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The false cure offered by charlatans and swallowed up by fools!

“‭They have healed‭‭ also the hurt‭ ‭of the daughter‭ of my people‭ slightly‭‭, saying‭‭, Peace‭, peace‭; when ‭there is‭ no peace‭.‭ ‭Were they ashamed‭‭ when they had committed‭‭ abomination‭? nay‭, they were not at all‭‭ ashamed‭‭, neither‭ could‭‭ they blush‭‭: therefore they shall fall‭‭ among them that fall‭‭: at the time‭ ‭that‭ I visit‭‭ them they shall be cast down‭‭, saith‭‭ the LORD‭.‭ ‭Thus saith‭‭ the LORD‭, Stand‭‭ ye in the ways‭, and see‭‭, and ask‭‭ for the old‭ paths‭, where ‭is‭ the good‭ way‭, and walk‭‭ therein, and ye shall find‭‭ rest‭ for your souls‭. But they said‭‭, We will not walk‭‭ ‭therein‭.‭ ‭Also I set‭‭ watchmen‭‭ over you, ‭saying‭, Hearken‭‭ to the sound‭ of the trumpet‭. But they said‭‭, We will not hearken‭‭.‭ ‭Therefore hear‭‭, ye nations‭, and know‭‭, O congregation‭, what ‭is‭ among them.‭ ‭Hear‭‭, O earth‭: behold, I will bring‭‭ evil‭ upon this people‭, ‭even‭ the fruit‭ of their thoughts‭, because they have not hearkened‭‭ unto my words‭, nor to my law‭, but rejected‭‭ it,‭”‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ Jeremiah 6:14-19.

One of the chapters for reading, June 10th, set down in Robert Murray McCheyne’s Bible reading Calendar

In this day of repeated scandals and mounting criticism heaped upon the National Health Service, there are those who pose as ‘physicians’, who carry a much greater burden of failure and guilt!

It is one thing to fall short in the care of the PHYSICAL wellbeing of the nation, but it is an immeasurably greater failing to mislead and neglect the SPIRITUAL wellbeing of it.

That is the failing of those who would claim to be ‘spiritual physicians’ here in Ulster.

Ever since the so-called, ‘Good Friday Agreement’ was signed by politicians here in 1998, it has been heralded as the birth of ‘peace’ in Northern Ireland by the deceitful in church and state.

In truth, the fruit of this agreement has been the establishing of the allies and supporters of IRA terrorism in positions of power.

PIRA hunger striker Joe McDonnell

Example

An example of the character of those exalted to power as a direct result of the endorsement of the GFA, may be seen in the comments of Sinn Féin’s ‘President’, Mary Lou McDonald.

She made this comment on her ‘Facebook’ on Tuesday past — “On this day in 1981, Joe McDonnell gave his life on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh. A courageous son of Belfast, his sacrifice remains a beacon in the struggle for the freedom and unity of Ireland. Joe McDonnell will never be forgotten.”

Right!

She is right in one matter! He will never be forgotten. His crimes will be dealt with by the Lord one day and since he died as a result of his politically motivated suicide, it may be assumed that he died in defiance of God and His Law and he will therefore be damned for his many crimes and wickednesses — as will ALL who die without Christ. (more…)

Self deliverance or self destruction

My days of writing articles are drawing to a close. No one can stop the clock or the calendar or the aging process!

While I may mount an article occasionally, I intend to try and maintain a witness against the growing apostasy and the sad compromise amongst many Free Presbyterians in the face of this latter-day rebellion against the Lord.

What I plan to do is to mount recordings of sermons I have preached in the past. These sermons are based upon the Word of God and therefore are ever relevant since the blessed book of God is always and ever right up to date.

Peter said: “I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance,” 2 Peter 3:1. I would hope that what was said in weakness in years past, by one who can say like Amos of old, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son,” 7:14, will be listened to with profit, especially by those who were not yet born when the controversy of 2007 and ‘power-sharing with Sinn Fein/IRA’ brought such confusion into the Free Presbyterian Church.

I hope then to periodically mount again, in many instances, the ‘blowing of an alarm’.

Here then is the first of these sermons.

“O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself,” Hosea 13:9.  (Preached on August 5th, 2007)



Sincerely in Christ’s name,

Ivan Foster

Letter to the Belfast Newsletter

(The ‘Belfast Newsletter’ Editor has requested a shorter version of the following letter which I submitted on July 4th. In the interest of getting out the truth, I have complied with his request and I trust that it will be published soon. IF)

See the bottom of this post for images of the printed version.

Sir,

A great deal of ‘pernicious drivel’ has appeared in your newspaper ‘letters’ column concerning what is wrong religiously here in Northern Ireland.

There is a common theme in these letters: ‘Abandon the Biblical beliefs of the past and go with what the ‘modernists and liberals’ say is good.’

That is seen as the ‘cure-all’ for Ulster’s woes.

Sadly, nothing could be further from the truth!

That which God was pleased to bless in the past, with repeated seasons of revival blessing and thousands of conversions to personal faith in Christ and the enjoyment of peace with God, is what may be found in the ‘Old Confessions’ of the three main denominations and which has been repudiated by those denominations.

Therein lies the cause of our troubles!

A study of the Bible, particularly the Book of Judges, will show that what we have experienced, and will continue to experience, stems from a rejection of the truth of God, set forth in Holy Scripture.

‘Ecumenism’, man’s invented religion, has demanded the abandonment of the cardinal doctrines of the Word of God. That demand has been acceded to by the three main churches.

I hope your readers will consider these quotations from the historic doctrinal statements of the main churches, doctrines which God was pleased to endorse and prosper those who preached them!

39 Articles of Religion of the Church of Ireland.

Article 31.

‘Of the one Oblation of Christ finished upon the Cross.’

The Offering of Christ once made is that perfect redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction, for all the sins of the whole world, both original and actual; and there is none other satisfaction for sin, but that alone.

Wherefore the sacrifices of Masses, in the which it was commonly said, that the Priest did offer Christ for the quick and the dead, to have remission of pain or guilt, were blasphemous fables, and dangerous deceits. (more…)