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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! (more…)

“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. (more…)

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.

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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.

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I have had no reply from any of the officers of Presbytery to this challenge! (more…)