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Surprise, surprise!!
Gerry Adams awarded €100k (£84,000 ) in libel case against the BBC
Well, I suppose a retired supporter of the IRA murder gangs does need money to live in the style that he has become accustomed to as the ‘Advocate General’ of the Sinn Fein/IRA propaganda machine for half a century!!
In the BBC programme, broadcast in September 2016, an anonymous source given the pseudonym Martin claimed the shooting of former Sinn Fein official Denis Donaldson, was sanctioned by the political and military leadership of the IRA and that Mr Adams “gives the final say”.
In his directions to the jury, trial judge, Judge Alexander Owens, ‘told the jury that the BBC had put forward the position that Mr Adams had “no reputation at all” and the broadcaster had argued to the jury that it should award only nominal damages, putting forward the option of just one euro.’
The BBC reports that ‘Mr Justice Alexander Owens blocked three people appearing as witnesses, including Denis Donaldson’s daughter who wanted to testify as part of the BBC’s defence.
However, the judge ruled what she intended to say was irrelevant in respect of what the jury had to consider.
The BBC also wanted to call Austin Stack, whose father Brian, a prison officer, was fatally wounded in an IRA gun attack in Dublin in 1983.
It also attempted to call Eunan O’Halpin, a professor of contemporary Irish history at Trinity College, Dublin.’
Mr Justice Owens said “a person’s reputation can change” and the jury should “evaluate” it as of “2016 and now”.
I think that the judge should go and read what the Lord says in Jeremiah 13:23.
“Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.”
Any honest person, who has followed the speeches and actions of Gerry Adams since the beginning of the ‘Troubles’ here in Ulster, right now up to the present time, will have no difficulty in saying that Adams is one leopard that most certainly has not changed his spots.
An article has appeared in yesterday’s ‘Belfast Telegraph’ in which journalist, Sam McBride succinctly sums up Gerry Adams! Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-05-31 a 8:00 am
The Lord reproached because of our sins!
“By this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme,” 2 Samuel 12:14.
These words were spoken of David and gave the reason for the many troubles that came upon him following his wicked liaison with Bathsheba and the evil steps he took to conceal his wickedness.
2 Samuel chapter 11 records the sad tale of man’s, even a good man’s, propensity to depart from God!
David’s sin has caused the Lord to be blasphemed for some 3000 years and it will continue to be until the end of time.
I recall back some 45 years ago in the early 1980s, I visited an elderly man who was unsaved but who had loved ones praying for him. I called one evening and when I raised the subject of salvation through Christ, he referred to David’s sin. He asked how anyone could give any credence to ‘being saved’ when David acted like that?
That began a most earnest exchange which lasted quite some time! I recall thinking to myself about midway through the discussion that the matter had become so serious and indeed heated, that I could not back down now without conceding ‘defeat’! So I pressed on in my seeking to refute the idea that David’s sin gave grounds for doubting the reality of salvation by faith in Christ’s atoning blood.
The atmosphere did change and, became calmer and, I can say, more friendly. In the end, as I prepared to take my departure, the old man accompanied me to the end of his lane where my car was parked and I believe we parted friends.
I am most happy to say that that old man is in heaven, for sometime later, as his life was ending, he indicated to his family how he had called upon the Lord for mercy.
It is but one example of how the sin of a good man like David, who has fallen, can be used by the devil as a hindrance to sinners believing the gospel.
Ammo for the devil
The sins of God’s people have ever been a means of the devil mocking, sneering and blaspheming the Lord.
I am sure that there was much derisive laughter around Jerusalem following Peter’s repeated denials of the Saviour (Luke 22:54-62). And that laughter would have increased and swelled at the cowardly actions of all His disciples. “But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled,” Matthew 26:56.
That was not the ultimate the Saviour suffered by way of disparagement.
The Sin-Bearer
In the mystery of God’s eternal purpose of redemption, His Son offered Himself as a sacrifice for the sins of His elect. In so doing, Christ suffered utter rejection by His Father on the cross. The Saviour, as the bearer of the sins of His people, was made “to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him,” 2 Corinthians 5:21.
Being made to be sin, He was forsaken of His Father on the cross and suffered the eternal guilt of His elect. Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-05-28 a 6:00 am
Challenge to the Free Presbyterian Officers repeated!
Over two weeks ago, on May 9th, I sent out an article entitled:
Free Presbyterianism is fast abandoning the separatist stand
I sent copies to the officers of Presbytery because I had issued a challenge to them in the article.
FREE PRESBYTERIANISM IS FAST ABANDONING THE SEPARATIST STAND TO WHICH GOD CALLED IT AND WHICH SAW GOD’S ABUNDANT BLESSING FALL UPON IT IN DAYS WHEN IT WAS FAITHFUL TO THAT STAND!
The likes of Danny Roberts, openly a neo-evangelical and anti-separatist, is welcomed into Free Presbyterian pulpits and representatives of the party supporting murder and terrorism, Sinn Fein, welcomed and lauded in a Free Presbyterian meeting organised to support the ‘Gaelitising of Northern Ireland’. Furthermore, worldly music, long opposed by our church, is now all too evidently employed in some congregations and open opposition to such is resisted and condemned.
This drift began with the sad decision of Dr Ian Paisley in 2007 to enter a ‘power-sharing’ deal with Sinn Fein/IRA.
These things and others of the same ilk have taken place and they are either excused or ignored by the leadership of our Presbytery.
It is all too evident to many Free Presbyterians that there is an abandoning of our historic separatist stand and that can only lead to the judgment of God falling upon us for such rebellion.
I challenge the Moderator and Clerk of our Presbytery to deny what I say and show why I, and many others, ministers and elders, are wrong in our concerns.
I have had no reply from any of the officers of Presbytery to this challenge! Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-05-26 a 7:28 pm
An omen of the future Israel will face!
Goodwill running out as UK, France and Canada demand Israel end Gaza offensive
UN says no aid distributed so far in Gaza today, as UK suspends Israel trade talks
UK steps up action against Israel over Gaza offensive
Two Israeli embassy staff shot dead near Jewish museum in Washington DC
This article complements the SGAT message preached on Thursday evening by Rev Ivan Foster. It may be listened to here:
Sermon on Matthew 24 – a great prophetic chapter of the Bible
The four headlines which appeared on the BBC news site this week, along with a third from the ‘Daily Mail’, undoubtedly foreshadows an approaching alliance of nations antagonistic toward Israel and the growing anti-Semitism which will give rise to murder and terror.
Foretold of Old
This has been prophesied long ago with regards the end of this age and the final rebellion of mankind against the Lord. He will end that rebellion by His intervention in judgment!
“The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him. Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem. And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it,” Zechariah 12:1-3.
“Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city,” Zechariah 14:1-2.
But, as I have stated, the Lord will intervene to save His ancient people in accordance with His covenant made with their forefathers.
“Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south,” Zechariah 14:3-4.
MERCY AND GRACE
The Lord’s intervention will not merely be a ‘military’ one but one of mercy and grace leading to the spiritual conversion of a people who have long rejected the Lord Jesus as their true Messiah.
He will come to make war against His enemies! Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-05-24 a 6:00 am
Sermon on Matthew 24 - a great prophetic chapter of the Bible
This message was preached at the Sovereign Grace Advent Testimony meeting at Olivet House Lisburn, on Thursday evening, May 22nd 2025.
I believe it correct to say that this chapter and chapter 25 might rightly be called a great ‘Compendium of Bible Prophecy’.
Here, in great detail, is given an answer to the questions of the disciples by the Master Expositor, the Lord Jesus Himself.
He Who is THE WORD OF GOD reveals to us the sequence of events which are of particular interest to those awaiting His return and the end of this age.
Read sermon notes here
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Posted on 2025-05-23 a 5:09 pm
Rome never changes!
ROME NEVER CHANGES!
This is especially true regarding her corruption and abuse of children.
Despite fools like the leaders of the so-called ‘Protestant Churches’ here in Ulster offering their praise and congratulations on the new Pope’s being chosen and the likes of the ‘Belfast Newsletter’ columnist, Alf McCreary, declaring the new pope to be a ‘wise choice’, “The arch-ecumenist pontificates falsely once again.”
Divine providence has shown that he, like all his predecessors, is up to his neck in the concealment of perversion and abuse!
See :—
Chicago priest accused of molesting kids makes bombshell claim against Pope Leo
Sincerely in Christ’s name,
Ivan Foster
Posted on 2025-05-21 a 11:23 pm
A future lesson for Keir Starmer and his ilk!
This is one of the national press headlines in the latest development in the ‘undoing’ of Brexit saga!
The Brexit surrender begins: Starmer ‘gives French access to UK waters for 12 years’ and is set to commit Britain to obeying Brussels’ rules on food
A UK-wide referendum took place in June 2016, in which 51.89 per cent voted in favour of leaving the EU and 48.11 per cent voted to remain a member state.
At that time I published a statement from the Sovereign Grace Advent Testimony on the matter of the UK leaving the EU.
It read as follows:
“Statement from the Sovereign Grace Advent Testimony on the recent decision by the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union
Europe in Bible Prophecy
The subject of Europe is very prominent in the news at present and that interest has only increased not diminished since the outcome of the EU referendum has been decided.
We are constantly being told by all political leaders what this result means, what is going to happen now and where it will all lead?
It seems that everyone has an opinion to give or a statement to make on the subject!
All of which has only led to greater confusion, division and uncertainty.
But the question that should concern us as Bible believing Christians is – What saith the Scriptures?
What does the Word of God have to say on the subject of the future of Europe? That should be our response to every situation and subject in life and our nation’s membership of the European Union should be no different. Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-05-19 a 6:30 pm
New Pope…Same Problem!
This evening Rev Samuel Fitton preached a very appropriate and timely message on the subject: “New Pope…Same Problem!”
I am posting his message for it is one that every Free Presbyterian needs to hear and heed.
It is where our denomination once unashamedly stood and the stand to which we must return if we are to be the witness of God in our land once again.
It is a message in total harmony with the witness of our forefathers and the Reformers. It is the message God has owned and honoured in the past and which He, the unchanging God, will honour yet again as it is preached.
Sincere regards,
Ivan Foster
View a video of this sermon below:
Posted on 2025-05-18 a 11:37 pm
More drivel from John Coulter
Many ‘provincial’ newspapers have articles written by one who calls himself ‘The Rambler’. The name suits the style of the writer in that it is usually a series of collections of tales and stories and anecdotes of folk and their experiences, which would not normally make the headlines or generate a great deal of media interest, but which prove of interest to a dedicated readership who love nostalgia!
The Belfast Newsletter has a ‘Rambler’ but I don’t really think that there are many who, for any reason at all, find his articles of interest.
I am referring to one, John Coulter!
He has been paid to produce, yet again, the greatest mishmash of opinionated balderdash that ever came forth from a ‘Biro’!
His latest article is entitled: ‘Could we Christians be to blame for falling numbers in the pews?’ It is dated 14th May 2025.
As is often the case, no matter what topic he claims he is writing about, it is the Bible-believer that he targets!
This article is a series of conjured up scenarios that have little basis in truth. He paints a picture of the ‘Fundamentalist’ in the darkest hues.
He loves to misapply the Word of God and quotes those whose philosophy is anti-Bible!
In this latest ‘schoolboyish’ attempt at writing, he says: “Some of the most powerful lobbies in many places of worship are judgemental church gossips, especially in militant fundamentalist denominations. They love to pour out their bile on what you are doing wrong, but have these gossips ever stopped to think of the harm they are doing to the Christian faith?”
As ever, the ‘militant fundamentalist denominations’ are squeezed in , under any old pretext, in order to do them down! He goes on to say: “Physically, when you point the finger at someone over something, there are three fingers pointing back at you! Are the judgemental church gossips and militant fundamentalists who like to point out my faults as a journalist for the opinions or challenges I express actually saying they are themselves sinless?” Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-05-17 a 8:58 pm
The Question of the Ages Fully Answered! Fourth study
— A brief exposition of Psalm 15 —
“He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour,” verse 3.
In verse 3, the Psalmist returns to highlighting that which is not found in the character of those who shall abide in the tabernacle of the Lord or who shall dwell in His holy hill.
I. THE CHARACTER OF THE CHRISTIAN IS AS COMPLEX AND AS ELABORATE AS IS THE GLORIOUS NATURE OF GOD.
That is because the true Christian, upon his regeneration, has become a ‘partaker’ of the nature of God. “According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust,” 2 Peter 1:3-4.
Being a’ partaker of the divine nature’ is not to be understood as the Christian being ‘deified’! This is impossible, of course. The nature, perfections, and glory of God, are incommunicable to creatures. Rather, it means that by way of resemblance and likeness, we partake of the divine nature. The new man, being formed in the heart in regeneration, takes on the image of God, and bears a likeness to the image of his Son. It is the beginning of a gracious process by which the image and likeness of believers is more and more changed, from glory to glory, through the application of the Gospel, and the promises of it. “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord,” 2 Corinthians 3:18.
John speaks of that final transformation in 1 John 3:2. “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”
This Psalm therefore sets out the important features of one ‘born again’ from above.
II. GOSPEL HOLINESS IS SEEN IN A BELIEVER’S BEHAVIOUR TOWARD HIS NEIGHBOUR.
The term ‘neighbour’ appears twice in this verse three though all three statements within the verse relate to the believer’s attitude toward his neighbour. Both words which appear as ‘neighbour’, though different in the Hebrew, refer to those close by.
1. He backbiteth not with his tongue. It is usually with the teeth that we bite! But how hurtful and wounding can be the tongue. ‘Backbiting’ is a much more serious sin than many imagine! The word ‘backbiteth’ comes from a Hebrew root signifying foot. It most surely indicates a person who ‘foots it’, goes from one house to another, spreading ill reports. Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-05-16 a 6:50 pm
You are invited . . .
Posted on 2025-05-15 a 11:12 pm
Report: school did not do enough to prevent the abuse
Victims of a former school welfare officer who was convicted of sexual assault have told BBC News NI their school did not do enough to prevent the abuse.
So reads the headline on today’s BBC Northern Ireland website.
It is not the first time a headline of similar import has appeared in the press of recent years. This time it is a reference to events in Lagan College, the much hailed ecumenical answer to every problem in the world of education!
Man-made ‘havens’ provide no safety for children since ‘sinful man’ is the problem in all the world’s difficulties!
It is only as we order our affairs in accordance with the Word of God that we may experience that spoken of by David.
“The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me,” Psalm 23:1-4.
Here is the text of the report that appears on the BBC news site.
Neil Beckett groomed the schoolgirls and used his position as a welfare officer at Lagan College in Belfast to access vulnerable young women.
He was found guilty on 17 counts and jailed in December. Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-05-13 a 11:25 pm
New Pope - old perversions !!!
Rome is unchanging in its corruptions and perversions.
Spiritually, utterly blind ecumenical writer, Alf McCreary, writes under the headline: ‘The Catholic Church seems to have made a wise choice in Pope Leo XIV’
What a fool the man is and all those who likewise have hailed the arrival of the new pope.
To the day that system is destroyed by Christ, it will remain – “The great whore . . . with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication,” Revelation 17:1-2.
Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
10th May 2025
POPE LEO XIV ‘ACCUSED OF MISHANDLING SEXUAL ABUSE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST PRIESTS IN CHURCHES’
Campaigners have called on the Vatican to ‘conduct a thorough investigation’ into Robert Prevost’s handling of the claims
Bill Bowkett
‘The Standard’
21 hours ago
The new pope has been accused of mishandling allegations of child sexual abuse in his churches in the United States and Peru.
Robert Prevost 69, who will be known as Leo XIV, is said to have failed to properly investigate multiple allegations made against priests. Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-05-10 a 7:29 pm
The arrogance of attempting to bring light with a lamp of darkness!
Pope Leo XIV has celebrated his first Mass as the new pontiff
He tells cardinals in the Sistine Chapel that he hopes his election can help the Catholic Church bring light to the “dark nights of this world”
This is one of the headlines that a blinded and beguiled press used to trumpet the arrival of the new occupant to the office in the ‘Roman Catholic Church’, whereby he is henceforth blasphemously named, ‘The Vicar of Jesus Christ’!
For centuries, the occupant of this office has been deemed by Bible-believers as ‘that Antichrist, that man of sin, and son of perdition, that exalts himself, in the Church, against Christ and all that is called God,’ (Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter 25, Section 6).
That is the proper view of the man who now calls himself ‘Pope Leo XIV’.
The many titles the pope embraces and the claims he makes of himself and his office totally vindicate the use of the Confession of Faith’s definition of him.
He was born in Chicago as Robert Prevost and he is the first North American to be elected pope. Donald Trump, in keeping with his usual fatuous mouthings, called it a ‘great honour’!
Equally deluded is the leader of the Church of Ireland. He is reported in the Belfast Newsletter as declaring that he is ‘rejoicing’ over election of new pope!
But then he is but part and parcel, along with the new pope, of that evil amalgam which is the beginnings of that which will emerge soon as:
‘MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH’! (Revelation 17:5)
His opening gambit is in keeping with Rome’s blind arrogance and bloated self-glorification. He states that he hopes that the Catholic Church can bring light to the “dark nights of this world”! Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-05-09 a 5:52 pm
Free Presbyterianism is fast abandoning the separatist stand ??
This article was shared with me by a concerned and deeply troubled Free Presbyterian.
It is a warning to American Baptists that the witness of separated Biblical Christianity is fast disappearing in that land.
We may take the truths of this article and place the following heading upon it and it is true of the cause of God here in Ulster:
FREE PRESBYTERIANISM IS FAST ABANDONING THE SEPARATIST STAND TO WHICH GOD CALLED IT AND WHICH SAW GOD’S ABUNDANT BLESSING FALL UPON IT IN DAYS WHEN IT WAS FAITHFUL TO THAT STAND!
The likes of Danny Roberts, openly a neo-evangelical and anti-separatist, is welcomed into Free Presbyterian pulpits and representatives of the party supporting murder and terrorism, Sinn Fein, welcomed and lauded in a Free Presbyterian meeting organised to support the ‘Gaelitising of Northern Ireland’. Furthermore, worldly music, long opposed by our church, is now all too evidently employed in some congregations and open opposition to such is resisted and condemned.
This drift began with the sad decision of Dr Ian Paisley in 2007 to enter a ‘power-sharing’ deal with Sinn Fein/IRA.
These things and others of the same ilk have taken place and they are either excused or ignored by the leadership of our Presbytery.
It is all too evident to many Free Presbyterians that there is an abandoning of our historic separatist stand and that can only lead to the judgment of God falling upon us for such rebellion.
I challenge the Moderator and Clerk of our Presbytery to deny what I say and show why I, and many others, ministers and elders, are wrong in our concerns.
Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
9th May 2025
Why Most Fundamental Baptist Churches Will Be Emerging Within 20 Years
Enlarged May 6, 2025 (first published December 15, 2011)
David Cloud, Way of Life Literature, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061
866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org
“A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished” (Proverbs 22:3).
We are witnessing a great blending and merging among every type of church, from fundamentalism to Catholicism, which will culminate in the totally apostate harlot “church” that will be aligned with the antichrist (Revelation 17-18). Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-05-09 a 5:12 pm
The Question of the Ages Fully Answered! Third study
— A brief exposition of Psalm 15 —
“He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart,” Psalm 15:2.
This second verse sets out to answer the question posed in verse 1.
The answer is continued in the rest of the Psalm but verse 2 deals with it in a positive manner. It tells us in an affirmative way what marks the character of the one who ABIDES and DWELLS in God’s presence.
I. THE HOLY PERSON HAS A PARTICULAR WALK.
“He that walketh uprightly. . .”
1. Every step that the Christian takes is markedly different from that of the world. As Paul exhorted: “And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God,” Romans 12:2.
The Christian cannot but be “in the world” but they are not “of the world”.
That concept simply means that in the world we actively participate in the legitimate activities of its everyday affairs; living a normal life, and engaging with others, including those who may not share the same beliefs or values.
But there must be a maintaining of a separation from the world’s sinful influences and values. These are so often associated with materialism, greed, and worldly pursuits which dominate business affairs and must be constantly guarded against. We must not be governed by worldly standards or judgments. The unregenerate person will rarely hesitate to act unlawfully or dishonestly, at least to some measure, in order to gain profit! The excuse that is often offered is , ‘Sure, everyone does it!’.
That may be so but the Christian MUST NOT do it. Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-05-08 a 12:36 am
"Was Francis an Antichrist?" - Roman Catholic newspaper's reaction to Rev. Daniel Henderson's sermon
Here’s a Roman Catholic newspaper’s reaction to a sermon by Rev Daniel Henderson of Moneyslane Free Presbyterian Church on the subject: “Was Francis an Antichrist?’
The topic made front page in the ‘Irish News’ of 5th May 2025.
Listen to this old-fashioned gospel message which states what has been known amongst Bible-believers for many centuries!!
View a video of this sermon below:
Posted on 2025-05-06 a 11:59 pm
UPDATED below: Sabbath breaking . . .
THE FOLLOWING NEWS ITEM APPEARED IN ‘THE BELFAST TELEGRAPH’ OF FRIDAY 2ND MAY.
Evangelical Presbyterian Church hits out at Belfast pilot scheme extending Sunday trading hours
What I noted with despair and disappointment is that there is no mention of the desecration of the day ordained of God as a day termed in this New Testament era, as the ‘Day of the Lord’!
John the Apostle wrote from the island of his exiled sufferings for the cause of the Saviour.
“I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,” Revelation 1:9-10.
It was an essential part of the Ten Commandments that one day in seven be observed reverently.
“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it,” Exodus 20:8-11.
The Lord ‘hallowed’, or made holy, the seventh day in the Old Testament era, as a commemoration of the finishing of His six-day work of creation. In this New Testament age, we find Christians gathering on the first day of the week, in commemoration of another ‘finished work’ — that of the Saviour’s work of redemption as was indicated by His rising from the dead on the first day of the week.
This became the ‘Christian Sabbath’ or rest day, with the same reverence shown to it and observed by believers as was commanded of God for the Sabbath Day of the Ten Commandments.
“And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight,” Acts 20:7. Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-05-03 a 6:00 am
'Holy aggression!'
“But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith. Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him, And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand,” Acts 13:8-11.
I am inclined to believe that this response by Paul to the evil withstanding of God’s message of mercy as he and Barnabas sought to win the deputy of the isle of Cyprus, Sergius Paulus, to Christ, was the cause of John Mark leaving the apostolic band and returning to Jerusalem and the eventual sad division between Paul and Barnabas (Acts 15:36-40).
Sad
Barnabas was wrong. I think that is evident from the fact that his name never appears again in the record of the Acts of the Apostles!
There can be no doubt that there was aggression in Paul’s response. Many feel that ‘aggression’ (a readiness to stoutly confront an opponent) is wrong in a Christian.
Sad Lack
Personally, I feel that there is a sad lack of ‘Christian aggression’ today on the part of some Free Presbyterians, in the face of the ever-increasing attack by the devil and his agents, against God and His Word and His honour is plainly visible! Where is the enthusiasm shown by David when facing Goliath? “And it came to pass, when the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David, that David hasted, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine,” 1 Samuel 17:48.
Something of a distancing of themselves from the zealous actions and protests back in the 1960s is somewhat evident within the ranks of Free Presbyterianism. Closer links with the camp of the apostasy and a putting of ‘clear blue water’ between themselves and the bold and zealous protests and witnessing of former days is the inexplicable desire of some!
The great prophet Elijah, he who was privileged, along with Moses, to appear with Christ on the Mount of transfiguration, said: “I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword,” 1 Kings 19:10.
The words, “I have been very jealous” stem from the Hebrew word meaning “zealous”. It must be remembered that the Lord says of Himself: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,” Exodus 20:4-5.
The Hebrew word used of the Lord in the above verse is from the same Hebrew source as the word Elijah uses of his attitude in 1 Kings 19:10. The Lord is pure and holy in His jealousy, while Elijah’s would have been somewhat tainted by the sinfulness of his nature. As a son of Adam, he was, like David, born in sin and shapen in iniquity (Psalm 51:5).
Nevertheless, there is obviously a kinship between the feelings of the Lord and His servant with regards sin!
We are after all, commanded to be holy like the Lord. “For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy,” Leviticus 11:44, (1 Peter 1:16).
Foolish
I realise that ‘zeal’ can lead to folly and we must guard against it. John and James, the ‘sons of thunder’, were guilty of such and rebuked by the Lord. “And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem. And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them. And they went to another village,” Luke 9:52-56. Click to read more…
Posted on 2025-05-01 a 8:00 am