{"id":13514,"date":"2025-09-14T09:26:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=13514"},"modified":"2025-09-14T09:26:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T16:26:38","slug":"charlie-kirks-urgent-final-challenge-to-all-of-christianity-this-is-the-most-ignored-commandment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/14\/charlie-kirks-urgent-final-challenge-to-all-of-christianity-this-is-the-most-ignored-commandment\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Kirk\u2019s Urgent Final \u2018Challenge\u2019 to All of Christianity: \u2018This Is the Most Ignored Commandment\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a previous post<\/a> I gave my thoughts on Charlie Kirk, but this is error. For one, we died to the law in Christ, but for a declarative guide for gentiles, we have the letter Paul received for believers from the Jerusalem Council to counter the Judaizers trying to get the early church to obey the law. There is nothing about following the sabbath, though the principle of taking time to rest from your labors and spend time with God and family is alright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Acts 15:23\u201329<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[23] with the following letter: \u201cThe brothers, both the apostles and the elders, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia, greetings. [24] Since we have heard that some persons have gone out from us and troubled you with words, unsettling your minds, although we gave them no instructions, [25] it has seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to choose men and send them to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, [26] men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. [27] We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth. [28] For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements: [29] that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.<\/strong>\u201d (ESV)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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By\u00a0Joe Kovacs<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Charlie
Charlie and Erika Kirk and their children at the beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As Americans continue to try to make sense of last week\u2019s assassination of Christian champion and civil rights leader Charlie Kirk, videos are emerging of the outspoken Jesus worshiper issuing a challenge to fellow believers about what he calls \u201cthe most ignored commandment\u201d of the Ten Commandments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI speak at hundreds of churches of all different denominations,\u201d Kirk told the Wisdom Pearl, \u201cand I will challenge the Christian church because I believe this is the most ignored commandment of the Decalogue to our own detriment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe do a horrible job of honoring the Sabbath,\u201d he explained<\/a>. \u201cWe do a really bad job of that as American Christians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what may come as a surprise to millions of Christians, the Sabbath he observed and promoted is NOT<\/strong> Sunday when many congregate to worship on the first day of the week, but rather the seventh day of the week, when Jews and some Christians cease from their work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The founder of Turning Point USA indicated, \u201cThe Sabbath is one of my favorite topics to talk about honestly \u2019cause I\u2019m so sick of talking about politics all day long, it\u2019s all I do. So it drives me crazy. This is actually way more important than that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirk said he\u2019ll go \u201ca step further\u201d than merely challenging fellow Christians about ignoring the instruction from God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI believe that honoring the Sabbath is the commandment that allows you to honor the other nine commandments, and that the enemy has gone after the honoring the Sabbath because then it is easier to weaken the other nine. And I\u2019ll prove it to you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re honoring the Sabbath, it\u2019s definitionally easier to honor your mother and father because you\u2019re not working that day and are with family. If you\u2019re honoring the Sabbath, it\u2019s easier not to covet your neighbor\u2019s wife because you\u2019re not around your neighbor\u2019s wife. You\u2019re with your family and you\u2019re filled with gratitude that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re honoring the Sabbath, it\u2019s easier to have no other gods before God because that day is built in time as a temple, as a sanctuary to put God first, to not have idols, to not take the Lord\u2019s name in vain. The other nine commandments are made easier, are made more accessible for our broken fleshly depraved nature if we prioritize the Shabbat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to his shocking assassination Wednesday at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, Kirk had completed a book on the subject titled \u201cStop, in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Change Your Life,\u201d which is now set for release posthumously in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s honestly how the Sabbath saved my life and helped preserve my family and helped preserve my career,\u201d Kirk noted of the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirk was willing to talk about his personal religious background as he explained his awakening to resting on the seventh day of the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI grew up in a Presbyterian background. We left that church, we went to what would be best called as a Bible-believing, evangelical church. So not quite Calvinist, not Pentecostal, somewhere in the middle,\u201d he recounted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe believe in many of the same stuff, guys. I believe in the inerrancy of Scripture. I believe you need Jesus Christ. I believe in grace not works. I believe that there is heaven awaiting us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Charlie
Charlie Kirk smiles as he discusses his observing the Sabbath on the seventh day of the week as opposed to Sundays<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

He indicated two prominent figures helped open his eyes to resting on the seventh day: Pastor David Engelhardt, a board member at Turning Point USA, and Dennis Prager, the nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and WorldNetDaily columnist<\/a> who is also the founder of Prager University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was exhausted, it was the summer of 2021. I sat down with [Pastor Engelhardt], I said, \u2018I\u2019m not sleeping well, I\u2019m fatigued.\u2019 And he asked me very bluntly: Are you honoring the Sabbath?\u2019 And I gave him very weak theological arguments honestly [such as] \u2018Oh, I\u2019m not bound to that,\u2019 or \u2018No, I\u2019m not really interested in that, I don\u2019t have to do that.\u2019 And he really challenged me and I didn\u2019t have good responses to be perfectly honest with you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of Prager, who is Jewish, Kirk said he \u201cis the premier Torah teacher of this generation. He\u2019s amazing, he\u2019s a phenomenal mind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe would always talk about the Shabbat, always taking about the Sabbath. And I found myself, after a couple of years of hearing this, getting really jealous of him, being like, \u2018Wait a second! You\u2019re just able to unplug for one day and not work and be with friends and family and worship God? I want that!\u2019 And I would start to get really jealous in the worst possible way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd then I realized it\u2019s not something that you go purchase at the store. It\u2019s not something that you have to take out a loan for. It\u2019s simply the prioritization of the question of: Who\u2019s in charge? It\u2019s that simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd if you believe God is in charge and if you believe Genesis 1:1<\/a> \u2013 because Shabbat is a question of whether or not you believe Genesis 1:1 \u2013 and if you believe Genesis 1:1, then you honor the Sabbath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Charlie
Charlie Kirk with his daughter at the beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you have questions about Genesis 1:1 \u2013 \u2018In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth\u2019 \u2026 it\u2019s the first truth-claim of the Scriptures, then on the seventh day you rest because God created the heavens and the earth. It is the longest standing celebration of time of the creation of the heavens and the earth. And so that realization changed my life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirk admitted when he first started resting on the seventh day, \u201cit was really hard at first. But I just do it religiously regardless of where I am. No one can contact me. And I just read, I take notes, whatever, and it\u2019s been an unbelievable blessing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirk stressed The Decalogue, which are the Ten Commandments, \u201csays very clearly that we have to honor the Sabbath.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI believe truly that the Sabbath is the commandment that makes the other nine possible. And so, let\u2019s think about it. If you\u2019re a parent that is growing disconnected from your child, are you having a Sabbath dinner with them with no devices on?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cProbably not. I believe the Sabbath dinner is one of the great traditions that mankind has always had. And whether we like it or not, Jesus had plenty of Sabbath dinners. We know that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd also He had a Passover dinner. I\u2019m not saying you\u2019re bound by it. But this is a thing that\u2019s in the Bible that\u2019s kind of like, \u2018Wow! Am I doing that? Am I taking advantage of that?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cSo I call on every Christian, if you want your life to improve, maybe you don\u2019t, maybe you want your life to remain awful and miserable, but if you want your life to improve, the happiest people, the least depressed people in the world are those that honor the Sabbath, or some form of a day of rest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey live longer, they\u2019re healthier, less disease and all of it. So for me it\u2019s been a great blessing, and it\u2019s a way just to totally tune out of all this kind of nonsense that\u2019s happening around you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When traditional Christians told Kirk they were too busy to have a Sabbath rest, Kirk would respond: \u201cI hate to pull rank on this, but if I can do it, you can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTry it for a month, try it for two months and you\u2019ll find your relationship with God and your loved ones will dramatically improve and that hardened hearty that you are worried about I think will soften very quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another interview, Kirk lamented: \u201cI think that to our own detriment and to our own failure, we as Christians have decided to cast away resting on one of the seven days. God rested after creation, that comes before the Hebrews, it comes even before the creation of the modern world and civilization as we know it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Charlie&Erika Kept the Sabbath<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did you know that Charlie Kirk and his family kept the sabbath?
Did you know they kept the original Sabbath from creation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those of us believers who keep the Sabbath are no less because we keep the commandments, starting with our faith and\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/vgrCnrbq1m<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Terry & Candace Lightfoot (@CHURCHof_X) September 11, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd it says very clearly in the Scriptures: For six days you shall work, and the seventh day you shall rest. If you are feeling overrun by society, you might be feeling depressed or anxious, here\u2019s this one way that you might be able to improve. Turn your phone off for one day. No contact. No social media. No work. Your mental health will improve dramatically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat is a day to go be with God, that is a day to read your Bible and be out of the busyness and the hurriedness and just the anger and the noise of this world. Go back to God\u2019s natural rhythm. And it\u2019s made our family much tighter knit. And I could be traveling for five or six days, but if I at least get one good Sabbath with my family, it charges all back up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He noted: \u201cI want to be remembered for courage for my faith, that would be the most important thing. The most important thing is my faith.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charlie\u2019s wife Erika Kirk was asked about the impact resting on the seventh day of the week has had on their family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Charlie Kirk and his wife Erika<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs the wife, I have seen it transform him in a way that is so powerful that when he turns his phone off and it goes in that drawer, and he and I know that it\u2019s, you know he\u2019s all on for the family,\u201d Erika explained, adding there were \u201cno distractions and he finally gets to reset his brain. He finally gets to breathe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd as a wife, there is nothing more precious than my husband\u2019s sanity when it comes to the echo chamber and everything that he\u2019s dealing with in his world. So I have seen it change him and impact our family in one of the most beautiful ways.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rachel Cohen Booth, a senior policy correspondent for Vox who happens to be Jewish, admits she was stunned by Charlie Kirk\u2019s move toward observing a Sabbath as Jews do from from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI found this surprising \u2013 he was an outspoken evangelical Christian. I also found it unexpectedly moving,\u201d Booth wrote<\/a>. \u201cThis famous Christian figure shared in the precious ritual that Jews like me all over the world have practiced for centuries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2008, WorldNetDaily published an in-depth report<\/a> on when precisely is God\u2019s Sabbath day to be observed, titled \u201cDeception\u2019: Christians war over worship day.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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