When do you have to exert your Christian rights?
You exert your Christian rights only when it is impossible to do anything else. It should not be the common practice, but Scripture shows Paul doing so before hostile religious leaders when they gave him a bad time. In such unavoidable circumstances, the believer may fire back rather than remain silent.
Les explains that exerting your Christian rights should not be the common thing to do, but if it is impossible to do anything else, you have to. He illustrates this with Paul before the great religious leaders in Acts chapter 23. Paul did not just stand there like a milk toast; he fired back. When the high priest Ananias commanded that Paul be smitten on the mouth, Paul responded by calling him a whited wall, meaning a blatant hypocrite and religious leader who knew nothing of the things of God. Paul also declared that God would smite Ananias for sitting to judge him after the law while commanding him to be smitten contrary to the law.