Here is a recording of Dr Paisley preaching on the subject ‘Comfort for a worm’ in August 1967.
It was his 21st anniversary as minister of Ravenhill Free Presbyterian Church.
Sermon
It was sent to me by a grandson who was thus by this means able to share in what his grandfather rejoiced in for many years.
Those who can look back to those times will rejoice again to hear the voice and the preaching of a man, who in his heyday, was the greatest preacher in 100 years that Ulster ever was privileged to hear.
I appeal to today’s young Free Presbyterians to listen to the voice of authentic Free Presbyterianism.
Thomas McElwee was an IRA terrorist murderer who took his own life in prison.
Where will such a person spend eternity?
I will let the Bible, God’s infallible Word, answer that solemn question.
“But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and MURDERERS, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death,” Revelation 21:8.
News reporters are not inclined to state this truth, but that is how God states the matter for all to know and take heed.
Yvonne Dunlop, 27, was killed in an IRA firebombing campaign in Ballymena
The report states:
The latest IRA commemoration by Sinn Fein has been labelled “atrocious” by the UUP leader, while a man bereaved by the Provos has hit out at “depraved” republican ideology.
Jon Burrows MLA and Geoffrey Dunlop were reacting to Sinn Fein’s involvement in a graveyard commemoration of Thomas McElwee in Bellaghy in south Co Londonderry on Sunday.
Geoffrey Dunlop had been aged four years old when his mother Yvonne was killed by a firebomb planted by McElwee, and he has now accused the party of “coat-trailing, politically-motivated glorification” of the killer.
Mr Burrows meanwhile said “Sinn Fein cannot credibly claim to represent everyone while continuing to honour those responsible for murder”.
Michelle O’Neill was among those in attendence in Bellaghy on Sunday, and fellow Sinn Fein MLA for Mid Ulster Emma Sheerin was the main speaker at the gathering.
Ms Sheerin posted about it online afterwards (as did several local branches of Sinn Fein) and she described McElwee as “the best of us”, saying “he gave his life on hunger strike for Ireland, and for us all”.
Mr Burrows said: “Emma Sheerin MLA has described Thomas McElwee as ‘the best of us’.
“He was nothing of the kind.
“A man who burned a young mother to death was one of the worst of us, and no amoun of eulogy will change that.
“Looking forward does not mean excusing terrorism, glorifying its perpetrators or disregarding the lifelong suffering of innocent victims and their families.”
Mr Dunlop (whose brothers Denis and Terry were aged eight and seven respectively when their mother was killed) said: “We just can’t understand why Sinn Fein continue to think it is OK to hurt our family.
“They claim one of their core policies is violence against women and girls.
“What about our mummy’s life – was it worth nothing because of what she happened to be born by birth?”
According to the book Lost Lives, Mrs Dunlop had been aged 27 when she died in an IRA bombing of her father’s shop, Alley Katz Boutique, in Ballymena’s Bridge Street, on October 9, 1976.
It was one of 16 linked firebomb attacks across the town, and McElwee was one of several IRA men convicted over the attacks.
Such have been the local headlines in the wake of the recent ‘All Ireland Fleadh’ in Belfast.
DUP Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly attended Sunday to aid Sinn Fein launch this event.
Ecumenism, and those deceived by the modern and false philosophy it propagates, enthusiastically embraced this latest Republican scam.
It was not merely a musical function but it was an exercise designed to promote Romanism and the culture its unbiblical religion promotes. The spirit of Sinn Fein undergirded the whole exercise; concealed yes, but emerging clearly for all to see was the conniving hand of Sinn Fein.
The sham was not really that hard to spot by those who were not blinded by the likes of Alf McCreary of the ‘Belfast Telegraph’ or deceived by the likes of the Deputy First Minister, Emma Little-Pengelly of the DUP, who happily desecrated the Sabbath in order to aid Sinn Fein launch this exercise in deception.
It is likely the case that not all involved in the musical activities were aware of what underlay the activities, but that did not make them any less part of the deception.
Surfaced
The dark and evil spirit that underlay the activities broke the surface on occasions.
Here is just a glimpse of the what lay behind the whistles and fiddles!
DUP MLA Edwin Poots, Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly
The ‘Stormont Speaker’, Edwin Poots, is a leading member of the DUP, which promoted this deceitful musical ‘hullabaloo’. How utterly hypocritical of him and his fellow DUPers to belatedly voice concern!
While this ‘sweet-sounding ecumenical extravaganza’ was charming the easily deceived amongst the Protestant and Loyalist community, Sinn Fein was maintaining its true strategy elsewhere!
These two headlines show that there was evidence elsewhere of what Irish Republicanism is truly like.
What will it take, apart from the total rejection of deceitful voices like that of Alf McCreary, to awaken Ulster to the wicked chicanery of that unholy alliance of Irish Republicanism and the pontificating Ecumenists and their lies?
Is it not a case of that which Paul seeks to warn the Corinthians? (more…)
