I feel compelled to do something a little different today. I’m going to talk about seeds. Scripture has a lot to say about seeds. In some cases, the word seed refers to offspring. “If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring (KJV "seed”) for his brother" (Matthew 22:24 ESV). In most cases, the word seed is referring to planted crops. “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear” (Mark 4:26-28 ESV). The expectation of planted seed is that there will be a harvest to follow. Jesus spoke of the seed that “fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty” (Matthew 13:8 ESV).

The Apostle Paul used a seed illustration when he was answering a question by Corinthian believers on the resurrection. “But someone will ask, ‘How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?’ You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body” (1 Corinthians 15:35-38 ESV). Because so few of us live on a farm, not everyone understands the simple process of planting a seed. A buried seed, in essence, dies as it is transformed into the plant that will emerge. If that seed is a grain of wheat, the stalk of that wheat plant may bear hundreds of seeds.

Charlie Kirk is a seed planted for the Kingdom of God. I’m sure the devil thought it was game over for this young man who was shining light into the prevailing darkness of our education institutions, but the devil never has been good at understanding the ways of God. “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8-9 ESV).

Just as the devil did his little happy dance at the crucifixion, he probably did so in Utah last week. But just as the devil totally misunderstood Jesus’s cry when He said, “It is finished,” he misunderstood what taking Charlie Kirk’s life would bring. Why? Because “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints” (Psalm 116:15 ESV). He is especially moved when one of His saints gives the final full measure of sacrifice for King Jesus. Scripture tells us of those who overcome the devil and his demons. “And they have conquered him (the devil) by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death” (Revelation 12:11 ESV, parentheses mine).

In an “Iced Coffee Hour” podcast on June 29, 2025, Charlie Kirk was asked how he wanted to be remembered. He replied, “I want to be remembered for courage for my faith.” Charlie Kirk has entered into the glory of the Lord, but the seed of his life, planted in death, is bringing about a harvest he most likely never envisioned. The angel Gabriel told Daniel of people like Charlie, “Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever” (Daniel 12:3 ESV). It also brings a challenge to us. Will you and I live a courageous life like that? Will you and I overcome “by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of our testimony, and that we loved not our lives even unto death?” By the grace of God and the power of His Holy Spirit, let my life bear fruit for the Kingdom of God. Well done, Charlie Kirk, good and faithful servant!

What say ye, Man of Valor?

Semper Fidelis!