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A preacher here in the United States gets a gun pulled right in his face. Things are heating up for the Christian in the United States. We still live in Babylon—we are watching the mercy of God all around us, but we do still live in Babylon.
Kevin Kahara with Christ's Forgiveness Ministries was out street preaching like he normally does when all of a sudden, this person very angrily started stomping up to him, pulled a gun, and pushed it right into his face.
This transgender person—a biological man dressed as a woman or masquerading as a woman—stomped up to him pulls a gun out because he was talking about how God made men men and women women. He was speaking out against gender ideology when this happened. It should be noted that Kevin preaches on this particular street corner once a week—it's his regular routine.
For context, Kahara seems to be a legitimate street preacher from the Ray Comfort School of Street Preaching, which many find very credible and very honorable. Not all street preachers are, just for the record.
What's really interesting is that there's video of it online, and when the transgender man stepped up to him, the preacher barely flinched. He seems to have known what was coming by the way the man was approaching him. He leaned back but didn't even pull his microphone down. He didn't stop saying what he was saying—he very calmly just basically asked him, "Are you going to attack me now?"
The transgender person replied, "I should." That's their ideology. That's how they look at things—they look at people who are disagreeing with them and really want to bring harm to them. The other thing is, he did attack him—you put a gun in somebody's face, that's an attack. That's a punishable offense in our country. It's a crime unless it's out of self-defense to get somebody to back off. You're threatening someone's life by doing that.
Kahara goes on—he doesn't stop what he's saying, he doesn't cower, he didn't even call the police on this guy. After the man said "I should attack you, I should pull this trigger," Kahara responded: "So you just threatened me with a gun. You just pulled a gun on my face, man. Lord have mercy on you." He continued, "This means you don't even know who you are. I still love you though. Even though you pulled a gun on me, I still love you. I still bless you."
Is that amazing? The strength of Christ right there.
He's been interviewed since that altercation caught on camera, and it's been really comforting as a Christian because they ask him, "Well, after this has gone viral, everyone's seeing this, Kevin, what is it that you want people to know?" And he just shares the gospel: "I want people to know that we're all sinners and that the only salvation is through Christ Jesus." He says, "This person is hurt, this person is broken, and I don't hate this person. This person needs Jesus, and Jesus is the only way of salvation."
It really makes you ask: what is it that Kevin Kahara has that would enable him to stand so boldly in the face of a very legitimate death threat? What gives him that fortitude?
I was doing my Bible study the other day and I came across this passage. There are a few words in there that really stood out: Second Peter chapter 1, verses 16 through 19.
"For we did not follow cleverly devised fables when we made known to you the power and the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice came to him from the majestic glory saying, 'This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.' And we ourselves heard this voice from heaven when we were with him on the holy mountain."
When he says "we were with him on the holy mountain," he's talking about the mountain of transfiguration. He's just reiterating all this experience that he had directly with the Lord Jesus Christ.
But what he says next is very interesting. Going to verse 19, he says: "We also have the word of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt, and you would do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn and the morning star rises in your hearts."
That phrase—"as confirmed beyond doubt"—is really interesting. First, he's talking about all of his experiences, but then he's talking about the prophets. The way he words that, he's telling us God's Word is more reliable even than your own experience. It was the Word of God that enabled them to interpret those experiences they were having with Christ and understand what was really going on.
Part of the thing I want to stress is that when you do doubt, it's not like you're committing the unpardonable sin. But we have an element in our culture now that wants to celebrate doubting. Like, "Oh, you want to stay there? We're so deep in our pursuit of spirituality that come join our doubters club." No—it's a sin. In Jude it says, "Be merciful to those who doubt." In other words, we don't want to judge you, but we want you to have rock-solid confidence in the Lord Jesus Christ.
When I read "the word of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt," that is what we are seeking in our walk with Christ—that we can have a firm faith. Faith is based on the sure knowledge that Jesus Christ lived the perfect life, died the sacrificial death, and victory over death, hell, and the grave at the resurrection. Peter saw His glory on the Mount of Transfiguration, and they never forgot it. They knew what they saw, and it was the words of the prophets—in other words, the scriptures—that gave them the confidence in what they were experiencing and knowing exactly what it was they were seeing and interpreting.
Even Peter himself, who followed Christ for three years while He walked this earth, relied on those prophets for his understanding and for the truth. That confirmed then the truth that is Jesus Christ.
Gramster Rant: Standing Firm in God's Word
I'm really glad that this preacher stood the way he stood. I'm really glad that this preacher is not even veering from the gospel itself, because when you have an experience like that, you could go off on a tangent and just go on and on about your own experience. But he doesn't—he keeps pointing it back to the gospel of Jesus Christ. That's really impressive.
That confirms the Bible even more for me and encourages me in my belief in the Bible. So I'm just really glad I have the opportunity right here to finally kind of get that all off my chest.
As a caveat, the last line in verse 21 that's on the screen there, "For no such prophecy was ever brought forth by the will of man, but man spoke from God as they were carried along in the Spirit." One of the things that Peter is trying to say is, "Listen to me, I have seen things, I know things. Let's get rid of doubt. Obviously, doubt is going to creep in because the enemy and the flesh are going to continue to pound on you, but trust in this because it's not just man-made—it is the Spirit of God leading through all of this."
And he was part of it—that's a big part of it. He was a flat-out eyewitness to the things that Jesus did and the things that Jesus said. So it is trustworthy, especially because it does line up completely, fully, perfectly with the prophets of old.
Right On or Way Off?
Statement 1: "The true gospel is not a call to self-fulfillment, it's a call to self-denial." RIGHT ON!
This statement embodies the essence of Jesus' teachings. The call to "take up your cross" and follow Christ stands in direct opposition to today's self-focused culture. As scripture teaches, "He must increase, and I must decrease." The gospel is fundamentally about Jesus and His salvation, not about personal fulfillment, even though believers receive its benefits.
Jesus paid everything for eternal life, then works change from the inside out. When someone is truly saved with the Holy Spirit inside them, this transformation naturally works its way into daily living. Self-denial becomes the pathway to authentic discipleship.
Today's marketing messages contradict this truth entirely. Burger King tells customers "You rule," while other advertisements literally encourage people to "worship yourself." These messages promote following every impulse rather than practicing the self-denial Christ demands.
Statement 2: "Before you judge someone, make sure you're perfect." WAY OFF!
This popular sentiment sounds compassionate but misrepresents biblical teaching. It resembles the classic excuse: "I don't go to church because of all the hypocrites." The reality is that perfection remains impossible this side of heaven.
As Paul laments in Romans, "Who will save me from this body of death?" Christians continue battling the flesh while becoming more Christlike, yet perfection only comes in eternity. When correcting others with scripture, perfection isn't required to speak truth.
Scripture does caution, "Judge not, lest you be judged," but context matters. The Bible also commands believers to judge correctly and wisely. The Spirit provides discernment to identify false prophets—a topic mentioned in nearly every New Testament book. Marking and avoiding such teachers represents proper judgment.
The modern "I'm okay, you're okay" relativism where "your truth doesn't have to be my truth" has produced a society fundamentally divided against itself. This approach abandons genuine discernment in favor of a bland refusal to make moral distinctions.
Statement 3: "It is because of Adam and Eve that I must now do laundry." RIGHT ON!
Without sin entering the world, where would filth originate? In a perfect world, clothes might not get dirty—perspiration might not exist or would smell pleasant. Garments wouldn't wear out. Most significantly, before the Fall, Adam and Eve had no clothes at all.
Only after sin entered did clothing become necessary. Now humanity deals with endless piles of laundry—sorting, washing, and folding—all consequences of that original rebellion. The mundane chore of laundry serves as a regular reminder of how sin's effects touch even the most ordinary aspects of daily life.
Final Thoughts
Salvaged by God—it's part 12 of the Joseph series this Sunday at church, and it's really one of the turning points. It's like one of the big crescendos of the whole sermon series, and it really shows you in Genesis 44 how Judah stepped up to be the substitute for Benjamin. And where is Jesus? He is from the line of the tribe of Judah—he's the lion of the tribe of Judah.
The name of the message is going to be "A Biblical Hat-Trick: Joseph, Judah, and Jesus," and the core of it is coming to grips with your sin, because that's what those guys did—they came to grips with their sin in front of Joseph. And we have to come to grips with ours.
Even as we're pursuing righteousness, even as we are trying to live every day for the Lord, there's this constant battle going on. I always talk about the two dogs in you that fight—which one wins, the flesh or the spirit? The one you feed the most.
Salvaged by God is a great place to go if you want biblical preaching for your commute—wherever you get podcast content or YouTube or Rumble, just search "Salvaged by God." I don't want to come across like a blowhard, like my teaching's so great, but what happens is that I go deep in the Bible, God convicts me, and then I just share that. And I do it without apology, just like the show is called. I do it without reservation.
You can't call people to repentance if you're smug in your smugginess. There are so many people I know who would never talk about having a great moment in their career be hindered by a blemish on the end of their nose. I just don't care. I've preached with dog prints on my shirt—as long as I can share the gospel, I'm good. And so the first thing has to be with yourself.
It's been a week of just dealing with my own still sinful nature in some ways. And of course, as we stay in God's word, we too can grow to a place where, like Kevin Kahara, someone gets us in a really dicey situation, we can still stand firm knowing that God loves us, God has redeemed us, and that is our hope for everyone that we come in contact with.