Top 6 moments from Erika Kirk's CBS interview with Bari Weiss: 'Let the Lord use it'
6. 'Releasing myself from the enemy's hands'
During her eulogy at Charlie's memorial service in Glendale, Arizona, in September, Erika Kirk publicly forgave 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, who made his first in-court appearance last week and potentially faces the death penalty in Utah after being charged with aggravated murder in relation to Kirk's death.
During her eulogy at the time, Erika remembered that "on the cross, our Savior said, 'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.'"
"That young man, I forgive him," she added, leading to heartfelt applause from the audience.
"I forgive him because it was what Christ did, and is what Charlie would do," she said. "The answer to hate is not hate. The answer we know from the Gospel is love, is always love. Love for our enemies and love for those who persecute us."
Erika Kirk, who affirmed to Weiss that she believes Robinson is her husband's killer, said that her forgiveness does not mean she is not pleading to the Lord for justice.
For Erika Kirk, is there a difference between forgiving someone in a spiritual sense, and seeking justice for them on Earth?
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"Oh, of course. But we serve a just God. And I rest easy in knowing that. He is sovereign, but He is just. And so, let the Lord handle that."
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"We serve a just God, and I rest easy in knowing that. He's sovereign, but He's just. And so let the Lord handle that," she said.
Kirk also described her public forgiveness as "a game-time decision" that she hopes God will use to draw good out of evil.
"But am I going to take that moment to say, 'Rally the troops, burn the city down, march in the streets?' Or am I going to take that moment and unleash something like we talked about, even greater, more powerful and say, 'It's a revival.' And let that unleash."
"And let the Lord use it in ways that no one else could've ever imagined."
Erika explained she forgave her husband's accused killer not because she condoned what he did, but because unforgiveness opens the door to the devil, and that forgiving him was "releasing myself from the enemy's hands where he could have a foothold in me."
Regarding what she would say to Robinson, she replied: "Nothing. I have nothing to say to you. Nothing."
Jon Brown is a reporter for The Christian Post. Send news tips to jon.brown@christianpost.com
