Hate Speech or Speech People Hate – kenbarnes.us

Revelation 12:11 ESV And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.

There is power in the blood.

On September 10, 2025, the day an assassin killed Charlie Kirk was a horrific day for all believers in Christ. If you attack one of us, you attack all of us. Tyler Robertson, the alleged assassin, thought Charlie Kirk spewed hate speech, but Charlie only spoke the truth about transgender issues, abortion, and many other Biblical views. It wasn’t hate speech, but speech that people hate.

If you attack one Christian, you attack all of us. Charlie Kirk was martyred, not murdered. The blood of the Saints has always spread the Gospel. You cannot snuff the Gospel out. The more you resist it, the more it spreads.

Erika Kirk, Charlie’s widow, two days after the shooting, painfully but powerfully said, “All things work for the good for those who love God and are called according to his purpose.” God can take unimaginable evil and turn it for good. And that is precisely what is happening. Tyler Robinson, the shooter, thinks he has silenced the voice he hated. But all he has done is release thousands, maybe millions of Charlie Kirks.

All week of the shooting, I could not get the last scene of the movie, Tora, Tora, Tora, about the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, out of my mind. Admiral Yamamoto stood on the bridge of his aircraft carrier watching the planes take off and said, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” Charlie Kirk did not love his own life even unto death. The Gospel, which people hate, will never be silenced if we do likewise.

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Ken Barnes, the author of  “The Chicken Farm and Other Sacred Places”  YWAM Publishing and Broken Vessels through Kindle Direct Publishing.
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