Introduction: I was studying in Luke 12, the last section. The tension between Jesus and His haters was palpable. It is easy to understand why. Just listen to Jesus’ words:

“Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division” (Lk 12:51, ESV).

When’s the last time you heard that verse taught in context?

Odds are you have heard lots of talks on Jesus as our peace, and references to Jesus’ words from John 14 about His peace being given to His people. Folks just love that passage. Why? Well, it’s not offensive. It’s what almost anyone would want, right? Who wouldn’t want peace?

It turns out that lots of people don’t want peace. They want murder; they want hate; they want destruction; they want to cancel any who dare speak up for light and truth. Tyler Robinson is just one of countless examples.

Today, it’s Tyler Robinson, the alleged murderer of Charlie Kirk. But he’s symptomatic of apparently millions of people calling for celebrations of Charlie’s murder. Some TV personalities and entertainers of the sheeple are even losing their jobs now because, finally, it seems, some folks are waking up to the hatred by the Leftists.

Charlie’s constant pattern was one wherein he welcomed open and respectful debate. And he was met with what exactly? A round of .30-06 to the throat. He’s now going down as a martyr for Christian witness and conservatism and open debate in a world that largely hates Christ, Christianity, reason, and open debate. Instead, the mobs resort to violence. Rather than trying to reason with folks via respectful dialogue, they take up arms and murder.

Now we’re being bombarded with coverage of text messages between homosexual young men referring to one another as “furries,” in the same sentences about assassinating Kirk. It is all vomit-inducing.

This is where we are as a culture, where men are being surgically mutilated and denying biology in hopes of altering what cannot be altered, one’s DNA. You can remove parts and/or add parts, but the genes remain. It’s ghastly and tragic what’s happening.

And it reminds me of how Christ spoke to the crowds and taught (very similar to the way Charlie emulated, mind you):

“He also said to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, ‘A shower is coming.’ And so it happens. And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, ‘There will be scorching heat,’ and it happens. You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?” (Lk 12:54-56, ESV)

Jesus rebuked the people because they did not know how to interpret the times. They were undiscerning. They were recalcitrant. They largely not only rejected Him and His message, but they hated Him, too.

Question: Sound familiar to today’s culture when truth-tellers arise?