7 Responses to Charlie Kirk’s Assassination

1. Life Is Short — Live with Urgency

  • James 4:14 (NKJV):

    “Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.”
  • Psalm 90:12 (NKJV):

    “So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.”
  • Proverbs 27:1 (NKJV):

    “Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.”

2. Run Your Race with Full Speed

  • 1 Corinthians 9:24 (NKJV):

    “Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it.”
  • Hebrews 12:1 (NKJV):

    “Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us,

    and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.”
  • Philippians 3:13–14 (NKJV):

    “Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead,

    I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”

3. Charlie’s Life Was Short, but It Was Full

  • 2 Timothy 4:7 (NKJV):

    “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”
  • John 17:4 (NKJV):

    “I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do.”
  • Ecclesiastes 7:1 (NKJV):

    “A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.”

4. Now Is the Time to Activate Your Calling

  • Ephesians 5:15–17 (NKJV):

    “See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

    Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.”
  • Esther 4:14 (NKJV):

    “For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish.

    Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
  • Romans 13:11 (NKJV):

    “And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep;

    for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.”

5. We’re at War — Comfort Is Not the Goal

  • 2 Timothy 2:3–4 (NKJV):

    “You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

    No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.”
  • Luke 9:23–24 (NKJV):

    “Then He said to them all, ‘If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.

    For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.’”
  • Revelation 12:11 (NKJV):

    “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.”

6. Legacy Is Built Daily

  • Galatians 6:9 (NKJV):

    “And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.”
  • Matthew 5:16 (NKJV):

    “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.”
  • Proverbs 13:22 (NKJV):

    “A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.”

7. Honor the Fallen by Rising to Your Assignment

  • Isaiah 6:8 (NKJV):

    “Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?’ Then I said, ‘Here am I! Send me.’”
  • John 12:24 (NKJV):

    “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone;

    but if it dies, it produces much grain.”
  • Hebrews 11:4 (NKJV):

    “By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts;

    and through it he being dead still speaks.”

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