but against Satan and the world itself. That’s not a metaphor. That’s the reality Charlie stepped into. And when the battle came, he stood.

Scripture told us to expect this. “Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted” (2 Tim. 3:12). Jesus said, “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you” (John 15:18). The hatred is not new. It’s the same rage that nailed Christ to the cross.

The World’s Hatred Is Our Inheritance

Richard Sibbes put it plainly: “God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world; He permits the world to condemn them, that they may not love the world, the world hates them….”

The world’s hatred is not an accident. It’s a safeguard. God uses opposition to keep His people from settling into the world’s arms. That’s why the apostles rejoiced when they were counted worthy to suffer for the name. Hatred from the world is a strange mercy—it reminds us we don’t belong here.

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